Explore local black history and history makers or feast your eyes and ears on music, dance, and visual art!

• Glorious: The Next Level. A children's African American dance company expresses worship through dance.
   
• The Personal and Political Role of Hair in Black America. A dramatic vignette and panel discussion about the traditions and innovations in black hair culture.
   
• Sacred Arts: The African American Spiritual and the Gee’s Bend Quilts. A concert and lecture held amid fabulous fabric art.
   
• Black Culture, Black Life: African Americans in 20th Century Indianapolis. A discussion on African American institutions in Indianapolis that came to prominence in the early part of the 20th century.

• Welcome Back, Madam and May! An interactive drama about Madam C.J. Walker and May Wright Sewall.
   
• The Changing Face of America-The Power Mix of Money, Race & Age in the New Century with NPR correspondent Juan Williams.
   

Juan Williams is a senior correspondent for NPR's "Morning Edition," host of "America's Black Forum," a political analyst for Fox Television, and author of six books. In a 21-year career at The Washington Post, he served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House correspondent, winning several journalism awards for his writing and investigative reporting.

Juan Williams will appear with Sr. Joan Chittister and Angelo Pizzo at the 11th annual Public Conversation on November 5, 2006, 4 p.m., at Clowes Hall. Indiana author Scott Russell Sanders will moderate a spontaneous exchange between these three notable individuals as they explore the 2006 festival theme, Tradition & Innovation. For tickets to this free event, visit the Clowes Memorial Hall box office, Butler University, 4602 Sunset Avenue. Box office hours are 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–Friday, and 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Saturday. Group tickets can be reserved by calling Spirit & Place at (317) 278-3623.

On Monday, November 6, 10 a.m., Mr. Williams will speak on the The Changing Face of America-The Power Mix of Money, Race & Age in the New Century at IUPUI.

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Organizations interested in participating in the 2007 Spirit & Place Festival are invited to share ideas and explore the opportunities and issues within the 2007 theme, Living Generously, at one of three upcoming meetings:

• Marion County: October 18, 2006, 9 a.m.-noon, Ruth Lilly Library, Indianapolis Art Center, 820 E. 67th Street, Indianapolis, IN;
• Hamilton County: October 25, 2006, 9 a.m.-noon, Legacy Fund of Hamilton County, 515 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN;
• Johnson County: October 27, 2006, 1-4 p.m., Henderson Room, Johnson Fine Arts Center, Franklin College, Franklin, IN.

Please RSVP to (317) 278-3623 or gillesj@iupui.edu.