An orphan, a hidden key and a secret garden frame the story of this Tony award-winning Broadway musical filled with mystery, magic, and hauntingly beautiful music.  The Secret Garden is based on the classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett; book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon. A Stages Bloomington production with Director, Pat Gleeson and Music Director, Susan Swaney. Recommended for adults and children ages 8 and older.

November 12-15
Whikehart Auditorium, Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center
122 S. Walnut Street
$12-$15. Tickets and details: www.stagesbloomington.com or bctboxoffice.com

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce 24/7/365 a video work by Kevin O. Mooney. This exhibition will open Friday, October 23 and continue through Wednesday, November 18, 2015. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. Kevin O. Mooney will give a gallery talk about 24/7/365 on Friday, November 13 at 12 noon in the Grunwald Gallery.

365247•2012 is a time-based piece created by Kevin O. Mooney. Rooted in still photography, the work is presented as a video projection. The more than 250,000 still images, presented as a photographic stop-motion animation, allow the viewer to witness the artist’s day-to-day routines, the same activities that are experienced by many on a daily basis. When interacting with the piece, the past and future are viewed simultaneously. Ultimately, a year in the artist’s life is presented in under an hour, offering others the opportunity to vicariously participate and find meaning in mundane activities while also reexamining their own unrecognized minutes, hours and days.

Mooney states: “I have been fascinated with self-portraiture since the mid-seventies. I began photographing myself as an undergraduate student while attending Southern Illinois University in the cinema & photography program. Throughout my career as a commercial/editorial photographer, I continued to do self-portraits, often with the subjects that I photographed for a specific assignment or job, primarily as a record of who I had photographed, especially if the person was famous. I then decided to challenge myself by making a photographic self-portrait every day for an entire year. When 1997 was over I continued with the daily self-portrait, incorporating it into my daily routine, and do so to this day.”

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce The Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Indiana University Collections. This exhibition will open Friday, October 23 and continue through Wednesday, November 18. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. A series of noon talks will be presented by the curators and collection managers of several special collections on Friday, October 30 and Friday, November 6 in the Grunwald Gallery.

The Wunderkammer highlights the practice of private and institutional collecting of art, artifacts, specimens, and objects through the special collections on Indiana University’s campus that are not typically seen by the average visitor. Indiana University has a number of well-known collections on public display, including the IU Art Museum and the Lilly Library. But there are other collections that are often overlooked or unknown to most visitors, such as the Department of Biology’s Herbarium, The Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection, and the University Archives, among many others.

The public museums at Indiana University are easily accessible and often feature objects from their collections that are the most well known, valuable, and historically and culturally important. However, each collection also contains items that are unusual or non-traditional, which the public rarely sees. It is in the context of the Wunderkammer that we display these items, as a cabinet of curiosities similar to the traditional collections amassed by individuals in the sixteenth century. This tradition continued well into the nineteenth century, with individuals collecting art, natural history specimens, cultural artifacts and ephemera, and there is a resurgence of interest in this today.

Special collections at IU were invited to partner with the Grunwald Gallery to select unusual or non-traditional items for the exhibit. Because of this focus, the information about how these objects came to be part of these collections is as important as the items themselves. This exhibit addresses the psychological motivations behind both institutional and private collecting, why and how special collections end up with unusual items, the stories that these unusual items have to tell, and the information and background they add that may not be obvious in more celebrated works. Some objects in the exhibit include Herman B Wells handmade underwear from the Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection; A petrified hen’s egg from 1835 trapped inside the walls of the Wylie House Museum; the original 1955 Relax-A-cizor device from the Kinsey Institute Collections; and Diana Ross’s lunchbox and gold record from the film Bustin’ Loose from the Archives of African American Music and Culture to name only a few.

Collections that will be represented are the Archives for African American Music and Culture, The Herbarium and Zoology Collections in the Department of Biology, The Black Film Center Archives, Campus Collections, the Indiana University Art Museum, the Glenn Black Laboratory, The Kinsey Institute, The Mathers Museum of World Cultures, The Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection, The University Archives and The Wylie House Museum.

This exhibit and corresponding programs were made possible by the participating institutions and the Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University.

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Indiana University Health Plans will host free Medicare Advantage Seminars to help residents select the right health insurance plan during open enrollment which runs now through Dec. 7, 2015. The seminar will include information about plan options, premiums and deductibles, prescription drug coverage, key deadlines and more. There is no cost or obligation to attend.

Parkinson’s is a part of some people’s lives but it doesn’t have to be life itself. When we not only manage the disease but also plan ahead for new symptoms that may arise, we more easily adapt. This is an interactive group with opportunities for sharing and questions. Heather will introduce some chair exercises and offer support for caregivers as well. Anyone living with Parkinson’s is invited to join at any time. The group meets monthly and is always open to newcomers. Sponsored by Covenant Care.

About the Monthly Facilitator: Heather Gaunt (Covenant Care , McCormick’s Creek Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing,) has been working in healthcare for the last 8 years with a primary focus on older adults, rehab for those adults as well as preventative measures to allow them to remain independent for as long as possible. Call to register, or for more information: 876-3383 ex. 515

We are an acoustic duo going under the name Melinda Kay, comprised of Melinda Armstrong on vocals and Randy Nichols on guitar. We play covers from all genres and our own original music. Our music is country-rock with some folk and bluegrass mixed in.

On Thursday, 12th, beginning at 5:30p.m. The Venue will host a touring performance by The Michael Malis Trio.
The Michael Malis Trio is a forward looking, composition-ally motivated improvising Jazz ensemble based in Detroit, Michigan. Their music includes elements of free improvisation, as well as moments of highly detailed, through-composed material, with a thread of jazz-informed language running through out.
“The Trio’s multi-faceted styling’s cover a broad range of free expression. They bridge the gap between original composed, complex material and the spontaneity of improvisation.” HOT HOUSE JAZZ GUIDE, NEW YORK, NY. “Much in demand in the Detroit and Ann Arbor area… [Malis] maintains and hones his own voice; one of our emerging stars.”KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE, ANN ARBOR, MI
In the summer of 2015, the group toured the Midwest and East Coast. Bloomington is the first stop on their new Fall Tour. You can visit the following link for free parking options near The Venue: http://bloomington.in.gov/parksmart. Join us for this entertaining and unique Jazz experience, free.

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

Sweet Charity brings one of the most iconic characters of musical theater to the stage. Charity Hope Valentine is a dancehall regular, down on her luck, and nurturing her broken dreams. Sweet Charity premiered in 1966 to rave reviews and nine Tony® nominations.

November 5, at 5:30 p.m. Studio Theatre 2nd floor of the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center A pre-show lecture on “Work” as it relates to Sweet Charity and the U.S. society of the 1960s. Led by an IU professor to be determined.

Sweet Charity is part of The College of Arts and Sciences’ semester-long initiative, “Themester 2015: @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet. Themester is a program that combines academic courses, public lectures and exhibits, film showings and other events and is intended to engage students and the entire community in a collective learning experience about a timely, even urgent, issue. For more information about Themester 2015, follow this link: themester.indiana.edu.

For tickets, please contact the IU Auditorium box office:
(812) 855-1103
[email protected]

Duane Davis, director
Ly Wilder, associate director

with special guest artist Darmon Meader