Poetry in Paint

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.

Second Story connects with Butler on a new course

Thursday, May 14, 2009 Second Story has developed a new course in conjunction with Butler University where undergraduate and graduate students work with young people on creative writing in IPS schools. The new course, taught by Managing Director Jim Walker, starts this fall. Read the full story on Butler's website here.