Schedule of Events
OTHER ATTRACTIONS in 2011
MUSIC STAGE: Jazz, Folk, Blues, Classical
Times are approximate and might change
Sat. Sept. 3
10:00 AM-Bloomington Community Band
11:30 AM- Two –Tones (Acoustic with vocals)
12:15 PM- Different Drummer (Belly Dancers)
1:00 PM-Afro-Hoosier International
2:30 PM-Natural Mystics (Peace Music)
3:45 PM-O2R Blues Band
4:45 PM-Ruthie Allen (Singer Song Writer)
Sun. Sept.4
11:30 AM-Entwyned (Acoustic music)
12:30 PM-Bloomington Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
1:45 PM- Chris Parker Jazz Group
2:30 PM-Sarah Flint (Jazz Singing and Swing)
3:15 PM-Jerry’s Kids ( Rock & R&B)
4:15 PM-IDD Belly Dance Group
KIDSZONE
Each year the 4th Street Festival has a hands-on children’s art booth where we invite the whole community to get involved in the creation of art.
Wonderlab will be joining Fourth Street to present our Childrens' Booth. We will explore the fascinating relationship between Science and Art. Artists of all ages are invited to weave yarns and other materials into the spokes of used bicycle wheels which will be used to decorate this lively, bike-friendly community.
In addition, each visitor can create an embossed personal folding book to take home. Learn a creative new way to make a book to store small art thoughts! Just like all of our collaborative projects with Wonderlab -there is an interesting scientific principle to this project.
COMMUNITY BOOTHS
a new event this year with works presented by:
Jason Leslie Ammerman
is a poet based in Indianapolis.
Bloomington Storytellers’ Guild
was formed in 1974 to help keep the ancient tradition of oral storytelling alive. A blend of folktales, personal narratives, urban legends, local lore, and ghost stories make up the Guilds’ repertoire of stories shared in our community.
Bloomington Storytelling Project
produces a weekly show, The Porch Swing, on WFHB Community Radio on Sunday evenings, and will have a storybooth at the festival to record stories from festival-goers. BSP will also feature three storytellers live on stage.
storytelling@wfhb.org www.wfhb.org/news/porchswing
Tony Brewer
will read some of his poems, and will perform sound effects with Firehouse Theatre Live and Mind’s Ear Audio Productions. He has been writing, performing, and producing in Bloomington, the Midwest, and beyond since the end of the last century.
Lee Chapman
will read his poetry accompanied by Bob Green on the hurdy-gurdy. Lee’s themes include cats, Cancún, and how his mind is going. In addition to accompanying Lee, Bob plays 18th-century French pop tunes.
Arbutus Cunningham
lives in the quaint colonial village of Bloomington, Indiana, where she studies the armigerous potential of armadillos and writes very short stories. She can be heard (but not seen) on WFHB Community Radio most Saturday mornings from ten to noon.
Firehouse Theatre Live
WFHB’s Firehouse Theatre presents a live performance of Norman Corwin’s 1945 radio play The Undecided Molecule, a rhymed fantasy concerning dangerous developments among the elements. (Mr. Corwin, at 101, recently directed a new performance of this timeless and timely classic out in Hollywood.)
Anne Haines
is a longtime Bloomington resident and author of Breach (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and many poems published in various literary journals. She has performed in the past with the groups Source: Women Writers and Five Women Poets.
http://landmammal.blogspot.com
Matthew Jackson
is a professional hair designer and a spoken word artist from Columbus, Indiana, dedicated to keeping the Indiana performance art scene alive, progressive, and interesting. He co-founded the rock/poetry/talk music band The PaperBack Riot.
www.matthewdjackson.net
Joseph Kerschbaum
is a spoken word artist based in Bloomington, Indiana. He has authored 5 books of poetry and 2 spoken word albums.
www.ThirstyOcean.com
Know NO Stranger
is an Indianapolis-based artist collective set on making enjoyable activities that inspire creative participation. KNS operates on the philosophy that we can do anything we want and everyone has the potential to make their ideas reality.
Purplepeoplemeeter@hotmail.com
www.KnowNoStranger.com
Joy Shayne Laughter
is a Bloomington native, boomeranged back from Seattle since 2007. She is author of the award-winning mystery novel YU: A Ross Lamos Mystery, and is working on the next in that series, while being a voice on the Daily Local News team at WFHB Community Radio.
Erin Livingston
is a poet and producer, and curator of The Encyclopedia Show-Indianapolis.
www.facebook.com/EncyclopediaShowIndianapolis
Tonia Matthew & Friends
Tonia is a member of the group Five Women Poets and will perform found “group poems,” where one or more people read together.
Elsa Marston Harik
Olive trees speak to many people in a unique way — not just as source of sustenance and beauty but as iconic symbol as well. After a few words about her life-long admiration of these trees, so evocative of the Mediterranean world, Elsa will read her short story “The Olive Tree,” suitable for all ages.
Mind’s Ear Audio Productions
presents the writings of its co-founder Joel Pierson, beginning with the short radio play This Functional Family, followed by readings from his novel Don’t Kill the Messenger. Joel and Dana Pierson team up to bring spoken word entertainment to Fourth Street Festival.
www.minds-ear.org
Chelsea Parkkila
hosts the weekly Poetry Revival performance showcase at Michael Lindsay Studios in Bloomington, Indiana. She will be accompanied by poet Ethan Sallee.
revivalbloomington@gmail.com
Rembrandt & McGillicutty
The act that critics are calling “100 years behind its time!” Chester A. Rembrandt and Arthur “Artie” McGillicutty have been barely eking out a living as Vaudevillian comics since the early 1900s. www.rembrandtandmcgillicutty.com
Reservoir Dogwoods
Jason Ammerman, Tony Brewer, Matthew Jackson, and Joseph Kerschbaum collectively are the Reservoir Dogwoods, and poetry performance ensemble founded in 2009. www.IndianaPoetryTour.com
Steve Volan