Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Applicant Info Session (April 13 at 4pm)
2023-04-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Learn more about Spirit & Place and its annual festival of events during an hour-long info session via Zoom. Any member of the community – from independent scholars and artists to organizational and congregational representatives – interested in learning more about the festival application and selection process are encouraged to attend. Five sessions in total are offered and the same information will be presented during each session. “Live” attendance with your camera turned on for part of the session is encouraged so that you can ask questions and also meet other interested community members.
Register using the button below.
Can’t make one of the scheduled sessions? Contact Erin Kelley, Spirit & Place program director, at ekkelley@iupui.edu.

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2023-04-13 - 2023-04-24, 2023-04-14 - 2023-04-25, 2023-04-15 - 2023-04-26, 2023-04-16 - 2023-04-27, 2023-04-17 - 2023-04-28, 2023-04-18 - 2023-04-29, 2023-04-19 - 2023-04-30, 2023-04-20 - 2023-05-01 and 19 more dates | IN
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

Powerful Conversations on Race - Exterminate All the Brutes, Pt. 3
2023-04-16 11:00 - 13:30
Powerful Conversations on Race [PCR] is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race and racism and the resulting impact.
Powerful Conversations on Race is a way for us to get comfortable talking about uncomfortable histories and is, therefore, rooted in historical documents and subject matter.
This IS NOT a lecture or book club, but a space for community to come together and dive deeply into a variety of topics concerning race. This is an immersive experience. As such, we’ll spend a considerable amount of time in small groups to dialogue with each other about these topics.
For the April 2023 dialogue, we will continue to watch and discuss the documentary “Exterminate All the Brutes,” which dives into the historical context of white supremacy and whiteness. The documentary is approximately 1 hour long and will be followed by 1+ hour of dialogue.
All dialogues are virtual and occur on Eastern Standard Time / Eastern Daylight Time.
Registration ends at 12noon on the day of the event. A Zoom link will be sent prior to the event date.

Civic Circle: Religious Pluralism (In Person)
2023-04-24 14:30 - 15:45 | College Avenue Branch LIbrary, 4180 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
Spirit & Place’s Civic Circle gatherings invite you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values. This April we will continue discussing the idea of religious pluralism.
Whether you are a person of faith or not, well, the Constitution protects it all! So what does “religious pluralism” mean in terms of a shared civic or societal value? How is it different than religious liberty and how do we live into the work of nurturing a religiously pluralistic society?
Using the civic reflection dialogue method, this participatory gathering – you’ll be doing most of the talking! – aims to help you unpack your civic values with others who also care about their role as citizens, that is, as those who show up for each other in public life. This gathering is a continuation of our March meeting, but we will use a different source material and participants need not have attended in April to get something out of this session.
Please use the blue registration button below.
*ABOUT CIVIC REFLECTION
Engaging in a civic reflection dialogue is not the same at attending a lecture or discussing a book. This is an immersive experience around a shared source materials (e.g., a poem, short writing, visual image, etc.). As such, we’ll spend most of the time in small group dialogue. Active participation is a must!
