Granfalloon 2025 Guest Spotlight

Mavis Staples

Performing Artist, Musician
June 7 | Main Stage

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Thee Sacred Souls

Musical Group
June 7 | Main Stage

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Murder by Death

Musical Group
June 7 | Main Stage

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Lynda Barry

Artist, Author
June 5 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater

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Keith L. Andrews

Sculpture Artist
June 6 | Cook Center

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Christina Jarvis

Professor, Vonnegut Scholar
June 8 | Cook Center

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Granfalloon 2025 Novel

Every year, we select a Kurt Vonnegut novel as a way to highlight relevant themes and generate thoughtful discussion. This year's novel is Cat's Cradle, the novel from which our festival gets its name and for which Vonnegut received his master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago. With short chapters and dark humor, Vonnegut explores how humans build and destroy community through science, technology, religion, art, and so much more. It's a great entry point for folks unfamiliar with Vonnegut's work, and we hope you'll dive in with us!

                    

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. receives an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University, 1973.