Check out the top events happening in November 2024, better yet make a getaway out of your trip!
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HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS
From live performances, artisan markets and Santa sightings, click here for a rundown of all holiday activities.
FESTIVALS & SPECIAL EVENTS
Bloomington's Local Author Book Fair
Date: Saturday, November 2
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: Monroe County History Center
Admission: Free
The first annual Local Author Book Fair welcomes the public with 32 authors selling their books (with 15 literary genres represented, including 10 children's authors), enjoy music and refreshments.
Cabaret
Date: Sunday, November 3
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Switchyard Park Pavilion
Admission: $20.00 per ticket, Students w/ID $15.00
The annual Cabaret featuring the Windfall Dance Company, IU dance groups, and community performers!
IU First Thursday
Date: Thursday, November 7
Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Location: Fine Arts Plaza (indoors)
Admission: Free
Offering a welcoming environment to explore new creative outlets. Each festival is a unique opportunity to experience the wonderful work of artists, performers, and scholars from all across campus and around town.
LIVE MUSIC & PERFORMANCES
The Bluebird Shows
Location: The Bluebird
Enjoy live musical performances by the following artists:
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
- Date: Saturday, November 2
- Time: 8:00 PM
- Admission: $25.00 per ticket
- Twinsick
- Date: Thursday, November 14
- Time: 9:00 PM
- Admission: $25.00 per ticket
- Emo Night Tour
- Date: Saturday, November 23
- Time: 9:00 PM
- Admission: $17.00 per ticket
- Thunderstruck - AC/DC Tribute
- Date: Friday, November 29
- Time: 9:00 PM
- Admission: $15.00 per ticket
The Bishop Shows
Location: The Bishop
Enjoy live performances by the following artists:
- Olive Klug (solo)
- Date: Saturday, November 9
- Time: 8:00 PM
- Admission: $18.00 advance, $22.00 day of show
- Plantary Futures Lecture Series - Queer Fire & Water
- Date: Wednesday, November 13
- Time: 6:30 PM
- Admission: Free
Buskirk-Chumley Theater Shows
Location: Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Enjoy these events:
- Morgenstern's Boozy Book Fair
- Monday, November 4
- Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Admission: Free
- A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation
- Friday, November 8
- Time: 7:30 PM
- Admission: $39.00-$69.00
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Date: Saturday, November 16
- Time: 7:00 PM
- Admission: $40.00-$65.00 per ticket
The Comedy Attic Shows
Location: The Comedy Attic
Enjoy live comedy performances by the following comedians:
- Jourdain Fisher's Comedy Attic Debut!
- Date: Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2
- Time: 7:00 PM & 9:15 PM
- Admission: $16.00 student, $20.00 general admission
- Jay Jurden Is Back In Bloomington!
- Date: Friday, November 15 and Saturday, November 16
- Time: 7:00 PM & 9:30PM
- Admission: $20.00 student, $25.00 general admission
- SNL's Melissa Villasenor returns to Bloomington!
- Date: Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23
- Time: 7:00 PM & 9:30PM
- Admission: $25.00 student, $30.00 general admission
IU Auditorium Shows
Location: IU Auditorium
Enjoy live performances by the following artists:
- Michael Feinstein in Because of You: My Tribute to Tony Bennett
- Date: Friday, November 8
- Time: 8:00 PM
- Admission: $26.00+ per ticket
- Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
- Date: Tuesday, November 19 and Wednesday, November 20
- Time: 7:30 PM
- Admission: $28.00+ per ticket
IU Cinema Shows
Location: IU Cinema
Enjoy these films:
- Tootsie
- Date: Saturday, November 2
- Time: 4:00 PM
- Admission: Free but ticketed
- Long Shot
- Date: Tuesday, November 5
- Time: 7:00 PM
- Admission: $5.00
The Orbit Room Shows
Location: The Orbit Room
Enjoy live performances by the following artists:
- Molly's Midnight Villain // This Burning Ghost
- Date: Friday, November 1
- Time: 8:00 PM
- Admission: $10.00 plus $1.00 service charge (all ages)
- Postmodern Jazz Quartet
- Date: Saturday, November 2
- Time: 6:00 PM
- Admission: $10.00 plus $1.00 service charge, Student tickets at door $5.00
Constellation Stage + Screen Shows
Location: Waldron Auditorium
Enjoy a live performance:
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
- Date: Friday, November 1 through Sunday, November 10
- Time: Varies
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
SPORTING EVENTS
IU Football
- vs. Michigan
- Date: Saturday, November 9
- Time: TBA
- Location: Memorial Stadium
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. Purdue
- Date: Saturday, November 30
- Time: TBA
- Location: Memorial Stadium
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
IU Men's Basketball
- vs. Marion (exhibition)
- Date: Friday, November 1
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. SIUE
- Date: Wednesday, November 6
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. Eastern Illinois
- Date: Sunday, November 10
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. South Carolina
- Date: Saturday, November 16
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. UNC Greensboro
- Date: Thursday, November 21
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
IU Women's Basketball
- vs. Brown
- Date: Monday, November 4
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. Harvard
- Date: Thursday, November 7
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
- vs. Stanford
- Date: Sunday, November 17
- Time: TBD
- Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
- Admission: Ticket prices vary
IU Men's Soccer
- vs. Trine
- Date: Friday, November 1
- Time: 8:00 PM
- Location: Bill Armstrong Stadium
- Admission: $10.00 adult, $5.00 youth (3-18)
EXHIBITS
Photo by Indiana University
Gallery Walk
Date: Friday, November 1
Time: 5:00 to 8:00 PM
Location: Various downtown art galleries
Admission: Free
Crossroads: The Paintings of John Mellencamp
Date: Every Day except Mondays through December 15
Time: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Sunday Noon to 5:00 PM
Location: Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University
Admission: Free
Echoes in Watercolor: Paintings by MinHsuan Peng
Date: Through Tuesday, November 12
Time: 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM
Location: By Hand Gallery
Admission: Free