Entertainment

By: Chris Griffith— Civic’s Cat in the Hat jumps off the page onto Cornerstone’s stage! Muncie Civic Theatre and Cornerstone Center for the Arts proudly present Seussical the Musical, in the E.B.Ball Auditorium June 16th through July 1st. The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphant. This musical adventure of Dr. Seuss’s biggest hits will leave…

By: Cheryl Crowder— Bring your family and friends dwntwn for Moonlight Movies, featuring Sing on June 17th at Canan Commons – sponsored by Wealth Strategies and produced by Sight and Sound. Family activities will begin at 6pm, and the movie will begin at 8pm on the new digital screen. This new screen will allow us to show the movies before it gets dark! Hopefully this will help bring out more families, ensuring an earilier beadtime for the little ones. This month’s pre-show entertainment will feature a variety of talent! We will have everything from demos by the Cornfed Derby Dames…

By: Mike Rhodes— Daleville, IN—The town of Daleville opened their new $4.2 million Daleville Town Hall Park and Splash Pad water feature over the weekend. The park features two playgrounds, a splash pad and public restrooms, concessions, performance pavilion, shade canopies, storm water planters, and a paved walking trail that winds around the re-vegetated stream, and new parking areas.  The performance pavilion and event area can accommodate 3,000 people. According to Trina Morgan, Deputy Clerk and Park Event Coordinator for the Town of Daleville, an estimated 600 people showed up for opening day.  “The splash pad is the largest in Central Indiana and is open to all ages,”…

By: Chris Flook—  Muncie, IN — Beech Grove Cemetery debuts a new book this month, Beech Grove Cemetery Comes to Life. The book explores the history of Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie, the evolution of lawn park cemeteries, a study of the landscape design, explanations of the funerary motifs and architecture, and comprises hundreds of short biographies of some of the 45,000 individuals laid to rest within the cemetery’s gates. The book is a collaborative effort from Beech Grove Cemetery, Ball State University, and the Delaware County Historical Society. Funded by a George and Frances Ball Foundation grant in 2015, the…

Muncie, IN—The 2017 outdoor concert season for America’s Hometown Band begins at Canan Commons on June 22, 2017, 7:30 pm when the AHB & the Reminisce Band get together once more to entertain Muncie folk with Pure Gold music faves. Tunes by chart-topping pop artists from the 50s to the 80s are set to liven up the night in downtown Muncie. The music and the dancing are all FREE. Lawn chairs & blankets + friends, family, & singing along are all encouraged. AHB conductors for the evening are acting AHB Director Will Frazier and AHB president Charles Routh. Original music…

By: Jennifer Johnson— Muncie, IN – Join the Muncie Symphony Orchestra for “Festival on the Green” on Saturday, June 10th, on the lawn of the Ball State University Quad/Arts Terrace.  Children’s activities beginning at 6 pm. with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra concert at 7 pm.  Inclement weather location is the Field Sports Building on the Ball State University campus. An anticipated annual tradition, “Festival on the Green” is free and open to the public.  The community is invited to bring picnics, chairs, blankets, etc., to enjoy the afternoon’s festivities which include the MSO Super Conductor contest, a picnic contest with…

By: Jama Kehoe Bigger— Muncie, IN—The 44th annual Midwest Writers Workshop (MWW) is set for July 20-22 at the L. A. Pittinger Student Center on the campus of Ball State University. The conference, geared to writers at all experience levels, offers an intensive genre-specific Thursday workshop followed by two additional days of classes and panels, plus networking opportunities and pitch sessions. “Every year we bring in about 30 of the most talented, successful faculty members we can find from around the country,” says MWW director Jama Kehoe Bigger. “Plus we book several New York City agents and editors who are associated…

By: Sam Condon— Muncie, IN—Discover how the Horticulture Department at Minnetrista is experimenting with new annual plants in the Orchard Trial Garden, during Tea & Talk: Trial By Flower, on Wednesday, June 7 from 3–4:30 p.m. “I would like to invite you to join Minnetrista at Tea & Talk to compare and contrast our favorite flowers, and to unearth your new found love for annuals,” said Lead Horticulture Specialist, James Edwards. “What will be the court’s decision in this trial by flower? You be the judge.” “Planting annuals in your garden gives you a chance to do something new this…

By: Mike Rhodes— MuncieJournal.com does not have an app, but you really don’t need one to add it to your iPhone or iPad. 60 percent of our users view MuncieJournal.com on a mobile device. Here’s a really quick video to illustrate how you can add MuncieJournal.com to your phone, for super-easy access. It works just like an app, and is a very convenient way to view MuncieJournal.com stories on your mobile device. It takes about 30 seconds to do this. I use this method every day and have installed MuncieJournal.com on about 10 devices in the last week for some…