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April 20, 2023
Submit an event on the Bloomington Arts Calendar to be included on our Calendar and in the bi-weekly newsletter. Simply click "Submit Event" at the top of our Calendar to tell us about your upcoming event.
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Bloom Magazine's Local Artist Showcase
Sun Apr 23rd 11:00am - 5:00pm
The Monroe Convention Center, 302 S College Ave, Bloomington
The Local Artist Showcase is back! Bloom Magazine presents the Local Artist Showcase, an event featuring art from Monroe, Brown, Greene, Lawrence, and Owen counties. Bloom Magazine is featuring artists and galleries from our community.
Admission is $2, and all will be able to view, and to purchase, the featured art.
Click here to learn more
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The Art's Alliance blog has a new post!
Read more about Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro which is currently playing at the Brown County Playhouse.
Bloomington Arts Blog
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IU Cinema presents: The Future of African Filmmaking
Best of FESPACO
Fri Apr 21, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Maxwell Hall, Cook Center, 750 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington
A panel discussion on the future of African filmmaking. Topics include fiction filmmaking on the continent, documentary filmmaking in the diaspora and on the continent, women in African filmmaking, and connecting audiences to continental and diasporic filmmaking.
Participants include:
Gaston J.M Kaboré. Kaboré is a pioneering and award-winning Burkinabé film director. For the last 18 years, he has run Imagine, an institute in Ouagadougou that trains professionals in the television and cinema industries.
Claire Diao. Diao is a French-Burkinabè film critic and distributor. She co-founded the Pan-African film critic magazine AWOTELE in 2015 and has been the CEO of the Pan-African film distribution company Sudu Connexion since 2016.
Jean-Marie Teno. Teno is a Cameroonian film director and filmmaker, primarily working in documentary film. He has been called "one of Africa's most prolific filmmakers" and his films have won awards at festivals all over the world.
Mahen Bonetti. Originally from Sierra Leone, Bonetti is the founder and executive director of African Film Festival, Inc. She has served on panels for FESPACO, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Africa's U.S. diplomatic offices, among others.
Moderated by Akinwumi (Akin) Adesokan, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, and Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University.
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Stages Bloomington Presents Disney's Frozen Jr.
The Warehouse, 1525 South Rogers Street, Bloomington
Stages Bloomington presents Disney's Frozen Jr.
Come enjoy this exciting performance of the adapted Broadway Musical: Disney's Frozen presented by the students of STAGES BLOOMINGTON. Come see your favorite character and hear you favorite songs from the popular movie plus a few new tunes to take to hum on the way home!!
Performances are:
April 21, 2023 @ 7pm
April 22, 2023 @ 2pm and 7pm
April 23, 2023 @ 2 pm
All performances are at The Warehouse, 1525 South Rogers Street, Bloomington
To purchase tickets follow the link on the Stages website www.stagesbloomington.org
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Opening reception Monroe County History Center
Fri Apr 28th 5pm - 7pm
Monroe County History Center, 202 East 6th Street, Bloomington
We Paint...Historic Bloomington" at the Monroe County History Center
"We Paint...Historic Bloomington" returns for an encore exhibit at the Monroe County History Center. April 25 – July 8, 2023. You won’t want to miss this very interesting, informative, and beautiful collection of paintings of historic homes and buildings, trailblazing citizens, and landmarks by the Bloomington Watercolor Society.
History Center hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Image: "Monroe County History Center" by Betty Wagoner
Click here to learn more
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English Country & Contra Dance
Saturday, April 29th, 3pm - 10pm
Come join Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group (http://bloomingtoncontra.org) for a special afternoon and evening of dancing on April 29th with music by the Cosmic Otters and calling by Dan Blim.
3–5 p.m. English Country Dance
5–7 p.m. Dinner break (details forthcoming)
7–10 p.m. Contradance
Adults: $10 admission for either event, $15 for both.
Children (under 16): $5 admission for either event, $8 for both.
Subscribers to BOTMDG are covered.
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From Watching Birds to Sketching and Painting Them: Alex Warnick
Thu Apr 27th 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Ivy Tech Bloomington, 200 Daniels Way, Bloomington
Join Alex Warnick, natural history artist and esteemed avian illustrator, as she shows her field sketches and talks about her processes of sketching and illustrating birds. The presentation will be of interest to artists, birders who do field sketching but may not consider themselves artists, and birders who are interested in hearing a presentation by an acclaimed avian illustrator. Her works, which have been published widely, are as lively and detailed as famed Roger Tory Peterson and are styled after zoological illustrators Mark Catesby and Jacques Barraband. (See more about Alex below.) She crafts each project around hours of sketching outdoors.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Artistic processes:
The joy of depicting birds on paper
The value of documenting birds in sketching and art
How to observe birds—what to watch for when you are painting
How to organize a bird piece
Depicting birds in the landscape (for plein air painters)
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Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic
Sun Apr 30th 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Morgenstern's Bookstore & Café, 849 South Auto Mall Road, Bloomington
The April 2023 edition of Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic, presented by the Writers Guild @ Bloomington, celebrates National Poetry Month by featuring Midwest poets, Jonathan S Baker and Zach Hannah.
JONATHAN S BAKER lives and writes in Evansville, Indiana, where they co-host Poetry Speaks, Indiana’s longest-running and most prestigious poetry reading series. They are the author of several collections of poetry, including Cock of the Walk (Laughing Ronin Press, 2022), and Long Nights in Stoplight City (Between the Shadows Press, 2022). They are also co-editor of the Grind Stone, and editor-in-chief of Pure Sleeze Press. It is their hope to participate in a hotdog-eating contest, not to become the champion, but instead, just to enjoy the meal.
ZACH HANNAH is a Southern Ohio expat, blue-collar poet, who drags Appalachia through polite art circles and house shows across the Midwest. He resides in Columbus, Ohio, where he has spent the last decade learning poetry from scratch at Writers’ Block Open Mic, helmed by Scott Woods, Louise Robertson, and Vernelle Bristow.
Click here to learn more
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IU SOUL REVUE SPRING CONCERT
April 22, 7:30pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
The IU Soul Revue Spring Concert will be held on Saturday, April 22, 2023, 7:30 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, IN.
Directed by IU and Soul Revue alumnus James Strong, the IU Soul Revue is America’s first and finest collegiate Black popular music ensemble since 1971.
Don’t miss these dynamic performances of R&B, soul, funk, and contemporary Black popular music delivered by commanding vocalists, powerful horns, and tight rhythm section.
Click here to learn more
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Conserve Bloomington, an environmental education concert! Funded by an IU Jacobs Innovation Grant, Conserve Bloomington aims to celebrate the natural world through commissioning and performance of new works based on local environmental settings. Watch this page to learn more about our program and participants!
Click here to learn more
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Rehearse in the Arts Alliance Center's Flex Space
The Arts Alliance Center Flex Room Space available
Flex Room is available to rent for classes, meetings, rehearsals and performance at the Arts Alliance Center.
$20/hour for members
$40/hour for non-members.
Click here for more information or call 812-727-0732
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Become a member of the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington!
Benefits include:
- Priority listing of your events in our bi monthly newsletter
- Promotion of your events through our social media
- Listing in Bloomington's online Artists' Directory
- Reduced fee access to our new "Flex Space" rental
- Networking and educational events for artists
Click here to become a member
Don't forget to update your directory listing here.
- Annual membership fees are:
$35 for individuals, $25 for seniors(65+) and students, $45 for organizations
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The Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington would like to thank our sponsors
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