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We invite you to join us for our annual Open House on Sunday, January 28 from 11am – 12pm. Families will tour the school, meet our teachers, see student projects, and receive information on the 2024-2025 school year. St. Charles School, a National Blue Ribbon and State of Indiana four-star school, offers Preschool (both part-time and full-time) through 8th grade.
The Monroe County History Center’s celebration of International Puzzle Day is back! Join in for the annual Monroe County PuzzleFest supported by the Book Corner, Press Puzzles, and the Lilly Library.
This year’s jigsaw competition will be in-person at the Switchyard Park Pavilion. There will also be a variety of programming throughout the day including puzzle demonstrations, presentations, and other activities.
The popular puzzle sale and swap will also be open during the event. Bring puzzles in to swap and while you are there, you can pick up craft kits and do-at-home puzzle activity packs.
Won’t you please join us?
Those interested in dropping off or picking up items, or learning more about the program, can do so at the Downtown Library on the last Sunday of the month from 1–3 PM.
The Mobility Aids Lending Library (MALL) is an initiative started by a local group of women with physical disabilities known as “The Wheelie Women” to serve the greater Monroe County community. The MALL program matches gently used mobility devices free of charge to those who cannot afford them or only need them for a short period of time. Items may include canes, crutches, walkers, rollators, and wheelchairs (both manual and powered).
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
Filmmaker Cyril Leuthy sat down with Godard’s many collaborators–family, frenemies, and muses (Nathalie Baye, Julie Delpy, Hanna Schygulla)–who have a lot to say about an eternal rebel who was still exhausting himself in the hunt for a perfect cinema, even with 140 films under his belt.
At the time of his death in September 2022, Godard had been in the midst of planning another feature, an adaptation of Belgian author Charles Plisnier’s 1937 novel Faux Passports. Though it was never produced, Godard put together the intricate and beautiful Trailer Of A Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, which now stands as his final work, a complex collage of history, politics, and cinema constructed of paper and glue, paintings and photographs, sound and silence. He accompanied it with the following text: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by returning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.”
An intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of artists who remained to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.
The Rule of Two Walls has not yet opened in theaters (hence no reviews to report) but we have this from the Tribecca Film Festival:
While their lives are getting irreversibly altered, the film beautifully documents how their work — as visual artists, musicians, street artists, performance artists, and filmmakers — both processes the moment and offers hope. Visceral, poetic, and urgent, Rule of Two Walls illuminates the vital role of cultural and spiritual defiance in times of crisis.
presented in part by the IU Dept of Slavic & East European Languages and the Russian and East European Institute
Winter is here, so keep your face warm by making your own yarn beard!
Registration is requested
Form a team of jigsaw puzzlers, or puzzle on your own, and compete to find the fastest puzzler of all. Be ready for some fun twists, turns and surprises along the way!
For all ages. If you can puzzle you can play!
This January 29th, come see Prairie Scout and Connor McLaren at the Buskirk Chumley Theater! Doors open at 6:30 pm and the event starts at 7 pm.
“The Trombone in Latin Jazz” | Featuring Jacobs trombone students and student performers from the Latin Jazz Ensemble
Find the flyer at https://mcpl.info/files/images/fol-dine-out-big-woods-jan24-half-sheet.pdf to show the staff at Big Woods and they’ll donate 10% of your food sales to benefit The Friends of the Library.
Liam Teague (Northern Illinois University) & Stephen Stuempfle (executive director, Society for Ethnomusicology), discussants.
New English speakers will practice everyday language skills in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. Learners will enjoy friendly conversation, learn about daily life in the U.S., gain confidence, and meet new people from around the world.
We are a steel tip dart and social club that meets every Tuesday night. Everyone is welcome!
Potluck at 6:30pm
This Sundance award-winning documentary follows the ancestors of the survivors of the Clotilda, a ship that brought captive Africans to Alabama more than 50 years after slavery was illegal in the U.S. Q&A with co-writer/co-producer Dr. Kern Jackson to follow.
Find the flyer at https://mcpl.info/files/images/fol-dine-out-big-woods-jan24-half-sheet.pdf to show the staff at Big Woods and they’ll donate 10% of your food sales to benefit The Friends of the Library.
Empowering musical expression for the next generation.
Intro lesson at 7:10pm
Just message us on social media, or contact us on our website to get more info about signing up. WALK-UPS ARE ALSO WELCOME!!
15 minute slot available to all ages! Event begins at 6pm on Thursdays.
A young Japanese middle school girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow… could it be her “friend” from the library?
What kinds of games are we talking? A mix of light strategy (like Catan or Ticket to Ride) and modern party games (like Codenames or Cards Against Humanity). There’s always plenty to choose from, and you can join a game or start your own.
Step into the spotlight and showcase your skills at MCPL’s Teens Got Talent! Join us as we cheer each other on during these dazzling performances in a supportive and inclusive environment where creativity knows no bounds. Share your passion, enjoy some snacks, and be cheered on by your peers.
This show will be the work of the twelve By Hand members.
By Hand Gallery is a locally owned cooperative gallery that has been in the Bloomington community for 45 years. They sell high quality local and regional handmade arts and crafts.
Peter Max, Paul Klee, and Mary Cassatt, each painting in a style and era totally different than the others, inspired the artists of the Bloomington Watercolor Society for their winter benefit exhibit. The opening reception will take place at The Vault at Gallery Mortgage.
The evening will also be the opening reception for our featured special exhibit, the Sweany Private Collection Fundraiser. If you are able, please purchase a work of art from the collection of Juniper’s Owner, Jaime Sweany. She is raising funds to help meet the gallery’s expenses through these cold winter months, so she can continue to offer our amazing FREE events! You can peruse the collection on-line as well.
Zarna Garg is “One in a Billion”, and that’s not the just name of her first comedy special. She’s also the only Indian mom comedian taking on her mother-in-law. She was recently profiled as one of the gutsiest women in comedy on Apple TV’s new “Gutsy Women” series, and featured on “This American Life” with Ira Glass. When she’s not doing 15 shows a week at Comedy Cellar in New York City, she is touring the world with her show. She is the winner of Kevin Hart’s Lyft Comics, the winner of the 2021 Ladies of Laughter Award, and has over a million followers across social media platforms. Her debut feature screenplay, ‘Rearranged’ won Top Comedy Feature award at Austin Film Festival in 2019 and was a 2019 Nicholl Fellowships Semi-Finalist.
Ballet Master Raffaele Morra will host a Q&A following the Feb 23rd Screening. 50% of all ticket sales will be donated to Bloomington Pride.
Ballerina Boys is a portrait of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male ballet company and international dance sensation. For over 45 years the company has shared their signature style and message of equality, inclusion and social justice with audiences around the world. The men perform classical ballet en pointe and in drag, challenging the art form’s rigid gender norms as they mix rigorous technique with comedy and satire. Inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the company was fueled by the spirit of defiance and creative exuberance that the gay rights movement unleashed. The film follows The Trocks on tour in the Carolinas, an epicenter of continued struggles for LGBTQ rights. Ballerina Boys interweaves original interviews and contemporary and archival performance footage to tell the remarkable history of the company and culminates with The Trocks’ 2019 performance at the Stonewall 50th anniversary concert at Central Park’s SummerStage in New York City. In the words of ballerina Kevin Garcia, “Every time the curtain opens we represent progress for equality. We just do it dancing.”
Sunset Boulevard weaves a magnificent tale of faded glory and unfulfilled ambition. Silent movie star Norma Desmond longs for a return to the big screen, having been discarded by tinsel town with the advent of “talkies.” Her glamour has faded in all but her mind. When she meets struggling Hollywood screenwriter Joe Gillis in dramatic circumstances, their subsequent passionate and volatile relationship leads to an unforeseen and tragic conclusion.
Join us to traverse magical worlds in a fantastical ongoing adventure! Anyone can play and all skill levels are welcome.
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her surprising past.
Driving Madeleine is highlighted by two wonderful performances: actor/director Dany Boon as a taxi driver having a bad day and legendary 92-year-old French chanteuse Line Renaud as a woman in need of a ride.
An intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of artists who remained to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.
The Rule of Two Walls has not yet opened in theaters (hence no reviews to report) but we have this from the Tribecca Film Festival:
While their lives are getting irreversibly altered, the film beautifully documents how their work — as visual artists, musicians, street artists, performance artists, and filmmakers — both processes the moment and offers hope. Visceral, poetic, and urgent, Rule of Two Walls illuminates the vital role of cultural and spiritual defiance in times of crisis.
presented in part by the IU Dept of Slavic & East European Languages and the Russian and East European Institute