Center for Performing Arts offers stand-up comedy class
CARMEL — The Center for the Performing Arts, 1 Carter Green, will offer a four-week stand-up comedy class Feb. 3-24. The $90 registration fee includes four classes and a graduation performance. The class will look at the history and evolution of stand-up comedy as well as offer a practical course covering joke mechanics, writing for stand-up and performance theory and practice. Over the course of the class, each student will write and practice a five-minute routine to perform for friends and family at the graduation show. For your safety and convenience, the first three class sessions will take place online through Zoom. The fourth class and the graduation show will take place on-site at the Center for the Performing Arts. The graduation show is open only to family and friends of class participants and will have limited capacity. The class is recommended for ages 17 and up and limited to 15 participants. Register at thecenterpresents.org/learn/adult/intro-to-stand-up-comedy-class/.
Monthly science-themed book club opens with “Ready Player Two”
VIRTUAL — A book club for the scientifically-curious created in the wake of the March for Science has announced it will return in on Jan. 26, 2021, with “Ready Player Two,” by Ernest Cline. The free monthly meetings are held via Zoom on the last Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, who specializes in science communication at IUPUI, will moderate the discussion with guest experts will Matt Powers, IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing, and George Takahashi, Purdue University Envision Center. The book club — called Books, Booze & Brains — originally met at breweries around Indianapolis but went online in March of 2020. The book discussion with “Ready Player One” in 2018 was the most-attended event in the club’s history so with the arrival of the sequel just a few weeks ago, the group is expecting another high turnout. Future book discussions scheduled are: “Rocket Boys” by Homer Hickam on Feb. 23; “The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World,” by Steve Brusatte on March 30; “Superior: The Return of Race Science” by Angela Saini on April 27; and “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” by Neil deGrasse Tyson on May 25. More information and the link to participate can be found at IndianaHumanities.org/booksboozeandbrains.
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Indiana Heritage Fellowship calls for nominations
INDIANA — The Indiana Heritage Fellowship Award seeks nominations of traditional artists who have made outstanding contributions to their artistic tradition and to their community. The award honors an individual’s long-term achievement within an art form that is rooted in community life in Indiana. Recipients of this award will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and an art prize. For more information, watch a recording of the informational workshop hosted by TAI Director Jon Kay at youtube.com/watch?v=4M4nDO5Aq30 or visit the Traditional Arts Indiana website at traditionalarts.indiana.edu/. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 20.
