Around Town & On the Air during the 2008 Lotus Festival

Sept. 27 • Family Craft Days at the Mathers Museum
Free and open to the public  
Mathers Museum of World Cultures (416 N. Indiana). Directions ...
Presented by the Mathers Museum in association with the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation
 • Sept. 13: Make flags and banjers using colors and symbols that signify peace and harmony in different cultures. The flags will be used in Lotus Festival processions. 2-3:30pm.
 • Sept. 27: Create a mask or decorate giant masks and puppets to be used in Lotus Festival processions. 2-3:30pm

Through Oct. 18 • "Visions of Lotus: When the World Comes to Bloomington" — Lotus Photographs by Jeff Hammond
Free and open to the public
 Wandering Turtle (224 N. College). M-Th 10am-7pm; Fr-Sa 9am-8pm; Su 11am-5pm. Directions ...

 

Sept. 15-Oct. 3 • Paintings by Yidumduma Bill Harney
Free and open to the public
Athena (116 N. Walnut). Directions ... M-Th 10:30am-7pm; Fr-Sa 10:30am-9pm; Sunday Noon-5pm. Extended hours on festival weekend.
X-ray style paintings by Bill Harney, an Elder and the last Senior Male Aboriginal custodian of the Wardaman people of northwest Australia.
• Oct. 3: Reception (with live didjeridoo, flute, and percussion). 5:30-7pm. Free.

 

Sept. 26-Oct. 5 • Your Art Here—The Benton Project
Free and open to the public
Michael Lindsay Photography & Video (110 E. 6th). Directions ... Bloomington artist Caleb Weintraub’s painting “Through the Sycamores,” commissioned for the IU 2008 symposium “Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana Murals at 75: Public Art and Public University.”

 

Sept. 29-Oct. 13 • Giving Back to Africa
Free and open to the public
Village Deli (409 E. Kirkwood). Directions ... Artwork created as part of an exchange between students from Congo and Bloomington. Reception Sept. 29 7-9pm.

 

Oct. 3-4 • Live Interviews & Performances
On WFHB 91.3/98.1FM (Bloomington Community Radio). Listen here.

 

Oct. 2-Nov. 15 • "Here and There: International Ties and Other Voices"
Free and open to the public
Prima Gallery (109 E. 6th). Tu-Sa 11am-6pm. Reception Oct. 3, 5:30pm. Directions ...
 • Works by local, regional, and national artists with international ties.

 

Oct. 3 • Downtown Bloomington Gallery Openings
Free and open to the public
Bloomington's diverse galleries stay open late with free late-afternoon and early evening receptions. Look for sidewalk signs

 

Oct. 4 • Latino Punk Night
$5 / Rhino's All Ages Club (331 S. Walnut). Directions ...
• With bands Eske, Iattack, and No Slogan. For all ages.

 

Oct. 5 • MIddle Eastern / North African Drum Workshop
Free and open to the public
Athena (116 N. Walnut). Directions ...
 • With Moroccan percussionist Anass Sentissi. More information at 339-0734.

 

Oct. 5 • Gaelic Hurling
Free and open to the public
Karst Farm Park
Noon-3pm. Directions ...
 • Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Purdue hurling clubs compete in the ancient national sport of Ireland.

 

Through Oct. 6 • Student Mandala Exhibit
Free and open to the public
Bloomingfoods West Side Grocery (316 W. 6th). Directions ... Designs and drawings by Jackson Creek Middle School students.

 

Ongoing • HUB: A Collaboration of Arts and Space Phase II
McCalla School (10th & Indiana). Directions...
Reception Oct. 3, 6-10pm and Oct. 4, Noon-6pm. More info here.

 

 

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