Event: Annual MCHC Holiday Sale
Dates: 29 October 2019 to 11 January 2020
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Monroe County History Center, 202 E 6th Street
It’s that time of year again at the Monroe County History Center! Find your new favorite decoration or the perfect gift for that special someone. The annual Holiday Sale can be found in the first floor corridor across from the Dunn Museum Store.
All proceeds of the annual MCHC Holiday Sale support the preservation of collections, programs, and exhibits at the Monroe County History Center.

Come join us at the fireside for an amazing night of tapas from One World Catering, appetizers and desserts from celebrity chefs, music and a story, a silent and live auction with Brother William Morris and more, all at this exciting, historic One World Catering location.

Tickets are $60 per person in advance ($65 at the door) and are available at Shalom, at the BCT box office, and online. To inquire, please contact Dorothy Granger at (812)-334-5734 ext. 123 or at [email protected]

Help us celebrate the 50th anniversaries of WTIU and PBS at our annual Open House! Meet WFIU and WTIU personalities and take a tour of our broadcast facilities. Light refreshments will be provided courtesy of Terry’s Banquets & Catering and Oliver Winery. It’s our way of thanking you for your support as you get an insider’s look at public broadcasting.

The Open House is a free event and open to the public.

A Fireside Gala for the Shalom Community Center

The Woolery Mill will host an evening of celebrity chefs and renowned artists to help people facing homelessness in Bloomington.

The Gala event, benefitting the Shalom Community Center’s programs for the most needy citizens of Monroe County, will feature music by Amanda Biggs, a performance by the Bloomington Youth Harmonic Quartet, and a poetry reading by Ross Gay.

William Morris, DJ for WFIU’s The Soul Kitchen will host an auction for items including coffee with bestselling author Michael Koryta, work by Loren Wood Builders, and more.

Tickets are available online and at the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office

What: Fireside Gala at the Woolery Mill for the Shalom Community Center
Where: The Woolery Mill, 2250 W Sunstone Dr
When: Tuesday 29 Oct 2019, 6pm-9pm
Tickets: $60, available at the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office

Rhiannon Giddens is an American artist of folk and traditional music, played on fiddle and banjo; Francesco Turrisi is an Italian pianist and percussionist well versed in jazz, early music, and Mediterranean music; at first blush, their worlds don’t overlap. But at a chance musical meet-up in Ireland they found that her 19th century American minstrel banjo tunes and his traditional Sicilian tamburello (tambourine) rhythms fit very naturally together. They soon discovered the reason for that – their respective roots coexisted in the past. Pictures of early minstrel bands depict the banjo and tambourine (called tambo) played together, with the tambo often being held in the same manner of the Southern Italian tamburello today.

The impact that West African music and dance have had upon American culture is by now well known, but centuries before, European music was being transformed by Arabic and North African modes, instruments, and rhythms. Working together, these two artists trace this musical globalism by reimagining the encounter of the banjo and the frame drum, and other instruments, through their journey from Africa, the Middle East, through southern Europe and England, and over to the Americas….