WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Curious about The Ground Floor teen space, but you aren’t a teen? Patrons of all ages are invited to check it out on the second Sunday and fourth Saturday of the month.
It’s Bag Day! Fill a Friends of the Library tote bag with great books for only $10 per bag or $15 per box.
Join us for our last cat yoga session of the semester!
People that sign up will play 3 tracks or 15 minutes of audio and tell the group about your vinyl choices!
Free Admission
Free Coffee
All Ages
Vibraphonist Dick Sisto, pianist Steve Allee, bassist Jeremy Allen, and drummer Dick Hyman perform a free concert of sacred, spiritual and contemplative jazz composed by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams, as well as music written by Sisto for a documentary about the renowned monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton. Sisto will discuss his friendship with Merton, and there will be a brief presentation about sacred jazz as well as a reception with the musicians following the concert!
A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional. Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate.
A.R. Gurney brilliantly parallels his play with the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, transposing the action from ancient Greece to a modern American university in the 1980s where the characters become Judy Miller, a brilliant, headstrong Jewish student and Henry Harper, an unyielding authoritarian professor of Greek Classics. A battle of wills ensues when Harper rejects her term paper, a play in which she takes it upon herself to rewrite Antigone in the context of the nuclear arms race. Judy’s protest to the university grievance committee escalates into an examination of reports of low enrollment in Harper’s courses and student reports of anti-Semitism that pose a threat to his career.
This event is happening at The Endwright Center in College Mall located at 2894 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47401. Doors open 30 minutes before each event.
The new film by Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) is one of the nominees for Best International Feature Film.
Outside of his structured life in Tokyo, Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us. An absorbing slice-of-life drama led by a remarkable Kôji Yakusho performance.
Open mic to follow.
Bring your needles and yarn to our weekly fiber arts group meeting at the Endwright Center in Ellettsville! Whether it be crochet, needlepoint, knitting, or anything else, all fiber-arts enthusiasts are welcome! No registration required.
This program focuses on the challenge of transitioning to adulthood at the age of 18 for individuals with autism. Age 15 and up.
Financial preparedness, waiver qualifications, Social Security, guardianship, supported decision making and Power of Attorney options are discussed. Options for services after schooling are also considered.
This program is in partnership with the Autism Society of Indiana.
This is a four-part series that introduces the basics of making a quilt. Topics covered will include: parts of the quilt, fabric selection, sewing basics, and cutting and piecing. This series assumes no previous sewing experience and uses no special equipment. At the end of the series, you will have completed two small projects. All supplies will be provided. Age 16 and up.
Monroe County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) provides advocacy for children that are involved in abuse or neglect cases in the Monroe County court system. This event is open to all interested community members as well as current volunteers and board members.
Support the Library while eating local! Dine Out at the Uptown Cafe and show them this flyer (
) and a percentage of your tab will go towards Friends of the Library fundraising for MCPL programs. All ages.
It’s game night! Join us to chat and play a fun selection of board games out in the community at Hopscotch Kitchen. All ages.
We are a steel tip dart and social club that meets every Tuesday night. Everyone is welcome!
All community members, business owners, local service providers, educators, and town and county agents and officials are welcome to participate in monthly facilitated conversations about community well-being and promoting resilience. The topic of April’s conversation is “The Pain of Social Rejection.”
SING FOR JOY is a performance based community choir that welcomes all singers including the other-abled, and those living with dementia.
Intro lesson at 7 pm
Just message us on social media, or contact us on our website to get more info about signing up. WALK-UPS ARE ALSO WELCOME!!
This session is designed to help attendees understand what happens to various parts of the brain when someone is developing and living with dementia. Age 18 and up.
Drop in for basic help with your electronic devices. This includes: installing and connecting to library apps for ebooks and audiobooks, setting up an email, recovering a password, and navigating search engines and more.
If we can’t help you we will do our best to point you to someone who can.
No appointment required, just ask at the check out desk.
Host band plays 7pm-8pm Jam runs from 8pm-10pm
For a very brief time in the early 1980s, it seemed like arcades were going to replace churches, movie theaters, and parking lots as the number one destination for teen congregations. Horny and hopped up on hot dogs and sugary colas, they were drawn to the blip-bloop siren call of Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug and Burger Time. JOYSTICKS takes this setting and makes it a battlefield in which terrified conservative parents battle high-scoring horn-dogs and rainbow-haired punks go toe-to-toe with beefy slobs for the title of “best of the best.” This wild teen comedy is elevated to Olympian heights by its arcade setting, absurd premise, and most of all, a performance by Jon Gries (THE MONSTER SQUAD) as scenery-chewing, button-mashing, punk patriarch King Vidiot.
18+
Come join contra dance band Starling at The Pink Poodle for a night of tunes, harmony singing, percussive dance, and generally too many instruments for two people!
A.R. Gurney brilliantly parallels his play with the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, transposing the action from ancient Greece to a modern American university in the 1980s where the characters become Judy Miller, a brilliant, headstrong Jewish student and Henry Harper, an unyielding authoritarian professor of Greek Classics. A battle of wills ensues when Harper rejects her term paper, a play in which she takes it upon herself to rewrite Antigone in the context of the nuclear arms race. Judy’s protest to the university grievance committee escalates into an examination of reports of low enrollment in Harper’s courses and student reports of anti-Semitism that pose a threat to his career.
This event is happening at The Endwright Center in College Mall located at 2894 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47401. Doors open 30 minutes before each event.
Fans of the band are familiar with the group’s rise to international prominence from humble beginnings in Buffalo, New York. That’s when a few area working musicians arranged for a weekly gig of playing less commercial music in a local club on everyone’s night off. So humble a beginning, there was no name for the band so they were only known as “Tuesday Night Jazz Jam”. Soon the word got around and the core group was joined by many of the city’s musicians to come and have some fun. And customers started showing up, too, prompting the club owner to press Beckenstein for a band name for the club’s new sign. Beckenstein offered up this late night, tipsy answer, “You can call it ‘spirogyra’”, an algae that he had studied once. The next week, he came back and there it was, misspelling and all, and so it began in 1974.
New English speakers will practice everyday language skills in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. Age 18 and up.
Tony Brewer, April Ridge, Zilia Balkansky-Sellés, Peter Kaczmarczyk, Ray Zdonek, Lara Tokarski, Walter Biskupski, Jonathan S Baker, and Arizona will perform climate conscious poems as spoken word with expressive dance accompaniment by Erin Strole, Joanne Shank, Maxime Werk, Corinne Jones, Kay Olges, KaraLynn Hayes, and Nonie Daniels. Percussionist Julian Douglas will provide musical interludes.
In the forthcoming Stormwash: Environmental Poems anthology (The Grind Stone, April 2024), 40 poets address the climate crisis and its various effects. From the editor’s Foreword:
“Invariably, these poems suggest an uncanny attunement with nature: Something in the air, a shift in carbon molecules foreshadowing an ominous onslaught, an accumulating avalanche, some kind of storm—the stink of destruction. In either case, these poems enable us to hope that the survival of future generations is not so tenuous after all.”
–Hiromi Yoshida
The Greenest Building addresses an issue that has become more pressing within historic preservation as time goes on by posing questions on the best course of action for lowering carbon emissions in the built environment. In an era when up to 30% of the existing building stock is being demolished for new construction, this documentary makes a case for reusing buildings instead of demolishing them as a greener alternative regardless of how “green” the replacement is planned to be. [57 min; documentary; English]
A Q&A with Chris Reinhart, visiting assistant professor in the Eskenazi School’s J Irwin Miller Architecture program, will follow the screening
A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional. Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate.
Dance Party to follow at 11 pm
Exclusive limited edition records and CDs made just for the day.
Join Wylie House Museum staff for a family friendly activity in the Morton C. Bradley Education center! Activities change monthly and feature a hands on make-and-take craft such as seed paper, suncatchers, pressed flowers, and more. Come back each month to see what the new activity is!
After finishing your craft, stick around for a hands-on tour of the Wylie House for all ages at 2pm.