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One of the most notorious midnight movies of all time, Pink Flamingos follows trailer park dweller Babs Johnson (Divine) and her loyal entourage as they feud with sinister suburbanites Connie and Raymond Marble for the title of “the filthiest people alive.” Bursting with transgressive, bizarre, and shockingly explicit scenes, Pink Flamingos pushes the boundaries of taste and decency. A landmark of underground cinema, it continues to stun even the most jaded viewers. Watch it—if you dare. [108 min; comedy; English]
Market goers can expect to find a wide assortment of goods from the farm and field, including fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and cheeses, honey, seasonal flowers, and annual and perennial plants. Food and beverage artisans provide a tasteful variety of satisfying breads, drinks, pastries, and savory dishes. This weekly gathering provides individuals the opportunity to connect with their community in meaningful ways while supporting small farmers and businesses.
Youth Day at the Market this Weekend!!
Young farmers, artists, growers and entrepreneurs 6-17 years old will get their own booth spaces on the Fernandez Plaza and some nestled along the periphery of BCFM vendors during this special day for youth at the Market. Youth keep all their profits as they experience a day of running their own stands. Their Market runs from 9 AM to 12:30 PM.
This week, Roger Kerr, Chief of the Bloomington Fire Department, will greet the public at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market from 10 AM to 12 PM.
The Bedford Farmers Market consists of local farmers, artisans and bakers; all items for sale at the market are handmade/homegrown in Lawrence County and within 75 miles from courthouse. Products available at the Bedford Farmers Market include fresh produce, plants, farm fresh eggs, local beef, chicken and pork, baked goods, jams, jellies, sweet bread, pies, cinnamon rolls, jewelry, tie-dye, pottery, leather goods, baby items, candles, walking sticks, baskets, crochet dolls/animals and a variety of other art/craft items.
We welcome new vendors/performers throughout the season
Join us for a day of fresh produce, handmade goods, and local flavors at the Owen County Farmers’ Market! Whether you’re looking for the freshest vegetables, beautiful flowers, local honey, unique crafts, or plant starts, there’s something for everyone.
Dancing Babies is offered every 3rd Saturday of the month from September to December 2025.
You’re invited to join facilitator Celina Jaffe (& baby Otis) for a joyful movement experience designed for caregivers and their babies (ages 3 months to 1 year). Each 45-minute class starts with a gentle warm-up and allows for breaks at any time. We will share in a welcoming space for connection, expression, and shared rhythm! You and your baby will sway, bounce, and groove together to music, fostering both your baby’s development and your skills in co-creativity.
No dance experience required. Come once or join us every month and let your Saturdays start with music, motion, and joy!
Questions? Email Sophia Fatouros, [email protected]; https://windfalldancers.org/workshops/
Located in our overflow parking lot on the West side of the funeral home, vendors will be on hand with fresh produce, honey, homemade baked goods, handmade crafts and jewelry, fundraisers, food trucks and non-for profit community organizations.
Many vendors accept Venmo, Paypal, Apple and Android Pay.
Public restrooms are available at our market.
All books 50 cents to $1.50.
We’ve harvested our honey and invite you to watch us extract and bottle this year’s crop. Come out to the honey farm and:
- Watch a beekeeper working in a live beehive
- Watch us extract this year’s honey crop
- Have lunch at our Busy Bee Cafe
- Enjoy family activities such as pony rides, horseback rides, a pony cart, carriage rides, hayrides, and more!
This year we’re celebrating 115 years of keeping bees in Indiana. Please join us as we share the joys of the harvest season with our community!
It’s-A-Lot! Craft and Vendor Fair! Join our first ever annual Craft and Vendor Fair! Enjoy the day with handmade crafts, unique gifts, new and upcoming products and businesses, event specials, money saving opportunities, products for people and pets!
Various bluegrass performers, workshops, and jams plus the Bluegrass Hall of Fame Induction.
Founded in 1974, Uncle Pen Days began as a tribute to Bill Monroe’s maternal uncle, James Pendleton Vandiver. “Uncle Pen” played the fiddle and Monroe later said that he was the “fellow that I learned to play from.” Bill Monroe’s parents had both died by the time he was 16, and Monroe lived part of the time this his uncle, where he would play mandolin while his uncle played fiddle at local square dances and social events.
Come meet the Wylie House this September and make a tunnel book to decorate your new college room! A tunnel book is a crafted type of optical illusion that gained popularity in the 18th century, often used to commemorate important events. With a new school year starting, this is the perfect time to make your own!
Have you ever held a baby goat or practiced yoga next to big wooden aging barrels in a brewery? Come enjoy 45 minutes of beginners Vinyasa Flow Yoga with adorable goats in the Upland Woodshop an amazing brewing facility and event space. Session includes a selfie with a baby goat in our custom photo booth.
Grab a delicious brunch at at Upland Brewery. Snag a reservation here. Enjoy a unique animal yoga experience and cool down on the patio with an ice cold brew. You won’t wanna miss this. Event is indoors and rain or shine. Bring your mat or a towel.
A portion of the session fee goes to support local farmers & ranchers. Each session put on by Rise Yoga & Events supports a good cause!
This will sell out fast. Reserve your spot today. DON’T FORGET YOUR YOGA MAT! BAAAAAAAAMSTE. 😉
Questions? Email our Company Coordinator, Utam Moses at [email protected] for more information!
La Fiesta del Otoño celebrates the unity, shared traditions, and contributions of Bloomington’s Hispanic and Latino residents. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Nuestra Fuerza está en la Comunidad / Finding Strength in Community.
Join us for our 2nd annual Oktoberfest celebration!
Featuring two days of German food from Chefs Table Catering, masskrugstemmen, steins, bierstacheln, lederhosen, festbiers, and more!
Curated German food menu 12pm until sold out on Friday & Saturday. Specialty in-house pizza offerings on Sunday.
1703 N College Ave
Walking, biking, carpooling, and ridesharing encouraged.
Anniversary Celebration for Gather & oak.
It’s almost time for our annual Oktoberfest shenanigans! A day full of fun, with stein holding (filled with beer), keg rolling, keg toss competitions & more! Wear your favorite lederhosen & join us for a fun time.
A place for LGBTQ+ and ally people to come together around a shared love of birds.
Experience the electrifying Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical that delves into the heart of a family shattered by mental illness but held together by love. With a soaring, unforgettable score by Tom Kitt and poignant book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal is an unflinching, empathetic portrait of resilience, loss, and the pursuit of hope.
What happens when a 30-something gay actor, stuck in the audition grind, gets one more shot at his biggest dream—the Jimmy Awards?
In this one-person tour de force, the audience takes a riotous and heartfelt journey through Broadway dreams, hook-up mishaps, and the existential crises that lie in between. With biting wit, showbiz satire, and a whole lot of belting, Ryan Wants a Jimmy Award is a love letter to theatre, to queer resilience, and to the beautiful art of never letting go.
This project is subsidized in part by an open stages grant from Constellation Stage & Screen and the city of Bloomington
In Prohibition-era Chicago, Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk) plans to seize control of the city’s rackets after bumping off head honcho Big Jim Stevens. The only man standing in his way is fellow gangster Robbo (Frank Sinatra), who refuses to give up his territory and soon becomes celebrated in the press after an offhand donation to an orphanage leads to more charitable efforts. Meanwhile, Big Jim’s scheming daughter, Marian (Barbara Rush), decides she deserves her father’s empire instead of Gisborne—and she’ll do whatever it takes to get it.
6pm Cookout
8pm Dance with Old-Time Music from Donny Bradley, Jack Laskey and Robert McCormac and Calling by Katie Zukof. Also featuring Poetry On-Demand with Tony Brewer.
In partnership with the Bloomington Old Time Music and Dance Group.
A Hispanic Heritage Month Film & Lecture Series.
Taking place in a Mayan village at the base of an active volcano, “Ixcabul” centers on Maria and her family who live and work at a coffee plantation. The film opens with an engagement ceremony between Maria and the plantation foreman, Ignacio. Director Jayro Bustamante sought to challenge the reputation of French as a law status language in Guatamala by filming completely in Kaqchikel.
The screening will be preceded by IU PhD student K. Ermalinda García. Their research centers the lives and organizing practices of women in the L(G)BT community in Mexico City throughout the 20th century.
Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month—September 15 through October 15—every Saturday evening will feature a powerful feature-length film, a short lecture from a graduate scholar or recent Ph.D. graduate, and an open discussion where everyone is welcome to share their thoughts.
Jackie Kashian has been seen on After Midnight, Conan, Corden, HBO, Netflix, and Comedy Central. She’s been heard on Bob’s Burgers and Strange Planet and featured on NPR and Audible.
All Alice wants to do is go through to the Looking Glass House – a mirror world to her own. But, when the mirror becomes flexible and she’s able to go through, who and what she encounters is both extraordinary and ridiculous. With characters from “Through the Looking Glass” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, this adaptation will delight the entire family!
1Pulse Entertainment presents “Simply the Best: A Tribute to the music of Tina Turner” starring Jenn Cristy (national touring performer and former backing vocalist/instrumentalist for John Mellencamp). “Simply the Best” showcases the power and love for the stage that Tina projected over a 50 year career. Jenn Cristy perfectly embodies Tina’s transformative energy and spirit from the stage.
This month we present a sonically diverse cast of musicians: dystopian audio collage, cinematic ritual ambient, loping/looping psychedelic guitar. Join us for a night of drones and improvisation.
ALL-AGES
Illusion of Safety has been helmed by Daniel Burke since 1983. While it’s membership and sonic palette have changed many times, the focus and feeling have remained fairly constant. The project has been reinvigorated in recent years, releasing many new and archival recordings and performing with greater regularity. In this phase of IoS, Burke is unbound by sonic limitations, utilizing any appropriate sound – found or instigated – to provoke feelings of unease and anxiety which are hypnotic in effect.
https://illusionofsafety.net/
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Drekka has been an integral member of Bloomington’s experimental music community for nearly 3 decades. Started in 1996, the project draws on Michael Anderson’s personal collection of sonic memories, including sounds from friends and family as well as the spaces through which he travels. Each performance is uniquely mystifying and captivating, involving both preparation and improvisation.
https://www.bluesanct.com/bands/drekka/
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Scotchamo is the experimental project of Scott Scarboro, located in Southerrn Indiana across the Ohio from Louisville. With Scotchamo, Scott uses handmade electronic and circuit-bent devices, stringed instruments, tape loops, and sampled audio to create his sounds. He also runs Junkabilly Studios and it’s attached band Monkey Boy.
https://junkabillystudios.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@junkabilly
Ted Leo is one of the finest songwriters of our generation, even if it’s not entirely clear what generation that is. Starting in New York Hardcore with Citizen’s Arrest, making the ‘90s safe for power-pop and Weller-esque hair with Chisel, then singing our turbulent lives like we were smarter than we were with The Pharmacists, and most recently providing equal parts sweetness and solace with Aimee Mann as The Both, Ted never let us down. And now, seven years after The Brutalist Bricks, he has a new solo album. And it’s wonderful.
The songs on The Hanged Man, recorded at a home-studio-in-transition in Wakefield, RI, with Ted playing almost all the instruments, are some of the finest and most finely wrought of Ted Leo’s career. Ted describes the time working on the album as one of “personal desolation that felt fallow but was actually very fertile” and, indeed, lyrically, The Hanged Man is suffused with hope of sorts but crushingly heavy. The concerns addressed, whether personal trauma or the national disaster we’re all currently existing in, matched with the range and vitality of the songcraft is inspiring, even uplifting.
April Rose hosts! The show stars: Honey Bunn, Cherry Bikini, Celeste Al’Dreams, and Starletta.
DANCE PARTY WITH KYROBPAQ AT 11PM
Opening Ceremony begins at 11:45; walk immediately follows. Route length is .86 mile.
Those interested in joining the fight to end Alzheimer’s can register for this event online at alz.org/Indiana/walk.
Fill a Friends tote bag for $10; fill a box for $15.
Benjamin Watkins – piano, conductor with Contrabassoon, Cello, Viola and Violins
Secrets of Sailing Revealed: Open House at The Bloomington Yacht Club on Lake Lemon. This FREE event includes sailing demonstrations, boat rides, tour of the BYC facilities, hands-on rigging & knot tying, all-ages activities, snacks, and more.
CatVideoFest returns for a whole new batch of fantastic feline hijinks curated from the best cat videos from around the world! A portion of screening proceeds support the Monroe County Humane Association.
Southside of Bryan Park.
1pm Registration & Warm-up, Move at 1:30pm
Info: bloomingtonabc.noblogs.org
Experience the electrifying Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical that delves into the heart of a family shattered by mental illness but held together by love. With a soaring, unforgettable score by Tom Kitt and poignant book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal is an unflinching, empathetic portrait of resilience, loss, and the pursuit of hope.
All Alice wants to do is go through to the Looking Glass House – a mirror world to her own. But, when the mirror becomes flexible and she’s able to go through, who and what she encounters is both extraordinary and ridiculous. With characters from “Through the Looking Glass” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, this adaptation will delight the entire family!
Please join Women Writing for (a) Change for our monthly All Gender Writing Circle (after-hours, 4:00 – 5:30pm)! We will find inspiration from poetry and painters, and spend time writing and sharing our writing with one another. This is a safe, inclusive space for people of all genders and writers of all genres and experience. All are welcome in this pop-up community of writers.
Reserve your spot: [email protected]
When attending their son’s college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship. The only problem? They’re divorced and he’s remarried. It’s… complicated.
Jane (Meryl Streep), a successful restaurateur, has been divorced from Jake (Alec Baldwin) for many years, although they remain friends. When an innocent meal together turns into an affair, Jane finds that she is the other woman in the now-remarried Jake’s life. Meanwhile, Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to remodel her kitchen, is still stinging from his own divorce. He finds himself falling in love with Jane but soon realizes that he has become part of a triangle. [120 min; comedy, romance; English]
A discussion group focused on spirituality and personal beliefs, led by Reverend Karen Williams. Every person’s experience and perspective is welcome in a respectful context of spiritual growth without judgment.
ALL-AGES
Thou (Baton Rouge, LA)
Heavy sludgy hardcore.
thou.bandcamp.com/
Busman’s Holiday
Americana crooner core.
busmansholiday.bandcamp.com
Colin Jost, a writer, performer, and author best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, comes to Bloomington for a special evening of stand-up comedy. Jost started writing for SNL in 2005 and has been the co-anchor of the show’s Weekend Update since 2014.
Likened to a soft summer rain, she’s green is a Minneapolis-based dream-inducer composed of vocalist Zofia Smith, guitarists Liam Armstrong and Raines Lucas, bassist Teddy Nordvold, and drummer Kevin Seebeck. The band has played many shows throughout the Midwest and East Coast, sharing bills with acts such as Hotline TNT, Glixen, Friko, and more. The Star Tribune recommends bringing “earplugs and maybe a tissue for their set.” They initially received recognition through their first two released singles, “river” and “smile again”, both recorded and mixed at home. A raw emotional intensity shines through their honest and explorative songwriting process. After the release of their debut EP Wisteria, they were named one of First Avenue’s Best New Bands of 2023. In April of 2024, they got the most votes from industry professionals for MPR station The Current’s first annual Scouting Report Poll of the top rising artists in Minnesota.
All remaining items are free.
New English speakers will practice everyday language skills in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
Think you have what it takes to be a “Beat Saber” champion? Drop in and find out!
Registration is requested.
Love building LEGO® kits? Bring your kit to build with old and new friends alike. Don’t have anything to build? We have a few projects here to work on! Age 18 and up; recommended for ages 18-32.
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. ALL adults are welcome
Every Monday, the Swing Dance Club hosts lessons for its club members followed by a social dance.
Email: [email protected]
Jeff Hamilton Trio: Jeff Hamilton, drums; Tadataka Unno, piano; Jon Hamar, bass
Hey smart people!! Trivia Nights are now your favorite thing to do on Mondays! We promise to keep the sports to a minimum!
Support the Library while eating local! Dine Out at designated locations and a percentage of your tab will go toward Friends of the Library fundraising for MCPL programs.
Dine out for the Friends of the Library at the Uptown Café (102 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington). Enjoy breakfast, lunch, or dinner from 8 AM–9 PM. Show a flyer found at: mcpl.info/friends and Uptown Café will donate 20% of your bill to the Friends of the Library to help make amazing Library programs possible.
Need help using or setting up a new device? Trying to access the Library’s eBooks and eAudiobooks? Learning how to use Zoom? Drop in for one-on-one help and learn new digital skills. Age 18 and up.
Sergei Eisenstein, one of the most important figures in cinema history, spent much of his career working devotedly on film projects (by some counts more than thirty) that were, for various reasons, never completed. Acutely aware of his orientation toward the unfinished, a filmmaker who regularly failed to make his films, Eisenstein saw these labors in the realm of the unrealized as an intrinsic stage of the creative process: the productive meeting place of theory and practice, of the ideal and the real. This talk will examine the director’s unrealized 1930–31 Mexican film—the most notorious of these unrealized projects, and the one for which we have the most available filmed footage—in the light of his larger unrealized body of work in order both to better understand the ambiguities of the project within Eisenstein’s full creative biography and to suggest how the film may be seen as a key indicator of cinema’s capacity for and categorical dependence on the unfinished.
Following the lecture, join us at IU Cinema for a screening of shorts of Sergei Eisenstein’s film stock ¡Que viva México!.
We are a steel tip dart & social club. You do not have to be a member to play. All are welcome.
The Plant Swap is more than a simple trade—it’s an invitation to share the magic of growth, exchange stories woven through soil and stem, and connect with a community of fellow plant lovers and caretakers.
Bring your thriving cuttings, beloved but ready-to-part-with houseplants, or rare green companions in search of a new home. All offerings should be healthy and pest-free, with love and intention behind them.
Featuring the only film Sergei Eisenstein completed during his time in Mexico, this trio of shorts focuses on such events as an earthquake’s aftermath and Día de Los Muertos.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
With Ryan Kelly, conductor; featuring graduate student conductor Ally Capone
Repertoire
David Dzubay: Myaku (1999)
Karalyn Schubring: …the leaves scatter like foam… (2021)
Stanisław Skrowaczewski: Music for Winds (2009)
Viet Cuong: John and Jim (2024)
Tian Zhou: Sinfonia (2022)