On Friday, November 20th, The Venue will open it’s annual Holiday Pop-Up Gallery at The College Mall of Bloomington. Once again this year the Pop-Up Gallery will be located in front of Macy’s and in front of Santa.
We look forward to seeing our old friends and making new friends, and bringing the best of local, regional and national art and gift items to the Mall. First Quality, hand-crafted Jewelry, Ceramics, Wood products, and more. Some of the finest local, regional and national original paintings and prints, and more.
While we are operating out Pop-Up Gallery at The Mall, until Christmas Eve, The Venue’s downtown gallery will also be in full operation, both offering holiday gift selections that are First Quality, one-of-a-kind, and reasonably priced.
Our best to, and for you, for the Holidays.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce 24/7/365 a video work by Kevin O. Mooney. This exhibition will open Friday, October 23 and continue through Wednesday, November 18, 2015. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. Kevin O. Mooney will give a gallery talk about 24/7/365 on Friday, November 13 at 12 noon in the Grunwald Gallery.

365247•2012 is a time-based piece created by Kevin O. Mooney. Rooted in still photography, the work is presented as a video projection. The more than 250,000 still images, presented as a photographic stop-motion animation, allow the viewer to witness the artist’s day-to-day routines, the same activities that are experienced by many on a daily basis. When interacting with the piece, the past and future are viewed simultaneously. Ultimately, a year in the artist’s life is presented in under an hour, offering others the opportunity to vicariously participate and find meaning in mundane activities while also reexamining their own unrecognized minutes, hours and days.

Mooney states: “I have been fascinated with self-portraiture since the mid-seventies. I began photographing myself as an undergraduate student while attending Southern Illinois University in the cinema & photography program. Throughout my career as a commercial/editorial photographer, I continued to do self-portraits, often with the subjects that I photographed for a specific assignment or job, primarily as a record of who I had photographed, especially if the person was famous. I then decided to challenge myself by making a photographic self-portrait every day for an entire year. When 1997 was over I continued with the daily self-portrait, incorporating it into my daily routine, and do so to this day.”

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Join us as Harold F. Mailand discusses the history of the coverlet, a popular bed covering in America from the 1830s through the end of the Civil War. Mr. Mailand has been an instructor for “Care of Textiles” at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies since 2002 and was recently the 2015 recipient of the award for outstanding contributions to the field of textiles from The Textile Specialty Group of AIC. Learn more about the caring and collecting process of coverlets with expert anecdotal information and highlights from the Wylie House collection.

FlowMotion Symposium, Nov. 20-22 is a hybrid retreat/festival in Bloomington, IN feat. 30+ national cirque/flow arts instructors with 60+ workshops for partner balance and acrobatics, hoop dance, poi , contact staff, cyr wheel, aerial silks, lyra, pole fitness, levi-wand, and much more. Vendors will fill the Girl’s Inc Rec center while workshops occur in the Gym and at the Courtyard Marriott with a shuttle to and from. Not from Bloomington? The Courtyard is offering a group rate to help create our flowtel. Don’t miss our Gala Showcase Saturday night at Serendipity Martini Bar.

For just $70 pre-sale you can get your all access pass which grants you into any of the workshops and the showcase. If you just want to try a class, just get a one workshop pass for $15. The event not to miss is our Gala Showcase at Serendipity. Doors at 9, show at 9:30 with music afterwards from Glitch Gatsby and Kaleidoscope Jukebox and an after after party at The Back Door.

Visit www.flowmotionretreat.com for more info.

Blue Rivieras Live!

Imagine how you’d feel if a friend had taken advantage of your highly inebriated state after a costume party—leaving you passed out in a public park while dressed as a bat!

You’d plot revenge, of course—which is just one of the hilarious subplots that unfolds in this most popular of all operettas, a masterwork of merriment that bubbles along to the tune of some of Strauss’s most glorious melodies.

A husband with a roving eye, his wife who’s just a bit bored with her love life, and her former boyfriend who’s an amorous tenor with a lot more than High C’s on his mind … These are just some of the fabulous folk you’ll meet in bygone Vienna, where the parties never stop and life’s little problems can all be solved with a glass of fine champagne!

Subscriptions available now! Visit the Musical Arts Center box office,
Monday-Friday, 11:30 am-5:30 pm, or call (812) 855-7433.

Imagine how you’d feel if a friend had taken advantage of your highly inebriated state after a costume party—leaving you passed out in a public park while dressed as a bat!

You’d plot revenge, of course—which is just one of the hilarious subplots that unfolds in this most popular of all operettas, a masterwork of merriment that bubbles along to the tune of some of Strauss’s most glorious melodies.

A husband with a roving eye, his wife who’s just a bit bored with her love life, and her former boyfriend who’s an amorous tenor with a lot more than High C’s on his mind … These are just some of the fabulous folk you’ll meet in bygone Vienna, where the parties never stop and life’s little problems can all be solved with a glass of fine champagne!

Subscriptions available now! Visit the Musical Arts Center box office,
Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or call 812-855-7433.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Conductor Arthur Fagen
Stage Director Robin Guarino
Set and Costume Designer Allen Moyer
Sung in German with English dialogue and supertitles

Join us for Misfit Toy Karaoke’s Btown Karaoke League
Friday, November 20
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Free Entry
For League information, contact Misfit Toy directly
facebook.com/Misfittoykaraoke

Hatije’s Hafla is an annual belly dance party and fund-raiser combining live music by Salaam with performances by skilled and graceful dancers. A hafla is a belly dance party, so you will have the opportunity to dance too! Bring your check-book or “folding green” to fill the dancers’ baskets in support of Middle Way House, our region’s domestic violence and rape crisis shelter.

The Latin Dance Party is hosted by Salsattitude, playing popular rhythms of Afro-Caribbean-Latin American roots. Want to learn Salsa, just inquire with the host.