On Friday, June 29 through Sunday, July 1, Paynetown SRA will offer a packed schedule of programs, crafts, and activities featuring the Bald Eagle. The highlight of the weekend will be the appearance of a live bald eagle on Sunday morning! Details available at website, or email Jill Vance.

This installation presents the work of three contemporary Native American artists. It is part of the series, Contemporary Explorations, which features focused, rotating displays from the museum’s permanent collection that explore aspects of art from the 1950s to the present.

Runs until October 14

Annibale and Agostino Carracci were the leaders of the Bolognese school that overthrew Mannerist aesthetics for a style based on the observation of nature, fusing Florentine draftsmanship with Venetian color. This installation features some of their major prints.

Runs until September 16

This exhibit, which runs from June 12 until September 9, features original paintings from “Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers”, a book by nationally recognized wildlife artist and Brown County resident William Zimmerman. Open during regular gallery hours. Visit website for more information.

Lift it! Move it! Explore the science of pulleys and levers as you effortlessly pull yourself high off the ground in a pulley chair, lift a heavy block of stone with the strength of your little finger, design a catapult to lay siege to a castle, build a model of an amusement park ride and more! This exhibit on simple machines will remain at WonderLab from June 05 until September 23.

WonderLab’s hours are 9:30 am to 5 pm Tue-Sat, 1 pm – 5 pm Sunday. Open extended evening hours until 8:30 pm the first Friday of the month.

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines history on a large scale, through exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins. It is open weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from May 8 to August 26, 2012, and is free.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs. It is free and open to the public during regular museum hours, and will run until August 27.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

Indiana Festival Theatre presents “Damn Yankees”.

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. The musical is based on Wallop’s novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.

June 13 (preview performance), 14-16, 19-23, 26-30 at 7:30 pm
June 24 at 2:oo pm and 7:30 pm
July 1 at 2:00 pm
Ruth N. Halls Theatre

See web link for tickets.

If you enjoyed A Year with Frog and Toad you’ll love Go, Dog. Go!. P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book is brought to swirling, colorful life in this stage adaptation. Whether you’re a big dog, little dog, yellow dog or green dog, you’ll want to make your way to the Waldron for this Dog Party. A Cardinal Stage Company production.

Show Times:
10:00 am: June 16, 23, 30
2:00 pm: June 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, July 1
6:00 pm: June 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, July 1.

Youth Theater will perform the play Hairspray at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Summary: “It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire – to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her newfound power to vanquish the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ’do! Don’t miss your chance to join Youth Theatre’s cast of Hairspray, Broadway’s musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.”

Showing at 7:30 pm on June 29 and 30, and 3:00 pm on July 1. Visit website to purchase tickets.