Community Calendar

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.

Back by popular demand! Come build with us at CardBoard Build Days, a hands-on, creativity-packed program where imagination and engineering meet! Designed for children ages 8 and up, this experience invites young builders to explore the endless possibilities of cardboard as a construction material. Drop in and build!
To spark creativity and demonstrate building strategies, we’ll have themed stations each showcasing a different cardboard crafting technique. Kids can try them all—or simply use them as inspiration for their own original ideas. The stations include:
Marble Runs: We will have one pre-build for inspiration
Towers and bridges
Nature Inspired

Presented by Weddle Bros.

Recommended Ages: Ages 8 and up

Dates:
Saturday, April 25 | 11am - 4pm
Sunday, April 26 | 1:30 - 4:30pm

Event Price: Free with Museum Admission

Admission Prices:
Member: FREE
Non-member: $14.50
Access pass: $5

Purchase Admission: wonderlab.org or specific for the day of the event at: https://bit.ly/cbbd

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.

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.

The Jacobs School of Music presents the Meet Me at the Metz Carillon Series.

The Jeopardy! Bar League Championship is now in full swing, bringing weekly trivia nights to bars across the country where teams compete and climb the leaderboard.

Join and register your team at a participating bar, play along with your team each week, and earn points as you go — the more you play, the better your chances.

Top teams in each region will take home cash prizes, and one team will earn the national title — along with a VIP trip to Los Angeles and a behind-the-scenes experience at the Alex Trebek Stage. Will you be the ones to take it home?

You can still be part of it - check out the leaderboard and find a bar near you to jump in while the competition’s still heating up - https://www.jeopardybarleague.com/leaderboard/

Constellation Stage & Screen is teaming up with Morgenstern Books for an under-the-sea themed Family Night in honor of Finn: A New Musical. Enjoy storytime with Constellation in the children's department at Morgenstern Books as we read The Rainbow Fish. Afterwards, build your own paper plate fish or shark, enjoy a sea-worthy treat, and learn more about their upcoming production!
This event is free and open to all, and it does not require pre-registration.

Join us for the legendary IU Soul Revue’s annual spring concert! Get ready to groove as the music takes you on a journey through the best of funk, soul, and R&B. Under the direction of Professor James Strong, the IU Soul Revue is set to deliver a powerhouse performance that will have the audience on their feet. This show promises to honor its rich legacy in unforgettable fashion. Don’t miss it!

It's the final countdown! The 24th season of QMC is coming to an end, and the chorus is adding another 525,600 minutes to our long history with a spring concert that is "By the Numbers!" You won't have to walk 500 miles to enjoy it, as we are singing right here in Bloomington, at First United Church, on Saturday, April 25th at 7:30pm and again on Sunday, April 26th at 3pm.

Numerical songs abound, but Quarryland invites you to this curated musical experience where you'll have a million reasons to laugh, cry, cheer, or just count your blessings. Time after time, our chorus sings for a measure of belonging, personal expression, and musical excellence in the LGBTQ+ community. You can count on QMC to make it worth your time!

Concert Sponsor:
IU Credit Union

Season Sponsors:
Shadday Realty Group/Sheetz Century 21