Events for Youth
Live the Questions
Julie Dash, Public Conversationalist
Who’s Who
Online Volunteer Registration
Dozens of festival events appeal to youth and young adults. Click Advanced Search on our homepage to search all 56 events by children (elementary), youth (middle/high school) and young adult (18-30). Selected events include the following:
- The Art & Soul of Peace Through Humor features an exhibit of artwork by Jewish, Arab, Bedouin, and Druze children. Educator and comedy writer Maureen Kushner shares images and stories about the project.
- Beyond Religious Stereotypes features young adults from American Indian, atheist, Bahá’í, Christian, and Jewish traditions talking about the impact of spirituality in everyday life.
- Pixelate: A Language of Patterns features music, food, and exhibits, including photographs created by youth from Indianapolis Public School 14, Herron High School, and Shepard Community, as well as youth from orphanages in India and Africa.
- The Power of Children: Imagine Kids Helping Kids offers youth ages 10-17 the chance to share ideas and learn from each other as they build community service plans for their own neighborhoods.
- Powered By Poetry—One Wild and Precious Life offers children the chance to play with poetry through sound and movement. Interactive performances by Susurrus Artistic Director Melli Hoppe will entertain and engage.
- Youth Imagine a Just, Sustainable, and Peaceful Community features the creative visions that local high school and congregational youth groups have for our world. Local panelists respond and the public is invited to share their own imaginative ideas.
Questions invite inquiry, stimulate conversation, and fling open the door of possibility. Consider:
Explore these questions and others and add your own queries!
Julie Dash, Public Conversationalist
Sunday, November 2, 2008, 2 p.m.
Clowes Memorial Hall
Julie Dash will join national religious leader Brian D. McLaren and author/essayist Richard Rodriguez in a spontaneous chat on Exploring Imagination during Spirit & Place’s free signature event, the annual Public Conversation (ticket info).
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Dash is a television and film producer, writer, and director. She has received numerous awards since embarking on her film career. “Daughters of the Dust,” released in 1992, was the first full-length general theatrical release by an African American woman. The film was honored as one of the most important cinematic achievements in Black cinema at the 25th Annual Newark Black Film Festival in 1999 and is now in the National Film Registry of The Library of Congress. Dash has also directed several television movies, including CBS Network’s “The Rosa Parks Story” and MTV’s “Love Song,” as well as music videos for numerous musical artists, including Keb’ Mo’, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Tracy Chapman, for whom she directed “Give Me One Reason." Read more… |
Also, see Julie Dash at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Imagining Place: A Conversation with Julie Dash and Joanna Haigood.
| This year’s festival features 120 authors and artists, poets and performers, civic and community leaders, professors and preachers, storytellers and scholars. Link to events that feature these fascinating people (A-D): |  |
- Doug Acheson, professor, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI
- Deborah Asante, artistic director, Asante Children’s Theatre
- Michael Atwood, WFYI host, “Across Indiana”
- Ida Benedetto, documentary photographer
- Dagrun Bennett, knitting artist
- Richard Brendan, president and founder, JourneysFire International
- Nan Brooks, storyteller / writer / actress / clergywoman
- Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, consultant / coach, Deep Shift
- Ted Celenko, head curator, African and South Pacific Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Marvin Chandler, jazz musician / preacher / lecturer
- Sally Childs-Helton, percussionist / ethnomusicologist / music educator, Butler University
- Steve Clapp, president, Christian Community / senior consultant, New Life Ministries / minister of development, Lincolnshire Church of the Brethren
- Ed Cohen, chair, Care for Creation Committee, Interfaith Alliance Indianapolis
- Woody Collins, founding member, Midwest Voices for Congo & Helping Hands Congo
- Julie Dash, film and television producer / writer / director
- Jim Diers, community liaison, University of Washington (Seattle)-Community Partnerships Instructor, Architecture and Social Work
- Rosa Maria Dies, artist
Online Volunteer Registration – New!
A new online registration process makes volunteering for Spirit & Place a snap! Sign up early to select your favorite events. Volunteers receive complimentary admission.
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