Events Archive

January 2003

Sun. January 4, 2003

Auditions for The Indianapolis Women's Chorus

4pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, 615 W. 43rd St., Indianapolis All skill levels welcome. No special preparations necessary, please contact to RSVP!

Wed. January 8, 2003

Auditions for The Indianapolis Men's Chorus

7pm, Broadway United Methodist Church, 609 E. 29th St., Indianapolis. Sing musical selection of your choice, please contact Shannon at 513-6919 to RSVP!

Sat. January 11, 2003

Hart to Heart Workshop

10am to 5:30pm
(Registration begins at 9am)
(dinner afterwards at the Snooty Fox)

St. Luke United Methodist Church
100 West 86th Street
846-3404

GLBT and Christian-positive workshop

Sponsored by ReachOUT
ReachOUT is a fellowship for gays and lesbians, friends and family. They meet the 1st Wednesday of each month. If you would like information and/or to be put on the REACH mailing list, call Xandra Hamilton, 769-6386 or Henry Greene, 846-6926.

Mon. January 20, 2003

Bloomington Playwrights Project

The Bloomington Playwrights Project is proud to announce their annual DIVERSITY FESTIVAL, a day of theatre exploring the wide variety of social perspectives encompassed by the Bloomington community. Performances will take place at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, located at 312 S. Washington St. in Bloomington and other venues, the afternoon and evening of Monday, January 20, Martin Luther King Day. Thanks to the generous support of Thanks to the generous support of local business Kilroy's Sports Bar, all the performances of the 2003 DIVERSITY FESTIVAL will be presented FREE of charge. Schedule of performances include THEATRICAL EVENTS FOR CHILDREN (NOON - 5:00), RECEPTION (5:30 - 7:00) and MAINSTAGE EVENING EVENTS (7:00 - Midnight) Festival For more information please contact Festival Director: Breshaun Joyner at 812/336-5064, [email protected] or call the BPP at 812-334-1188.

THEATRICAL EVENTS FOR CHILDREN (NOON - 5:00)

READERS THEATRE
Noon - 12:45
Plays from Tanzania and India performed by children for children

STORYTELLING
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Storytellers share world stories for children

PUPPETS
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Popcorn Puppet Theatre explores diversity through puppetry highlighting
stories from Vietnam and Nigeria

NATIVE-AMERICAN FOLKTALES
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Native American Playhouse performs live plays featuring the folktales of
Native Americans interspersed with live Native American flute music

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RECEPTION (5:30 - 7:00)
International delicacies and live world music including Didgeridoo player Merribeth Fender and African drumming
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MAINSTAGE EVENING EVENTS (7:00 - Midnight)

DIVERSITY IN DANCE (7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) Windfall Dancers - Parallel Differences Youth Company. Original modern dance pieces that express and promote diversity tolerance, and understanding of different cultures.

VISIONS OF RIGHT: STAGED READING (8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.) Oasis Productions, as the guest of Bloomington Playwrights Project Diversity Festival, is proud to present a staged reading of Marcia Cebulska's VISION OF RIGHT. Playwright Cebulska, a former Bloomingtonian, now resides in Topeka, Kansas. VISIONS OF RIGHT won the Dorothy Silver Award in 2001. The play is about a woman photographer who tries to cope with the effects of bigotry and discovers the fragility of her own humanity. The cast of four is Diane Kondrat, Rockland Brooks Mers, Jeff Clawson, and Steve Heise.

SCENES AND MONOLOGUES (9;30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.) By Asian, Latino, and African-American playwrights featuring local and IU actors of color. Performances of GIT ON BOARD by George C. Wolfe, ATTENTION TO DETAIL by Richard Haratani, and THE HOUSE OF RAMON IGLESIA by Jose Rivera.

SKETCH COMEDY (11:00 p.m. - Midnight) BPP's Resident Sketch Comedy Troupe, All Sorts of Trouble for the Boy in the Bubble

Fri. January 24, 2003

Friday, January 24th - Singer/songwriter Tret Fure releases her new CD, "My Shoes" in the inaugural show of her 2003 tour.

Her last CD, "Back Home", was named "Album of the Year" by Outvoice.net, and the new production is expected to be her best work yet. Concert to be held at JMCC, corner of East 56th Street and Oxford (3 blocks east of Keystone) January 24th at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door, and can be purchased by calling 317-328-0207.

January 31 through February 22, 2003

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Theatre on the Square
627 Massachusetts Ave
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2:30 p.m.

Three performers in need of serious psychiatric help attempt to condense all of William Shakespeare's 37 plays into 90 minutes! (Roughly the amount of time it took Kenneth Branaugh's movie version of "Hamlet" to really get going). Obviously this is a comedy which promises to deliver the sort of education about the works of this esteemed playwright that we wish we all had.

TICKETS: $20 for adults
$17 for Students and Seniors
Group Rates Available

For more information or to purchase tickets contact:
Theatre on the Square
627 Massachusetts Ave
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

317 637 8085 (Box Office)
317 637 0302 (Fax)

Website: www.tots.org

Fri. January 31, 2003

United DePauw, the GLBTQQSAI organization at DePauw University, is proud to announce Drag Ball 2002.69: Awakening the Virgin

This extravaganza will take place on Friday, January 31st from 10PM to 2AM at the Walden Inn Social Center located at 2 Seminary Street, Greencastle, IN 46135. United DePauw would be honored to have the presence of various GLBT organizations from around the state. There will be food, dancing, and a drag competition starting at 11PM. If you have any questions, you can contact me at [email protected].

January 31 through February 16, 2003

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Indianapolis Civic Theatre on Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
$23 main floor, $18 balcony
Tickets 317-923-4597

About the play:

Skillfully crafted, full of sharp and funny dialogue, playwright Robert Harling evokes an affectionate picture of eccentricity in the small-town South. Concerned with a group of gossipy women in a beauty parlor, this popular Broadway comedy is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. The story chronicles the lives of six women over a two-year period, capturing the joy and sorrow, poignancy and crisis of everyday life. The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana where all the ladies who are 'anybody' come to have their hair done. Helped by her dithering young assistant, the out-spoken, wise-cracking Truvy ("There's no such thing as natural beauty") dispenses shampoos and free advice to her customers. A poignant play filled with Southern humor!

Location & parking info:

Indianapolis Civic Theatre is located at 1200 W. 38th Street, on the beautiful grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Free parking is still available on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Due to the construction process at the Museum, the parking garage is closed at this time. However, more well lit parking has been added on the Museum grounds. A circular drive on the south side of the complex will allow for passenger drop-off and pick-up, while shuttles will transport visitors from the parking lots to the main entrance of the Museum and the Theatre. A clearly marked entrance corridor will guide you to the Civic Theatre lobby.