Events & Residencies
Autumn 2024
in residence- september
Freda Love Smith is a writer, teacher, and retired indie rock drummer, who teaches at Northwestern University and Lesley University, reviews nonfiction for Booklist, and has published fiction and nonfiction in outlets including Dame Magazine, Lit Hub, Smokelong Quarterly, The North American Review, and Paste Magazine.
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She'll be in residence researching her new novel, Daughter Universe, a work that partly explores the life of Angela DeAngelis, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (who famously kidnapped Patricia Hearst). Angela lived in Bloomington for 6 years before she moved to California. Freda is our inaugural Bloom Magazine Resident, and we can't wait to see what she uncovers! Look for her in the October edition of Bloom!
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MDWST FABLE Presents
Oct 12
TALE BLAZING harnesses the power of tales told in one of the most ancient human settings, by a fire in the nighttime woods. Around five fires, listeners will gather to hear a storyteller. Storytellers will tell a fable–however they interpret that prompt.
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After the stories, everyone will gather to share their experiences or simply enjoy the evening. If folks feel moved, they can stop by the story booth and spin their own yarns using prompts based on the storytellers’ tales, which will be represented by five different symbolic cards. These tales will become a short fable of our own to enjoy and share.
2024 spotlights
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January - March
Activist in March
Writers in Spring
A Summer Art Camp
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
 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
 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. |