Bloomington North Rotary

Loren Wood - Loren Wood Builders
2026-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Nicole Brown - Monroe County Clerk
2026-02-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Aubrey Seader - Off Night Productions
2026-03-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Jordan Basye - Transfer Portal & NIL
2026-03-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Spring Break - No Meeting
2026-03-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Zach Dweil - Terran Robotics
2026-03-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Tim Street - Dir of Bloomington Parks and Recreation
2026-04-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Ryan Still - Bloomington Housing Authority
2026-04-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Gary Taylor - Prophets for Profit
2026-04-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Carrie Stillions - Middleway House
2026-04-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Prof Shirin Hassan - Low Vision Study
2026-04-30 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Ralf (Debora) Shaw / League of Women Voters
2026-05-07 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Chuck Prestinari - Fieldtrip to First United Methodist to hear Organ
2026-05-14 11:30 - 13:00 | First United Methodist, 219 East 4th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States

Mitch Gudmundson - Logistics of a Championship
2026-05-21 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Mary Coniaris - A Journey through Dance
2026-05-28 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Mary will be sharing a personal look at her 45-year journey in dance — from the Urban Cowboy era in Houston to building Bloomington Dance Connections here in our community. Along the way, she’ll talk about how dance creates connection, belonging, and participation for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Elise Frost - Embodied Resilience: The Role of Oncology Massage and Movement in Times of Change
2026-06-04 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Elise Frost, MFA, LMT, CMLDT, is a trained oncology massage therapist and movement educator. In this presentation, she will explore the clinical benefits of oncology massage therapy, explain why working with a trained oncology massage therapist matters, and demonstrate how embodied movement practices can provide essential support when navigating significant life transitions.

Adam Long
2026-06-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Josh Brewer - Cicada Cinema
2026-06-18 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Josh Brewer is co-founder and president of Cicada Cinema, a nonprofit organization in Bloomington focusing on building community through the movie-going experience. Josh manages all aspects of Cicada’s operations from booking films, promotion, community outreach, running tech and volunteer coordination.

Since Cicada’s first screening in 2016, Cicada Cinema worked with 45 community partners and 33 local venues to bring over 300 under-seen and under-screened movies to the Bloomington community via a pop-up cinema model. Now, we’re ready to do something bigger – opening a community movie theater!

Julie Thomas - New prospective county jail update
2026-06-25 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Bryan Hane - Our Year in Review
2026-07-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
As Bryan closes out his fourth term as President he will go over what all we achieved as a club this last year.

Brandon Barrett - New President's Plans
2026-07-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Matt Millies - District Governor Visit
2026-07-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Jordan Davis - Taste of Bloomington
2026-07-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Jordan Davis, Director of Operations at the Chocolate Moose, will join us to discuss the Taste of Bloomington. After several years off, Jordan revived the Taste of Bloomington last year with a new model that resonated with the community and resulted in 20k attendees and over $250k in economic impact. Learn what changed, what he learned, and what lies ahead for this year’s and future Taste events.

Dave Askin - Putting the Public at the Center of the Civic Solar System
2026-07-30 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
The B Square Bulletin’s “Total News” framework reimagines local journalism as something more than a factory producing widgets called news stories. It fuses Future, Present and Past into a civic information platform that connects what is coming, what is happening now, and what has already happened. Information systems once kept inside newsrooms become public civic assets—which is a pardigm shift on the scale of the Copernican revolution.

Sara Laughlin - Teachers Warehouse: Update on One of Rotary's Most Impactful Projects
2026-08-06 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Erin Loughery - Tandem
2026-08-13 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Erin will give and overview of Tandem’s services and our annual impacts on over 600 families in our community. Additionally, she’ll focus in on our Food for Families program and our Rotary partnership to bring that to our community.

Juliet Roberts - 4th Street Art Fair
2026-08-20 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Abby Gitlitz - The Science of Glass Blowing
2026-08-27 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
What is Glass? Is it a solid, is it a liquid? What makes it behave unlike anything else in the world? And why are we doing it here in Bloomington Indiana? Bloomington Creative Glass Center Director Abby Gitlitz will help demystify this amazing substance.

Andrew Lambert
2026-09-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
The world of online presence is loud and congested with things accelerating with help from A.I. technology. We will examine where our online lives started, where we are today, and what all these changes mean for users and businesses in the near future.

Katrina Koch, Lotus Fest
2026-09-10 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Katarina Koch just had her third anniversary as Executive Director of the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation where she is reinvigorating and engaging the community with the long beloved and uniquely Bloomington experience, Lotus World Music & Arts Festival. Katarina received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Butler University in 2010 and a Nonprofit Graduate Certificate from IU Bloomington in 2017. She was a recipient of an academic scholarship from the Crown Point, IN Rotary Club, and she has pursued leadership and community service roles throughout her career. Katarina believes that music and art are essential components of community life that impact the health and vitality of individuals, the environment, and our built world. She currently lives in Bloomington with her husband, their dog, and two cats.
