This thirty-minute class teaches water running, which is an ideal resistance exercise for anyone who wants to reduce stress on the joints or simply seeks variety in their workout. Runs every Tuesday and Thursday from April 16 to May 27. Register on website.

Children ages 9 and up can play flag football at Third Street Park. A program of Boys & Girls Club of Bloomington.

Annual fee for membership in the Boys & Girls Club is $20. It is open to ages 6-18. See website for more information and membership form.

Strength training is recommended to help keep muscles toned and bones dense. Certified instructors will use equipment such as body bars, hand weights, and stability balls to create a variety of workouts. This one-hour strength class will use exercises that are functionally appropriate for all and will create an overall toning experience for the entire body. It runs every Tuesday and Thursday evening from April 17 to May 24. Register on website.

Traditional jazz ensemble, the B-Town Bearcats, will perform this Jazz Fables show at Bear’s Place. The B-Town Bearcats perform the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke and many others. The instrumentation is the traditional Dixieland format: Trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, banjo, piano, vocalist and drums. Show begins at 5:30.

This forty-five minute “boot camp” class at the Monroe County YMCA combines a number of intense exercises (plyometrics, running skills, jumping, and stair climbing) and is an advanced level class. It runs every Thursday evening from April 19 to May 24. Register on website.

Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.

Showtimes:
Thursday, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, May 25, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 26, 7:00 p.m

Bloomington Playwrights Project & Indiana University proudly present Maggie Cassidy (book, music and lyrics by Chris Jeffries, based on the novel by Jack Kerouac) a new musical this May as part of the BPP & IU New Musical Series.

Maggie Cassidy presents a new and unfamiliar look at Jack Kerouac, before he wrote the American classic On the Road and became the father of the Beat Generation. The forces that shaped him—tensions surrounding his religion, his cultural economic background, and an America struggling to find itself again after the fall of the Great Depression—are all present and at play. Maggie Cassidy is the powerful story of a great American author coming of age.

Playing May 18, 19, 24 – 26 & May 31 – June 2 at 8pm & May 20 & 27 at 2pm at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Buy tickets at the Buskirk Chumley Theater Box Office.

The Heartless Bastards will perform a show at the Bluebird Nightclub. Ages 21+. Purchase tickets at Ticketmaster.com.

Anchored by the powerful vocals and incisive songwriting of Erika Wennerstrom, the Heartless Bastards are a roots rock band whose tough, emotionally resonant music incorporates elements of blues, hard rock, garage punk and country as filtered through tales of a hardscrabble life lived in the American Midwest.

These United States is the opener.

“Sing your hairy bear out” at Bear’s Place Karaoke, which is held every Thursday at 9:00 pm. Hundreds of new songs are offered. No cover.