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SUMMARY:Palm Sunday Tornadoes Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:On April 11\, 1965\, one of the worst tornado outbreaks in U.S. history struck Indiana\, leaving paths of destruction in the central and northern parts of the state. \nHoward County was hit hard. Over the course of about 20 minutes\, a tornado leveled the towns of Russiaville and Alto and killed 13 people in and around Greentown in the eastern part of the county. Across Indiana\, 137 people lost their lives. \nIn recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Palm Sunday tornadoes\, the Greentown Historical Society presents an exhibit about the destruction the tornadoes caused\, the impact they had\, and the recovery efforts. Through text\, photos\, and artifacts\, the exhibit tells the stories of Greentown residents who were affected and their resilience in rebuilding the community. \nThe Palm Sunday tornadoes exhibit is on view at the Greentown Historical Society through December 6. The historical society is open Mondays and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. \nFor more information\, email office@greentownhistoricalsociety.org or call 765.628.3800. \nThis program received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/palm-sunday-tornadoes-exhibit/
LOCATION:Greentown Historical Society History Center\, 103 E. Main St.\, Greentown\, IN\, 46936
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251101T200000
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SUMMARY:Windows into History: Discovering Columbia City's Past
DESCRIPTION:Columbia City Connect invites you to explore the stories behind the storefronts with Windows into History. This new downtown experience features eye-catching window displays highlighting historic people\, places\, and events from Columbia City’s past. \nEach display includes a QR code linking to a digital walking tour of downtown\, where you can dive deeper into photos\, audio\, and untold stories. \nWindows into History runs from May 3 to November 1\, 2025. Throughout its run\, be sure to look for in-person guided tours and events. You can find details on Columbia City Connect’s website. \nFor more information\, email Niki Keister at niki@columbiacityconnect.com. \nThis program received support from a Historic Preservation Education Grant awarded by Indiana Humanities and Indiana Landmarks.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/windows-into-history-discovering-columbia-citys-past-2/
LOCATION:Downtown Columbia City\, 108 S. Chauncey St.\, Columbia City\, IN\, 46725
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Columbia City Connect":MAILTO:niki@columbiacityconnect.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Zine Machine Launch Party at Tomorrow Bookstore!
DESCRIPTION:Zine Machine is a new lit mag and actual zine-vending machine! Celebrate Zine Machine’s official launch at Tomorrow Bookstore with DIY zines\, treats\, and prizes. Superfans will be wearing our signature shade of “Cosmic Pink.”\n\nNEW: Local zine makers are invited to contribute a zine to the vending machine! Bring a 1-page mini zine (max folded dimensions 4.25″ x 2.75″). Zine Machine will pay $1 per zine (max 5) and add your zine/s to the “Local Legends” section of the vending machine. \nMore about Zine Machine: zinemachine.com
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/zine-machine-launch-party-at-tomorrow-bookstore/
LOCATION:Tomorrow Bookstore\, 882 Massachusetts Ave\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:The Book Fairy at Proof
DESCRIPTION:The Book Fairy (AKA Sylvia—a gutted 1965 Avion trailer) is a mobile kid’s bookstore with a big heart and an even bigger mission: to bring books and the joy of reading directly to children and families. \nFollow along at: @thebookfairyindy | thebookfairyindy.com/
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-book-fairy-at-proof/
LOCATION:Indiana Humanities\, 1500 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Arriel Vinson and Leah Johnson
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors\n\n\nArriel Vinson is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young\, Black\, and in search of freedom. She earned her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry\, fiction\, and essays have appeared in Kweli Journal\, Catapult\, The Rumpus\, Waxwing\, and others. Arriel is a Tin House YA Scholar\, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient\, and 2020 Walter Grant recipient. Under the Neon Lights\, a YA novel-in-verse\, is her debut. You can connect with her on social media at @arriwrites and find her work at www.arriwrites.com.  \n Leah Johnson (she/her) is an eternal Midwesterner and author of award-winning books for children and young adults. Her bestselling debut YA novel\, You Should See Me in a Crown\, was a Stonewall Honor Book\, was the inaugural Reese’s Book Club YA pick\, and named one of TIME‘s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. She is also the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Ellie Engle Saves Herself and editor of the USA Today bestselling middle grade anthology Black Girl Power\, among others. When she’s not writing\, you can find her at Loudmouth Books\, her Indianapolis-based independent bookstore that specializes in highlighting the work of marginalized authors and uplifting banned or challenged books. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversation-with-arriel-vinson-and-leah-johnson/
LOCATION:Sanctuary at Redeemer Presbyterian Church\, 1505 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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CREATED:20250925T160640Z
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SUMMARY:To Be a Bookfluencer: Building Online Literary Communities
DESCRIPTION:Join two Indianapolis-based social media influencers whose reach extends far beyond the Midwest for a conversation about online literary communities. Nathan Shuherk (@schizophrenicreads) and Sydney Adams (@sydsydbookworrom_) have built followings of avid readers online and will share insights into these virtual literary communities during this conversation moderated by Julia Breakey of Tomorrow Bookstore.   \nAbout the panelists\nSydney Adams is a Neuro ICU trauma nurse in downtown Indianapolis and bookish content creator online under “Syd BookWorrom”. She loves reading\, gaming\, writing\, and over caffeinating. When she finds free time\, she’s usually with her husband and their three rescues.  \nNathan Shuherk is a nonfiction book reviewer on social media under the username @schizophrenicreads. He’s currently an MFA student at Butler University and working on his first book. He lives in Broad Ripple.  \nJulia Breakey is the co-owner and Head Buyer at Tomorrow Bookstore\, an independent bookstore in downtown Indianapolis. Prior to running a bookstore\, Julia was a filmmaker and video editor – and helped build the video studio and team at Young & Laramore. She has also worked as a digital media writer for Memeburn and production assistant at Farm Films. Julia holds a degree in Film & Media Studies with a specialization in screen production from the University of Cape Town.  
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/to-be-a-bookfluencer-building-online-literary-communities/
LOCATION:Speck Gallery\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:Sacred Stories: Writing About Spirituality For Children
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation With Rabbi Sandy Sasso And Dr. Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds \n\nJoin Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Dr. Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds for a dynamic conversation on how to write meaningfully about spirituality for children. The conversation will explore how storytelling can open up spiritual imagination\, foster empathy\, and help young readers engage with life’s big questions. Parents\, educators\, writers\, and anyone interested in faith\, storytelling\, and the inner lives of children are welcome to join the conversation. The program will be followed by book sales and a signing by Rabbi Sasso.  \nSandy Eisenberg Sasso is Rabbi Emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis where she served from 1977 to 2013. She was the second woman ever to become a rabbi in the United States and was the first to be ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1974. She recently retired as the director of the Religion\, Spirituality\, and the Arts Initiative at Herron School of Art and Design at IUI. Rabbi Sasso is a past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association\, Gleaner’s Food Bank\, and a past chair of the Spirit and Place Festival. She serves on numerous boards including Indiana Humanities and is a co-founder of Women4Change Indiana. Rabbi Sasso has been honored as one of the “Influential Women in Indiana” by the Indianapolis Business Journal and was featured among “Indy’s Most Influential Clergy” by NUVO News Weekly. She is the recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash\, Touchstone Award from Girls\, Inc.\, Heritage Keepers Award from the Indiana State Museum\, and the Spirit of the Prairie Award from Conner Prairie Interactive Park. The author of many articles and nationally acclaimed children’s books\, Rabbi Sasso is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a 2018 recipient of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. She is active in the civic and interfaith communities. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Temple University and her D.Min. from the Christian Theological Seminary.  \nJoseph L. Tucker Edmonds\, PhD is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (CSRAAC). Joseph received his AB with Honors in Economics and Religious Studies from Brown University in 2000\, the Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York\, and the PhD in Religion and Modernity from Duke University. His research addresses the intersection between Black religion and the body\, with a particular focus on agency\, care and wellness.  He is an award-winning teacher and a nationally recognized scholar on community-engaged research. Dr. Tucker Edmonds’ research team was recently awarded a $5-million grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore “Black Humanities in the Midwest” by creating a series of collaborative\, community-embedded research labs throughout Indiana. He has written The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom and scholarly articles that explore Black religion\, radical pedagogy\, and community-engaged methodologies. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/sacred-stories-writing-about-spirituality-for-children/
LOCATION:Indiana Humanities\, 1500 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Bernardo Wade and Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors\n\nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Bernardo Wade tries at poems\, catches elbows on the court\, and wanders around the Bay—occasionally on Stanford’s campus as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Previously the editor of Indiana Review\, he now serves as assistant editor and poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of\, they remain proud of him\, especially when they are featured in the poems. His first full-length poetry collection\, A Love Tap\, is forthcoming from Lookout Books of UNC-Wilmington. He’s infatuated with Ed Roberson’s question\, “Can you O.D. on life?”  \n Awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, the 2023 Third Coast Poetry Prize\, and the Academy of American Poets’ Vera Strube Poetry Prize\, Bernardo has words in The Nation\, The Sewanee Review\, Crazyhorse\, Black Warrior Review\, Guernica\, Cincinnati Review\, Southern Review\, Ecotone\, and elsewhere.   \n Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller\, Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights\, was released in September 2023.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversation-with-bernardo-wade-and-ross-gay/
LOCATION:Sanctuary at Redeemer Presbyterian Church\, 1505 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251012T160000
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SUMMARY:Feast of the Hunters' Moon
DESCRIPTION:The Feast of the Hunters’ Moon is a re-creation of the annual fall gathering of the French and Native Americans that took place at Fort Ouiatenon\, a fur-trading outpost in the mid-1700s. The Feast is held annually in early autumn on the banks of the Wabash River\, four miles southwest of West Lafayette\, Indiana. \nThousands of participants reenact this event\, creating a feast for the senses. Free programming is held on five stages and includes French and Native American music and dance\, fife and drum corps performances\, military drills and demonstrations\, fashion shows\, games\, and contests. Special hands-on activities include costume try-ons\, candle-dipping\, storytelling\, bead bracelet making\, cross-cut sawing\, and axe throwing. \nFeast organizers are partnering with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to present “Returning to the Homeland: Miami Tribe at the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon.” Throughout the Feast\, tribe members will present on their heritage and share details about present-day Miami culture. \nHours are Saturday\, October 11\, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT\, and Sunday\, October 12\, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT. Information on tickets\, shuttle buses and programming is available at www.feastofthehuntersmoon.org. \nFor more information\, contact feast@tippecanoehistory.org. \nThe Miami Tribe’s appearance at the Feast received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/feast-of-the-hunters-moon-3/
LOCATION:Fort Ouiatenon Historic Park\, 3129 S. River Rd.\, West Lafayette\, IN\, 47906
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T103000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250915T134356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T170258Z
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SUMMARY:Local Writers Morning Mixer\, supported by Butler MFA
DESCRIPTION:Are you a local writer? Meet up with other writers over a light breakfast of coffee and doughnuts. Share your work\, make new friends\, and help build literary connections in Indianapolis. This is event is supported by Butler MFA.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/local-author-mixer-proof-2025/
LOCATION:Indiana Humanities\, 1500 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T160000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250917T151259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T145318Z
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SUMMARY:Playing with Words (Beyond Scrabble)
DESCRIPTION:The City Gallery will include a free-to-borrow-and-play library of literary- and word-focused board and card games. Not familiar with these? Lou Harry\, game concierge of the weekly Game Night Social at the Garage Food Hall (and others)\, will be happy to teach them to players. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/playing-with-words-beyond-scrabble/
LOCATION:City Gallery\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T160000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Letters to Dead Authors
DESCRIPTION:Ever wish you had the opportunity to talk with literary legends no longer with us? Stop by Loudmouth Books during Proof to participate in a Letters to Dead Authors activity\, imagined by Indiana author Kelcey Ervick. Pick up your postcard\, write a note\, and send it to the beyond!  \nKelcey will be available to chat about the activity and sign books from 3 to 4 pm at Loudmouth. Kelcey is the author of four award-winning books\, including the graphic memoir The Keeper. She writes and draws stories about the creative life in her illustrated newsletter\, The Habit of Art\, and has recently launched a new publication\, Letters to Dead Authors & Artists. She is a professor of creative writing at Indiana University South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River.   \nIndiana Authors Award winner Barb Shoup and Hoosier writer Robyn Ryle will also be there at 3 pm to sign copies of their books.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/letters-to-dead-authors/
LOCATION:Loudmouth Books\, 212 E 16th St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250918T130706Z
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SUMMARY:Found Poetry and Collage
DESCRIPTION:Unleash your imagination and create your own found poetry out of magazines\, letters\, photographs\, newspapers\, markers\, stickers\, and more at this hands-on station!
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/found-poetry-and-collage/
LOCATION:Lawn at Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250918T132817Z
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SUMMARY:A Midwest Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Bookstores\n\nThe Book Fairy\nEach Other’s Books\nGolden Hour Books\nIndy Reads\nIrvington Vinyl and Books\nKids Ink Children’s Bookstore\nLoudmouth Books\nTomorrow Bookstore\nUjamaa Community Bookstore\n\nLiterary organizations\n\nBooth\nBrick Street Poetry\nButler MFA\nDogwood Alchemy\nHamilton East Public Library\nIndianapolis Public Library\nIndiana FREADOM to Read\nIndiana Writers Center\nIndy Type Shop\nKismet Magazine\nKurt Vonnegut Museum and Library\nMichiana Writers Center\nMidwest Writers Workshop\nThe New Territory Magazine\nRay Bradbury Center\nRiver Teeth\nSarabande Books\nSpeed City Sisters in Crime\n\nStationery and more\n\nhello & handshake\nTea’s Me
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/book-fair/
LOCATION:Gym at Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T113000
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SUMMARY:Midwestern Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays\, two memoirs (Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood)\, and essays in magazines such as Brevity\, Creative Nonfiction\, Fourth Genre\, and Iron Horse Literary Review. A 2020 NEA Fellow and senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative\, she teaches at Ball State University.  \nAcamea Deadwiler is the author of the memoir Daddy’s Little Stranger\, which has been featured by Literary Hub\, The Creative Nonfiction Podcast\, and deemed “arresting” by The BookLife Prize. Her writing has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review\, North American Review\, Beyond Words Literary Magazine\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Randolph College—where she was awarded a Blackburn Fellowship. Acamea’s books have also been lauded by Publishers Weekly and Cosmopolitan\, among other media outlets. She is a native of Gary\, Indiana.  \nMelissa Fraterrigo is the author of the memoir in essays\, The Perils of Girlhood (University of Nebraska Press\, 2025) and also the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017) and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press\, 2006). Her fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and The Massachusetts Review to storySouth and Notre Dame Review. She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions\, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards\, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and in the MFA Program in creative writing at Butler University in Indianapolis. She also offers instruction on the art and craft of writing at the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette\, Indiana. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/midwest-memoir-proof-2025/
LOCATION:Speck Gallery\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:The Literary Social Life: A History of the Indianapolis Woman's Club
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the unique history of the Indianapolis Propylaeum and the Indianapolis Woman’s Club\, founded in 1875. The purpose of the Indianapolis Woman’s Club was\, and remains\, the exchange of ideas through presentation and discussion of papers. Learn more about how this historic building has been a space to gather and explore literature for generations of women before we kick off a day of literary conversations during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest.  \n Rose Wernicke began her writing endeavors exploring “The Farmland Opera House: Culture\, Identity\, and the Corn Contest” in her master’s thesis. She is interested in architectural and women’s history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work includes National Register nominations\, articles for Traces magazine\, and papers for the Indianapolis Woman’s Club.  \n 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-literary-social-life-a-history-of-the-indianapolis-womans-club/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250912T175104Z
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SUMMARY:Cracks in the Concrete: Documentary Poetics in the Face of Injustice with Teresa Dzieglewicz 
DESCRIPTION:In this generative workshop\, we’ll explore the ways that documentary poetics can be used to crack open\, broaden\, or crumble official narratives—especially in situations of injustice. When systems and institutions tell one type of story\, what power can poetry claim? What unique roles can poetry play? Guided by the work of poets such as Solmaz Sharif\, Layli Long Soldier\, and Jenny Molberg\, we’ll experiment with different approaches to documentary poetics and write our own poems of fuller and richer truth. \nIf you have an idea of a document you might like to work with (news articles\, court filings\, political speeches\, police statements\, etc.)\, please feel free to bring it to the workshop (physical copies are fantastic\, but digital is good too). If not\, come with thoughts about an issue or situation you’d like to explore in your work. \nAbout the Author\nTeresa Dzieglewicz is a poet\, educator\, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute\, a poet-in-residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River\, was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, cowritten with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, a Best New Poets honor\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/cracks-in-the-concrete-documentary-poetics-in-the-face-of-injustice-with-teresa-dzieglewicz/
LOCATION:Underground at the Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading with MARS. Marshall\, Too Black\, and Sylvia Thomas
DESCRIPTION:MARS. Marshall is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts for the African Diaspora\, Michigan Quarterly Review: The Mixtape\, Foglifter Journal\, Gertrude Press\, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook\, FLOWER BOI\, is available via Gold Line Press. \nToo Black is a poet\, scholar\, organizer\, and filmmaker who blends critical analysis with biting sarcasm. He’s headlined various stages and events\, including at the historic Nuyorican [NEW-yo-REE-kan] Poets Café in New York City\, at Princeton University\, and at the Johannesburg Theater in South Africa. He’s the co-author of the book Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death\, People\, Property\, and Profits. His words have been published in online publications such as Black Agenda Report\, Hammer and Hope\, Mondoweiss [MON-doh-WHICE]\, and Hood Communist. Too Black is the host of the Black Myths Podcast\, a podcast debunking the BS said about Black people. He’s also the co-director of the award-winning documentary film The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up. \nSylvia Thomas is an artist and writer from Indianapolis. Her work focuses on sex\, gender\, grief\, and euphoria. Over the last 10 years\, she has exhibited and performed her work across North America and Europe\, including the 2025 CLAVO art fair in Mexico City and a presentation for the United Nations Envoy on Youth in 2021. Sylvia is a long-term artist in residence for Big Car Collaborative\, a 2024–25 Creative Renewal Arts Fellow through the Indy Arts Council\, and a recipient of the 2023 Indianapolis Creative Risk Grant through the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/poetry-reading-with-mars-marshall-too-black-and-sylvia-thomas/
LOCATION:Harrison Gallery\, 1505 N Delaware St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250924T160742Z
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SUMMARY:Indiana Authors Awards Writing Workshops: Rosaleen Crowley at Tipton Co. Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Art Journaling: Exploring Sense of Space lead by Rosaleen Crowley \nThis interactive workshop encourages you to interpret your own thoughts and feelings about the places that shape you. Using words\, images\, and artistic expression\, you’ll reflect on what “home” and “belonging” mean in your own life. While blank pages will be provided\, participants are welcome to bring their favorite writing tools and personal journals for writing\, drawing\, or doodling in response to the workshop activities. \nWhether you’re an experienced artist or writer\, or simply curious about creative self-expression\, this workshop offers a welcoming space to explore your relationship with place through the powerful combination of art and words.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/indiana-authors-awards-writing-workshops-rosaleen-crowley-at-tipton-co-public-library/
LOCATION:Tipton County Public Library\, 127 E Madison St\, Tipton\, IN\, 46072\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Authors Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T123000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Magical Realism as a Vessel for Marginalized Voices
DESCRIPTION:Magical Realism—a genre often associated with Latin American literature that combines the magical with the mundane—has been leveraged to write about sociopolitical topics for decades. From authors like Gabriel Garcia Márquez highlighting the struggles of post colonialism and the two worlds that Latine folk must navigate to Isabel Allende’s eloquent takes on feminism\, the genre is no stranger to providing a unique voice to groups of people who often go unheard. In recent years\, Magical Realism has opened up to include many other marginalized voices. From Toni Morrison’s vivid and heartbreaking tales of being Black in America\, to Aimee Bender’s stories about the suffocating silence that often comes with girlhood\, we are seeing the genre take on new shapes. In this workshop\, we’ll dive into the ways that Magical Realism is seamlessly political and write our own works that use magic as a way to give our characters a voice that can be heard by all.   \n About the Author\nTéa Franco is a writer based in Indianapolis. She has fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction published in Barrelhouse\, Barren Magazine\, Foglifter\, and others. She coedited Kiss Your Darlings: A Taylor Swift Anthology and teaches creative writing workshops. Her first novel\, You Could Be That Kind of Girl\, was published last year. She received a travel grant from the Central Indiana Community Foundation to conduct research in Puerto Rico\, where her family is from. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/magical-realism-as-a-vessel-proof-2025/
LOCATION:Indiana Humanities\, 1500 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T140000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Paws to Read
DESCRIPTION:Younger readers (and attendees of all ages) are invited to practice their reading skills with canine companions on the lawn at the Harrison Center. Paws to Read volunteers and their trained therapy dogs will be onsite and ready to hear your stories! \nPaws to Read programs\, an initiative of Paws & Think\, are held at schools and libraries in central Indiana and offer young people the opportunity to connect with therapy dogs while practicing their reading skills. The organization also takes part in literacy fairs and community events to inspire a love of reading beyond the classroom. Research shows that therapy dogs can help to reduce anxiety as well as improve focus and attention span. Therapy dogs serve as a calm presence and allow children to work to improve literacy\, comprehension\, and communication with a nonjudgmental listener.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/paws-to-read/
LOCATION:Lawn at Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:The Craft of Crime Writing
DESCRIPTION:Join a stellar panel of award-winning Midwestern crime writers for a conversation on the craft of writing a good mystery\, moderated by Shamus Award-winning author James D.F. Hannah. \nAbout the panelists\nValerie (V. M.) Burns is an Agatha\, Anthony\, Edgar\, and Next Generation Award Finalist. She is the author of the Mystery Bookshop\, Dog Club\, RJ Franklin\, Baker Street Mystery\, and Bailey the Bloodhound mystery series. Valerie is a member of Crime Writers of Color\, Sisters in Crime\, Mystery Writers of America\, Dog Writers of America\, Thriller Writers International\, and the Crime Writers Association. Valerie has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University\, a master’s degree in business from the University of Notre Dame\, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Seton Hill University. In addition to writing\, Valerie works as a manager at a call center and is also a mentor in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA Program at Seton Hill University in Greensburg\, Pennsylvania. Born and raised in northwest Indiana\, Valerie now lives in northern Georgia with her two poodles. \nLori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award–nominated and Agatha\, Anthony\, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Wreck Your Heart (forthcoming January 2026)\, The Death of Us\, Death at Greenway\, The Lucky One\, Under a Dark Sky\, and others. Lori earned a master of arts degree in creative nonfiction and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing. She lives in Chicago\, where she cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com. \nErin Flanagan is the author of two short-story collections and three novels\, including Deer Season\, winner of the 2022 Edgar for Best First Novel\, and the most recent Come with Me. She has held fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Ucross Foundation and has been awarded two Individual Excellence Grants from the Ohio Arts Council. She is a board member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest chapter\, a regular book reviewer for Publishers Weekly\, and an English professor at Wright State University. For more information about her and her writing\, visit www.erinflanagan.net. \nJames D.F. Hannah is the Shamus Award–winning author of the Henry Malone series\, including the novels Because the Night and Behind the Wall of Sleep. His short fiction has twice been selected for Best American Mysteries and Suspense by series editor Steph Cha and guest editors Jess Walter in 2022 and Don Winslow in 2025. His work has received multiple Anthony Award nominations and appeared in publications including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Vautrin\, as well as anthologies edited by Tod Goldberg\, S.A. Cosby\, and Lawrence Block. He lives in Louisville\, Kentucky\, where all the bourbon is. \nLarry D. Sweazy is the author of 19 novels\, one short-story collection\, and 40 short stories. He is a two-time recipient of the WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur Award and a four-time recipient of the Will Rogers Medallion Award. His writing has also been recognized with awards from the Best Books of Indiana literary competition\, the Elmer Kelton Book Award\, the Willa Literary Award\, and the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award. He has been shortlisted for the Indiana Authors Award two times and has been a finalist for several national writing awards. His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\, The Adventure of the Missing Detective\, Hoosier Noir\, Boys’ Life\, Hardboiled\, and several other publications and anthologies. Larry lives in Noblesville\, Indiana\, with his wife\, Rose\, where he is hard at work on his next story.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-craft-of-crime-writing/
LOCATION:Speck Gallery\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Literary Landscapes of the Midwest
DESCRIPTION:This panel will feature a conversation about Midwestern literature that travels widely through time and space—beginning with hyperlocal experience and building toward a larger mosaic of the diverse stories we tell about our region. Panelists have all contributed to The New Territory’s Literary Landscapes series\, which publishes short personal essays about the places of Midwestern literature.  \nAbout the panelists\nDawn Burns is thoroughly Midwestern\, having lived their whole life in Indiana\, Ohio\, and Michigan. Often their characters are Midwestern too\, like Evangelina from Elkhart in Evangelina Everyday (2022) and Dawn Tempers from Hanna\, Indiana\, in their genre-bending novel A Green Glow on the Horizon: Tales from the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors (forthcoming 2026).  \n  Burns’s MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame prepared them for a lifetime of writing\, creative community building\, and teaching. Burns is founder of the SwampFire Retreat for Writers and Artists and a recipient of excellence awards from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the Ohio Arts Council. An assistant professor at Michigan State University\, Burns is committed to writing and storytelling as acts of personal and social change both in and beyond the classroom. You can find Burns online at www.dawnburns42.com.  \nOlga L. Herrera is associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul\, Minnesota.  Her research and teaching interests include literary Chicago\, Latinx literature\, and city studies. She is at work on a project examining coming-of-age stories in the work of Richard Wright\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Sandra Cisneros.   \nLeah Milne is the author of Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives\, winner of the 2021 Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award. Her co-authored book\, The Honeyfish Collective Presents Fieldnotes on Contemporary Black Poetry\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She teaches multicultural American literature at the University of Indianapolis\, and her work has appeared in MELUS\, African American Review\, Newsweek\, and Ms. Magazine.  \nAndy Oler wrote Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature (2019) and edited Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (forthcoming 2025)\, Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell\, and Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Midwestern Places (2018). He is Departments Editor for The New Territory magazine\, where he founded and edits the online series Literary Landscapes. He teaches writing and literature classes in Florida\, which is further from the Midwest than he’d like.  \nRoss K. Tangedal is associate professor of English and director/publisher of the Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. The author or editor of several books\, articles\, and chapters on American literature\, including The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave\, 2021)\, Editing the Harlem Renaissance\, edited with Joshua Murray (Clemson UP\, 2021)\, and Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell\, edited with Andy Oler and Lisa DeRose (Michigan State University Press\, 2023)\, his forthcoming books include Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West (University of Nevada Press)\, edited with Douglas Sheldon\, and The Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald\, edited with Helen Turner and Philip McGowan. He has served as an associate volume editor for the Hemingway Letters Project since 2018\, and he is currently developing a multivolume edition of the Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald with Jennifer Nolan. He lives in Stevens Point\, Wisconsin\, with his wife\, CJ\, and their three kids: Adeline\, Hazel\, and Charles. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/literary-landscapes-of-the-midwest/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading with Rosalie Moffett\, Kristine Esser Slentz\, and Teresa Dzieglewicz
DESCRIPTION:Rosalie Moffett is the author of Making a Living (Milkweed\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, New England Review\, Narrative\, Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. She is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \nKristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent\, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder\, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman\, depose (FlowerSong Press\, 2021\, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House\, 2026). She is a TEDx participant and regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post\, and her work has also appeared in TriQuarterly\, Five Points\, and elsewhere. Kristine is the cofounder\, organizer\, and host of Adverse Abstraction\, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision\, a stage production that is currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s DADA and that has just completed a second run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes. \nTeresa Dzieglewicz is a poet\, educator\, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute\, a poet-in-residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, cowritten with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, a Best New Poets honor\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/poetry-reading-with-rosalie-moffett-teresa-dzieglewicz/
LOCATION:Harrison Gallery\, 1505 N Delaware St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250915T133220Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Memories: A Family Write-in
DESCRIPTION:Join author Katherine Higgs-Coulthard for this fun writing session for the whole family. Families will collaborate to write a story about a specific experience using guided prompts\, including making neighborhood maps and labeling the site of important memories. \nAbout the Author\nKatherine Higgs-Coulthard graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha with a bachelor’s degree in education\, earned a master’s degree from Indiana University South Bend\, and completed her doctorate in education through Northeastern University. She has taught kindergarten\, third grade\, and fifth grade. Now she trains teachers at Saint Mary’s College and offers writing camps and classes for children and teens through the Michiana Writers’ Center. She lives in Michigan and loves spending time with her family.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/mapping-memories-proof-2025/
LOCATION:Underground at the Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250918T131109Z
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SUMMARY:Storytime with Janna Matthies
DESCRIPTION:About the Author\nJanna Matthies’s early years consisted of inventing stories on her cassette recorder\, practicing piano and violin (preferably by moonlight)\, and searching the garden for additions to her bug collection. Today she’s a picture book author and early-elementary music teacher in Indianapolis\, where her gardening interests have turned to flowers and veg. \nForthcoming titles include Baby\, Let’s Go to the Orchestra (Creative Editions\, 2025). Other titles are Over in the Garden (Random House Children’s Books\, 2025); My Towering Tree (Beach Lane/S&S\, 2024); Here We Come! (Beach Lane Books/S&S\, 2022)\, which earned a 2024 Indiana Authors Award\, a Horn Book starred review\, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection; God’s Always Loving You (WorthyKids\, 2021); Two Is Enough (Running Press Kids/Hachette)\, which made the Bank Street list and New York Times Book Review; The Goodbye Cancer Garden (Albert Whitman)\, which earned a School Library Journal starred review\, Best Foreign Children’s Book at the Sharjah International Book Fair\, and inclusion in the CCBC Choices list; Peter\, The Knight With Asthma (Albert Whitman); and Monster Trucks (Piggy Toes Press). \nJanna is represented by Rachel Orr of Prospect Agency. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and is a longtime participant in the Indiana SCBWI. She also edits the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Teddy Bear Concert picture book series. When she’s not reading\, writing\, singing\, or gardening\, you’ll find Janna on long walks with her family and howling husky\, Juneau.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/storytime-with-janna-matthies/
LOCATION:Lawn at Harrison Center\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T143000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250915T135052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T143249Z
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SUMMARY:Real Life\, Reimagined Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Supported by: hello & handshake \nConversations\, place details\, characteristics\, moments we can’t forget: these real-life happenings are all fodder for fiction. Join us to boldly reimagine the real as its own transformed narrative\, filling a space on the page where we\, as writers\, get to control the outcomes and endings—not to mention the beginnings.   \nAbout the Author\nSarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2023)\, The Story I Tell Myself About Myself\, winner of the 2017 Sonder Press Chapbook Competition\, and Trip Through Your Wires (Engine Books\, 2015)\, a novel. She is coauthor with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023). Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review\, Stone Canoe\, Blackbird\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2020\, Welcome to the Neighborhood\, and Sudden Flash Youth\, and elsewhere. Her recent nonfiction work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Newsweek\, Poets & Writers\, Salon\, River Teeth\, The Millions\, and Identity Theory. She is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/real-life-reimagined-workshop/
LOCATION:Indiana Humanities\, 1500 N Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T143000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250918T132333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T145135Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During this workshop\, children are invited to engage in storytelling and creative expression by reading Listen to Our Future: Toy Drive\, discussing key themes and character actions\, and creating their own zine to craft a personal story. \nListen to Our Future Inc. is a youth empowerment organization dedicated to equipping young people with the tools\, confidence\, and opportunities they need to succeed. Founded by Lillian Barkes and Brandon Street\, LTOF is a BIPOC-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit inspired by social movements and rooted in the belief that youth voices must be at the center of change. By blending personal empowerment with collective effort\, we strive to create lasting social change in Indianapolis and beyond.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/zine-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251011T150000
DTSTAMP:20260731T214502
CREATED:20250918T132035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T135204Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club Indy Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Need a break from the festival bustle? Or maybe you’ve purchased a book you can’t wait to crack open? Silent Book Club Indy offers introverts and extroverts alike a space to silently read and chat about books. Bring what you’re currently reading—there’s no book assignment! From 1 to 3 pm you can meet up with the people behind Silent Book Club Indy\, who host monthly silent reading events all over Indianapolis. Learn more about SBCIndy\, participate in a book swap\, or just sit and read. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase from Foundry Provisions.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/silent-book-club-indy-meetup/
LOCATION:Foundry Provisions\, 236 E 16th St\, Indianapolis\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:Censorship: A Conversation on Voice\, Artistic Risk and Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Artists have always pushed boundaries—only to face backlash\, bans\, or erasure. From books and films to music and visual art\, censorship continues to shape what stories get told and who gets to tell them. This panel explores how creative expression collides with cultural norms\, political power\, and the evolving lines of public acceptability. \nAbout the panelists\nEbony Chappel is an award-winning multimedia journalist\, business owner\, certified community health worker\, and nonprofit leader. She’s known for making high-level decisions\, appropriately allocating resources\, and delegating responsibilities to maximize productivity and achieve strategic business goals. \nChappel currently serves as director of brand and community strategy for Free Press Indiana\, a nonprofit on a mission to ensure that residents of Indiana have local news that is anchored in and reflective of the needs of the communities they serve. She also works as a freelance writer and media personality with several media outlets\, including Indy Maven\, Pattern magazine\, and Urban One. During the 2020 pandemic she launched a podcast\, What’s Good? with Ebony Chappel\, to shed light on people in the community doing good things to positively impact the world around them. For nearly a decade she’s used her skills to support many small businesses and community-based organizations \nChappel’s work has garnered recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists\, the Hoosier State Press Association\, the National Newspaper Publishers Association\, and the Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation among other honors. In 2022 she was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty under 40\, and in 2025 she joined the ranks of the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series as a member of Class XLIVIII. \nOutside of her professional endeavors\, Chappel volunteers with various community groups and serves on committees/boards for causes she cares about— arts and culture\, literacy\, and education. She recently served as president of the Indianapolis Press Club Foundation Board and executive director of the Friends of Belmont Beach. \nChappel has collaborated with other young Black social entrepreneurs to do projects that speak to her personal desire to bring experiences to life that are fueled by curiosity\, love\, and radical transformation. These efforts include the Testimony Service (a welcoming community that seeks to bring people together—regardless of faith affiliation—to fellowship\, hold space for one another\, and celebrate the good news about what’s going on in their lives and communities)\, the Black Women’s Writing Society (a monthly gathering of sisters who share a love for the written word)\, and the Free People Party (an affirming and inclusive dance-centric experience hosted in Indianapolis). \nNichelle M. Hayes\, MPA\, MLS\, is a dynamic leader\, scholar\, and advocate for Black literary excellence and cultural preservation. She currently serves as the executive director of the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, where she champions the legacy and future of Black writers through programming\, mentorship\, and advocacy. Hayes is the coeditor of The Black Librarian in America: Reflections\, Resistance\, and Reawakening\, a seminal work amplifying the voices and experiences of Black library professionals. As the immediate past president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association\, she has led national efforts to promote equity\, access\, and representation in the information sciences. Her work is deeply rooted in community engagement\, literacy\, and historical awareness\, reflected in her active membership in the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and her thought-provoking blog\, https://thetiesthatbind.blog. \nA proud graduate of Indiana University\, Hayes also holds a master of library science degree from Indiana and a master of public administration degree from Valdosta State University. Her leadership and impact have been recognized with numerous accolades\, including the 2022 Breakthrough Women Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women\, the 2020 Movers and Shakers Award from School Library Journal\, and her participation in the 2024 Executive Women of Color Leadership Cohort. With a career spanning libraries\, nonprofits\, and cultural institutions\, Hayes brings a visionary approach to change management and a steadfast commitment to uplifting Black voices in literature and beyond. \nLisa Lintner was appointed the Johnson County Public Library director in 2015. Working in libraries for nearly 30 years\, she has dedicated her career to providing outstanding library services for patrons from the cradle through retirement. Lintner graduated from Indiana University’s master of library science program and holds a bachelor of science degree in English and theatre from Ball State University. She is the chair of the Indiana FREADOM to Read task force and a member of the Advocacy Committee for the Indiana Library Federation.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/censorship-a-conversation-on-voice-artistic-risk-and-imagination-proof-2025/
LOCATION:Speck Gallery\, 1505 N. Delaware St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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