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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.
Doors at 7pm
“The music we’re doing now works well in quiet places like theaters and performing art centers. We still don’t use a program or a set list so we don’t know what we’ll do until we do it. Please do not expect old songs. Many singers my age do a retrospective; this show is not like that. It’s mostly stuff made up in the last 3 and 4 years. Some of the songs presented might be in different languages; this is not to be esoteric or clever, it’s because the different languages help me express different feelings sometimes. One last thing, my idea of a good show has nothing to do with applause. It’s about if all the songs I sang that night were ones that I felt.” – Jonathan
New and old volunteers welcome!
Regular volunteers will pick out packages of books and have them ready to go, we just need your help wrapping them up and writing letters!
You can read more about the project here:
https://pagestoprisoners.org/
Intro lesson at 7pm)
Ages 21+
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
In person and online. A discussion group on specific banned books chosen by the group.
Doors at 6:30pm
MULTI AWARD WINNING NATIVE AMERICAN SONGWRITER RYAN LITTLEEAGLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
CLAIRE PENDREIGH
ALICIA GAIL (NASHVILLE, TN)
About The African American Dance Company Presents: HIStory, HERstory, Our Story
The final installment of “HIStory, HERstory, Our Story” shows the evolution of the African American Dance Company since its inception in 1974. Through captivating dance and documentary, we better understand how dance is used through resistance, celebration, and transition. Paired with archival footage is a panel discussion consisting of the inaugural director, Professor Iris Rosa; current director Baba Stafford C. Berry Jr.; and AADC alum. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the Q&A after the screening.
AADC Dance Excerpts (2024, 60 min): Following Because We Are, enjoy this collection of four dances from throughout the African American Dance Company’s history.
Because We Are (Dir. Ashley Hayes, 2024, 19 min): Because We Are follows the story of the African American Dance Company during their 50th season at their annual Kukusanya intensive workshop, a time of gathering together in community as the term kukusanya evokes. It also invites viewers into the world of the Dance Company, its members, and their practice of ubuntu, the essence of the Africanist principle that “I am, because we are.”
doors at 7pm
all ages | Brought to you by Bloomington Pub Quiz.
Walk-Ins Welcome
The 2025 Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference (ISRC) will shine a spotlight on efforts to implement sustainable practices across the state as well as opportunities to accelerate the adoption of effective climate solutions.
Hosted by Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) and presenting supporter the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the one-day event is open to anyone—professionals, scholars, community leaders, students, and others—who wants to learn about climate pollution reduction initiatives in the state and strategies to protect communities and businesses from the impacts of extreme weather.
Registration for ISRC includes a full day of conference activities, a buffet lunch, and a networking happy hour to round out the day.
Info: Yel Brayton 203-812-9017
Local artist, Zoe Dean, provides watercolor painting instruction every Friday excepting the first Friday of the month. All supplies are provided. All skill levels are welcome—including beginners! Requires a minimum of 3 registrants or class will be canceled.
Drop by the Downtown Library Teen Space Study Room to get some homework help during these free, in-person sessions held alternating Tuesdays and Fridays.
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!
Join the University Gilbert and Sullivan Society for an informal cabaret featuring Savoy Opera favorites. Performers include undergraduates, graduates, and faculty!
Savoy Soirée: The Very Model of a Modern Cabaret
presented by the
University Gilbert and Sullivan Society
A cozy evening featuring incredible local talent, signature drinks, and delicious bites. From country tunes to acoustic gems, this series has something for everyone.
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
Rating:
R
Year released:
2024
Blues, Live Shows, Music
Monthly improv comedy in Bloomington, IN! Three teams perform, the audience votes for their favorite, and last month’s winner closes the night with a headlining set.
Join us for the launch of Improv Showdown, Bloomington’s newest monthly improv comedy show, where quick wit meets audience votes in an unforgettable night of laughs.
Here’s how it works:
Three teams will perform side-splitting 10-minute improv sets.
The audience votes for their favorite team.
The winning team returns next month as the headliner for a 25-minute set.
For this debut event, we’re thrilled to welcome the incredible Fabuloso as our headliner. Don’t miss their uproarious performance to kick off this exciting new series.
All Ages
Synopsis: In this surreal vision of the not-too-distant-future, the official language of Canada is now Farsi. Against this oddball background, three slice-of-life stories emerge: Two young friends venture to retrieve money found frozen in a block of winter ice. A man quits his painfully bureaucratic government job and returns home. And a peculiar tour guide shows off some of Winnipeg’s dullest attractions to a group of discombobulated tourists. Taken together, these deadpan stories create a picture of life in the “heart of Canada” that’s both hilarious and heartwarming.
Featuring masterful production design with an eye toward the absurd, director Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century) describes his second feature as “a love letter to Iranian cinema,” combining the soulfulness of Abbas Kiarostami with the visual whimsy of Wes Anderson to create an appealingly unusual odyssey.
Mendez is an intuitive songwriter, melodies channeled through ether, a storyteller who across his catalog has chronicled vivid violence and instability — a wallet chain to the head, a crack house arrest, the misdeeds from addiction that hang around like a ghost of past lives — but it’s threaded together with love songs, too, with odes to friendship, true dedication, the things that can buoy one through the worst. Mendez has a habit of noticing those things, of finding the light, exacting poetry from even the bleakest, shit-caked situations. In his songs there is an innate ability to balance grit with gentleness, cruelties rewritten through preternatural sweetness, a heart thrumming unendingly, confidently, through the dark.
Doors at 7pm
Door Time 6:30 PM
The Bloomington Winter Farmers’ Market is the oldest winter market in Indiana as it enters its 21st year serving the community of Bloomington.
The BWFM has a diversity of vendors and products including fresh produce, local meat and poultry, dairy products, eggs, maple syrup, honey products, breads, baked goods, jams and sauces, prepared foods, locally roasted coffee, cut flowers, seeds and plants, artisanal crafts and many other items. You can find everything you need for nourishing winter meals along with local crafts, seasonal gifts and shareable treats!
This meeting is open to all members of the organization, and the public; however, we especially ask that voting members attend, either physically or virtually, so that we might reach a quorum of 25% of our voting membership. If you are not a voting member, and would like to change your membership status, please contact [email protected].
The Annual Meeting is the primary group governance mechanism of Bloominglabs; the Officers will present the 2024 Annual Report, elections for new Officers will take place (President, Treasurer, Secretary, and two At Large positions), and the attendees as a whole will discuss our plans for the next year.
Additionally, there will be the traditional coffee and donuts provided.
We encourage all members, and anyone interested in the operation of Bloominglabs, to attend and participate. Please write to [email protected] with any questions or comments regarding the Annual Meeting.
Check out the new seed library at the Southwest Branch! The first 20 people will also get their own seed starting kit to bring home. All ages.
The audience hears song submissions and votes on their favorites.
Love family history research? Join a group of fellow enthusiasts monthly. Everyone is welcome!
A timeless story of a dedicated but struggling underdog trying to make it in the business he loves with an unusual twist: he’s an anthropomorphic rat who also happens to be a culinary genius.
Rating:
G
Year released:
2007
Presented by the Composition Department as a part of the loadbang residency at Jacobs
Our Fourth Annual Mardi Gras Party & Gumbo Cook Off, with an added feature this year…a King Cake Bake Off! We’ve had some amazing chefs come through with incredible gumbos, and we know we have some bakers in our presence, now is your time to shine! All proceeds from both the gumbo cook off and bake off, chefs and tasters, will be going directly to our local Red Barn Food Pantry, thank you for helping us, help others.
Join us for an evening of dining, great music, and dancing, as we recognize the 2025 Living Legend Recipients, and the Commission on the Status of Black Males’ Outstanding Black Leaders of Tomorrow.
Reception and Silent Auction will begin at 6:00 p.m., program will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Doors at 5pm
Damien Chazelle’s electrifying drama about an aspiring jazz drummer with riveting performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons, who won an Oscar for his intense work as Teller’s abusive instructor.
Rating:
R
Year released:
2014
Comedy | DOOR TIME 7 pm | AGES 18+
Classic Rock, Music
This Brazil, Indiana native is self-taught on guitar, piano, and drums influenced by the best in country, R&B, rock & roll, and blues. Expressing a raw and impulsive style of rock & roll, Henry always adds his own voice and style. His sales over the years have topped well over the one-million mark. This has given him the opportunity to be a support act for artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Money, Chicago, and Richard Marx. Although most of his touring is in Indiana, he has appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show and Late Show with David Letterman. He also married and raised four children during this period and successfully supported himself and his family with music since he was 17.
Returning to the IU Auditorium stage for the first time in eight years, Dance Theatre of Harlem will join us during the last week of Black History Month for an elegant performance as well as a weeklong state-wide residency including stops at three IU campuses and special events in Indianapolis and Greensburg, Indiana.
A singular presence in the ballet world, Dance Theatre of Harlem tours nationally and internationally, presenting a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century. The critically acclaimed company performs a forward-thinking repertoire that includes treasured classics, neoclassical works by George Balanchine and artistic director Robert Garland, as well as innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet to celebrate Dance Theatre of Harlem’s founder Arthur Mitchell’s belief that ballet belongs to everyone.
Through performances, community engagement and arts education, the company carries forward Dance Theatre of Harlem’s message of empowerment through the arts for all.
Door Time 6:30 PM
Info: Ben Foley 812-318-2875
Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by more than 900,000 people worldwide, the original 2015 broadcast returns for an encore. 10th anniversary screening.
Year released:
2015
To celebrate the Armstrong Exhibit of works by Matthew Cordell, the Bloomington Storytellers Guild will present the playlet “Cornbread and Poppy.”
The Brown County Playhouse is hosting a gathering to celebrate the life and music of Toby Myers. Toby has been working on various tracks that he and Michael Read compiled on a CD entitled “75” We have a 100 CDs to give out for a donation to Toby‘s family. There will be Mellencamp and RoadMaster memorabilia on view.
To celebrate the Armstrong Exhibit of works by Matthew Cordell, the Bloomington Storytellers Guild will present the playlet “Cornbread and Poppy.”
“TCINAJ (This Concert is not a Joke)”
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.
This expansive documentary released in 2024 vividly captures the Los Angeles music scene starting from the late-1980s to today, centering around a band that was hailed as the “next big thing” and you may have never heard of — Redd Kross.
The film gets into the mythology that grew around the band – their brushes with success, their giving the finger to the establishment, etc. In doing so, it explores what defines success. While they might not have become zillionaires or household names, they’ve done all right on their own terms.
You don’t need to know Redd Kross’ music to appreciate this movie. It’s funny, accessible, candid, and visually rich.