Being Bloomington: Being Peace
Free monthly community meditation at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, located at 114 E Kirkwood Ave in downtown Bloomington.

Meditation from 12-12:50pm
Doors at 11:30am

Cultivate inner peace through seated meditation, walking meditation, Tai Chi, QiGong, yoga, or your own style of stillness. Enjoy periods of silence accompanied by soothing live meditative music. This event is open to all. There is no cost to attend.

November 7 musical guest: Dena El Saffar and Tim Moore from Salaam, with oud, viola, nature sounds, and frame drums

Being Bloomington: Being Peace is an initiative to create a welcoming space for private meditation, peaceful reflection, and personal wellbeing, in a central, nonpartisan community environment.

The intention is to create a space where all people can deeply relax and find peace within.

For more information, visit the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeingPeaceBloomington or the Buskirk-Chumley website: https://bctboxoffice.org/event/being-bloomington/, or contact the Being Bloomington: Being Peace Series Organizer, Kat Forgacs, at [email protected].

Ivy Tech Community College is an official partner with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) for a special Media Literacy Week event. The documentary film “The Brainwashing of My Dad” will be shown, followed by a Skype Q&A session with the film’s creator Jen Senko.

About the film (from IMDB): Jen Senko, a documentary filmmaker, looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio on a lengthened commute to work. In trying to understand how this happened, she not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also uncovers some of the forces behind it: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon to create a media for the GOP; the Lewis Powell Memo, urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion – especially the universities – the media and the courts; and under Reagan, the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine – all of which helped to change the entire country’s direction and culture, misinformed millions, divided families and even the country itself.