Community Calendar

The Friends of McCormick's Creek 5k Run/Walk is scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 8:30am at McCormick’s Creek State Park. Runners and Walkers should register online at: https://runsignup.com/Race/IN/Spencer/FriendsMcCormicksCreek5k
Proceeds will be used to develop and support projects and events that help preserve, restore, manage, and interpret the natural and cultural heritage and recreational opportunities of McCormick’s Creek State Park. This timed, family-friendly event is part of the Mag 7 Race Series.

This new exhibition features a variety of costume and scenic designs by the late Robert O’Hearn, alumnus and professor emeritus of opera studies in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. O’Hearn also worked as an opera, ballet, and theater designer for the Metropolitan Opera, IU Opera and Ballet Theater, Broadway, and other opera and theater companies across the country and Europe. A selection from the 600+ works that are now held by the University Archives celebrates O’Hearn as a visual storyteller, talented artist, and impactful designer.

The MADD 3v3 Basketball Tournament is a community-based event that brings together local teams, families, and supporters for a fun and competitive day of basketball, all while supporting a meaningful cause. Hosted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), the tournament helps raise funds to support MADD’s mission to end drunk and drugged driving, support victims and survivors, and prevent underage drinking. Proceeds from the event benefit victim advocacy services, educational programs, and community awareness initiatives that promote safer roads. The tournament is more than just basketball, it’s an opportunity for the community to come together, promote responsible choices, and make a positive impact. We will also be honoring local law enforcement for going above and beyond in OWI arrest and assisting in crashes. There will be a speaker on how MADD has made an impact on their family. Texas Roadhouse will be catering the event for those who attend.

Get to know YOUR healing hands at an upcoming Reiki training!

Learn powerful, proven, empowering, and inspiring ways of helping yourself, friends, family, clients, animals, and others experience blissful relaxation, pain relief, emotional peace, and holistic healing from the inside out.

Reiki is a hands-on energy healing modality, and you will be amazed by what you can do after just one weekend. People of all backgrounds are warmly welcome, including those who want to use it professionally and/or personally! No experience necessary.

Receive practitioner certification, experiential training, manuals, energetic attunements, and personal transformation. Discounts available when you sign up more than 2 weeks in advance, for multiple levels, or when you register with a buddy. Pre-registration is required, and spots are limited and fill quickly!

Facilitated by Christine Eartheart, esteemed Reiki Master/Teacher who has trained and certified several hundreds of local practitioners.

Please email info@joypotential.com with any questions. More info and registration at https://joypotential.com/reiki/

The Friends of Monroe County Public Library present the Big Spring Book Sale. All books are just 50¢ to $2.00. The sale reflects the breadth of our community’s interests – add to your choices for cooking, delve into a new area in history, or find good books for (grand)children. Fiction, biography, politics, DVDs, music, and much more are in good supply, with new material added every day.

Thursday, April 16: 4:00–7:00 PM (Early bird sale for Friends members only: you can join at the door or online at mcpl.info.friends).

Open to the public:
Friday, April 17: 10 AM–6 PM (all books 50¢ to $2.00)
Saturday, April 18: 10 AM–6 PM (all books 50¢ to $2.00)
Sunday, April 19: Noon–6 PM (fill a Friends tote bag for $12; fill a box for $18)
Monday, April 20: 9 AM–2 PM (all remaining items are free)

The sale is in Meeting Rooms 1B/1C on the ground floor of the Monroe County Public Library at 303 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington IN 47408. All proceeds support the programs and services of the Library.

Have you ever seen a crazy quilt? Stop by the Wylie House in March to see Rebecca Wylie’s 100+ year-old crazy quilt, a beautiful patchwork of fabric filled with embroidery. Then, Saturdays March 7 & 28, come to our education center and learn how to stitch those same designs onto your own felt ornament.

March 5-7 the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show will be held at the Bloomington Convention Center, where you can see contemporary quilts come to life!

*The museum will be closed Saturdays March 14 & 21 for Spring Break.

Saturday Crafternoons are a free event for families, students, and friends of all ages! Activities change monthly. Check the Wylie House Museum socials and website for updated information, parking information, and museum tour hours.

The Jacobs School of Music presents a Master’s Recital by Nicolas Orrego, double bass.

Come preserve a memory of spring by making a Pocket Flower Press at the Wylie house museum. Theophilus Wylie and his family regularly pressed flowers and sent the specimens to one another as keepsakes. Records of this exist in the letters- many reference Anton Wylie and his father Hermann Boisen sending leaves and flowers while Hermann was away on trips.

Saturday Crafternoons are a free event for families, students, and friends of all ages! Activities change monthly. Check the Wylie House Museum socials and website for updated information, parking information, and museum tour hours.

All ages are invited to view and explore "Art as Inquiry", a juried climate art exhibition at the Pillar Arts Alliance Center, Bloomington, IN from Apr 2–29.
Featuring 2 D and 3 D artworks from 25 artists across several states, “Art as Inquiry” invites visitors to encounter climate research and climate unease, ecological change, and environmental justice through the lens of artistic imagination.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday only

Related events:
April 12, 2–3 pm – Nature Walk, a pre-reception musical and narrative performance led by IU Jacobs School of Music student Thejas Mirle and four composers, with narration by Distinguished IU Biology Professor Roger Hangarter.

April 12, 3–5 pm – Reception for this member climate art exhibition; refreshments; prizes awarded. All welcome.

April 19, 3–6 pm – Climate Co lab Reception + Nature Walk performance; brief introductions of artists and partners. Beginning April 19, six more artworks from the Climate Co lab (organized by Brushes for a Better Planet) join the exhibition, displayed alongside the Art as Inquiry works. Refreshments; all welcome.

On the heels of two Grammy-winning albums in succession, with her band Golden Highway—2022’s Crooked Tree and 2023’s City of Gold—plus a nomination for Best New Artist, Molly Tuttle returns with a solo album that’s her most dazzling to date: So Long Little Miss Sunshine.

Catch her for an intimate solo set at Landlocked Music to celebrate Record Store Day 2026! All-ages, bring the family. CDs and Vinyl of her albums will be available for purchase. After her short set of music Molly will sign merchandise and meet her fans.