"I think Spirit & Place represents the best working model to come along in a long time for reviving the Chautauqua tradition of civic discourse."
?a Spirit & Place supporter

Spirit & Place Final Report 2002
Executive Summary

Bearing witness, speaking out, challenging assumptions: citizens and organizations engaged in active civic dialogue in response to Breaking Silence, the theme of the seventh annual Spirit & Place Festival, November 1-11, 2002. The festival featured 110 events, involved 115 partner institutions, spotlighted 136 speakers, panelists, and artists, and reached 29,000 citizens through live and broadcast events.

The Breaking Silence theme allowed the festival?s participants to encounter a variety of challenging topics creatively presented: faith and secularism, labor history and civil rights history, thoughtful responses to mental illness and domestic abuse, a celebration of Afro-Cuban music and dance, and much more. The theme invited audiences to consider alternative perspectives and to celebrate, or at times challenge, central Indiana?s spiritual, civic, and artistic traditions.

As described in the full report, the 2002 Festival:

Created greater ownership on the part of the community-at-large and partnering organizations. More and more organizations value Spirit & Place for its mission-enhancing ability.

Engaged more youth. The first annual Spirit & Place Youth Speak-Out attracted inner city youth and offered them a creative platform for contributing to a larger civic conversation.

Generated tangible outcomes, products, and transformations. The 2002 generated many outcomes, products, and relationships.

Spirit & Place was made possible by its partnering institutions?115 organizations representing the cultural, educational, and faith-based communities?as well as financial support from the Lilly Endowment Inc. and many individual donors.

To receive a full report on Spirit & Place 2002, covering the areas below, please e-mail Anne Laker.

Public Conversation

Programs

Partnerships

Products & Outcomes

Promotional Efforts

Fundraising & Development

Financial Statement