Writer Night

November Second Story News

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

On Friday, November 13, at 7 p.m. Second Story is hosting a reading of essays appearing in the Spirit & Place Festival magazine. Second Story board member Kevin McKelvey is coordinating this free event happening in conjunction with a Big Car community art show featured as part of Spirit & Place. It’s at the Wheeler Arts Community in Fountain Square (1035 Sanders St. behind Bud’s Supermarket)

Eight local writers and community leaders who contributed to this year’s Spirit & Place Festival magazine will read about inspiring places. These essayists include: Maurice Broaddus, Gloria Gaither, Edgar Huang, Meghan McCormick, McKelvey, Vop Osili, Bryan Payne, Rob Smith, Joyce A. Sommers and Aaron Spiegel. They’ll share the essay they contributed for the magazine and, after the reading, answer questions from the audience. Also during an intermission and after the reading, attendees can enjoy music by the local band Tonas Triad.

On Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m. Booth Magazine, the new Butler University online literary magazine will be holding a reading and music event at the Harrison Center for the Arts in the Underground. This will feature Chicago prose poet Jason Bredle (he’s really great—view some of his work here), fiction writer Emily Doak, and Second Story managing director Jim Walker (reading a short piece with dueling saw players Kipp Normand and Ben Bernthal). Second Story will benefit from beer sales (Upland is donating). Also music by the local band Nightjar.

Corporate Rock Off was a huge success!

Thanks to everyone for who helped make Corporate Rock Off a big hit. WIth six sponsored teams participating and rocking the house at Radio Radio, and with a very nice donation from our title sponsor, Well Done Marketing — as well as very generous support from others — we were able to raise $6,000 to help us with our important programs for kids. Thanks to all who donated, volunteered and attended the first Corporate Rock Off. Now we can start planning for next year!

Corporate Rock Off ready to roll

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What: Corporate Rock Off
When: 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.10
Where: Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St.
Cost: $10, $5 with college ID. 21 and over.
Check out the event on Facebook

Six bands featuring co-workers from Indianapolis companies and organizations will compete on Oct. 10 to see who has the most mojo in Corporate Rock Off, a fundraising event for Second Story — a local nonprofit organization offering free writing workshops and tutoring for inner-city kids.

The bands in the event presented by Well Done Marketing include Vibe Dial, sponsored by rippleFX; The Raidiators sponsored by Raidious Digital Content Services; Rusty Sluts sponsored by Bradley and Montgomery; Sea Krowns, sponsored by Big Car; Accordions, sponsored by Nogginwerk; and Indianapolis Monthly’s team, Misprintz, winners of this year’s local battle of the media bands.

Each band will play a 20-minute set in a one-round battle. Winners will be chosen through a combination of audience vote and selections by expert judges. The winning team will be announced that night and will conclude the event with an encore set. Teams or their sponsors chipped in $500 as a donation to Second Story, and 75 percent of ticket sales also go to the organization. As a prize, 25 percent of those proceeds go to the winning team’s charity of choice in the name of their company. The winning band also gets an opening slot at this year’s Tonic Ball.

This fall, Second Story — now in its second year as a nonprofit — is running after-school writing programs at the Wheeler Arts Community in Fountain Square and at Martin Luther King Center; and an in-school program at IPS School No. 2, Center for Inquiry in partnership with Butler University and the Indianapolis-Marion County Library.

Celebrate with us

Friday, August 14, 2009

Second Story and Y-Press will join the community in celebrating the success of the summer project on the Near Eastside on Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. at the East Washington Branch Library. In this 10-day journalism project, children from the Near Eastside, mostly in fourth and fifth grades, worked with high-school students from the Y-Press to create a series of audio slideshows telling the stories of life in the neighborhood. The young people will present their projects and talk about their experiences at this free event.

Check out all of the audio slideshows here.

Eastside Camp Gets Started

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Second Story's first summer day camp, a partnership with Y-Press, started June 17 at the John H. Boner Center on East 10th Street on the city's Near Eastside.

The 10-day camp brings a group of high-school age writers and editors from the Y-press together to mentor teams of elementary students from the Near Eastside as they create stories about people in their neighborhood. The final product will be audio slide shows with pictures and recorded interviews. The elementary students will create the recordings and take the pictures.

Second Story has two more creative writing camps planned for the summer in partnership with Indy Parks at Garfield Park. Details can be found in a previous post below.