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. The Book Club is reading Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King this session. Contact VITAL for help accessing this title.
Please register if interested. Welcome to Halloweenville! Join us for a Halloween-themed one shot game of Fiasco. Costumes encouraged!
Host band plays 7-8pm, Jam is from 8-10pm
Receive free testing for HIV and HCV, as well as referral for Hepatitis C and HIV treatment, and access to PrEP medication. IU Health Positive Link members are happy to answer any questions you may have.
Celebrate the start of National Novel Writing Month with us by dropping in to share your goals for this year and grabbing a NaNoWriMo survival kit while you’re here! Snacks will be provided.
Carrie Shanafelt (Yeshiva University) presents her talk “Jeremy Bentham’s Queer Enlightenment.”
This talk is part of the Cultural Studies 2023-2024 lecture series, Queer Methods.
Featuring Ohio poets Kerry Trautman and Toledo Poet Laureate Jonie McIntire, with music by Kyle Quass & Julian Douglas!
This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Intro lesson at 7:10pm COSTUME NIGHT!
Does cooking fill you with loathing? Join us as we learn to master essential cooking skills and then teach you how to cook easy meals for yourself! This month, we’ll show you how to properly cook pasta, then make an easy sauce with the pasta water.
Jonathan Kearns, antiquarian bookseller, will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. in conjunction with the fall 2023 Lilly Library exhibition, The Victorian Book: From the Gutter to the Stars. In addition to the talk by Mr. Kearns, there will be a variety of fun activities from 4 to 7pm:
• Victorian era clothing from the Sage Historical Costume Collection will be on display
• Button making and historical scrapbook activities
• Lilly Library High Tea with light refreshments
• View a special extended version of the Victorian Book exhibition through many additional items available in the Reading Room
Stop in and slow down, enjoy a warm drink, and for those interested, we’ll be making flower crowns! Age 18 and up; recommended for ages 18–32.
A heartfelt look at the successful, historic career and tragic assassination of San Francisco’s first elected gay city supervisor.
This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Daring, provocative, and exuberantly entertaining, Cabaret explores the life of Bohemian Berlin in the 1930s.
This production includes references to Nazis, anti-Semitism, and sex work.
Each comedian is asked to do no more than five minutes of completely original material. While we do not care about foul language in your set, we do not allow racist, homophobic, transphobic or rape/female bashing jokes. If you have to ask if it’s racist, homophobic, transphobic or a rape joke, it probably is.
Comedians that wish to participate are asked to e-mail [email protected]. Newcomers and any participants who are not paid professionals will be required to bring audience members to see them. This is non-negotiable. So if you plan on signing up, be sure to invite as many friends as you can. Good luck!
Come one Swiftie, Come all Swifties! No cover dance party to kick off IU Art and Humanities Taylor Swift Conference! We’ll be dancing till LATE.
We’ll have on theme drink specials, a photographer snapping pics, and almost certainly someone will be wanting to trade friendship bracelets.
Taylor Swift: The Conference Era seeks to gather Swifties and Swifty-adjacent thinkers for a meeting of the (master)minds focused on examining pertinent topics through the lens of sold-out stadium star Taylor Swift. This year, Taylor Swift embarked on her record-breaking Eras Tour, which sold over 2.4 million tickets in a single day. As the tour title signals, this moment provides an opportunity to not only reflect on, but also re-imagine Swift’s extensive impact. Scholars and fans alike see this as a critical time to discuss and analyze Taylor Swift’s impact during yet another peak in her extensive and iconic career.
The conference will run from 9am-10pm Friday 11/3 and from 9am-6pm Saturday 11/4. You are welcome to attend all or some of the panels.
A list of panels and times will be available shortly. There will be a screening of CATS on Friday evening at 7:30pm.
Storytelling is a foundational piece of Indigenous Peoples and Native American culture. Come to the Downtown Library to listen to stories told by storytellers from the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center. All ages.
Show off your vocal talents as you let your inner star shine during this karaoke session. Join us as we cheer each other on during these once-in-a-lifetime performances. Stage props and snacks will be provided.
Bloomington’s three guilds: Local Clay Potters’ Guild, Bloomington Spinners & Weavers Guild, and Indiana Glass Guild are all together under one roof at the Monroe Convention Center for one of Bloomington’s biggest holiday art shows. The show features local and regional artists in three mediums: clay, fiber, and glass.
Friends of Lake Monroe presents “Our Wondrous Watershed”, a photo exhibit featuring work by fourteen members of the Bloomington Photography Club. Photos in the exhibit were captured in the Lake Monroe watershed, an area spanning more than 440 square miles, reaching into five counties. Most of the watershed is beautiful and rugged, including Yellowwood State Forest, Brown County State Park, and the Charles C. Deam Wilderness. Attendees will be treated to stunning imagery ranging from macro-photography to sweeping landscapes!
Photographer Patsy Rahn finds the magic in the mundane. In The Alchemy Series, she takes photographs of everyday objects and using the basic editing tools on her Samsung Galaxy, manipulates them to create entirely new images. Through this alchemical journey, the everyday photograph is used as basic material to create “the other.” The image emerges from the old into the new like a sculpture emerging from a block of stone, revealing the inner imagination of the sculptor. The artist will be in the gallery for Gallery Walk night.
The altar celebrates the ancestors, both distant and near. Visitors can contribute to the altar in honor of their deceased loved ones. This altar is a space where people, together or individually, can honor the departed and spend time with memories, sadness and joy. Offerings and messages become a part of the altar and each year, the Community Altar is built upon the foundation of offerings left over the course of previous years.
Indiana University Prison Arts Initiative presents an exhibition of works by inmates. Their primary goal is to send IU instructors into prisons and administer college-level classes.
Everyone’s favorite mischievous monkey and “The Man in the Yellow Hat” spring to life in this adventure-filled musical.
Kiwi journalist/filmmaker David Farrier is known for engaging with the stranger side of life in films like his stranger-than-fiction competitive tickling exposé Tickled, drawing bizarre subjects into the light through his affable but penetrating investigations. But Farrier may have met his match with the subject of his latest doc, a harrowing odyssey into the dark heart of a uniquely toxic individual. Things start innocently enough in 2016, as Farrier begins investigating a man who’s been clamping the tires of cars parked outside an Auckland antiques shop, then demanding hundreds of dollars to let them go. It turns out that the man behind the clamping — the evocatively named Michael Organ — isn’t just a one-trick scammer. Organ has a colorful history of compulsive lying, false identities, and vindictive lawsuits stretching back decades. Farrier manages to establish a prickly, ambiguous rapport with his elusive subject, but the deeper he gets, the more it seems that Organ’s intentions aren’t just eccentric — they’re downright sinister.
Professor Aurelian Craiutu will be discussing the recently published book: “Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals.” The book challenges the conventional image of political moderation as searching for a fuzzy center between two extremes, taking the form of a passionate moderate addressing two young radicals – one to the political left and one to the political right.
A Compassionate Spy is a gripping real-life spy thriller about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, he met, fell in love with, and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage.
sponsored by the Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Festival
Founding members of an 80’s Midwest regional act Headline came together last year to form a new version of the old band playing music that we all know but rarely heard in a live setting, laying out accurate renditions of music that influenced who we were back then.
Having been apart for several years, the players in what is now called Deadline, spent their time writing, producing, recording, and touring with other regional and national acts. It was always a dream for us to one day be back together as journeyman players, with a killer horn section, and play once again for our fans back in the day, and to a new generation of fans who can see live just what a tight rock band with a killer horn section is all about. You won’t be able to stay in your seat!
Daring, provocative, and exuberantly entertaining, Cabaret explores the life of Bohemian Berlin in the 1930s.
This production includes references to Nazis, anti-Semitism, and sex work.
AMBIENT HOUSE
PSYCHEDELIC TECHNO
SLOW MOTION TRANCE
The largest garage sale in Monroe County opens for a bonus holiday sale! From antiques and household items to holiday decorations and gifts, the warehouse on Profile Parkway is filled with treasures waiting for you.
Members of the History Center can access the sale early! Become a member by visiting monroehistory.org/join-and-give/ or by calling 812-332-2517.
All items are donated from the public and proceeds of the November Garage Sale Extravaganza fundraiser support the preservation of the collections, programs, and exhibits of the Monroe County History Center.
Bloomington’s three guilds: Local Clay Potters’ Guild, Bloomington Spinners & Weavers Guild, and Indiana Glass Guild are all together under one roof at the Monroe Convention Center for one of Bloomington’s biggest holiday art shows. The show features local and regional artists in three mediums: clay, fiber, and glass.
St. John’s annual Holiday Craft Show featuring over 35 crafters/artisans from Monroe, Brown, Greene, Owen & Morgan counties. Handmade crafts only! Door prizes, bake sale, and lunch available!
Taylor Swift: The Conference Era seeks to gather Swifties and Swifty-adjacent thinkers for a meeting of the (master)minds focused on examining pertinent topics through the lens of sold-out stadium star Taylor Swift. This year, Taylor Swift embarked on her record-breaking Eras Tour, which sold over 2.4 million tickets in a single day. As the tour title signals, this moment provides an opportunity to not only reflect on, but also re-imagine Swift’s extensive impact. Scholars and fans alike see this as a critical time to discuss and analyze Taylor Swift’s impact during yet another peak in her extensive and iconic career.
Please register if you are interested in attending.
Come to the library to visit with your favorite superhero and princess characters. Take pictures, read stories and have fun!
Presented by Royal Encounters IU
Please Register if interested in attending.
Reimagining Opera for Kids (ROK) is a non-profit dedicated to bringing innovative performances of opera to the communities of southern Indiana. ROK has been performing, commissioning, and presenting opera to the region for over a decade and continues to develop and grow. ROK engages young musicians from the Jacobs School of Music, and the larger Bloomington community, to come together to craft performances for schools, community centers, and community events. This year’s production, Rufus and Rita, is an interactive, choose your own adventure opera written by Bloomington resident composer Lauren Bernofsky. All ages. Please register.
Kiwi journalist/filmmaker David Farrier is known for engaging with the stranger side of life in films like his stranger-than-fiction competitive tickling exposé Tickled, drawing bizarre subjects into the light through his affable but penetrating investigations. But Farrier may have met his match with the subject of his latest doc, a harrowing odyssey into the dark heart of a uniquely toxic individual. Things start innocently enough in 2016, as Farrier begins investigating a man who’s been clamping the tires of cars parked outside an Auckland antiques shop, then demanding hundreds of dollars to let them go. It turns out that the man behind the clamping — the evocatively named Michael Organ — isn’t just a one-trick scammer. Organ has a colorful history of compulsive lying, false identities, and vindictive lawsuits stretching back decades. Farrier manages to establish a prickly, ambiguous rapport with his elusive subject, but the deeper he gets, the more it seems that Organ’s intentions aren’t just eccentric — they’re downright sinister.
Everyone’s favorite mischievous monkey and “The Man in the Yellow Hat” spring to life in this adventure-filled musical.
A Compassionate Spy is a gripping real-life spy thriller about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, he met, fell in love with, and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage.
Kurt Baer – Saxophone
Ian Ottinger – Bass
Daring, provocative, and exuberantly entertaining, Cabaret explores the life of Bohemian Berlin in the 1930s.
This production includes references to Nazis, anti-Semitism, and sex work.