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Phoenix Theatre

The not-for-profit Phoenix Theatre opened in the fall of 1983 under the leadership of founding artistic director Bryan Fonseca. Actors and crew are local residents and include both vocational and… Read More »Phoenix Theatre

Propylaeum

The term Propylaeum refers to two buildings and an organization. A committee of seven women met on April 30, 1888, to find a suitable home for the Indianapolis Woman’s Club.… Read More »Propylaeum

Ruoff Music Center

Located southeast of Noblesville in Hamilton County, the Deer Creek Music Center, now Ruoff Music Center, was completed in 1989 at a cost of $12 million by Sunshine Promotions of… Read More »Ruoff Music Center

South Side Turnverein Hall

The South Side Turnverein Hall was built in 1900 at 306 Prospect Street, located in the Babe Denny neighborhood, as a gymnastics and social club for German Americans. Brought to… Read More »South Side Turnverein Hall

Spirit & Place Festival

The annual multi-day and multi-cultural Spirit & Place emerged as a festival in 1996 from the Project on Religion and Urban Culture, an initiative of The Polis Center at IUPUI .… Read More »Spirit & Place Festival

Starlight Musicals

Each summer for almost 50 years, Starlight Musicals offered Broadway musicals, both recent shows and revivals, as well as occasional one-night concerts. A production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates Of… Read More »Starlight Musicals

Peter Van Orden Sterling

(July 9, 1935 – Aug. 30, 2016). Peter Sterling was president of the children’s museum of Indianapolis from 1982 to 1999. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was the son of… Read More »Peter Van Orden Sterling

Talbot Street Art Fair

Originally held on Mother’s Day weekend in 1956, a group of students from the Herron School Of Art initiated the first Talbot Street Art Fair (TSAF), which was located at… Read More »Talbot Street Art Fair

James Reid Williamson Jr.

(1935- Sept. 10, 2017). Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Reid Williamson graduated from Yale University in 1956. He served in the United States Marine Corps and Air Force Reserves. From 1966-1974,… Read More »James Reid Williamson Jr.

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