IU's Summer Cooperative African Language Institute presents the African Film Series featuring "Ndeysaan (The Price of Forgiveness)" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The Jacobs Summer Music Festival will continue at 8 p.m. July 20 in the Musical Arts Center with Concert II of the Festival Orchestra Series.
HOORN, Netherlands - Like most Dutchmen, Henk Poort knew little about Rembrandt, beyond his two or three most famous paintings. Then Poort was asked to play the Dutch master on stage. "Rembrandt The Musical" sounds like classic kitsch, part of the commercial hoopla surrounding the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth July 15. But the $12.5 million show is a lavish production that seeks to illuminate Rembrandt's exuberant and sometimes tragic life. As an artist, he is portrayed as rebellious and disdainful of popular opinion. As a person, he is a somewhat rakish figure bedeviled by three women.
It's on. Last week, the second season of the reality show "Rock Star" started, with Tommy Lee's new band Supernova on the hunt for an unknown performer to front them, and I for one am thrilled by this year's 15 finalists. For those of you who have never seen "Rock Star" in all of its glory, I like to think of it as an "American Idol" with people that can actually sing.
From 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group hosts contra dancing to live music.
Julliard's 2006 concerto competition winner violinist William Harvey and pianist Jeanette Koekkoek play at 8 p.m. tonight in Auer Hall.
Bloomington Playwrights Project is hosting an art contest to find an image to be used on publicity materials and the BPP Web site to promote an upcoming festival of plays that celebrate Latino culture.
The Indiana Shakespeare Festival invites all interested community members to an informational meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. July 17 at the Rose Firebay Theater at the Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St.
When Chris Johnston describes "ethical capitalism," the term he coined to describe his approach to running his Bloomington-based record label, Plan-It-X Records, it doesn't sound like a very good business plan. "Don't charge more than necessary," he offers as his advice to become an ethical capitalist. "Figure out what you need to maintain whatever project you're doing and make that the price. ... Unless you're increasing the quality of the product, there's no reason to increase the cost."
NEW YORK - A famous designer throws a fit and hurls a pair of scissors at his assistant. The ladies room at a top fashion glossy is routinely filled with weeping underlings who've been dressed down. One boss enforces a starvation regime: You can't go out for lunch, but you can't eat at your desk, either. These could be scenes from "The Devil Wears Prada," the new film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a capricious and fear-inspiring fashion editor. But they're actual anecdotes from the fashion world. Insiders agree that the depiction of scary-boss excess in the film, and even more in the book, is dead-on.
New York City trio GROOVELILY inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz and pop.
Visitors to the IU Art Museum have an extra opportunity to view the two special exhibitions this summer with extended evening hours from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. July 5 to July 6.
Artists from Mexico, Brazil and Colombia will exhibit paintings, drawings and photographs in a group exhibition "July, Julho, Julio: The Summer Exhibition" showing the diversity and beauty of local Latino artwork.
Johnny Depp's portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean" may bear great resemblance to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
New Orleans lives and dies by the water that holds the city in a crescent.
METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Passing through southern Illinois on their way to Nashville, Diana Brown and her son Colin saw the signs pointing the way to this town's Superman Square and its colorful bronze statue of the Man of Steel. Thanks to the media buildup ahead of Wednesday's opening of "Superman Returns," Clark Kent's alter ego was already on Brown's mind. So last week, mother and son got off the highway and visited this Mayberry-meets-Disney town on the Ohio River.
Indiana jazz musicians are coming together to perform what will be the first performance of the Jazz Festival Orchestra directed by composer and IU jazz icon David Baker. The orchestra will perform pieces composed by graduates of the Jacobs School of Music's jazz program and other Indiana jazz artists. "It really becomes an Indiana celebration in that all the compositions are by Indiana people, not necessarily Indiana University," Baker said. "Basically the thematic concept is that it's Indiana."
For the Monroe County Civic Theatre turning complex pieces of literature into productions staged in unorthodox spaces is half the battle. Making it work smoothly is the other half. And most of the time it isn't done easily. The upcoming performance of Alice's Adventures is Wonderland is no exception. The play opens July 1 in a venue many would not expect to house a theatre performance, The Irish Lion, located at 212 W. Kirkwood Avenue.
Craving high-impact art? Don't flee to a big city or Google photos on your computer - IU's campus offers pieces in an inviting environment.
She has done everything from building sets to stuffing programs, to starring in mainstage productions.
