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8:30 Jeanne McGill
8:50 Zilia Balkansky-Sellés
9:10 Ray Zdonek
9:30 Lindsey Alexander
10:00 Merle Bachman
10:20 Peter Kaczmarczyk
10:40 Josh Brewer
11:10 Terry Sloan
11:30 Patsy Rahn
11:50 Shana Ritter
12:10 Joe Betz
12:30 Tonia Matthew
12:50 Joe Kerschbaum
1:10 Lisa Kwong
1:30 Doug Paul Case
1:50 Emily Bobo
2:10 Joan Hawkins
2:40 Peggy Squires
3:00 Alex Chambers
3:20 Arin Stonecipher
3:40 Jerry Smith
4:10 April Ridge
4:30 Marie Deer
4:50 Eric Rensburger
5:10 Mary Craig
5:40 Lauren Wilson
6:00 Tony Brewer
6:20 Stacey (Stella) Emley
6:40 Hiromi Yoshida
7:00 – 8:00 pm
The annual Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar is a free multicultural music, dance, and arts education event during Blossoms for kids, families, and community members. Free admission and 20+ interactive activities.
Join the History Center for an afternoon as Charlotte Zietlow recalls her 1971 campaign and the process of completing her latest book. “1971: How We Won” chronicles change based on community needs and collective problem-solving for the future.
Copies of “1971: How We Won” are available in the Dunn Museum Store.
“Ken combines a gentle, folksy spirit with toe-tapping, traditional Appalachian fiddling, and eventually gets all the children writing poetry before they even realize it.”
Kick off National Poetry Month with a performance and writing workshop for the whole family! Author and musician, Ken Waldman, has designed a performance followed by a writing workshop for all ages. We’ll be writing a poem or two together and all attendees will receive a few poems to take home! Waldman combines Appalachian-style string band music, age-appropriate poetry, and Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely. His 20 books include 16 poetry collections, a memoir, a novel, a creative writing manual, and a kids’ book. His 12 CDs include two for children.
When asked why she killed her infant daughter, the accused, a young Senegalese-French woman – a PhD student writing on Wittgenstein – answers, “I don’t know. I hope this trial can help me understand.” What would compel such a shocking act, and why would an accomplished writer obsessively attend the woman’s trial? The complex mysteries at the heart of this absorbing, wholly original take on both the courtroom drama and the African immigrant experience, unfold like a Russian nesting doll of gazes and projections. Is the accused a liar, a victim, a sorceress, or all of the above? In her first fiction film, Senegalese-French documentarian Alice Diop uses her sharp eye for political realism to craft a captivating portrait of motherhood amid cultural isolation.
in French with subtitles • 122 minutes
Potluck at 6pm, show starts at 7pm
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to Bloomington, IN on April 1st & 2nd, 2023! Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in roughly 550 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide! From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theaters around the world. Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2022/2023 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Ryan Beck is a New York City based comedian from St. Louis, Missouri. Ryan is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York and his stand up has been featured on Comedy Central. Ryan has performed in the New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival and Limestone Comedy Festival. Ryan is a former digital creator for Comedy Central and has appeared on MTV’s Girl Code, Comedy Central’s Alternatino, This Week At The Comedy Cellar, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He’s been heard on The Bob and Tom Show and Sirius XM.
Ryan has written for Snapchat’s most viewed animated series Death Hacks with Augenblick Studios. He has also contributed to the Comedy Central Roasts of Bob Saget, Roseanne Barr and James Franco, and The Road to Roast Battle. He has written and produced his web series #RyanBeckShow and the interactive short film We Need To Talk. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri.
Presenting original student work, Double Exposure is an innovative and collaborative program made possible through a partnership which brings together the Indiana University Student Composers Association, The Media School, Jacobs School of Music’s Music Scoring for Visual Media program, Audio Engineering and Sound Production, and IU Cinema. Each film will receive its world-premiere presentation. Any film screened at IU Cinema may contain content that viewers find sensitive or upsetting.
A Riveting new Sports Drama! College basketball superstar Khady Salama dreams of leading her team to the NCAA Championship. But in her senior year, March Madness coincides with Ramadan and she’s promised her devout mother that she’ll fast. When her story goes public, Khady unexpectedly becomes a role model for young Muslim women everywhere, with just one small problem…she’s lying about fasting. As the tournament unfolds, Khady is forced to grapple with her faith, family, and what it means to win at all costs.
Serenade
George Balanchine
Balanchine’s first original ballet created in America is a stunning showpiece for technique and spiritual movement, dictated by Tchaikovsky’s transcendent Serenade for Strings in C. Twenty-eight dancers bring this iconic and sweeping work to life on the Musical Arts Center stage.
WORLD PREMIERE
Gianna Reisen
A rising star, Reisen is the youngest choreographer in history to have a work included in New York City Ballet’s storied repertoire. Her pieces span the range of neoclassical and contemporary modern sensibilities and challenge dancers to explore a new vocabulary of movement.
BALLAD UNTO
Dwight Rhoden
“One of the most sought-out choreographers of the day” (The New York Times) returns with this athletic articulation of love set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Cofounder of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Rhoden is known for challenging dancers’ physicality while pushing their emotional dynamics to expressive extremes.
Minneapolis band Eleganza! brings their rock show to the Orbit Room on Saturday, April 1. Local favorites RP & Otto open the show. Eleganza! is touring in support of their most recent album, Water Valley High. Show time is 8:00 PM
A talented young gymnast from Kyiv, played by real-life former Ukrainian national team member Anastasiia Budiashkina, moves to Switzerland to pursue her Olympic dreams in Elie Grappe’s award-winning drama. Set in 2014, the film follows 15-year-old Olga as she tries to make friends on her new team and adjust to life in her new home. As she relentlessly trains in preparation for the European Championships, her friends and family back in the Ukraine are taking to the streets in what would become known as the Maidan Revolution. Olga is left a powerless, distant bystander as her mother, an investigative journalist, faces danger and violence in her work challenging the brutal Yanukovich regime. The historic events depicted in the film are intricately linked with the subsequent Russian invasion, providing rich insight into the current situation in the Ukraine, yet Grappe’s camera never strays from the point of view of a remarkable young woman struggling to find her way in the world. Can Olga reconcile her personal goals as a gymnast with the living history unfolding in her homeland? This tense yet delicate portrait of exile, ambition, and identity won the SACD Prize at Cannes Critics Week and features a star-making turn from its fearless lead. (87 min)
Bring your instrument and sign up for the open jam. Play your tunes on the Fairfax stage. If the weather is nice, we can have some patio pickin’. Opry-style ending at each jam with everyone jamming together!
Celebrate National Poetry Month by digging into the magic of crafting stories and poems with local poet, Saami Ghaus. No prior experience is necessary.
When asked why she killed her infant daughter, the accused, a young Senegalese-French woman – a PhD student writing on Wittgenstein – answers, “I don’t know. I hope this trial can help me understand.” What would compel such a shocking act, and why would an accomplished writer obsessively attend the woman’s trial? The complex mysteries at the heart of this absorbing, wholly original take on both the courtroom drama and the African immigrant experience, unfold like a Russian nesting doll of gazes and projections. Is the accused a liar, a victim, a sorceress, or all of the above? In her first fiction film, Senegalese-French documentarian Alice Diop uses her sharp eye for political realism to craft a captivating portrait of motherhood amid cultural isolation.
in French with subtitles • 122 minutes
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to Bloomington, IN on April 1st & 2nd, 2023! Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in roughly 550 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide! From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theaters around the world. Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2022/2023 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Dust off your slap bracelets, freshen up those frosted tips, throw on a flannel, and join us for 90s trivia! Come out to support the Cancer Support Community of South Central Indiana! All proceeds from ticket sales support Cancer Support Community of South Central Indiana, caring for local individuals & families impacted by cancer.
It’s a party.
Every Sunday Misfit Toy Karaoke hosts karaoke at 9pm till LATE.
Face Masks and Social Distancing required encouraged!
21+ Only
While the public meeting starts at 1:00 we strongly encourage you to arrive by 12:30 to ensure that those who want our forests protected will have a chance to be heard by those in power.
Who: USDA Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Dr. Homer Wilkes and Indiana Senator Mike Braun and their staffs
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 by The Ground Floor Study Room to get some homework help during these free, in-person sessions held every Monday and Wednesday.
Join us for a night of fun as we play our way through various board games and card games!
Registration is open. A book club for mystery and true crime readers! Join us to discuss what you’re reading, share recommendations, and get the scoop on the latest mystery and true crime additions to the MCPL collection. There is no assigned reading for this group. Age 18 and up. Please register.
Presented by the BCT & Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center The Buskirk-Chumley Theater and The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center invite you to a live-taping of “The Balcony” a Podcast looking at the intersections of Race, The movies, Bloomington, and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. So much of the theater and Bloomington’s past involving race is not written but told. This event will focus on conversations with established black voices in our community to recover and document those stories, creating a more complete record. Interviewees include Gladys DeVane and Beverly Calender-Anderson, with more to come.
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.
Host band plays 7pm-8pm, Jam runs from 8pm-10pm
Synopsis: One of the best trans films you’ve likely never heard of, Antonio Giménez-Rico’s landmark 1983 documentary Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul) explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the years following Spain’s transition to democracy. But more than that, it’s a loving portrait of a culture finally emerging from the shadows after being hidden for far too long. Antonio’s portrait of these women gave them the freedom to portray their own stories with their own friends & family, but in a stylized scripted narrative framework with gorgeous cinematography by Teo Escamilla. The stories of Eva, Nacha, Loren, Josette, Reneé, & Tamara were never properly released outside of Spain, but finally Altered Innocence and Anus Films is proud to present this vital testament to just how far we’ve come—and how far there’s still left to go.
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes—from inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations—primarily targeting women of color. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, demanding attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States. Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary; 2021 Peabody nominee; NY Times Critics Pick. [82 min; documentary; English]
A Q&A with Ellen Wu (Department of History, Asian American Studies Program, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society), Min Joo Lee (Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Gender Studies), and Jessica Ford (Creative Industries and Social Sciences, Newcastle University) will follow the screening.
An all-ages event, music bingo is a fun spin on traditional bingo where we jam out to some of your favorite songs while playing competitively against other music lovers! Expect lots of sing-alongs and excitement as your board fills up.
They say art is subjective and debatable, and there’s no doubt that this art will be talked about! Challenge yourself to work with a variety of media to create a groan-inducing “masterpiece”
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!
”– Gloria Howell, Director, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center at IU
Sign up starts at 6pm and stays open until full. Come share some songs (originals and/or covers welcome).
Join us from the IU Asian Culture Center for our annual Asian American and Pacific Islander “Movement” Short Film Festival! The event will feature numerous short films celebrating both the beauty of the diverse AAPI community as well as the serious struggles and hardships that our community has faced as of late. The event will also feature a Q&A session following the event with young, up-and-coming AAPI filmmakers! The event is free but ticketed and is open to anyone in the community!
Some content may not be suitable for ages 12 and under.
Trivia consisting of three rounds of three different categories with prizes and fun galore.
A Riveting new Sports Drama! College basketball superstar Khady Salama dreams of leading her team to the NCAA Championship. But in her senior year, March Madness coincides with Ramadan and she’s promised her devout mother that she’ll fast. When her story goes public, Khady unexpectedly becomes a role model for young Muslim women everywhere, with just one small problem…she’s lying about fasting. As the tournament unfolds, Khady is forced to grapple with her faith, family, and what it means to win at all costs.
Walk-through lesson at: 7:10 pm : All attendees (dancers, musicians, callers, observers) are required to have the most up-to-date COVID vaccine they are eligible for. Attendees may bring their most recent vaccine card to the dance.
Come try your hand at miniature painting—we’ve got the minis, paints, brushes, and know-how. All skill levels are welcome.
Volunteer Orientation to help at the Friends of the Library’s Big Spring Book Sale. Help to make this sale a success in raising funds for the Library.
First Thursdays festivals showcase the diversity of arts and humanities at IU Bloomington and offer a welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore new creative outlets. Previous festivals have included everything from opera to breakdancing, stage-fighting to clay-throwing, and much, much more. Each festival is a unique opportunity to experience the wonderful work of artists, performers, and scholars from all across campus and around town.
Registration is open. This class will incorporate gentle stretching, Qigong, playful and imaginative movement, and dance exercises to tap into inspiration in the body. Guided explorations will center around finding more creativity, attention, balance, and range in the body. We’ll practice as a group, with partners, and solo. No prior dance experience is necessary—only a desire to explore what’s possible with movement for you! All abilities welcome. Age 18 and up. Please register.
A Riveting new Sports Drama! College basketball superstar Khady Salama dreams of leading her team to the NCAA Championship. But in her senior year, March Madness coincides with Ramadan and she’s promised her devout mother that she’ll fast. When her story goes public, Khady unexpectedly becomes a role model for young Muslim women everywhere, with just one small problem…she’s lying about fasting. As the tournament unfolds, Khady is forced to grapple with her faith, family, and what it means to win at all costs.
Union Board is thrilled to present A Conversation with Pitbull, the Grammy-winning global superstar, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker. Best known for his mega-popular hits, Pitbull will participate in a discussion to share insights on his successful career and inspiring life story.