Drop in, adventure through fantastic realms, then leave when you want! These sessions of Dungeons & Dragons are designed to be short, fun, and evolving adventures that anyone can play. All skill levels are welcome.
Drop by The Ground Floor Study Room to get some homework help during these free, in-person sessions held every Monday and Wednesday.
Join Georgia in the kitchen for our weekly Kids Cook event! Kids of all ages are welcome to practice their cooking skills, learn fun recipes, and try lots of tasty foods! Parents/guardians/caretakers are welcome as well!
Sign up starts at 6pm and stays open until full. Come share some songs (originals and/or covers welcome).
Listen to stories, sing songs, and do some yoga and mindfulness exercises to practice early literacy skills and wind down before bedtime. Feel free to come in pajamas.
Trivia consisting of three rounds of three different categories with prizes and fun galore.
Walk-thru lesson at: 7:10pm Up-to-Date Vaccination* Required
2023 marks the 30th anniversary for our quilt show. To celebrate, our challenge quilt is 30” x 30” with the theme Send Us Some Flowers! The challenge quilts will be exhibited along with over 200 quilts. Admission also includes special show exhibits, meeting our featured artist, Peggy Brown, and shopping our vendors.
March 2 – 4, 2023
Thursday, March 2: 9am – 5pm
Friday, March 3: 9am – 5pm
Saturday, March 4: 9am – 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Opera and Musicology and the Borns Jewish Studies Program
Come try your hand at miniature painting—we’ve got the minis, paints, brushes, and know-how. All skill levels are welcome.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus is hosting a candidate forum on Thursday, March 2, 2023 at the Public Library, doors open at 6 and the forum begins at 7pm. Female city-wide candidates will be the focus, and questions taken.
Stop by for an easygoing evening of sand art and light refreshments. You’ll have the option to make a sand art votive or painting.
Presented with special arrangement from Samuel French.
After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
2023 marks the 30th anniversary for our quilt show. To celebrate, our challenge quilt is 30” x 30” with the theme Send Us Some Flowers! The challenge quilts will be exhibited along with over 200 quilts. Admission also includes special show exhibits, meeting our featured artist, Peggy Brown, and shopping our vendors.
March 2 – 4, 2023
Thursday, March 2: 9am – 5pm
Friday, March 3: 9am – 5pm
Saturday, March 4: 9am – 4pm
Hours for help are 2pm-6pm on Monday & Tuesday, 2pm-5pm on Fridays AARP tax volunteers will be at the Downtown Library February 6–April 14 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Assistance will be available on a first come, first served basis using a sign-up sheet that will be located near the second floor information desk.
Drop in, adventure through fantastic realms, then leave whenever you’d like. These sessions of Dungeons & Dragons are designed to be short, fun, and evolving adventures that anyone can play. All skill levels are welcome.
Drop by The Ground Floor Study Room to get some homework help during these free, in-person sessions held every Friday
Toys Made By Hand is presented at By Hand Gallery and features unique toys made by gallery and visiting artists with an opening reception on Friday, March 3rd, from 5–8 pm for Gallery Walk, Bloomington.
Children, arguably the most important people in the world and works of art themselves, represent what is possible — they arrive in this world filled with potential and beauty. By Hand Gallery is excited to celebrate the child by presenting Toys Made By Hand. Exhibiting artists have drawn from their memories and experiences of playing with toys and making them for those that they love — all made by hand and from the heart.
Whether you are a child yourself or simply young at heart, you will take delight in this exhibit — the artist-made toys will provoke playfulness and ignite a childlike heart.
Artists:
Sidney Bolam: mixed media Animals
Dave Cole: turned wood Tops and carved Magic Wands
Ruth Conway: ceramic Tick Tack Toe Games
Bonnie Gordon Lucas: Children’s Illustrated Books
Janet Helber: textile Dolls using rag-doll traditions
David Sloma Joseff: hand-felted Dandy Doll
Rebecca Lowery: ceramic primary-colored Chessboard and Pieces
Barb Lund: ceramic Fairy Houses
Sarah Nichols: Soft Sculpture ceramic and textile Tableau
Walt Schmidt: ceramic vintage Cars
Martha Secular: gourde Doll House and Dolls
Marc Tschida: wood Jigsaw Puzzles
Sue Westhues: gourde Puppets and Push Toys
Bob Wolanin: multimedia Stage Puppets
By Hand Gallery is a locally owned, cooperative gallery that currently has 12 artisan members. By Hand Gallery has been in the Bloomington community for over 30 years and has a reputation for selling art works that are of superior design and quality artisanship. Besides our cooperative members, there are over 70 artists who sell their work through By Hand Gallery.
Presented with special arrangement from Samuel French.
After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along.
Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950′s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand Up Bass. And then there are the “Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950′s that’s currently taking place in the future.
Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple. And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These “itinerant preachers” actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll.
Scott H. Biram will be opening this show!
Based on The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, this powerful recounting features a haunting contemporary score by Pulitzer Prize-winner Shulamit Ran and a dynamic libretto by Charles Kondek.
Choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Doña Perón is an explosive portrait of Eva “Evita” Perón, one of the most recognizable, and controversial, women in Argentinian history. The illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, Evita concealed this shameful past as she rose the ranks from dancehall performer to Argentina’s First Lady—all before her untimely death at the age of 33. Doña Perón brings to light the extremes of power at the forefront of Evita’s life. Her work as an activist and advocate for Argentina’s women and working class raised skepticism as she indulged in the opulence of a high-class life. A voice for the people, or a deceitful actress? Ochoa explores these diverging legacies and more in her first-ever evening-length work for Ballet Hispánico.
For 50 years, Ballet Hispánico has been the leading voice intersecting artistic excellence and advocacy, and is now the largest Latinx cultural organization in the United States. Ballet Hispánico brings communities together to celebrate and explore Latino cultures through innovative dance productions, transformative dance training, and enduring community engagement experiences.
Conor Delehanty is a comedian. a former construction worker, and an organ donor from Indianapolis. Over the past decade, Delehanty has fine tuned his craft performing wherever he could across these United States earning accolades along the way. He has performed in festivals such as the Limestone Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off, and San Francisco Sketchfest. Delehanty has been featured on Comedy Central Radio and was a cast member on the Facebook Watch show After After Party. He probably eats too much bread and is always happy to be there, wherever that may be.
2023 marks the 30th anniversary for our quilt show. To celebrate, our challenge quilt is 30” x 30” with the theme Send Us Some Flowers! The challenge quilts will be exhibited along with over 200 quilts. Admission also includes special show exhibits, meeting our featured artist, Peggy Brown, and shopping our vendors.
March 2 – 4, 2023
Thursday, March 2: 9am – 5pm
Friday, March 3: 9am – 5pm
Saturday, March 4: 9am – 4pm
Join the History Center for an afternoon talk featuring the work and process of Heather Ahmann and Emily Chase, two contemporary fiber artists using quilting in their practice. Both artists will give a 20-minute presentation with time for questions.
“Making Memory” is a part of the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show. Admission to the Monroe County History Center is free for the duration of the quilt show (March 2-4) with IHQS hand stamp or wrist band.
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. However, as she digs ever deeper, her digital sleuthing soon raises more questions than answers.
The Pacific Islander Student Association, First Nations Education and Cultural Center, and the Bloomington Arts Commission are sponsoring the event “Party for the Pacifica” March 4th. Join us for a day of celebrating Pacific Islander culture with dance workshops, lei making, poetry, and a jam session. Workshops and the event are free, and donations for Brown Girl Woke and the Community Kitchen of Monroe County are encouraged. Register using the following link:
https://events.iu.edu/firstnations/day/date/20230304
In celebration of this year’s festival, Early Music Crossroads: Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America, this special evening will feature live performances, drinks and light bites, a silent auction, and an exclusive look at our upcoming festival.
A retrospective of selected work by actress, painter, professor, performance artist, and producer Mara Mattuschka, one of the most important artists working in experimental cinema today.
JD & The E’s return to the Orbit Room for an evening of music, with friends, food, drink and more!
Tim JW Baker kicks it off with a set of selections from his songbook, and The Enthusiasts follow with songs old, new and weird!
Presented with special arrangement from Samuel French.
After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
The performance, presented by Jasper Community Arts with support from Kimball International, will take place on Saturday, March 4 at 7:30 pm.
A long time elite member of the prestigious Steinway Artist Roster, Robin Spielberg has 1/2 billion streams of her music across the globe. Spotify has now created a ‘Robin Spielberg Spotify Playlist.’ Robin’s newest album (her 21st) is a tribute to the Broadway Musical, “Give My Regards to Broadway.” This album, along with her
recent releases, “Love Story” and “On the Edge of a Dream” charted on Billboard’s classical crossover and new age charts. With the experience and numerous accolades to prove it, Spielberg is hailed as one of America’s most popular contemporary female pianists/composers.
Based on The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, this powerful recounting features a haunting contemporary score by Pulitzer Prize-winner Shulamit Ran and a dynamic libretto by Charles Kondek.
Conor Delehanty is a comedian. a former construction worker, and an organ donor from Indianapolis. Over the past decade, Delehanty has fine tuned his craft performing wherever he could across these United States earning accolades along the way. He has performed in festivals such as the Limestone Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off, and San Francisco Sketchfest. Delehanty has been featured on Comedy Central Radio and was a cast member on the Facebook Watch show After After Party. He probably eats too much bread and is always happy to be there, wherever that may be.
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power.
About Henry V
Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war. Captured live from the Donmar Warehouse in London, this exciting modern production directed by Max Webster (Life of Pi) explores what it means to be English and our relationship to Europe, asking: do we ever get the leaders we deserve? [180 mins; drama; English]
Presented with special arrangement from Samuel French.
After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic: Presented by the Writers Guild
The featured readers are:
John Cardwell & Joe Walker
Come early to sign up for Open Mic! !
Presented by the Latin American Music Center and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Hours for help are 2pm-6pm on Monday & Tuesday, 2pm-5pm on Fridays AARP tax volunteers will be at the Downtown Library February 6–April 14 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Assistance will be available on a first come, first served basis using a sign-up sheet that will be located near the second floor information desk.
Gather with Care Not Cages on the Courthouse lawn for snacks, drinks, activities and speakers in opposition to the Monroe County jail expansion, and to raise your voice before the Community Justice Response Committee meeting.
Come try a new skill and learn some basic doodling techniques! We’ll provide paper, pencils, reference materials, and the space to work on some simple still life doodles.
Drop by The Ground Floor Study Room to get some homework help during these free, in-person sessions held every Monday and Wednesday.
Protect LGBTQ+ Lives in Indiana – Save Our Children!
Our state legislators have drafted and are passing laws that are already threatening the lives of LGBTIQ+ Hoosiers, and our children are the main targets. We have a narrow window of opportunity to stop what has been called the Slate of Hate by the ACLU of Indiana. How? There are established ways of communicating with our elected officials, and those are good, but this will require more. We need to discuss the old and develop new strategies. Come to these meetings, listen to others and share your thought and ideas. We all know the suicide rates of our youth by now. That’s in an atmosphere where they are marginally affirmed. These bills would end and erase what we have been fighting and dying for including hope.
Hours for help are 2pm-6pm on Monday & Tuesday, 2pm-5pm on Fridays AARP tax volunteers will be at the Downtown Library February 6–April 14 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Assistance will be available on a first come, first served basis using a sign-up sheet that will be located near the second floor information desk.