Part of the Hoosier Storytelling Festival will be some workshops and experiences of telling hard-to-believe stories that are true whether they happened or not.
Maybe a carnival can save the world, or at least a part of it. The “Ken-Ya Help Us?” Project is a youth-led working committee of the Global Interfaith Partnership (GIP), which has been working in Kenya. The Carnival is the kids’ first event to bring churches, synagogues, and schools together to raise awareness and money for orphans and vulnerable children in Western Kenya.
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The Holy Dove Foundation in Indianapoolis takes Hoosier civic and religious leaders for tours of Turkey. Hear a panel of Holy Dove alumni discuss what they experienced, what it shows about Turkey, and what it says aboiut interfaith dialogue in Indianapolis.
In March 1996 on her 15th birthday, Bat-Chen Shahak was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her diaries, letters, poems and drawings have now been published as a book. Ayelet Shahak is Bat-Chen’s mother and using excerpts from her daughter’s diaries she talks about Bat-Chen’s life and challenges teens to write their own diaries to express their thoughts, feelings and fears.
Storytelling performed by Gerald Fierst, Arif Choudhury and Susan O’Halloran (Jewish, Muslim and Catholic) offering a “real life-story tapestry” of traditional, personal and sacred stories illuminating the experience of being an American in a time of religious tension and change.
Child trafficking is recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child (any person under the age of 18) for the purpose of exploitation either within or outside a country. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 1.2 million are children trafficked annually … some of them in Central Indiana. We have to do something.
How does Black Theology in South Africa, which emerged as a response to the oppression of a Black majority by a White minority, inform the pursuit of social and economic justice for all now that it is Black people who walk the corridors of power in South Africa? (more…)
Three powerful thinkers who would not otherwise meet will gather in Indianapolis on November 2, 2008 for a spontaneous, on-stage dialogue on the theme, Exploring Imagination. Conversationalists will consider a variety of questions: Where does imagination reside? Who or what is cultivating the practice of imagination and when are social, religious, and cultural boundaries appropriate? What is needed to unleash public imagination in ways that benefit our communities’ economic, social, and cultural health?
How can we learn from the best wisdom the world’s cultures have to offer? Three works of African art from the IMA collection will frame this conversation. For example, the Songye people in Congo bring out a statue in times of crisis to inspire the community’s collective imagination. What equivalent “community power figures” might spark imaginative discussions about local challenges? Begin with an optional tour that highlights these art works. (more…)
Where does imagination reside? Who or what is cultivating the practice of imagination? When are social, religious, and cultural boundaries appropriate? What is needed to unleash public imagination in ways that benefit our communities’ economic, social, and cultural health? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions that will be explored across the city through performances, dance, panel discussions, exhibits, workshops, and more during the 2008 Spirit & Place Festival. (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival