Set in 1940s rural France at a school for orphaned and delinquent boys, a dedicated teacher founds a small choir, allowing the young men to rise above their cruel headmaster and dream of a better life. (more…)
Details being hammered out, check back shortly. (more…)
As head of the Indianapolis Urban League, Joe Slash is at the center of the many initiatives to make families stronger and more secure. Hear how he thinks it’s going. (more…)
One of Provocate’s favorite groups is the Latino Youth Collective. Take this chance to see their imaginative and creative videos. (more…)
Says Dawoud Bey: “Artists used to be the ones who led the charge to challenge the system; they were the proverbial ‘fly in the buttermilk,’ the monkey wrench that mucked up the system and made it act, function, and exist in new ways. Artists were the ones who created paradigms of everything the system was not. Marvin Gaye’s signature song ‘What’s Going On?’–a musical critique of a world gone off track–provides an apt framework for looking at the role of art and cultural production in the larger society.” (more…)
Think it’s easy raising children without religion? Try explaining basic things such as mixed beliefs, death and consolation, values, holidays, community, and critical thinking. (more…)
Learn how to make the home environment safer and healthier for individuals. This program teaches volunteers how to asses their neighbors’ homes and makes recommendations that are of low or no cost to the resident. (more…)
It’s the music and dance of China for the whole family! Featuring dances and a martial arts demonstration by children. They train ‘em up young in the way they ought to go, so that when they’re old and brittle they’ll be stuck in their ways. At the Indianapolis Arts Center.
(more…)You don’t have to break the bank by going to the IMA’s summer film series - this film fest is free. View the projects that students from the first annual Campecine Youth Academy have been working on for the past six weeks. Documentaries and animations made in Indianapolis by Latino youth bear alternative names - varriomentaries and issuemations - to reflect the language blending that their bilingual makers experience.
Themes include current social issues, from race relations in Indianapolis to local and national immigration policy reforms to teen pregnancy, ICE Raids, and education.
From the press release:
The Campecine Youth Academy is a six-week program [of the Latino Youth Collective and FIRME Productions] that trains youth in “on-the-job” action research using new media technology. The program employed 27 youth for 20 hours a week and engaged students in a process called Youth Participatory Action Research, a process that engages young people in
(1) identifying a community issue of concern to them, and
(2) investigating its causes and potential solutions through the use of advanced media technology and inquiry methods. Youth then use the results for education and community action.
Sounds like one way to do a lot of good in the community, and the public gets to bear witness to it all. Added bonus: the event is bilingual! So practice your rusty Spanish - o alternativamente, ensaye un poquito el inglés.
At the IMA, in DeBoest Hall
Saturday from 1-4 pm
Free and open to the public.
http://campecine.com/
This documentary, about the many Chinese children adopted by Americans since the early 1990s, is sure to find an appreciative audience at the always socially conscious Earth House. (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
