Topic: Insect Basics
Join WonderLab Educators as we kick off a new month of Discovery Time. This month we will be learning all about insects. This week we will talk about what insects are and the different types of insects. We will do an activity to make a spider out of a cardboard tube. Participants will learn STEM skills through play. Activities are designed for ages 3-6, all are welcome.

Topic: Cicadas!
Our May Science Explorations theme is insects. We will begin the month with a cicada Invasion! The Brood X periodical Cicada is emerging in Bloomington after 17 years underground. Join us and learn all about this buzzing and clicking arthropod. Our activities align with Indiana and Next Generation Life Science Science Standards. Materials are not necessary.

TWO WAYS TO EXPERIENCE:

Email [email protected] and we will send you the ZOOM link
OR
watch LIVE on the Writers Guild at Bloomington page

https://tinyurl.com/8atu7sz2

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
6pm EST

OBSERVING ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
featuring
David Mura, Anni Liu, Danny Nguyen
music by vocalist Kyoko Kitamura

Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association

ANNI LIU is a writer, editor, and translator with work featured in Ploughshares, Ecotone, the Georgia Review, Two Lines, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Indiana University and works at Graywolf Press. Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books, her first book will be published in 2022.

DAVID MURA’s newest book is A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. He has written four books of poetry: The Last Incantations, Angels for the Burning, The Colors of Desire (Carl Sandburg Award), and After We Lost Our Way (National Poetry Contest winner). His two memoirs are: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award) and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identity. His novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Prize and Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. He is finishing a book of essays on race and a book of essays on Asian American identity. Mura has taught at the VONA Writers’ Conference, the Stonecoast MFA program, the U. of Oregon, the U. of Minnesota, St. Olaf College, and Hamline University. He has worked as Director of Training for the Innocent Classroom, a program designed by writer and educator Alexs Pate to train K-12 teachers to improve their relationships with students of color. He helped start the Twin Cities community arts organization, The Asian American Renaissance, and served as its artistic director.

DANNY THANH NGUYEN (they/she/he equally) has published stories and personal essays in The Offing, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have been awarded fellowships and grants from Ragdale Foundation, Lambda Literary, Kundiman, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Her column on BDSM/kink culture appears in the international fetish social network platform Recon and is translated into five languages. Follow him on social media: @engrishlessons.

KYOKO KITAMURA is a vocal improviser, bandleader, and composer based in Brooklyn. She leads her ensemble Tidepool Fauna (featuring saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Dayeon Seok), co-leads Geometry (with Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid), and is an active side person with recent appearances on albums by William Parker, Cory Smythe, and Russ Lossing, for which she has garnered stellar reviews. Kitamura is also known for her decade-long association with musician and composer Anthony Braxton and is featured on many of his releases including GTM (Syntax) 2017, the 12-hour recording of his vocal works performed by the Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble which she directed and co-produced, as well as his operas Trillium E and Trillium J. Separate from her music career, Kitamura is also a media professional. She was a reporter for Fuji Television Japan and was their Paris news correspondent, did a stint as a Gulf War reporter in Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and also wrote for numerous magazines. Between 2010 and 2019, she was the Director of Communications for the Tri-Centric Foundation, Anthony Braxton’s nonprofit organization, and then the Executive Director of the same organization until April 2021. Kyoko studied piano at Juilliard Pre-College with Ms. Jane Carlson, and privately studied counterpoint and Schoenberg harmony with Mr. Paul Caputo.