402 past events with the empowerment tag

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 This week, December 30th, we are gathering for a carry-in dinner at Moth’s home - check our Facebook group for details! 

FIRST THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun community experience EVERY MONTH for First Thursdays in Downtown Muncie! ALL OUTDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, you can also have a great time with live geode/rock cutting with Wook's Workshop, check out Kat's Crystals & Curiosities along the path of our Market, and explore the many arty opportunities throughout Downtown Muncie's First Thursday Gallery Walks! The Muncie Makers Market is so happy to get back outside with the First Thursday community events, a popular local tradition, going many years back, with all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout all of Downtown Muncie. Come shop with us and enjoy your community!

The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up DWNTWN throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/  

First Thursday Gallery Walks:

https://www.downtownmuncie.org/first-thursday

Kat's Crystals & Curiosities:

https://www.katscrystalsandcuriosities.com

Advance Vendor Registration is required to be a Vendor at each selling event with the Muncie Makers Market. 🌿

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup at 3p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup at 3p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 

It's our first Holiday Night Market! 🎁 Come shop with our Hoosier Artisans in a fun and festive environment and check out all that’s happening with the Muncie Makers Market and MadJax on Third Thursday this month:

- Live music from Justin Garing!

- Grace & Co. Coffee Trailer!

- Cornerstone Center for the Arts' stained glass artist, Kiley Jiminez of Grow With Me Glass, will be leading a free activity making stained glass "buddies" FREE while we’re there!

- The Giant Igloo Fundraiser from Action for Animals with Maker-Sponsored Games!

- Tours of MadJax's The Design Lab/The Shipyard/Co:Lab!

- Displays of Ball State University College of Architecture & Planning Student Projects!

- Sip & Shop Opportunities from The Guardian Brewing Co.!

- aaaaand SANTA from 5:30-7:30! 📸

THIRD THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun "night market" vibe EVERY MONTH for Third Thursdays at MadJax Maker Force! ALL INDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, have a delicious dinner and brews at The Guardian Brewery Co., and explore the HUGE MadJax Maker Force facility! WE are soooo excited to partner with MadJax Maker Force for a NEW NIGHT OUT in Muncie!

The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up Muncie throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/  

MadJax Maker Force:

https://www.madjax.org

The Guardian Brewing Co.:

https://guardian.beer

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup and we come and go from 3-6p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 
 

Join us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472977992921700

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

THIRD THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun "night market" vibe EVERY MONTH for Third Thursdays at MadJax Maker Force! ALL INDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, have a delicious dinner and brews at The Guardian Brewery Co., and explore the HUGE MadJax Maker Force facility! WE are soooo excited to partner with MadJax Maker Force for a NEW NIGHT OUT in Muncie!

The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up Muncie throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/  

MadJax Maker Force:

https://www.madjax.org

The Guardian Brewing Co.:

https://guardian.beer

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup and we come and go from 3-6p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 
 

Join us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472977992921700

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup and we come and go from 3-6p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 
 

Join us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472977992921700

Muncie Stitch n' Bitch meets every Sunday! 🧶 We meet weekly at The Cup and we come and go from 3-6p. Everyone is welcome, with any kind of making! The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue. Free parking is behind the café, enter the parking lot off of Dill Street by Be Here Now. Support our host venue with purchases from The Cup’s menu! ☕️🥯 Creativity and caffeine, that's our thing! 
 

Join us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472977992921700

Join us this Thursday to read a short anthropological record of LGBTQ+ oppression from a Marxist perspective and a brief overview of the diverse history of Queer militant and worker struggles in the U.S. from past to present. Readings will be provided at this free event, so just bring yourself and a friend!

⏰ Thursday, April 9th at 4pm

📍 Muncie Liberation Studio, 1809 W University Ave (next to Chavas and China Express)

Fashion Night: Lavender Closet & Muncie OUTreach

Do you want to know how to make your clothes feel like you? Come learn how to style outfits that affirm YOUR gender with some queens.

Clothes will be on hand to put your new knowledge into practice. There will be sewing kits and people who know how to use them to help you navigate amending clothes yourself.

Lavender Closet is a free thrift and resource center for queer people, designed by queer people. They've partnered with Muncie OUTreach to bring a night of fashion and style. 

Snacks, music, runway, and fashion! 

Free. All ages. All welcome.

 

Every year, Hans Heintzelman donates a THOUSAND FREE TREES to the citizens of Muncie! 🌳 Come get some! 

#YART - A Yard Sale for Art held during ArtsWalk on the First Thursday of every June and October in Downtown Muncie! :) 

Come celebrate Pride and Muncie's local queer artist at the Muncie Liberation Studio! Join us for a full day of FREE Pride programing, all centered around our local arts scene. 

Follow @MuncieLibStudio and @AbraQueerDabra on instagram for more updates. 

Our programing will consist of 

11-2 Vending: Come shop with and meet local queer artists, organizations, and businesses!

3-4 Queer community panel: Hear from and speak with local community leaders

4-7 Artist Showcase: See and hear local artist present their work 

8-10 DJ night: Let loose and dance for Pride  

⁨📷⁩ ⁨This Wednesday, we will be reading excerpts from “Black Scare, Red Scare” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. This book examines how the state used anti-black repression and anti-communist repression to continue to entrench the country into capitalist domination and as a tool of imperialism. Join us in person or over zoom to read and explore these topics further! Attend in person or online via Zoom!

A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH JENA ASHBY, C.S. HENDERSHOT, SUZANNE CLEM, AND CARLY ACREE-KING

ABOUT THE SESSION

Every day, nonprofits pour their hearts into work that changes lives—yet too often, that impact goes overlooked. The reality is that donors, volunteers, and community partners have a choice in where they invest their time and dollars, and the organizations that communicate their value clearly are the ones that earn that investment. Marketing should not be seen as a distraction from the mission. It's what gets the mission funded, staffed, and noticed. Join us on September 22 from 8-10 AM at the Innovation Connector for "Why Nonprofits Have to Think About Marketing," a panel discussion for nonprofit leaders who want to learn how to make their case to the people who can help them grow.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Jena Ashby, Relationship & Resource Director, Nonprofit Support Network

Jena Ashby is Nonprofit Support Network’s Relationship and Resource Director, bringing extensive nonprofit, volunteer, and community leadership experience, along with a passion for building authentic, collaborative relationships throughout Muncie and Delaware County. A lifelong Muncie resident, Jena earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Ball State University in 2001 and continues to serve on the Department’s Advisory Council. She has worked with A Better Way, Habitat for Humanity, 8twelve Coalition, and Scholar House, and has served on the boards of Muncie Action Plan, Muncie YMCA, Second Harvest Food Bank, Teamwork for Quality Living, and Step Ahead Preschool. Jena brings expertise in organizational management, public speaking, program development, relationship building, and strategic planning to her work. She and her husband have two young adult sons and a daughter-in-law and enjoy cycling, hiking, kayaking, and serving in leadership roles at their church.

Carly Acree-King, Executive Director, MadJax Maker Force

Carly is the Executive Director of MadJax Maker Force in Muncie, where she leads efforts to connect makers, entrepreneurs, educators, and community partners through creative space, programming, and workforce development. With nearly two decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, communications, and community engagement, Carly has worked across the nonprofit sector to help organizations strengthen their visibility, build relationships, and communicate their impact.

C.S. Hendershot, Director of Development and Marketing, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana

C.S. Hendershot is the Director of Development and Marketing at Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana. With an M.A. in Sociology and a B.A. in Political Science from Ball State University, C.S. took an unconventional path into marketing through hands-on experience and the need to wear many hats in a role, as is often the case in the nonprofit sector. C.S. uses their background in fundraising, donor relations, and grant writing to build strategic partnerships and resources that strengthen critical community services. Outside of their work, C.S. enjoys spending time with their partner and Australian cattle dogs and skating with Cornfed Roller Derby.

Suzanne Clem, Executive Director, 8twelve Coalition

Suzanne Clem is the Executive Director of the 8twelve Coalition, where she supports resident-driven quality of life efforts in Muncie's Thomas Park Avondale and South Central neighborhoods. Her previous roles include Vice President of Community Engagement at Open Door Health Services and various marketing and communications positions in higher education. A Ball State graduate, Suzanne has served in communications roles on boards and committees of several local nonprofits throughout the 25 years she has called Muncie home.

ABOUT INTERSESSIONS

It’s a fact. Marketing is constantly evolving. Join us as speakers dive into interesting and relevant marketing topics, tailored for local professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who want to advance their marketing skill set. These FREE sessions aren’t just about learning; it’s an opportunity to connect, forge new relationships, have some good food, and walk away with valuable insights and a new community.

POWERED BY INTERSECTION MARKETING + BRANDING AGENCY

MEETING AGENDA

8:00–8:30 — Networking + Breakfast
8:30–8:45 — Attendee Introductions
8:45–8:50 — Sponsor Spotlight
8:50–9:30 — Introduction to Speaker and Presentation
9:30–9:35 — Break/Refill on Breakfast
9:35–9:50 — Q & A
9:50–10:00 — Final Comments, Announcements and Adjourn

Muncie, Indiana – YART is Coming! ❤️ PLEASE SHARE!

YART is a Yard Sale for Art! But don’t think it’s a yard sale like you’ve ever been to before - no rummage! ALL NEW ART! We keep the vibe going by setting up outdoors with super low prices! YART began many decades ago in Muncie, Indiana with a grass roots effort by students from Ball State University. Many U.S. cities have reached out to learn how to organize, and now host, their own YARTs. YART is a true Muncie original gone nation-wide! The Muncie YART is currently held Downtown, at Canan Commons, twice a year, Spring and Fall - the First Thursdays of June and October - and coincides with ArtsWalk. The Fall 2026 Muncie YART is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, October 1st!

Sign up to be a YART Artist for FREE here at this link:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14g2MEthCBe/?mibextid=wwXIfr

This community art sale, with a goal of making art affordable and accessible to everyone, brings together Artists and Art patrons in a casual and unique setting. The Fall 2026 Muncie YART will be held in conjunction with the 2026 ArtsWalk on Thursday, October 1st, from 5-8p. You can find YART and LIVE music performances at Canan Commons, Muncie's great urban greenspace park and amphitheater by the roundabout on South Walnut Street in Downtown Muncie, Indiana.
 

All forms of Art are welcome at YART! Art of all kinds, by all kinds of Artists! YART encourages interaction between Artists and the community, hoping to make Art more accessible, especially to those who think they cannot afford to buy Art for themselves and their homes. To this goal, all YART Art will be priced below $40! YART works to enable local creative entrepreneurs and to improve the Muncie economy. Shop local, support independents, enjoy your town!
 

Want to help us spread the word on Facebook? 🫶 RSVP to the Fall 2026 Muncie YART here:

https://facebook.com/events/s/fall-2026-muncie-yart/1061894649892807/

The last YART featured over 200 Artists! Each YART Artist will be present throughout YART to meet the public, discuss their Art, handle sales personally, and some Artists will be making Art LIVE at YART! This is a great opportunity to enjoy your family interacting with local culture in a dynamic, lively, and relaxed atmosphere.
 

The Fall 2026 Muncie YART will feature a wide variety of handmade jewelry, photography, clothing, oil/acrylic/watercolor paintings, ceramics, stuffed animals, drawings, knits, pottery, candles, toys, sculpture, glass, digital art, mosaics, LIVE ART and LIVE MUSIC, and so much more!

Outdoor fun for all ages - YART and ArtsWalk are for the whole family!

Miss Moth (YART Director) and the YART Artists very much thank Cheryl Crowder of the Muncie Downtown Development Partnership and the City of Muncie for their generous support! YART is an all-volunteer, zero-budget, community event. THANK YOU!

LIKE Muncie YART on FaceBook & Instagram!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Muncie-Yart/156725934394407

Cap off YDSA’s Flock Walk with Students for Justice in Palestine’s Record Request Party at the Muncie Liberation Studio, this Thursday, Oct. 22nd at 7pm! We will be submitting Freedom of Information Requests to Ball State regarding its investment of students’ tuition into companies profiting from and facilitating Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, and Ball State’s known partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety.