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The September/October 2009 issue of Indiana Alumni Magazine is hot off the presses! Non-members can view a sample online and IUAA members can read the entire magazine from the comfort of their computer.
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An Evening with Angela Brown at the Madame Walker Theatre with the support of the Indianapolis Opera
Sept. 11, 8-10 p.m., Madame C.J. Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis -- This concert is hosted by IUPUI's 40th Anniversary Committee and is open to the public. Tickets will be available for pickup at Madame C.J. Walker Theatre, 317-236-2099, after Aug.10. For more information, contact Tina Hill at 317-274-7711.
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Fair trade store with branches in Indy opens in Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington lecturer Mary Embry helped to oversee the opening of a new, not-for-profit fair trade store, Global Gifts, in collaboration with the Indianapolis-based Global Gifts stores and Fair Trade Bloomington. The store opened Aug. 25 at 122 N. Walnut St., with grand opening celebrations scheduled for Sept. 11-12 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The grand opening days will include in-store activities, live music, free fair trade coffee and chocolate samples and a ten percent discount on all merchandise.
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The Indiana University band played a special wakeup call for NASA's Discovery space shuttle Tuesday morning (Sept. 1, 2009). STS-128 Pilot Kevin Ford, a NASA pilot since 2000 who embarked upon his first space flight yesterday, requested that Houston play "Indiana, Our Indiana," in honor of his late brother, David C. Ford, an IU alumnus and former state senator, who taught him the joy of flying. The astronauts were preparing for the first of three space walks planned for the mission.
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Imagine a Romeo and Juliet who are deeply in love, but only Romeo is certain they are destined to be eternal lovers . . . and in the end, everything actually turns out all right. Opening Sept. 4, 8 p.m., at the Bloomington Playwright's Project (BPP), The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington and BPP will present Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson, a play that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The production is a fundraiser for the BPP and was selected in honor of the group's 30th anniversary.
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Throughout the month of September, the work of 30 artists and creative writers from Indiana University and the surrounding community will be on display in downtown Bloomington. The collaborative art installation, titled "Interpreting the Square: Thirty Artists Explore Downtown Bloomington," will explore the cultural, social and economic complexity of Bloomington's thriving business district, said Kristin Carlson, a graduate student at IU's School of Fine Arts who is co-administrator of the project with fellow SoFA graduate student Sara Brooks.
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Continuing its tradition of nurturing and presenting the world's greatest musicians, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music offers four new IU Opera and Ballet Theater productions during its 2009-10 season, in addition to a host of performances by orchestral, choral and wind ensembles, jazz combos and bands, chamber music groups, percussion ensembles, soloists and many others.
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Starting this evening (Sept. 3), the IU Art Museum will host three consecutive "Coffeehouse Nights @ the Art Museum" -- an evening of coffee, snacks, art and music -- on the Thomas T. Solley Atrium. Visitors can experience art from a multidimensional perspective as they view the museum's galleries while enjoying a related performance.
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The 2009-10 season at Indiana University Southeast's Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center features artists who have played on the world's stage, and it will be one of the most diverse seasons ever staged at the center. Series subscriptions are available at special discounted pricing.
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In the Aug. 20, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU Bloomington's first-ever themed semester, "Themester 2009: Evolution, Diversity and Change;" a Q-and-A with the author of a new book on Hoosier Group artist T.C. Steele; a Herron exhibit and IU press book on 1930s gangster John Dillinger; the School of Fine Arts Gallery's activist art exhibit; the Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of The Rockae, a rock musical based on The Bacchae by Euripides; IU's Welcome Week 2009; and "Bookish," a collaboration between IUPUI's Herron Art Library and the Harrison Center for the Arts that promotes local and regional fine arts book artists.
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Did you know? IU graduates, former students and current and former members of the IU Alumni Association are eligible to create an IU Network ID.
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