An interdisciplinary panel will offer both live and virtual audiences the chance to creatively explore the spiritual framework for environmental stewardship.
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International performances, fair-trade hand crafts, food, a photography exhibit, and fun.
Author, songwriter, and national religious leader Brian D. McLaren along with coach, and consultant Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, invite you to imagine that another world is possible. Take a fresh look at the teachings of Jesus through creative worship stations, original music by Restoration Project, small-group interaction, art and poetry-writing exercises, and multimedia presentations designed to fire our personal and collective imaginations toward solutions for global change.
Why do we affix certain meanings to places? How do places influence the way we perceive ideas? Posed by Joanna Haigood, artistic director of Zaccho Dance Theatre, these questions point to the human urge to give special meaning to physical locations. Alternately, in her films, artist and filmmaker Julie Dash explores how a location can influence a person’s identity and culture. A location’s meaning develops and evolves through its contact with human experience, providing layered meaning to a particular place.
How do teenagers envision a just, sustainable, and peaceful community? Local high school and congregational groups will share their imaginative and artistic visions with a panel of Indianapolis community leaders.
Comic books, film noir and the visual art of Jean-Michel Basquiat are a few of the springboards for Kevin Young’s poetry. The author of collections Black Maria, Jelly Roll (a finalist for the National Book Award) and most recently, For the Confederate Dead, Young digs deep into history by way of the arts. Walk with Young through the IMA galleries and share impressions of selected works of art.
Daniel Pink’s best known work, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. He claims the era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities—inventiveness, empathy, meaning—predominate. Provocate heaves an enormous sigh of relief!
As part of his series “Together Again: Music & Poetry,” Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf joins with jazz pianist Monika Herzig (and the alternative country and American group Tom Roznowski and the Living Daylights) to perform songs and poems about war and peace.
Thanks to her residency with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indy is privileged to host one of the rising stars among composers, Gabriela Lena Frank. She is composing Peregrinos (Pilgrims), a new orchestral work inspired by the experiences of Latino immigrants in Indianapolis. In the meantime, you can meet Frank and hear some of the music that won her prestigious residency.
More than 700 years ago, when Osman Gazi established the Ottoman Empire, he also established the Mehter band to inspire his troops when they went into battle. Mozart, Haydn, Bizet and other Western composers used the sounds of the booming kös drum and oboe-like zurna. And “the First Military Band in the World, Turkish Military Band Mehter Takimi” will be in Indianapolis.
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
