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The Bloomington campus is staging its 21st annual ArtsWeek, a blitz of exhibits, lectures, music, theater and literary events. Highlights include:
• Yusef Komunyakaa will return to Bloomington on Saturday, Feb. 12, for a collaborative jazz and poetry performance with Susie Ibarra and her percussion-based band, the Susie Ibarra Quartet, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
• Comic composer Peter Schickele, who discovered the “last and least” of J.S. Bach’s musical offspring, the inept P.D.Q. Bach, will perform the closing concert of ArtsWeek on Sunday, Feb. 20, at the IU Auditorium.
• William Bolcom's A View from the Bridge by the IU Opera Theatre at the Musical Arts Center on Feb. 11-12.
• A public reading by five IU faculty writers—Samrat Upadhyay, Scott Sanders, Crystal Wilkinson, Alyce Miller and Maurice Manning—at the John Waldron Arts Center’s Rose Firebay on Sunday, Feb. 13.
• A reading by writer and IU alum Michael Martone, a Fort Wayne native who has gained national attention for his fiction and nonfiction about Indiana, at the John Waldron Arts Center’s Rose Firebay on Sunday, Feb. 20.
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