The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is held every Saturday from 8 am until 1 pm, from April through November.

The 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.

This will be an open, 4 person scramble. Bring your own team. Winners will be determined by blind draw using only 9 holes, to be drawn while players are on the course.

Proceeds benefit The Salvation Army of Bloomington who helps those in need the year around, not just at Christmas time.

Come join us for fun while we remember our good friend Bobby Childers.

Questions? Contact Lou Bailey at 339-5613 or [email protected]

Several new exhibits will be on display at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center from June 7 – 29. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am -7 pm, Saturday, 9 am – 5 pm

Drew Etienne: “Order, Chaos, and the Cosmos”
Etienne features landscapes of vast distances with references to science fiction and 1960’s Op-Art.

Payson McNett: “Automating Instinct”
McNett explores our modern world as a state of being part-nature, part-machine.

James Lax: “Recent Carvings”
Celebrate Limestone Month this June with a visit to see Lax’s richly ornate, historically-inspired pieces.

Colette Ross-Boggan: “Experiences”
Ross-Boggan may spark memories of your own childhood with her intricate and lovingly detailed works.

All teams must register at the field next to Deer Run Shelter between 9:30 am and 10:30 am that morning. The first round of competition begins at 11:30 am. There is no charge to participate and prizes will be awarded to the top teams.

Adult teams will compete in a double-elimination tournament; both team members must be at least 16 years of age. The field is limited to the first 32 teams who register.

Children, ages 15 and under, can compete in a separate, single-elimination tournament. The field for the youth competition is limited to the first 12 teams who register.

Design, build, test, and engineer all kinds of structures! The special exhibition’s three-dimensional building experiences include the Skyline Toolbox, developed and designed by Chicago Children’s Museum, where children can use wooden struts and braces, fabric curtain walls, and real construction tools to build imaginative, original structures big enough for them to walk inside! Other components include the Earthquake Shake Table, the Multilevel Building Zone, the Bridge the River Cantilever Challenge, unique materials construction stations, and more. There also is a special place for toddlers and preschoolers to build with age-appropriate materials.

An exhibition of garden-inspired fiber art by local artist Martina Celerin hanging at the Monroe County History Center.

Exhibit runs until June 23.

Chamber Market Share is a LIVE broadcast featuring Chamber members who talk about their business, share why they like doing business in Monroe County, and other topics of choice. We’ll be there every Saturday beginning in May through October!

Interested in being featured? Contact Mary Jo Orlowski at [email protected] to sign up!

“Walk the Walk, Art Lives”: Paper Art Quilts by Mary Hambly
The art of Mary Hambly, founding member of the committee that started Gallery Walk, is honored with this exhibit of her work. The Paper Art Quilt is a joining of contemporary art and traditional craft, a blending of individual elements in such a way that the joining allows for a richer and more meaningful whole. In the creative process stenciled, marbled, printed, and over dyed papers are cut, pieced, and then stitched using a zig zag sewing machine. The resulting “quilt blocks” are then laid out in a composition, sometimes born out of the repeating pattern concept of traditional quilting, sometimes not. The “quilt” is then completed with a border, also of paper, and the result is a one of a kind image.
Exhibit runs until Thursday, July 25.

“Doing the Dance”: Woodcut prints by Dale Enochs
Sets of four woodcuts that when displayed together make a single composition or tetraptych. One tetraptych, Tantric Sideshow is based on a visit to Bhutan and is a reference to the elements Earth, Air, Fire and Water. A second tetraptych 21st Century Dance Cards is inspired by the Gulf Coast oil spill and also by environmental and war issues.
Exhibit runs until Thursday, July 25.

Monday-Saturday 10 am-5:30, closed Sunday

Learn about Latin American poetry and make your own cardboard book from recycled materials. The workshop will include reading poems from Latin American authors, creative writing, cover design, illustration, and book binding. Workshop led by poet and editor Giancarlo Huapaya and coordinated by Cristian Medina.

This workshop will take place on Saturdays 10am-noon, June 8 – July 27 in Room 1A at the Monroe County Public Library (7 weeks). It will end with an exhibition of the books in the Farmer’s Market. This workshop is free but you need to be registered to participate.

To register, send an email to [email protected] or call 812-320 7839.

This project is being sponsored and supported by El Centro Comunal Latino (Latino Community Center), Center for Latin American Studies (CLACS), and Casa Katatay.

Come experience a moment of Americana as the Bloomington Community Band performs at the Arts Fair on the Square in downtown Bloomington! We will be playing a fun variety of concert band favorites!

The Bloomington Community Band has celebrated the great American concert band tradition over three decades, and was designated by the Mayor as Bloomington’s official community concert band in 2012.

We hope to see you this Saturday morning!