WFHB Community Calendar

Contact: Alison Miller. 812.349.3771, [email protected]

Seven candidate forums—two more than were already announced in the September 5 edition of the Herald Times—will be held in the MCPL Auditorium, each of them beginning at 7:00 p.m. After brief introductions, the candidates will answer questions submitted by the audience and posed by panelists. Questions may also be submitted in advance by sending an email to [email protected], with a notation of the race for which the question is intended. The forums will take place on the following dates:

Tuesday, September 20—County Auditor and County Treasurer
Thursday, September 22—County Commissioners, District 2 and District 3
Tuesday, September 27—State Representative, District 61
Wednesday, September 28—County Council at-large
Thursday, September 29—MCCSC School Board
Wednesday, October 5— State Representatives, Districts 46 and 60
Thursday, October 6— State Representatives, Districts 62 and 65

The Keys to the Candidates, compiled by the League of Women Voters as an aid to voters and published as a service by the Herald Times, will appear in the print edition of the paper in a shorter version and in its full length in the HT online.

Another service, provided on the website of the MCPL, is the “Be a Voter” web page. It offers information on voter registration and early voting, as well as a schedule for the candidate forums. A collaboration between the MCPL and the League, it will be updated as further information, including the ballot, becomes available. The “Be a Voter” page can be found at http://mcpl.info/vote.

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/

Old Time Radio Fridays continue with a back-to-school theme on Sept. 9, 16, 23 and 30. Old Time Radio Fridays is a listening party and discussion group for fans of classic scripted radio from the 20s-60s. Follow the Farmer House on Facebook for more information about this group’s activities.

Come see The Jungle Book on the big screen with surround sound. Children must be with an adult. Free snack. Doors open at 6:15 p.m

This new series was developed to introduce lovers of nature and music to the harmony of human-made music in natural settings. Immerse yourself in this unique listening experience that pairs acoustic music with songs of the wild.

Each program begins with an introduction to the park’s current music makers, followed by an hour-long concert. After the concert, a guided nature walk will encourage active listening and creating connections between our own music and that of nature.

Admission to all Nature Sounds concerts and programs is free.

For more information, contact Greg Jacobs at 812-349-3725 or [email protected].

For up-to-the-minute information on weather-related cancellations, call the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Community Events Hotline at 812-349-3754.

Thursday, Oct. 13 · 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Nature topic: Owls
Musical act: Daily Bread and Butter, traditional European dance music
Lower Cascades Park, Waterfall Shelter

“Why do we need so many kinds of apples? Because there are so many folks.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey

Apple Tasting returns to the Farmers’ Market with the fruit of our area growers’ labors. Find a perfectly meaty, soft-skinned apple for an afternoon snack or a just-right firm and crisp apple for your favorite crisps and pies. Apple tasting will rock you to the core!

roughhousing
(Jack Wright – Zach Darrup – Evan Lipson)
These three have all been residents of the Spring Garden Music House in Philadelphia, Zach presently. Jack and Evan have been playing for over ten years, most recently in Wrest, with percussionist Ben Bennett. Zach and Jack started playing in the June of 2014, an intense engagement since then, the most regular musical activity for both of them, releasing Meet and Greet on the Spring Garden Music label. Their Nov. 2015 tour took them through the midwest and southeast.
https://soundcloud.com/yankanin/evan-lipsonjack-wrightzach-darrup-xfest-holyoke-ma
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/Roughhousing.htm

Rachel Short
(solo)
Rachel Short is a musician, composer, and poet in Louisville, KY. She enjoys weaving academic poetry into chamber ensembles and has written art song featuring local poets. Short has composed for short film and visual art, as well as experimental sound art. As a horn player she has performed with orchestras, rock bands, experimental musicians, performance artists, poets, and chamber groups. Her debut album “Nature: Industry: Self” on Gubbey Recordspulls together field recordings, loops, live improv, and spoken word into a healing and destructive soundscape.
https://rachelshort.bandcamp.com/releases

JMFS quartet
(Joe Stone – Chris Rall – Tony Brewer – Marty Belcher)
EXO Quartet members reconstituted and reassembled: reeds, samples, percussion, foley. Free turntablist acoustic jazz collage. Soon to release “Paris Suite,” also featuring Jason Bivins and Michael Rings, collectively as Urban Deer.

Canid
(Colin Jenkinssolo)
Every single drum machine has a soul. Drones & beats from vocals, pedals, tapes, machines, & elsewhere

Join us for a straight talk program focused on understanding Medicare Supplemental and Medicare Advantage Plans. Sarah Eder, AAMS will present this free program and answer questions at the Brown County Public Library, October 4th from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the lower level meeting rooms. For more information please call 812-988-2850.

Jason Ricci is one of the most popular harmonica players on the planet today. Listed in almost every top ten list of players on the internet today Jason Ricci is a polarizing force always in the spot light and on the tips of critics, artists and fans tongue’s everywhere. Through two plus decades of endless touring, TV appearances, recordings and the internet Jason Ricci’s style of playing is so revolutionary and influential that there exists an entire younger generation of players imitating his music, clothes, gear, and even stage presence. Nick named “Moon Cat” (a street name he once used in Nashville and New Orleans to avoid police detection) Jason has been an almost constant force for decades in the studio, festivals, club dates and press. Love him or hate him, through performing, singing, song writing, teaching, harmonica playing and activism in the fields of L.G.B.T., mental health and addiction, it is not an overstatement that this young, white, queer, skateboarding, punk rock loving, multiple convicted felony having Moon Cat from Maine is currently changing the world through music and education. Jason was a featured performer on Johnny Winter’s Grammy award winning CD ‘Step Back’ (2014) Has received multiple Blues Music Award Nominations 2009 – 2016, and won a Blues Music Award in 2010. Featured performer at the Rock & Roll hall of fame with Zac Brown & Tom Morello for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band induction in 2015 Jason has worked and/or recorded with Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside, Nick Curran, Walter Trout, Ana Popovic, Cedric Burnside, Joe Louis Walker, Peter Karp, Sue Foley, and many others. “Jason Fickel & Ginger Curry can evoke sweet song styles of long-ago decades and can also drive your bottom and top chakras into blues overdrive with supersoul vocals and hurtmesobad slide guitar.” — Steve V. Johnson, Bloomington Songwriter Showcase http://jasonandginger.com/

Contact: Alison Miller. 812.349.3771, [email protected]

Pictura Gallery presents Becoming, portraits by Rania Matar of girls and women from Lebanon and the United States. Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. Although originally an architect, she became a photographer after 9-11 because she wanted to tell a different story of the Middle East.

Pictura’s exhibit will showcase multiple bodies of work by Matar, each centered on the universality of being a girl and growing up. Her work is a collaborative dialogue that explores the complexity of female maker to female subject, and of womanhood on each side of the camera.

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. Originally trained as an architect
at the American University of Beirut and at Cornell University, she studied photography at the New England
School of Photography and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Matar started teaching photography in 2009
and offered summer photography workshops to teenage girls in Lebanon’s refugee camps with the assistance
of non-governmental organizations. She now teaches Personal Documentary Photography at the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design and regularly offers talks, class visits and lectures at museums,
galleries, schools and colleges in the US and abroad. In the winter/spring of 2017, she will be an artist-inresidence/
visiting artist at Kenyon College.
Matar’s work focuses on girls and women. She documents her life through the lives of those around her,
focusing on the personal and the mundane in an attempt to portray the universal within the personal. Her work
has won several awards, has been featured in numerous publications, and exhibited widely in the U.S. and
internationally. Her images are in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide.