Bloom Magazine
Category: Arts/Entertainment
Coverage of Bloomington’s vibrant arts and entertainment scene — theater, music, visual arts, film, galleries, and cultural events throughout Monroe County and beyond.
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Dale Enochs’ Statehouse Sculpture ‘Really Puts the Public in Public Art’
When Bicentennial Plaza at the Indiana Statehouse was being renovated in 2016, the call for public art proposals presented a…
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BSO Conductor Gómez Guillén Working to Reach New Audiences
Alejandro Gómez Guillén’s love affair with music started early. The artistic director and conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO)…
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‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ We Have a Ukulele Club
On a recent Sunday afternoon, a dozen Bloomingtonians, ranging in age from 12 to 88, showed up at the Monroe…
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Jason Wilber: A B-town Boy, Now 47, with His 10th Album
When he moved to Bloomington in 1985 at the age of 15, Jason Wilber says he found a vibrant music…
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Meet Ellen Starr Lyon’s Family: ‘Emotional and Real and Healthy’
The room where Ellen Starr Lyon paints is just steps from the front door of her family home. Situated at…
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Lotus Festival Once Again Brings World Music to Town
The growth of Lotus World Music & Arts Festival is a phenomenon that can only happen in a community like…
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Quarry Festival of Books Invites Readers to Meet, Chat with Authors
Local bibliophiles will have the opportunity to meet and converse with nearly two dozen regional authors at the second Quarry…
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Thank You, Randy White
On a momentous day in 1975, in the pulp-and-paper town of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, a stout 8-year-old boy was…
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New Arts Center On Near West Side To Feature Gallery, Theater & Library
The corner of Fourth and Rogers streets is a 10-minute walk from the downtown Square, Bloomington’s traditional nucleus of arts…
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Dalia Rosenfeld Returns Home To Promote Her First Book
To most Americans, to be a Hoosier is synonymous with unromantic, flyover-country ordinariness. In writer Dalia Rosenfeld’s adopted home of…
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