FRIDAY, AUGUST 29
Community Kitchen of Monroe County
presents
Bloomington's Chefs' Challenge
7:00pm
$25 General Admission

Community Kitchen invites you to the 2008 Bloomington Chefs’ Challenge, the premier Bloomington “Foodie” event. Last year’s inaugural event raised over $6,000 to help feed the hungry in our community.  Each day Community Kitchen staff and volunteers face the challenge of putting together a nutritious meal for over 200 people using collected and donated food items.  We created an event that pays tribute to this effort while highlighting the talent of local chefs in a friendly competition.  Based on television’s popular Iron Chef, this culinary event will feature 3 local chefs who will have one hour to cook a winning dish from a pantry of ingredients.  A “mystery ingredient” will be revealed right before competition begins.  Bloomington Community Access Televisions film crews will show close-ups of the fast paced live action on the Buskirk’s big screen.  Emcees (Rhino’s, Brad Wilhelm & Bloomingfoods, David Coonce) will update the audience as the competition heats up and then 3 celebrity judges will pick the top dish.  Audience members will have the opportunity to sample signature appetizers from over 10 local chefs, raffle to win an opportunity to sit on the judge’s bench and sample the chefs creations and participate in a live auction of culinary goods. 

To watch a short video highlighting last year’s challenge go to www.monroecommunitykitchen.com/events

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Middle Way House
presents
Night At The Opera
Time 5:15pm
$20 for upper balcony seating
$35 for lower balcony seating
$75 for reserved orchestra
$70 for upper balcony and dinner
$85 for lower balcony and dinner
$125 for reserved orchestra and dinner

The 20^th Anniversary of Night At The Opera on behalf of Middle Way House!  Love, Laughter and Song from opera to musical theater will abound during this extraordinary evening of music, in an event that provides much needed funds for MWH’s shelter, support services and vital crisis intervention work.

Two-time Grammy Award winning artist Sylvia McNair and internationally renowned baritone Timothy Noble will be performing. The mellifluous George Walker of WFIU returns as Host for the evening and Peter Jacobi will again provide his inimitable commentary as Master of Ceremonies.  Lisa Williamson, who has been passionate in her efforts to further the work of MWH, will serve as producer and performer.

Sumptuous hors d’oeuvres will be served at 5:15 PM and the concert will begin at 6:00 PM, with dinner to follow the performance at Michael’s Uptown Cafe.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Golden Age of Hollywood
presents
I Love You Again
1:30pm
FREE

Celebrate a time gone by, when watching musicals, romance, and comedy at the local movie palace was all the rage! Share gems of the Golden Age of Hollywood with your friends and families in the historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Popular MGM co-stars William Powell and Myrna Loy put The Thin Man series on hold for this equally zestful screwball comedy. Clocked by an oar while on a vacation cruise, fusty small-town businessman Powell suddenly remembers he's a conman suffering from amnesia, and not the model citizen he's been playing for eight years. No one in town has any knowledge of Powell's criminal past, and he recalls nothing of the “lost” years – not even his bitter marriage to beautiful but bored Loy. With the rediscovery of his larcenous instincts, Powell hatches a plot to liquidate his bank accounts and swindle the unsuspecting townsfolk before making his escape. There’s only one small hitch in the plan: he’s falling in love with his wife. 

Appropriate for school age children, engaging for adults, and reminiscent of the glory days of the movie palace, the Golden Age of Hollywood series is the perfect Tuesday afternoon lunch date! Presented in collaboration with the IU Department of Communication and Culture, and Bloomington Parks and Recreation, these movie gems are introduced by IU Associate Professor Chris Anderson, who shares with our audiences interesting anecdotes and background on each film.

This series is made possible through the generous sponsorship of Indiana University. Through a new partnership between the Indiana University Office of the Provost, Moveable Feast of the Arts Program, and Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater, movie buffs can step back in time and enjoy another year of classic films.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
presents
Wilderness Plots
8:00pm
$20 Reserved Seating
$15 with Student ID

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Wilderness Plots — in word and song — captures the hardships, ironies and aspirations of early pioneer life in the Ohio Valley. The exceptional cast performs songs drawn from the tales of Scott Russell Sanders, creating a timeless show at turns romantic, tragic, elegiac, and comic, compressing entire lifetimes into a few stanzas. Like the most distinctive American folksongs and folktales, WILDERNESS PLOTS arises from the experience of wrestling with a wild, raucous, dangerous, and glorious continent.

Well beyond the scope of a standard “concert,” WILDERNESS PLOTS is a moving and powerful evening of entertainment — unique and truly memorable.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
IU School of Journalism
presents
Nina Totenberg
Time & Tickets TBA

Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

Totenberg's coverage of the Supreme Court and legal affairs has won her widespread recognition. Newsweek says, "The mainstays [of NPR] are Morning Edition and All Things Considered. But the creme de la creme is Nina Totenberg." She is also a regular panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly syndicated public affairs television program produced in the nation's capital.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
presents
Manhattan Short Film Festival
7:00pm
$10 General Admission
$8 with Student ID

The Manhattan Short Film Festival: The most creative short films in the world, judged across 3 continents!

Each year, the Manhattan Short Film Festival receives hundreds of short films (up to 14 minutes long) from around the world and screens 12 finalists in front of audiences at approximately 150 venues across three continents. Screening audiences receive voting cards upon entry and then vote for their top pick. Each venue’s results are sent electronically to the Manhattan Short headquarters in NYC.

Now in its 10th year, the Manhattan Short Film Festival has developed into something unlike any other cinematic competition on the planet.

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