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 historic structures and reconnecting people and communities to their heritage through historic places. Aligning with the 2016 festival theme of HOME, Indiana Landmarks Center (1201 Central Avenue) will provide this year’s November 4-13 festival with much needed space for events.

“Both organizations share a passion for the power of place and history to shape present day communities,” said Spirit & Place Festival Program Director Erin Kelley. “Indiana Landmarks Center is the perfect home-base for us in 2016, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with them during the state’s bicentennial year as we explore the nuances and complexities of HOME.”

Indiana Landmarks Center, a restored and repurposed turn-of the century church, will serve as a venue for several Spirit & Place gatherings throughout 2016, including important planning and wrap-up meetings with community partners, as well as the use of the Grand Hall for a signature event within the November festival.

“We’re eager to participate in the exploration of HOME and welcome Spirit and Place audiences to Indiana Landmarks Center, our organizational home,” said Indiana Landmarks President Marsh Davis. “It’s a place that embodies beauty and comfort and more than a century of good works.”

The Spirit & Place Festival is Indianapolis’ largest collaborative festival and an extensive civic celebration engaging thousands of people throughout Central Indiana in dozens of events presented in partnership with upwards of 100 organizations. A legacy project of The Polis Center, part of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, the festival aim’s to ignite creativity, inspire place-making, and spark connections that build more vibrant and engaged communities through collaborations among the arts, religion, and humanities.