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John the Silent An ongoing musical exploration of Indiana-based singer, songwriter, priest (http://johnthesilent.com)

Nick Jeffries https://thehighplains.bandcamp.com

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. However, once relocated, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, creating a simmering tension between husband and wife. The Salesman won the 2017 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the fourth film of Asghar Farhadi’s to screen in IU Cinema, with the others being The Past, About Elly, and A Separation. In Persian with English subtitles. (2K DCP Presentation)

IU Cinema is screening The Salesman as part of The Seventh Art Stand, a coalition of cinemas, community centers, and museums across the United States programming a nationwide series of film screenings and discussions from the countries affected by the Muslim Ban. An act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia, the Stand spans 53 screenings in 26 states, with supporters like Ramin Bahrani, Wajahat Ali, Laurie Anderson, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Debra Winger, Iqbal Theba and Mary Harron.

Whitney make casually melancholic music that combines the wounded drawl of Townes Van Zandt, the rambunctious energy of Jim Ford, the stoned affability of Bobby Charles, the American otherworldliness of The Band, and the slack groove of early Pavement. Their debut, Light Upon the Lake, is due in June on Secretly Canadian, and it marks the culmination of a short, but incredibly intense, creative period for the band. To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement. Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich, the band itself is something bigger, something visionary, something neither of them could have accomplished alone. The band itself is something bigger, something visionary, something neither of them could have accomplished alone.

Any one of us may be, may become, or may know someone who is in need of critical medical services they cannot afford.  At Bloomington’s Volunteers in Medicine, access to healthcare is embraced as a fundamental right and a building block for all facets of life. VIM is the only comprehensive health care clinic offering free medical services to low‐income medically undeserved residents of Monroe and Owen counties.

On Tuesday, May 9^th, beginning at 5:30p.m., The Venue Fine Art & Gifts will host a presentation by Nancy Richmond, the Executive Director of Volunteers in Medicine (VMI), which will address your questions about VIM;  who they are, how they are funded, what services  they provide, and to whom. With this vital information, you will learn where to go, and where to send others who are in need.

We at The Venue believe you will find VMI to be a source of inspiration. People, Professionals, and Businesses coming together to help those in need. You will also learn how you can contribute. This is what makes Bloomington Bloomington.

Join friends and community members who are working for a national health plan, Medicare for all.

Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health plan is sponsoring the Midwest premiere of a new documentary film, BIG PHARMA, MARKET FAILURE. The film reveals the truth about the high cost of drugs and what we can do about it.

Emerging from underground venues in Chicago’s Northwest side, NE-HI made its name on both its live energy and cleverly wrought guitar anthems. On its second album Offers (Grand Jury), the band takes those basement-forged instincts and refines them, lets its guitars explore new angles, and focuses its songwriting. The result shows there are a wide range of post-punk possibilities yet to be explored.

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. However, once relocated, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, creating a simmering tension between husband and wife. The Salesman won the 2017 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the fourth film of Asghar Farhadi’s to screen in IU Cinema, with the others being The Past, About Elly, and A Separation. In Persian with English subtitles. (2K DCP Presentation)

IU Cinema is screening The Salesman as part of The Seventh Art Stand, a coalition of cinemas, community centers, and museums across the United States programming a nationwide series of film screenings and discussions from the countries affected by the Muslim Ban. An act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia, the Stand spans 53 screenings in 26 states, with supporters like Ramin Bahrani, Wajahat Ali, Laurie Anderson, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Debra Winger, Iqbal Theba and Mary Harron.

An hour of quiet reflection for all.

You are invited to make change through your presence in silence with others. Our silence together will be interspersed with the calming sounds of crystal bowls by Janiece Jaffe. Bring a cushion, yoga mat, prayer rug or simply take a seat. This is a safe place for all people to come together in self-reflection, prayer, or meditation.

You can sign up for e-mail updates at [email protected].

Doors will open 30 minutes before start time.

STATIONTOSTATION features fresh work by new and visiting faculty in the Studio Art Department, in the School of Art and Design who are transitioning to or from life at Indiana University. Works in the show represent a wide range of schemes and methods in media including film, kinetic installation, painting,
printmaking, design, and sculpture.

STATIONTOSTATION’s title is borrowed from the 1976 album by music icon, David Bowie. The album marked a major shift in musical style, mood, and persona for Bowie, a musician already known to be chameleonic. In this album, Bowie experimented with different kinds of atmospheric instrumentation and sound in a way that bridged his seemingly disparate work pre-dating and following the release of this record. This exhibition is not a thematic show, but STATIONTOSTATION provides a logic of organization, loosely tying together works of very different artists and designers. Coinciding with their change of venue, the artists in this show are undertaking shifts in their work, experimenting with materials, perspectives, ideas and modes of production. The title of the exhibit evokes each individual artist’s act of traversing a new environment and describes the experience of moving through the gallery to discover commonalities between the works. Some pieces in the show describe transformation overtly and explicitly. In others, mutation becomes part of a narrative or plays out in the way work is made or conceived.

STATIONTOSTATION examines the idea of creative flux as a marker in the artists’ practice to celebrate distillation and experimentation in preparation for what comes next.

Exhibiting Artists: Justin Bailey, Melanie Cooper Pennington, E. E. Ikeler, Dakota Konicek, Sarah Lasley, Amanda Lechner, Julie Rooney, Sarah Tortora
W. Tylbor-Kubrakiewicz, and David Wolske

STATIONTOSTATION features fresh work by new and visiting faculty in the Studio Art Department, in the School of Art and Design who are transitioning to or from life at Indiana University. Works in the show represent a wide range of schemes and methods in media including film, kinetic installation, painting,
printmaking, design, and sculpture.

STATIONTOSTATION’s title is borrowed from the 1976 album by music icon, David Bowie. The album marked a major shift in musical style, mood, and persona for Bowie, a musician already known to be chameleonic. In this album, Bowie experimented with different kinds of atmospheric instrumentation and sound in a way that bridged his seemingly disparate work pre-dating and following the release of this record. This exhibition is not a thematic show, but STATIONTOSTATION provides a logic of organization, loosely tying together works of very different artists and designers. Coinciding with their change of venue, the artists in this show are undertaking shifts in their work, experimenting with materials, perspectives, ideas and modes of production. The title of the exhibit evokes each individual artist’s act of traversing a new environment and describes the experience of moving through the gallery to discover  commonalities between the works. Some pieces in the show describe transformation overtly and explicitly. In others, mutation becomes part of a narrative or plays out in the way work is made or conceived.

STATIONTOSTATION examines the idea of creative flux as a marker in the artists’ practice to celebrate distillation and experimentation in preparation for what comes next.

Exhibiting Artists: Justin Bailey, Melanie Cooper Pennington, E. E. Ikeler, Dakota Konicek, Sarah Lasley, Amanda Lechner, Julie Rooney, Sarah Tortora, W. Tylbor-Kubrakiewicz, and David Wolske

Hit musical, performed by Playhouse Community Theater, begins when Little Sisters of Hoboken discovering that their cook, Sister Julia, has accidentally poisoned 52 sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium. All ages show.

The Buskirk-Chumley Theater is proud to screen Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran.

This film is part of The Seventh Art Stand, nation-wide series of screenings and discussions featuring films from Islamic counties. This series will take place in May as an act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia.

Jafar Panahi has directed 15 short, documentary, and feature films and has won awards at film festivals across the globe. According to The Guardian, after making several dramas about the challenges of everyday life in his country, Panahi was threatened with imprisonment by the Iranian government, which prevented him from travelling and banned him from making films for 20 years. He has protested by working under the wire to make contraband film, including Taxi Tehran. This features the filmmaker posing as a taxi driver and talking to his passengers about the social challenges they face in Iran.

Taxi Tehran won the Golden Berlin Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. It’s also received five other awards and six additional nominations at festivals in the US and across the globe.

This screening of Taxi Tehran is supported by the Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.

To open this event  we will be screening a collection of local, short films made through The Instant Gratification Movie Challenge. The movie challenge happens every month in Bloomington, and it is open to all, people are invited to create a short film inspired by the month’s theme. To tie in with The Seventh Art Stand and our screening here at the Theater, this month’s theme is “Arrivals/Departures”. If you would like to find out more please visit their website: http://monthlymoviechallenge.com

Doors will open at 7pm.

Language: Persian with English subtitles
Runtime: 82 minutes
MPAA rating: Not available
Screening format: DCP

The public is invited to a League of Women Voters Legislative Update on Saturday, February 4, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., in the Bloomington City Council Chambers. State legislators representing Monroe County will discuss developments in the Indiana General Assembly and will respond to audience questions and concerns.

This is the second of five planned Legislative Updates sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County. All updates will be held in the Bloomington City Council Chambers, Showers Building, 401 N. Morton St. and are free and open to the public. They will be taped by Cable Access Television Services through the Monroe County Public Library and will be replayed by CATS throughout the current legislative session.

Subsequent Legislative Updates are scheduled for March 4, April 8, and May 13.

Hit musical, performed by Playhouse Community Theater, begins when Little Sisters of Hoboken discovering that their cook, Sister Julia, has accidentally poisoned 52 sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium. All ages show.

The BCT is thrilled to bring Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn to the stage this May. A banjo duo might seem like a musical concept beset by limitations. But when the banjo players cast in those roles are Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn – she with the earthy sophistication of a postmodern, old-time singer-songwriter, he with the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots- it’s a different matter entirely. There’s no denying that theirs is a one-of-a-kind pairing, with one-of-a-kind possibilities.

Join Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to witness a picking partnership unlike any other on the planet.

We will explore the pond and puddles for animals that live in and around water, like pollywogs and dragonflies.

Mother’s Day live tango music by Tamango. Beginner class by Thuy Bogart from 3:00-3:30 PM. Come to dance, watch, listen, and enjoy.

Starting January 16, Moms’ Monday, our new moms group, will be held in The Baby Space at the Monroe County Library on every first and third Monday of the month from 10 am to noon. This space is a separate, fully enclosed room designed just for the needs of babies who are not yet walking, and their caregivers.

This group is a drop-in style. It is open to moms and their babies who are not yet walking. Please note that older children are not permitted in The Baby Space.

Contact: Laurie Ringquist. 812-349-3870, [email protected]

Contact: Nancy Woolery. 812-349-3851, [email protected]

The purpose of the Commission shall be to promote connections in our community which empower, enhance and nurture children and youth. The Commission will access resources and information to make recommendations to people and organizations with authority to create and support systems that encourage healthy development of children and youth.

Aims and goals:

• Identify and assess needs, resources and services relating to children andyouth;
• Encourage collaboration between local agencies, schools, businesses and individuals;
• Monitor legislative developments relating to children and youth;
• Encourage local, State and federal legislation that will improve the lives of children and youth;
• Empower children and youth to have a stronger voice in our community;
• Empower children and youth to reach their full potential;
• Report assessments and make recommendations; and
• Celebrate successes.

Formerly the Community and Family Resources Commission.

Esan Thai Restaurant is recognized for its outstanding Thai cuisine, excellent service, and friendly staff.  Make plans with family and friends to enjoy the delicious cuisine at Esan Thai and ensure a donation to Friends of the Library at the same time!  Pick up a flyer at the Monroe County Library in Bloomington or Ellettsville or download a copy from http://www.mcpl.info/friends and present it when you pay your bill.  Esan Thai will donate 15% of your check to Friends of the Library.  All the proceeds go to fund the numerous and much-used programs offered by your Library!

The Bloomington Walking Club is an informal group that meets for a guided group walk on the paved trails surrounding Olcott Park. The group meets every Thursday evening, weather permitting. All ability levels are wel

Rockin’ Jake has been hailed by many as one of the premier harmonica players in the country. His original sound is a hybrid of second line, swamp funk, blues and zydeco with influences from Paul Butterfield, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, The Meters, WAR, J. Geils Band, Clifton Chenier, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Based out of New Orleans since 1990, Rockin’ Jake relocated since being flooded out by Hurricane Katrina, and now lives in Southern Florida. Jake has toured nationally with G. Love & Special Sauce, blues and pop legend Maria Muldaur, and bluesman T.J, Wheeler. Jake’s work has also been heard on the soundtrack of “The Big Easy” television series, the theme for the “Mike Ditka Show, ” and a Miller Beer commercial. Jake is a five-time winner of Off Beat Magazine’s coveted Best of the Beat award for best harmonica player. He and his band pour out their souls in every performance with high energy and electricity which consistently brings the audience to their feet. Rockin’ Jake One of the best harmonica players in the world of blues Five-time winner, Off Beat Magazine’s Best of the Beat award “Best Harmonica Player”

Written by Marcia Cebulska, in response to the hate ministry of  Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, Visions of Right not only has timely social and political implications relating to themes of homophobia  and anti-Semitism, but also has a strong local interest. The playwright, Marcia Cebulska lived and wrote in Bloomington  for about 20 years,  and is well known in theatre circles there and in Indianapolis. She will be working closely with this production throughout the run and will be a talk back participant.

When Cebulska moved to Topeka, Kansas, she learned of the hate-mongering activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. She went undercover, attempting to discover the basis for the bigoted activities of the church. Visions of Right, fueled by her research, evolved into a fictionalized portrait of a fanatic preacher. Gay Bashing and anti-Semitism are brought to light in the play, which tells the story of photographer, Christina Romanek’s head-to-head encounter with the preacher’s twisted view of what is right.

The cast includes IU theatre graduate students,  Abby Lee and Chris Handley, both members of Actors’ Equity,   Adam Decker, IU undergraduate theatre major,  and well-known Bloomington actor, Gerard Pauwels.

Now more than ever, Visions of Right,  delivers an important message. As Marcia Cebulska wrote:“Today, our headlines are filled with more and more incidents of hate speech and hate acts perpetrated by numerous sources in our private and public arenas. We can respond by running and hiding. We can respond by answering violence with more violence. Or, we can respond, with a little help from our friends, with acts of creativity and humor, unity and light.”

Visions of Right premiered in Topeka by the Ad Astra Theatre Ensemble. The performance was  praised by audience members:

“This play is: intelligent, biting, funny, humanizing; excellent story and characters…timeless, seamless writing.”

“Very moving, as if through a lens to the soul,”

“Wonderful! A play that speaks to humanity.”

Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show; metered parking and parking garage space is available downtown and across the street. For more information on the Jewish Theatre or on Visions of Right, please visit jewishtheatrebloomington.com or on Facebook: Jewish Theatre of Bloomington.

The Monroe County Domestic Violence Coalition is committed to improving our community’s response to domestic violence issues through communication and coordination of services. Major projects of the Coalition include a Domestic Violence Awareness Conference held every other November and the implementation and monitoring of an audit of our community’s response to domestic violence.

Membership to the Domestic Violence Coalition is open to service providers, representatives from local communities of faith and other organizations concerned with the elimination of domestic violence in our community.

The Monroe County Domestic Violence Coalition meets on the third Friday of each month at 12:00 p.m. in the McCloskey Conference Room (#245), located in Showers City Hall, 401 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, Indiana. (Dates and meeting rooms are subject to change).

Hit musical, performed by Playhouse Community Theater, begins when Little Sisters of Hoboken discovering that their cook, Sister Julia, has accidentally poisoned 52 sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium. All ages show.

The Blankenship Band: Original Americana Roadhouse Music.