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AUI Artist Earns Top Spot at Arts United Awards Ceremony!

Congratulations to Suzanne Rhee, AUI’s Inclusion Mural artist, for winning the Distinguished Artist of the Year Award at last night’s 2024 Arts United Awards! The award is presented each year to an active, established artist of any creative discipline who has made significant contributions to his or her art form within Northeast Indiana. Suzanne was ...
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Thank you for your years of service, Guy!

Guy Zimmerman, longtime Audiences Unlimited (AUI) performer and local music legend, is slated to retire from our organization at the end of March 2024 after 27 years with us. Long before Guy began performing for seniors throughout Northeast Indiana with AUI, however, he was a music icon in his own right, first as a young ...
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A Call to Embrace Creative Aging

As the executive director of Audiences Unlimited (AUI), I feel a great responsibility to bring the arts to unreached audiences. One of the ways we accomplish that mission here at AUI is through our partnerships with long-term health care communities, where we contract with local performing artists to bring quality, live entertainment to older adults ...
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AUI Brings Connection, Community to Ascension Sacred Heart Village

“When I first started working at Ascension Sacred Heart Village,” said Kim Ley, activity director, I thought music was just music.” Today, she has a completely different point of view. Over the past 16 years at this senior living community, Kim has seen musicians from Audiences Unlimited (AUI) captivate unresponsive seniors. She’s even heard patients ...
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Ken and Carol Suesz Come Full Circle with AUI

When Ken and Carol Suesz moved to Indiana after living in Hawaii for several years, they knew a connection with Audiences Unlimited was a perfect fit. “We met each other in the music business,” said Ken. “Carol is a Hawaiian native, and my family moved to the island in the 1960s. She was a singer, ...
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Meet Our Founder!

Lillian C. Embick was more than just the founder of Audiences Unlimited. For 42 years, she was literally the heart and soul of AUI, working over 90,000 hours as a volunteer executive director to bring the arts to the “loneliest of the lonely.” For Lillian, the mission was personal. Having grown up in an orphanage ...
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