142 past events with the writing tag

Ladies, gents, ragamuffins and rosy-cheeked rascals of all ages—step right up and lend me your ears, for the most glorious, gallivantin’, and gaslight-glowin’ event of the season is set to RETURN!

Yes sir, yes ma’am, yes indeedy—it’s the annual extravaganza, where history waltzes with whimsy and every cobblestone hums with the spirit of the Gas Boom Era!

Marvel at the Victorian homes—some open for tours and brimming with tales of old!

Stroll past over handcrafted artisan booths—jewelry, pottery, plants, candles, glass, and curios galore!

Tap your toes to live music, street performers, and tunes that'll tickle your tin ear like it's 1925 all over again!

Feast like a king on a variety of vibrant victuals and the sweet kiss of homemade ice cream!

Kiddos, don’t be shy—this is a family-friendly event with fun for all and smiles wide as the White River!

Watch live demonstrations from tradesfolk, artists, and old-timey wizards of craft — some’ll even let ya try your hand!

Admission is FREE, though home tour tickets will cost you just a song.

Come one, come all, for a festival where Muncie’s past becomes your present!

So mark those calendars, press those suspenders, and join us at the Old Washington Street Festival—where the spirit of yesteryear is alive and jivin’!

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Join us for our 2 Year Anniversary Celebration! We will be offering 11% off our entire store, free refreshments, an early bird giveaway, a raffle, tarot readings from The Baked Witch, and local vendors lining our sidewalks! It will be an evening you won’t want to miss! 

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler to Showcase "Indiana Chitlin Circuit" and New Poetic Forms at Ball State University Libraries.

Ball State University Libraries and the Creative Writing program will host a unique evening of literary performance and innovation featuring Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler. The event, which is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the local Muncie community, will take place in Bracken Library, Room 104 at 6:00 p.m.

The evening will highlight Crisler’s significant contribution to the literary world: the Indiana Chitlin Circuit and the sonastic poetry form- a form of poetry pioneered by Crisler. Joining Crisler for the performance will be distinguished faculty from Ball State’s Creative Writing program.

The Indiana Chitlin Circuit is inspired by the historical network of venues that supported Black entertainers during the Jim Crow era. Crisler’s "Indiana Chitlin Circuit" transforms history into a high-energy, collaborative performance.

During the event, Crisler will share a single microphone with Katy Didden, Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ball State University, and Brian Morrison, Associate Teaching Professor of English at Ball State University, in a "magical round-robin." Unlike a traditional reading, the poets do not choose their pieces in advance; instead, they respond in real-time to the work read by the person before them. This 20-minute improvisational session captures the "pride and verve" of the historical circuit, creating an atmosphere of spontaneous artistic excitement.

Curtis L. Crisler, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, is currently serving his second term as the Indiana Poet Laureate. He is a Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) and a celebrated activist for literacy.

"We are thrilled to welcome Professor Crisler to campus," says Nancy Abashian, Dean of Ball State University Libraries. "His work bridges the gap between Indiana’s rich history and the future of poetic form. This is a rare opportunity for our community to witness the 'soulful things' Crisler creates in a live, collaborative setting."

For more information about the event, please contact Amy Petts, Associate Dean for Strategic Engagement and Learning at Ball State University Libraries. For more information about Curtis L. Crisler, visit www.poetcrisler.com.

Parking on campus is available for free after 5:00 p.m. in yellow lots on weekdays. Visit here for more parking information.

Please note: this event is at Sursa Performance Hall.

Join the David Owsley Museum of Art at Sursa Hall (located in the Music Instruction Building on the southeast corner of McKinley and Riverside Avenues) at 6:00 p.m. on March 11 when award-winning artist Nora Krug will discuss her acclaimed body of work and DOMA's current exhibition Nora Krug: Belonging. 

Krug's powerful graphic memoir, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, and her more recent book publication, an illustrated edition of Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, are the focus of the solo show at DOMA and organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. Each book takes inspiration from the artist’s personal experiences as well as the events of history through engagement with deep topical research, museum artifacts and flea market finds, vintage photography, oral histories, and personal conversations, with the goal of trying to understand, reckon with, and depict the past in order to take something revelatory and useful away from it.

“Images have political power, and they can change the way we think. Illustrating is also an act of witnessing: images compel us to notice and investigate, and at their best, they shed light on and at the same time critically confront the subjects they engage with.”

—Nora Krug

A book signing and light refreshments in the Sursa Hall upper lobby will follow the talk and the Ball State bookstore will have books available for purchase.

Visit bsu.edu/doma for more information on the exhibition and other events. This lecture is free and open to the public with no registration required.

Read Ball State's news release about Nora Krug: Belonging.

Image: Cover illustration for Belonging, by Nora Krug © 2018 Nora Krug. All Rights Reserved.

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Come ready to share your written works and get feedback from fellow writers! Your admission is the cost of a drink from our wonderful hosts.

Come ready to share your written works and get feedback from fellow writers! Your admission is the cost of a drink from our wonderful hosts.

Come ready to share your written works and get feedback from fellow writers! Your admission is the cost of a drink from our wonderful hosts.

Come ready to share your written works and get feedback from fellow writers! Your admission is the cost of a drink from our wonderful hosts.