{"id":2205446,"date":"2025-12-19T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2205446"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:45:52","slug":"ebertfest-returning-for-one-last-hurrah-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ebertfest-returning-for-one-last-hurrah-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebertfest returning for one last hurrah | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CHAMPAIGN \u2014 The audience has spoken: It\u2019s not yet time for the Virginia Theatre curtain to fall on Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Festival organizers Chaz Ebert and Nate Kohn said they \u201crecently surveyed past Ebertfest attendees to see if there was interest in One Last Dance \u2014 and the response was clear.\u201d The vast majority \u2014 97 percent \u2014 gave the idea an enthusiastic thumbs-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re doing it,\u201d Ebert and Kohn said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ebertfest is returning for one final year, from April 17-19, 2026, at Champaign\u2019s Virginia Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis special edition will be a two-day festival, featuring eight films, special guests, and the lively, thoughtful Q&amp;As that make Ebertfest unlike any other,\u201d they said. \u201cExpect everything you love about the festival \u2014 plus a few surprises we can\u2019t wait to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '865299761570510');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.news-gazette.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMPAIGN \u2014 The audience has spoken: It\u2019s not yet time for the Virginia Theatre curtain to fall on Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival. Festival organizers Chaz Ebert and Nate Kohn said they \u201crecently surveyed past Ebertfest attendees to see if there was interest in One Last Dance \u2014 and the response was clear.\u201d The vast majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22442,369878,21739,21738],"class_list":["post-2205446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-film-television","tag-local","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ebertfest-returning-for-one-last-hurrah-Arts-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205448,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205446\/revisions\/2205448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}