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October 11
MIRACULUM
MDWST FABLE and Soulcraft Bloomington bring Season 2 of their Fireside Storytelling Event to
The Hill on October 11th!
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This time, they’re telling tales about MIRACULUM, the wondrous, strange happenings that fill our lives with heat and light. Anomalies, miraculous coincidences, and other marvels will unfold, we promise.
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Warm cider, pretzels, and crackling leaves provided.
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Attendance is limited, so grab tickets early!
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In Residence
late summer spotlights
An Irish landscape in oils
Dublin painter Donna McGee
puts her brushes to the Southern
Indiana hills and is joined by
a group of Hoosier artists during
her stay in a day of plein air
painting
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sounds

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The brilliant Panamanian-born drummer and composer Daniel Villarreal brings his phenomenal trio across the country and takes a creative rest enroute to Chicago. The ensemble features Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone and John Moran of Bark Culture on bass, and is touring Villarreal's new album, Lados B, through several U.S. cities
September
like Samba

2025 Spotlights
![]() January-MarchDeep Winter Writing Residencies run January-March annually | ![]() FebruaryQuarterly Challenge: 9 songwriters and visual artists create 9 pieces in 12 hours | ![]() MayResilience Poetry Residency |
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![]() May 24thPoetry Walk with the poets in residence, including Melan Ali, Kourtney Jones, & Molly Kirschner | ![]() JulyA poetry and movement workshop grounded in somatic practices and relationship to the land | ![]() June 9-13Camp Tree-O's theatre camp and performance |
![]() Mid AugustA residency & performances with Frank Ferrante | ![]() June 28thQuarterly 9 x 9 Song & Art Challenge - This time 12 art & song makers divise 9 pieces in 9 hours | ![]() Late AugustSpellbinding solo show is workshopped enroute to NYC from Dreya Weber |

2024 Spotlights
![]() January-MarchDeep Winter Writers Residencies Return | ![]() MarchActivist Tanya Selveratnam Speaks | ![]() MayLike-minded writers gather for reflection |
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![]() JuneA Summer Arts Camp | ![]() SeptemberInaugural Bloom Magazine writers residency | ![]() OctoberThe Proxies, a young Indie Folk Duo out of London, in residency in preparation for their first EP |
![]() NovemberSponsored Event: Hundredth Hill Alumni honor the memory of the legendary indigenous jazz composer Jim Pepper | ![]() DecemberFundraiser Theatrical event: Krista Detor's Holiday Show |

2023 Spotlights
![]() January - MarchDeep Winter Writing Residencies run January-March annually | ![]() MayNashville-based Hawktail band was in residence recording Carrie Newcomer’s album, ‘A Great Wild Mercy’ | ![]() JuneMichael Casselli Assoc. Prof. of Sculpture/ Installation, Director of the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College, Ohio, and Bessie Award winner |
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![]() JulyMcKenya Dilworth is a Playwright, Director, and Educator based in Gary, Indiana. A Purdue Society of Innovators Inductee, she's in development of emerging theatre piece, 'Antinika.' | ![]() SeptemberTaos, NM-based HH Alum, Chloe Caemmerer returns with her new project Dandelioness for a month of songwriting, community building, and creative rejuvenation | ![]() October6 Indiana songwriters + 6 national songwriters = _________________________ ​12 songwriters from across the nation write 20 songs each in 12 hours! ​ |
![]() AugustIt's That Minute: A sold-out spectacular evening of immersive music and mischief under the stars on the grounds of The Hundredth Hill | ![]() NovemberWriters with a voice, photographers with a vision |

2022 Spotlights
![]() Jan - MarSponsored winter writing residencies with Zac Kline, Rachel Dart, and Devin Price-Presslaf, et.al | ![]() Jan 8-9A tintype photography popup with photographer Megan Snook | ![]() Apr 1-10Juniper Gallery Presents Painters Grace Gonso, Rachel Gratz, and Wyatt LeGrand |
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![]() Apr 3A plein air workshop with local painter Kurt Larsen | ![]() Jun 25-29Andre Royo and director Mark Armstrong workshop a new production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio | ![]() Aug 1-10In collaboration with Arte Mexicano en Indiana, 5 young Urban painters take up residence in rural Indiana |
![]() Jul 6-18Three Black Artists collaborate in response to their shared vision: Musician Destiny Muhammad, painter Sholo, and playwright McKenya Dilworth | ![]() Jun 25-29A sponsored residency responding to interpersonal violence with author Jennifer Poe | ![]() Aug 27-31The Hinterland Band is in residence and releasing their debut CD with some of Bloomington's finest special guest musicians |
![]() Oct 15, 2022A Hoosier Octoberfest benefiting our waterways, and featuring some of Bloomington's most beloved performers! | ![]() Sept 14 - Oct 2Constellation stages its inaugural page to stage to screen project for intimate audiences in an immersive theatre piece at The Hundredth Hill |

2021 Spotlights
![]() May 2021A primitive pottery workshop with ceramicist Jamas Brooke | ![]() July 2021Aerialist/actress Dreya Weber in her groundbreaking solo show, directed by Kevin Hourigan | ![]() August 2021Mining the past with playwrights Jeryl Brunner, Mike Caemmerer, Carmen Meyers, and Eric Mulholland |
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![]() November 2021Bren Thomas and Brianna Gause in collaboration | ![]() December 2021Playwrights Selda Sahin & Derek Gregor stage their musical theatre piece at Bloomington Playwrights Project | ![]() December 2021The Hundredth Hill's winter extravaganza in virtual form! |

2020
![]() Summer...The Hundredth Hill inaugural Emerging Theatre Residency featured development new works -- |
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![]() ... to Fall-- devised by a company of recent graduates from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. |














































