This weekend in Bloomington: Black Market, celebrating cranes and 'Love Found, Love Lost'

Carol Kugler, The Herald-Times
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Inside, outside, jazz or country — it's all happening this weekend in the Bloomington area. New country musician Cole Chaney will perform at the Bluebird while musicians Tom Roznowski and Mike Lucas play jazz and more at Juniper Art Gallery. The Buskirk-Chumley Theater will show "John Lewis: Good Trouble" and city hall will host a Black Market Saturday. For an adventure outside of Bloomington, the annual Marsh Madness bird festival will be Saturday in Linton. Closer to home, the Monroe County Civic Theater will perform "Love Found, Lost Lost" and cartoonist Nate Powell will talk about his graphic novels during Coffee with Friends at the library.

Cole Chaney performs his brand of country music Thursday at the Bluebird

See Cole Chaney Thursday at the Bluebird.
See Cole Chaney Thursday at the Bluebird.

Up-and-coming musician Cole Chaney will play his brand of country music at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 at The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., on his Legends & Verses 2024 tour. Doors will open at 7 p.m. for the 21-plus show that begins at 8. Tickets are $15 with a $5.36 service fee at thebluebird.ws.

Jazz and more at Third Thursday at Juniper Art Gallery

Juniper Art Gallery’s Third Thursday monthly music night features Tom Roznowski and Mike Lucas performing jazz and Hoagy Carmichael tunes along with captivating stories from these Bloomington musicians. The music and talk will be 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday at 615 W. Kirkwood Ave.

'John Lewis: Good Trouble' film showing Friday at Buskirk-Chumley Theater

A free showing of “John Lewis: Good Trouble” will be 7:30-9 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Learn about Congressman John Lewis’ life: in his teens he joined the Freedom Riders and later became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the groups responsible for organizing the 1963 March on Washington. On March 7, 1965, he helped lead about 600 people who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial discrimination on what is known as Bloody Sunday.

Black Market Saturday at City Hall

The city of Bloomington will host a Black Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in City Hall, 401 N. Morton St. A coalition of organizations, Black-owned businesses, Black creators, and artists will participate. It will also provide a medium for local talent, business owners and groups to share information and sell goods. The Black History Month “Black Market” pays homage to the original Black Market that was firebombed on Dec. 26, 1968.

More: What remains of the Black Market after the 1968 firebombing

Learn about cranes, other birds at Saturday's Marsh Madness in Linton

Sandhill cranes are migrating through Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area, as seen on Feb. 3, 2023. They are one of the bird species that can be seen this weekend during the annual Marsh Madness events in Linton and nearby Goose Pond.
Sandhill cranes are migrating through Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area, as seen on Feb. 3, 2023. They are one of the bird species that can be seen this weekend during the annual Marsh Madness events in Linton and nearby Goose Pond.

Friends of Goose Pond will host the annual Marsh Madness events Saturday in Linton and nearby Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area. Tickets are $5 per person with bus tours included; kids are admitted free. Many of the activities will happen in Linton's Humphrey's Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maps will be available for self-guided tours of the fish and wildlife area, where birding experts will be posted with scopes and binoculars to help people see birds of interest.

Other activities in the park include nature scavenger hunts with prizes, owl pellet activity, myths and misconceptions of bats, bee keeping, and live birds of prey at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Roy Clark Building. The Hoosier Herpetological Society display will have live reptiles and amphibians. Arts and crafts vendors will be selling creations in the Roy Clark Building. There will be concessions for sale.

Buses for tours of the wildlife area will begin and end at the park. First buses leave at 8:30 a.m.; last leaves at 3 p.m. The Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife visitor's center, at 13540 W. County Road 400 South, will have exhibits and spotting scopes as well as a path with interpretive signs.

For more information, go online to http://tinyurl.com/ytvkeyz3.

Participants at Marsh Madness in 2011 watch whooping cranes that were stopping at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area while migrating north.
Participants at Marsh Madness in 2011 watch whooping cranes that were stopping at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area while migrating north.

'Love Found, Love Lost' performance Saturday at the library

“Love Found, Love Lost” performed by a cast of 21 singing and performing Cabaret members of the Monroe County Civic Theater will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Monroe County Public Library, 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. The free event will be ticketed; for tickets, go online to www.mcct.org.

Coffee with Friends: Nate Powell at the library Sunday afternoon

Nate Powell, a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992, will be drinking coffee and talking about his works 2-3 p.m. Sunday at the downtown public library, 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. Powell's work includes "Save It For Later," civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, "Come Again," "Two Dead," "Any Empire" and "Swallow Me Whole." Powell’s work has received four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions. This event is for people age 12 and older.

Reach Carol Kugler at ckugler@heraldt.com.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Things to do in and near Bloomington, Indiana, this weekend