Weekly Downtown E-News 3/8/08

Celebrate the arts in Downtown Muncie this First Thursday, March 6th, from 5 to 8pm. Our many art galleries spotlight their exhibit openings on the first Thursday evenings of every month, with meet-the-artist receptions, music and refreshments. First Thursday free and open to the public. Additionally, all of Downtown's independently owned bars and restaurants will be open and ready to serve you. For more information, visit www.munciedowntown.com.

The "Downtown Deals" coupon sheet for March is now available for download at munciedowntown.com - print your own copy, or look for the green sheets at your favorite shop or restaurant in Downtown Muncie. This month's advertisers include Morton's Pub & Grub, Downtown Farm Stand, Ink Solution, Pazol's Jewelry, Cortex Hair Center and Downtown Data Center.

MuncieDowntown.com has a new(ish) myspace page, launched last month! If you haven't seen it yet, please be our friend at www.myspace.com/munciedowntown.

MARCH EVENTS:

6th - First Thursday Downtown, 5-8pm, featuring art gallery openings and meet-the-artist receptions.

6th - Community Center for Vital Aging: offers For the Birds 6:30-8:00pm Free

6th - The Artist Within: First Thurs 5-8pm and all month during normal business hours, features: Lynnsy Terrill

6th - ArtWorks Gallery features: Sandy Day, opening reception 5:30-8:00pm

6-8th - Main Street Studio features: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8pm

7th - Muncie Children's Museum-Friends and Family Fun Night. Free Adm. 3-7pm

7th - Vera Mae's presents a "Pre Concert Jam Session" for Dimensions in Jazz featuring Buddy DiFranco, guest jazz clarinetist, from 7:30-10:30pm. Call for info, 747-4941.

7th-9th - Horizon Convention Center: Muncie Home Builders Home Show

7th - Morton's Pub & Grub features a taste of Americana with Doc Warner and Nicole Smith, 9pm. Visit www.myspace.com/mortonspub

8th - Star Press Spelling Bee, 8:30am at Cornerstone Center for the Arts

8th - Funk Night at Doc's Music Hall, featuring Covert Operations, Ladymoon and MC Sparkplug. Visit www.docsmusichall.com for info.

8th - Moton's Pub & Grub features DJ Simple Simon at 10pm.

9th - Main Street Studio presents: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2:00pm

10th-April 24th - Cornerstone Center for the Arts: registration for classes--check out their website: www.cornerstonearts.org

11th-12th - Delaware County Farm Festival at the Delaware County Fairgrounds 8:30am-8:00pm--lots to see and do!

13th - Community Center for Vital Aging: Luck of the Irish 6:30-8:00pm FREE

13th - Morton' Pub & Grub features Get Lost! (Then Get Stoned), 9:00 pm

13th - Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce presents "Increasing Your Bottom Line" on March 13, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. - 12 noon at the Horizon Convention Center.

14th - Community Center for Vital Aging: TRIAD meeting 10-11am

14th-16th - Muncie Civic Theatre presents: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--Friday and Sat. performances 8:00pm, Sunday matinees at 2:00pm

14th - Morton's Pub & Grub features Megan's Mystical Harp, 8:00 pm

14th - Community Center for Vital Aging: Brown Bag lunch and a Movie 12-2pm "A Patch of Blue"

15th - Downtown Muncie-- Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade 5:30pm

15th - Katie's Birthday Party at Morton's Pub & Grub, featuring Cory Hill, 9:00 pm

17th - Community Center for Vital Aging: Medication Management 6:30-8:00pm FREE

17th - ST. PATRICK'S DAY

17th - Colin Elliot at Doc's Music Hall, 8pm.

18th - Marti Icenogle offers "Basic Art Clay Silver" at The Artist Within from 6-9pm.

18th - Dan Tedesco at Doc's Music Hall, 8pm.

19th - Community Center for Vital Aging: Radio of YesterYear 2-3:30pm

21st - Malbec and Feguson will be playing at The Living Room on March 21st. Doors open at 8pm, show starts at 8:30pm. Check out their myspace pages at myspace.com/malbectheband and myspace.com/therealferguson.

21, 25th-28th Muncie Children's Museum - Spring Break Programming

22nd - Joan Hamilton Band at Doc's Music Hall, 9-11pm.

26th - The Downtown Business Council will meet at 3:00 at Minnetrista, immediately followed by a "Meet the Members" mixer from 4:30 to 6:00pm. This meeting at Minnetrista is a departure from our usual meeting place. DBC meetings are open to businesses, residents and supporters of Downtown Muncie - please bring a friend! Visit munciedowntown.com for more information.

28th - Community Center for Vital Aging: Craft Seminar 10-12:00pm

28th - Muncie Children's Museum Free Family Saturday 10am-5pm

28th - Brown Bag Lunch lecture series at BSU Center for Media Design at Mitchell Place Gallery, 301 S. Walnut St. This month's lecture features Trina Cooper (USA | 3D Animation/Media Artist, Assistant Professor at Ball State University) .

29th - Morton's Pub & Grub features acoustic music from Daniel Seymour Saturday Mar 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM.

29th - Doc's Music Hall features Losing September and Boho Paisley, 8pm.

31st - Community Center for Vital Aging: The Art of Writing: Memories to be remembered and recorded 6:30-8:00pm

MARCH ONGOING :

Through March - Tthe Artist Within will feature paintings by Lynnsy Terrill from March 4-29, 2008. An opening reception, which is free and open to the public, will be from 5-8pm on Thursday, March 6.

Through March -Artworks will exhibit "Passion and Sensitivity" featuring paintings by Sandy Day. An opening reception will be held during First Thursday, March 6, 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Through March - Gordy Fine Art and Framing will exhibit paintings by Robert Farlow. The artist will be on hand for a reception during the First Thursday event, from 5 to 8 PM on March 6th. Light refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend.

Through March - Gallery 308 will exhibit "Ben Bates and Ted Neal: New Ceramics Work." The opening reception for the pair's new exhibit is First Thursday, March 6 at 308 East Main in downtown Muncie. Admission is free; refreshments will be served.

Through March 30 - 18th Minnetrista Annual Juried Art Show & Sale. The visual arts are alive and flourishing in East Central Indiana. Artists from across East Central Indiana will participate in the 18th Minnetrista Annual Juried Art Show & Sale. The exhibit will be open to the public February 16 - March 30, 2008 at Minnetrista.

Through Apr. 24th Cornerstone for the Arts winter classes. Call for more info about classes at 281-9503 or visit www.cornerstonearts.org.

Through April 27th - "Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body" exhibit at Minnetrista. For more information, call (765) 282-4848, visit www.minnetrista.net, or visit the Grossology tour Web site at www.grossologytour.com.

Through May 2 - Muncie Children's Museum presents Chagall for Children, a one-of-a-kind traveling exhibit. Admission is included with regular admission to the Museum. For more information on Chagall for Children, call (765) 286-1660 or visit www.munciechildrensmuseum.com


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