This week starts with National Badger Day and ends with the Downtown “Fall Into Fun” festival: Bucky love: Oct. 6 is National Badger Day , which celebrates the animal. But we prefer to instead applaud our own Bucky Badger, still the coolest mascot in the world of college sports.
After the football team’s rocky start to the season, Bucky needs all the love we can send him! Celebrating the arts: The new Kenosha Performing Arts Festival concludes today , with performances at four Downtown venues: Kenosha Creative Space, 624 57th St.; The Vault, 625 57th St.; Kenosha Tap House, 125 56th St.
; and the White Lilac, 5029 Sixth Ave. Performances start at 1 p.m.
and include a wide variety of shows, from international folk dancers to harpist Anne Morse-Hambrock. The cost is $10 for three performances, with tickets available at the door. For a schedule of performers, go to kenoshacreativespace.
com . Pianist performing: Composer, pianist and speaker Eric Genuis performs 3 p.m.
today at the Downtown Kenosha Ministry Center Auditorium , 714 49th St. he’ll be performing original works, along with violinist Eva Dove, cellist Elliot Yang and soprano Tiffany Ho. Admission is free.
Donations will be accepted for his Concerts for Hope charity, which funds performances in non-traditional venues. He’ll also meet the public at 2:30 p.m.
at a pre-concert reception, with hors d’oeuvres and wine. Boo to you: A lot of Halloween haunts are only open on weekends, but Kenosha’s own Dr. Destru.