What: Improving Your Balance Class

When: Twice Weekly (8 classes), Monday & Thursdays,
Feb 17 through March 13, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Who: Sarah Hugus, Endwright Center Fitness Specialist

Where: The Endwright Center, 631 W. Edgewood Drive, Ellettsville, 47429

Cost: $24 (only $3 per class!). $16 for Endwright Center Members

Additional Information:
Falling is currently the number one cause of serious injury in older adults, so good balance is an extremely important aspect of maintaining an active lifestyle as we age. Fortunately, balance can be improved through a variety of strength and flexibility exercises. This class will teach and reinforce basic skills to help maintain and improve balance in order to prevent the occurrence of falls.

While most balance exercises do not require equipment, we are pleased to incorporate our new balance exercise tools provided by a Smithville Charitable Foundation grant. Materials such as wooden wobble boards, foam balance pads, and Therabands help strengthen muscles associated with balance and coordination. Payment options are available upon request.

For more information: call the center at 876-3383 ex. 515.

The Kinsey Institute is offering two exhibits this season, featuring a mix of artwork from the archives along with several paintings borrowed from private collections. “Beauty and the Beast: The Erotic Art of Ian Hornak” showcases a major gift of drawings and paintings from the estate of 20th century American artist Ian Hornak. Although best known for his photo-realist landscapes, Hornak’s early work from the late 1960s often focused on the nude figure, at times combining human and animal anatomy. “Flora” presents a broad selection of photographs, prints, paintings, sculptures and books that feature plant or landscape imagery. Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Kinsey Institute Gallery opens on Monday, January 27 for self-guided tours, 1:30 to 4:30 pm M-F or by appointment during business hours. Guided group tours may be scheduled by calling 812-855-7686 or emailing [email protected]. Admission is free. The Kinsey Institute is located at Indiana University, Morrison Hall, Room 313, Bloomington IN 47405. Telephone: (812) 323-1727. www.KinseyInstitute.org The Kinsey Institute is closed all Indiana University holidays.

Join us in a brainstorm to take IDEAS Network from now to WOW! Help us identify more non-profits who might want to take advantage of this free assistance and to entice more creative thinkers to join us in this effort!

IDEAS Network is a fun way to join in building collaborative efforts with individuals or organizations by Initiating, Developing, Evaluating, Activating or Sustaining ideas.

Participants are encouraged to meet and network with other creativity seekers and innovation enthusiasts while discovering ways to unlock their own creativity. The IDEAS Network builds an understanding and expertise in creative thinking and process.

All are welcome to attend, especially curious, enthusiastic, and community-oriented thinkers!

Free & open to the public; Refreshments served

Spurred by the sudden death of her mother, Maria embarks on a quest to find her absent father. Her travels take her to an abandoned banana plantation in a neighboring town where she encounters taciturn widower Joaquin, and his Haitian domestic worker Polo Montifa. Justiniano, a mysterious stranger from Puerto Rico, complicates matters in this magical realist melodrama. The first Dominican feature film directed by a woman, La Hija Natural was the Dominican Republic’s official submission to the 84th Academy Awards® for best foreign language film. The film will be preceded by the short film Chimbumbe (2008), directed by Antonio Coello. In Spanish language with English subtitles. (HD Cam presentation)

Inspired by the reflections of scholars Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy on the roots and routes of black identity, this series is a glimpse into the vibrancy of contemporary Caribbean filmmaking. These films deal with the legacies of migration to and from the region, as well as the tug of close familial and distant ancestral links. Representing the Caribbean’s linguistic and cultural diversity, Roots/Routes especially emphasizes woman-directed and women-centered films as integral to a truly dynamic Caribbean cinema culture. Sponsored by the Black Film Center/Archive, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Minority Languages and Cultures Program, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Nzingha Kendall.

Student chamber ensembles studying with the Pacifica Quartet—the quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music—will continue their series of free, off-campus chamber music concerts in Bloomington. The first concert of the spring 2014 semester takes place on Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center.

Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center has invited the series to continue in their intimate Miller Gallery. Called “Chamber Music Mondays,” this series has been created to explore the chamber music repertoire among the gallery’s visual arts exhibits. Initiated one year ago by the Pacifica Quartet to offer more performance opportunities for the student chamber ensembles they coach, select ensembles will perform in a variety of unique venues outside of the Jacobs School walls including the Wylie House Museum, Rachael’s Café (Classical Revolution), Meadowood Retirement Community, and the Miller Gallery of the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. See the full schedule of free concerts below.

Schedule of Performances

WHAT: “Chamber Music Mondays” at the Miller Gallery
WHEN: 7 p.m. March 10 and May 5
WHERE: Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center/Miller Gallery, 122 S. Walnut Street, Bloomington, Ind.

WHAT: “Saturday Afternoon String Quartets” at the Wylie House Museum
WHEN: 3 p.m. April 19, 26, and May 3
WHERE: Wylie House Museum, 307 E. Second Street, Bloomington, Ind.

WHAT: Classical Revolution
WHEN: 4 – 7 p.m. March and April dates TBA
WHERE: Rachael’s Café, 300 E. Third Street, Bloomington, Ind.