BAM reaches out to music lovers
New nonprofit group Bloomington Area Music aims to connect people involved in the Bloomington music scene into a network that can support and promote local music efforts together.
New nonprofit group Bloomington Area Music aims to connect people involved in the Bloomington music scene into a network that can support and promote local music efforts together.
This year, junior Alexander Boissonnault fits the definition of concertmaster for the Jacobs School of Music’s Philharmonic Orchestra.
Though the rain didn’t leave Bloomington with a winter wonderland, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater was filled with holiday spirit Tuesday as Aaron Neville and his quintet took the stage for their third annual holiday tour.
However, my glory on stage has been limited to those high school productions. I am the first to admit I don’t have the talent – let alone the guts – to pursue any sort of vocal or musical performance.
“The Dark Alley Series shows things that are too edgy for the main stage,” he said. The BPP will be presenting “Sex/Death XXX” at 10 p.m. today until Saturday and Dec. 14 to 16 at the BPP. “Sex/Death” is a combination of nine short plays featuring one-night stands, homicide, fetishes and imprisonment.
Still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes that President Barack Obama, still in his first year, could transform cultural policy, funding and arts education for years to come.
Black pediatrician Fletcher Hazelton jokes to his white friend Martin Townsend in “Palmer Park,” a play by Joanna McClelland Glass, which was performed as a staged reading Monday.
Instead of giving in to an abusive government, the victims in “Parentheses of Blood” decide to take a stand. The play by Sony Labou Tansi focused on the terrors of government injustice and was performed at the Wells-Metz Theater as the last show of the Theatre and Drama Department’s fall season.
Indianapolis band We Are Hex will open for nationally touring California-based bands Crystal Antlers and Audacity at 9 p.m. today at The Bishop on South Walnut Street.
While the weather outside is frightful, four-time Grammy winner Aaron Neville and his quintet will take the stage with holiday music at 8 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The Bloomington Playwrights Project will be organizing its 26th Annual Mini Play Festival, set to take place from March 8 to 11.
Girl Scout troops 261 and 256 of Marlin Elementary greeted guests with Christmas carols as they climbed the stairs to the auditorium of the John Waldron Arts Center for the Holiday Art Mart reception Friday.
Although Tina Newberry, associate professor in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, has been teaching at IU for three years, Friday was the first time she saw any of her students’ work displayed in the school’s gallery. Those students are the 21 undergraduates enrolled in Newberry’s painting seminar this fall, and their paintings are hung in the SoFA’s center and west gallery for the BFA Painting Exhibition. The exhibition, as well as the School’s Overseas Study Exhibition, opened Tuesday and ended Saturday.
Winter ballet warms hearts with classic tale.
The original Straight No Chaser, a 10-member a capella group, will perform April 12 at the IU Auditorium.
Laughter filled the Bloomington Playwrights Project on Friday during a staged reading of “Candide Does America,” a modern twist on Voltaire’s classic.
The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra presented a small audience of family and friends with a night of toe-tapping jazz music on Friday at the John Waldron Arts Center. The performance consisted of two groups of aspiring musicians whose ages ranged from 12 to 18. The musicians, who come from local middle schools and high schools, gather once a week to practice and express their love for jazz under the guidance of IU graduate student Ben Mathews.
Stand-up comic Todd Glass made hundreds of people laugh with his quick wit, audience interaction and sheer personality at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club over the weekend.
Both craft work with cut paper and Chinese calligraphy are on display from now until Dec. 29 at the Wandering Turtle Art Gallery downtown. With displays by Deborah Klein and Donna Eder, the gallery’s annual solstice exhibit recognizes “the long winter night” season and awaits the “rebirth” season, which is spring, said Rachel DiGregorio, the gallery’s assistant manager.
The Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District and the City’s Parks and Recreation Department announced the winners of the 2010 Buskirk-Chumley Theater grants.