Redbud Books

Please join us for the next community play reading of Bite-Sized by local writer Wren Latham on July 10th at 7 PM at Redbud Books.

"Elysium Hills is nothing short of paradise. But, the more Wilona snoops, the more her beloved hometown begins to morph before her very eyes. When housewives Sylvie, Janine, and Estelle begin to fight by her side, the four craft weapons out of frying pans and rolling pins, determined to get beyond the walls of Elysium Hills to tell their story. Black Mirror and The Stepford Wives collide in a neon tale of sisterhood, liberation, and becoming."

Wren Aubrey Latham is a second-year playwriting MFA candidate, digital painter, and ukulele player (also, most recently, a candlemaker). From his spec fiction on trauma and mermaids published in Jeopardy Literary Magazine, to a staged reading at IU of his solarpunk thesis draft GROUNDLINGS, Wren's work emphasizes the alchemical power of being seen. Language, queerness, Blackness, and becoming are through lines that have shaped his aesthetic for years. His work seeks to challenge the roles which marginalized people are expected to take on, particularly women in the genres of science fiction and horror.

Content Warning: racist slurs, cannibalism

The Redbud Community Play Reading Series is a free monthly reading series in which community members and theatre professionals share in the joy of reading plays aloud together.

These unrehearsed readings offer opportunities to appreciate plays written by local playwrights and IU alums, and established plays we may not otherwise be exposed to.

This series is supported by the City of Bloomington Arts Commission and Psi Iota Xi.

Come 'n get your copy of the newest issue of before they're all gone!

Secret screenings are back in a big way! But don't tell anyone bc they're a secret...

Can you guess what we'll be screening on Saturday, 5/2 at 7pm? 🤔

Please join us on Tuesday, 4/28 at 7PM for Panic Wisely: A Workshop with Ira J. Allen. We're facing an infopocalypse. Infopocalypse, or epistemic breakdown, is what happens when our shared apparatuses for sensemaking across distance and difference unravel. This workshop draws on psychologist Laura Noll's concept of "epistemic wellbeing" as a dynamic communal achievement, and on communication scholar Jeremy Engels' notion of "mindful democracy" as a practice for being together with both uncertainty and care, to share ways of navigating epistemic breakdown wisely.

We have a pop-up Creative Cafe on April 23rd at 5pm. This particular cafe will focus on sharing songs and collective singing. The Creative Cafe series was co-founded as a community arts education project in October 2024 in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Creative Cafe is a monthly series inspired by three main objectives:

-A desire to have dedicated spaces to honoring new residents and artists through performance and dialogue.

-A place for all artists within Bloomington to socialize and invent new means of collaboration and expression.

-Time and space of proactive community-planning and destigmatized conversations around migration in a country that has seen an overwhelming increase in xenophobia and anti-migrant sentiment.

Bring a song, an instrument, or your voice. We will have some lyric sheets, a keyboard, and some percussive instruments, but feel free to bring anything else you would like to bring! "

Join us on Wednesday at 7pm for a showcase of experimental short films and video art made locally--curated by Eskenazi School video art students. All are welcome!

Book Release Panel Watch Party.
Tuesday, 5 PM. April 14.
Trellis, Near West Side of Bloomington
We'll bring light snacks but more would be appreciated!

Revolutions of Our Times is an urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation.

We belong to a single transnational struggle—and we stand against an internationally organized elite. We know that if we remain isolated, we will achieve nothing. We have begun to weave a network of planetary connections from front lines to popular assemblies, from feminist strikes to resistance committees, from occupied roundabouts to occupied forests, and have discovered a common sensibility.

Revolutions of Our Times draws on the experience of uprisings taking place across the globe over the past two decades and sets out a vision for revolutionary internationalism.

Speakers:
Morteza is activist and independent researcher from Iran and a member of Roja collective.

Rindala is a Syrian member of The Peoples Want.

Roula is a writer and organizer working with migrant and refugee communities in the SWANA. She is the International Coordinator of Women in Migration Network (WIMN) and an award winning novelist.

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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and The Peoples Want. Watch separately at bit.ly/RevolutionsTPW. Learn more at https://thepeopleswant.org