BLOOMINGTON – Buskirk-Chumley Theater has announced events for July 1-31, 2024
Summer Blockbuster Blast From The Past: Spielberg’s Greatest Hits
Date/Time:
Jaws (1975) – Friday, July 12, 7 p.m.
Jurassic Park (1993) – Saturday, July 13, 7 p.m.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983) – Sunday, July 14, 3 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408
Description: Whether this is your first or 100th time – You’re not going to want to miss this blast from the past highlighting the iconic summer blockbusters from the 70s, 80s, and 90s on the big screen. This is the time to introduce those to these classic films.
Friday, July 12 – 7 p.m. Jaws (1975)
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. Rated PG.
Saturday, July 13 – 7 p.m. Jurassic Park (1993)
A select group of paleontologists are chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond, assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt. Rated PG-13.
Sunday, July 14 – 3 p.m. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983)
A boy named Elliott summons the courage to help a friendly extraterrestrial alien who has become stranded on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. get back home. Rated PG.
Doors open 30 minutes before each event.
Each film showing can be purchased separately. You can also see all three films for a special price.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/festival/summer-blockbuster-blast-from-the-past/.
Queer Futures: 4 Short Films
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: The QUEER FUTURES series centers on joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore fat beauty and liberation, gender-affirming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline.
Four Short Films:
How to Carry Water (dir. Sasha Wortzel)
This punk rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel — a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat-phobic society views fat bodies. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, the film immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation in which marginalized bodies — including bodies of water — are sacred.
The Script (dir. Brit Fryer & Noah Schamus)
Blending personal interviews with dramatized genre recreations, THE SCRIPT explores the complicated relationship between trans and nonbinary communities and medical providers regarding gender-affirming care. With a playful approach toward experimentation, the film invites its participants and audience to examine the limits of language and the nature of performance in building safe and affirming futures.
MnM (dir. Twiggy Pucci Garçon)
MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that prizes gender ‘realness.’
The Callers (dir. Lindsey Dryden) THE CALLERS combines anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the story of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family or mend a broken heart. The film is a love letter to queer memory and possibility, LGBTQ+ community and care, and the power of collective imagination to create the lives we dream of.
All films are not rated.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/queer_futures/.
Katie Deal is Crazy for Patsy Cline
Date/Time: Friday, July 19, 7 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: Having sold out two national tours of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline and numerous productions of Always…Patsy Cline, award-winning performer Katie Deal takes the stage with her one-of-a-kind concert honoring Ms. Cline. You are sure to be entertained by her vast knowledge and love of all things Patsy! Hear her dynamic, live Nashville band play the hits Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin’ After Midnight, Seven Lonely Days, She’s Got You, and many more.
“She’s pure Patsy.”- Columbus Free Press
“Deal shines when she sings.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Find out more at katiedeal.com.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/katie_deal_is_crazy_for_patsy_cline/.
Earth Connection Film Festival
Date/Time: Saturday, July 20, 9 a.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: This National Science Foundation (NSF) funded international short film contest blends science and the arts to unleash the power of storytelling to channel our climate change ideas to a more actionable space. Short films focused on climate justice will be screened in four film programs throughout the day in between a series of curated special events with local community members. The festival culminates with an awards program of $5,250 in cash prizes awarded to the filmmakers and an after-party.
SCHEDULE
- 9 a.m. – Breakfast/Welcome
- 10 a.m. – Screening Program 1
- 1 p.m. – Screening Program 2
- 3 p.m. – Screening Program 3
- 5 p.m. – Screening Program 4
- 6:30 p.m. – Awards Presentation
This event is free and non-ticketed. Attend as you please.
The Blues Under the Ski
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 23, 7 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater,114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: Featuring: Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Furry Lewis, Mance Lipscomb, Brownie McGhee, Amelia Cortez, Jimmy Streeter, Roosevelt Sykes, Sonny Terry, Junior Wells, Bukka White, and Robert Pete Williams.
The film The Blues Under The Skin is a thrilling rediscovery, an untapped treasury of musical performances that not only captures a vanishing musical form but offers a priceless glimpse of Black life in the rural South in the 1970s.
In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture on film the remnants of the authentic American blues. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Bukka White, and Roosevelt Sykes. His objective was to document the music penetrating the surface of the blues and explore the emotional and sociopolitical factors that make it such an expressive and haunting musical form.
Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, the film dramatizes the tumultuous relationship of a young couple (Onike Lee and Roland Sanchez) as they struggle to overcome the barriers of poverty and prejudice that keep them from finding happiness together.
The Blues Under The Skin has never been commercially distributed in the United States and has only enjoyed a handful of screenings in the 50 years since its completion. This 2K restoration represents the proper U.S. premiere of the film.
The film is not rated.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/the_blues_under_the_skin/.
White Christmas (1954): A Christmas in July Celebration
Date/Time: Thursday, July 25, 7 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: It’s not ironic. It’s just a ton of fun celebrating Christmas in July. Dress up, sing along, and bring the spirit of the season to cool off inside during the summer heat.
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It features Irving Berlin’s songs.
It’s the story of a successful song-and-dance team who become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
A Holiday classic worth showing amid summer.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/white_christmas_1954/.
The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Description: The first Glenn Miller Orchestra did not make it at all. It was a total and absolute economic failure. But Glenn knew what he wanted, held to that dedication, and relentlessly worked to succeed. He launched his second band – the one that lives on today – in March of 1938. The Glenn Miller Orchestra has been a “hit” ever since.
The legendary Glenn Miller was one of the most successful of all dance bandleaders back in the Swing Era of the 1930s and 40s. A matchless string of hit records, the constant impact of radio broadcasts and the drawing power at theatres, hotels and dance pavilion, built and sustained the momentum of popularity.
Glenn disbanded his musical organization in 1942, at the height of its popularity, to volunteer for the Army. There, he organized and led the famous Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. It went to Europe to entertain servicemen, performing numerous live and radio shows. On December 15, 1944, Major Miller took off in a single-engine plane from Europe to precede his band to France, disappearing over the English Channel, never to be seen again. The army declared him officially dead a year later.
With the release of the major motion movie The Glenn Miller Story featuring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson in 1954, interest and popular demand led the Miller Estate to authorize the formation of the present Glenn Miller Orchestra. On June 6, 1956, and under the direction of drummer Ray McKinley, who had become the unofficial leader of the Army Air Force Band after Glenn’s disappearance, the reformed Glenn Miller Orchestra performed its first concert and has been on the road ever since. Other leaders have followed Ray, including clarinetists Buddy DeFranco and Peanuts Hucko, trombonists Buddy Morrow, Jimmy Henderson, Larry O’Brien, and Gary Tole, and tenor saxophonist Dick Gerhart. Since January 2012, vocalist Nick Hilscher has led the band.
Today, the 18-member ensemble continues to play many of the original Miller arrangements, both from the civilian band and the AAFB libraries. It also plays some more modern selections arranged and performed in the Miller style and sound.
Just as it was in Glenn’s day, the Glenn Miller Orchestra today is still the most sought-after big band in the world.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/the_world_famous_glenn_miller_orchestra/.
Then: 60 Years of the Beatles
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 31, 7 p.m.
Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408
Description: Dance Alliance is the premiere dance company at BYU-Idaho. The company comprises 28 highly accomplished dancers who perform various dance genres (ballet, ballroom, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz, foot works, and world dance) in a 90-minute performance that is entertaining and accessible for audiences of all ages. The 2024 Dance Alliance Tour “Now and Then” will showcase hit songs from the Beatles in celebration of the Beatle’s 60th anniversary! You won’t want to miss this exceptional performance.
Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/now_and_then/.
Friday, July 12 – 7PM Jaws (1975) When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. Rated PG. Saturday, July 13 – 7PM Jurassic Park (1993) A select group of paleontologists are chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond, assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt. Rated PG-13. Sunday, July 14 – 3PM E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983) A boy named Elliott summons the courage to help a friendly extraterrestrial alien who has become stranded on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. get back home. Rated PG. Doors open 30 minutes before each event. Each film showing can be purchased separately. Or you see all three films for one special price. Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/festival/summer-blockbuster-blast-from-the-past/ Event: Queer Futures: 4 Short Films Date/Time: Thursday, July 18, 7PM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: The QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore fat beauty and liberation, gender-affirming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline. Four Short Films: How to Carry Water (dir. Sasha Wortzel) This punk rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel — a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat phobic society views fat bodies. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, the film immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation, one in which marginalized bodies — including bodies of water — are sacred. The Script (dir. Brit Fryer & Noah Schamus) Blending personal interviews with dramatized genre recreations, THE SCRIPT explores the complicated relationship between trans and nonbinary communities and medical providers regarding gender affirming care. With a playful approach toward experimentation, the film invites its participants and its audience to examine the limits of language and the nature of performance in building safe and affirming futures. MnM (dir. Twiggy Pucci Garçon) MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that prizes gender ‘realness.’ The Callers (dir. Lindsey Dryden) THE CALLERS combines anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the story of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family or mend a broken heart. The film is a love letter to queer memory and possibility, LGBTQ+ community and care, and the power of collective imagination to create the lives we dream of. All films are not rated. Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/queer_futures/ Event: Katie Deal is Crazy for Patsy Cline Date/Time: Friday, July 19, 7PM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: Having sold out two national tours of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline and numerous productions of Always…Patsy Cline, award-winning performer Katie Deal takes the stage with her one-of-a-kind concert honoring Ms. Cline. You are sure to be entertained by her vast knowledge and love of all things Patsy! Hear her dynamic, live Nashville band play the hits: Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin’ After Midnight, Seven Lonely Days, She’s Got You and many more. “She’s pure Patsy.”- Columbus Free Press “Deal shines when she sings.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Find out more at katiedeal.com. Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/katie_deal_is_crazy_for_patsy_cline/ Event: Earth Connection Film Festival Date/Time: Saturday, July 20, 9AM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: This National Science Foundation (NSF) funded international short film contest blends science and the arts to unleash the power of storytelling to channel our ideas of climate change to a more actionable space. Short films focused on climate justice will screen in four film programs throughout the day in between a series of curated special events with local community members. The festival culminates with an awards program of $5,250 in cash prizes awarded to the filmmakers and an after party. SCHEDULE: 9am – Breakfast/Welcome 10am – Screening Program 1 1pm – Screening Program 2 3pm – Screening Program 3 5pm – Screening Program 4 6:30pm – Awards Presentation This event is free and non-ticketed. Attend as you please.Event: The Blues Under the Skin Date/Time: Tuesday, July 23, 7PM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: Featuring: Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Furry Lewis, Mance Lipscomb, Brownie McGhee, Amelia Cortez, Jimmy Streeter, Roosevelt Sykes, Sonny Terry, Junior Wells, Bukka White, and Robert Pete Williams The film, The Blues Under The Skin is a thrilling rediscovery, an untapped treasury of musical performances that not only captures a vanishing musical form, but offers a priceless glimpse of Black life in the rural South in the 1970s. In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture on film the remnants of the authentic American blues. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Bukka White, and Roosevelt Sykes. His objective was to not only document the music but also penetrate the surface of the blues and explore the emotional and sociopolitical factors that make it such an expressive and haunting musical form. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, the film dramatizes the tumultuous relationship of a young couple (Onike Lee and Roland Sanchez) as they struggle to overcome the barriers of poverty and prejudice that keep them from finding happiness together. The Blues Under The Skin has never been commercially distributed in the United States, and to date has only enjoyed a handful of screenings in the 50 years since its completion. This 2K restoration represents the proper U.S. premiere of the film. Film Not Rated. Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/the_blues_under_the_skin/ Event: White Christmas (1954): A Christmas in July Celebration Date/Time: Thursday, July 25, 7PM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: It’s not ironic, it’s just a ton of fun to celebrate Christmas in July! Dress up, sing along, and bring the spirit of the season to cool off inside during the summer heat. White Christmas is a 1954 American musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen featuring the songs of Irving Berlin. It’s the story of a successful song-and-dance team who become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. A Holiday classic worth showing in the midst of summer! Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/white_christmas_1954/ Event: WTIU presents: The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Date/Time: Tuesday, July 30, 7:30PM Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408 Description: The first Glenn Miller Orchestra did not make it at all. It was a total and absolute economic failure. But Glenn knew what he wanted, held to that dedication and relentlessly worked to succeed. He launched his second band – the one that lives on today – in March of 1938. The Glenn Miller Orchestra has been a “hit” ever since. The legendary Glenn Miller was one of the most successful of all dance bandleaders back in the Swing Era of the 1930’s and 40’s. A matchless string of hit records, the constant impact of radio broadcasts and the drawing power at theatres, hotels and dance pavilion, built and sustained the momentum of popularity. Glenn disbanded his musical organization in 1942 at the height of its popularity to volunteer for the Army. There, he organized and led the famous Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band . It went to Europe to entertain servicemen performing numerous live and radio shows. On December 15, 1944, Major Miller took off in a single engine plane from Europe to precede his band to France, disappearing over the English Channel, never to be seen again. The army declared him officially dead a year later. With the release of the major motion movie The Glenn Miller Story featuring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson in 1954, interest and popular demand led the Miller Estate to authorize the formation of the present Glenn Miller Orchestra. On June 6, 1956, and under the direction of drummer Ray McKinley who had become the unofficial leader of the Army Air Force Band after Glenn’s disappearance, the reformed Glenn Miller Orchestra performed its first concert and has been on the road ever since. Other leaders have followed Ray including clarinetists Buddy DeFranco and Peanuts Hucko, trombonists Buddy Morrow, Jimmy Henderson, Larry O’Brien and Gary Tole, and tenor saxophonist Dick Gerhart. Since January 2012, vocalist Nick Hilscher leads the band. Today, the 18 member ensemble continues to play many of the original Miller arrangements both from the civilian band and the AAFB libraries. Additionally, it also plays some more modern selections arranged and performed in the Miller style and sound. Just as it was in Glenn’s day, the Glenn Miller Orchestra today is still the most sought after big band in the world. Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/the_world_famous_glenn_miller_orchestra/ Event: Now and Purchase tickets here: https://buskirkchumley.org/event/now_and_then/ 0 CommentsLeave a Reply.Enable this content?This content is served by a third party, editmysite.com. If enabled, editmysite.com may collect information about your activity.Manage preferences to always allow this content.PreferencesEnable |
