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Bloomington Symphony and My Sister’s Closet

By Alex Chambers,

Published October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT

A conductor holds up his baton in front of a symphony orchestra — Ryo Hasegawa conducting the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra

For the Bloomington Symphony’s next concert, they’re collaborating with My Sister’s Closet. My Sister’s Closet is an organization whose goal is to help people improve their life circumstances – they also sell gently-used clothing. We talk about how the collaboration came about.

The BSO’s concert is Sunday, October 19, at 5pm at the. Buskirk-Chumley Theater. There’s a pre-concert talk with My Sister’s Closet at 4pm.

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Alex Chambers

Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.

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Kayte Young

Kayte Young is co-host and producer of WFIU's local arts and culture show, Nice Work. Before that she produced and hosted the long-running food and farming show, Earth Eats for over 8 years, and hosted a YouTube cooking series, produced by Payton Whaley.

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Tyler Lake

Producer, Nice Work

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