Archive for May, 2008

June 13 & 14 — Gregory Hancock Dance Company presents “Hooray for Bollywood”

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

You can’t have an Indian movie without music and dancing. The Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre cuts out the movie and goes straight for the good stuff. (more…)

June 13 & 14 — Gregory Hancock Dance Company presents “Hooray for Bollywood”

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

You can’t have an Indian movie without music and dancing. The Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre cuts out the movie and goes straight for the good stuff. (more…)

June 6 — Steppin’ for the Hungry Dinner & Dance

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Hoosiers who are unfamiliar with step-dancing have been deprived of a wonderful aspect of American culture. See a reunion of some of Indianapolis’s greatest steppers, and be part of feeding your poor neighbors. (more…)

June 5 — Break in the new space for Second Story, an important initiative to give kids tutoring and a life of literature

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The Second Story, a center for young writers opening this fall in Fountain Square is celebrating its new space with a night of music, mingling and interactive text-based art. Be part of something very special. (more…)

June 5 — The Japan America Society of Indiana celebrates 20 years

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

We’ve come a long way since the xenophobic anxieties in the 1980s about Japan’s economic threat to America. Now Indiana communities that saw Japan as a threat are scrambling over themselves to attract Japanese investment … and the Japan American Society of Indiana is part of the reason why attitudes have shifted in the past 20 years. (more…)

June 3-5 — Figure out why we communicate and how we can do it better at the 4th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The conference objectives are to further research in contrastive/intercultural rhetoric and intercultural discourse … that’s academic talk for the critical task of figuring out how we manage to communicate with each other in spite of our differences, and how we can do better. (more…)

June 3 — Peek into Iranian culture with the film “Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine”

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

It is hard to get first hand, unfiltered perspectives from Iran. Perhaps we can get that from one of Iran’s greatest movie director: when finally allowed to make a movie after being banned by the mullahs’ censors for 20 years, Bahman Farmanara made a movie in which he plays a director finally allowed to make a movie after being banned by the mullahs’ censors … perhaps we can best glimpse the truth when it is reflected in on itself by “Persian Mirrors.” (more…)

May 29 — Scratch your fringe festival itch with an IndyFringe fundraiser

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

If you are a fan of fringe theatre, the August 22 opening of IndyFringe probably seems a long ways away. Don’t despair, you can get a temporary fix when fringe favorite TJ Dawe performs his one-guy show, “The Slip-Knot.” A tale of three horribly funny day jobs — dumpster driving, drug-store stocking, and tracking Christmas parcels for the post office — “The Slip-Knot” has picked up awards and critical raves across Dawe’s native Canada. (more…)

June 6 — Be part of the opening of a local organization to stop childhood cancer, at a hip boutique with a philanthropic twist

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The Friends of St. Jude give young professionals a chance to support the vital work on childhood cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. The Indianapolis chapter of Friends of St. Jude launches at Tantrum, the über-hip boutique on Mass Ave that donates part of all its profits to fighting cancer. Hip and with a heart… (more…)

May 29 — Discuss “Moving Forward, Backward and Sideways” with Artist Nick Cave (not the one whose Seeds are Bad)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The world’s most creative Nick Cave may not be the one with the Bad Seeds. It might be Nick Cave, designer of marvelous “soundsuits.” Meticulously crafted of found objects discarded by others, Cave’s crazy-colored full body-sized soundsuits look like costumes from a 1950s sci-fi movie. But it’s when they’re worn that it becomes obvious why these assemblages are SOUNDsuits: they click and crackle, rustle whoosh. Hear Cave explain why these whimsical creations are really about race and power in America. (more…)