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January 21, 2005

Hi everybody! This is a reminder to all parents in the Bloomington area that the Your Art Here youth art library programs begin tomorrow, Saturday, January 22, at the MCPL!

Your Art Here Workshops
Come to an informative art workshop conducted by Your Art Here (YAH), a Bloomington based, social arts organization currently using commercial billboards as public art spaces. Every March, in celebration of National Youth Art Month, YAH sponsors a themed call for entries for Bloomington and Indianapolis youth. This year YAH will ask kids to make art on the topic, "Exercise your free speech: What do you want to say?" These age specific workshops, conducted by YAH and the librarians, will get kids started on their entries. Please (try to) register in advance.

Saturday, January 22, Children's Program Room
Grades K-3 10:30-11:30am
Grades 4-6 1:30-2:30pm

Tuesday, January 25, Room 2-B
Grades 7-12 - 7-9pm

If you are not able to make it to the library programs, please remember that you can pick up packets for Billboard Generation III at the John Waldron Arts Center, or at http://www.yourarthere.org. All Bloomington entries are due at the Waldron by 5 PM on February 1st.

Billboard Generation III is sponsored by Your Art Here and these fine organizations (The Friends of Art Bookstore, The Bloomington Community Arts Commission, WFIU, WTIU, Pygmailions Art Supply, WFHB, and The Monroe County Library):

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MFA PRINTMAKING & PHOTOGRAPHY AREA SHOW

Jan. 18 - Jan. 23, 2005
Reception: Friday, Jan. 21, 7-9 p.m. ----TONIGHT!!!!

(Student exhibitions at the School of Fine Arts Gallery have been generously sponsored by Indiana University Friends of Art.)
http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu/emails/2005_01/chiaromfa.html

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Reel Democracy Film Series

The Accidental Activist
Friday, January 21, 7:15 P.M.
Venue: The Cinemat, Bloomington, IN
Cost: $3.50 (Cinemat Members) $4.00 (everyone else) Matinee (before 6PM) $1.75 (Members) $3.00 (Others)
ALL TUESDAY SCREENINGS IN JANUARY ARE FREE

In November 2002, an out-of-work actress (Kathryn Blume) and environmentalist gets particularly hot under the collar about the Bush administration's planned war on Iraq. She concocts the Lysistrata Project, arranging for simultaneous readings of the ancient Greek anti-war comedy "Lysistrata" all over the world. After two months of 18-hour days, the project is a raging success, with over 1000 simultaneous readings in 59 countries and in all 50 states. But after the project is over, she still doesn't have an active career... and the U.S. goes to war anyway. Blume presents her odyssey of self-discovery in a one-woman show.

www.reeldemocracy.org

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Kangaroo Press BBC art closing invite

Please join us this Saturday, January 22nd from 5pm - 7pm , at the Bloomington Bagel Company, on 7th and Morton, (just west of the video saloon) for the closing of the kangaroo press poster exhibit. There will be plenty of free bagels & such, coffee, fountain drinks, etc. courtesy of the Bloomington Bagel Company. Please feel free to bring or forward this message to anyone that you think would be interested. This will be the last day for the poster show which has been up since the beginning of December. The show includes a few local show posters as well as some limited art prints. Your attendance would be greatly appreciated.

For more information: Ryan Nole 812.219.3486 or the BBC at 812.349.4653 | 238 N. Morton

www.kangaroopress.com

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Survival skills for grant writers in the arts

Thursday, January 27, 7:00 p.m., Program Room 2C

-Where can I find funding to support my creativity?
-How can we get the financial support to make a fantastic idea come to life?

These are questions heard regularly at the Bloomington Area Arts Council. Nancy Krueger, BAAC assistant director, will provide tips and information that can benefit anyone charged with writing a grant application.

Nancy will focus primarily on grant writing for the arts for both individuals and organizations, but skills learned in this workshop may be adapted to other kinds of grant writing.

Cosponsored by BAAC and the Monroe County Public Library.

http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/adult_services/special_events.html

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Verge does it again: MY SECRET VALENTINE 2005!

Calling all artists:
Be part of history and participate in the fifth and final MY SECRET VALENTINE Exhibition and exchange!!

Verge is producing MY SECRET VALENTINE one last time in Chicago -- don't miss the opportunity to be part of this fabulous event!

Visit our website: www.ontheverge.org/future.html for more information and to fill out the online entry form.

Call for entries are due JANUARY 28th, 2005.

Everyone is invited to participate.

Questions? contact: msv2005@ontheverge.org

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HUGE Show in Chicago.

Tons of Music and ART. Shark-In-The-Boat, SQUIRM Orchestra, Lou Dooebn, LeDeuce, Japanese PUNK, Improvisational Dancers, Multiple MultiMedia Installations, Bulk Kazoos, Female Elvis Impersonators, Paintings and TONS More.

January 29, 9pm, 1757 N. Mackey in Chicago

Contact Ryan T. Parrish - rtpout@yahoo.com for information

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