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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 .
“Holiday Home” is the theme for this Seasonal Open Day.
Decorations, Music, and Food will be shared to interpret the themes surrounding A Farmstead Christmas.
Janette Robertson will demonstrate quilting and play her auto harp.
In the Parlor, Holiday Music will be performed by Mark Weidenmayer, Leah Savion, Susie
Sullivan, and Lisa Wickes.
The Farmhouse will be open for tours.
Cookies and Wassail will be served.
The Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers return for their annual holiday concert, Chimes of Christmas: Home for the Holidays. This year promises to be the jolliest family-friendly event of the season! This holiday concert, now with over six decades of tradition, will feature a revue of contemporary songs, favorite carols, and classical choral arrangements, including special guests including Grammy-winning vocalist Sylvia McNair, IU Symphonic Band, and Hooshir A Cappella.
The Library and Tandem Community Birth Center are proud to host a community toy swap at the Downtown Library.
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.
“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.
Kurt Baer – Saxophone
Ian Ottinger – Bass
Join the Friends of the Library and the Brown County YMCA on the Salt Creek Trail for the inaugural Light the Trail Luminary Walk. The Friends will be selling refreshments (cash only please) to enjoy while walking the Trail and seeing the lights.
Want to add your light to the Trail? Visit the YMCA and sponsor a luminary!
Drive thru lights show, followed by refreshments and pictures with Santa.
Each morning, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California, to work at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. She drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. After an unexpected promotion at work, Donya communicates her loneliness through a concise medium: the fortunes inside each cookie. Donya’s koans travel, making a humble impact and expanding her world far beyond Fremont and her turbulent past, including an encounter with a quiet auto-mechanic (Jeremy Allen White) who could stand to see his own world expanded. Tenderly sculpted and lyrically shot in black-and-white, Babak Jalali’s Fremont is a wry, deadpan vision of the universal longing for home. [91 min; comedy, drama; English, Dari, and Cantonese 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.
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.
With a lineup featuring Cody Ikerd and The Sidewinders, King Bee & The Stingers, The Hammer and The Hatchet with IOFD, Bleu Django, and Flick N Rainwater.
Clothing, Jewelry, Judaica, Paintings, Photography, Pottery, Quilts, Woodworking, Woven Baskets, and more!
Home-baked sweets, Challahs & Breads
Gift Shop & Chanukah Goodies!
Participating Artists/Makers:
Julie Bloom, Kevin Boas, Sandy Clark-Kolaks, Debbie Cohen, Kerry Conway, Dayana Ferrera, Chizuko Johnson, Susan Klein, Jane Gantz, Neil Klein, Brenda Kesmodel, Marcy Neiditz, Lonica Solomon, Streiff Family, Sue Swartz.
Celebrate the holiday with the lively 1970 musical movie, SCROOGE! The film presents Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Christmas Carol” about an old bitter miser who finds redemption and discovers the joys of life and the spirit of Christmas yet to come.
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.
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.
“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.
Oliver is currently host and producer of the hit show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO, which has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including 26 Primetime Emmys along with numerous Writer’s Guild Awards, Critics’ Choice Television Awards, Television Critics Association Awards, and Peabody Awards. Prior to that, Oliver had a seven-year stint as a correspondent and guest host on the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Presented by the Center for Electronic and Computer Music
You’ve never heard violin like this! The world’s premier visionary violinist, Dixon’s life mission is to inspire people – and he has done so at over 1,000 concerts across North America, including giving five TED talks/performances, over ten years at Burning Man and Electric Forest, plus radio, TV, and film appearances. A former technology leader and symphony violinist, Dixon walked away from a distinguished career to follow his dream full-time, and invented a whole new music genre. Dixon now improvises on a 5-string electric violin with a looping system he developed to create an all-live one-man symphony, guided by his remarkable personal story of life transformation.
Test your knowledge of retro pop hits from artists like Usher, My Chemical Romance, Lady Gaga, Avril Lavigne, and others
Registration requested.
Keep safe online! In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Recognize secure websites
- Spot ‘phishing’ emails
- Stay safe from scams and fraud
- Create strong passwords
- Build confidence while online
And, all participants will be entered into a drawing to win a new iPad!
Come for a discussion about relationships, dating, and other tough topics. Stay for the conversation and the pizza. Ages 12–19.
Registration Requested.
Whether you already have an iPhone or iPad, or are considering getting one, this workshop will cover the basics of Apple mobile devices.
You will learn how to:
- Navigate your phone or tablet
- Use common apps
- Change settings
- plus some useful ‘power user’ tips that will make you feel like an Apple pro.
Final projects, papers, or exams got you down? Come get a much needed serotonin boost at the Downtown Library. We’ll chill out, have some laughs, and take some needed relaxation time.
Host band plays 7-8pm, Jam plays 8-10pm
Reeling from the revelation that his wife has been unfaithful, a journalist’s life is further thrown into chaos by the explosion of the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
All proceeds go toward funding the FARMETTE Music Conference scheduled for April 2024.
Performances By: Lenox Monroe, Copeland James, Dime Store Jedi