Events at Indiana University
'Present Laughter' farce to hit Brown County Playhouse stage
Now-Aug. 23, various times, Brown County Playhouse, 70 Van Buren St., Nashville, Ind. -- Brown County Playhouse producer Jonathan Michaelsen directs Present Laughter, a farce that sparkles like fine champagne. A popular, pampered and self-obsessed stage star is rather fearfully facing his 40s. But Garry needn't worry that he'll be abandoned. As he prepares for an upcoming theatrical tour he is bombarded by friends, relatives, a love-struck ingénue, his long-suffering secretary and an aspiring -- if quite mad -- playwright who invades his elegant London flat -- many of them attempting to seduce him. Then there's his estranged wife to avoid -- or not. This wonderful romp about growing old gracefully is a summer sizzler and a whole lot of fun. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/bcplay.html.
Indiana University/Clarian Day Specific Health Screenings at the Indiana State Fair
Now-Aug. 23, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2-4 p.m., Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion, Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis -- IU has partnered with Clarian Health to offer free health screenings every day of the fair, which runs Aug. 7-23, in the Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion, located next to Expo Hall. This is IU's fourth consecutive year at the Indiana State Fair. Each day, IU faculty, along with staff from Clarian Health, will be in the Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion conducting free blood pressure checks, cholesterol and HDL fingersticks screenings, functional movement screenings and obstructive sleep apnea screenings, and more. There will also be demonstrations on healthful food, Wii games and prizes. The Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion will be open each day of the fair from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and free health screenings will be provided from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. For more information, visit http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11502.html or e-mail hthomason@clarian.org.
Works from the estate of John D. Hurt Sr.
Now-Aug. 27, IU Art Museum, 1133 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- Four works from the collection of John D. Hurt Sr. will be on display throughout the summer of 2009. Hurt, an attorney from Martinsville, collected the works of Indiana artists, including William Forsyth, John Ottis Adams, Fredrick Polley and others. Galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu.
IU Theatre and Drama to present collegiate premiere of rock musical 'The Rockae'
Aug. 27-29, 7:30 p.m., Aug. 30 matinee, 2 p.m., Wells-Metz stage, Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, Bloomington -- To usher in the new 2009-2010 school year at Indiana University, the IU Department of Theatre and Drama will present the collegiate premiere of The Rockae, an edgy, rock musical adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae. The show opens Thursday, Aug. 27, at 7:30 p.m., and will be directed at IU by Emmy Award-winning director/choreographer George Pinney with musical direction by Drama Desk-nominated writer Peter Mills, who wrote the music and lyrics for the show. In this 80s glam rock version of the classic story, the mortal King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his female groupies -- rejecting Dionysus' claims to divinity -- when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes. The show opens with a long-haired, shirtless male rocker singing "let them tremble to behold me" as if he's making an MTV video. Mills seamlessly combines the intensity of hard rock with the violence of ancient Greek tragedy. To purchase tickets on line, visit http://www.theatre.indiana.edu/ or call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.
Special Installation -- Growing Art
Now-Aug. 30, IU Art Museum, Sculputre Terrace, second floor, Bloomington -- A special container garden will be featured this summer on the museum's sculpture terrace. Designed by Greg Speichert, the director of IU's Hilltop Garden and Nature Center, the 12'x12' planting is based on the colorful geometric garden designs of the noted Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. for general information call 812-855-5445 or visit http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu.
Celebrate Limestone Month at the IU Art Museum
Now-Aug. 31, various times, IU Art Museum, 1133 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates "Limestone Month" with the work of noted Indiana artists in two special installations in the first floor Gallery of the Art of the Western World through the end of August. A rare series of four, large-scale watercolors depicting the quarrying of Indiana limestone by "Hoosier Group" painter Otto Stark are currently on public display for the first time. Hoosier Group refers to Indiana impressionist painters in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, including Stark, T.C. Steele, Richard Gruelle, William Forsyth and J. Ottis Adams. For more information, visit http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu.
Photo from the Frank M Hohenberger Photograph Collection at IU's Lilly Library
Indianapolis Speedway, 1911
IU's Lilly Library showcases vintage autos
Now-Sept. 5, various times, Lilly Library, on Seventh St. south of Showalter Fountain, Bloomington -- To kick off the summer traveling season, the Lilly Library at IU's Bloomington campus has opened an exhibition featuring collections relating to early automobiles and motor cars. "Are We There Yet? The Age of the Automobile" showcases vintage catalogs, books and materials featuring topics ranging from luxury roadsters to the first Indianapolis 500. Lavish catalogs aimed at Gatsby-like customers come from the collection of Thomas T. Solley. Solley was director of the IU Art Museum from 1971 to 1986 and a grand-nephew of J. K. Lilly Jr., early benefactor of the library that bears his family name. The Lilly Library is IU's library for rare books and special collections and one of the 18 libraries of the IU Bloomington Libraries. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information call 812-855-2452. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
The Canary Project: Works on Climate Change 2006-2009
Sept. 4-Oct. 9, SoFA Gallery, 1201 E. Seventh St., Bloomington --Canary Project co-founders Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris will give a lecture about their work Friday, Sept. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Radio/TV 251. The opening reception will follow, Friday, Sept. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m., featuring a performance by artist Joshua Kit Clayton in the SoFA Gallery. On Friday, Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m., in room 015 of the Fine Arts building, artist Fritz Haeg will give a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, with a reception to follow in the SoFA Gallery. Finally, renowned writer William L. Fox will present a lecture on Friday, Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m., in Woodburn Hall 101. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/.
IU, community artists collaborate to present 'Interpreting the Square'
Sept. 4-Sept. 30, City Hall Atrium, 401 N. Morton St., Bloomington -- Throughout the month of September, the work of 30 artists and creative writers from Indiana University Bloomington and the surrounding community will be on display throughout 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 Bloomington's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts who is co-administrator of the project with SoFA grad student Sara Brooks (their faculty advisor is Laurel Cornell, an IU professor of sociology). Each artist has been paired with one of the 30 buildings facing the Courthouse Square, and each will create a distinctive artwork based upon personal interests and medium. The layout of the artwork in the final exhibition, which is scheduled to open Sept. 4, will be a multimedia installation that portrays the complexity of the Bloomington Square by combining 30 points of view into one work of art, said Carlson. The exhibition will be open for viewing from Sept. 4 through Sept. 30, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information about IU's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/.
Freshman Family Weekend
Sept. 12, variouos locations and times, Bloomington -- A weekend of events designed to acquaint the families of first-year students with some of the excellent services, programs, and facilities available to their students while on campus. Highlights include many open houses and tours across campus all weekend and a football game featuring the Hoosiers against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. A tentative schedule is available at http://dsa.indiana.edu/parents.html. Freshman Family Weekend is sponsored by the IU Bloomington Parents Association, IU Athletics Department, and the Monroe County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
IUPUC to host presentations about Lincoln, Civil War
Sept. 17, 7-8 p.m., Custer-Nugent Lecture Hall in the Columbus Learning Center, Columbus --The presentation, endorsed by both the Federal and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commissions, fulfills IUPUC's mission of promoting lifelong learning by encouraging reflection on the legacy of the Civil War era for today's citizens. This year marks the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth and 2011 will mark the sesquicentennial observance of the Civil War. The program, made possible by an Indiana Humanities Council grant, will be led by three scholar-historians with expertise in the era of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War in Indiana. It is free and open to the public. "These presentations are geared for general audiences, not academics. They will feature the insights of expert scholars engaged in ongoing research on topics related to a fascinating period in the history of the state and nation. The Lincoln years undeniably continue to inform and shape current political and social discourse," said Douglas G. Gardner, Ph.D., lecturer of history in the IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts. Nicole Etcheson, Ph.D., and professor of history at Ball State University, will lead a presentation titled "Lincoln as a Hoosier: Race, Politics, and the Sixteenth President." Associate professor of history at the University of Indianapolis, A. James Fuller, Ph.D., will lead "Lincoln's Man in Indiana?: Governor Oliver P. Morton and Civil War Politics." Stephen E. Towne, associate university archivist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, will lead the presentation titled "Unloved by Many: Opposition to Lincoln in Civil War Indiana." For more information, e-mail dggardne@iupuc.edu or call 812-348-7206.
Driving Miss Daisy comes to Brown County Playhouse
Sept. 25-Oct. 25, various times, Brown County Playhouse, 70 Van Buren St., Nashville, Ind. -- Director Dale McFadden draws the 61st season to a close this fall with the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that became the Oscar-winning movie Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry. After Daisy, a feisty widow, crashes the car, her son hires a chauffeur against her wishes. Set in Atlanta, this heart-warming, humorous play begins in 1948 and spans one of the most tumultuous and hopeful periods in American history. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/bcplay.html.
DILLINGER! Forging a Hoosier Legend
DILLINGER! Forging a Hoosier Legend
Now-Dec. 31, Indiana State Library, 315 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis -- The exhibit designed by Herron School of Art and Design students, under the guidance of exhibition planning and design faculty member Matthew Groshek, guides visitors through the life of John Dillinger and what factors led this ordinary Hoosier farm boy toward a life of crime. Visit http://www.dillingerlegend.org/ for more information.
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