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The outside world is rough – sun, rain, freezing temperatures – they all conspire to require a normal heavy bag be set up indoors or hung and taken down with every use. Solution: Tires. Tires are built to live outside and allow for the bag to be made heavier or lighter. Come make your own tire heavy bag to add to your outside gym. All materials provided.
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Plant Tower Workshop, Bloominglabs, 1840 S. Walnut St, Bloomington, IN
Plant towers are a vertical garden that can house 50+ plants in 4 sq ft of space. Plant towers also contain a composting tube to allow users to easily return their vegetative waste back to their plants.
Participants will build their own plant tower and compost tube from a recycled food grade barrel. 2 hour class. All materials provided.
Rain Barrel Workshop, Bloominglabs, 1840 S. Walnut St, Bloomington, IN
During the summer months, lawns and gardens account for an average of 40% of household water usage. Water barrels can help to reduce water usage and bills by allowing you to tend to your lawn and garden using naturally harvested rain water. Come make one for yourself! All materials and tools will be provided.
Introduction to Carpentry: Worktables, Bloominglabs, 1840 S. Walnut St, Bloomington, IN
Come explore our woodshop and learn woodshop safety, how to work from a design, the basics of working with wood, how to use tools (table saw, band saw, drill press, radial arm saw, and hand drills), and how to finish a project with sanding and sealant. This workshop is structured around using all the big-project tools in our woodshop while creating workbenches for Bloominglabs. You’ll develop a familiarity with the woodshop tools, learn how to build a sturdy workbench, and at the end get a plaque to affix to the table you helped build!
Hometown Hip!, Virtual, Bloomington, IN
Homegrown Hip! is a virtual performance series produced by B’Town Jazz. See btownjazz.org for more information. The June episode will feature performances by the Cuadros Quartet, with Dave Bruker and friends. Access the video via the B’Town Jazz website, YouTube, or Facebook pages starting at 8pm. Watch past episodes anytime!
Writers Guild Spoken Word Series, Virtual, Bloomington, IN
Online via Zoom and Facebook Live.
Featuring poets Ken Yoshikawa, Sarita “Sincere” Goods, Adam Henze
Music by Travis Puntarelli
Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
Ken Yoshikawa is a half-Japanese third culture American poet-actor-playwright from Portland, Oregon. In his theatre career he’s appeared at Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, NW Children’s Theatre, Oregon Adventure Theatre, and the Portland Playhouse. In 2019 he released his first spoken word album Quiver (Lightship Press), and performed his autobiographical poetic solo play The Art of Fly Swatting at the Pan Asian Repertory off-broadway in NYC. His poems have appeared in Nailed Magazine, Letters from the Void, Hapa Mag, and Discover Nikkei. His first full length poetry book Monster Colored Glasses is out now on Lightship Press at yoshikawaken.com
Sarita “Sincere” Goods is a dedicated and hardworking wife and mother of two. She currently resides near Charleston, SC, which is where is originally from. Sarita has been involved in poetry for 20 years, starting with local open mics in Greenville, SC, before getting into slam. She has participated with and coached different Southern Fried teams over the years and discovered her love for nurturing the person while helping develop their craft. Additionally, she is a part of the New Danger Arts collective and has facilitated workshops and performed at schools across South Carolina.
Dr. Adam Henze is a researcher, educator, and spoken word artist, and has shared his work in over 30 states, as well as Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates. He is a co-director of Slam Camp, a summer writing academy for teenage poets, and founding director of Power of a Sentence, a prison literacy program in Indiana. Adam received his PhD from the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education department at Indiana University, and works as a Research Associate at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. His research interests include critical media literacy, youth literacies, prison pedagogy, and inquiry methodology. Adam currently serves as Director of Programming for Southern Fried Poetry, Inc., which hosts the longest-running annual poetry slam in the world. He is a Bureau Speaker for Indiana Humanities and was the Official Poet of the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500.
Let Cuba Breathe, Monroe County Courthouse, 100 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN
Stand in Solidarity with CUBA Amistad, Puentes de Amor, and others worldwide as we seek an end to the Blockade of Cuba.
Meet at the southeast corner of the courthouse. Signs are welcomed.
Check, Please!, Virtual, Bloomington, IN
Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother’s bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn’t get any worse — until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?
For tickets to the online performance, visit – http://www.mcct.org/check-
In The Heights Virtual Book Launch, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter, Virtual, Bloomington, IN
In the new book In the Heights: Finding Home, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter tell the story of the show’s humble beginnings, from rehearsals in a book store basement to the Broadway smash (and soon-to-be feature film!) that created an unbreakable community and a new kind of family for everyone involved. Sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity, community, and finding home, this is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world.