Visit a dozen studios, featuring the work of more than 20 artists. Meet artists, watch them work, explore the spaces that inspire them. Get a glimpse into the working lives of artists. Pottery to painting, woodworking to weaving, metal, jewelry, fiber arts, broom making, bookbinding and more.

FREE. All you need is a brochure and map, available at the Nashville Visitor Center, local businesses, or at www.BrownCountyStudioTour.com. Studios open every day in October.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce an exhibition of projected images by award-winning photographer Edward Burtynsky. This exhibition will open Tuesday, October 6 and continue through Saturday, October 17. Edward Burtynsky will present a public lecture on Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm in Fine Arts 015. In addition, the IU Cinema will screen Burtynsky’s film, Manufactured Landscape, on October 10 at 7pm. Burtynsky will also meet with students and faculty for a conversation about his work on October 14 (the day of his public lecture) at 4pm (location to be announced).

Edward Burtynsky’s work is an extended meditation on labor, land, beauty, and violence. The extraction of natural resources and the exploitation of human labor have transformed (and often enough, insulted) our shared planetary home. Burtynsky travels the globe photographing such sites of intensive industry—from quarries and nickel tailings in North America, to scenes shipbreaking off the coast of Bangladesh, to his more recent work in China, the epicenter of global industrial expansion. Burtynsky is a master photo-colorist, and his large-format images mix beauty and terror in a unique and powerful way. Art is testimony, and Burtynsky is testifying, eloquently, to the world we live in. He makes us see.

These events are sponsored in part by Themester 2015: “@Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet,” an initiative of the College of Arts & Sciences. Further assistance comes from the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies, with additional support from the Integrated Program in the Environment, the Grunwald Gallery and the IU Cinema. The lecture by Edward Burtynsky is a Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Speaker Event.

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.

Parkinson’s is a part of some people’s lives but it doesn’t have to be life itself. When we not only manage the disease but also plan ahead for new symptoms that may arise, we more easily adapt. This is an interactive group with opportunities for sharing and questions. Heather will introduce some chair exercises and offer support for caregivers as well. Anyone living with Parkinson’s is invited to join at any time. The group meets monthly and is always open to newcomers. Sponsored by Covenant Care.

About the Monthly Facilitator: Heather Gaunt (Covenant Care , McCormick’s Creek Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing,) has been working in healthcare for the last 8 years with a primary focus on older adults, rehab for those adults as well as preventative measures to allow them to remain independent for as long as possible. Call to register, or for more information: 876-3383 ex. 515

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

WORLD PREMIERE LIVE PERFORMANCE! Derek Jarman shorts with live music by Cyclobe at the IU Cinema, 7 pm. 8mm shorts: Sulphur, Tarot, and Garden of Luxor Cyclobe performs their unique score to these shorts live for the first time ever! Support provided a CAHI Institute Grant, the IU Media School, and IU’s Dept of Gender Studies.

Ticket price: $15

Passes and Individual Tickets for other festival events can be purchased at the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office:
http://www.bctboxoffice.com

“Mr. Marmalade is a dark comedy for adult audiences that explores the power of imagination to create the world we grow into. Be wary what you imagine!” -Director Paul Daily. The show runs October 2, 3, 8 – 10. Tickets: www.bctboxoffice.com.

Formed as “a bit of fun” in 1985, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has “grown into a much-loved institution,” according to The Observer. The current ensemble of ukulele virtuosos has been playing together for over 20 years and given thousands of sold-out concerts around the world, including shows at Sydney Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

The New York Times says, “They extract more than seems humanly possible from so small and so modest an instrument.” David Bowie called the Orchestra “wonderfully clever,” and the group has been credited for the current ukulele revival sweeping the globe.

The chosen instrument of the Orchestra is the ukulele, a small, guitar-like chordophone with four strings, which originated in popular use in Hawaii. Why play the ukulele? Besides allowing one to “undertake a world tour with only hand luggage,” according to the Orchestra, “the very limitations of the instrument encourage thinking creatively about music.” If it sounds good on a ukulele, it must be a good song.

http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/

James Ilgenfritz —bassist, composer, and improviser– will perform at the Bishop as part of the Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media. Admission is $15, or you can purchase a festival pass which grants you admission to five events (including three shows at the Buskirk-Chumley). Wounded Galaxies is an annual festival in the Midwest devoted to media that push the boundaries of the possible. What we propose is not a film festival or a music festival, but a festival in which all forms of media are cut-up and recombined–a festival at the juncture of sci-fi, magic, and the radical deconstruction of all media forms.

Passes and Individual Tickets for other festival events can be purchased at the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office:
http://www.bctboxoffice.com