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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.
Please register if you are interested. For November, in honor of National Native American Heritage Month, we’ll be reading the Award-winning collection of short stories Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty.
Please register if you are interested. Trouble is brewing in a small town and it’s up to you to save the townspeople. Can you find who’s killing the villagers before they find you?! Join us for a round of Blood on the Clocktower to find out. Food and drinks will be provided.
Come hang out and try new hands-on DIY projects as you learn new crafting skills each month! Supplies will be provided.
Please register if interested.
Make the most of this handy appliance with Purdue Extension Educator Allison Roberts. Learn about the different types of air fryers, the health benefits, and ideal foods for air frying — plus there will be samples to taste!
Everyone is welcome.
Host band plays 7-8pm Open Jam runs 8-10pm
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the same time? Documentary filmmaker Lin Alluna follows Aaju Peter in her quest to reconnect with her own heritage while holding her colonizers accountable. [92 min; documentary; Danish, Greenlandic, English, and Inuktitut with English subtitles]
A Q&A with Gergana May (IU Germanic Studies, Norwegian Program) and Maxine Savage (University of Washington Scandinavian Studies) will follow the screening.
Regular volunteers will pick out packages of books and have them ready to go, we just need your help wrapping them up and writing letters!
You can read more about the project here:
pagestoprisoners.org/
21+ ONLY
Sponsored by the IU Union Board
Help the Monroe County History Center identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. Light refreshments will be provided.
Ready to test your mettle against monsters and mayhem in a new RPG? These drop-in sessions will give players a chance to experience a different gameplay style than Dungeons & Dragons and face new challenges. All skill levels are welcome.
Two friends transcend time, space, and death to find hope and resilience through their struggles with mental health. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Please register if interested. Make a winter-themed wreath for indoor display. All supplies will be provided.
Intro lesson at 7:10pm
Another Round is the premier all-male A Capella group of Indiana University. Come join us for a night of singing and fun, including memorable classics of the groups Straight No Chaser era, Christmas music, and brand new songs for the group. You won’t be disappointed by this incredible group of gentlemen and their incredible vocals.
Just message us on social media, or contact us on our website to get more info about signing up. WALK-UPS ARE ALSO WELCOME!!
Please register if interested. As dementia progresses, we can still make connections and learn new ways to support so that our loved one living with dementia (and we) can continue to live well! Age 18 and up.
If you like Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, then join us for Gaslands—a post-apocalyptic tabletop game of car-on-car destruction! We’ll provide a light introduction, as well as all the terrain, miniatures, and snacks. All skill levels are welcome.
Please register if interested. Join this book club to discuss nature-focused reads each month. You’ll also learn how to become more ecologically-minded through activities and speakers designed to enhance our reading. This month, we’ll be meeting at the Downtown Library and reading Birnam Wood by Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton. Please join us to read an eco-thriller that tests deeply held convictions and loyalties. We’ll also be joined by the Community Gardening Program Manager of the City of Bloomington, who will speak about Bloomington Community Gardens and how to create green space in urban environments.
Doors open at 6pm
Jack Smith’s Normal Love bears evidence of the influence that the sexual revolution and homosexual countercultures had on underground cinema. Rather than trying to move beyond the coded mainstream representations of queerness as monstrous, Smith instead takes the radical step of rendering this connection indisputable, leaning into the power attributed to these figures mythologically and portraying them as beautiful and alluring. Smith’s approach influenced his contemporaries, such as Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and Derek Jarman, and inspired later filmmakers and artists such as John Waters, Guy Maddin, and The Boulet Brothers of Dragula fame.
In a completely new and updated version of this most popular ballet, Jacobs faculty choreographer Sasha Janes tells the story from the perspective of curious young Marie.
With the help of her Aunt Drosselmeyer, Marie learns to unleash the power of her imagination to take the audience with her on a wild adventure.
This fresh take on a fantastical story still features the incomparable score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Arkansauce calls forth melodies of the Ozark Mountains’ rolling hills and raging rivers with their distinct blend of newgrass. This progressive string quartet features Tom Andersen on bass, guitarist Zac Archuleta, Ethan Bush on mandolin, and Adams Collins on banjo. Their music features improvisational string leads matched with complex melodies, intriguing rhythms, and deep thumping bass grooves. Each member sings lead and harmony parts as well as contributes to the lyrics, which offer authentic, intelligent songwriting with hard-hitting hooks.
Fireside Collective
A quintet who cheerfully disregard every kind of one-dimensional label that might be attached to their music, Fireside Collective has been on a roll since emerging from the fertile roots music scene of Asheville, North Carolina. In quick order, the progressive bluegrass group released its debut album, won the 2016 Band Contest at MerleFest, earned an International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum Band of the Year nomination and embarked on an ambitious touring schedule that’s earned an enthusiastic reception from traditional bluegrass to wide-ranging, eclectic music festival audiences alike.
20 regional artists show their art in many mediums plus food!
Drop in, adventure through fantastic realms, then leave whenever you’d like. These sessions are designed to be short, fun, and evolving adventures that anyone can play. All skill levels are welcome.
Angela Bae, violin; Justin DeFilippis, violin; Benjamin Zannoni, viola; Russell Houston, cello
Drive thru lights show, followed by refreshments and pictures with Santa.
“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.
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment. [114 min; sci-fi, fantasy; English and Spanish with English subtitles]
A young boy named Ralphie Parker only wants one thing for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB gun. However, he is not sure he will ever make it to Christmas, between his brother Randy and the school bully Scut Farkus. Whenever he tells someone how much he wants it, he/she tells him that he will shoot his eye out and refuses to get it for him. Even a department store Santa Claus tells him the same thing. After Ralphie gets a C+, he gets teased again by Scut. In response, Ralphie beats him very badly while cursing loudly. However, his parents do not get mad at him, and on Christmas morning, he gets the BB gun, since his father had one at that age. When he goes to try it out, the BB ricochets and knocks off his glasses, which he accidentally steps upon while looking for them. He makes up a story about an icicle, and his parents believe him. In the end, a horde of dogs come in and steal the Christmas turkey, so his family goes out for “Chinese turkey,” or duck.
Screening begins at 8pm
Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics.
http://www.visualaids.org
In a completely new and updated version of this most popular ballet, Jacobs faculty choreographer Sasha Janes tells the story from the perspective of curious young Marie.
With the help of her Aunt Drosselmeyer, Marie learns to unleash the power of her imagination to take the audience with her on a wild adventure.
This fresh take on a fantastical story still features the incomparable score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Print out a flyer here and take with you when you shop at the Winter Farmers Market. https://mcpl.info/files/images/fol-dine-out-the-muddy-fork-dec23-proof_7.pdf
The Town Hall is sponsored by the Brown County and Monroe County Leagues
of Women Voters and the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce.
Audience members will be able to address legislators representing Monroe County, outlining areas that they feel warrant attention during
the coming state legislative session.
All legislators representing any part of Monroe or Brown County have been invited.
The session will also be available via Zoom, To register to attend online, go to https://lwv-bmc.org/legis-
updates .
Community Access Television Services has been invited to record the Town Hall. If they are able to do so,
the video will be available through the Monroe County Public Library / CATS website and linked from
https://lwv-bmc.org/legis-updates .
To follow the work of the Indiana General Assembly go to its website, http://iga.in.gov .