Chateau Thomas Winery is glad to present exhibition of art portraits “Winter Fairytales” by a professional photographer Yelena Yahontova, a native of Belarus and resident of Bloomington. Known as a “Photographer of Joy,” Yelena’s portraits tell stories, reflecting the miraculous and special qualities she explores in each subject. “Winter Fairytales” is an exhibition which reflects individuals joyfully interacting, surrounded by the snow and white and blue colors of a winter landscape.

The exhibit runs December 6-February 28 at the Chateau Thomas Winery on the downtown Square. Store hours are Monday-Thursday 2 pm-10 pm, Friday 2 pm-11 pm, Saturday noon-11 pm, and Sunday noon-6 pm.

Join the artist and her friends for a public reception on Friday, December 7 at 5:30-8 pm.

For more information about Yelena Yahontova and her photography, contact Yelena directly:

Website: www.PhotographerOfJoy.com
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKbT36HJUU
Facebook: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY
Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY.Studio

Email: [email protected]
Phone #1: (812) 333-8178
Phone #2: (812) 322-1912
Studio/Office Address:
924 West 17th Street,
Bloomington, Indiana, 47404

Brown County Art Guild’s Annual Member Artists’ Winter Exhibit on Display in the Upper Loft Gallery December 1– February 23. Artists’ reception: Second Saturday, December 8, 5– 8 pm during the Village Art Walk. The exhibit features small paintings by Guild member artists to fit holiday gift budgets. Our Fine Artisans’ Shoppe is brimming with a great selection of handmade artisan wares perfect for holiday gifts, all handcrafted by Indiana artisans! The shoppe features ceramics, jewelry, glass mosaics, wood turnings, books, Member Artist and Marie Goth Collection reproductions, and much more!
Give the gift of art this holiday season! For more information, please visit: http://www.browncountyartguild.org

FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED BY JANUARY 11! Limited to 10 people. To sign up, call the Paynetown Activity Center at 812-837-9967 or email [email protected].

Program Location: Meet at the Hunter Check Station in Fairfax SRA (small gravel parking lot on the right after you pass the entrance gatehouse)

Do you like getting off trail? Then this hike is for you! We’ll be exploring the back (undeveloped) section of Fairfax SRA… along the shoreline, up and down ravines, and through field and forest. This is an informal hike, with no set destination, so we can head towards anything that catches our eye…. Who knows what we may find? Plan on a hiking time of 2 to 3 hours. Please dress for the weather, wear good hiking shoes, and bring a bottle of water. Due to the extended distance and more rugged nature of this hike, we do not recommend it for children under the age of 10.

The Hoosier wrestlers will compete against Minnesota at this special event which honors alumni and military members. Begins at 2 pm.

Come to the Pickleball Clinic to learn to play this fun game. America’s fastest growing sport, a serious game with a not-so-serious name. You don’t have to be an athlete to enjoy it but having some agility and finesse is a definite advantage.
Sunday January 13, from 2-4 pm, on court #4 at Twin Lakes Recreation Center, 1700 W. Bloomfield Rd., Bloomington. 5$ registration fee. Please preregister at 812-320-9999 by 2 pm Friday January 11.

The new digital restoration of David Lean’s epic will be presented in honor of the IU Cinema’s 2nd anniversary – revisiting the digital version of its opening film from January 13, 2011.

In an age of small screens, seeing “Lawrence of Arabia” onscreen with full overture and intermission is a larger-than-life cinematic adventure. Arguably one of the best films ever made, Lean’s epic story depicts the life of T.E. Lawrence, the controversial and romanticized British officer who led an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The Arabian Desert, captured in Super Panavision 70, provides a majestic backdrop for Lawrence’s larger-than-life exploits. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning seven. (2K DCP presentation)

A love story told in two unique parts, “Tabu” is, quite simply, a film unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Deftly moving between contemporary Portugal, colonial Africa and the landscape of dreams, director Miguel Gomes conjures an enthralling story of obsession, memory and dangerous forbidden romance.

In part one, ‘Paradise Lost’, we follow the seemingly ordinary daily life of a devout Lisbon woman, Pilar (Teresa Madruga) and her attempts to support and console her extravagant and bitter neighbour Aurora (Laura Soveral), who spends her day gambling at the local casino and whose grip on reality is clearly becoming tenuous; she’s convinced her stoic maid Santa is secretly practicing voodoo spells against her.

When Aurora’s health takes a turn, a stranger is summoned to her deathbed and it gradually transpires this man is Gian Luca, the love of her life from the distant past. His confession to Pilar of their doomed youthful affair forms the basis of the film’s second extraordinary chapter, ‘Paradise’, set 50 years prior at an African farm in the foothills of Mount Tabu…

Playfully interpreting and rearranging history, Gomes’ film is somehow both technically and narratively subversive and yet inescapably romantic, in no small way thanks to the sensuous black and white cinematography and incredible score and sound design. Where part one portrays a society wallowing in nostalgia, the second propels a dramatic shift in tone and emotional power, delivering everything the characters – and we – may dream of, and live for. Portuguese language with English subtitles.
(2K DCP Presentation)

Winner – Berlin Film Festival – FIPRESCI Jury Prize and Alfred Baeur Prize for Artistic Innovation.

Showing January 10 – 13 at 7 pm.