Sr. Joan Chittister

Manning Marable

Angelo Pizzo

The Public Conversation is the signature event that launches the Spirit & Place Festival each year. The 2006 Public Conversation, will feature award-winning author and human rights champion Sr. Joan Chittister, Hoosier film writer/producer Angelo Pizzo, and scholar-author Manning Marable (who replaces Juan Williams). Indiana author Scott Russell Sanders will moderate a spontaneous exchange between these three notable individuals as they explore the 2006 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.

Visit our home page each day during the festival (November 3-19) for an updated listing of daily programs.

• Peace Hikes with Global Peace Initiatives. Meditation hikes, frolic hikes, and family hikes offer time to reconnect with ourselves and with nature.
   
• Extreme Homeless Makeover. See how a designer and a formerly homeless woman teamed up for the ultimate makeover challenge: no money!
   
• World of Tomorrow: The Future of Information, Communication and Innovation. Futurist Thomas Frey, Executive Director, Da Vinci Institute, explores what information will look like in the future, and how will we interact with it.
   
• The Journey of Man: A Human Odyssey. Learn about the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project, which is collecting 100,000 DNA samples from indigenous populations around the globe to help determine where we came from.
   
• Walking the Reconciliation Labryrinth: Choices and Healing. Walk a contemporary labyrinth designed by Clare Wilson of South Africa that allows two people to travel the labyrinth at the same time.
   
• Today! Making History and Re-Making Politics: The Green Bus vs. the White House. See a documentary about the 2002 Senate campaign of the late Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, which competed against heavily financed media.
   
• Fathoming Jonestown. Hear novelist Annie Dawid read from her current novel based on the events surrounding the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978.
   
• Almost Home: How We Live as We Age. Watch a film and discuss the relationship between parent and adult child as well as the role of care-giving.
   
• 6th Annual Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. See a wide variety of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) films for diverse audiences that inspire, educate, and entertain.
   
• Evening @ the House: Innovation in Networks. Learn how developing strong economies, human capital, and connectivity between the public, private, and government sectors can happen with innovative software technology.
   
• A Traditional Family: Fact or Fiction? See an art exhibit and short video, followed by a panel discussion and small group sessions that explore the challenges and issues facing diverse families.
   
• The Power of Story: A Transforming Look at Mental Health. Watch interactive theatre that presents real life stories gathered from mental health consumers, providers, friends, and family members.
   
• Innovative Adoption: Creating Family Traditions in a Multicultural Context. Explore the experience of families that adopt cross-racially and/or cross-culturally in this workshop.

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Want to get involved?
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To get involved, call
(317) 278-3623 or visit www.spiritandplace.org.

Click here to learn how your organization can get involved in the 2007 Festival. The theme is Living Generously. Applications for the 2007 festival are due
March 7, 2007.

The festival’s first-ever closing event, sponsored by the Liberty Fund, will take place on November 18, 7 p.m., at the Indiana History Center. Join us for a lively public discussion on Tradition versus Innovation? Arts and Mass Culture.

2007
Living Generously

2008
Exploring Imagination

2009
Inspiring Places

Spirit & Place
Advisory Board

Rabbi Sandy Sasso, Chair
Congregation Beth-El Zedeck

Karen Whitney, Vice Chair
Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Diversity and Dean of Students IUPUI

Judith Cebula, Secretary
Director of the Center for
Faith and Vocation
Butler University

Rev. Kevin Armstrong
Senior Pastor
North United Methodist Church

The Honorable Sarah Evans Barker
U.S. District Court, Southern District

Maria Blake
Director of Communications
Indianapolis-Marion County
Public Library

David J. Bodenhamer
Executive Director
The Polis Center at IUPUI

Janet Boston
Director of Marketing and Communications
Arts Council of Indianapolis

Michael G. Cartwright
Dean for Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs
University of Indianapolis

Simon Crookall
President and CEO
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Margot Eccles
Lacy Diversified Industries

Rev. Nancy Ferriani
Senior Associate Rector
Trinity Episcopal Church

Dianne Foglesong
Community Volunteer

Darrin Gray
Principle
Brandirect, Inc.

Jane Henegar
Former Deputy Mayor
City of Indianapolis

Scott Massey
President & CEO
Indiana Humanities Council

Rev. Kent Millard
Senior Pastor
St. Luke's United Methodist Church

Paula Parker-Sawyers
Executive Director
Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives
State of Indiana

Gail Plater
Assistant Dean
Development & External Affairs
IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

Joyce Sommers
Board Member Emeritus
President & CEO
Indianapolis Art Center

Lynn Youngblood
Board Member Emeritus
Senior Vice President & Provost
Emeritus
University of Indianapolis

Contact us at

www.spiritandplace.org

or

317.278.3623

Spirit & Place was awarded the 2001 Indiana Achievement Award.

Spirit & Place was awarded the 1999 NUVO Cultural Vision Award.

Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, and John Updike were the speakers at the very first Public Conversation in 1996.

The 2006 festival has over 80 programs presented by over 150 civic organizations.