Category: Lets Go

Events in Bloomington, IN

Boxcar Books 5th Year Anniversary Benefit Dinner @ The Unitarian Church

Here’s the menu:

Hors D’oeuvres

  • Fresh baked bread by Colin
  • Olives with Fennel and Orange
  • Falafel
  • Dolmas
  • Spinach Phyllo Cups
  • Roasted Garlic Crostini with Smoked Paprika
  • Charmoula Drizzled Vegetable Kabobs

Salads

  • Greek Salad
  • Moroccan Cous Cous Salad

Entree

  • Eggplant Roulade served w/ Polenta and topped w/ Vegetable
  • Saffron Bouillabaise

Desserts

  • Baklava by Tess
  • Creamy Mediterranean Rice Pudding

Everything is vegan friendly.

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Horizons Art Opening @ Boxcar Books. 7-9p.

Boxcar Books, 310-A South Washington St. in Bloomington, is happy to announce an upcoming art exhibit at their location.  On Friday, January 5th, 2007, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Boxcar books will host a reception to kick off a month-long exhibit of featured paintings from artists of the Horizons Art Therapy Program at Center for Behavioral Health.  Refreshments will be provided at the free event.
The exhibit originally debuted at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on December 2nd to an appreciative crowd as part of the “Art of Mental Health,” and Boxcar Books is happy to provide space for patrons to enjoy it at length during the month of January.   Artists of these works use their art as a tool in treatment for coping, creativity, leisure, and building friendships.

For more information, contact Steven Slothard (steven [at] boxcarbooks [dot] org) or Boxcar Books at 812-339-8710.

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Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan Public Meeting @ Boxcar Books. 4p.

Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan will hold a public meeting beginning at 4pm. Formed in the Fall of 2005, HCHP’s goal is to develop and promote a bill in the Indiana State Legislature that will be introduced in January of 2007 that will promote Universal Healthcare. For more information, please visit www.hchp.info

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stitch and bitch: knitting and letter writing @ boxcar books. 7-9p.


Crafting Community: An Evening of Knitting and/or Letter Writing
Friday, December 22
Boxcar Books and Community Center [310A S. Washington St.]
7-9pm

Bloomington is changing in terms of the structural landscape of the city, the demographics of it’s inhabitants, and the development and political decisions that face the community. Despite opportunities for public review, many of the decisions being made that affect the community as a whole, feel completely out of the hands of most people. We grumble, gossip, and debate but do our words and concerns change anything?

The idea is simple – people can get together around a simple activity like knitting and talk about their perceptions, feelings, and ideas about the things that are affecting us as we live in Bloomington. We can share information about the things that are happening around us and use our shared information and perspective to solidify our individual feelings and opinions. Then, through writing letters to the editors of local media, politicians, city officials, developers, and business owners, we can share our voices with those who make sweeping decisions around the city of Bloomington. We hope that our voices can help shape the decisions being made, but if they can’t, at least no one can claim that the decisions were made ignorant of the impact that they would have on the city’s residents.

I’m thinking that this Friday’s topic of letter writing will be the closing of Ladyman’s Cafe and the plans for Finelight’s development of the cafe’s former location. Please bring any news articles, planning documents, press releases or other information that you would like to share with others.

This event is open to everyone in the Bloomington community. You can come to knit, to write letters, or just hang out.  Hopefully we can all take a few moments to let the rants and conversations many have had over the past few weeks coalesce and turn them into clear expressions of anger, frustration, or hope that can be shared with others in Bloomington.

Take care,
Geoff