Miss Moth

Join PlySpace (plyspace.org) and Ball State University School of Art for the visiting artist lecture for PlySpace Resident Fellow Natan Diacon-Furtado. Diacon-Furtado will speak about his work and answer questions about his practice and time spent in Muncie at the PlySpace Residency, a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council (munciearts.org). 

This event will be held on Thursday, October 29th at 6 PM-7PM via Ball State School of Art Live (https://sites.bsu.edu/artlive/). A live Q&A will follow the lecture. Attendees can view the lecture for free. 

Over the last 3 weeks, Diacon-Furtado has worked with 2D Foundation students at Ball State University School of Art in a virtual collaboration. Our Patterns, a project spanning 6 separate classes and including over 100 student participants who developed pattern-based works to create a community “quilt” of patterns, visible on Instagram (@ourpatterns_Muncie). The public is encouraged to follow the progress of this project online, which will culminate in a projected exhibition on the exterior of the PlySpace building on First Thursday, November 5th.

Diacon-Furtado is an internationally recognized and award-winning Brazilian and American artist and designer who has exhibited globally in venues including the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture. His design work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times and Dwell magazine, and he is a founding partner of the New Orleans based arts-focused design studio opossum (itsopossumtime.com).

PlySpace is a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council in collaboration with Ball State University School of Art and Sustainable Muncie Corporation, supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

INconversation with Jean Thompson

by Indiana Humanities

Join a discussion with Jean Thompson, author of "The Year We Left Home" and Barb Shoup!

“But back home, I can look up and down just about any street and there’s people I’m either related to or I’ve known them all my life and my parents have known them and my grandparents knew their grandparents and there’s a comfort in that. I miss it. That’s all I’m saying. Here, it’s like we’re not from anywhere.”

These words, spoken by one of the characters in Jean Thompson’s novel The Year We Left Home, echo the lyrics of one of Indiana’s most recognizable songs, “Back Home Again in Indiana.” Like the song, Jean’s novel, selected by Indiana Humanities for its One State / One Story statewide read in 2020, describes the enduring, uniting power of place—why we choose or are forced to leave and when we decide to come home.

Jean Thompson, the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Year We Left Home, is a Midwesterner with Indiana roots. We’re pleased to have her join us for a virtual INconversation to talk about her book, her career as a writer, and the stories we tell about the Midwest. Barb Shoup, the founding director of the Indiana Writers Center, will moderate the conversation.

This special INconversation caps off a year of One State / One Story programming around the state and the second year of Indiana Humanities'’ INseparable initiative.

EVENT DETAILS

This event will take place on Zoom; tickets are free but advanced registration is required. A confirmation email with details of how to log-in to the program will be sent the week of the event.

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inconversation-with-jean-thompson-registration-116010988991?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_eid=0738f080de&mc_cid=e2ef17475f

WHY WE CHOSE THE YEAR WE LEFT HOME

Jean Thompson’s The Year We Left Home offers a sweeping, multi-generational look at changing Midwestern life during the final decades of the twentieth century. Read more:

https://indianahumanities.org/why-we-chose-the-year-we-left-home?mc_cid=e2ef17475f&mc_eid=0738f080de

ABOUT JEAN THOMPSON

Jean Thompson is a novelist and short-story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom, as well as the short-story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson’s short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.

ABOUT ONE STATE / ONE STORY

One State / One Story invites Hoosiers to engage deeply with a book as part of a statewide conversation tied to Indiana Humanities’ current theme, INseparable. In 2020, we’re reading Jean Thompson’s The Year We Left Home.

ABOUT INDIANA HUMANITIES

Indiana Humanities connects people, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage Hoosiers to think, read and talk. www.IndianaHumanities.org

Indiana Humanities will make reasonable modifications to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to enjoy our programs. If you need an accommodation, please email Claire Mauschbaugh at cmauschbaugh@indianahumanities.org.

Join PlySpace and BSU School of Art, for a final projection performance of the Our Patterns Muncie project.

This multi-channel installation in the courtyard of Ball State University’s Art and Journalism building represents an emotional physical culmination for the Our Patterns - Muncie project: a three-week collaboration between initiating artist and PlySpace Fellow Natan Diacon-Furtado and over 100 students and 5 faculty members of the school of art’s 2D Design Fundamentals program.

Throughout the project, students responded to project prompts provided by Diacon-Furtado and facilitated by the BSU faculty. Each prompt was posted on Instagram at @Ourpatterns_Muncie, and is still available for the public to follow along with the project. In order to give the students and public a way to watch the iterative creative project unfold, the students were instructed to post their working and final designs on Instagram, creating a collaborative digital "quilt" with blocks of pattern.

The project continues to live on indefinitely as a digital community quilt displayed through Instagram (@Ourpatterns_muncie), and as a testament to the power of forming intentional communities through creativity.

On Thursday the 12th of November, we will present the final installment, a multi-channel installation that will feature the large-scale projections of student-designed patterns in a random sequence, injecting chance and randomness into the quilt as a way of making new links and discoveries in this collaboratively built visual language.

This event will be held outdoors in the BSU School of Art Sculpture Courtyard. You can access the courtyard from the parking lot between the Art and Journalism Building and the Teachers College. The projections will be visible from 6:30 - 8 PM. Masks are required. This event is free and open to the public.

PlySpace is an immersive Artist-in-Residence program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, based in the Emily Kimbrough Historic District in downtown Muncie, Indiana. 

https://www.plyspace.org

The Muncie Arts and Culture Council celebrates and supports arts and culture in Muncie, Indiana. We’re ALL IN for arts and culture. Join us!

https://www.munciearts.org

This livestream-only concert will feature the Ball State Choirs performing Dvořák's Te Deum with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. Also included on the program will be The Awakening by Joseph Martin.

Contact Details

School of Music
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About

Under the direction of Andrew Crow and Kerry Glann, the Ball State University Choirs will perform Antonín Dvořák’s Te Deum with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. Also included on the program will be The Awakening by Joseph Martin.

Learn more about Dvořák’s Te Deum:

https://houstonsymphony.org/dvoraks-te-deum/

Livestream

This concert will only be offered as a livestream with no in-person attendance. Please visit the Concert Livestream Page for more information. Streaming begins approximately 15 minutes prior to scheduled concert start time.

https://sites.bsu.edu/musiclive/

Ball State Bassoon Day

Contact Details

Keith Sweger
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About

Ball State bassoon professor Keith Sweger will be joined by guest artist Kim Laskowski for this virtual Ball State Bassoon Day. Kim Laskowski is associate principal bassoon of the New York Philharmonic and is on faculty at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. 

Schedule

Events include:

1–3 p.m. | Master Class
3 p.m. | Q&A

Registration

This virtual event is free and open to the public with registration required. Registrants will receive information via email on how to access the virtual event. REGISTER NOW:

https://ballstatebassoonday.weebly.com/registration.html

Difficult Conversations: Why they are important and how to have them.

Join Indiana Humanities, Indiana Public Broadcasting and Side Effects to talk through how to have thoughtful and productive conversations.

This year's election, protests and the pandemic have put a spotlight on divisions between loved ones and within communities. With the holidays approaching, how can you prepare yourself to have thoughtful conversations with friends, family, or anyone who has a viewpoint different from your own? Are there topics that should be avoided? What approaches create productive conversations and what approaches don't?

Register Here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/difficult-conversations-why-they-are-important-and-how-to-have-them-tickets-127218517009?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_eid=0738f080de&mc_cid=e2ef17475f

Indiana Public Broadcasting News

https://ipbs.org/

Indiana Public Broadcasting news is a collaboration of NPR and PBS-affiliate reporters across Indiana, covering education, policy, health, business, workforce, energy, and evnironment issues.

Here ya go, Wordsmiths, coming on the 4th SUNDAY of every month to your local Muncie:

Cuplets!

On every 4th Sunday, from 6-8p, join us in celebrating you and your words at Cuplets!

This free monthly event for open mic live poetry reading - temporarily online at Facebook due to the pandemic - will pair flow with joe, rhythm and brews, beats and beans, and result in many a steamed stanza.

#BYOC2 = Build Your Own Community

WE CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOUR POETRY! 

Cuplets is not curated, everyone is welcome to read. I know y'all are nice and will match the length of your reading to the attendance level so everyone has a chance to read. Read new work or old, rhyme or don't. If it's poetry to you, it's poetry at Cuplets! 

Many thanks to the owner of The Cup, Martin George, for inviting me to create this monthly event! We sure do miss meeting at The Cup and look forward to our post-pandemic return!

And a big ol' thank you to Lucian Cruor for the poetry/café word pairings above! 

#Cuplets

#OpenMic

#Poetry

#SpokenWord

#TheCup

#CafeCulture

#HeyMuncie

#Funcie

#GoDoMuncie

#HoosierBeauty 

#MuncieArts

#BetterTogether

#ExperienceMuncie

Who likes blank walls and traffic signal control boxes when you can have public art instead? These are part of the Box! Box! program by the Muncie Arts & Culture Council! MACC is always working to make our city a more beautiful place with the arts.

Donating today helps us continue to add art to your neighborhood, your drive, and your life! Give at munciearts.org/donate!⁠

Find MACC on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/MuncieArts

Save Tuhey - Our Backyard - Everyone's Park!

Join with signs to support the Save Tuhey efforts, or watch the livestream and comment! 

The Muncie City Council's Land & Traffic Committee meets at City Hall on Tuesday, December 1st at 6:00p to hear comments on the proposal to allow the YMCA to use the large greenspace where Tuhey Towers is located at Tuhey Park & Pool for a new building and parking lots. The Downtown YMCA would then close. Folks are gathering outside at 5:30p with signs up and masks on to let people know their opinions, and attending the meeting at 6:00p. Attend one, attend both, or watch online!

This meeting will be livestreamed if you are unable to attend in person (and attendance will be pandemic-limited to 50 people). Comments on the livestream will be reviewed by Council after their meeting. You will find many posts offering the opinions of Munsonians and this livestream on the Friends of Tuhey Facebook page:

Facebook.com/FriendsOfTuhey

You may also email City Council Members Robinson, Ingram, and Smith prior to the meeting to let them know how you feel about this proposal.

Check out: SaveTuhey.org

Artwork by Kort Huffman.

Creativity + Caffeine = That's Our Thing! 

Everyone is welcome! 

We are VIRTUALLY meeting due to the pandemic. Join us on Facebook at Muncie Stitch 'n Bitch!

Creativity + Caffeine = That's Our Thing! 

Everyone is welcome! 

We are VIRTUALLY meeting due to the pandemic. Join us on Facebook at Muncie Stitch 'n Bitch!

Creativity + Caffeine = That's Our Thing! 

Everyone is welcome! 

We are VIRTUALLY meeting due to the pandemic. Join us on Facebook at Muncie Stitch 'n Bitch every Sunday at 5p!