DJ Party Ben is looking for dancers to perform in his show. The music is a mix of Electronic, Funk, Disco, Soul, Hip-Hop and Pop. Paid gig, 21 or older, 2 years dance experience, resume required, head shots optional, serious inquiries only please. Please call 512-906-9700 or email [email protected] to schedule an audition. www.facebook.com/DJPartyBen

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

In recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sycamore Land Trust, this program features a screening of the film Photography as an Art, from the 1960 documentary series The Inclusive Art (produced by WNET). The film conveys a sense of discovery and rediscovery through the photographs of Ansel Adams, who is shown working in Yosemite National Park.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Nan Brewer, IU Art Museum’s Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper; Christian Freitag, Executive Director of the Sycamore Land Trust; Frank Lewis, lecturer in Arts Administration; and Ric Cradick, photographer. This program is co-sponsored by IU Art Museum and Sycamore Land Trust,whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Following the Film and Panel Discussion at the IU Hope School of Fine Arts, this reception will feature regional refreshments “branded” in honor of Sycamore Land Trust.

As the punctuation mark affixed to its title might suggest, Thundercrack! is a study in excess. Directed by Indiana-native Curt McDowell and co-written/co-starring cult icon George Kuchar, the film follows a group of outré strangers (including an amorous gorilla) as they spend the night breaking social-sexual taboos in a gothic setting that queerly reimagines James Whale’s The Old Dark. It’s a forgotten entry in the canon of 1970s underground filmmaking that reminds us that the line between tastelessness and the sublime is very fine indeed.

The screening will be preceded by an introduction from Jamie Hook, a Ph.D. student whose work centers on taste politics and stigmatized films, genres, and spectators. Contains graphic nudity. (Digital presentation)

The WFHB Firehouse Follies is a live theater variety show filled with fun skits and AMAZING music. The Follies are much like Garrison Keillor’s ‘Prairie Home Companion’ programs – only with a Hoosier twist. The show features local and national talent – with David Olney taking the stage as our guest star for ‘Men in Mauve’. Also features will be the Firehouse Rounders, the Unusual Suspects radio acting troupe and the wonderful ‘WFHB GoZpel GurlZ’ aka – ‘Hoosier Darling’. Written and produced by Mike Kelsey and Richard Fish, the Firehouse Follies is a program that is guaranteed to please and the Audience becomes part of the action as they are heard around the world via live stream internet. You can catch the show live at www.wfhb.org OR (if you are local to Bloomington IN) FM 91.3, 98.1, 106.3 (Bedford), 100.7 (Nashville). Seating is limited so come early! All proceeds used to benefit community radio WFHB – FREE parking across the street at the 4th St. Parking Garage.

5 Bands!

• Josh Johnson: Heroic rock vocalist for Bedford’s .50 Caliber, Josh and friends will take acoustic music to 11!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-50-Caliber-Band/230886690287205

• Carpenter & Clerk: Bloomington-based Americana Rock.
https://www.facebook.com/carpenterandclerk

• Paris: Indianapolis-based Post-Grunge Beautiful Music. Project of Kip Newby, guitarist for Ecstasy.

Rich Kienle, Bedford’s Human Jukebox, guitarist for @Crust and Un-Twisted.

• Yer hosts, Kimmie & Johnny, Bedford-based Country Punk band. We steal from everybody!

+ More to Come

Suggested Donation: $2

All Ages, under 18 accompanied by an adult

TIMES:
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• Potluck: 6:00pm, bring your favorite dish, dessert, or beverage to share. (BYOB, but we’re 2 blocks from the police station, word to the wise)

• Music: 6:30pm-10:00pm

• Shooting Stars Open Mic/Audience Jam: 7:45-8:30pm

• Dessert by Kimmie: 9pm. Peach cobbler and homemade ice cream

• Suggested Donation: $2 (for toilet paper, paper plates, and other niceties). We also pass the hat between sets to help support professional musicians.

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What is the Acoustic Graveyard?

• A micro-venue presenting the finest in acoustic & low-volume LIVE music in a relaxed, living-room-like setting. AMAZING acoustics….

• A low-cost way to experience music & musicians person to person. Without the interference of technology. Or sound professionals. Or AutoTune….

• A regular gathering of musicians and music lovers.

• A community.

•A cause….

• One helluva 3-hour, family-friendly, potluck, BYOB, love fest……

• A heartfelt homage to Bloomington, Indiana’s Swtichyard (https://www.facebook.com/TheSwitchyard), set in peaceful, picturesque Bedford, Indiana…. Halfway between Indianapolis, IN and Louisville, KY…..

The first Sunday of every month musicians and music lovers come together at the Acoustic Graveyard to talk, laugh, love, and hear great live music.

Whether you’re a touring professional, singer/songwriter, campfire picker, or audience singalong champ, if you love music, you just found the new home of your Best Time…..

Think MTV Unplugged. With you sharing a couch and some hummus with Kurt Cobain, instead of swearing at your lousy computer speakers….

Each event night, expect to hear 3 to 4 professionals let their hair down with their favorite acoustic axe for tight half-hour sets.

And what makes the night really special, hear up to 5 local, unbooked nonprofessional musicians share a favorite song as they take their step toward becoming Rising Stars.

AND THEN THERE’S THE AUDIENCE JAM where you get to sing and/or play along with everyone in the house on a classic we all know!

Throw in a detailed PLAY BILL, with bios and pictures of the featured musicians, and it’s a musical experience YouTube just can’t compete with.

And you’ll NEVER FORGET!

Typical Sunday afternoon schedule:

• 6-6:30pm Potluck Supper
• 6:30-6:45pm Your hosts, Kimmie & Johnny play a coupla tunes
• 6:45-7:45 Music from pros
• 7:45-8:30 Rising Stars & Audience Jam
• 8:30-9:00 Music from pros
• 9pm: Dessert by Kimmie!

Booking: [email protected]

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

THE KIMMIE & JOHNNY TRAILER TRASH COMBO
Country PUNK. Real people. Real feelings. Real music.

https://www.facebook.com/Kimmie.And.Johnny/app_2405167945

Kimmie & Johnny are a Bloomington & Bedford, Indiana-based, song-writing Country Punk band. We’re the #1 Country Band on the Reverbnation website.

Former cult members and defrocked professionals, a year ago we were homeless on Bloomington’s streets.

The Kimmie & Johnny Trailer Trash Combo, are an acoustic/electric Country Punk trio.

We fuse elements of country, punk, rockabilly, folk, and more, performed by a tight trio. With an in-your-face-attitude, slightly lubricated with subversive sentimentality.

We’ve been featured editorially in Bloom Magazine twice, as well as IDS (Indiana Daily Student), the Indiana Monthly website, as well as the Bedford Indiana Times Mail.

Set in a New England boarding school, Robin Williams stars as an inspirational English teacher who helps the young men under his tutelage find their passions through poetry and the arts. Fighting against an uptight administration all the way, Williams shines in one of his earlier starring roles, proving his dramatic talent while never losing sight of the manic comic energy he was most famous for. Working from an Oscar-winning script, Peter Weir directs with the sort of spirit embodied in Williams’s performance. Carpe diem! (35mm presentation)

In this “lost slasher film from 1978,” a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.

Headless is the latest feature from the creators of Found, winner of 18 best picture awards and an official selection at more than 40 film festivals around the world. Headless is a spin-off of Found’s most controversial sequence, a brutally horrific ‘movie within a movie’ that has been censored in the UK and Germany, and banned–not once, but twice–in Australia. Now, that infamous sequence has been expanded into a full-length feature film for gore hounds, lovers of exploitation movies, and hardcore horror fans.

Headless was filmed entirely in Indiana by a Bloomington-based team, featuring makeup and special effects from The Clockwerk Creature Company and music by Magician Johnson and Andy D. Directed by Arthur Cullipher, written by Nathan Erdel, produced by Kara Erdel and Scott Schirmer. Starring Shane Beasley, Kelsey Carlisle, Ellie Church, Dave Parker, Kaden Miller, Brian Williams, Jennifer Lee, Haley Madison, Matt Keeley, Emily McGee, Jessica Schroeder, Ben Monticue, and Olivia Arnold.

The film screening (90 minutes) will be followed by Q&A with the cast and crew (30 minutes).

Headless features nudity, profanity, drug use, extreme violence, and disturbing subject matter. No one under 18 will be admitted.