Join us twice a month for this circle time which features stories, rhymes, and songs that will get you and your baby laughing and learning. No registration needed, just drop in at 9:30.

Need some unbiased financial advice? Try our free and confidential one-on-one sessions with a financial expert. Appointments are 30 minutes; first-come, first-served. Drop in. Adults/older teens. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 31. Program room 2B, second floor.

Would you like to help with some of the programs the Children’s Dept. is offering this summer? Come to the orientation meeting to find out more about our volunteer jobs and to set up a schedule. Please bring a calendar, so you know what dates you’ll be available! (Check with a parent beforehand, to find out when you’ll be in camp or out of town.) Please sign up for volunteer opportunities only if you are serious and motivated about being here when promised. Middle school students are encouraged to have a parent attend with them. Orientation Meeting open to middle school (finished 6th grade) and high school students.
No registration necessary.
Thursday, May 31, 4:30-530 p.m.
Meeting Rooms 1B and 1C

The Jazz Fables concert series at Bear’s Place presents this performance of the Al Cobine Big Band. The show begins at 5:30 pm.

Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of nineteenth-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers.

Showtimes:
Thursday, May 31, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, June 1, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 2, 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.

Pete Holmes is the voice of the e*Trade baby, the host of the “You Made It Weird” podcast, a voice on Ugly Americans on Comedy Central, and has been featured on Conan, Fallon and a half-hour Comedy Central special. He is also a noted cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker. He will perform at the Comedy Attic from May 31 to June 2. Check website for ticket prices and showtimes.

Reggae group The Wailers, long famous as the late Bob Marley’s band, will perform a show at the Bluebird Nightclub. Ages 21+. Purchase tickets at Ticketmaster.com.

“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.