Seniors can enjoy different forms of live entertainment throughout the year. The Danville Symphony Orchestra performs six concerts a year in the Danville High School Auditorium. Past performances have included, "Satchmo, Fats & The Duke" and "At Home For Christmas." Individual and season tickets are available for seniors at a special price.
A community theatre group, the Red Mask Players, performs three productions per season in the Kathryn Randolph Theatre. Past productions have included "Inherit the Wind," "To the Ladies" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." Individual and season tickets are available for seniors at a special price.
If you'd rather perform than watch a performance, you can join the Danville Municipal Band, which is composed of area residents. Sponsored by the city of Danville, rehearsals begin in May and performances are on Sundays in June and July.
Challenge friends to a round of golf in any of the public golf courses in Danville. Play in the nine-hole, Back Nine Golf Course or Wolf Creek Golf Club. The Harrison Park Golf Course, which also has a driving range, and Turtle Run Golf Club, which offers golf lessons and has a swimming pool and a bar and grill, each have an 18-hole course. Nearby golf courses include Blue Needles Golf Course in Fairmount and Hubbard Trail Country Club in Hoopeston, which is open to the public on Mondays.
Take an RV camping trip in 1,800-acre Forest Glen County Preserve, located only 10 minutes from Danville in Westville. The modern campground offers 42 RV spaces with electric hookup, showers, dump stations, water, a camp store and a campground host. With four nature preserves within the park, you can can enjoy picnicking, fishing, wildlife viewing and mushroom hunting.
Campers can visit Kickapoo State Park in Oakwood, located less than 15 minutes from Danville. You'll find trailer camping sites with electricity, showers and a dump station. The park has a restaurant, and activities include cross-country skiing, ice fishing, biking, boating, canoeing, hunting and walking on short, marked trails.
Seniors can go to the Danville Public Library and spend some time doing a number of things aside from reading books. As of April 2011, you can attend "Monday Matinees," a free film series that occurs every third Monday of each month. The library has a online system where you can choose to learn any of the 36 languages offered; over 600,000 tracks of streaming music that you can download for free; and a collection of audio books, e-books, and videos that you can download for free. If you can't make it to the library, the Outreach Department will deliver library materials to seniors in their homes, apartments, nursing homes and other places free of charge.
