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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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
