Events

Anyone is capable of creating and presenting their own artwork in a gallery setting. That’s the vision behind the Columbus Area Arts Council’s 50/50, A Community Art Project, exhibition, opening Thursday with an reception.

There’s not much better than good food and a good movie. Audiences from the first Lunch with the Classics event, held Nov. 12 with the movie “North by Northwest,” will tell you that.

In collaboration with Poets Against Racism & Hate USA, Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler will be presenting a pop-up Indiana Chitlin Circuit poetry reading event from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 13 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Bartholomew County Public Library’s Red Room.

Joan Ellison, a Judy Garland specialist, will be the guest vocalist at Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s upcoming Retrophonic Christmas performance.

All the laughs, all your Christmas favorites, all her Broadway hits and much more. Cabaret at the Commons’ fall season is wrapping up as Jessica Vosk takes to the stage once again.

A longstanding much-loved Columbus tradition will light up the holidays in December.

The works of artists David Gore, John Wm. Sisson and James Tracy, each of whom have spent the majority of their lives creating in Brown County, will soon be on display in an exhibition titled “Native Sons” at the Brown County Art Gallery.

Now everyone’s welcome to get into the rock n’ roll spirit with music by student rock stars.

It’s Shakespeare, it’s princesses, it’s “Game of Thrones.” But most importantly, it’s a twisted tragic comedy that is sure to leave audience members in stitches.

Indiana University saxophone professor Tom Walsh and his quintet will be continuing the Jazz at Helen’s season this November.