Events on September 19, 2026
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2026 White River Clean-up
8am @
Westside Park
801 S. Nichols Ave. and 2400 W. White River Blvd
Join us for our largest single day event in Delaware County!
Each September, thousands of volunteers come together to clean 135 miles of White River - Removing trash, debris, and tries from the banks and waterways. Since 2006, this event has pulled over 150,000 pounds of waste from the river. Volunteers work on foot along the banks and by canoe where needed.
All are welcome.
Hosted by the Delaware County Clean and Beautiful as part of the statewide White River Festival
Muncie Resists September Craftivism - Collage Project
10am to 11am @
Democratic Headquarters
214 N Walnut St, Muncie, IN 47305
For September we will create a collage on democracy and protest! Bring images, words, fabric scraps, whatever speaks to you! We'll also have supplies on hand, so if you don't have any, no worries! Each piece will become part of one larger collage that we'll display in a public space, so everyone's contribution literally becomes part of something bigger. No art skills needed. Just bring yourself (or a friend too)!
Liberation Forum: Organizing 101
3pm @
Muncie Liberation Studio
Next to Chava's and China Express
1809 W University Avenue
Join us September 19th for a live panel discussion and Q/A session on what it means to be a
revolutionary and how you can get involved in local organizing efforts.
This will include a panel discussion of organizers from the studio discussing certain topics such as organizing, how to get more involved within Muncie, the importance of theory, and more.
Speakers will talk about the importance of building independent organizations in order to win the fight for our collective liberation and a socialist future.
⏰Saturday, September 19 at 3pm
📍Muncie Liberation Studio, 1809 w University Ave (next to Chavas and China express)
The Garden Social: Rooted in the Land
5pm to 7:30pm @
Minnetrista Museum & Gardens
1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $35.00 September 19; 5–7:30 p.m. | Oakhurst Gardens, Education Center Patio
Cost: $35 | Member Discounts Apply | Ages 18+
Gather around the table for an evening centered on local farms and the people who sustain them. Guests will share a family-style meal alongside farmers and growers from our region, hearing firsthand about their work, challenges, and the traditions that shape life on the land. Through conversation, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how foods moves from field to table and the role local farms play in community wellbeing.
Preregistration is preferred; limited walk-in tickets may be available—please call ahead.
The Garden Social: Rooted in the Land
5pm @
Minnetrista Museum & Gardens
1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $35.00 Ages: 18+ September 19; 5–7:30 p.m. | Oakhurst Gardens, Education Center Patio
Cost: $35 | Member Discounts Apply | Ages 18+
Gather around the table for an evening centered on local farms and the people who sustain them. Guests will share a family-style meal alongside farmers and growers from our region, hearing firsthand about their work, challenges, and the traditions that shape life on the land. Through conversation, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how foods moves from field to table and the role local farms play in community wellbeing. Preregistration is preferred; limited walk-in tickets may be available—please call ahead.
Muncie Three Trails Presents Mike Farris & the Fortunate Few
7pm @
Brown Family Amphitheater, Ball State University
Cost: FREE Ages: All Ages GRAMMY award winning musician Mike Farris, along with his band The Fortunate Few, will be performing a FREE outdoor concert as part of the 2026 Muncie Three Trails Music Series. Locals Mike Martin & the Beautiful Mess will open the show.
Mike Farris is an artist’s artist and a musician’s musician, celebrated and revered by his fellow performers. He is a GRAMMY, Americana Association, and Dove Music award winner, with six solo albums since 2001. He is also a founding member of 90’s mainstream rock group, The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies.
Farris was born in 1968 in Winchester, TN. With a gospel-fueled voice that sounds like a cross between the hard rock blast of Bon Scott and the joyful sweetness of Al Green, Mike has taken a long time to balance his life and considerable talent. Devastated when his parents divorced when he was 11 years old, Farris tumbled early into the world of drugs and alcohol, a lifestyle that landed him in reform school. Nearly dying from an accidental overdose, he moved in with his father and began playing guitar and writing songs, gradually pulling himself out of the depths of his addictions. After forming the seminal 1990s blues jam band the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, however, the endless touring and bars sent him right back to his old bad habits, and while he put out fine music with SCW, with Peaceful Knievel, and during his stint as the singer for Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughan's old rhythm section, Farris was in deep emotional trouble. Finally, in 2004, while attending the funeral of a friend, he decided he had enough, and embraced both God and sobriety.
Since that time, Mike has put out four studio releases, two live records, and one charity EP (as Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints. His music is diverse but tends to be rooted in early American gospel and blues. In 2008, Farris won the Americana Music Award for New and Emerging Artist, in 2010 , SHOUT!! Live won the Dove Award for Traditional Gospel Album of the Year, and his 2014 release, Shine For All The People, won the GRAMMY for Best Roots Gospel Album. For 2025’s The Sound of Muscle Shoals, Mike Farris’s first album since 2018’s Silver & Stone, Farris made the pilgrimage to the doors of the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. The resulting album is a culmination of all of Farris’s musical influences and life lessons learned, captured in a location that holds deep meaning for him. In collaboration with members of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the band captures lightning in a bottle, channeling the spirit of their musical forebearers, conjuring up the intrinsic magic of the Muscle Shoals sound, and wrapping it around Farris’s heartfelt and hardscrabble blue-eyed soul vocals. In the intertwining threads of spiritual and earthly, of gospel and rock ‘n’ roll, of faith and fire, Farris once again brings what Rolling Stone Country describes as his “supersized voice filled with the electricity of Saturday night and the godly grace of Sunday mornings” to the album’s 11 tracks.




