Community Calendar

Calling all True Crime fans! Join Ana for True Crime (and Coffee) Time on Thursday, August 21st at 6pm. Share your passion for true crime, explore new additions in our thriller & mystery collection, and enjoy a cup of coffee with us. Registration required. Ages 18+

This exhibit highlights the history of the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this summer. Founded in 1951 at the height of the Cold War as the Russian Workshop to address a critical shortage of language instruction, the program quickly expanded to become one of the largest and most effective intensive language programs in Russian, and later other less commonly taught languages, in the United States. Over its 75-year history, the Workshop has provided language training to more than 10,000 students in approximately 50 languages. The exhibit features archival documents, publicity materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews with former directors, instructors, and alumni that illustrate the development and success of the Workshop.

With a $5 purchase (or more) from our Artisan Shop, you can enjoy one half priced glass of wine or beer from our Café during our 4th Friday Happy Hours! Join us Fourth Friday, August 22 with music by Sounds from the Green! Mike Stribling will perform originals and covers while you mingle with friends and explore the gallery's new artwork and peruse Juniper's Artisan Shop.

This exhibit highlights the history of the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this summer. Founded in 1951 at the height of the Cold War as the Russian Workshop to address a critical shortage of language instruction, the program quickly expanded to become one of the largest and most effective intensive language programs in Russian, and later other less commonly taught languages, in the United States. Over its 75-year history, the Workshop has provided language training to more than 10,000 students in approximately 50 languages. The exhibit features archival documents, publicity materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews with former directors, instructors, and alumni that illustrate the development and success of the Workshop.

Getting ready for a semester of reading? Theophilus Wylie was an avid book collector with over 2,000 in his collection. Louisa Wylie, his daughter, was one of the first women to graduate from IU. Their family was full of academics and avid readers. Gear up for back to school by celebrating reading and craft this month and making your own embroidered bookmarks!

Join us in the Morgenstern Books children's department for our August installment of our monthly Family Nights! This month, we'll be learning about how to make new friends, while actually making puppets! Storytime and snacks provided.

Astral.
Nautical..
Neurological…

This is a special performance of the captain’s new suite of compositions dedicated to the awesome power and majesty of the ocean. As an artist dedicated to the cultivation of the moment, Rik promises to bring his own brand of “Zen Guitar” improvisation to yet another stunning set of original songs. Coupled with a light and projection presentation that is truly one of a kind, this is a particular slice of interdimensional space and time that really shouldn’t be missed.

Doors Open 6:30PM

This exhibit highlights the history of the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this summer. Founded in 1951 at the height of the Cold War as the Russian Workshop to address a critical shortage of language instruction, the program quickly expanded to become one of the largest and most effective intensive language programs in Russian, and later other less commonly taught languages, in the United States. Over its 75-year history, the Workshop has provided language training to more than 10,000 students in approximately 50 languages. The exhibit features archival documents, publicity materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews with former directors, instructors, and alumni that illustrate the development and success of the Workshop.

Save the date for Down with for Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook, featuring great tunes by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Bloomington’s own Hoagy Carmichael.

Last year we featured a romantic love story through songs, arias, and scenes. This year we flip the script! We’ll focus on two feuding exes who show up to perform at the same gala concert, brought together by their booking manager who wants to barter a truce – but who has another motive as well. Will romantic chemistry save the day, or will everyone declare that they are done – and down – with love?

Pittsburgh soprano Anna Singer and North Carolina tenor Joseph Ittoop reunite with Bloomington baritone Richard Lewis for this romantic comedy, and Baton Rouge conductor Michael Borowitz rejoins us at the piano. Our operatic scenes by Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky are featured in the “gala” concert-within-a-concert, while our characters express their emotions in great songs like “I Get Along without You Very Well,” “So in Love,” and “How Long Has This Been Going On?”

We continue our annual tradition of accepting donations to benefit Fairview Elementary School’s literacy and arts integration programs. Since 2014, you – our dedicated, generous audience – have raised over $36,000 for these vital programs. Your generosity helps provide Fairview students – whose families often face significant economic challenges – with opportunities to excel in ways they may never have dreamed possible. We will share information at the concert about ways to give in person, by QR code, or securely online. Thank you!

We will film our live concert for a fall YouTube broadcast so that we can share this musical event with our online audience. For now, please plan to join us in person on Sunday, August 24 at 4:00 p.m. for Down with Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook.

This exhibit highlights the history of the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this summer. Founded in 1951 at the height of the Cold War as the Russian Workshop to address a critical shortage of language instruction, the program quickly expanded to become one of the largest and most effective intensive language programs in Russian, and later other less commonly taught languages, in the United States. Over its 75-year history, the Workshop has provided language training to more than 10,000 students in approximately 50 languages. The exhibit features archival documents, publicity materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews with former directors, instructors, and alumni that illustrate the development and success of the Workshop.