Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSpring is here, after a long, hard winter. More trees will be will be growing leaves in Bloomington this year, thanks to Canopy Bloomington’s regular schedule of planting as well as its new Cool Corridors program. Staffers, board members, and community volunteers for the nonprofit were out …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 24.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreArtists need help — and who better to help them than other artists? That’s one of the goals of the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington. Charles Pearce was named the organization’s first executive director in December and it holds its annual meeting tomorrow at Fountain Square. The …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSinger/songwriter Krista Detor so enjoyed her experience at Hedgebrook, the women artists’ retreat on Whidbey Island, that she was inspired to create something like it when she got back home to Bloomington. She and musician/sound engineer David Weber set about the task of creating a small complex …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTheir three-year term leading Indiana University’s Cultural Studies Program is coming to an end. Rebekah Sheldon and Tess Given are going out with a bang with Bikini Kill guitarist and self-described “cultural instigator,” Erica Dawn Lyle, speaking at their February lecture series installment. They’ve organized a two-day …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe started out on a lark to design an outfit, never expecting her entry to be accepted, and soon found herself on stage, modeling her own creation. Sophia Wang designed and modeled in 2023 and 2024 and this year is handling social media management and marketing for …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA formally-trained singer in her own right, Suzanne Ryan-Melamed has guided Bloomington Early Music since 2022. Since that year, the annual Bloomington Early Music Festival has embraced a variety of worldwide cultures and populations that aren’t commonly associated with medieval, Renaissance, or Baroque music. This year’s fest, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreInspired by his mother, 1980s disco hitmaker Roni Griffith, Caleb Ely dropped out of college to pursue a music career. Beginning as a DJ and then taking on audio production duties, he created streaming hits that have garnered millions of clicks. Ely (pronounced EE-lee) taught himself how …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA stained glass window in an historic York cathedral inspired Shannon Gayk to devote her studies to Middle English literature. She found that the people who lived nearly a millennium ago in what became modern-day England were concerned with ecological disaster and climate change just as the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhen he first came to Bloomington, Peter Dorfman didn’t much care about day-to-day neighborhood issues. Then he heard of an outside consultant’s recommendation that would completely transform the community that drew him here in the first place. Dorfman was inspired to start Bloomington Dissident Democrats, an informal …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe conclude our look back at last year’s guests as we revisit our conversations with Pam Raider of the Brown County Hour; Jill Vance, interpretive naturalist at Lake Monroe; Terry Sloan, guerrilla publisher of Poetry to the People; and author Claire Arbogast. Host Michael Glab chats with …
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