WFHB Community Calendar

Science Sprouts is a new weekly science enrichment program designed especially for toddlers and their families. Toddlers are natural scientists, and Science Sprouts is a time for them to explore, experiment, and build skills ranging from physical development to social emotional development. Science Sprouts activities are designed and facilitated by early childhood specialists and involve hands-on exploration, live music, body movement, and a commitment to accurate science!

Age Group: Recommended for children under 3. Pre-walkers welcome. Siblings welcome.

Location: Lab A or WonderGarden, weather permitting

Cost: Ticketed, but FREE with museum admission

Discuss the issues related to women in leadership and learn how you can get involved!
• 2017 Emerging Leader Award Presentation (Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Panel Discussion: Battling Fear and Hatred of the “Other” – Women, Certain Immigrants, People of Color, People of Certain Religions
o Sheila Kennedy
o Frances Trix
o Christie Popp
o Amrita C. Myers

Networking to follow the event at approx. 7:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 5:00 p.m. Light snacks during registration.

Women’s Leadership Development Event 2017

A Jazz Celebration of Women’s History Month.

Jazz Fables Series

Shawn Maxwell’s New Tomorrow is a quintet made up of five of Chicago’s finest musicians. Performing all original material, they specialize in a style of jazz that is heavily influenced and blended with several other modern genres. Focusing on composition just as much as improvisation, they reveal stunning melodies hidden within complex time signatures. This new approach in Maxwell’s writing brings a perfect blend of composition and improvisation for a new direction in jazz.

Ron Kadish Quartet w/ Dan Deckard, Nate Johnson and Bob Stright.

The band is touring in support of their debut album Human Child, which just came out on February 3rd. Produced by veteran sonic wizard Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Twin Limb, Houndmouth), the album is a bigger and more exploratory progression of their debut Warm Front EP (Spotify) from 2016, which established their identity as a female-led five-piece with a perfect balance of psych-pop and vintage rock & roll, with Cochran’s captivating vocals at the forefront. To get an idea, you can check out the propulsive lead single “Horoscope” (SoundCloud) and the other two singles, “Tell Me” (SoundCloud + Spotify) and “Leaves Are Gone” (SoundCloud).

Spend a day meeting and recruiting your future employees. Owen Valley High School is hosting a career fair this coming March, where you will have the opportunity to engage with over 800 students interested in learning more about the exciting employment opportunities your business offers. Be on the lookout for registration information in the mail coming in mid-January 2017.

For information please contact Derek Morgan at 812-829-2266 or [email protected].

2017 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions

An Anthem of Protest and the Politics of Commemoration in South Korea

East Asian Colloquium Series

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the School of Art and Design at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

BFA 1 features the work of Ge Bai (Metals), Katie Flegenheimer (Graphic Design), Ashlyn Reynolds (Photography), and Zach Willhite (Textiles).

BPP is proud to announce this season’s BPP/IU Collaborative Musical Calling All Kates. Written by Emily Goodson and Jeremy Schonfeld, Calling All Kates is the writing duo’s third musical developed at BPP. The story is based off of a real life story that took place in 2014 when a Toronto man made headlines by offering a free round-the-world trip to a woman with the same name as his ex-girlfriend.

In Calling All Kates, Marc gets dumped by his fiancé, Kate McBride, right before their wedding and honeymoon around the world. He’s now single and left to travel the globe alone since his plane tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. In an act of desperation, Marc posts an ad online for the only companion who could legally join him… someone with the exact same name as his ex-fiancé. Set loose in a bunch of different foreign countries, strangers Marc and Kate must get to know one another and learn to get along in the wake of Marc’s heartbreak. Will they fall in love? Probably not. Will they have a heck of a good time? Definitely.

“When I first heard the story, I immediately thought – THIS HAS TO BE A PLAY! Quite honestly, I’m surprised Hollywood hasn’t beaten us to the punch. And commissioning Emily & Jeremy to write this, the team that has brought BPP two of our most successful musicals, Spun and Greta, seemed like the perfect fit. What we have now is a show that is 100% BPP: it’s heartfelt, meaningful, fun, funny, and completely and totally original – you definitely can’t see this show anywhere else in the world,” says Director Chad Rabinovitz.

Book writer Emily Goodson was immediately on board with the idea as well. “We loved the inherent adventure in this story. Two strangers thrown together – literally – in a foreign land. There’s just so possibility,” she says.

Calling All Kates stars Mike Nappi (The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers) and Emily Crowley. Benjamin Aaron Smith (Toast, Make Me Bad) is the Musical Director. The show features Scenic Design by David Wade (Row After Row, Thirty Day Mourning Period), Lighting Design by Jeffrey Small (The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Make Me Bad, Island Song), Costume Design by Chib Gratz (The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Capables), Sound Design by David Sheehan (Home, Thirty Day Mourning Period), and Choreography by Berklea Going.

Emily Goodson (Playwright) lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband Gabe and their two children Bea and Rock. She has written for both The Blizzard Rewind and Blizzard Sells Out. Her comedy Lady Bits opened to sold-out crowds at the Indy Fringe Festival in August 2012. Other musicals include Spun and Greta with composer Jeremy Schonfeld. Spun was originally commissioned and produced by the Bloomington Playwrights Project in May 2013 with subsequent equity productions by the Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis in April 2014 and the Adirondack Theatre Festival in July 2015. It is slated for an Off-Broadway production in 2018. Her most recent play The Third Glass was selected for the 2015 Northern Writers Conference.

Jeremy Schonfeld (Composer/Lyricist) is a celebrated singer/songwriter, composer/lyricist, occasional actor, producer, mentor and teacher. His concept album Iron & Coal, produced in Vienna Austria with producing partners Beat4Feet (Martin Gellner and Werner Stranka), was nominated for several Amadeus Awards (Austrian Grammys), and is currently in development as a large-scale, hybrid multimedia theatrical production. Previously, Jeremy created the album 37 Notebooks, featuring vocal performance contributions from friends including Adam Pascal, Julia Murney, Tracie Thoms, Amy Spanger, Lauren Kennedy, and Donnie Kehr. “House of Love,” recorded by Shoshana Bean for 37 Notebooks (featuring the Broadway Dreams Chorus), has been recorded and performed numerous times, and is consistently used in many diverse charitable campaigns including Defying Inequality and Rockers on Broadway. The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus annual holiday concert at Town Hall was even appropriately billed as the “NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday House of Love,  featuring Lillias White”. Additional albums include Drift and Blue Skies and All, plus song contributions to the movie soundtrack for Clear Blue Tuesday (co-starring Jeremy) and the featured single Babazille Mahlangu written for the Broadway in South Africa campaign. Currently, Jeremy has been working in Nashville with producer Caleb Sherman, writing and producing material for up-and-coming singer Brook Wood and executive producing an EP for young singer/songwriter Lauren Weintraub (www.laurenweintraub.com).

As a composer/Lyricist, Jeremy has several shows under his belt, many in development. Drift, based on the concept album, has won numerous awards for productions at NYMF (New York Musical Theater Festival) and at the Kennedy Theater in Raleigh, N.C., featuring a diverse roster of talent, including Adam Pascal, Christian Campbell, Terrence Mann, Adam Kantor, and Jarrod Emick. Spun and Greta are part of an exciting, ongoing collaboration with partners Chad Rabinovitz (producing executive director) and Emily Goodson (Book) formed through the BPP (Bloomington Playwrights Project) at Indiana University. The team is currently developing a new, as-of-yet untitled show for production at the BPP in spring of 2017.  Additionally, Jeremy is excited to have recently broken ground on an upcoming project with respected journalist and author, Steve Fishman of New York Magazine.

Some of Jeremy’s favorite performances include the opening ceremonies for the Maccabi Games in both Vienna and at Madison Square Garden, Hollywood in Vienna featuring Maestro David Newman and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and co-star Deborah Cox, Drift at BB King’s, Several Rockers on Broadway concert events, and regular gigs in NYC rooms including Joe’s Pub, the Cutting Room, LPR, 54 Below, and the Bitter End.

Jeremy lives in Brooklyn with beautiful Kiwi-actress/therapeutic horse riding instructor wife Sarah-Jane Casey, toddler cutie Gustav, and his brilliant college-attending daughter Alexandra.

Presented by Rob Boston

An evening celebrating the Chinese pipa, featuring Grammy nominee Wu Man and ensembles from the I.U. Jacobs School of Music.

Recognized as a premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer, giving her lute-like instrument—which has a history of over 2,000 years in China—a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. Through numerous concert tours as well as high-profile collaborations with ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Wu Man has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa while spearheading multimedia initiatives to preserve and create awareness of China’s ancient musical traditions.

The concert will begin with selected solo works for pipa, and then Wu Man will be joined by the JSOM Vera Quartet for the Concerto for string quartet and pipa (Tan Dun, 1999). The program will conclude with Tian Ling (Nature and Spirit) for pipa and fourteen players (Zhou Long, 1992) featuring Wu Man with the JSOM New Music Ensemble (David Dzubay, director). Additional program information and notes are available on the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation website.

This event is part of the IU Global Arts & Humanities Festival: China Remixed and Lotus Blossoms Educational Outreach and is a joint presentation of the IU Arts & Humanities Council, the IU Jacobs School of Music, and the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation.

More information about Wu Man: http://www.wumanpipa.org/
Other China Remixed events: go.iu.edu/china-remixed
Other Lotus Blossoms events: http://www.lotusfest.org/events/

Doors will open for this reserved seating show at 7pm, and the performance is expected to last one hour.

Wonderhills (FKA The Underhills) is releasing our first full-length CD on March 31st at Blockhouse Bar and will include performances by local artists Daisy Chain and Myah Evans.

Come join us for this quick two-hour workshop to learn how to make the most of Lemonade Day 2017! This interactive workshop will have you and your child(ren) go through sessions to learn from community leaders and experts about all aspects of what makes a successful lemonade stand.

Choose from The Basics, Taking it to the Next Level or Lemonade Day XTREME for our most experienced entrepreneurs.  There’s something for everyone, whether it’s your very first Lemonade Day, or you’re a Lemonade Day veteran.

Join us for this fun, interactive learning experience for mentors and your young entrepreneurs.

You can sign up for Lemonade Day at this workshop if you are not signed up yet.  Just arrive 15 minutes early so that you can get your LD materials before the workshop starts.

You can also sign up for your stand location at this workshop, pick up your t-shirts, backpacks and workbooks at this workshop (if you registered online), get your official business operators permit from the City of Bloomington and much more!

RSVP for Lemonade Day University by registering for Lemonade Day before Thursday, March 30, 2017 if you will be attending, or just show up on Saturday (15 minutes early), and join us!

The Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar is a free multicultural arts-and-education event for kids and families.  Created in 1996 with the help of area teachers, the World Bazaar has become a tradition in Monroe County schools — public, private, and charter — as well as in our community.  Volunteers from the Bloomington community (and around the world) present arts, music, language, and international crafts at a vibrant multicultural fair in the gymnasium of Binford Elementary. More than 30 activity stations let kids get their hands on the world….so grab your passport at the door, and go!

Featuring hands-on activities, exploration of world cultures, and live performances.  Appropriate for all ages, but especially fun for kids K-6. Children must be accompanied by parents/guardians.

Join Liz Watts Malouchos from IU’s Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology as she interprets local histories from the first Native peoples to Euro-American pioneers who lived in Monroe County.

Come to our drop in workshop and make your own fused egg magnet or suncatcher. This family friendly workshop is an opportunity for anyone ages 5 and above to try glass making “on the spot” in 15 minutes or less.

Glass-fusing is a fun creative process that involves collaging smaller bits of glass onto a larger glass surface. Your piece will be taken to a kiln offsite for firing (at a later time) and you can pick it up by April 6 at By Hand Gallery in Fountain Square Mall.

Reservations are encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome! We will take reservations every 15 minutes from 2:00 until 5:30.

If you would like to register for a time slot please contact us at [email protected], or call (812)345-2470. Find more information at www.bloomingtoncreativeglasscenter.org.

King Charles III is the winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play and nominee for the 2016 Best New Play Tony award, as well as the #1 Play of 2015 as chosen by the The New York Times, Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and Associated Press.

King Charles III takes place in an imagined future. Elizabeth has been laid to rest and the new King’s first actions threaten the existence of the English crown. William and Kate are determined to usurp the throne and save the house of Windsor while a restless Harry and the ghost of Diana haunt the palace.

This fiendishly clever future Shakespearean history play is a treat for fans of Hamlet and People Magazine alike.

The Blue Diesel Ramblers will turn Player’s Pub into a Honky Tonk this Saturday for our Monthly Honky Tonk Happy Hour! Dust off your dancing boots and see The Ramblers (Emily Jackson, John Orie Stith, Mike Stiglitz, Eric Phillipssen and Rick Nagy) play songs from the Golden Era of Country Music – hits and deep cuts from Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, George Jones and many others, including a few of our own. If you’ve been wondering where you can see live classic country music, your wondering can stop when you wander in to Player’s Pub between Five and Seven PM Saturday April First! See you then…

King Charles III is the winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play and nominee for the 2016 Best New Play Tony award, as well as the #1 Play of 2015 as chosen by the The New York Times, Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and Associated Press.

King Charles III takes place in an imagined future. Elizabeth has been laid to rest and the new King’s first actions threaten the existence of the English crown. William and Kate are determined to usurp the throne and save the house of Windsor while a restless Harry and the ghost of Diana haunt the palace.

This fiendishly clever future Shakespearean history play is a treat for fans of Hamlet and People Magazine alike.

The First Sunday of every month.

Featured readers are: Shayne Laughter, Karen Wyle, and Ray Zdonek.

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

Join I.U. Outdoor Adventures when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to Bloomington for the 15th year in a row!

The Banff Mountain Film Festival, a program of The Banff Centre, is the largest and one of the most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. Following the initial festival at The Banff Centre in Alberta, the tour hits the road with stops planned in 40 countries across the globe.

This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival. Traveling to exotic landscapes and remote cultures, paddling the wildest waters and climbing the highest peaks, and bringing audiences up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2016/2017 World Tour is an exhilarating exploration of the mountain world. From approximately 350 films entered into the annual festival, award-winning films and audience favorites are among the films chosen to travel the globe.

Children under five are free, but a ticket is still required for entry. Parental discretion may be advised.

Doors will open 30 minutes before the show. The screenings will last approximately three hours. Raffle prize draws at intermission!

Starting January 16, Moms’ Monday, our new moms group, will be held in The Baby Space at the Monroe County Library on every first and third Monday of the month from 10 am to noon. This space is a separate, fully enclosed room designed just for the needs of babies who are not yet walking, and their caregivers.

This group is a drop-in style. It is open to moms and their babies who are not yet walking. Please note that older children are not permitted in The Baby Space.

For low- and middle-income taxpayers, with special attention to those age 60 and older.

For low- and middle-income taxpayers, with special attention to those age 60 and older.

Bloomington Unplugged, A Harpsichord Performance by Beth Garfinkel, at The Venue
On Tuesday eve, April 4th, beginning at 5:30p.m., The Venue will host a special unplugged musical performance of Harpsichord and vocal music from the English and Italian Baroque eras, by Beth Garfinkel.

Beth holds a Bachelors Degree in Music from Oberlin College, a Masters Degree in Early Music Performance–Harpsichord, from the New England Conservatory of Music, and her Doctorate in Early Music Performance, Harpsichord, with doctoral minors in Ethnomusicology and English Literature, from Indiana University.

Beth’s expertise as a scholar and performer of early music is without equal and this performance is a rare treat. It will be both educational and entertaining.

The Venue will provide refreshments for the occasion. Our complete collection of Fine Art and Gifts will also be on display for viewing and purchase.

Join Books & Beyond: A Service-Learning Project and the Hutton Honors College on Tuesday, April 4th, to explore the country of Rwanda through photos, video, facts, and food. Stop by the Hutton Honors Great room at any time from 5 to 6:30 p.m. to view photographs taken by student travelers to Rwanda, test your knowledge of Rwanda through interactive trivia, participate in a silent auction, and enjoy Rwandan snacks, coffee, and tea. The program will also showcase the creative works of students from The Project School and Girls Inc. who have participated in a number of educational workshops led by the I.U. Books & Beyond Project. Rwanda is a country with a vibrant, rich, and deep history and culture. Explore this country through Visions of Rwanda.

Presented by Books and Beyond in association with I.U.’s Hutton Honors College.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance: An Evening of Activities, Games, and Reading.

The MLK Commission will be hosting this educational evening. Children of all ages and their families are welcome to remember the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 49th anniversary of his assassination. Community volunteers will be present to read stories to children and their families about MLK and other African American and Civil Rights era role models. There will be game and arts and crafts rooms and refreshments, too.

The 5th annual Brown County Reads book is Positive by Paige Rawl. This year’s book is a memoir of an HIV positive girl who survives bullying to become an ambassador for those infected with HIV/AIDS and an advocate against bullying. She has been honored numerous times by state and national organizations as a leader and a hero for her efforts. She has been featured USA Today, Boston Globe and the Huffington Post. Please join us April 4th at 7pm as we welcome Paige Rawl to Brown County Public Library. Books are available for check out at the Brown County Public Library and the Cordy-Sweetwater Branch Library. For more information you may call the Library at 812-988-2850.

Chris Wolf, Joel Weir, Kacie Swierk are the Feature Writers for this evening.

This week featuring Rachel Waite, Liam Purcell with Quinton Hughes and Phantomwise

Weekly Showcase featuring artists from Campus and town.

Phantomwise https://phntmws.bandcamp.com/

There are more than 65 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world. The impact of this upsurge of refugees, the most the world has ever known, has only begun to be fully felt. Education, national security, humanitarian aid, social services, policies, economics, children, families and identities are being impacted in communities all over the world. This is a true global issue that may have roots in places such as Syria or Somalia but is quickly transcending the boundaries of displacement camps, receiving countries, and war-torn nations. Further, like all major global challenges, there is not one way to tackle this issue; it calls for collaborations and conversations that integrate multiple perspectives, peoples, and nations. For a university, which also has a responsibility to act as well as to educate students and communities, the response requires conversations across disciplines and across the social sciences and the humanities.
This day-long symposium will combine scholarship, performance, practice, and an art installation and will investigate the complex intersection of art and refugees. The symposium views art as a social and political agent and as an illustration of human struggles and accomplishments. Symposium participants will explore the refugee situation alongside an array of artistic expressions, as well as the artists, sociopolitical contexts, analytic frameworks, and global trends from which art about refugees is created and defined. And, in so doing, participants will explore the refugee experience through multiple lenses, from the political and cultural, to the aesthetic, economic, intimate, and historic. As the Bloomington community is also dealing with its debated refugee situation (at one point, Syrian refugees were going to be allowed to settle in Bloomington this Spring), and with the recent presidential executive order, this topic is an extremely timely one and participants will also be asked to consider this issue from a U.S. local perspective. The symposium’s overall goal is to use art as an entry point to more meaningfully and intimately understand the experience of refugees.

Symposium Schedule
8:30 AM, Coffee and Registration*
9:00 Introductions*
9:15 AM-10:30 AM, Panel 1: Humanitarian and Refugees in a Global Context*
10:45-12:15 AM, Panel 2: Refugees, Art, and Rethinking Geographies*
12:30-1:30 PM, Lunch
1:45-3:15 PM, Panel 3: Displacement, Stories, and Communities*
3:30 PM, Multi-media performance: Finding Home – Shine the Light*
5:00 PM, First Thursdays Festival Exhibit at the Showalter Art Plaza by Charlotte Schmitz and performance by Rahim Alhaj

*Panels and multi-media performance will take place in the Global & International Studies Building room 1060.

Confirmed participants

• Maurizio Albahari, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Notre Dame
• Rahim Alhaj, Virtuouso oud musician & Iraqi-born refugee, New Mexico
• Judah Cohen, Associate Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies, IU
• Elizabeth Dunn, Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies, IU
• Debbie Haber, Executive Artistic Director at DEEP Arts and Creator & Writer of Moses Man: Finding Home, Rochester, New York
• Amy Horowitz
• David Marshall, Documentary director, Blue Sky Project, New York
• Charlotte Schmitz, Professional photographer, Germany
• Oliver Shao, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology & Folklore, IU
• Katherine Silvester, Professor of English, IU
• Frances Trix, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, IU

Sponsors

• Center for the Study of Global Change
• Center for the Study of the Middle East
• Inner Asia & Uralic National Resource Center
• Institute for European Studies
• Russian & East European Institute
• African Studies Program
• Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
• College Arts & Humanities Institute

Science Sprouts is a new weekly science enrichment program designed especially for toddlers and their families. Toddlers are natural scientists, and Science Sprouts is a time for them to explore, experiment, and build skills ranging from physical development to social emotional development. Science Sprouts activities are designed and facilitated by early childhood specialists and involve hands-on exploration, live music, body movement, and a commitment to accurate science!

Age Group: Recommended for children under 3. Pre-walkers welcome. Siblings welcome.

Location: Lab A or WonderGarden, weather permitting

Cost: Ticketed, but FREE with museum admission

A luncheon to benefit Middle Way House, featuring Jenn Cristy, Krista Detor, & Janiece Jaffe!

Delicious meal & venue provided by Alpha Chi Omega, 1000 N. Jordan Avenue

Doors open at 11am for silent auction bidding.

Lunch, discussion, & performances start at 12 noon.

Thanks to the ladies of Alpha Chi Omega for donating their lunches and dining hall to support our work.

First Thursdays is a monthly series featuring extended evening hours on the first Thursday of every month, with activities for everyone. Our May First Thursday will be the last major event at the art museum before it closes for renovations.

Thomas Mapfumo “The Lion of Zimbabwe”, often described as the Bob Dylan of Africa for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music, including his sharp criticism of the government of President Robert Mugabe.

https://www.facebook.com/events/407852052911202/

Ron Funches is a very funny stand up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His easy going, inventive style sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Ron performs stand up all over the United States impressing audiences everywhere.

You may know Ron from NBC’s new show POWERLESS. Ron’s other television appearances include, starring in NBC’s UNDATEABLE, recurring roles on Comedy Central’s @MIDNIGHT, THE KROLL SHOW, DRUNK HISTORY and many more. Ron has multiple stand-up performances on TBS’s CONAN O’BRIEN SHOW and NBC’s THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON.

Ron’s voice-over credits include BOJACK HORSEMAN, BOB’S BURGERS, HOME and the Dreamworks animated film TROLLS.

Fire Chief Charlie is a love story. In a Chicago suburb in 2000, Jamie first entered Jonah’s life by cartwheel from stage left as a high school freshman in Bye Bye Birdie while Jonah watched from the audience. Ten years later, they reunited in Los Angeles when Jonah’s Chicago act, Fire Chief Charlie, moved out west. Jonah’s solo act quickly became a duet that eventually grew to include two more Midwestern natives (Lucas Dunning, Eric Radoux), completing the four-piece band.

Fire Chief Charlie’s music is an eclectic mix of traditional folk/rock songwriting and genre-hopping arrangements. Their songs and concerts come alive through the performances of dancer Darren Schroader, whose avant-garde choreography and costumes surprise the band and audience alike.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present this year’s MFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Master of Fine Arts students in the School of Art and Design at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles. Each MFA student will give a gallery talk about their work.

MFA 2 features the work of Genevieve Cohn (Painting), Kristin Horan (Printmaking), Benjamin Lowery (Painting), Emily Nickel (Ceramics), Adrianna Rose Schlemmer (Metals), and Autumn Wright (Printmaking).

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the School of Art and Design at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

BFA 2 features the work of Caroline Federle (Photography), Tevin Garcia (Painting), Annabella Habegger (DART), and Colton Hendon (Sculpture).

Ron Funches is a very funny stand up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His easy going, inventive style sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Ron performs stand up all over the United States impressing audiences everywhere.

You may know Ron from NBC’s new show POWERLESS. Ron’s other television appearances include, starring in NBC’s UNDATEABLE, recurring roles on Comedy Central’s @MIDNIGHT, THE KROLL SHOW, DRUNK HISTORY and many more. Ron has multiple stand-up performances on TBS’s CONAN O’BRIEN SHOW and NBC’s THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON.

Ron’s voice-over credits include BOJACK HORSEMAN, BOB’S BURGERS, HOME and the Dreamworks animated film TROLLS.

The public is invited to a League of Women Voters Legislative Update on Saturday, February 4, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., in the Bloomington City Council Chambers. State legislators representing Monroe County will discuss developments in the Indiana General Assembly and will respond to audience questions and concerns.

This is the second of five planned Legislative Updates sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County. All updates will be held in the Bloomington City Council Chambers, Showers Building, 401 N. Morton St. and are free and open to the public. They will be taped by Cable Access Television Services through the Monroe County Public Library and will be replayed by CATS throughout the current legislative session.

Subsequent Legislative Updates are scheduled for March 4, April 8, and May 13.

This annual family friendly event will offer hands-on gardening demonstrations while introducing volunteer opportunities with local gardening organizations. In addition to gardening activities, a plant sale to support the IU Crimson Cupboard food pantry will also take place.

No registration required. For more information, please contact Lea Woodard, Coordinator Hilltop Garden & Nature Center 812-855-8808or [email protected]

Presented by Boys and Girls Clubs of Bloomington.

This event is an opportunity for girls and their positive male role model such as father, father-figures, or other important adult to enjoy together. Please join us for dancing, activities, photo booth, food and fun!