Community Calendar

Annual business meeting of the Sheeks Cemetery Association. All are welcome! Please bring your own lawn chair if needed.

Silent Auction at Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Library. We want to increase our membership by asking people to come in a bid on items. We also want to increase our membership by adding new categories one for Veterans, and one for Junior/Student membership. The Friends are a 501c3 organization dedicated to supporting the Library. Proceeds from the Auction will go to financing the Libtaty's Summer Reading Fund.

Join Mayor Kerry Thomson for the District 6 Traveling Town Hall on Monday, June 15th, 2026, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Monroe County History Center, 202 E 6th St, Bloomington, IN 47408.

This event offers residents the chance to connect directly with City leaders, ask questions, and learn more about key projects and city services.

The evening will begin with brief updates from the Mayor, followed by a Q&A session based on submitted questions. If time allows, the event will conclude with live questions from attendees.

Traveling Town Halls are held in a different district every other month as part of the City’s commitment to transparent, accessible government. Anyone interested in how city services are delivered is encouraged to attend.

The meeting will be broadcast live on Community Access Television Services (CATS) and available for on-demand viewing at catstv.net.

This plenary session of NATSA (North American Taiwan Studies Association) Annual Conference features the screening of two documentaries, Children in the Heaven and The Elephants Have Walked to Taipei, and a discussion with the directors of the films, Mayaw Biho and Salone Ishahavut. This session engages with the concept of Indigenous visual sovereignty through a conversation with the directors on documentary films as a medium for telling stories on Indigenous peoples’ own terms. Children in the Heaven depicts repeated forced evictions faced by the Pangcah Sanying community, an urban Indigenous settlement in Taipei, throughout the 1990s. The Elephants Have Walked to Taipei documents a 265-kilometer march in 2013 along the east coast from Taitung to Taipei to protest against a resort development on Pangcah people’s ancestral lands, known as Fudafudak. The post-screening conversation invites the directors to reflect on their filmmaking practices, including their motivations, narrative choices, and structural obstacles of making Indigenous voices heard. Decades on, the discussion also asks what these films still mean today, and how they resonate across Indigenous and transnational contexts.

Speakers: Mayaw Biho, Salone Ishahavut

[Timetable]

Introduction- 5 min

Film screening- 30 min

Brief talk by Mayaw and Salone- 40 min

Q&A- 15 min