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Indigenous People’s day falls annually on October 13th, join the FNECC and Union board at the IMU on Monday October 13th at the IMU. Join us in sharing a traditional indigenous meal at the Tudor room and browse our partnering booths. Native vendor and books from the educational library in the Starbucks Lounge and limited edition FNECC T-shirts and info booths at the food court mainstage on floor 1.
Take a tour of the Downtown Library with VITAL staff, get help using eLibrary resources, and learn more about what you can do with your library card.
Presented by Healthy Families Indiana, Nurse-Family Partnership, Clarity and Brown County WIC office
You’re invited to join Trista Price, Energy Intuitive with Healing Sacred Space, this October at OAK for a transformative meditation series that harnesses the month’s magical energy. Each week, connect with mind, body, and spirit to align with the web of life and your inner light. Embrace this journey of self discovery and rejuvenation!
Meditation promptly from 6:00-7:00
Please bring with you water, journal, and pen.
Folding chairs will be provided. You’re welcome to bring anything to help you feel at ease and comfortable….pillows, blanket, eye mask.
Each week Trista will use a variety of sounds to accompany the meditations from soundscape, ethereal music to crystal singing bowls and buffalo drums. Some weeks she will incorporate reiki energy to assist during meditations.
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. ALL adults are welcome
We are proud to host an exclusive event in partnership with Hard Truth Distillers and Da Vinci Pizza and Pasta. On this special evening, we will introduce a Hard Truth Single Barrel Sweet Mash Rye hand-picked and exclusively for Sleeper’s Bar.
Every Monday, the Swing Dance Club hosts lessons for its club members followed by a social dance.
Email: [email protected]
Hey smart people!! Trivia Nights are now your favorite thing to do on Mondays! We promise to keep the sports to a minimum!
Need help using or setting up a new device? Trying to access the Library’s eBooks and eAudiobooks? Learning how to use Zoom? Drop in for one-on-one help and learn new digital skills.
We are a steel tip dart & social club. You do not have to be a member to play. All are welcome.
Can AI enable us to live forever? Filmmaker Ann Shin sets out on a journey, exploring the latest AI and biotech with scientists and visionaries who foresee a “post-biological” world where humans and AI merge. Will AI be the best, or the last thing we ever do? [74 min; documentary; English]
A panel discussion and Q&A will follow the screening with Selma Šabanović (IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering); Amy Kinney (IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering); Eliza Frenkel (IU Department of Anthropology); Nathan Ensmenger (IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering); and Katy Abramson (IU Department of Philosophy).
Hamlet is in a dark place, full of doubt, and perhaps touched by madness. After the death of his father under questionable circumstances, he loses his footing. Is his entourage lying to him? Is his mind, muddled with apparitions, failing? When reason wavers, how can we distinguish between truth and falsehood, how can we distinguish between the faithful and the traitors?
Co-created by choreographer Guillaume Côté and director Robert Lepage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark immerses the viewer in a world of deceptive appearances, where ghosts and humans rub shoulders in a minimalist scenography. Light, shadows, and transparency play a central role. This metaphorical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s narrative shared through dance, draws the fine line between what is and what is not in the vagaries of the mind and the movements of the body.
The 44th Year! With: Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Plants and other Summer Produce
Join the discussion of The View from Lake Como, the New York Times Bestseller by Adriana Trigiani.
This unique event offers riders a chance to share ideas, ask questions, and engage directly with Mayor Thomson—all while experiencing one of the City’s most essential public services firsthand. “Our bus system connects people to work, school, and each other—so it’s the perfect place to listen, learn, and talk about what’s on residents’ minds,” said Mayor Thomson.
Standard fare prices will apply to those on this ride. Info on rates and Bus Route 2 can be found at bloomingtontransit.com
No registration required for this hands-on class that teaches kids of all ages confidence and curiosity in the kitchen. Try new recipes, inspired by the pantry and the garden, each week.
Get ready to creep it real at our hauntingly creative Fright Night! Join us for two eerie evenings of hands-on crafting that’ll leave you howling with delight. Whether you’re a ghoulish beginner or a crafty witch with skills to die for, there’s something for everyone:
Pottery Painting – Give your mugs, plates, or pumpkins a boo-tiful makeover!
Needle Felting – Summon soft, spooky creatures from tufts of wool.
Stamp Carving – Slice into something frightfully fun and make your own creepy-cute prints!
Bring your favorite creeps and your wicked creativity.
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!
This WTIU-produced documentary examines the life and accomplishments of Major Taylor, the world’s first Black sports superstar and early civil rights pioneer. Taylor made his professional cycling debut in 1896 at the Six-Day Race held at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden; he was only 18 years old and had never raced professionally before, but he finished in the top ten as the only Black cyclist allowed to compete. Throughout his storied, yet largely forgotten, career, Taylor set more than 20 world speed records and was one of most famous people on three continents, all while battling segregation in Jim Crow America. Called “the fastest man in the world” by reporters, Taylor’s talent was lauded by civil rights leader Booker T. Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt, and other notable figures. Major Taylor: Champion of the Race won four regional Emmy Awards and is narrated by acclaimed mezzo-soprano opera singer Marietta Simpson with a score by five-time Emmy Award-winning musical director Tyron Cooper, who also leads IU’s Archives of African American Music & Culture. Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Branford Marsalis provides the voice of Major Taylor. [56 min; documentary; English]
A Q&A will follow the screening.
Doors at 6:30pm
Beginner lesson 7-7:30pm, Main Dance 7:30-9:30pm
This talk, presented by the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, launches from the murdered Gazan poet Hiba Abu Nada’s work to present a reading of the Arabic poetic tradition through the lens of Gaza, highlighting a long Arabic legacy of confronting time and its calamities with defiant “alone-ness.”
WonderLab is having a hands-on, creativity-packed program where imagination and engineering meet! Designed for children ages 8 and up, this experience invites young builders to explore the endless possibilities of cardboard as a construction material. Find more information at Wonderlab.org
Show a flyer found here while at BJ’s: https://mcpl.info/friends/dine-out. Support the Library while eating local! Dine Out at designated locations and a percentage of your tab will go toward Friends of the Library fundraising for MCPL programs.
Learn to be a stuntologist, just like Sam! Explore the mysteries of the physical world with everyday objects, master pointless techniques, and amuse yourself and amaze your friends!
No appointment required, just ask at the check out desk.
Get help: Installing apps for ebooks, audiobooks and videos
Drop in when you can, drop out when you need. Join us for this weekly workday to tend our community garden. Come to learn, or come to share your skill. All levels of garden experience welcome and encouraged!
- Bring your own zine project or contribute to our community zine
- Swap zines and read through our zine collection
- Learn zine-making basics
Join local children’s author and illustrator T. L. McBeth for a fun, hands-on session focused on character design, illustration, and bringing your own stories to life—just like the Peanuts gang! Final comics will be displayed in the Downtown Library’s tween zine collection. This program is inspired by Constellation’s upcoming production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (November 1–16). Ages 9–12.
Juniper Art Gallery is happy to welcome back multi-instrumentalist, and singer/songwriter Pat Otto to our Janiece Jaffe Legacy Stage for October’s Third Thursday Monthly Music Night! Pat will play both covers and originals on guitar and mandolin. His shows are always entertaining and enjoyable!
7-8pm host band
8-10pm open blues jam with backline provided.
Doors at 6:30pm
It’s not officially Halloween until Bloomington’s favorite musical mastermind, Dennis James, returns for his annual spooky performance. Dennis James Hosts Halloween returns, as the legendary cinema organist and IU graduate provides the soundtrack to a silent film and a live radio reenactment.
The live onstage portrayal of an old-time radio thriller titled Waxworks will kick off the evening and will be performed by actors, including students from IU’s Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, as James plays the soundtrack on IU Auditorium’s 4,532-pipe organ. This episode comes from a classic radio series titled Suspense, which was one of the most popular and successful radio programs during its run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1946-1962.
James will conclude the evening with the backing soundtrack to a screening of a 1924 German silent horror film also titled Waxworks that ties three stories together in an anthology format with the final segment featuring Jack the Ripper.
Each comedian is asked to do no more than five minutes of completely original material. While we do not care about foul language in your set, we do not allow racist, homophobic, transphobic or rape/female bashing jokes. If you have to ask if it’s racist, homophobic, transphobic or a rape joke, it probably is.
Comedians that wish to participate are asked to e-mail [email protected]. Newcomers and any participants who are not paid professionals will be required to bring audience members to see them. This is non-negotiable. So if you plan on signing up, be sure to invite as many friends as you can. Good luck!
INFO: https://hhfoodbank.org/book-fair/
An estimated 100,000 items will be available for sale including fiction and non-fiction hardback and paperback books of all categories, DVDs, CDs, LPs, games, puzzles and some specialty items including maps, ephemera and a small selection of metal banks. The Better Books section includes a large number of antique, rare and collectible books as well as graphic novels and some comics. The selection of both general and vintage (Better Books) children’s books is larger than usual this year and as usual, there is a large horror/science fiction section and lots of craft books and supplies.
A selection of locally made bowls from the Soup Bowl benefit will also be available for sale. A custom made HHFB coloring book and crayons will be free for all kids while supplies last.
WonderLab is having a hands-on, creativity-packed program where imagination and engineering meet! Designed for children ages 8 and up, this experience invites young builders to explore the endless possibilities of cardboard as a construction material. Find more information at Wonderlab.org
Featuring music from six different contemporary composers, The Lunchbox Project celebrates diversity through different styles of music and food!
Brought to life by the talented puppeteers with The Melchior Marionettes, this family-friendly show features a cast of whimsical marionettes with a Halloween twist. Enjoy a ghoulish lineup of fun characters, including juggling scarecrows, dancing skeletons, flying ghosts, a kitchen witch, and more! Expect humorous storytelling, playful ghostly antics, and a dash of the unexpected in this 30-minute mesmerizing performance. Perfect for the whole family—don’t miss the magic and mystery of The Melchior Marionettes presentation of ‘Slightly Haunted Puppet Show’!
Powered by your neighborhood local businesses – This unique collaboration is all about Celebrating Wellness and helping you connect with local resources that help you unwind and recharge.
Open House & Activities by :
Terra Sana Wellness
Nourishing Heart Yoga
Baobab Mental Health Collective
Mira Salon & Boutique Spa
Zumba with Joshua Fix
Live music by Charlie Jesseph
Books on Wellness by Morgenstern Books
Enjoy and fuel your day with a delicious bites at FETA Café
Stop by Soma for a sweet treat and coffee.
Featuring songs composed in collaboration with others over the course of the artist’s career
A specialist in the fields of higher education and popular music studies, West’s Ph.D. focuses on the teaching and learning of songwriting, and he has an M.A. in Professional Learning. In 2006, he designed and course-directed the world’s first master’s degree in songwriting.
His first book, The Art of Songwriting, was published by Bloomsbury in 2016 and is now in its fifth edition. A second book, Higher Music Education: 21 Questions for the 21st Century, was published by Leeds Conservatoire in 2020, and his third book, Paul Weller and Popular Music, was published by Routledge in 2022.
Get ready to creep it real at our hauntingly creative Fright Night! Join us for two eerie evenings of hands-on crafting that’ll leave you howling with delight. Whether you’re a ghoulish beginner or a crafty witch with skills to die for, there’s something for everyone:
Pottery Painting – Give your mugs, plates, or pumpkins a boo-tiful makeover!
Needle Felting – Summon soft, spooky creatures from tufts of wool.
Stamp Carving – Slice into something frightfully fun and make your own creepy-cute prints!
Bring your favorite creeps and your wicked creativity.
Horror author P. Djèlí Clark is heading to BLOOMINGTON for the trade paperback release of RING SHOUT, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan’s reign of terror.
IU Opera & Ballet Theater presents Opera Insights, a pre-show talk focusing on Ravel’s “L’enfant et les sortilèges.”
Doors at 5:30pm
Tuvergen Band will be performing at Orbit Room for the first time. TB is a Lotus Festival Favorite of the past.
You start the Haunted Train in the Kids Train station, it is just FUN for the kids with games & things to see nothing scary! Then the brave go to the Haunted Train station & on to the Haunted Train.
New bride Edith (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself swept away to the remote family mansion of her charming and seductive husband Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). But in place of newlywed romance, Edith must face a cold sister-in-law (Jessica Chastain), dark family secrets, ghostly visions, and monsters where they are least expected. [119 min; horror, romance; English]
Open mic/jam–All ages
Come to listen–come to play.
Come to enjoy–come to share!
Sign up starts at 6:45 pm
15 min slots
All ages
A zany twist on Bram Stoker’s classic. With bumbling heroes, a quirky Van Helsing, and a hilariously foiled Count Dracula, this Monty Python-meets-Lucille Ball romp blends spooky thrills with laugh-out-loud fun and the sultry charm of Elvis Presley—perfect for Halloween!
RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 14+
IU Opera & Ballet Theater presents an opera in concert, “L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells)” by Maurice Ravel.
Pacifica Quartet (Faculty String Quartet-in-Residence)
Simin Ganatra, violin
Austin Hartman, violin
Mark Holloway, viola
Brandon Vamos, cello
Erinys Quartet (Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence)
Elizabeth Stewart, violin
Joosep Reimaa, violin
Marija Räisänen, viola
Stergios Theodoridis, cello
Works by Joaquín Turina, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Felix Mendelssohn
Renowned shaman Lee Haw-rim and her protégé are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family to investigate a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. Drawing on the help of a knowledgeable mortician and the country’s most revered geomancer, the quartet soon trace the affliction’s origin to a long-hidden family grave located on sacred ground. But as something much darker emerges, they soon discover what befalls those who dare to mess with the wrong grave. [134 min; horror; Korean and Japanese with English subtitles]
“Exhuma is a masterpiece of art-horror and South Korean filmmaking, ensured to enthrall viewers into repeated viewings and deep dives into each chapter.” — Josiah Teal, Film Threat
The Bedford Farmers Market consists of local farmers, artisans and bakers; all items for sale at the market are handmade/homegrown in Lawrence County and within 75 miles from courthouse. Products available at the Bedford Farmers Market include fresh produce, plants, farm fresh eggs, local beef, chicken and pork, baked goods, jams, jellies, sweet bread, pies, cinnamon rolls, jewelry, tie-dye, pottery, leather goods, baby items, candles, walking sticks, baskets, crochet dolls/animals and a variety of other art/craft items.
We welcome new vendors/performers throughout the season
Market goers can find a wide assortment of goods from the farm and field, including fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and cheeses, honey, seasonal flowers, and annual and perennial plants. Food and beverage artisans provide a tasteful variety of drinks, pastries, and savory dishes.
The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market proudly supports nutrition assistance programs, including WIC (Women, Infants and Children), SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Senior FMNP (Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program) that provide fresh, locally grown, unprocessed fruits, vegetables, and edible herbs to people whose incomes are below the federal poverty threshold.
November Market begins next Saturday, November 1st from 9a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Switchyard Park Pavilion (1601 S. Rogers St.). For a third year, the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market and the Bloomington Winter Farmers’ Market will co-host the November Market. The dates will be November 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd.