The annual B-Cup Tournament is upon us! Join Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby as we host 8 teams of athletes from across the U.S. (and Canada!) who will battle it out on the track the weekend of March 2nd and 3rd for winner’s bragging rights and the 1st place “B-Cup” trophy!

The official schedule and online ticket sales will be updated the week of Feb 10th, and more details will continue to be posted here throughout the weekend.

Skaters and Fans alike will be entertained with roller derby bouts, indoor skate park facilities, skate shop vending from All About Derby, merchandise booths from all of the teams, a silent auction fundraiser for BHRD, and lots of other great family-friendly activities at our 2019 tournament location, 1525 The Warehouse.

Tickets will be sold at the door:
Ticket prices will be Saturday only $20, Sunday only $10, both days $25.
There will also be an option for the evening Saturday games only, which will be $15.
Military & Student discounts for Sat Evening games $8 each.
Kids 10-16 years: $5 each day
Kids under 10: Free

Competing teams!
Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby (Bloomington, IN)
Brew City Bruisers (Milwaukee, WI)
Burning River Roller Derby (Cleveland, OH)
Cornfed Derby Dames (Muncie, IN)
Gem City Roller Derby (Dayton, OH)
Nashville Roller Derby (Nashville, TN)
North Star Roller Derby (Minneapolis, MN)
Royal City Roller Derby (Guelph, Ontario)

We look forward to seeing you there! Tell your friends!

The Wylie House Museum’s Annual Heirloom Seed Sale will take place on Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Morton C. Bradley, Jr. Education Center located at 317 E. 2nd St in Bloomington, just northeast of Wylie House Museum. Over 70 varieties of heirloom flowers, herbs and vegetables grown without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides will be available for purchase during the event. In addition, there will be 50 varieties of Seed Saver Exchange seeds for sale, and the Wylie House Seed Library will be open to sign new members up and to check out packs of open-pollinated seeds for planting during the 2019 growing season.

Young at Art Festival – Exploring Materials – Saturday, March 2nd from 10a to 12p

Come explore a multitude of materials through the creation of art!

This free event is open to all and geared towards young children and their families.

Activities will include creating sand art, ice sculptures, collage, paper-making, wire-hanger mobiles, toothpaste art, and much, much more!

Additionally, this year as a collaborative project, children are invited to decorate quilt squares which will be made into a banner in honor of our 50th birthday.

Don’t sit at home with nothing to do! Come to the library for a birthday woo-hoo. It’s Seusspicious Behavior, so the folks say, And we’re celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Bloomington North performs a play that is funny. Come to the library; you don’t need any money! See a lot of good tricks. We will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at all if we do! With crafts and fun games to play, Bloomington Parks and Recreation makes a Seussrific day!

Guides will take you on a tour of the Grunwald Gallery’s current exhibitions “Balancing Act: Christyl Boger” and “Of Bodies and Borders: Ana Teresa Fernández.” Learn about one or both exhibitions from Eskenazi Museum of Art guides who will offer insight into the artists’ processes and concepts. Tours will take place starting at 2pm every Saturday while the exhibitions are on view. Join us anytime between 2 and 4pm to start a tour.

“Balancing Act: Christyl Boger” contains works from the artist’s renowned career. Christyl Boger was interested in the balancing act of the human animal caught between impulse and control, individual versus group, and the “fragile, vulnerable veneer” of our shared cultural behavior. Her work exists at the confluence of high and low art, of traditional figurative sculpture and domestic decorative figurines. The figures are caught between irreverent display and self-conscious concealment, shifting between vulnerable and suggestive states of being. Though she referenced non-ceramic elements such as public statuary and contemporary inflatable beach toys, Boger stated that her material “stays true to the language of ceramic figurines…the material of clay itself is inseparable from the ideas of fragility and artifice.”

“Of Bodies and Borders: Ana Teresa Fernández” is an exhibit organized by Gallery Wendi Norris and previously shown in Miami, FL. Consisting of oil paintings, drawings, a sculpture installation and two videos, Of Bodies and Borders seeks to refocus our attention on the plight of immigrants crossing one of the deadliest borders in the world, the Central Mediterranean route from Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. In a performance filmed off of the island of Poros, Greece, the artist weighed down, wrestles with a bed sheet beneath the blue waters. The oil paintings document this performance in layers of paint and depict the artist struggling, submerged in the abyss.

An irresistibly irreverent show about the trials and triumphs of Israel’s favorite son. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s award winning musical is full of parodies and catchy songs including the unforgettable classics “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door.” Come along as we sing and dance our way through Egypt with Joseph and his brothers and sisters!

Malcolm Dalglish and the Ooolites join up with the Hybridmotion Collective to bring you Picture Book, this year’s Love Songs for a Lasting World show. Picture Book is a family show that evokes the awe of the natural world with songs of birds, trees, mythical creatures and wild things. Expect settings of critter songs, Kentucky writer Wendell Berry’s nature poetry, and instructional hip-hop-erettas on the making of pie and over-the-top peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Hybridmotion Collective dancer, Jun Kuribayashi, a veteran of Pilobolus will perform. Picture Book is a boldly optimistic feast of song and dance with soaring melodies, transcendent harmonies, and imaginative movement. Each year, Love Songs for a Lasting World brings a soulful, inventive, and sometimes zany swirl of song, dance, and pie; a celebration for all ages, with many new surprises as well as old favorites.

It’s become a Bloomington tradition and signature fundraiser for Middle Way House, an agency which empowers survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking by providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, a 24/7 help and crisis line, youth programs, advocacy, and more throughout six counties in southern Indiana.

The show is expected to last two hours, including a brief intermission. And of course stick around for the apple pie, served fresh from Muddy Fork’s wood-fired oven!

Doors for this general admission event will open at 6:30pm. Discounted tickets are available for youth (18 & younger) and students of any age.

An irresistibly irreverent show about the trials and triumphs of Israel’s favorite son. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s award winning musical is full of parodies and catchy songs including the unforgettable classics “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door.” Come along as we sing and dance our way through Egypt with Joseph and his brothers and sisters!