Going Local Week Coming Sept. 3-11

Hosted by Local First Indiana and the Local Grower's Guild, Going Local Week is a weeklong celebration of all things local and a springboard for educating the community about the importance of shopping locally and eating local food as a means of supporting the local economy for greater self-reliance.  Events include art openings, concerts, business specials, local food specials in restaurants, various fundraisers for other local nonprofits, etc.  We encourage our community to get out and do something local every day.  Check out the full calendar of events to find great events happening this week, including food specials in great restaurants, special deals and giveaways, a Chef's Challenge, a festival in the park, and new hard cider from Oliver Winery.  See the Calendar here.

Date: Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, please sign up by Sept. 3.
Time: 10am-6pm

Cost: $190, includes lunch from The Owlery.
Tickets:   www.makeartlocaltour.eventbrite.com Payment is due by September 3. 

For more info, click here.

 www.amitymontessorischool.com

Amity is a private preschool and kindergarten for children between the ages 2.5 - 6 years. Our mission is to create and sustain an authentic private Montessori school accessible to the Bloomington community. Our core values are: respecting the child and where he/she is on the developmental continuum; creating a peaceful classroom where children respect each other and the adults; and promoting sustainability of the planet.  
 

Monroe County History Center

202 E. 6th 

www.monroehistory.org  

Fri. Sept. 16

108 N. Grant 

More details to come, but for now, all you need to know is Live Music and Live Art.  Watch this for some inspiration to get this event down on your calendar:

Sleeping Bag: "Slime" Official Video

Show closes July 30, so make sure you go by before that.  This contemporary art exhibition features paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics, wearable art, metalwork, books, sculpture, fiber art, and video installations by a mix of local, national, and international artists.  The artworks explore themes related to sex, gender, eroticism, reproduction, sexuality, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, and the human figure.

The Bloomington Playwrights Project - the only professional theatre in the entire state of Indiana focused solely on new plays - announces its 2011/2012 Season, which will feature five phenomenal new shows in its Mainstage Series and a distinctive selection of special events, proving this local treasure is indeed unique to the world.  A Peek:

Bomb Shell Sept. 30-Oct. 15 These eight ten-minute plays will center on the theme of War & Peace, while ranging from the absurdly hysterical, poignantly dramatic, and even sweet... you'll find yourself laughing just as much as you're thinking.  The BPP commissioned a number of writers to write new plays for this show, including Academy Award Nominee Jesse Eisenberg and Three-time Golden Globe Nominee Jeff Daniels.

I Am Grock by Amanda Rogers, winner of the 11/12 Reva Shiner Comedy Award, Dec. 2-17Therapist Phoebe Broman lands the interview of a lifetime promoting her new book, Brutal Honesty. Trouble is, her own insanely dysfunctional family arrives unexpectedly one hour before the interview. Her reputation and career at stake, Phoebe goes guerilla, holding her family hostage at gunpoint and demanding absolute honesty. In a surreal group "therapy" session filled with mimes, revelations about grandma's sex life, and genetically engineered super-children, Phoebe learns that although the truth might set you free, it can be one wild and crazy ride getting there. 

The Boy in the Bathroom, a New Musical Feb. 3-18 David lives in his bathroom. He never comes out, at least not for the past year.  David has obsessive-compulsive disorder and he's not going anywhere... until he meets Julie, and discovers that there might be something - or someone - on the other side of the door that will make it worth opening.   

Three Views of the Same Object by Henry Murray Apr. 6-21, 2012  Three Views of the Same Object touchingly tells the story of an elderly couple with a suicide pact... their agreement to end it all "before they lose control of their lives."  How do you know when the right moment presents itself?  What if one is ready to go and the other isn't.  Multiple actors portray the same husband and wife as we see three simultaneous views of how this pact will play out.

To Die For May 18-June 2 To Die For is a powerful pulp satire about an ambitious small town girl, Suzanne Stone, who's seduction by a fame-obsessed culture that defines our need "to be known" drives her to commit a carnal crime that captures the imagination of the world and changes the lives of those around her forever.