World vocal music ensemble.

On Tuesday evening, beginning at 5:30 p.m. as part of our When Art Heals series, The Venue will host a presentation by Michelle Martin-Colman, founder of our local Ophelia Project, the go-to program addressing relational aggression and bullying in our schools and work places. Michelle will introduce her newest initiative, “Surviving Ophelia”, a program to identify and develop positive mental health initiatives and protocols that address problems of depression, grief, feelings of disconnectedness, loss of hope, and other mental health issues that lead to suicide.
Michelle recently attended the 50th Conference of American Association of Suicidology (http://www.suicidology.org/) in Phoenix, to identify evidence-based suicide prevention resources to bring back to our community. “I was pleasantly surprised to hear one of the first speakers refer to Non-Violent Communication as an effective model of communication that we know can work to prevent suicide,” she says.
On Tuesday, Michelle will present an introduction to NonViolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Attendees are invited to visit the CNVC.org webside, home page, and click NVC Chapter one, Download the NVC Model, Concepts, Feelings List and Needs List and get started saving relationships and lives! “This model saves lives, and has for years,” says Michelle. “I’m looking forward to our community getting serious about saving lives.”

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Team Trivia with Cake for fourth place. Better prizes? for 1st, 2nd & 3rd.
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Kimberly McCoy and Mark Fuller will perform some of their mandolin and guitar songs this evening as one of the newer singer-songwriters we’ve featured. Kimberly was mentored by Jim Krause (Jim Krause/Anne Hurley Duo) and has put together some pretty cool tunes accompanied by husband Mark Fuller, who is a singer-songwriter too. McCoy and Fuller will be leaving Bloomington to head back west after getting degrees from Indiana University – and the two can be found nearly every Tuesday evening enjoying and studying the Feature Writers who’ve performed for the past couple of years. We’ll miss them dearly.
Nicky (Rood) Kerr (www.nickyroodmusic.com) is a young lady who joined Joe Peters a few weeks back as a back-up singer on one of his tunes, and just blew us away with her great big voice. We reached out and booked her the next day. She performs on keyboard and her tunes tend to have a Nashville sound and new country feel. Nicky is heavily involved with SAMI, a singer-songwriter group based in the Indy-Lafayette area, as their president. That group has produced some of our faves – including Joe Peters, Briagha McTavish, and ‘Summer’ to name a few. Visit www.samisong.com to learn more about SAMI.
Grace Minnick (www.graceminnickmusic.com) is a lovely, very young singer-songwriter. We learned of her when she performed at one of our Open Guest Chair spots a few months ago. She and her ukulele combined to present some pretty sweet sounds.
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Weekly all-ages Blues Jam. Host band will play the first set, then invite you & others to join in.