Countdown to Spirit & Place Festival
The 2012 Spirit & Place Festival is just weeks away! Join us November 2-11 as we explore the silly and serious dimensions of PLAY. Visit the Spirit & Place Festival website to browse the...
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Buffalo Nickels, Transmogrifier, Bug Tug, Smile Ninja, Alphabetcha Can’t Find ‘Em All. No, I’m not just combining random, silly words. These are a few of the many games that you can find posted on...
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Are you willing to take risks?
What’s your appetite for, or aversion to, risk? And how does it relate to the quality of life in your neighborhood? We’re exploring these questions and more at this year’s Spirit & Place Festival....
View Article18th Annual Spirit & Place Festival is here!
This year’s Spirit & Place Festival promises an exciting array of diverse events where you can explore the topic of RISK through the eyes of women and teens, researchers and rabbis, artists and...
View ArticleWade into Risky Waters
2013 is the 100th anniversary of Indiana’s Great Flood. Join us at the Indiana Historical Society for a premier of WFYI’s documentary When Every River Turned Against Us: Lessons from the Great 1913...
View ArticleAbout The Polis Center
Learn more about The Polis Center by exploring this interactive Prezi, which describes our entrepreneurial and innovative approach to understanding the communities in which we live, our areas of...
View Article10 days, 38 programs
Performances … Exhibits … Screenings … Conversations! From Nov. 7 – Nov. 16 explore the JOURNEY of ideas, people, and places. The journey between “here” and “there” is filled with movement and meaning....
View ArticleSpirit & Place Festival Director featured in NUVO
Pam Blevins Hinkle, director, Spirit & Place Festival, was recently featured in NUVO for the music improvisation workshop she leads for the inmates at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Read the full...
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Infusing Spirit into Place
Spirit & Place Festival featured in innovative multi-disciplinary journal. In the current issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America, Mary Rizzo, public historian in residence and co-editor...
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Spirit & Place Festival celebrates 20th anniversary year November 6-15
The 2015 Spirit & Place Festival explores DREAM through 31 programs including experiences comprised of performances, exhibits, films and conversations November 6-15. Programs explore DREAM through...
View ArticlePerchance to Dream
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Spirit & Place Festival partnered with WFYI this year to present a series of powerful essays that reflect on the festival’s theme, DREAM. Read this essay by...
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Spirit & Place partners with statewide organization as 2016 festival...
The annual Spirit & Place Festival, a legacy project of The Polis Center, is proud to announce a 2016 partnership with Indiana Landmarks, a statewide organization dedicated to saving Indiana’s...
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The Broom Guy
There has been a lot of press recently about how Jim Richter (aka “The Broom Guy”) was treated badly by the Nora post office in Indianapolis and asked to stop selling his brooms there after decades of...
View ArticleWade into Risky Waters
2013 is the 100th anniversary of Indiana’s Great Flood. Join us at the Indiana Historical Society for a premier of WFYI’s documentary When Every River Turned Against Us: Lessons from the Great 1913...
View ArticleAbout The Polis Center
Learn more about The Polis Center by exploring this interactive Prezi, which describes our entrepreneurial and innovative approach to understanding the communities in which we live, our areas of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Infusing Spirit into Place
Spirit & Place Festival featured in innovative multi-disciplinary journal. In the current issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America, Mary Rizzo, public historian in residence and co-editor...
View Article10 days, 38 programs
Performances … Exhibits … Screenings … Conversations! From Nov. 7 – Nov. 16 explore the JOURNEY of ideas, people, and places. The journey between “here” and “there” is filled with movement and meaning....
View ArticleSpirit & Place Festival Director featured in NUVO
Pam Blevins Hinkle, director, Spirit & Place Festival, was recently featured in NUVO for the music improvisation workshop she leads for the inmates at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Read the full...
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Spirit & Place Festival celebrates 20th anniversary year November 6-15
The 2015 Spirit & Place Festival explores DREAM through 31 programs including experiences comprised of performances, exhibits, films and conversations November 6-15. Programs explore DREAM through...
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