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Indy Toxic Heritage Public Conversation
Hosted by Indiana University Indianapolis’s Museum Studies Program, Indy Parks and Recreation, and the Kheprw InstituteJoin a public conversation about how environmental harm and advocacy are part of Indianapolis’s past, present, and future, and hear two members of the local creative community explore how storytelling can help address environmental harm.
Event Details
The Riverside Park Family Center hosts the exhibit Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power from September 17 through September 28. The exhibit explores how environmental harm and advocacy for justice are part of Indianapolis’s citywide past, present, and future.
In conjunction with the exhibit, organizers are holding a public conversation at the family center on the evening of September 26. As part of the conversation, photographer Wildstyle Paschall and journalist Enrique Saenz will share their work and talk about the power of storytelling to address the history of environmental harm.
Indy Toxic Heritage was developed by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Laura Holzman, Ben Clark, and Kay Hawthorne, in collaboration with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation and in conversation with people across the city.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. It will travel to additional Indy Parks locations in the coming months. Learn more at ToxicHeritage.com/ith-exhibit.
This program received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant and from the Indiana University Center for Translating Research into Practice.