Arts & Nature, Calumet Region & Nationwide

Saturday, November 12th (11 a.m.-3 p.m.)

Douglas Environmental Education Center
100 N. Lake St.
Gary, IN  46403

free, all ages

You’re invited to come to “Arts & Nature, Calumet Region & Nationwide,” an event at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore that celebrates IDNL’s 50th Anniversary and the National Park Service’s Centennial. This event includes:

• Soundwalk along the Miller Trail co-led by MaryAm Ghadiri and Ben Gottesman (11 a.m.)
• Arts making activities inspired by nature (ongoing)
• Poetry readings and performances (1-3 p.m.)

 
The arts making activities include leaf poem collage-making, mixed media artworks, and other activities. The poetry readings and performances will be by youth and adults, including high school and college students from the Calumet Region (including Gary and Chicago).
 
“Arts & Nature, Calumet Region & Nationwide” is presented by the Borderbend Arts Collective, in partnership with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Calumet Artist Residency, Center for Global Soundscape Studies, and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. 
 

Links:

• Calumet Artist Residency
• Celebrate a Year of Anniversaries
• Center for Global Soundscape Studies at Purdue University
• Center for Humans & Nature
  
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
• Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
• National Park Service at 100