The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is located at 401 N. Morton St. next to City Hall – Showers Building. Locally grown produce, annual and perennial plants, and a variety of prepared foods are available. Purchase your food directly from farmers and ask them questions about their products. Local entertainment adds to the shopping as well as socializing experience. Tantalizing scents and the inviting atmosphere may cause you to make the Market a weekend tradition.

The Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center features a new exhibit for the month of July: the works of Claire Swallow, Dale Gardner, Sarah Wain, Jessica Lucas and Alex Straiker. British painter Claire Swallow is inspired by everything from childhood trips to the seashore to small household appliances. Photographer Dale Gardner saves turn-of-the-previous-century portraits and gives them new lives in new settings. Art teacher and baker Sarah Wain whips up candy for the eyes that may create cravings in the stomach. IU researchers Alex Straiker and Jessica Lucas present color-enhanced stills and videos taken of digital microscopy. Who knew mouse tissue could be this beautiful?

The exhibit, running until July 28, is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm. Closed Sundays.

Heritage Village features reenactors from the 1760s through 1890s, skill demonstrations, historic crafts, and activities. Visit our website and download the July Program Schedule for details. Admission: $5 per vehicle (Indiana resident); $7 per vehicle (out-of-state).

Project WET workshops bring the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide to Indiana teachers and resource personnel. The Guide contains more than 90 broad-based water resource activities that are hands-on, easy to use, and FUN! Join us in a network of committed individuals and organizations who support quality education materials. The WET Guide is a balanced, non-biased supplementary curriculum that enhances student learning in all subject and skill areas. It includes many water related topics including atmospheric, surface, and ground water, chemistry, water history, watersheds, wetlands, aquatic wildlife, water quality, water use, water management, water economics, water rights, water conservation, and water stewardship. Instructors: Kriste Lindberg and Cathy Meyer

Register by July 2 at link provided.

Lift it! Move it! Explore the science of pulleys and levers as you effortlessly pull yourself high off the ground in a pulley chair, lift a heavy block of stone with the strength of your little finger, design a catapult to lay siege to a castle, build a model of an amusement park ride and more! This exhibit on simple machines will remain at WonderLab from June 05 until September 23.

WonderLab’s hours are 9:30 am to 5 pm Tue-Sat, 1 pm – 5 pm Sunday. Open extended evening hours until 8:30 pm the first Friday of the month.

Annibale and Agostino Carracci were the leaders of the Bolognese school that overthrew Mannerist aesthetics for a style based on the observation of nature, fusing Florentine draftsmanship with Venetian color. This installation features some of their major prints.

Runs until September 16

KALEIDOSCOPE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES WITH INTERNATIONAL FASHION SHOW

On July 7, the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center (TMBCC) in Bloomington will host the first annual Kaleidoscope Festival in celebration of the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama whose brother founded the center in the late 1970s. An exciting array of multi-cultural family-oriented activities will begin at 10 am and continue through 5 pm.
Attendees will enjoy an international fashion show that will feature an array of hand crafted textiles. Guests will also enjoy a music stage with an afternoon of performances to include local talent and traditional music, a tempting variety of craft and food vendor offerings and a fashion show of handcrafted Tibetan, Mongolian, Indian, and Russian traditional costumes. The all-day event is free and open to the public. Visitors will have an opportunity to stop in at the Happy Yak Gift Shop and even to reserve overnight accommodations in one of the center’s retreat cottages or rooms.
The TMBCC is located at 3655 Snoddy Road. For more information about the center and the Kaleidoscope Festival, log on to www.tmbcc.net or call (812) 336-6807.

The Kaleidoscope Festival, a celebration of the Dalai Lama’s birthday, will take place at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center. It will feature live Music, craft booths, food, a multi-cultural fashion show, and more.

Sara is a signature member of the Bloomington Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Society of Indiana. A graduate of the Indiana University Printmaking Department of the School of Fine Arts, and a Monroe County Middle School Art teacher for almost 30 years, Ms. McQueen enjoys working in collage and printing as well as being a plein air painter. For this exhibit, she shows some leaf stamps in her compositions and abstract explorations with hand made and international papers.

Exhibit runs until July 29. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 am – 5:30 pm (8 pm on First Fridays.)

Discover the science of simple farm machines and have close encounters with live farm animals. Special farm technology activities include lifting bales of straw with pulleys and comparing historical hand-cranked farm and kitchen implements with modern versions of this equipment. Live barnyard animals include chickens, rabbits, a horse, a dairy calf, and more. Other activities include roping a “cow” to learn about the role of horses on ranches and discovering the incredible diversity of poultry breeds while making a baby chick as a craft.