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The History Center Research Library partners with the City’s CAPS Commission and the Indiana Recovery Alliance join for an afternoon digging deeper into Black ancestry research. “Know Your Story” features guest speaker Ja’el Gordon. Louisiana native, Ja’el “YaYa” Gordon is a Professional Historian and Genealogist who specializes in interpreting antebellum history, genetic genealogy, Descendant group research, and conducting oral history interviews. A Zoom alternative is available at monroehistory.org/know-your-
Drop in and show off your LEGO skills and collaborate with other LEGO builders. Everyone is welcome.
“I am not a saint, I am a noise,” wrote 13-year-old Joan Baez in her journal, reflecting on a discordance between her outer and inner lives that would only deepen. Icon of ’60s folk music and activism, Baez made the cover of TIME at 21, her relationship with Bob Dylan was widely publicized, and she famously performed “We Shall Overcome” at the March on Washington.
What the public didn’t know: she was subject to racist taunts as a child (her father was Mexican), suffered intense anxiety, and harbored long-simmering questions about unacknowledged family trauma. An intimate, revelatory portrait of an artist looking back on a six-decade career, crafted from a wealth of never-before-seen home movies, diaries, and audio recordings, while following Baez during her 2018 farewell tour.
Submitted by Tunisia as their official entry to the 96th Academy Awards, Four Daughters is a mesmerizing, formally ambitious documentary that bends the edges of narrative form in careful service to the stories of brave, bold, and complicated women.
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, Oscar-winning filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
We are celebrating femininity but this event is welcome to all genders, ages, and people.
Hosted by Z St Vontrell! Starring Ava Morningstar, Juniper Peron, King Icarus, and Tess Tosterone!
The group’s program will be a concert of motets, chansons, and other songs from the 14th through 16th centuries, performed on a trio of renaissance recorders.
“I am not a saint, I am a noise,” wrote 13-year-old Joan Baez in her journal, reflecting on a discordance between her outer and inner lives that would only deepen. Icon of ’60s folk music and activism, Baez made the cover of TIME at 21, her relationship with Bob Dylan was widely publicized, and she famously performed “We Shall Overcome” at the March on Washington.
What the public didn’t know: she was subject to racist taunts as a child (her father was Mexican), suffered intense anxiety, and harbored long-simmering questions about unacknowledged family trauma. An intimate, revelatory portrait of an artist looking back on a six-decade career, crafted from a wealth of never-before-seen home movies, diaries, and audio recordings, while following Baez during her 2018 farewell tour.
Submitted by Tunisia as their official entry to the 96th Academy Awards, Four Daughters is a mesmerizing, formally ambitious documentary that bends the edges of narrative form in careful service to the stories of brave, bold, and complicated women.
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, Oscar-winning filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Hazy Hollows is a songwriting duet of Tio Savich and Noelle Wanchic. They find images of hope, love, and grief in the fields, forests, and quarries around Bloomington.
One of the greatest game shows of all time has been adapted into a stage show to give more fans access and more chances to win at “Wheel of Fortune LIVE!” Guests are randomly selected to go on stage and feel like they stepped into the game show itself. The live stage show is the only way you can have the chance to spin a full-sized replica of the iconic Wheel. At Wheel of Fortune LIVE!, contestants are selected from the audience to go on stage for the chance to call consonants, buy vowels, and maybe even solve puzzles to win fantastic prizes, including trips to destinations like Paris and Hawaii or up to $10,000 in cash. Everyone gets in on the fun and a chance to win at Wheel of Fortune LIVE! because there are audience games too!
Read aloud to dogs from the Monroe County Humane Association’s Therapy Animal Program! This activity encourages a regular habit of reading for fun and aids the development of reading skills. This program is great for readers of all abilities, but especially helpful for reluctant or struggling readers.
This month’s theme is food, drink, and culture. Optional: Bring recipe cards to swap with others!
Novel Horizons is not a traditional book club, and there are no mandatory readings. Instead, in this low-stress club, you will read, watch, play, or listen to media that follows a specific theme.
Just show your flyer (https://mcpl.info/sites/default/files/images/fol-dine-out-samira-nov23-half-sheets.pdf) or mention you’re dining out for the Library, and Samira will donate 20% of your tab to help make of our programs possible.
Just show your flyer (https://mcpl.info/sites/default/files/images/fol-dine-out-samira-nov23-half-sheets.pdf) or mention you’re dining out for the Library, and Samira will donate 20% of your tab to help make of our programs possible.
Please register if interested. Come celebrate National Native American Heritage Month! You’ll learn about the history and symbolism of Indigenous beading while creating your own project. Supplies will be provided.
Intro Lesson at 7:10am
Info at: btownturkeytrot.com
Sponsored by the Brown County History Center.
Lighting Ceremony Events
Location: Kirkwood Avenue Stage
Time: 7:00 pm
Details:
- Welcome by emcee, Jim Inman and local officials
- Light up a Life with IU Health Hospice Tree lighting
- Windfall Dancers
- Constellation Stage + Screen musical performances from Matilda
- Community sing-along, “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
- Santa arrives to lead the countdown to the official lighting of the Canopy of Lights
Drive thru lights show, followed by refreshments and pictures with Santa.
Schedule of Events
- 10 a.m.- Holiday Market opens with free admission
- 10:30–11:30 a.m.- Live music by the Bloomington Chamber Singers
- 11 a.m.–noon- Visits with St. Nick
- 11:30 a.m.- Preview performance of The Nutcracker by IU Ballet
- Noon- Constellation Stage & Screen presents songs from Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical
- 12:30–2 p.m.- Visits with St. Nick
- 1–2 p.m.- Live rock n’ roll and holiday covers by Don’t Call Me Betty
- 3 p.m.- Holiday Market closes and the 2023 Farmers’ Market season ends
Drive thru lights show, followed by refreshments and pictures with Santa.
Kinker is showing one of your favs with a fab local shadow cast feat. Yashka and Peacock the Pheonix.
Hosted by BeelzeBabe and Kicking&Screaming Podcast
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FREE group activity on 4th Sundays monthly at Juniper Art Gallery!
Kate Ellis facilitates this casual group of creative individuals. This is an open gathering, with the purpose of experiencing fiber arts as a form of self-care and relaxation.
Bring your portable fiber project and join us for afternoon of fiber and friendship! NEW time! 1-3pm
Call to let us know you’ll be joining us. 812-822-1663!
The Mobility Aids Lending Library (MALL) is an initiative started by a local group of women with physical disabilities known as “The Wheelie Women” to serve the greater Monroe County community. The MALL program matches gently used mobility devices free of charge to those who cannot afford them or only need them for a short period of time. Items may include canes, crutches, walkers, rollators, and wheelchairs (both manual and powered).
Drop in for this easygoing book club and talk about a book you’re reading or have recently read. Snacks will be provided.
A Tribute to Bobby Helms and His Christmas Classic “Jingle Bell Rock” with Special Guest: The Isaac Family Band.
When country music singer Bobby Helms was first offered the chance to sing a new festive song called “Jingle Bell Rock,” he was initially skeptical about the idea of mixing rock’n’roll and Christmas. But he was quickly won over, and his single, issued by Decca Records in October 1957, soon became a holiday classic. “‘Jingle Bell Rock’ has made itself a part of Christmas,” Helms said. “It lifts people up.” Today, you can find it on playlists alongside staples like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song,”
Matt Lundquist gathers inspiration for songs from the Lost Roads, Deep Woods and Front Porches of Southern Indiana. In 2022 he won the John Hartford Memorial Festival Songwriting Contest for his tune Hartford’s Bend. Traveled to many funky little towns and far away forests with a Big Gibson Jumbo and another new song. In Bloomington, IN you’ll find him stompin’ with cosmic folk rockers Otto & the Moaners, singin’ Garcia/Hunter tunes with Dead Country or pickin’ in your friends backyard.
Leave your mark on the Ellettsville Branch and decorate bookends for use on the teen collection shelves! All supplies will be provided.