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Jens Lekman will play an acoustic set at the Waldron

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions, a Bloomington-based promotions company, announced that Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman will be playing an acoustic set at 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at the John Waldron Arts Center. The show, which will seat 100 people, is in addition to Lekman’s 9 p.m. performance scheduled that same night at Jake’s Night Club and Bar.


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Tickets available for next week’s Governor’s Arts Awards

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The 2007 Governor’s Arts Awards ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Musical Arts Center. Tickets are available for both the ceremony and the celebration dinner immediately following at the Bloomington Convention Center. The ceremony will feature special performances from three of the six honorees.




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Celebrate IU week events

To celebrate IU’s annual homecoming weekend, the University has decided to do something different this year: Celebrate IU week. During Homecoming week, events, performances and lectures will be featured each night. From the Jacobs School of Music to the School of Fine Arts Gallery, there is no shortage of cultural happenings. Here’s a short list of free events.


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Letters from abroad

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BOLOGNA, Italy – When I hear people railing against modern art and its lack of aesthetic value, I usually get upset.






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SoFA celebrates artist Robert Baines’ new exhibit with opening reception

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For someone who is not an art school student, it may be hard to imagine that being a professional gold and metalsmith artist is a wise career move. And it’s not, unless the idea of spending all day indulging in the creative process and showing the resulting work in major capitals all over the world sounds appealing.





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New SoFA Gallery exhibits to feature contemporary jewelry and holloware through Nov.

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Friday night, the SoFA Gallery will open two new exhibits to the public. The first, “Field of Vision: Contemporary Jewelry and Holloware” will showcase the unique and sophisticated works of both national and international artists. The second is “Personal Objects: Personal Spaces,” an exhibit dedicated to everyday objects made personal through computer-aided design, by Nicole Jacquard, an assistant professor of metalsmithing.



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Workshop of wonder

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IU professor of String Technology Tom Sparks was 14 when he took apart his mother’s 18th century violin with a kitchen knife. He wanted to know how it worked, and naturally tried to find out for himself.