Tickets are available by mail or in person at the IU Theatre ticket office, located in the University Theatre lobby in the northeast corner of the IU Auditorium building on the Bloomington campus. Box office hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Visitors can enjoy crafts for children and stories of the holiday season. Music will be provided by the First Presbyterian Church Bell Choir and the Bloomington High School North Show Choir. The event is co-sponsored by the John Waldron Arts Center and the Public Welfare Foundation.
Admission is free.
The galleries will be closed Dec. 23 through Jan. 5. After the uncertainty and excitement of the Leonid meteor storm, December offers the much more predictable Geminid meteor shower, normally the best of the year. The Geminid shower annually produces 100 or more meteors per hour in a clear dark sky. This year it will peak on the night of Dec. 13-14. The Geminid meteors move somewhat slower than usual, so they last longer and are often brighter than the better-known Perseid meteors of August.