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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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ArtSparkle, the Indianapolis Art Center’s main fundraiser, will conclude the IAC’s excellent “Two Worlds, One Language through Art” exhibitions, and will be an excellent way to learn more about the city’s continuing engagement with Chinese culture in the autumn. (more…)

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The litigators of the Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union are some of the busiest in the country. Is it because they are thebest, or because Indiana’s legislators give them so many opportunities to rescue the Bill of Rights? Find out from lead ACLU-IN litigator Ken Falk … and ask him if he thinks his upcoming trips to the Supreme Court of the US will go better than some of his recent cases. (more…)

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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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The Indianapolis Museum of Art had plans for a unique art & nature park that could transform the way we think of museums, art, and nature. Now they have scaled back by half. Good news, bad news, or something else? The museum’s leaders explain their new and improved vision.
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Your grandfather might have attended the first Talbot Street Art Fair 53 years ago, when Herron Art School students tried to show off (and just maybe to sell) some of their works. Today it is one of the biggest neighborhood art fairs in the country, with more than 250 artists coming to Indianapolis from across North America to show off (and just maybe to sell) some of their works. Way bigger than in Grandpa’s day, but it costs the same for admission (zero) and it’s just as much fun.
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Be in the Mass Ave area when for one night it transforms into a rainbow rave. Scrunch up your eyes at when you attend the IndyPride’s parade — the party on wheels culminating Pride Week — and you might fool yourself into thinking you are in San Francisco. Open your eyes wide and beyond the drag queens throwing beads you’ll see that Indianapolis has a thriving GLBT community. It also has a lot of straight people committed to tolerance, diversity and serious dancing.

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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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Give to a refugee and a refugee will return the favor. For instance, bring a dish of food to share at Exodus’s World Refugee Day celebration, and you can try some excellent food prepared by our newest Hoosiers.
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