WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Info: Carol Carter 812-320-0138
Info: Lynn Ducharme 812-337-0442
1/11: Paper snowflakes
1/18: Mastodon paper mosaic
1/25: Mineral ice perler beads
2/01: Glacial till gouache painting
2/08: Megafauna coloring pages
2/15: Smilodon watercolor painting
Drop in and bring any clothes or other textiles in need of repair; please clean items first. Discardia will be on-hand to show you how to mend them or do it for you. All ages.
Open to the public.
At ScienceFest, girls aged 5 through 18 are invited to engage in:
– Interactive Workshops: Experiment with exciting scientific concepts.
– Inspiring Talks: Learn from trailblazing female scientists.
– Creative Activities: Explore your creativity through STEM projects.
Girls Inc. is a League of Women Voters partner.
Synopsis: Following a near-fatal car accident, a world-famous novelist finds himself in a strange house being nursed back to health by his “Number One Fan.” But as her love for his work turns to dangerous obsession, he realizes he must plot his greatest story yet: how to escape with his life. This spine-tingling Stephen King classic, adapted for the stage by two-time Academy Award-winner William Goldman, will grip you until the very end!
Doors: 1:30 PM
Brown County Playhouse proudly brings the magic of The Wizard of Oz to life as an old-fashioned radio play. Relive the classic story of Dorothy, Toto, and friends as they follow the Yellow Brick Road, accompanied by live sound effects, enchanting voices, and a touch of vintage charm.
Perfect for all ages, this unique production promises to transport audiences to the Land of Oz like never before. Don’t miss this captivating blend of nostalgia and creativity, right in the heart of Brown County!
Meet the artist, explore her captivating work, and engage with fellow arts advocates.
This special event will feature collegiate dance teams from all over the nation coming together to compete and Union Board invites you to come enjoy the many different styles of dance!
Teams competing this year include:
OSU Sahajan – Ohio State University
SBU Junoon – Stony Brook University
NYU Dillagi – New York University
Vanderbilt Lakshya – Vanderbilt University
Tulane Jazbaa – Tulane University
ATL Tanishq – multiple ATL universities
OU Soniyes – University of Oklahoma
UCI Zamana – University of California Irvine
Door Time: 6:00 PM
All Ages!
Growing Stone (Rochester, NY) – Singer songwriter. – growingstone.bandcamp.com
Think Twice
Alex Swartzentruber – Spoken word/comedy. – podcast/its-a-beautiful-day-in-the-gulch
Synopsis: Following a near-fatal car accident, a world-famous novelist finds himself in a strange house being nursed back to health by his “Number One Fan.” But as her love for his work turns to dangerous obsession, he realizes he must plot his greatest story yet: how to escape with his life. This spine-tingling Stephen King classic, adapted for the stage by two-time Academy Award-winner William Goldman, will grip you until the very end!
Brown County Playhouse proudly brings the magic of The Wizard of Oz to life as an old-fashioned radio play. Relive the classic story of Dorothy, Toto, and friends as they follow the Yellow Brick Road, accompanied by live sound effects, enchanting voices, and a touch of vintage charm.
Perfect for all ages, this unique production promises to transport audiences to the Land of Oz like never before. Don’t miss this captivating blend of nostalgia and creativity, right in the heart of Brown County!
Bloomington’s own DIY venue | All Ages | Sober Space | Doors 7:30
Followed at 11pm with a dance party hosted by DJ BIG BABY
Mocha is bringing you SHADES OF MELANIN! Hosted by Tia Mirage Hall and starring your producer MOCHA DEBEAUTE as well as
LISA ST LAURENT
ZARIAH
and a hot spot from MONA MEZCAL!
The reach of David Lynch into the popular and cinematic imagination is impossible to overstate. We honor his work, his legacy, his influence, and his paradoxical creation with a free, multi-film marathon. Come and go as you please, discover a Lynch film you’ve not seen before, or revisit a treasured favorite. No tickets required, just an open mind and blue skies and sunshine all along the way.
*Note: film start times are estimates
10am: The Short Films of David Lynch [65 min; NR] — 2K digital restorations of six short films by Lynch: Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995).
11:15am: Blue Velvet [1986, 121 min, R] — There’s something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, USA. And after finding a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving college student Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) is determined to find out what. Teaming up with the daughter of a local police detective (Laura Dern), Jeffrey’s investigation leads him into a strange world of sensuality, violence, and the relationship between a troubled nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a sociopathic sadomasochist (Dennis Hopper, playing a sadist as only Dennis Hopper could).
1:15pm: The Straight Story [1999, 112 min, G] — Alvin’s (Richard Farnsworth, who was nominated for an Oscar for this performance) eyesight is poor, his cash is low, and he can’t stand the thought of being driven anywhere. When he discovers his estranged brother has suffered a stroke, he makes the journey to see him by the only means of transport available to him: a John Deere lawnmower. Also starring Sissy Spacek.
3:15pm: Eraserhead [1977, 89 min, NR] — Lynch’s 1977 debut is a dream of dark and disturbing things, a lasting cult sensation, and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. Its mesmerizing black-and-white photography, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance combine in a visionary nocturnal odyssey.
4:45pm: Mulholland Drive [2001, 147 min, R] — After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman (Laura Elena Harring) amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful (Naomi Watts) search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Also starring Justin Theroux, Robert Forster, and Michael J. Anderson.
7:15pm: Wild at Heart [1990, 125 min, R] — Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are two lovers struggling to remain together even when fate seems intent on keeping them apart. But here, fate is Lula’s mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. Sailor and Lula escape on a sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware all the time that they are being hunted by Marietta’s cronies, including Bobby Peru (an unhinged Willem Dafoe).
9:30pm: Lost Highway [1997, 134 min, R] — A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity: anonymous videotapes presage a musician’s (Bill Pullman) conviction for murdering his wife (Patricia Arquette), a gangster’s girlfriend (also played by Arquette) leads a mechanic (Balthazar Getty) astray, and the mysterious man with the white face is somehow connected to it all. Featuring some of Lynch’s most painterly and enigmatic cinematographic compositions.
Are you curious about the Downtown Teen Space, but you’re not a teen? Patrons of all ages are invited to check it out on the second Sunday of the month.
Join us every Sunday in February to learn more about Chinese, Arabic, and Russian cultures through traditional foods, stories, and crafts!
Coffee with Friends is an opportunity to meet authors and artists and learn about their work. Skyhorse is an award-winning author and the director of the creative writing program at IU.
PRESENTED BY Off Night Productions Company | DOOR TIME 1:30 pm
Join Off Night Productions for an evening of love songs, reimagined! From musical theater to classic jazz standards, from pop anthems to folk ballads, six singers will perform love songs traditionally sung by the other gender. Directed by Cassie Hakken and music directed by Deborah Jenkins, this evening of music invites you to experience love’s universal truths from a new perspective!
Potluck starts at 5:30pm, Music starts at 6pm
Jan Bell- Born in Yorkshire England, Jan Bell splits her time between Brooklyn NY and Brown County, IN. It’s a long story! An avid reader and story appreciator all her life, her songwriting has sent her to Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Masters Stage; Glastonbury Festival; The Woody Guthrie Archives; and The Independent Music Awards Best Americana Album ‘Songs for Love Drunk Sinners’; and Best Concept Album ‘Dream of the Miner’s Child’ – dedicated to her Grandfather.
Her Brooklyn based band The Maybelles, began as a duo with Melissa Carper in The Ozarks and opened there for Odetta, and Emmylou Harris. In NYC they opened for Wanda Jackson. Flying solo, Jan Bell has supported Rosanne Cash. Steve Earle, and more recently, Sierra Ferrell at HiFi Indy, and Jolie Holland at Cafe Wha? NYC.
Founder and Director of The Brooklyn Americana Music Festival now in its eleventh year. Voted Best of Brooklyn (Empire State Awards) Best Festival 2023.
Circle City Bandit-
Westley Penland-Westley Penland is a calm, sober, vessel of uncoolness. He recently published his first poetry chapbook “Confirmation of Life” (Alien Buddha Press) in December of 2024 and is described as a Spoken Word Poet. He enjoys cooking, movies, hiking, and spending time with his two rescue pups.
Levi Tedrow and the Remnants = An alt-country band from Bloomington, with a twist of punk.
Synopsis: Following a near-fatal car accident, a world-famous novelist finds himself in a strange house being nursed back to health by his “Number One Fan.” But as her love for his work turns to dangerous obsession, he realizes he must plot his greatest story yet: how to escape with his life. This spine-tingling Stephen King classic, adapted for the stage by two-time Academy Award-winner William Goldman, will grip you until the very end!
Come meet some dogs looking for their forever homes! Pet adoptions are for age 18 and up; all ages may stop by to say Hello and pet a pup.
Come down to the Downtown Library for a family-friendly movie viewing. All ages.
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.
No money involved. Play euchre or another card game (cards provided by the Club) or bring any board game to play.
The Brown County Playhouse and director Susan Rardin, will hold auditions. Auditioners will read from the script. Audition sides will be available 30 minutes prior to auditions.
Show dates: Production dates will be April 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20.
Rehearsals are typically four evenings per week until tech week.
PRESENTED BY Off Night Productions Company | DOOR TIME 6:30 pm
Join Off Night Productions for an evening of love songs, reimagined! From musical theater to classic jazz standards, from pop anthems to folk ballads, six singers will perform love songs traditionally sung by the other gender. Directed by Cassie Hakken and music directed by Deborah Jenkins, this evening of music invites you to experience love’s universal truths from a new perspective!
A weekly showcase of south-central Indiana’s eclectic music scene. The producer for Local Live can be reached at [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!
Come out on Monday nights from 8:30-10pm for your chance off that brain power to win fabulous bar cash prizes!
Facilitated by: Alyse Rick
Facilitator’s Organization: Open Arms
Explore a variety of short and exciting games! Each session will be a new, self-contained adventure. Dice and characters will be provided. Anyone can play and all skill levels are welcome.
A special performance by students of the Voice Department in recognition of Black History Month
A striking cinematic vision that weaves through time and space, the film follows Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi, as she experiences the joy, grief, love, and pain that defines the journey from childhood to adulthood. Expertly leveraging the sensation of touch in a way uncommon—and incredibly difficult—in cinema, Jackson creates an ethereal and deeply felt world that is simultaneously unfamiliar and yet instantly recognizable. Co-produced by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2023 by the National Board of Review. [92 min; drama; English]
The film will be preceded by a recorded talk on experimental film and memory work by Maya Cade, founder, Black Film Archive.
The Brown County Playhouse and director Susan Rardin, will hold auditions. Auditioners will read from the script. Audition sides will be available 30 minutes prior to auditions.
Show dates: Production dates will be April 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20.
Rehearsals are typically four evenings per week until tech week.
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.
PRESENTED BY Off Night Productions Company | DOOR TIME 6:30 pm
Join Off Night Productions for an evening of love songs, reimagined! From musical theater to classic jazz standards, from pop anthems to folk ballads, six singers will perform love songs traditionally sung by the other gender. Directed by Cassie Hakken and music directed by Deborah Jenkins, this evening of music invites you to experience love’s universal truths from a new perspective!
Concert with Rhys Jones and Nokosee Fields – Old Time songs and tunes performed by a top-notch duo.
Rhys Jones is a fiddler extraordinaire. He has won fiddle and band contests at The Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop), and is regarded as “one of the bright lights of the current generation of traditional performers.” Having spent much of his childhood in southern West Virginia (where he learned from the older generation of musicians), Rhys is equally at home telling the stories of Appalachian music as he is performing on fiddle, banjo, and guitar.
Nokosee Fields, a member of the Osage, Creek, and Cherokee Nations, is one of the most provocative and capable voices in the North American traditional music scene. A quest for balance shapes his work as he challenges the demands and vacuity of colonialist, capitalist structures and systems with the richness of his experience and upbringing. Nokosee also performs with The Onlies, Hard Drive, and The Nokosee Fields Trio
Info: Caitlyn Smallwood 502-771-2783
Age 18 and up.
Are you a representative of a local nonprofit interested in connecting with the local media?
Members of local media will give and hear one-minute pitches from local nonprofit representatives. Come prepared to present for one minute on the value of your nonprofit by sharing a story, idea, purpose, event, or success related to your nonprofit organization (only one pitch per nonprofit). Media panel representatives will provide feedback on each pitch and meet with nonprofit representatives in small groups for more in-depth questions and conversation. Participation is limited to 35 nonprofit representatives.
Info: Andy Grinstead 812-219-1805
Michael Johnson, Dan Selvaggi, and Vicky Helber will treat you to their beautiful blend of harmonies and acoustic instrumentals.
Show your sweetheart you care with a handmade treat — while supporting your Library! Choose from a selection of sweet treats to give to your loved ones.
Cash or check only please.
All proceeds used to support Library programming for all ages.
Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked, bullet-riddled valentine to true love combines high-velocity action and unforgettable snappy dialogue with a murderers’ row of sensational performances from a stunning ensemble cast.
Info: Trista Fisher 812-583-8589
Presented by IU Cultural Studies
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.
PRESENTED BY Off Night Productions Company | DOOR TIME 6:30 pm
Join Off Night Productions for an evening of love songs, reimagined! From musical theater to classic jazz standards, from pop anthems to folk ballads, six singers will perform love songs traditionally sung by the other gender. Directed by Cassie Hakken and music directed by Deborah Jenkins, this evening of music invites you to experience love’s universal truths from a new perspective!
Intro lesson at 7pm
Come one! Come all! Peacock is hosting a night of poetry! She and six friends will read for you, then there will be a writing workshop after.
It’s a race against the clock! Compete for fun and prizes in mini-games that take 60 seconds or less.
Join us for a conversation between bestselling romance author Beverly Jenkins and Lilly Library Curator of Modern Books Rebecca Baumann.
As the Lilly Library’s groundbreaking exhibition “Love in the Library: The Romance Novel in English” comes to a close, we are thrilled to welcome bestselling author Beverly Jenkins for a conversation about her career.
Beverly Jenkins is an NAACP Image Award nominee and bestselling author of over 30 historical and contemporary romance novels. Her historical novels, including Indigo (1996), Topaz (1997), and the Women Who Dare series (2019–2022) center Black characters and Black history often overlooked in the romance genre, in American popular culture, and in history classes. Many of her novels are set in the post-Civil War era, a time in which Black Americans were building their lives, their identities, and legacies for generations to come. Jenkins also writes contemporary romances, including the 2021 romantic suspense novella Rare Danger, featuring a rare book dealer as heroine.
Itinerary (please RSVP at https://go.iu.edu/8rUR)
4:30: Pop-up exhibition featuring treasures from the Lilly Library’s collections related to Jenkins’ historical romances.
5:30: Conversation with Beverly Jenkins.
6:30: Author book sale, signing, and reception with romantic food and drink. Pop-up exhibition continues.
all ages
Jacobs School of Music Jazz Studies students will perform original compositions and classics from the Great American Songbook.
Info: Carol Chih-Ju Lin 310-740-7229
WESTLEY PENLAND was a burp-the-alphabet kid and despite his deviated septum was quite good at it. He first discovered writing as an escape from reality, after years of being scolded for being left-handed. Now, he uses it as a cheap form of public therapy, but that’s health care, Baby. His work can be found in his debut chapbook “Confirmation of Life” published by Alien Bhudda Press, “Trans*Citizens Project” by {New} Word Press, and in the anthologies “October Stories”, “Rebirth”, and “Stormwash: Environmental Poems, vol 2.” He enjoys antiquing, cooking, traveling, and spending time with his two pups.
TYLER FREDERICK is a spoken word poet from Bloomington, IN who regularly performs at poetry slams and various open mics around the state. He was recently appointed as treasurer for the Writer’s Guild at Bloomington. His work has been published in “What is in John’s Basement,” “October Stories,” and “Rebirth.”
JASON HATHAWAY is an eager preservationist of American roots music, often performing his own versions of old public domain blues, folk, and country songs recorded some 50 years before he was even born. Carried on the wings of Hathaway’s deep, resonant voice and soothing guitar, these songs take the listener on a trip back in time, dredging up memories of Grandma and Grandpa’s big old Philco radio or rifling through their collection of 78 rpm records. No matter the age or musical taste of audience members, this guy always manages to have a little something for everybody to keep a smile on their faces and have their legs twitching to the beat.
All Ages | Czech Republic • dir. Ester Krumbachová
Synopsis: Dissatisfied with single life and eyeing marriage, an unnamed fortysomething bachelorette (Jirina Bohdalová) decides to rekindle a relationship with her old childhood friend (Vladimír Mensík). But when he arrives for an elaborately prepared dinner rendezvous, her suitor reveals himself to be a boorish, arrogant glutton. Undeterred, she pushes herself to increasingly absurd and surreal ends in romancing this nightmare date… who may just be the devil himself.
The sole directorial outing from legendary Czechoslovak New Wave costume designer and writer Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Witchhammer, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), Murdering the Devil is feast for the senses, pushing Krumbachová’s signature production style to dizzying and sumptuous heights. Boasting all the makings of an uproariously funny New Wave classic in 1969, the film’s potential was quickly hamstrung by Eastern Bloc censorship. Half a century later, this prescient skewering of rom-com conventions has been beautifully restored in 4K by the Czech Film Archive and is finally ready to meet the audience it’s always deserved.
Bringing you Roots, Folk, Blues & Americana from the best of Brown County and beyond.
Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie (Juliette Binoche). They share a long history of gastronomy and love, but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. [135 min; drama, history, romance; French with English subtitles]
Door Time: 6:00 PM
Synopsis: Following a near-fatal car accident, a world-famous novelist finds himself in a strange house being nursed back to health by his “Number One Fan.” But as her love for his work turns to dangerous obsession, he realizes he must plot his greatest story yet: how to escape with his life. This spine-tingling Stephen King classic, adapted for the stage by two-time Academy Award-winner William Goldman, will grip you until the very end!