News from Downtown Muncie 12/30/2005

Happy New Year Friends:

The Muncie Downtown Business Council wants YOU! If you haven't signed a membership form yet, please stop by the Blue Bottle and ask Membership Chair Tom Steiner for one. Our goal is full participation from the merchants and businesses of our downtown neighborhood. Your membership gives you voting rights in the upcoming election, plus a voice in all future decision-making for both our Council and our events. Remember, we are our own organization, and will be seating our first elected board in the first two months of 2006.

Interested in running for the Executive Committee? Great! Please let Genny Gordy know, via email, gengor@aol.com, or phone, 284-8422, and she'll make sure your name is on the ballot. You must be a registered member first, of course.

Help guide the future of our downtown - your membership helps the Muncie Downtown Business Council have a strong, united voice!

Genny Gordy, chair
Muncie Downtown Business Council

DECEMBER HAPPENINGS DOWNTOWN:

31st Vera Mae: dinner seating 5pm-10:30pm (no cover cost for diners); entertainment 7:30pm-12:30am-9 piece orchestra

JANUARY HAPPENINGS DOWNTOWN:

Note: Muncie Children's Museum is closed New Year's Day.

6th Muncie Children's Museum Family Fun night 3-7pm

7th Muncie Civic Theater offering: Young Actors Workshop 9:30-12:30 for 10 weeks.

16th Civic Theater presents Second City Best of Tour 8:00pm

21st at 4:00pm and Sunday, January 22 at 1:00pm General Auditions for the upcoming season on the main stage at Muncie Civic Theatre, 216 East Main Street, Muncie, Indiana. More information is available by calling 765-288-PLAY x3 or online at www.munciecivic.org.

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ONGOING:

Muncie Children's Museum has new daily programs at 3:30 p.m. Don't miss ABC Read with Me, a preschool program, on Tuesdays, Fun Fine Arts on Wednesdays, Creative Crafts on Thursdays, Sensational Science on Fridays and Weekend Wonders on Saturday and Sunday. To learn more, call the Museum at (765) 286-1660.

Minnetrista many tours available: G.A. Ball house, nature and gardens and specialty tours. Call for details.

3rd-31st Artist Within features: What's Leftover by Amanda Smith. Opening reception Jan 5th 5-8pm.

5th-31st Artworks features: Sarah Rinker watercolor artist, opening reception 5-8pm

5th-31st Mitchell Place Gallery: quilt exhibit entitled 8th Deadly Sin The pieces in this part of the exhibit represent sins both silly (wasting time, obsessing on chocolate, leaving the toilet seat up) and serious (religious intolerance, apathy, self-centeredness. Opening reception Thurs Jan. 5th 5-8pm

Thru 31st Mitchell Place Gallery presents an international quilt exhibit. Opening Reception Jan 12th (note date change) 5-8pm.
21st- April 15th Cornerstone for the Arts: many workshops, for more information call 281-9503 or visit our website at www.cornerstonearts.org. address: 520 E. Main St. Muncie, IN 47305

15th-Feb. 19th Minnetrista Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

29th thru April 16 - Minnetrista Hunters of the Sky

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