Co-sponsored by Bloomington Parks and Recreation and the Lake Monroe Sailing Association, these lessons teach safe sailing skills to participants 18 years of age or older. No previous sailing experience is required. Instruction includes rigging, sailing upwind and downwind, docking, terminology, safety, and the rules of the road. For sailing details, call LMSA at 824-4611. For registration information, call 349-3700. *Ten percent discount for LMSA members. Recommended text is Sailing Fundamentals by Gary Jobson, available from local bookstores or from the Monroe County Public Library. This class is also appropriate for those who may have physical limitations that make the handling of smaller boats difficult.

Classes are held from June 9 until October 7. Register at least three days in advance.

This installation presents the work of three contemporary Native American artists. It is part of the series, Contemporary Explorations, which features focused, rotating displays from the museum’s permanent collection that explore aspects of art from the 1950s to the present.

Runs until October 14

This installation, running from September 11 to December 31, will focus on three photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, who used their romantic partners as their subjects. Whether portraits or nude studies, these images reveal a sensitivity that comes from the artists and sitters’ close personal relationships.

This installation is presented in conjunction it the special exhibition “A Place Aside: Artists and their Partners,” on view at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, September 28–December 20.

Artists working in Paris and Lorraine during the Baroque period developed distinctive styles—which focused on the vibrancy of the line—that differed markedly from their Italian and Dutch contemporaries. The two print kiosks in the early part of the gallery feature French works by Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Jacques Callot, and Claude Mellan, whose engraving is a tour de force of printmaking that creates the face of Christ using a single line.

Lift it! Move it! Explore the science of pulleys and levers as you effortlessly pull yourself high off the ground in a pulley chair, lift a heavy block of stone with the strength of your little finger, design a catapult to lay siege to a castle, build a model of an amusement park ride and more! This exhibit on simple machines will remain at WonderLab from June 05 until September 23.

WonderLab’s hours are 9:30 am to 5 pm Tue-Sat, 1 pm – 5 pm Sunday. Open extended evening hours until 8:30 pm the first Friday of the month.

A history of violence and oppression threatens to engulf the residents of an affluent seaside community in Neighboring Sounds, a thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho. A palpable sense of unease hangs over a single city block in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Home to prosperous families and the servants who work for them, the area is ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons. When a private security firm is reluctantly brought in to protect the residents from a recent spate of petty crime, it unleashes the fears, anxieties and resentments of a divided society still haunted by its troubled past. Portuguese language with English subtitles.
(35mm. 131 min. Not rated.) Director Kleber Mendonça Filho is scheduled to be present on September 18 for introduction and Q&A.

Gorgeous music from the Irish tradition, from Karan Casey and John Doyle, plus a Global Rhythms world music extravaganza. And the 2011 Lotus Pin is your admission. Karan Casey & John Doyle, 3 pm, take the stage as a duo to begin this year’s final Festival set. Karan and John are Lotus favorites, and two of the finest Irish traditional musicians around. The second half of Sunday’s double-bill is Srinivas Krishnan‘s Global Rhythms, 4 pm, a performance rooted in Indian traditions but embracing other genres and instrumentation from around the world.

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Led by Srinivas Krishnan—Master percussionist and director of the Global Rhythms project at the Center for American and World Cultures (Miami University of Ohio)—the Global Rhythms world music extravaganza wraps up this year’s Lotus. “The musical creations of Global Rhythms are rooted in a community of artists and composers from around the world,” says Krishnan. Global Rhythms is also inspired by the genres and traditions of other cultures, including Western jazz and classical music. Sponsored by Dr. David E. Lawler & The Center for Sound Sleep.

Timothy Ehlen, Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Illinois, visits Bloomington September 23 to perform with musical collaborator and alumna Yu-Chi Tai in the Ehlen-Tai Piano Duo. Their free performance in Auer Hall at 8 pm includes works by Mozart, Ravel, and Lutoslowski.

This performance of the University Orchestra will be conducted by Manny Laureano, and will feature the following works:

Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger (1863)
Travers: Fairytale (2002/2012)
Goldmark: Ländliche Hochzeit, Op. 26 (Rustic Wedding Symphony) (1877)