Come pick out your very own handmade blown glass pumpkin at the 9th annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! We will have over 900 glass pumpkins for display and sale spread out on the Monroe County Courthouse lawn like a real pumpkin patch. All of the pumpkins are made by the members of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. Rain or shine! Cash, check and credit card accepted.

Additional Afternoon Activities
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
face painting • glass fused suncatcher workshop • pumpkin painting • and more!

Get your glass pumpkin in the morning and then come back in the afternoon to make your own art. Hands on workshops are open to anyone ages 5+ (Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult). Space is on a first come first served basis.

Indiana University Press will host the third annual Quarry Festival of Books on Saturday, October 13. The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The event is sponsored by Bloom Magazine and WFIU/WTIU.

The Quarry Festival of Books brings together local and regional authors to celebrate a blooming community of readers and writers in the Midwest. Over 20 authors of fiction and general interest titles will be present to autograph books and meet readers with more than 100 individual books available for purchase. The festival will include special giveaways, discounts on books, book readings and events, and a fun coloring center.

“Indianapolis and several other large cities around the country regularly host book festivals to provide local residence a chance to meet and talk to authors,” said Dave Hulsey, Associate Director of Indiana University Press. “With the thriving publishing community in Bloomington, we believe our community would appreciate the same opportunity.”

The Quarry Festival of Books will be the same day as IU Homecoming. It will be a tented event.

Join the Facebook event for the full list of authors and events at the Quarry Festival of Books.

Naloxone training and distribution in the Monroe County Public Library. This will be two trainings in one:
1) A quick 20 minute training to teach you how to administer naloxone.
2) A longer, more comprehensive training. Those who stay for the full two hours will be certified to distribute naloxone for the Indiana Recovery Alliance, as well as train others on how to administer naloxone.

Limited supply of nasal and autoinjector based naloxone will be available, but there will enough intramuscular syringe injection naloxone for everyone!

Naloxone training and distribution in the Monroe County Public Library. This will be two trainings in one:

1) A quick 20 minute training to teach you how to administer naloxone.
2) A longer, more comprehensive training. Those who stay for the full two hours will be certified to distribute naloxone for the Indiana Recovery Alliance, as well as train others on how to administer naloxone.

Limited supply of nasal and autoinjector based naloxone will be available, but there will enough intramuscular syringe injection naloxone for everyone!

Contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/234222040592409/

Featuring: Hammer and Hatchet

In our everyday experience, our stress and negative emotions often seem to pervade our life. However, unpeaceful states of mind are transient, like clouds in the sky. We can use meditation to dissolve them away. When they begin to disappear, we discover and experience something previously unknown, the inner clarity and peace of our very own mind.
In this half-day course, Modern Buddhist Teacher, Tom Mitchell will help us to understand the flexible and limitless nature of our mind. By accessing its’ pure, clear nature through meditation, we can gradually gain the freedom to respond to our thoughts and feelings in the most constructive manner possible. In this way, coming from our own experience, we start to understand how to actualize our potential for the lasting happiness and freedom we seek.
Each of the 2 one-hour sessions includes a talk, guided meditation and time for questions and answers. Light refreshments will be served on the break.
Everyone is welcome to this insightful and practical half-day course.

Saturday , October 13th, 2018
7pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater

Join the BSO for a celebration of music made in the U.S.A.

Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man is a different sort of anthem. Composer Terence Blanchard says “Whenever I hear it, it stops me in my tracks and makes me reflect on the goodness of man. And I know that sounds corny for some, but it really makes me think about how, at the end of the day, most people in this country are good people. Honestly, that could have been our national anthem.”

Also on the program, Copland’s Appalachian Spring is iconic American music, deeply embedded and embraced in our culture. Our performance will be of the original chamber version, showcasing the talents of our core musicians.

Ever since its spectacular premiere in December, 1893, Dvořák’s New World Symphony has remained one of the most beloved works of the symphonic repertoire. Dvořák’s tribute to his newly-adopted country is powerful yet sentimental, filled with a sweet longing for the promise of a better life.

Season tickets now available!!
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/34132/pk/98895

Presented by Monroe County Civic Theater. Directed by Steve Heise. Starring Roy Sillings as Lear. Tickets can be purchased at https://mcct.yapsody.com/event/index/303581/william-shakespeares-king-lear. Pay online or reserve for will call.

To celebrate the spooky side of the fall season by showing the Tim Burton movie “Beetlejuice” (celebrating its 30th anniversary this year!). The screening will take place at dusk outside Hopscotch Coffee Roastery. Hopscotch will be serving its delicious drinks to keep you nice and warm and we’ll be cooking up some spooky seasonal fun to accompany the feature. Bring friends! Bring family! Bring an outdoor chair (if you’re so inclined)! We do hope you’ll join us, this promises to be a fun one!
You’ll laugh! You’ll shriek! You’ll never look at a shrimp cocktail the same again!

$7 Cover before 12 $10 Cover After 12
Ladies, Add us on snap chat for $5 cover and guys get $2 off!

Doors open @ 11:30pm – Free Parking
The Players Pub 424 S Walnut St Bloomington, IN 47401.