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Homeless Voices--Community Conversation
2017-11-14 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join CHIP Indianapolis as we lead a community conversation on homelessness. Learn more about the facts of homelessness and join us in generating solutions on how we can address homelessness in our community. Individuals will also have the chance to create zines like the ones featured in the Homeless Voices exhibition.

Map of My Kingdom-Presented by University of Indianapolis
2017-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“These stories are moving and engaging and remind us that we all share responsibility for the health of the land while we are here. Easy to mount, accessible and timely, Swander’s play is a catalyst to help audience members address issues of land transfer productively. This is art serving its purpose in a meaningful way.”
– Susan Wolverton – Professor of Theatre, Coe College
Who’s going to get the farm? And what are they going to do with it? Will your future plans for your land create harmony or strife for your family? Or have you even started to think that far ahead? Map of My Kingdom, a play commissioned by Practical Farmers of Iowa and written by Iowa’s Poet Laureate Mary Swander, tackles the critical issue of land transition. In the drama, Angela Martin, a lawyer and mediator in land transition disputes, shares stories of how farmers and landowners she has worked with over the years approached their land successions. Some families almost came to blows, struggling to resolve the sale or transfer of their land, dissolving relationships. Others found peacefully rational solutions that focused not only on the viability of the family, but also of the land.
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Land is the thread that binds all of the stories together. “For most farmers I know, owning land means everything,” Angela Martin says. Map of My Kingdom will resonate with those who have been through or are working through challenging land transfer issues that include division of the land among siblings, to selling out to a neighbor, to attempts to preserve the land’s integrity against urban sprawl. The drama will inspire the hesitant and the fearful to start the conversation that cannot wait.
Today, a vast amount of land in the United States is owned by those over 65 years old. Some have made their wishes clear for the future of their property. Others are courting family upheaval by not planning in concrete ways. An age old problem, evident in literature from the Bible to King Lear to Willa Cather, land transition asks hard questions: Who really owns the land? And what is the role of the steward of a property? Can “fair” become “unfair” to one’s children?
Map of My Kingdom is directed by Matt Foss, Acting and Theatre history professor at The University of Idaho. Maria Vorhis will be the actor.
Performance Time:
The play runs under 1 hour.
Trailer: http://www.maryswander.com/
Artist Bios:
Mary Swander | Playwright
Mary Swander is the Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa. She has published over thirteen books of poetry and non-fiction, in addition to plays, radio and television scripts and magazine articles. She has appeared in such places as The New York Times Magazine, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, and Poetry Magazine. Swander’s plays Driving the Body Back, Vang, and Farmscape have toured the U.S. including a performance for Secretary Tom Vilsack and his staff at the U.S.D.A. Swander lives and raises most of her own food on a small acreage in the Amish settlement near Kalona, Iowa. She has experienced three generations of land transition within her own family.
Maria Vorhis | Actor and Booking Agent
￼Maria is a writer/performer, teaching artist, and filmmaker based in Chicago. She has
￼￼toured her solo show, “Are You There, George?” to fourteen venues in six cities, including Iowa City, Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Chicago, and was awarded “#1 Newbie of MN Fringe” by vita.mn. She is a former Artistic Associate with Working Group Theatre and Pictures, where she toured an anti-bullying youth show, “Out of Bounds,” across the Midwest and facilitated post-show discussions with middle school audiences and administrators. Film credits include web series, “Sad Dad” and feature film, “These Hopeless Savages,” for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by The Wild Rose Film Festival. In 2016 Maria wrote, produced, and acted in a short film, “Sexpert Franzen.” Maria enjoys teaching storytelling workshops to storytellers of all backgrounds, and has taught Advocacy Storytelling to women using social services, Personal Narrative to homeless individuals through Chicago Supportive Housing, and “Storytelling Seeds,” a beginners workshop, for which she was featured at the Witching Hour Festival in Iowa City. Maria currently works as a Certified TimeSlips Facilitator teaching improvisational storytelling to seniors with memory loss, and hosts a monthly open-mic storytelling event in Lincoln Square. Maria graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa. www.mariavorhis.com
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Matt Foss | Director
Matt Foss’ production of Six Characters received 5 Kennedy Center Awards in 2012 including: National Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Director, Outstanding Lighting Design, 3 Distinguished Performance Awards, and Distinguished Production and Performance Ensemble Award. Foss studied theatre at Roosevelt University in Chicago and in Moscow. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2013. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho.

Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut!
2017-11-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Eat cake and read Vonnegut with us.

Portrait Making Meetup
2017-11-11 11:00 - 15:00, 2017-10-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2017-09-09 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring your own art supplies and get paired up with someone to do portrait studies in our open, concrete-floor community space. Describe your partner in your own medium (can be paint or charcoal, of course, but also can be writing, clay, or any type of abstraction! Realism is not necessary). We will have basic art supplies like paper, markers, crayons, and such.
All creatives, professional or amateur, are welcome. Even if you just want to come to be a model and hang out, you are welcome!

Yoga + Meditative Art
2017-11-09 17:30 - 19:00, 2017-10-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Instructor: Tanisha Neely
$5 Freewill Donation
Resilient Yoga is partnering with Tube Factory to offer community based yoga practices and workshops that encourage everyone, no matter their economic situation or skill level to enjoy the benefits of yoga in a relaxed, judgement-free community environment.
Join us for Yoga + Meditative Art every Thursday and enjoy an energizing yoga practice followed by meditative art practices of your choice (Zentangles, Coloring, Journaling, Crocheting, Knitting, etc.). Class is inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic “The Artist’s Way.”
Mats, Blocks, Art Materials and Light Refreshments provided on a first come first served basis.
Why Yoga?
Stress is directly correlated with poor health. Clinical research continues to support the use of yoga practice as a low cost and low maintenance health intervention capable of strengthening resilience factors that reduce stress, a significant health risk factor.

Working Together to Undo Racism-Part of Spirit & Place
2017-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Child Advocates Undoing Racism is a documentary exploring the disproportionality of African American children in the child welfare system and how one non-profit agency in Indianapolis is fighting to reverse that legacy for children of color. This is the story of people who experience life changing reversals of attitude and cultural racial bias.
Child Advocates has launched this 60 minute documentary on “Undoing Racism” and what it might take to do so.
The film follows individuals in the Indianapolis community through undoing racism workshops held at Child Advocates. Over 50 workshops have been held at Child Advocates’ office with over 2,000 of individuals trained.
As tensions in the US continue to rise with issues around race, it is imperative to allow individuals to talk about race in a constructive environment. Child Advocates hopes this film will inspire individuals to participate in a workshop and help inspire change in their own communities.
Discussion will follow.
About Child Advocates
Child Advocates: Child Advocates is the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) chosen by the courts in Marion County to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children. We fulfill our mission through advocacy, monitoring, evaluation, fact-finding and mediation. Volunteers assist staff professionals in each child’s case to make sure those children do not get lost in the system, that their needs are met during their court cases, and that a safe, permanent home is found for them as soon as possible.
About Spirit & Place
Spirit & Place opens minds, touches hearts, builds bridges and helps citizens move forward in new ways individually and collectively. It’s all in our name: Spirit & Place. Through growth of the human spirit, Central Indiana becomes a better place.
Winner of the NUVO Cultural Vision Award and the Indiana Achievement Award, the Spirit & Place Festival reaches 20,000 people annually through dozens of “never-seen-before” programs. Artists and authors, entrepreneurs and neighborhood organizers, storytellers and scholars come together with singles and couples, families and friends in a true community conversation. Think: TED lecture, but interactive and on steroids.
Their mission is to be a catalyst for civic engagement through creative collaborations among the arts, humanities, and religion. Through the arts, the festival uses the language of metaphor to explore sometimes difficult ideas. Through the humanities, the festival illuminates the distinct and common narratives of the human condition. Through religion, the festival embraces the values of compassion, fairness, hospitality, and service that fuel our life in community.
Spirit & Place is a community project managed by The Polis Center, part of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. The Polis Center works collaboratively to provide community-based research, analysis, information, and access to advanced information technologies. Spirit & Place is an example of Polis’s commitment to creating collaborative, practical, and effective solutions for the communities in which we live.

LaShawnda Crowe Storm with Maria E Hamilton Abegunde: Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams
2017-11-03 18:00 - 2018-01-20 15:00 | IN
November 3-January 20
Open every first Friday 6-10 p.m.

Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams expands the dialogues began in Crowe Storm’s works Her Name is Laura Nelson and Be/Coming with newly commissioned pieces: Poems, Origin and Sister Song.

On the South wall of the main gallery is Her Name Is Laura Nelson. It is Quilt I from The Lynch Quilts Project Series which explores the history and ramifications of racial violence in America, particularly lynching, through the textile tradition of quilting. Crowe Storm started the series 15 years ago. Her Name is Laura Nelson explores the intersection of lynching and gender violence.

In the North section of the main gallery is Be/Coming, the first in the series Masquerade Americana, a collaboration between Crowe Storm and Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde that began in 2007. This piece is rooted in the various masquerade traditions found throughout Africa, particularly Gelede (Gail-lah-day) and Egungun (Ay-goon-goon) of the Yoruba in Nigeria. Gelede celebrates female mystical power, while Egungun honors one’s ancestors.The Masquerade Americana series addresses historical and contemporary social ills and in/justices rooted in the American context from a Black / African-American lens.

Origin, in the west section of the main gallery, is a bronze casting of the pelvic bone of an unknown African American woman.

On the East wall is the poetry of Abegunde. The poems Be/Coming, Laura Nelson Speaks, Origin, and Birth Song were written specifically for the ongoing collaboration with Crowe Storm. The remaining poems, The Answer to Your Question and Supplication, are earlier works that call attention to the historical erasure and disappearance of young Black girls and women. Supplication is also a prayer to the Yoruba deity Osun that combines elements of oriki for Osun (praise names) with a plea for guidance to find, in this case, Tionda and Diamond Bradley who were reported disappeared/missing on July 6, 2001.

The writings and libation bowl add new layers to the experiences of remembering words and performances that examine how the abuse, loss, and commodification of one’s womanhood and humanity can be transformed through processes that lead to healing and the rebirthing and re/making of identity.

In the installation room is Sister Song, grounded within the context of community co-creation efforts, the bronze womb shapes were given to selected artists to complete their transformation.

Each piece exhibited in Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams was developed with the hands of many.

About Lashawnda Crowe Storm
If life were a photo, then Crowe Storm’s artwork would be its negative, seeking to explore those aspects in our society that have been ignored or forgotten such as history, lynching, misogyny, slavery and suicide. Her art is a form of social work and she uses it to open doorways to community dialogue, which is the first step to healing, which in itself leads to wider social change. Through her work, a voice is given to the marginalized people and disregarded aspects of our society.
About Maria E Hamilton Abegunde
Maria E Hamilton Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. She is a visiting lecturer in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center at Indiana University.
A series of events accompany the exhibition:
December 3, 3-5 p.m.
BeComing Whole: It Takes a Village to Heal a Community
Join artists featured in Sister Song for a discussion about how the project developed and what it means to become whole through the process of making art that represents their own births. The artists will share why they accepted the invitation to participate, why they selected the “womb” that they did, how and why they selected the materials, what they learned about themselves in the process, and what was the most transformative part of this creation.
December 9, 3-5 p.m.

January 13, 3-5 p.m.
Afriye Wekandodis: Telling Our Stories to Be Free
Songs for Laura Nelson (Performance)
Singer, performer and Sister Song womb-maker, Afriye We-kandodis will present a two-part performance examining the themes present in Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams. Sista Yo Mama U n Me Too shares the story of violation then reclamation and transformation as an enslaved woman grapples rape and how she spoke life into the spirit of a fellow tribesman who was used to violate her. Through the performance,I Am Laura Nelson she’ll bring voice and life to Laura Nelson.

January 20, 3-5pm
Keeping our Mothers’ Dreams Alive
For many of us, our mothers never spoke their dreams out loud. Sometimes, they did not dare dream them. We, however, are the ones they waited and are waiting for. We also have our own dreams. The power of dreamtime and the word are this: to remind us who we are, to soothe our souls, and to create futures that break away from the past but do not forget them. The exhibition will end with poetry readings, spoken word performances, and ritual to remember and give gratitude to all our Mothers’ Dreams.
This exhibit was made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Alan Mills and Sun King
Pictured: LaShawnda Crowe Storm,”Untitled”(2017), bronze casting of pelvic bone
Image courtesy of Polina Osherov and the artist.

Homeless Voices
2017-11-03 08:00 - 2017-11-18 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
November 3-18
Join CHIP Indianapolis for a powerful, museum-like art experience filled with educational vignettes and audio and video stories from individuals experiencing homelessness in Indy. Combining audio, video, and tactile components, Homeless Voices immerses the visitor in the lives of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis. The exhibition will feature a collection of zines created by individuals experiencing homelessness, a virtual reality experience of what it’s like to live in a family shelter, and other artistic and educational opportunities.

Yoga + Meditative Art
2017-11-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Meditative art 5:30-6:00 Yoga 6:00-7:00
Instructor: Tanisha Neely
$5 Freewill Donation
Resilient Yoga is partnering with Tube Factory to offer community based yoga practices and workshops that encourage everyone, no matter their economic situation or skill level to enjoy the benefits of yoga in a relaxed, judgement-free community environment.
Join us for Yoga + Meditative Art every Thursday and enjoy an energizing yoga practice followed by meditative art practices of your choice (Zentangles, Coloring, Journaling, Crocheting, Knitting, etc.). Class is inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic “The Artist’s Way.”
Mats, Blocks, Art Materials and Light Refreshments provided on a first come first served basis.
Why Yoga?
Stress is directly correlated with poor health. Clinical research continues to support the use of yoga practice as a low cost and low maintenance health intervention capable of strengthening resilience factors that reduce stress, a significant health risk factor.

What's On Your Mind?
2017-10-28 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT. To ensure you have a time slot with Jones, please e-mail: email hidden; JavaScript is required

Monumental Dance Party with Melt Face
2017-10-25 18:00 - 21:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Come dance your face off with DJ Melt Face and his legions of glamorous weirdos at the Monumental Dance Party. A dance party that is affordable (FREE) and accessible (in an open public space in the middle of the city) to all!
Cosplayers,hula hoopers, break dancers, luchadors, young, old, basic or deluxe, everyone is welcome!
Brought to you by Project for Public Spaces in partnership with The City of Indianapolis

Sound Lab With Oreo Jones
2017-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with the October edition of SOUND LAB! Join me at Listen hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by placing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a improvisation set.

Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Reading Series & Discussion
2017-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | IN
In celebration of the Year of Vonnegut, Spark Placemaking in partnership with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library our final reading and discussion on October 25th. Stories aree selected out of Kurt Vonnegut’s collection of short stories; “Welcome to the Monkey House”
This discussion will be held at City Market’s Mezzanine level near the Tomilson Tap from 6-8pm. Enjoy a beer at The Tomilson Tap which will be open during discussion period!
October 25th stories are as follows:
All the Kings Horses
Who am I this time?
More Stately Mansions
Limited copies available at the Tube Factory artspace (contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for a copy) and for sale at The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Copies also available at your local library and your local book store.
Made possible by City SPARKet, a project of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program in partnership with Indianapolis City Market and the City of Indianapolis funded by Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces Heart of the Community program.

Alessandra Lynch, Natalie Solmer, and Sarah Miller Freehauf
2017-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
At this first gathering of The Round reading series, three awesome poets read their work, and you can enter a raffle to win a copy of Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment by Alessandra Lynch at the reading. Snacks are free. Drinks available for purchase.
ALESSANDRA LYNCH is the author of three books of poetry, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James Books, 2017), It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight (Pleiades/LSU Press, 2008), and Sails the Wind Left Behind (Alice James Books, 2002). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, jubilat, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts and Yaddo. She teaches at Butler University and lives in Indianapolis.
NATALIE SOLMER is founder and editor-in-chief of The Indianapolis Review. Her poems have appeared in Glass Poetry, Yes Poetry, Split This Rock, and elsewhere. She teaches at IUPUI, Ivy Tech, and Indiana Writers Center and lives in Speedway, Indiana.
SARAH MILLER FREEHAUF is the founding editor of Teenage Wasteland Review, assistant editor for Divedapper, and a reader for [PANK]. Her poems have appeared in Vinyl, The Offing, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere. She teaches English and creative writing in Indianapolis.

Ariana Reines
2017-10-21 13:00 - 15:00 | IN
Join us for a reading and talk with Ariana Reines. Named one of Flavorwire’s 100 best living writers and “a crucial voice of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt, Ariana Reines lives in Queens, mostly. Text from a Reines poem was used in the Larissa Hammond piece, Initiation. Hammond’s exhibit, The / a mind the b mind, is currently on display at Tube Factory. This event will mark the close of the exhibition. To ensure a seat, RSVP at email hidden; JavaScript is required
More about Ariana Reines:
Her books include The Cow (Alberta Prize, 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007); Mercury (2011), A Sand Book (2017), from FENCE, and The Origin of the World (2014) from Semiotext(e). TELEPHONE, her first play (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and received two Obie Awards; a Norwegian translation will premiere in Mollebyen, Norway in 2017. FRANCESCA, a play by Nathalie Rozanes based on writings & performances by Reines premiered at the National Theatre of Belgium in 2016. Other performance & theatrical works include: MORTAL KOMBAT (2015), commissioned by Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne & performed at The Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA, & Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA, and LORNA (2013) at Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York, USA, both in collaboration with Jim Fletcher, The Origin of the World (2013) at Modern Art, London UK, & many others. Art exhibitions include PUBIC SPACE (2016), a collaboration with Oscar Tuazon at Modern Art in London, UK, EXHAUST (2016) at Contemporary Art Tasmania, AU, and JANE DARK (2014) at Western Front, Vancouver, CA. Reines is the translator of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (Mal-O-Mar, 2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal:Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore(Semiotext(e) 2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (Semiotext(e) 2012). She has taught at Columbia University, the European Graduate School, NYU, Tufts, Naropa, The New School, & many other places. In 2009 she was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley. She astrologizes at lazyeyehaver.com.
This event is in partnership with University of Indianapolis and made possible by a grant through Indiana Humanities.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Nancy Chen Long
2017-10-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. October’s featured poet and writer is Nancy Chen Long.
Nancy Chen Long is the author of Light into Bodies, winner of the 2016 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (forthcoming, University of Tampa Press, 2017) and the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). She is the grateful recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. You’ll find her recent and forthcoming work in Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Crab Orchard Review, Zone 3, Briar Cliff Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Bat City Review, the Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, and elsewhere.
​As a volunteer with the local Writers Guild, Nancy coordinates a reading series and works with others to offer free poetry workshops to the public. To give back to the writing community at-large, she reviews poetry books and interview poets at the blog Poetry Matters, as well as on her blog nancychenlong.blogspot.com. She has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and an MBA, worked as an electrical engineer, software consultant, and project manager, and more recently earned an MFA. She works at Indiana University.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program
2017-10-13 15:30 - 16:30 | IN
Throughout Indiana, the Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program (NEP) works to improve the nutrition and health of audiences with limited resources.
We focus on five areas—nutrition, physical activity, food security, food safety and food resource management—and offer two major initiatives to communities, FREE of charge:
1. Nutrition Education/SNAP-Ed
Our NEP Assistants provide free nutrition education to youth and adults through schools and a variety of community groups. Our research-based programming is fun, hands-on and easy to understand. The highly interactive lessons help participants:

Plan nutritious meals
Be active
Handle food safely
Spend food dollars wisely
Improve food purchasing and preparation skills

2. Community Wellness Coordinators
Our Community Wellness Coordinators help make the healthy choice the easy choice. They collaborate with community partners on broader community change that involves policy, system and environmental initiatives.
Ask about our work in:

Health coalitions
Community gardens
School and workplace wellness
Healthy corner stores
Trails and parks
Farm to school
Farmers markets
Active living
Food access
Food pantries

Target Audiences
The Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program serves:

SNAP recipients
Individuals with limited resources (youth, seniors, singles, homeless, migrants, families, single parents)
Schools with 50% or more free and reduced lunch
Communities with high poverty rates

Funding and Impact
NEP has existed in Indiana since 1994 as a part of Purdue Extension. We’re funded by two federal funding streams:

SNAP-Ed, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education Division
EFNEP, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

Danielle Graves:Days In
2017-10-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We all grow up dreaming of what we want to be when we grow up, I never wanted to be anything womanly. I was insecure, insulted and in the footsteps of my brother—I wanted to be just like him. I wanted to be a dirty, tree-whizzing-on boy, but life has since changed.
Over two years ago, I drew my first saggy breasted and bumpy legged burger—this burger babe helped me love my body and be secure with the woman that I am and the woman that I am becoming. She, amongst many other women I created, was crafted by the words that make up today’s pop culture. 50 Cent once told us that “she’s beautiful, she’s edible,” Adam Levine, amongst many other artists, call us “sugar,” “honey” and various other sweeteners or sweets, Instagram gives us a lengthy thread of “#foodporn” posts, while many other hot shots and online sites follow suit in dehumanizing and objectifying women.
My work personifies and reclaims these objectifications and has become a form of self-empowerment. It has shown me how to overcome and embrace the world and turn on the radiance that I never knew I had. It’s shown me the beauty in being a woman—the beauty in my mother—the beauty in the radical—the beauty in the breaking of preconceived femininity and the beauty of owning femininity. I want to celebrate my womanhood; thus, I present to you a show of my girls just being girls, Days In.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-09-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation II is the second installment that will cover basic and safe use of the jointer, planer, and table saw.
This 2-hour class will act as a refresher or as an orientation to our specific equipment models. Limited hands-on practice will accompany the demonstrations.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation I.
*If you are new to the table saw, jointer, and planer, please take Woodworking I which will cover these machines more in depth and include more hands-on practice.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$75
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

What's On Your Mind?
2017-09-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Gregg DeBoor
2017-09-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. September’s featured poet and writer is Gregg DeBoor.
Born a bastard adopted by poetry, Gregg DeBoor is an advocate for those who stay up late at night and never stop being good to what they love. He’s a fellow author on Chatter House Press after having published his first book Street Girls Have Guns. He is also the winner of the 2011 Indianapolis Grand Slam. In Gregg’s words, poetry (not sure if this the word you meant by “it’s”. If not, then we can change it.) is all about the inner monologue and trusting yourself to listen.
Gregg is a touring and spoken word performance artist. For the past three years he has toured throughout the Midwest and East Coast at some of the most prominent venues of today.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Woodworking I is an introduction to dimensioning wood- how to take rough sawn lumber and turn them into usable boards.
This 3-hour class will include demonstrations and discussion on wood selection, local suppliers, as well as limited hands-on practice with sample material at the end of the class.
Afew things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation Part I.
*Woodworking I covers these machines more in depth and includes more hands-on practice than Shop Safety and Orientation II. If you are totally new to the table saw, and jointer, this class is for you.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*$75
For more information or inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Belladonna of Sadness
2017-09-20 20:30 - 22:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci with J.R.R. Tolkien influences.
We will be discussing this film, the role witchcraft and superstition have played in gender roles throughout history, all in relation to our exhibit Larissa Hammond: the/ a mind the b mind.
The last film in the Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (ASTRO BOY and KIMBA THE WHITE LION), BELLADONNA unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. A young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is assaulted by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa’s RAN) who appears as a sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire.
Extremely transgressive, BELLADONNA is fueled by a mind-blowing Japanese psych rock soundtrack by noted avant-garde jazz composer Masahiko Satoh. The film has been newly restored by Cinelicious Pics using the original 35 mm camera negative and sound elements and including over 8 minutes of surreal footage cut from the negative. On par with Rene Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET and Ralph Bakshi’s WIZARDS as an LSD-stoked 1970s head trip, BELLADONNA marks a major rediscovery for animation fans. If Led Zeppelin had a favorite film, this would be it. In other words, Stairway to Hell.

Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Reading Series & Discussion
2017-09-20 18:00 - 20:00 | City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
In celebration of the Year of Vonnegut, Spark Placemaking in partnership with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is hosting a short story reading and discussion from the August to October. Each month a different story will be selected out of Kurt Vonnegut’s collection of short stories; “Welcome to the Monkey House”
Each discussion will be held at City Market’s Mezzanine level near the Tomilson Tap from 6-8pm. Enjoy a beer at The Tomilson Tap which will be open during discussion period!
Dates and stories are as follows:
September 20th:
Deer in the Works
Miss Temptation
Unready to Wear
Limited copies available at the Tube Factory artspace (contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for a copy) and for sale at The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Copies also available at your local library and your local book store.
Made possible by City SPARKet, a project of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program in partnership with Indianapolis City Market and the City of Indianapolis funded by Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces Heart of the Community program.

Oktoberfest Block Party Fundraiser
2017-09-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Enjoy Oktoberfest beer from Sun King Brewing Company while you help us raise the rest of the dollars we need to receieve a $50,000 match through Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority via Patronicity! They are matching every dollar we raise all night (and now through Sept. 15). You can donate by clicking here.
On Sept. 14, there’s no admission charge. We’ll have beer and other drink options available for purchase as well as sausage, pretzels and sweets on hand from our southside area to enjoy while you socialize and listen to the classic country sounds of The RoundUps and some special Rhinestone Country tunes live on 99.1 WQRT FM — one of the great things funded by this campaign. Have fun, play ping pong, foosball, Dick the Bruiser mini golf, check out some art, and help us celebrate crossing the finish line raising money for the community FM station, neighobrhood garden with Solful Gardens, LLC.,community tool shop and tool libary at Tube Factory artspace, and improved home base for neighborhood-focused artists.
Art, culture, and creativity are powerful drivers for inclusive and equitable, artist-led community development. With this project in our home neighborhood of Garfield Park, just south of Downtown Indianapolis, our team of artists, placemakers, and planners are working closely with the Garfield Park Neighbors Association and residents of all backgrounds to help revitalize this area along the Shelby Street corridor between bustling Fountain Square and the University of Indianapolis. We’re also teaming up with our neighbors in the Bean Creek Neighborhood Association just to our east, separated by I-65.

Monumental Dance Party with Meltface
2017-09-13 20:00 - 22:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Come dance your face off with DJ Melt Face and his legions of glamorous weirdos at the Monumental Dance Party. A dance party that is affordable (FREE) and accessible (in an open public space in the middle of the city) to all!
Cosplayers,hula hoopers, break dancers, furries, bronies, luchadors, young, old, basic or deluxe, everyone is welcome!
Brought to you by Project for Public Spaces in partnership with The City of Indianapolis

Ramps, Steps and Rails
2017-09-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Ramps, steps, and rails are important things for homeowners and skateboarders alike to know how to make. At Bottom Level Tool Shop you can learn how to make these over a series of classes and be part of a small crew who’ll help neighbors in need.
During the class you’ll build small skate and home items for Tube and elsewhere. By taking the class, offered free in exchange for your help, we’ll supply wood and hardware needed so you can also take what you make home for your own mini skate park or maybe to help around your house or the house of a neighbor of your choosing.
This class requires the prerequeisite Shop Safety class offered in the morning before this class. Shop safety usually has a cost but this is waived, also, with your commitment to help with this summer community home repair project we’re piloting at Big Car Collaborative with support from INHP.
