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The first Chinese festival in Indianapolis will celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival with Chinese food, traditional music and dancing, a fashion show, and more. (more…)

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This documentary, about the multitudes of Chinese children adopted by Americans since the early 1990s, is sure to find an appreciative audience at the always socially conscious Earth House.

Summary: “Since the early ’90s, Americans have adopted nearly 70,000 Chinese children. With thousands of them now at an age to appreciate returning to the homeland, heritage tours have brought adoptees and their families to China, presenting an unequaled opportunity for bonding and sharing identity issues. “Found in China” follows six Midwestern families as they observe contemporary trends and ancient Asian traditions in both urban and rural contexts. The 80-minute documentary focuses on the 9- to 13-year-old girls and how they attempt to fit together the puzzle pieces of their pasts.”

When: 5 pm (it’s 82 minutes long)
Where: Earth House at Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church, 237 North East Street

Part of IndyFringe and the Indianapolis International Film Festival.

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Indianapolis has a sister city in Slovenia: Piran. Out of Piran comes Tramontana, the Italian word for “the north wind.” Hear it blow through Indianapolis when the musical group Tramontana gives a concert at the Slovenian National Home. The band will perform Slovenian, Italian, and Croatian folk songs.

When: Friday, July 18

Where: Indianapolis Slovenian National Home, 2717 West 10th St.

Cost: $10/person.

About Tramontana and Piran: “The Indianapolis-Piran Sister City Committee is an all-volunteer group dedicated to promoting their ancestral heritage. Tramontana (Italian, north wind) is a group of musicians and vocalists from the town of Secovlje (Italian, Sicciole) near the salt flats outside Piran (Italian, Pirano) in Slovenia, Italy’s neighbor in the northeast since the demise of Yugoslavia. Their music reflects the history and languages of the area: Slovenian, Italian, and Croatian. Piran, in the region of Istria, is south of the major Italian port of Trieste.”

For more information, contact Steve Fon at 410-7618.

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“The Story of Stuff,” a 20-minute video that covers environmental, psychological and social impacts of our consumption oriented society, will be shown on Wed. July 9 at 6 pm in Room 116 at Wheeler Art Center, 1035 Sanders, sponsored by Marion County Green Party, Campaign for Sustainable Economics, The Black and Latino Institute, and Simple Living Group of Indianapolis. Discussion afterwards will be lead by Greg Buck. For more info, contact Greg Buck at ecothink@yahoo.com or 917-1638.

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A year and a half in the making, so many numbers that will thrill autistic savants, sweeping predictions about the future of the Indiana economy, recommendations about new ways of thinking about trust and civil society … this will be big summer blockbuster for policy wonks. Check back here for sneak previews.

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Why don’t more of us live greener lives? It’s too expensive? We don’t know what impact our consumption has on the environment? We don’t know which local businesses are ecologically sound? John Steinbach will explain how a simple guide can answer these and many more questions.
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Premise # 1: Central Indiana is receiving a grwoing number of refugees, which is a good thing but presents all of us with major challenges. Premise #2: At the same time, Hoosiers are working around the world with refugees and displaced persons. The conclusion from these two premises: We have a unique opportunity to help solve problems of poverty and social conflict globally and locally.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the few American scholars who can match the breadth of expertise and the passionate commitment to justice of W.E.B. Du Bois. That must be why he is the Director of W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. In fact, his career parallels that of Du Bois in many ways, including efforts by both to create comprehensive encyclopedia of Africans and African Diaspora. Hear Gates discuss the Du Bois, the history of Africans in the world (and the impact of the world on Africans) … and his experiences with Oprah. (more…)

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The Indianapolis Art Center presents two months of Chinese art, workshops, music, films, dancing, talks … perhaps it’s a great time to be Chinese living in Indiana, but it’s an even greater time to want to learn about China while living in Indiana. Be there from the beginning, and go back repeatedly. (more…)

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For many reasons, Americans have been relatively slow to volunteer private relief for victims of the disasters in Burma and China. Now we have a time to step up … and at the same time learn about Chinese culture, and about the newcomers who are making Indianapolis such a more interesting place. (more…)

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