Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2023-09-16 - 2023-09-27, 2023-09-15 - 2023-09-26, 2023-09-14 - 2023-09-25, 2023-09-13 - 2023-09-24, 2023-09-12 - 2023-09-23, 2023-09-11 - 2023-09-22, 2023-09-10 - 2023-09-21, 2023-09-09 - 2023-09-20 and 21 more dates
Image Credit: Marti LaMar by Kaila Austin
An exciting array of exhibits are included in this year’s festival! Information about exhibit hours are below. To check the festival programming tied to the events, return to the Event Page to search for the event. You must register for events separately.
Tearing Down Boxes and Embracing Change
Nov. 4-14, 1-4pm (Tues.-Fri.)
Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center, 705 N. Illinois St.
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art
Nov. 5-17, 10am-5pm (Tues.-Sat.)
Garfield Park Arts Center—Main Gallery, 2432 Conservatory Dr.
The Memory Keepers / Los Guardianes de Memorias
Nov. 4-14, click here to schedule a gallery visit
201 Studio, 201 S. Rural Ave.
The (W)hole in Our Hearts
Nov. 4-12, visit website for hours
Friday, Nov. 5, 5-9pm (First Friday extended hours)
Saturday, Nov. 6, 10am-12pm (Family Day activities)
Nov. 8-12, M-F, 9am-5pm
Circle City Industrial Complex—Stokol Gallery & Hallways, 1125 Brookside Ave.
Introduction to Black Hue-manity: Imagining Blackness Then and Now
Nov. 8-11. Public hours vary.
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center, 1410 Indiana Ave.
We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30pm
Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W. 42nd St.
Changing Direction: The Evolution of Treatment at Indiana’s State Psychiatric Hospitals
Nov. 4-14
Online Exhibit

Civic Saturday: The Reflective Citizen
2023-08-19 07:00 - 08:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | College Avenue Branch LIbrary, 4180 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
What does it mean to be a reflective citizen? A person who knows the value of showing up for others and who does so in a spirit of open-mindedness, responsibility, and whole-heartedness? We’ll explore these habits of citizenship while building community by sharing poetry, songs, and civic fellowship together.
Civic Saturday is a civic analogue to a faith gathering. It’s a gathering of friends and strangers in a common place to nurture a spirit of shared purpose. But it’s not about a particular faith tradition nor is it trying to replace faith. It’s about the shared societal values that should work to unite us — liberty, equality, freedom, and self-government — even if we argue how to achieve these ideals!
Join with others to sing, hear poetry, share civic readings, listen to a civic sermon about being a “Reflective Citizen”, while also building community connections through small group dialogue.
ABOUT CIVIC SATURDAYS: The Civic Saturday model was pioneered by Seattle-based Citizen University in 2016 and strives to be a “great democratic self-cure.” In a time of deep political divide, we must create new approaches to fostering a shared sense of moral and civic purpose. In a country held together not by race or religion, but by a common creed, how do we maintain a sense of national cohesion? How do we create values-based fellowship? How do we convert that creed and those values into useful action? Civic Saturday seeks to answer these questions, and many more.
