The Good People Good Times Music festival at Nashville’s Valley Branch Retreat will feature a wide variety of performers, including Howard, Lewis and Lovins, Strange Arrangement, Zmick, The Coop, The New Old Cavalry, Fresh Hops, and Glostik Willy. Vending and water/electric sites can be reserved for $40; see website for details.

May 18-20. See website for tickets.

The Switchyard Park Property master plan design team will be at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market to host an informal, drop-in, public session for the public to share ideas for the development of the switchyard park property, located at the south end of the B-Line Trail just north of Country Club.

The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is located at 401 N. Morton St. next to City Hall – Showers Building. Locally grown produce, annual and perennial plants, and a variety of prepared foods are available. Purchase your food directly from farmers and ask them questions about their products. Local entertainment adds to the shopping as well as socializing experience. Tantalizing scents and the inviting atmosphere may cause you to make the Market a weekend tradition.

On May 19, 2012 Bloomington will experience what Lemonade Day is all about. Prior to this day, kids and their mentors are engaging in business planning, stand building, taste testing and more—to create the most successful lemonade business possible. Across America, kids are excited about the prospect of selling their lemonade and then getting to spend some, save some and share some with charity.

Some lemonade stands will be run by families, some by school groups and still others by various clubs. Bloomingfoods is a sponsor of Lemonade Day and is happy to be working with one such club, Blooming Kids for Kindness (BK4K). This informal group of families has the purpose of encouraging their kids to care about their communities and believe that they can make a difference no matter how small they are. BK4K will be quenching the thirst of Truckload Sale consumers at Bloomingfoods East in the afternoon.

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New exhibits at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center for the month of May include work by Ben Pines, Yang Chen, Angela Hendrix-Petry, and Nate Johnson.

Figure studies by painter Ben Pines meditate on the state of relationships in our modern world; photographer Yang Chen elevates the tiniest details of spring to highlight their effervescent and ephemeral beauty; Angela Hendrix-Petry’s work is described as “An offering in celebration of an ordinary life lived with eyes and heart wide open”; Nate Johnson pays tribute to the musical and cultural figures who inspire and move him.

The exhibit will be open for viewing during regular gallery hours until May 27.

An all day scrapbooking crop will be taking place Saturday, May 19th, from 9am-7pm at the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on West Third, Bloomington. The cost is $30 which includes lunch, dinner and door prizes. All proceeds are going to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, for breast cancer research, education and mammogram screenings. Never Scrapbooked before? Start getting your family memories in order and/or learn how to start your 1st scrapbook or continue to work on ones
you’ve already started, make new friends and help raise much needed funds to find a cure for Breast Cancer.

Please contact Bonnie Waters at (812)824-6940 for complete registration details.

What does jazz look like? Can you see a symphony in your mind’s eye? This art exhibit showcases the watercolor paintings of older adults living at Sterling House, who paint to music. Lotus banners created by Bell Trace residents will also be exhibited. Bell Trace artists draw their inspiration from Alabama artist Thornton Dial and from the quilts made by residents of Gee’s Bend.

Exhibit runs daily from May 1 to May 31. Regular library hours.

The Bloomington Food Policy Council presents this event, to celebrate the upcoming gardening season and encourage growing, composting, and most importantly, local and sustainable food growing with local companies in the community (including demos).

This exhibit, produced by the Monroe County Historic Preservation Board, will feature photographs of notable and outstanding historic properties in Monroe County. Presented as part of National Historic Preservation Month. It runs until July 21.

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Bloomington Fading, an online community led by Derek and Jen Richey and dedicated to preserving information about Bloomington’s past, shows our rich architectural heritage by overlaying images of current infrastructure on historic photographs. Exhibit runs until October 27.

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