WFHB Community Calendar

Greetings Venue Allies,

We invite you to join us June 3rd to kickoff a weekend of artistic activities!

Friday from 5 to 8pm will be the June Gallery Walk, and we are thrilled to dedicate an entire ROOM to a fresh lineup of creative jewelry works by Lori McDonald of Charmhouse Designs.

Lori’s mission is to collide the old and the new, pairing vintage items, natural materials and hypoallergenic metals to create singularly unique designs.

We will also host Lori for the Bloomington Open Studios Tour on Saturday and Sunday. This annual event invites patrons and enthusiasts to visit with artists within their creative space while they work and produce. Visit http://www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com/ for show details and a directions.

Finally, this will be an oportunity to visit our gallery and experience two pieces of Brown County Heratage Art History. The Venue is proud to host two original oil paintings from Adolf and Alberta Shultz, two founding members of the impressionist art movement that put our community on the map!

Karen’s porcelain and stoneware pottery is wheel thrown, often altered and decorated with thick slip and by carving, appliquéing and incising. She uses fossils, seashells, fabric and kitchen tools for decoration. For color, she applies glaze over glaze, uses wax resist brush decoration and touches up with metallic oxide washes. She also uses local Indiana clay slip on some of her stoneware pieces. Karen high fires her work in a gas reduction atmosphere to the temperature of approximately 2350F.

“I’m guided by the concept taught to me by my teacher Nan McKinnnell at Loretta Heights College in Denver, ‘the first 100 don’t count’. I’m moving into to keeping it simple, as well, being patient with the process. Repetition helps me understand a form, a glaze, a texture. I strive to create pieces that stand alone as beautiful, are sensuous to the touch and function for every day use.”

Karen is a founding member of Local Clay Potters’ Guild. She is also a founding member of Artisan Guilds of Bloomington.

For June the Bellevue Gallery at the Farmer House Museum presents a showing of surrealist influenced paintings by local artist Karen Holtzclaw. In the artist’s own words:
“Painting what appears before me has become mundane. So here we are in the midst of the incomprehensible, always there but always pushed aside My current show is a culmination pf musings and visceral experiences that have taken me ‘Off the Pavement’ “
The opening reception for “Off the Pavement: Recent Paintings by Karen Holtzclaw” will be Friday June 3 from 5-9 at the Farmer House Museum. The Farmer House Museum is located at 529 N. College Avenue in downtown Bloomington. Normal hours are 10-4 Wednesday-Sunday. Please call 812-336-5597 for more information. The show will run through the end of June.

The Bloomington Flying Fish Volkssport Association is celebrating National Trails Day by hosting a volksmarch on Saturday, June 4, starting at 9:00 and Sunday, June 5, starting at 10:00. The event will start at the Northwest YMCA and will run mainly along the Karst Farm Greenway. Participants can choose from a 5K, 10K, or 15K walk.

What is a volksmarch? It’s a German phrase that means “folk’s walk” or “people’s walk.” Walk for fun, fitness, and friendship! A brochure is attached, and more information can be found at the national website, or at the local club’s blog, .
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The Bloomington Flying Fish Volkssport Association is a non-profit community group that promotes walking and fitness. If you need more information, please let me know. Thanks very much!

Visit Artist’s Studios
Discover Work in Progress
Experience Creativity in Action

Web: http://www.BloomingtonOpenStudiosTour.com
Hashtag: #btownstudios
Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/BloomingtonOpenStudiosTour
Twitter: @btownstudiotour

10th Anniversary Spencer Pride Festival

Website: www.SpencerPride.org/Festival

Family-friendly Event
All-day Entertainment
Huge Marketplace
Festival Food
Pet Pride Parade at 12:30 pm
Drag Show at 4 pm

The Bloomington Flying Fish Volkssport Association is celebrating National Trails Day by hosting a volksmarch on Saturday, June 4, starting at 9:00 and Sunday, June 5, starting at 10:00. The event will start at the Northwest YMCA and will run mainly along the Karst Farm Greenway. Participants can choose from a 5K, 10K, or 15K walk.

What is a volksmarch? It’s a German phrase that means “folk’s walk” or “people’s walk.” Walk for fun, fitness, and friendship! A brochure is attached, and more information can be found at the national website, or at the local club’s blog, .
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The Bloomington Flying Fish Volkssport Association is a non-profit community group that promotes walking and fitness. If you need more information, please let me know. Thanks very much!

Paul Arlinghouse of the Hoosier Bike Association will be the program speaker. The public is welcome to attend this carry-in dinner meeting; bring a covered dish and your own table service.

Bring your digital device for one-on-one help accessing eBooks, music, movies, and more. Help with email, Facebook, and other digital tools also available.

We cannot setup or repair your device.

A summer tradition featuring stories, songs, fingerplays, and films on the theme of “owls.” Children can come in jammies. For ages 2–6 and their families.

The residents of Bloomington will have several opportunities in July to interact with City of Bloomington department leaders outside of regular business hours. Everyone is welcome to meet and discuss concerns, current projects and future plans. These events are part of Mayor Hamilton’s ongoing Town Hall Meetings series.

The public is encouraged to attend any or all of these after hours opportunities to interact with City staff. There will be no formal agendas, just a chance to interact and share thoughts, concerns and ideas. All are welcome.

The Bloomfield Friday Farmer’s Market will feature “Small Business Night” and “Vintage Pop-Up Night” on Friday, September 9 from 4-7 pm.  For a $5 fee, small businesses and vintage/collectable sellers are invited to set up a tent/table and advertise their business or sell their wares!  The purpose of Small Business Night is to inform the public about the goods and services provided by small businesses in our own community, and to encourage residents to “buy local”.  The Bloomfield market is held each Friday and is located on the corner of Spring and Franklin streets. Small Business displays will be set up in the grassy lot across Franklin Street from Bloomfield Manufacturing.  Businesses can pay their fee to the market manager that evening. If there are questions, please contact the committee via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Bloomfield.community.farmers.market/

Stone Belt, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and Markey’s Rental and Staging
present I AM YOU, a powerful experience of original written theatre, written and performed by individuals with developmental disabilities.

I AM YOU will have a limited run of two performances on Friday, June 10 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, June 11 at 7:30pm at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, 107 W Ninth Street, Bloomington.

2 shows tonight. 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Arts fund to present Deaton, Captain Backfire

Brownstown Fund for the Arts will present an evening of music featuring Wayne Deaton and his band, Captain Backfire, at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at W. R. Ewing.
Tickets are $10 and are available at Family Drug and Ewing Unique and Boutique, both in Brownstown. Tickets also will be available at the door.
“Captain Backfire” consists of Deaton, lead singer and electric bass player; Chuck Bevers, electric guitar, and Gary Back, drums.
Deaton, who has been playing music since his high school days at Brownstown Central, said this particular band has been together since 2010.
As for the type of music they play, Deaton said, “We do a little bit of everything, including pop music from as far back as the 1940’s up to right now, mostly danceable. We try to have something for everyone.”
“We do some Hoagy Carmichael, even a Gershwin song,” he added, “but we’re a rock band — we have a lot of fun!”
Deaton said he is looking forward to the show at W. R. Ewing.
“It’s really fun playing in a smaller venue,” he explained. He said the band plays in locations at Indianapolis, sometimes with crowds of 300 or more, “but it’s just not as personal.”
Deaton’s musical background includes about 15 years working as a sound engineer, including shows with “everyone from Kid Rock to George Strait,” and he spent some time on the road doing sound for The Elms.
“I work with a lot of songwriters, and I have my own recording studio,” he added.
Those attending the June 11 show are encouraged to bring their own snacks and beverages.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Brownstown Fund for the Arts, which sponsors various music events, art exhibits, art classes for children and adults, and other related activities throughout the year.