Join us for a relaxing cuppa about our kind mothers. Share a story about your mom in this life, perhaps the Lamrim meditation on kind mothers has shifted the way you treat others.

Come be inspired by the Kadampa community enjoying a cuppa together. This is a free event and everyone is welcome.

The award-winning documentary Eat Your Catfish, on one woman’s struggle with ALS and the disease’s impact on her family relationships, will screen at French Lick’s newest event venue, The Sanctuary (formerly Old Springs Valley United Methodist Church, 537 S. Maple Street). The free screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Noah Arjomand and Adam Isenberg in conversation with Orange County-based artist Andrew Gerber.

Variety called the film “courageously intimate, brutally moving.” Critic Mark Adams described it as “astonishingly open, moving, funny, and challenging.” Eat Your Catfish also features a musical score by IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Daniel Whitworth.

Presented by IU’s Center for Documentary Research and Practice and the Black Vulture Project.

Come early to sign up for Open Mic! The featured readers are: Claire Arbogast, Nancy Hiller, Winnie
Lyon. Claire Arbogast writes memoir, fiction, and essay. She is the
author of Leave the Dogs at Home, published by Indiana
University Press in 2015 (winner of the 2016 AAUP Public and
Secondary School Library Selection and called an “excellent
choice” by the Library Journal). She is working on a novel, Open
Defiance. www.clairearbogast.com
Nancy Hiller is a furniture maker and writer. She trained as a
furniture maker in England in 1980 and has spent the majority of
her career in that field. After earning a masters degree in
religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington, she began to
write for publication. Her essays and articles have been
published in national periodicals including old house journal,
American bungalow, and fine woodworking. She has authored
several books, most recently Shop Tails, and is one of 16
women and woman-identifying woodworkers profiled in the
newly-released “Joinery, Joists and Gender,” by Deirdre Visser,
a history of women in woodworking that includes select profiles.
"Winnie Lyon wrote her first story on the back of her spelling
homework in fifth grade. Since then, she's been trying to tell

stories that make people smile, and hopes to keep doing it forever.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, she's bridging the gap between
college and the real world, waiting to land somewhere vibrant and
exciting.

When our mind develops a pleasant feeling associated with food, a person, place or experience— we want more. When are we satiated with contentment? Is it ever enough?

We normally project intrinsically desirable labels to our external world, and if we don’t understand how our mind is creating this desire or craving it leads to suffering. This suffering can be physical and mental. However, when our mind is free from the turbulence of distracting conceptions it becomes calm and smooth. When we are enjoying internal peace and happiness our craving for external sources of pleasure naturally declines and it is easy to remain content. Come explore powerful meditations to connect to contentment.

This workshop is suitable for everyone and includes teaching and time for meditation.

Whether it be work related or connected to life circumstances, anxiety can be debilitating and painful. When we recognize our anxious symptoms have been triggered, normally we are thinking that we can’t cope with it and fall into a rabbit hole that spirals us into anxiety. We can garner experience how to pacify anxiety with breathing meditation and from a spacious place in our mind begin to transform these emotions with acceptance, compassion and wisdom.

The workshop is suitable for all meditation levels, including beginners. It includes teachings, guided meditations as well as a Q&A in the last session. Everyone is welcome!

Gallow Dance is happening again at the Blockhouse Bar on May 7th. Live performances by BlaK SundaY (Death Rock – Indianapolis), Broken Nails (Darkwave – Louisville) and Twice Dark (Industrial – Bloomington). DJ sets throughout the night by DJ Requiem (Bloomington). Doors at 7P, music starts at 8P,  21 & over.

Featuring new works choreographed and performed by ballet students of the Jacobs School of Music