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We are a steel tip dart and social club that meets every Tuesday night. Everyone is welcome!
Mark Lewis is a withdrawn young man who works as a focus puller in a film studio, moonlighting as a “private” photographer of scantily-clad women while obsessively working on his own “documentary” using the world’s most lethal tripod. An uncharacteristic thriller/horror movie by the co-director of The Red Shoes (whose prima ballerina, Moira Shearer, is also featured), Peeping Tom was savagely attacked by contemporary critics, stalling Michael Powell’s career for years. In the ensuing decades, the film’s reputation has skyrocketed, and it’s now recognized as a provocative study of voyeurism, a portrait of self-destruction, and blackly playful variations on “seeing” and identity. [101 min; thriller, horror; English]
You can’t stop the beat! Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon, is coming back to Bloomington. Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world?
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.
In this workshop, we’ll participate in some writing exercises inspired by poets like Audre Lorde and Etheridge Knight, learning about Black History in the process. Ages 12–19.
You can’t stop the beat! Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon, is coming back to Bloomington. Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world?
Intro lesson at 7:10pm
Just message us on social media, or contact us on our website to get more info about signing up. WALK-UPS ARE ALSO WELCOME!!
15 minute slot available to all ages! Event begins at 6pm on Thursdays.
Please join us on Thursday February 8 at 7:00 pm ET as we welcome Dr. Shemeka Thorpe for a conversation about Black women’s experiences of sexual pleasure and pain.
Dr. Thorpe is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky and also co-founder of the Minority Sex Report. Hosted by Dr. Debby Herbenick – local sex researcher, educator, and author of Yes Your Kid: What Parents Need to Know About Today’s Teens and Sex – the Bloomington Sex Salon was created to foster campus-community conversations about sexuality topics.
Our format goes like this: for the first 30-40 minutes, Debby will ask Dr. Thorpe questions about her research and public scholarship. The next 20-30 minutes will be Q&A with the audience.
Free for those ages 18+.
It’s National Pizza Day! Celebrate your love of ‘za by crafting a pizza bagel using your favorite ingredients. Ages 12–19.
Writer-director Saim Sadiq’s lush and poignant debut feature explores the emotional intricacies and complexities of navigating love, desire, identity, and sexual rebellion in a repressive society. In 2022, Joyland became the first Pakistani film awarded the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes.
In 2024, the Bloomington Storytellers Guild is celebrating 50 years of storytelling. In the 1970s, there was a reawakening of interest in and appreciation for the oral tradition of storytelling—not story reading, but telling a tale in one’s own words with one’s own perspective. MCPL was the birthplace of BSG as a group of librarians and other interested tellers dreamed of sharing the oral storytelling tradition with the community. 50 years later, join the Guild storytellers for a warm, cozy evening of stories and songs from this tradition and let the story celebration begin! Age 12 and up.
In Vox-Pop! a Post-Democratic Musical, a group of rebel troubadours is surrounded on all sides by the deadly forces of an oppressive regime. In their last few moments of freedom they have only one chance left to pass along the tale of Vox Populi, a sacred secret that tells of the rise and fall of a great mythical society. Can they pass along the legend to their children before they’re captured, and save future democracies from corruption? Or, is there no such thing as democracy without corruption?
Featuring Tess Jones and Christopher Nelson, conductors; and Catherine Compton, soprano soloist.
Hosted and produced by AVA MORNINGSTAR!
Starring, Zariah and Mo’Nikka Poor
Learn to repair your tools in preparation for Spring, with guest facilitator Robert Thompson. Tools and repair supplies will be provided for this free, hands-on workshop, or you can bring in your tools to be repaired. We will work collectively in an open format. There’s no experience required, but if you have expertise and want to help others, please also join in and share your skills!
Saturday’s Child welcomes The Postmodern Jazz Quartet, along with Gordon Bonham and Jim Richter.
On February 10th, Bloomington Community Radio, WFHB, will say good morning to their live radio audience in celebration of the first 30 years of Saturday’s Child. The special, two-hour edition will feature many musicians who are long-time musical friends of the program.
Saturday’s Child listeners can tune in over the FM airwaves, or live-stream at WFHB.org. Audience members of all ages are welcome to join in the celebration in the Monroe County History Center at 202 E. 6th Street, in downtown Bloomington, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Those who attend will be treated to fantastic music, bagels, smears, coffee, and juice. Attendance is free.
Bring your freshly laundered project for help, where you can do your repair or alteration or learn how. Some sewing machine repair or lessons are offered.
Get creative at the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s first Museum Activity Day of 2024. Use stamping, printing, and marbling techniques to create a card or other piece of art. People of all ages welcome!
The first and best of the famous whodunnit The Thin Man series which introduces the wisecracking, martini-sipping husband-and-wife sleuthing team of Nick and Nora Charles, who are investigating the disappearance of an inventor who later is implicated in the murder of his secretary. An adaptation of a Dashiell Hammett private-eye classic, The Thin Man was followed by five sequels, with Powell and Loy appearing together in 14 films total throughout their careers.
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her surprising past.
Driving Madeleine is highlighted by two wonderful performances: actor/director Dany Boon as a taxi driver having a bad day and legendary 92-year-old French chanteuse Line Renaud as a woman in need of a ride.
Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the prestigious André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du Cinema, both celebrating outstanding feature debuts, this enthralling work from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. The sudden death of his sister-in-law brings unexpected responsibilities to Thien (Le Phong Vu), who is reluctantly tasked with bringing his five-year-old nephew Dao to their countryside hometown. On the road, Thien is drawn into a search for his long-missing older brother, haunted and spurred forward by a series of sublime dreams that reignite suppressed memories, forbidden desires, and specters of his own youth. What began as a journey home becomes a pilgrimage marked by visual splendor and mystical overtones, a quest for understanding and certainty in a Vietnam that seems unable to provide any clear answers. As Thien battles with the existential question of what is worth living for, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell interrogates the persistence and complexity of faith, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence.
Writer-director Saim Sadiq’s lush and poignant debut feature explores the emotional intricacies and complexities of navigating love, desire, identity, and sexual rebellion in a repressive society. In 2022, Joyland became the first Pakistani film awarded the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes.
Join Mitchell Opera House for a meet & greet with the #1 Barney Fife Tribute AND a clean, family-friendly comedy show!
Clean comedian Rik Roberts brings the big laughs without the bad words!!
Comedian and creative keynote speaker Rik Roberts grew up in Kentucky. He farmed tobacco alongside his father from an early age. Later, as a teenager he worked for former Kentucky Wildcat and NBA Star Dan Issel on his Thoroughbred horse farm “Courtland”. After earning a degree in communications from Bethany College, Rik worked for Simon & Schuster in Columbus, OH. He joined a nationally touring comedy troupe “Midwest Comedy Tool & Die” [MCTD] in 1992. Shortly thereafter, he decided to jump head first into stand-up comedy. He now has nearly 30 years of headlining experience across the United States and abroad. He is the International spokesman for “Bin There, Dump That”. He also was a writer and performer on “The Henry Cho Comedy Show” on Great American Country.
Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland.
In Vox-Pop! a Post-Democratic Musical, a group of rebel troubadours is surrounded on all sides by the deadly forces of an oppressive regime. In their last few moments of freedom they have only one chance left to pass along the tale of Vox Populi, a sacred secret that tells of the rise and fall of a great mythical society. Can they pass along the legend to their children before they’re captured, and save future democracies from corruption? Or, is there no such thing as democracy without corruption?
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her surprising past.
Driving Madeleine is highlighted by two wonderful performances: actor/director Dany Boon as a taxi driver having a bad day and legendary 92-year-old French chanteuse Line Renaud as a woman in need of a ride.
Cléa Galhano, recorder; Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin; Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba; Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord | “Les Goûts-réunis” – Virtuoso Works by French and German Composers
Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the prestigious André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du Cinema, both celebrating outstanding feature debuts, this enthralling work from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. The sudden death of his sister-in-law brings unexpected responsibilities to Thien (Le Phong Vu), who is reluctantly tasked with bringing his five-year-old nephew Dao to their countryside hometown. On the road, Thien is drawn into a search for his long-missing older brother, haunted and spurred forward by a series of sublime dreams that reignite suppressed memories, forbidden desires, and specters of his own youth. What began as a journey home becomes a pilgrimage marked by visual splendor and mystical overtones, a quest for understanding and certainty in a Vietnam that seems unable to provide any clear answers. As Thien battles with the existential question of what is worth living for, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell interrogates the persistence and complexity of faith, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence.
Big laughs, delicious cocktails, and quality time together! It’s a special Galentine’s Day edition of High Proof Laughs, a live comedy night in collaboration with the one-and-only Limestone Comedy Festival. There’s an amazing line up of comedians: headliner Holly Lynnea, along with Shanda Sung, Annam Choudhry and Teagan Hughes! Doors open at 6pm; show starts at 7pm.
As the Chinese New Year marks a significant cultural event in the Chinese calendar, the IU Chinese Students and Scholars Association (IUCSSA) is thrilled to host this celebration to share traditions and festivities with the wider Indiana University and Bloomington community. The theme for this year’s event, “Dragon Brings Fortune, Together We Paint the New Spring.” embodying the spirit of unity and prosperity that the Year of the Dragon brings.
The evening promises a rich experience with a variety of activities, including:
- A buffet-style dinner featuring traditional Chinese cuisine
- A series of performances showcasing Chinese cultural arts
- Interactive activities and games for attendees to engage in the festive spirit
- A raffle draw with exciting prizes
- Special snack gift bags as a token of appreciation for our guests
The IUCSSA believes this event is a wonderful opportunity for cultural exchange and fostering a deeper understanding of Chinese traditions within the university community
Dive into a new craft project each month with other art lovers! This month, we’ll be painting vinyl records.
In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special, and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll friends discover Perfection–a town where more conventional dolls receive training before entering the real world to find the love of a child. Soon, the UglyDolls learn what it means to be different–ultimately realizing that they don’t have to be perfect to be amazing. All ages
If you have the best of intentions about book clubs, but don’t always get the book read, this is for you! If you want to try a new genre without committing to a full book, this is also for you. We’ll be diving into short stories and novellas spanning all genres. This month’s selection is Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Age 18 and up.