Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

East & West: Perspectives on Nourishment
2023-11-06 06:00 - 07:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
ASL Upon Request.
Explore the root differences between eastern and western philosophies, practices, and traditions related to the idea of “nourishment” for the body and soul in this interactive lecture complete with finger exercises!
When in dialogue with each other, differences between Eastern and Western philosophies can be more clearly understood, but so can similarities and avenues of deeper exploration and appreciation. This event– which includes interactive elements even for virtual attendees! – invites you to explore the ways in which Eastern and Western thought envision and put into practice ideas around “nourishment.” For example, Eastern traditions such as Taoism, Buddhism, and traditional Chinese medicines think of humans as integrated with nature – the body is its own small cosmos. In the historic Western tradition, humans are separated from nature just as the mind is separate from the body. How do these philosophies and practices shape our world today? How can understanding these differences build appreciation for new ways of thinking and doing? Learn from IUPUI professors Dr. Jing Wang and Dr. Tom Davis to consider how ancient wisdoms can be used to tackle modern problems and provide life-long benefits. This is a hybrid event with both in-person and online attendance options.
Questions? Contact 317-691-0263 or jw41@iupui.edu
Event Partners: IU School of Liberal Arts World Languages and Cultures, and Religious Studies Departments at IUPUI; The Church Within; and the Center for Interfaith Cooperation.
Event Registration: Registration requested, but walk-ins are welcome. Please RSVP by Nov. 5 for in-person attendance and 10am on Nov. 6 for Zoom.

Nourishing Our Spirits: an interfaith dinner with Center for Interfaith Cooperation
2023-11-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Indiana Interchurch Center – Krannert Hall, 1100 W. 42nd St., Indianapolis, IN, 46208, United States
SOLD OUT
Enjoy conversation over dinner with members from across Indianapolis’ faith communities on the ways food rituals and practices sustain faith.
Hindu, Jewish, Pagan, Sikh, and Sufi prayers and reflective practices will be offered by local faith leaders as well as information on the historical and cultural significance of these practices. Dinner will follow and, with the aid of dialogue cards and table facilitators, attendees will be invited to share their own reflections on history, culture, food, and faith. Digital booklets of recipes, prayers, and reflections will keep attendees engaged after the event.
Questions? Contact 317-268-5300 or josih@indycic.org.
Event Partners: Center for Interfaith Cooperation, Sufi Ruhaniat International, Indiana Pagan Community Outreach and Dialogue, Hindu Temple of Central Indiana, Sikh Satsang Indianapolis, and Congregation Beth-El Zedeck.
Event Registration: Due to a seating limit of 50 guests, registration is required by October 30.

Indy Community Voices: Storytelling for Tenants’ Empowerment
2023-11-06 12:00 - 15:00 | The Amp at 16 Tech, 1220 Waterway Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Housing is a basic human need. This event invites communities in Indy to share their experiences and envision paths for affordable housing stability, which is central to human and community nourishment.
Please join us to share and listen to stories and experiences around rental housing and building communities in Indianapolis. Stories have power as they bring people together to build community through shared experiences. Using multiple art forms and other means of expression, this event highlights the centrality of stories for creating spaces of community nourishment and empowerment. Attendees to this event will be encouraged to share their stories verbally, through art and audio, before hearing from panelists who will share their stories, experiences, and struggles related to rental housing in Indianapolis. Attendees will also be able to consult with housing attorneys and the City of Indianapolis Tenant Navigators.
Questions? Contact 434-242-1012 or indyhousingproject@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Indy Community Voices Podcast; Patricia Basile, assistant professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography in Bloomington; Andy Beck, community designer with the Learning Tree, equitable development consultant; Greater Indianapolis Multifaith Alliance (GIMA); and Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP).
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 5 (button below). Walk-ins welcome.
Audience Note: Doors open at 5pm with food and activities. Panel remarks will begin at 6pm.

Image Credit: Wildstyle Paschall

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2023-11-06 - 2023-11-17, 2023-11-07 - 2023-11-18, 2023-11-08 - 2023-11-19, 2023-11-09 - 2023-11-20, 2023-11-10 - 2023-11-21, 2023-11-11 - 2023-11-22, 2023-11-12 - 2023-11-23, 2023-11-13 - 2023-11-24 and 5 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

They Stood Up: The Story of the Pendleton 2 & the Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985
2023-11-07 13:00 - 15:30 | Central Library – Center for Black Literature & Culture, 40 E. St. Clair St., Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
View a screening of The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up, a groundbreaking new documentary that tells the story of political prisoners John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter, the leaders of the 1985 Indiana prison uprising that saved a man’s life. Directed by Too Black and TheKingTrill.
Though thousands live inside prisons in Indiana, their stories rarely make it out. This event seeks to foster bonds of understanding between those inside and outside of prison by exploring the events of 1985 – which were a reaction to a lack of nourishment. Those incarcerated in Pendleton Correctional Facility were being denied food, comfort, safety, and intellectual care. Their uprising was in direct response to a multifaceted starvation of mind, body, and spirit. Learn about this little discussed moment in Indiana’s history and the continued efforts at seeking justice for Cole and Trotter.
Questions? Contact 317-274-2462 or thependleton2@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Defense Committee for the Pendleton 2 and IDOC Watch.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 7. Walk-ins welcome!

FACING GRIEF: Nourishing Ourselves and Others Through Loss
2023-11-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Phoenix Theater Cultural Center, 705 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN, United States
The Nov. 5 performance at 4pm will have live captioning to a screen.
The Nov. 7 performance at 7pm will has ASL interpretation.
All other accommodation requests should be made by Oct. 20.
Many of us don’t know what to say or do when a loved one experiences profound grief. Through live theatrical enactments and original music, audiences are invited to practice reacting to loss and supporting those they love.
Our brains are wired for survival, not loss, creating significant challenges in the aftermath of profound grief. FACING GRIEF, a presentation of The Sapphire Theatre’s award-winning PICTURE THIS® applied theatre programming, engages improvisational actors to act out brief scenarios. Staying in character, they “break the fourth wall” for an interactive talk back with the audience at the crisis point of each scene. Society and the community can do better for those who are hurting. Theatre can help show the way by allowing participants to practice how to have hard conversations, hold space, and listen. Musicians, interfaith ministers, educators, counselors and other subject matter experts will help facilitate this event.
FACING GRIEF will also be performed twice on November 5 at Unity Indianapolis. The 11:30am performance will follow a specially-themed worship service (10am) that all are welcome to attend! A second performance is scheduled for 4pm. FACING GRIEF is also being performed on on November 3 at the Phoenix Theatre. If interested in these other performances, please return to the event calendar and register for those dates/times.
Questions? Contact 317-966-7529 or andrea@sapphiretheatre.com
Event Partners: Sapphire Theatre Co.; Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center; Unity of Indianapolis; Jon Swanson, PhD.; Deandra Dycus; and Congregation Beth-El Zedeck.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 5, but walk-ins are welcome as space permits. Registration link forthcoming.
Audience Note: This program is focused on people who are seeking to better support loved ones experiencing profound bereavement. However, those currently grieving are welcome to attend – care is being shown to create an emotionally safe space.

Rooted in Love, Lifted in Strength: The Pettiford-Weaver Story
2023-11-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Eastern Star Church, 5750 E. 30th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46218, United States
Rooted in Love, Lifted in Strength is a documentary following the Pettiford-Weaver family–descendants of one of the first Black settlements in Indiana. Through faith, family, and fortitude they have nourished one another at family reunions for 100+ consecutive years and celebrated their heritage with ownership of their recently reclaimed historic land.
Fleeing slavery and persecution, Black settlers moved to Grant County, Indiana in the 1840s establishing what would become the Weaver Settlement. The settlement included schools, churches, stores, a horseracing track, and even a home for the elderly. A limited supply of farm land and higher paying city jobs drew people away from the settlement in the 1920s and 30s, but the descendants of this proud self-contained Black community have boasted an annual family reunion since 1919.
Learn more about this amazing family and their history – Indiana’s history! – by viewing a documentary and hearing from descendants of the Pettiford-Weaver family.
Doors open at 6pm for a soul reception with the documentary viewing beginning at 6:30pm. An audience discussion will follow.
Questions? 317-413-0926 or PettifordWeaverLand@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Loving Life Productions, LLC; the Pettiford-Weaver Family; and WFYI Public Media.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 9. As of 11/7/23, this event is SOLD OUT and cannot guarantee seating.

Image Courtesy Loving Life Productions, LLC and the Pettiford-Weaver Family

Nourishing Words: Feeding the Whole with Poetry and Prose
2023-11-09 13:30 - 15:00 | The Church Within, 1125 Spruce St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203
ASL Upon Request.
Experience the poetry and prose of New York Times bestselling author Cole Arthur Riley alongside young, local BIPOC poets and storytellers as they not only consider but deliver the nourishing power of words.
Featuring bestselling author of This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us, Cole Arthur Riley, and other local talent, this event considers and demonstrates both the power of words to nourish us, to feed us, and to empower us to the best, next step in our own lives. In a time when words are used to harm, this event invites you into a deep consideration of the power of words to both nourish us and leave us starved. The speakers gathered will remind those gathered of the power they have at hand with tools no more complex than the words they speak and write.
This gathering will also include an interactive element where performers and attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the creation of an original book at the event. This book will be bound as an original, scanned to be printed in a short run, and presented online.
Questions? Contact 317-683-0829 or thechurchwithin@thechurchwithin.org.
Event Partners: The Church Within, The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, The Philippine Cultural Community Center, and The Kneeland Center for Poetry, Inc. with support from Ujamaa Community Bookstore.
Event Registration: Registration requested by November 5. Walk-ins welcome until capacity is reached.

Come to the Table: Interfaith Understanding Through the Culinary Arts
2023-11-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Franklin College, Napolitan Student Center – Branigin Room, 101 Branigin Blvd., Franklin, IN, United States
ASL Upon Request by Nov. 1.
Join us for an engaging evening of food, fellowship, and exploration around how different faiths interact with food and spiritually. Enjoy a tasting reception followed by a presentation from Dr. Adrian Miller, award-winning author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time.
By providing an opportunity to engage with other faiths around a shared experience – food! – Franklin College and its partners invite attendees to learn about other religions not through doctrine, but through the experience of breaking bread together and sharing stories. Catered dishes from a variety of cultures and religious traditions will be shared as well as stories about the significance of these foods.
Dr. Adrian Miller, executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches and award-winning author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, will give a short presentation followed by a panel discussion featuring local practitioners of a variety of faiths.
Questions? Contact 317-738- 8140 or hadamsingram@franklincollege.edu
Event Partners: Franklin College, Interchurch Food Pantry, and the Center for Interfaith Cooperation.
Event Registration: Registrations requested by November 6.

Nourish: Testimonies about Food, Family, and Love (Day 1: Film Screening)
2023-11-10 11:00 - 14:00 | Broadway United Methodist Church, 609 E. 29th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
A two-day celebration focused on the healing powers of food, community, and spirituality featuring films, food, and testimonies from Black femme creators.
The gathering will take attendees on an immersive visual, sensual, auditory, and spiritual experience in the spirit of honoring how Black femmes have nourished themselves and one another while making an indelible impact on the world.
On Friday, Nov. 10, two films – “In Our Mother’s Gardens” and “Food as Resistance” will be shown. Dinner will be served in between screenings and a discussion about the ways lineage, love, and (unjust) food systems intersect will close the night.
The following day (Nov. 11) will feature music, storytelling, and the culinary arts in a Testimony Service for all! (Think: Moth Radio Hour.) Testimony services have their roots in the Black church tradition as a time where people can take to the altar and tell a story or sing a song that illustrates a triumphant moment in their lives. Attendees will be given writing prompts for their own reflections and will hear from a selection of Black femme speakers before enjoying refreshments.
Doors open at 4pm each day for guests to congregate with each other. Programming begins at 5pm.
Audience Note: While this event is open to people from all faiths or non-faith backgrounds, Black Christian traditions as well as African ancestral practices will be honored.
Questions? Please contact317-413-1239 or TheTestimonyServiceOnline@gmail.com
Event Partners: The Testimony Service and The Center for Religion, Arts, and Culture.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov.3, but walk-in guests are welcome!

Image Courtesy of The Testimony Service

Nourishing Democracy: Healthy IPS School Board Elections
2023-11-10 13:00 - 16:00 | MLK Community Center, 40 W. 40th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
Constitutional republics must be nourished to stay viable. As school board elections offer a microcosm of democracy, what does IPS board history teach us about the democratic process and what citizens can do to nurture their own sense of civic empowerment?
Once regulated to the May Primary, Indianapolis school board elections are now large and expensive early November events. Debate from a plurality of perspectives is needed for a healthy democracy and a vigorous public education system. So is an understanding of local history. In the early 1920s, little to no competition existed in school board races which were ostensibly run by the Citizens School Committee. This is the era that deeply segregated and segmented Indianapolis’s public schools into a caste system. As recent media stories have shown, modern school board elections are being inundated with outside money – and agendas – that threaten to shape public schools in ways the community may not want. Using primary sources and recent news articles, attendees will be divided into working groups to compare and contrast the past to the present in an effort to plan for the future. Visual arts, poetry, and music will further help attendees appreciate the challenges democracy faces while inspiring them to stay engaged and active.
Questions? Contact 317-998-1339 or johnharrisloflin@yahoo.com.
Audience Notes: Doors open at 6pm for guests to interact with the exhibits. Programming begins at 7pm.
Event Partners: Charles E. Loflin & Virginia P. Vornehm-Loflin Center on IPS History, the Black & Latino Policy Institute, Virgil and Sheila Boyd, Wyse Ra, Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Brown, and artists Dr. Monday, Clyde Gaw, and Clockwork Janz.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 9. Walk-ins welcome!

Cultural Compost: Nourishing Places in the Footprints of Toxic History
2023-11-11 05:00 - 07:00 | Broad Ripple Park Family Center, 1426 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46220, United States
ASL Upon Request by Oct. 27.
From the water that we drink to the air that we breathe, we all have experience with the legacies of environmental damage. This hands-on workshop will help you develop personal stories related to places of environmental harm and then use those stories to nourish the ongoing work of environmental justice.
Community members are invited to share stories of experience with environmental damage (including social and physical harm from industrial waste, climate change, pollution, etc.) and then transform those stories into deeper knowledge, empathy, and tools for change. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness of both common threats and ongoing efforts to create a healthier city, as well as to gather stories from diverse perspectives that will be included in a forthcoming exhibit hosted at Indy Parks sites in 2024. The stories shared and refined during this workshop will add to a broader understanding (and study) of the city’s toxic heritage and will help ensure that lived experience is part of how we document the history and legacy of toxic environments. Out of decay can come new, nourishing life. This workshop plows the contaminated soil of the city to grow new understanding and empathy, and to motivate people to act for a cleaner, healthier, sustainable, and more just future.
Questions? Contact 317-327-7161 or Kavita.mahoney@indy.gov
Event Partners: IU School of Liberal Arts Museum Studies Program at IUPUI and Indy Parks and Recreation.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 9. Walk-ins welcome as space permits.

Image Credit: IUPUI Museum Studies Program

How to Eat with Tuning Forks
2023-11-11 07:00 - 09:00 | Garfield Park Arts Center – Main Gallery, 2432 Conservatory Dr., Indianapolis, IN, United States
Collectively create a soundscape by eating lunch in front of microphones, banging on kitchen percussion, and talking about the foods that nourish you.
Here’s the deal: Bring your own lunch to the Garfield Park Arts Center, but make sure it’s a meal that balances both your need for nourishment and convenience. You’ll then be invited to chew, crunch, munch, gobble – you know, eat! – in front of microphones while also considering what it is about this meal that nourishes you (however you define “nourish!”) and meets your need for convenience. A live musician playing ambient chords along with some “kitchen percussion” will play in the background with the sounds of eating, story sharing, and music blending together into a recorded soundscape.
Questions? Contact 317-345-0176 or clockworkmakesmusic@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Clockwork Music, Arts with a Purpose, and Garfield Park Arts Center.
Audience Note: If you are not comfortable being in front of a microphone helping to make improvisational music, tables and chairs will be set to the side … but we really encourage you to make some totally unique art with us! While this can be a come-and-go style event, here’s what will be going on when:
12 – Doors open
12:15 – Introduction, tutorial on reading a graphic score
12: 20- Write your own Lunch Story, talking with a neighbor is encouraged
12:30(ish) – Lunch is self-served (bring your own!). Eat and create this soundscape together.
1:30 – Mingling
2:00 – Doors close
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 11. Walk-ins welcome.

Image/Logo Credit: Ankh Productions

Quiet as a Gateway
2023-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Indianapolis First Friends, 3030 Kessler Blvd., East Drive, Indianapolis, IN, 46220, United States
ASL provided if requested by Nov. 3.
Join in as a Friends (Quaker) minister, philosophy scholar of Buddhism, art therapist, and a meditation instructor guide attendees in paths leading to a quiet state.
Quiet can reduce stress, enhance creativity, and deepen a sense of tranquility. It is a space – and practice – that encourages self-exploration and can help lead to a deeper understanding of our place in the universe. Guided by practitioners of different meditative and philosophical approaches, as well as a (secular) artist, this event invites guests to feel the power of quiet through dialogue, practice, and art-making activities.
Questions? Contact 317-627-3147 or cyfitzpatrick@gmail.com.
Event Partners: IUPUI Senior Academy and Indianapolis First Friends Meeting.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 9. Walk-ins welcome!

Nourish: Testimonies about Food, Family, and Love (Day 2: Testimony Service)
2023-11-11 11:00 - 14:00
A two-day celebration focused on the healing powers of food, community, and spirituality featuring films, food, and testimonies from Black femme creators.
The gathering will take attendees on an immersive visual, sensual, auditory, and spiritual experience in the spirit of honoring how Black femmes have nourished themselves and one another while making an indelible impact on the world. On Friday, Nov. 10, two films – “In Our Mother’s Gardens” and “Food as Resistance” will be shown. Dinner will be served in between screenings and a discussion about the ways lineage, love, and (unjust) food systems intersect will close the night.
The following day (Nov. 11) will feature music, storytelling, and the culinary arts in a Testimony Service for all! (Think: Moth Radio Hour.) Testimony services have their roots in the Black church tradition as a time where people can take to the altar and tell a story or sing a song that illustrates a triumphant moment in their lives. Attendees will be given writing prompts for their own reflections and will hear from a selection of Black femme speakers before enjoying refreshments.
Doors open at 4pm with programming beginning at 5pm.
Audience Note: While this event is open to people from all faiths or non-faith backgrounds, Black Christian traditions as well as African ancestral practices will be honored.
Questions? Contact 317-413-1239 or TheTestimonyServiceOnline@gmail.com.
Event Partners: The Testimony Service and The Center for Religion, Arts, and Culture.
Event Registration: Registration requested by Nov. 3, but walk-in guests are welcome.

Image Courtesy of The Testimony Service

Forest Bathing to Nourish the Mind, Body, & Soul
2023-11-12 08:00 - 09:30 | Crown Hill Cemetery – Waiting Station, 3402 Boulevard Pl., Indianapolis, IN, 46208, United States
SOLD OUT. Please contact event organizers to inquire about a waitlist.

ASL Upon Request by Oct. 27.
Enjoy a 60-minute guided walk through Crown Hill Cemetery’s Arboretum that will nourish an appreciation for the benefits of nature.
“Forest bathing” promotes interaction between humans and wooded spaces, which is deeply needed in a culture that too often sees nature as a commodity to be bought, sold, transformed, and used. Studies have shown the health benefits of being in nature – it can lower blood pressure, calm heart rates, and reduce levels of harmful hormones all while helping individuals form stronger connections to their communities. Led by a guide certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, this event invites you to listen to nature, savor the sounds and smells of the outdoors, and be mindful of the ways nature can nourish the mind, body, and soul.
Questions? Contact 317-920-2644 or jrdinius@crownhill.org.
Event Partners: Crown Hill Heritage Foundation, Indiana DNR—Division of Forestry, and Wanderwood Studio.
Event Registration: Due limited space, registration is required. Walk-in guests cannot be accommodated.

Art Feeding Empathy: A Burma-Congo Conversation on Peace
2023-11-12 08:30 - 10:00 | Central Library – Indiana Special Collections Room, 40 E. St. Clair St., Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Two artists – one from Myanmar and the other from the Democratic Republic of Congo – share their work to demonstrate how seeing life through the lens of another nourishes the spirit of empathy.
Burmese artist Saw Kennedy and Congolese artist Jean Claude Lofenia originate from different parts of the world, but both share a love of art and an understanding of the refugee experience. Commissioned by Patchwork Indy, they have been learning about each other’s’ lives over the past year in order to develop a painting series that depicts each other’s stories, as well as their own.
Learn about the dynamic histories of Burma the Democratic Republic of Congo, view the artists’ work, hear from them directly, watch video clips of documentary on their journey, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.
Questions? Contact 317-488-8894 or patchworkindy@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Patchwork Indy, Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Two Kites Media.
Registration: Registration is requested by Nov. 11, but walk-in guests are welcome.

Image courtesy of Two Kites Media

28th Annual Public Conversation featuring Michael Twitty
2023-11-12 11:30 - 13:00 | The Amp at 16 Tech, 1220 Waterway Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
ASL Interpreted.
Close out the Spirit & Place Festival with a Public Conversation featuring culinary historian and author Michael Twitty and the hosts of Black Girls Eating for this LIVE AUDIENCE podcast recording!
In his first book, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, Twitty traces his ancestry through food from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. In his latest book, Kosher Soul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, he wrestles with not only who makes food, but how food makes people. As a Jewish convert, Twitty sees African-Jewish cooking as a “dialogue of diaspora” offering insights into sustenance for the soul.
In an exciting and new format for The Public Conversation, guests will be invited to hear Twitty speak live and in-person during a moderated podcast hosted by Tanorria Askew and Candace Boyd of “Black Girls Eating.” Audience members will be given a chance to interact with each other and the speakers during a book signing and reception catered by vendors located in The Amp, which is part of the 16 Tech Innovation District.
Event Partners: Spirit & Place, JCC Indianapolis, Flanner House, and The Amp. This program has been made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Registration: Registration is requested by Saturday, Nov. 10, but walk-in guests are welcome.
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