WFHB Community Calendar

This event  will begin with a screening of the 1994 film “Facing the Facade”, a documentary on Black Student activism on IUB’s campus in the 90’s. The screening will be followed by a Q.A with Kimberly L. King-Jupiter Ph.D, a founding member of the IU Black Student Task Force. Dr. King will facilitate an interactive discussion on the potential for change that rests with the BLM movement.

Contact: Scott Witzke, [email protected]

Contact: Alison Miller. 812.349.3771, [email protected]

Contact: Beth George; [email protected]; 317-684-7711

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Steven Higgs, author of ‘A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana,’ the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore Indiana by trail, water, or road, will provide ideas for a lifetime of fun and exploration in southern Indiana in a lecture at the Wyle House Museum’s Education Center onOctober 20th beginning at 7 pm.

Steven Higgs will highlight the unique natural characteristics and history of his favorite sites and provide stories about his experiences exploring Indiana. In addition, he will direct readers to the very best locations in southern Indiana for bird and game watching, fishing and boating, hiking and camping, and more. Learn about the natural areas that represent southern Indiana wilderness at its pristine best.

State Botanist Michael Homoya will be the keynote speaker at our 26^th annual celebration dinner. Enjoy live jazz music, a silent auction, an excellent dinner, and drinks from Oliver Winery and Upland Brewing Co. Tickets available on our website: sycamorelandtrust.org

Proceeds benefit the to Walnut Grove Food Pantry.

See website for exact directions: www.newsongmission.org/contact

New Song Mission, an emerging children’s home campus located in Brown County, Indiana, is having a Fall Open House and you’re invited!

Come enjoy some delicious cider and tasty donuts at New Song’s Fall Open House. Explore the beautiful campus and learn more about this important ministry where the lives of at-risk children can be transformed.

Music by Julia Sabatine and Sonic Totem. Their music is mostly folk/rock with all original music.

The Ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Kappa Tau Omega chapter, cordially invite you to their Harvest Moon Sip, Saturday, October 22nd from 6 pm- 8 pm at the Butler Winery and Vineyard, located at 6200 East Robinson Road in Bloomington.

The event will feature wine tasting and wine education,  appetizers, and a raffle wine pull.  Proceeds will go toward community projects of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.  Tickets can be purchased online via Eventbrite Bloomington, or in person from any Kappa Tau Omega Soror.  For more information, please email Tracey at [email protected]

We look forward to “sipping” with you!

Come early and stay late – your ticket purchase also includes spine-tingling, dramatic readings by Cricket’s Bone Caravan  and James Dorr. Doors will open 15-30 minutes prior to each film. Ticket and pass prices will increase the day of the show. Tickets: www.buskirkchumbley.org

Arsenic and Old Lace; 2:15pm; 1944;, 2 hours

Frank Capra’s Halloween comedy is one of the most beloved and popular movies from Hollywood’s Golden Era….On Halloween Day, a man learns that his eccentric but sweet aunts have been seeking out lonely, elderly men, poisoning them, and burying them in the basement. Cary Grant stars; Jean Adair and Josephine Hull play Grant’s loveable aunts, reprising their roles from the hit Broadway play.

The Exorcist; 5pm; 1973; 2 hours, 12 minutes

The Exorcist might be the most influential post – World War II American horror film and defined the genre for a generation of filmmakers. A 12 year old girl becomes possessed by a malevolent spirit, and her only hope is an exorcism. Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, and Max Von Sydow star. The Exorcist received 10 Academy Award nominations, winning two. We are screening the even scarier Director’s Cut.

The Wailing; 8pm; 2016; 2 hours, 36 minutes

A foreigner’s mysterious appearance in a quiet, rural village causes suspicion among the locals – suspicion which quickly turns to hysteria as the townspeople begin killing each other for seemingly no reason. As the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he agrees to consult a shaman for answers – unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous.

The Wailing is a murder mystery, a zombie movie, a tale of demonic possession, and a parable of bad parenting gone wrong. At times outrageously funny, it’s a moral and/or narrative puzzler that will keep you guessing days or weeks later.

Indiana University’s Center on Aging and Community presents Poetry Matters,
a two-day workshop series, offered October 25 & 26 in Bloomington, Indiana. Facilitated by Gary Glazner, the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, this best-practice, award-winning program received the 2013 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer ’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award and the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement.

Workshop #1 The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
October 25, 2016, from 2:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m. Hosted by Bell Trace Senior Living Community
Gary will share his experience in improving the quality of life of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia by facilitating creative expression through poetry. Those who should attend are professionals serving people with dementia, family and friends of people with dementia, and poetry enthusiasts of all ages.

WHY:   Most start-ups fail within their first three years!!!

WHAT:  Empower yourself with a proven, creative, master processe that will help you clarify your vision, elaborate on your business idea, identify obstacles, and introduce you to a basic toolbox of quick fix practices that encourage innovative thinking.

CREATIVE INDIANA is partnering with Ladi Terry, Success Work! to offer this workshop focusing on where you are with your idea, where you want go and the necessary steps to get you there.

Indiana University’s Center on Aging and Community presents Poetry Matters,
a two-day workshop series, offered October 25 & 26 in Bloomington, Indiana. Facilitated by Gary Glazner, the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, this best-practice, award-winning program received the 2013 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer ’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award and the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement.

Workshop #2 Poetry in Motion
October 25, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Hosted by Bell Trace Senior Living Community
This workshop translates poetry through the cultural lens of two vastly different generations. We will explore how to use poetry and other art forms to inspire and guide intergenerational conversations. This workshop is for Indiana University students, community elders, and artist of all ages.

Paul Slovic, Professor of psychology, University of Oregon

with Bill Price, Chris Wolf, Kimberly McC0y & Mark Fuller PLUS monthly OPEN GUEST ‘Share-a-Chair’ No Cover Charge – must be 21+ to enter Bears Place BACK ROOM CONCERT Hall

Indiana University’s Center on Aging and Community presents Poetry Matters,
a two-day workshop series, offered October 25 & 26 in Bloomington, Indiana. Facilitated by Gary Glazner, the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, this best-practice, award-winning program received the 2013 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer ’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award and the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement.

Workshop #3 Poetry on Wheels
October 26, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. – Noon Hosted by Jill’s House Assisted Living
Join the discussion on how to incorporate poetry and other forms of creative expression into the lives of socially isolated elders who participate in the Bloomington Meals on Wheels program. If you are interested in volunteering and contributing to this exciting new program, please plan to attend.

Green Drinks Bloomington is a lively, informal social networking event for people from all walks of life who are interested in making a greener world.  Folks gather every month to share libations and ideas, discuss, debate, explore and make new friends and business connections.

On Wednesday, October 26 at 6 pm Bill Brown, Director of Sustainability at Indiana University, will present a talk entitled “Tomorrow’s Buildings Today”. By 2030, an area roughly equal to 60 percent of the current total building stock of the world (a staggering 883 billion square feet) will be built or rebuilt to satisfy the demands of a rapidly growing and urbanizing global population. This will require the equivalent of another New York City with all five boroughs every 35 days for the next 15 years. Architects have been challenged to meet this unprecedented demand while also reducing the overall impact of the built environment by designing all buildings to be carbon neutral by 2030. Can it be done? How are we doing? How can you be a part of the 2030 Challenge? Join in the conversation at the October Green Drinks Bloomington.

Green Drinks Bloomington is held the 4^th Wednesday of the month through October from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Banquet Facility of the Upland Brewing Company. There’s a $5 suggested donation, some food will be provided. To receive a monthly reminder, write [email protected].  To learn more about Green Drinks visit www.greendrinks.org.

Men in the Arena is the unforgettable story of two Somali National Football Team friends chasing their dreams in the face of impossible odds. It’s a survival story, a human rights story, and a rare sports journey principally shot and produced in Kenya, Somalia, and the United States. For three years, the filmmakers worked to capture the Somali story through the eyes of footballing friends bound by a shared dream to inspire their countrymen. What happens to them is nothing short of miraculous. Our hope is that this film will begin to illuminate the power the dreamers have to inspire a generation.

Wednesday, October 26th there will be Halloween Themed Team Trivia! at the Void (1607 S. Rogers, in the warehouse complex). Doors open at 7, game starts at 7:30pm sharp. $5 per person – all proceeds benefit Boxcar Books, Bloomington’s volunteer-powered nonprofit bookstore and community center.

A cultural anthropologist with research interests in the anthropology of international policy in the context of peace-building and democratization, Azra Hromadzic is the author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which examines the polarizing effects of everyday ethnic divisions in the wake of the devastating Bosnia-Herzegovina conflicts. Her talk will address the unintended consequences resulting from the consociational (power-sharing) model of postwar state inserted into Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the inability of its citizens, especially youth, to knit their society back together after the war. The principal focus of her remarks will be the discourses and practices at play in the reconstruction of the highly symbolic Mostar Gymnasium in the deeply divided town of Mostar, a context that vividly exposes the international diplomatic visions, local ethno-nationalist projects, and ethnicization of everyday life that have congealed to produce an empty nation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This will be an exclusive and intimate performance by Matt Haeck, a rising country music singer. This event will a great time for all and a time where a group of friends to enjoy a live performance and a great atmosphere. Matt Haeck comes by his contradictions honestly. Scrappy with a genuine, lyrical voice, he sings truths hard-earned from struggles most men twice his age haven’t seen. With a silky Southern drawl, Haeck sings about depression, divorce, battling demons and vices. Through personal failures and a new life after deciding to change, Matt Haeck has found himself through a series of dark turns while searching for the light on his debut album. Late Bloomer was produced by David Mayfield and features appearances from Critter Fuqua (Old Crow Medicine Show), Paul Defiglia (The Avett Brothers), Caitlin Rose and Elizabeth Cook.

This event will be family-friendly and fun for all ages! We encourage participants to dress up in their Halloween Costumes.

We will meet at the table and chairs statue on W. 8^th St and the B-Line Trail. With a relaxed route, riders of all ages and abilities will find it to be a manageable and enjoyable time!

Current students, prospective students, parents, and the general public are encouraged to attend. Visitors can tour the Career Center, visit classrooms, meet faculty and students, and view hands-on demonstrations in a variety of career areas.
Hoosier Hills Career Center offers career oriented educational programs for high school students from Bloomington High School North, Bloomington High School South, Martinsville High School, Edgewood High School, Eastern-Greene High School, The Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship, Bloomington Graduation School, and Owen Valley High School. Many of the programs also function as businesses which provide services to the community and are designed to prepare high school students for careers, continuing education, certification, and licensing.
Representatives from several colleges, universities, local industry, and the military will be on hand to discuss continuing educational and career opportunities for students. Presentations will also be given throughout the evening on College and Career Readiness.
For more information on Hoosier Hills Career Center and the Career Pathway Fair, please contact us at (812) 330-7730.

Contact: Alison Miller. 812.349.3771, [email protected]

Guthrie Meadows Bed and Breakfast,
12406 Tunnelton Rd
Bedford, IN 47421
(812) 849-0591

Bloomington Expressive Arts Training (BEAT) will present their 5th Anniversary Fall Show on Thursday October 27th and Friday October 28th at 7:30pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. BEAT is a pre-professional show choir program for children grades 1st – 12th throughout Bloomington and its surrounding areas. Help us kick off our 5th Anniversary as the members of Mini-Sync, Synchronicity, Syncopation, and Amplitude sing and dance their way through music you know and love. Featuring hip-hop, musical theatre, and pop, BEAT invites you to partake in this innovative, engaging entertainment fit for the whole family!

Doors will open at 7pm. The show will last 2 hours including an intermission.

WFHB’s Interchange will host a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Amrita Myers that focuses on topics prompted by the highly publicized police shootings of unarmed Black Americans in recent years and the subsequent rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Hosted by Doug Storm, topics to be discussed include race, racism, privilege, and policing, with special emphasis on the local. From Ferguson to Charlotte, a national dialogue is underway about the status of race and racism in the United States. But how are things here, in Bloomington and other communities in South Central Indiana? Many suggest that racism is institutionalized within the United States, and thus operates in ways both seen and hidden. This discussion seeks to interrogate our own community.

The panel includes Berenice Sanchez, current doctoral student at IU’s School of Education and past Assistant Director of La Casa Cultural Latina at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Rasul Mowatt, Associate Professor of American Studies and Associate Chair and Associate Professor in Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies with the School of Public Health; Jennifer Brooks, co-chair of Showing Up for Racial Justice – Bloomington; and William Morris, Civil Rights Attorney and member of the Bloomington Civil Rights Commission. The panel is moderated by Amrita Myers, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Gender Studies. Audience participation will be encouraged.

Paul Slovic, Professor of psychology, University of Oregon

The Fall 2016 EASC Colloquium Series will continue this Friday, October 28, with a presentation by Dr. Robert Hegel (Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese at Washington University in St. Louis).

This event is part of the Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Series and is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Comparative Literature

Sing for joy, fun and community… Come sing with the Bloomington Community Song Circle.  All voices are welcome – no singing experience necessary. All songs are taught and easy to learn — and are some combination of beautiful, fun, and uplifting.  Many different song leaders. If you wish, bring a song as well.  Join us Friday October 28, at 6 – 7:30 pm, at Unity of Bloomington, 4001 S. Rogers St.  You can find more information on meetup.com under Bloomington Community Song Circle.

Indiana University’s School of Art + Design is pleased to open its doors to students, families, artists, and visitors for the annual Open Studios event on Friday, October 28 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Individuals interested in the BA, BFA or MFA programs can explore artists’ studio practices, ask questions about the School’s areas of study, and preview course listings for Spring 2017. All visitors are invited to try their hand at various art-making activities and view student artwork in multiple studio locations. Attendees should plan to start in the Fine Arts Building, where maps and directions will be available in the Friends of Art Bookshop. Visitor parking is available in the Global and International Studies/Wells Library parking lot. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call 812-855-1333 or email [email protected].

Talkers South is honoring the PBS painting sensation Bob Ross with a double-billed tribute on October 29th, what would have been his 74th birthday.

Talkers South will host a first-ever Beer & Canvass event, emceed by Kev da Flyin’ Hawaiian, and featuring a Beer Tasting by local brewers Quaff On. Participants will be tutored through an episode of the Joy of Painting, and will create a replica of a painting made famous by Bob Ross. Staff from Quaff On will be on hand to discuss their brewing process, and showcase a few of their brews. Those attending are encouraged to dress like Bob Ross through some inspiration of his show. Painting supplies are provided.

The public is encouraged to come dressed like Bob Ross to receive a gift chip good toward the purchase of beer, food, or Talkers’ merchandise. The Bob Ross Costume Party will culminate in a group photograph by local photographer Ryan Arford, which will be submitted to the Guinness Book of World’s Record consulting team as we aspire to create an historic evening with the establishing of a World Record amount of people at one event, dressed like the iconic Artist. Local Musician Jack Whittle will take the stage at 8:30 to perform his fantastic style of Rock & Blues.

“I can think of no better way to unite the people of Bloomington through amazing local beer, music, and mutual appreciation for the Legendary Bob Ross,” said Talkers Tap Room Partner Skip Daley. “His birthday happens to be on Halloween weekend, so people will be in the spirit to dress up and establish a World Record for the most people dressed like Bob Ross. We are excited to facilitate such a fun way to add another feather in the cultural cap of Bloomington,” Daley added.

Spiced with sweet transvestites, mad scientists, and a big chunk of meat loaf, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult phenomenon unlike any film or musical you’ve ever seen! The party begins with a “de-virginization ritual” a half hour before each screening (trust us – it doesn’t hurt). This initiation ceremony is fun for newbies and veterans alike.

The doors will open at 7pm and the “de-virginization ritual” will begin at 7:30pm shortly followed by the film at 8pm. Please note that no outside props will be allowed into the theater, the only props allowed will be the prop bags available for sale.