Community Events

Come celebrate WFIU's 75th Anniversary and support public media at the WFIU-WTIU Open House! Meet your favorite WFIU and WTIU personalities, take a tour of our broadcast facilities, and get an insider’s look at the world of public broadcasting.

Light hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and beverages will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public.

More information at indianapublicmedia.org/events

Our Southeast YMCA opened 45 years ago, and to celebrate, we're hosting an anniversary party on Saturday, November 8 from 4:00-8:00 pm! Join us for an evening of fun featuring:

- Inflatables
- Swimming
- Games and activities
- Face painting
- Pizza and snacks
- ... and much more!

The 45th anniversary party is free and open to the community. Members can bring their friends and family, and non-members who have been curious about the Y are welcome to come out and see what the YMCA community is all about!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a community art show and pop-up market at FAR! The show will be on view in our 505 Theater Tuesday through Friday. The Friday closing reception will take place during Gallery Walk with music by Sergio Ospina Romero Latin Jazz Trio and food for sale by Maiz Comida Colombiana + Midnight Mariposa


Gallery Walk Closing Reception and Market: Friday, October 3rd 5pm - 8pm


Artists:

Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo
Avery Miller
Bryan Castillo
Carina Leiva
Dama Mora
Elena Guzman
Gloria Manzanares
Olivia Trevino
Ricardo Andres
Simone Cabral Vilaca
Tatum Hernandez


On View:
September 30 - October 3rd

FAR Center for Contemporary Art
505 W 4th St Bloomington, IN


https://www.thefar.org/events/event/106030/

Stinesville Stone Quarry Festival
September 25 - 27
McGlocklin Park in Stinesville

Craft and commercial vendors, food, live entertainment, and so much more!

The 2025-26 season of the Saint Bartholomew Concert Series begins on Saturday, September 13 at 7:00 p.m. with the event, "Journey through Time with a Hurdy-Gurdy." It features Spanish musician Tomás Lozano, who comes to Columbus from Bloomington, IN. The music series is hosted by Saint Bartholomew Catholic Church, located at 1306 27th Street, Columbus, IN 47201 (corner of National Road and Home Avenue). A fundraising dinner in support of scouts will precede the concert in the Parish Hall from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Admission for the concert is free, donations are welcome.

Step back in time with singer, musician, and scholar Tomás Lozano into the peculiar world of the hurdy-gurdy. Discover how this curious instrument made its mysterious appearance in the Middle Ages in Europe. From monks in churches to street minstrels to blind beggars to peasants and eventually to the French nobility in the Baroque period, follow the hurdy-gurdy’s journey as it moved through society.

How was this multifaceted instrument used by all these different people? How did the tunes and songs differ? How did the models, sizes and shapes evolve? How did it make it to the present? What does it look like and sound like today?

Join Tomás Lozano in this highly experiential and informational performance by way of live demonstrations and visual projections. Be amazed, as Lozano plays different styles, tunings and even invites you to peer into the secret and hidden mechanics that make the hurdy-gurdy work.

Program outline:
This program combines a power-point presentation and a live hurdy-gurdy performance. Mr. Lozano begins by featuring the mother of the hurdy-gurdy, the organistrum, via images from sculptures in churches in Spain in the 11th Century. He shows the evolution of the instrument as it appears in art in Europe, while telling anecdotes about its fluctuations through social classes during different historical periods. He intersperses live hurdy-gurdy performances to provide a real feel for the explanations and demonstrates how the instrument works mechanically. The program is dynamic, full of funny anecdotes, images and historical facts.

BACK HOME AGAIN
A concert to support Beacon’s Capital Campaign to combat homelessness

October 4th, 2025, 7 -9 pm
Fellowship Hall, UU Church, 2120 N. Fee Lane
Tickets will be on sale between services:•Advance $15•At the door $20

Constellation Stage & Screen presents “Another Revolution,” on stage June 4-21 at the Constellation Playhouse.
Some revolutions happen in the streets. Others in the lab.
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amidst interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit. By Jacqueline Bircher, playwright of Constellation’s hit production of Webster’s B!+@#. Recommended for ages 13+.

See Constellation’s website for more information, including a detailed performance schedule. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/mainstage/another-revolution/

Constellation Stage & Screen presents “Another Revolution,” on stage June 4-21 at the Constellation Playhouse.
Some revolutions happen in the streets. Others in the lab.
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amidst interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit. By Jacqueline Bircher, playwright of Constellation’s hit production of Webster’s B!+@#. Recommended for ages 13+.

See Constellation’s website for more information, including a detailed performance schedule. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/mainstage/another-revolution/

Constellation Stage & Screen presents “Another Revolution,” on stage June 4-21 at the Constellation Playhouse.
Some revolutions happen in the streets. Others in the lab.
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amidst interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit. By Jacqueline Bircher, playwright of Constellation’s hit production of Webster’s B!+@#. Recommended for ages 13+.

See Constellation’s website for more information, including a detailed performance schedule. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/mainstage/another-revolution/

Constellation Stage & Screen presents “Another Revolution,” on stage June 4-21 at the Constellation Playhouse.
Some revolutions happen in the streets. Others in the lab.
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amidst interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit. By Jacqueline Bircher, playwright of Constellation’s hit production of Webster’s B!+@#. Recommended for ages 13+.

See Constellation’s website for more information, including a detailed performance schedule. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/mainstage/another-revolution/