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Canopy Of Lights, Folklore Coffeehouse, Hoosier Writers Gone Wild

This week: Bloomington's Canopy of Lights, teachers and students get out of the classroom and onto the stage, and writers show off their bad side.

This week on Artworks:

John MacDowell and his faculty colleagues, as well as a number of grad students will get out of the classroom and step onto the stage in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology’s coffeehouse performance.

Also on the program,

Bloomington’s Canopy of Lights is a local favorite that kicks the holiday season into high gear starting this weekend, but traditions like that don’t just happen overnight. Artworks’ Yael Ksander talks to some folks from the Monroe County History Center about the origins of the downtown display of lights.

And Artworks’ Adam Schwartz gets the scoop on good writers behaving badly with the author of “Writers Gone Wild.”

Stories On This Episode

Bloomington Sparkles: The Canopy Of Lights

Inside a holiday tradition being revived through the weekend of April 22, 2011, in memory of entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Cook.

Four Years Dancing With The Nutcracker

Caitlin Kirshenbaum will be very much awake for this year's IU Nutcracker, but she slept through her first one.

Hoosier Writers Gone Wild

Artworks’ Adam Schwartz speaks with Bill Peschel, author of Writers Gone Wild, a collection of anecdotes of great writers at their worst behavior.

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