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.

Bring your friends, family, and well-behaved pets to help fight cancer at the 15th annual Bloomington Breast Cancer Awareness Walk, Saturday, October 20th in front of City Hall in downtown Bloomington. The Breast Cancer Awareness Walk is a free, fun and friendly one-mile walk to raise awareness of the importance of early detection and prevention of breast cancer.

Free t-shirts will be given to the first 1,000 to register and local organizations will be providing material on prevention and awareness.

Registration for the walk begins at 8:30 am. A short program honoring survivors and presenting the Melody Martin Awareness Saves Lives Award will start at 9 and then the Walk begins.

October brings four new exhibits to the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. All exhibits are available for viewing during regular gallery hours (Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm, Sat 9 am-5 pm).

Contemporary fabric artist Sandy Hill splashes the walls with jewel-toned swirls and flourishes. Her freestyle forms employ silky-sheen fabrics and light-catching metallic threads, making a joyous quilting tour-de-force that celebrates the colors of the rainbow.

Tom Rhea takes us on a painterly tour of Bloomington’s best-loved landmarks, both town and gown. An eye for detail, a heartfelt connection with his subject matter , and an uncanny ability to render light on limestone make Rhea’s watercolors a delight for locals and visitors.

Sculptor (and writer) James Alexander Thom hand-carves fallen trees to reveal their spirits as sinuous, self-referencing, and graceful.

Fascinated by pattern and the negative space between objects, Ellen Starr Lyon says her current work is about “lushness of the commonplace.” A conservator at the IU Art Museum, Lyon is especially drawn to elements of Asian art, which are often found in her still-lifes.

This 45-minute class is intended to prepare young children for the arrival of a new sibling, and is appropriate for children aged three to six. An adult must attend with the child. There is no charge for this class, but early registration is encouraged, as class size is limited. Each sibling attending the class will receive a free sibling preparation packet, described below. Please meet in the Center’s waiting lounge just outside of the “E” elevator on the second floor for the nurse to begin the class.

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Bloomington Fading, an online community led by Derek and Jen Richey and dedicated to preserving information about Bloomington’s past, shows our rich architectural heritage by overlaying images of current infrastructure on historic photographs. Exhibit runs until October 27.

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Seven Bloomington maiolica artists are showing work at the Farmer House Museum from Oct. 5 to Dec. 6, 2012. They are leExposition Universelle. Susan Snyder, who learned the tradition and art of maiolica in Faenza, Italy from traditional artisans, and began to share her knowledge with ceramic artists in Bloomington upon her return, by way of England, in the 1990s. “Majolica”, spelled with a “j”, is the word for a 19 century English and French style, that has little to do with the Italian style, except for the use of metal-based glazes. Snyder practices and teaches the original craft of maiolica, which began in Italy in the 1400s. It is a folk style, in which linear designs are painted in bright colors on plates, bowls and other vessels.

Hours are 10 am -1 pm Wednesday-Friday, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm Sunday

This installation, running from September 11 to December 31, will focus on three photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, who used their romantic partners as their subjects. Whether portraits or nude studies, these images reveal a sensitivity that comes from the artists and sitters’ close personal relationships.

This installation is presented in conjunction it the special exhibition “A Place Aside: Artists and their Partners,” on view at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, September 28–December 20.

Artists working in Paris and Lorraine during the Baroque period developed distinctive styles—which focused on the vibrancy of the line—that differed markedly from their Italian and Dutch contemporaries. The two print kiosks in the early part of the gallery feature French works by Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Jacques Callot, and Claude Mellan, whose engraving is a tour de force of printmaking that creates the face of Christ using a single line.

This 45-minute class is intended to prepare young children for the arrival of a new sibling, and is appropriate for children aged three to six. An adult must attend with the child. There is no charge for this class, but early registration is encouraged, as class size is limited. Each sibling attending the class will receive a free sibling preparation packet, described below. Please meet in the Center’s waiting lounge just outside of the “E” elevator on the second floor for the nurse to begin the class.

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Beat Tobacco is IU Health Bloomington Hospital’s tobacco cessation series designed to educate and support you in your decision to be free of tobacco. The classes are taught by respiratory therapists who are qualified tobacco educators, which means that they have received training on how to help people quit using tobacco. They understand the struggles and side effects of tobacco cessation, and they have an extended knowledge base to give you options on how to successfully quit using tobacco.

No registration is required and the class is free. Meets Saturdays at 10:30am at IU Health Bloomington Hospital’s Olcott Center for Cancer Education.