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The Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar is a multicultural arts and education event for kids, families, and community members.
Volunteers present arts, music, language, and international crafts that let attendees get their hands on the world with more than 30 vibrant, high-energy stations.
Info: Ben Foley 812-318-2875. Meeting Rooms 2A and 214 will be used.
Immerse yourself in different cultures, traditions, and talents from around the globe by attending the International Festival!
On Sunday, April 6 from 1:00-4:00, Fourth Street will be brimming with music, dance, art, culinary delights, and so much more!
Assouf desert blues reaching from Agadez, Niger leaving blistering hazes transmitted through the Midwest.
We Want the Funk! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown’s dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, the story also traces funk’s influences on both new wave and hip-hop. [60 min; documentary; English with open captions]
At this multimedia workshop, we will create a collaborative group song on the subject of growing. We’ll approach this through visual imagery and free writing, as well as work together to create verses. We’ll learn a bit about the process of zine making and its connection to grassroots music and the materials generated will be used in a special collaborative zine about Girls Rock Bloomington.
Led by local musician, arts educator and GRB Founder/Director Amy O. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Indiana Governor’s Arts Emerging Artist Award and has been growing as a person through songwriting for over 20 years.
For girls, trans and non-binary youth ages 8-17
Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. When they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they decide to forsake cell phones and DoorDash for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. But after moving to this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors – and they themselves – are willing to sacrifice for happiness.
First Sunday of the month, except for holidays when it is pushed to the second Sunday.
This is your chance to hear firsthand what they’re doing and contribute to the conversation.
The classic ballet, Swan Lake, tells a timeless tale of romance and transformation. Set to Tchaikovsky’s iconic and groundbreaking score, this poignant drama of true love and sacrifice captivates audiences to this day with its range of technically and emotionally challenging roles for both Principal dancers and the Corps de Ballet. European Royal Classical Ballet invites you to join the thousands of audience members through the years who have sat in awe under the spell of this magnificent and magical ballet. Witness firsthand the strength of pure and eternal love in the face of a dark and powerful sorcerer as you delight in the technical prowess and emotional depth the professional artists of European Royal Classical Ballet bring to the stage.
Please join us for Voices of the Incarcerated, the First Sunday Prose Reading Series. There will be nine writers featured, their work read by friends and workshop facilitators, in collaboration with Women Writing for a Change.
Potluck at 5:30pm, Music at 6pm
Lava Lamb- the brainchild of cellist Holden Bitner and drummer John Ruben Medina: it’s a genre-defying instrumental project that will take you on a wild emotional ride. Bitner is a formally trained cellist, but growing up in a city as music-rich as Nashville, TN, he’s performed music in many other styles. Originally from Amarillo, TX, Medina moved to Nashville before the pandemic to cut his teeth as a drummer, and has been playing all over there ever since. The two met working in the service industry, started rehearsing in their friend’s shed, and the rest is history. Their music is inspired by curiosity and connection, the compositions driven by tension, gravity, and social interaction. From expressive lyrical anthems – to expansive oceans of harmony – to gritty and mischievous math rock, lava lamb will take you places you didn’t know you needed to go. They’re a new project, with just one EP released in 2024 – Music for Sheep.
A Aardvark- A AARDVARK is a aalternative aambient aamericana project brought to you by the minds, bodies, and spirits of Gabriel Garber (guitar, vocals) and Charles Roldan (drums, piano, vocals). Gabe and Chuck (as the real heads know them) have performed, recorded, and toured together in various projects over the past decade, even at times discussing bringing a project of their own into the world. But the timing, as it so often is—or at least seems—was never quite right. So they waited. They continued to care for other projects—together and separately—that filled their buckets and took them on adventures to faraway places. Throughout it all, the dream never died, and when Gabe returned to Bloomington in the Fall of ‘23, discussions began anew, and the duo decided the time was finally right for a project of their own. And then they got busy caring for other projects again. Cut to: Fall of ‘24, and the stars finally align, with a pair of exploratory studio sessions and a distillery gig marking the material conception of A AARDVARK (born Saturday, January 25, 2025 (fathers tired, but healthy)). On Friday, March 7, 2025, A AARDVARK produced its first project, PROOF OF CONCEPT (available for listening on most streaming platforms). They’re trying for more projects and are expecting their first tour in late May/early June.
Dan “Sully” Sullivan- a Chicago-born poet residing in Bloomington, IN. Sully’s new book, O Body (Haymarket Books 2024), considers the male body—its momentum and privilege when moving through the world, but also its softness and vulnerability. His poems and performances have been featured on HBO Def Poetry Jam, WGN Morning News, and NPR. Sully is a three-time Chicago Poetry Slam Champion, a recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, the Earl S Ho Award for Excellence in Teaching Creative Writing and an Indiana University Writer in South Asia Recipient. He is co-editor of the anthology Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School (Penguin 2022) and author of The Blue Line Home (EM-Press 2014).
Living Rumors- are an acoustic combo comprised of 3 of our local, long time musicians Micheal Johnson, Dan ‘G man’ Selvaggi, Vicky Helber and their newest member Federico Martinez a visiting IU student from Uraguay. They cover many genres, specifically folk/bluegrass, originals, South American and songs composed by recently deceased friend and mentor, Arthur Heckman, one of Bloomingtons little known but most prolific and beloved songwriters.A bit hard to classify, but folks seem to be liking it!
New English speakers will practice everyday language skills in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
Drop in and show off your LEGO skills and collaborate with other LEGO builders!
Every Monday includes fun skating, cardio challenges, dance moves, skills lessons, a good stretch, and support from veteran roller derby skaters.
Activities are focused on advanced beginner to skilled skaters.
Looking for an opportunity to connect with local leaders, ask questions, and get the scoop on city projects? Mayor Kerry Thomson is hosting a Traveling Town Hall on Monday, April 7, at Banneker Community Center, 930 W 7th Street, from 6 to 7 p.m. Joining the Mayor will be Parks & Recreation Director, Tim Street, ready to share updates and answer your burning questions. Here’s how it works:
• The evening kicks off with Mayor Thomson’s quick rundown of city initiatives.
• Submit your questions on index cards (provided at the door), and the team will tackle as many as possible.
• If time allows, a live Q&A will round out the night!
These Town Halls happen every other month in different districts, giving residents a chance to engage directly with City Hall. Whether you live in District 2 or just love being in the know about Bloomington’s happenings, this is your chance to join the conversation.
Can’t make it? The meeting will be broadcast live on Community Access Television Services (CATS) and available on-demand at catstv.net.
No money involved. Play euchre or another card game (cards provided by the Club) or bring any board game to play.
Hey smart people!! Trivia Nights are now your favorite thing to do on Mondays! We promise to keep the sports to a minimum!
Come out on Monday nights from 8:30-10pm for your chance off that brain power to win fabulous bar cash prizes!
Facilitated by: Jess Tang
Facilitator’s Organization: IU Service-Learning Program, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Drop in and explore various materials and stations designed to promote imaginative play. We’ll provide the materials and space, you provide the imagination!
Sponsored by Visit Bloomington
For those Civil War enthusiasts in our community, the Civil War Roundtable is the place to gather for conversation and camaraderie. Meetings open to any and all that would like to learn about the raids, battles, and soldiers of the 1860s.
New English speakers will practice everyday language skills in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
A place to go if you love dancing and support the work of Spencer Pride. No cost, no registration, no partner necessary. Just show up!
Looking for a place to tinker, create, and explore? Bloominglabs invites you to our free Wednesday Night Public Hours from 7 PM to 10 PM!
* Check out our tools & equipment
* Meet fellow makers & hackers
* Work on projects & get inspired
Whether you’re a seasoned maker or just curious about what we do, everyone is welcome! Come see what Bloomington’s community makerspace is all about.
Visitors are free to bring a project to work on.
Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. When they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they decide to forsake cell phones and DoorDash for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. But after moving to this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors – and they themselves – are willing to sacrifice for happiness.
Beginner lesson at 7pm
Peacock The Phoenix’s 31st Birthday Take Over 🦚🐦🔥
co-host: Oliver Closeoff
Starletta
Desiree Bouiver
Madison Avenue
Juniper Peron
Santana Sword
Sebastian Passion
Cadence
Ages 21+
Featuring keynote speaker, Rev. Leah Gunning Francis, PhD, this will be a day dedicated to mobilizing health and faith to empower individuals and congregations to lead health ministry in their communities.
Through insightful discussions and breakout sessions, participants will explore how faith-based organizations can promote wellness, build partnerships and share trusted health resources.
This summit is designed for healthcare professionals, ministry leaders, and anyone passionate about the intersection of health and faith. It’s an opportunity to learn, collaborate and inspire positive change in the health of your communities.
Live DJs**
**VENDORS:
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Dark Opal Studio (https://www.instagram.com/darkopalstudio)**
all ages
Jacobs School of Music Jazz Studies students will perform original compositions and classics from the Great American Songbook.
It’s The Great Gatsby’s 100th birthday and we’re celebrating! Join us for an evening of fun with a screening of the 2013 Baz Luhrmann film rendition, hosting a costume contest, specialty drinks, and having a discussion of the book!
THOMAS KNEELAND is the author of We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep (Marian University Department of Media, Communication, and Design) and a 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize finalist. He is a 2024 Speculative Play & Just Futurities Scholar-in-Residence, which is funded by Indiana University, the Mellon Foundation, IU Indianapolis (IUI) Arts & Humanities Institute, IUI Center for Africana Studies & Culture, and the Ray Bradbury Center. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Elevation Review. His publication credits include The Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, The Amistad, The Citron Review, Vagabond City Lit, Up the Staircase Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Kneeland holds a BA in English Writing from DePauw University, an MA in Ministry from Wesley Seminary, and an MFA in Poetry from Butler University. www.thomaskneeland.com
MARILYN WOLF lives in Indiana and is a member of several writing groups. She has two books of poetry, In Celebration of the Death of Faeries and The Guy: Private Edition. Her writing on Medium.com is a collection of poetry, prose, and essays. Her work is published in anthologies, Indiana’s Poetry Archive, displayed in online and physical galleries, and more. She is a member of local, state, and national poetry organizations and currently an editor of The Howling Owl on Medium. She is a past 1st VP of the Poetry Society of Indiana and current Director on the Board for Indiana Writers Center. www.wolfen25.net
Between songs of foolish longing and scores to symbolic floods, JACK CARL has managed to turn impassioned composition into a full blown pastime.
The African Studies Program and WFHB community radio present a screening of Johan Grimonprez’s film about jazz diplomacy, decolonialism, and empire during the cold war. When newly-elected Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in 1961, jazz icons Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach protested at the UN Security Council.
This story of the undermining of African self-determination is told from the perspective of Central African Republic women’s rights activist and politician Andrée Blouin, Irish diplomat and enfant terrible Conor Cruise O’Brien, Belgian-Congolese writer In Koli Jean Bofane, and Nikita Khrushchev.
1990 – R
Year: 2084. Everyman construction worker Doug Quaid decides to live on the edge by taking a virtual vacation to Mars as a secret agent. When things go wrong during the artificial memory implantation process, he reacts violently and must figure out who he really is: mild-manned Doug with a wife at home, or a renewed secret agent on the mission of a lifetime. [113 min; sci-fi, action, adventure; English]
7-8pm host band
8-10pm open blues jam with backline provided.
doors at 6pm
Salma Zaky is a stand-up comedian and writer based in New York City. Originally from the Bay Area, Salma Zaky moved to Los Angeles to attend college, where she began her comedy journey. She recently released stand-up specials with OFTV and Don’t Tell Comedy, and was named a “Comic to Watch” at the 2023 New York Comedy Festival. You can catch her featuring at festivals and headlining comedy clubs across the country.
After suffering trauma while on a cross-country bike trip, entitled, 21-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91-year-old grandmother in her Greenwich Village apartment. As his visit expands to a month, the play explores loss with surprising intimacy and depth. “The contrast between these two closely-observed lead characters—their age, point of view, habits, styles, and elemental assumptions—are a continual source of pleasure in 4,000 Miles says Helen Epstein for Boston’s The Art Fuse. The result is a show that has been described as charming, insightful, and moving.
Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. When they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they decide to forsake cell phones and DoorDash for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. But after moving to this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors – and they themselves – are willing to sacrifice for happiness.
all ages | Brought to you by Bloomington Pub Quiz.
This event is free and open to the public.
Symposium Schedule:
10:15-10:30 Welcome and Introductory Remarks – Rebecca Dirksen (IU Folk/Ethno)
10:30-12:00 Roundtable 1: Colonial Oblivions | And Listening Otherwise
12:00-1:00 Lunch break
1:00-2:30 Roundtable 2: Spoil, Extract, Bomb, and Collapse | And Living Anyway
3:00-4:00 A Performative Exploration: Two Suns and a Setting. A play by Kevin Rittberger (Berlin)
4:15-5:30 Roundtable 3: Environmental Futures | And Moving Through. Moderated by Cynthia Shin (IU Comparative Lit/Germanic Studies)
Registration recommended
Discuss your favorite gardening books, and learn and share tips and tricks for making the most of the growing season. This month we will discuss herbs and make our own seed starting tapes.
A program where individuals bring their own supplies to work on a project while others do the same. It’s a way to connect socially, enjoy your hobby, and be productive in the process! Whether you quilt, scrapbook, paint, decoupage, or anything of the like, this program is for you!
C’mon and join Blippi to make music in your hometown in the brand new live Blippi: Join the Band Tour! Blippi will be joined onstage by Meekah, their singing and dancing buddies and LIVE musicians to explore what makes music, including sounds, rhythms and instruments, through all your favorite Blippi hits. So grab your drumsticks, tune up your guitar, and move those feet with Blippi and get ready for a musical performance that’s fun for the whole family! Sensory Notice: This show contains Flashing Lights, Haze (fog), and Confetti Doors Open 1.5 hours before event begins.
Join us for a FREE event open to all members of the IU community! On Friday, April 11th, Late Nite will be hosting their annual Cream and Crimson Carnival at Fine Arts Plaza, Showalter Fountain from 6pm to midnight.
Featured attractions include rides, games, music, fire performers, acrobats, and more all free for IU students, staff, faculty, and their families. Food will be available for purchase from local food trucks and IU Dining. Family and friends are welcomed, but please make sure all minors are accompanied by a parent or guardian for the duration of the event.
A cozy evening featuring incredible local talent, signature drinks, and delicious bites. From country tunes to acoustic gems, this series has something for everyone.
Unpacking Immigration (dir. Harleen Kaur Bal | 2023): Unpacking Immigration explores the lives of immigrant meatpackers whose unseen and undervalued work bridges the crucial missing steps in “the farm to table” concept in food production. This short film, written and directed by Harleen Kaur Bal, shares the story of a longtime Punjabi Sikh meatpacker in California’s Central Valley, tracing his migration journey, the human toll of meatpacking work, and the fraught notions of home and belonging for working-class immigrants and their families in the “land of opportunity.” Youth activism in the Jakara Movement will also be highlighted. [12 min; English]
Kai Hali’a (Sea of Memory) (dir. Angelique Kalani Axelrode | 2023): In the abstract realm of memory, a diasporic Kanaka struggles to connect with their family and lover. By engaging with their moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy) and calling on their kūpuna (ancestors) and ke kai (ocean), they are able to cope with buried trauma and come back to themselves. Seeing memory as an intricate ʻupena (net) of both intangible and tangible threads of reality, intertwined with visceral feelings that intimately connect us with our kūpuna (ancestors) and the ʻāina (land), the art of remembering brings us back to our core. [9 min; English and Hawaiian with open captions]
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way (dir. Hao Zhou | 2024): Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre while reconnecting with distanced parents. [20 min; English with open captions]
Preserving Taste (dir. Gelareh Kiazand | 2023): Chef Hanif Sadr, born in Tehran, Iran, hopes to open his first Iranian regional restaurant in San Francisco. Through this journey, he moves between Iran and the US and explores the depth of a unique forgotten Persian cuisine. [21 min; English]
Leading (dir. Grace Lee | 2024): Leading follows two budding activists: Audre (10), who fights against Asian hate by creating a teach-in presentation at her school; and Kali (11), who belongs to a Radical Monarchs troop, where she learns about and helps organize a march for Black Lives Matter. [27 min; English]
Raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts, Dana began performing comedy onstage at age 17. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but after a year moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in comedy. It was there he, along with fellow comedian Alex Reid, founded the San Francisco Comedy Condo in 1986.
Doors at 7pm
Come celebrate 50 years of inspiring black dance with the legendary African American Dance Company (AADC). This two-night concert event will showcase 50 years of dance in the African Diaspora, from traditional Africa to American modern. Directed by Baba Stafford C. Berry, Jr., a United States Midwest Culture Bearer, AADC will be joined by Seda Negra/Black Silk on Friday, April 11th and the world-class Dayton Contemporary Dance Company on Saturday, April 12th 2025. You don’t want to miss this!
A jewel in the IU crown that is at the intersection of performance, education and advocacy, the AADC is a valuable cultural resource and ambassador to black dance performance, African American and African diasporic aesthetics and culture, embodied research, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and robust student leadership and creative scholarship.
When wealthy widow Ethel Savage is sent to a sanatorium by her greedy stepchildren, she discovers a found family among the charmingly eccentric residents. This delightful play explores kindness, greed, and the true meaning of happiness—with plenty of laughs along the way!