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| "Spirit & Place" is a citywide, collaborative project that seeks to create opportunities through the arts and humanities for the public to explore and discuss the relationship between spirituality and community. |
 The American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, and its companion volume, China Men, an innovative blending of fact and imagination. Kingston's works explore the mysteries of identity, and how people caught between two cultures make a place in the world. Kingston describes her childhood as rich in story, with her mother, Brave Orchid, the dominant storyteller.
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 Peter Matthiessen, founder of the Paris Review, is the author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, nominated for a National Book Award in 1966, as was, six years later, The Tree Where Man Was Born. The Snow Leopard, published in 1978, won both the American Book Award and the National Book Award. Many of his books chronicle the few remaining members of a tribe, or of an endangered species, whether it be in Africa, Papua, New Guinea, or the Amazonian jungle.
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 Reynolds Price had a powerful mentor in Eudora Welty and his first novel, A Long and Happy Life, published in 1962, won the William Faulkner Award. His work includes two volumes of memoir, Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life, an account of his survival from spinal cancer. Released this year is his newest novel, Roxanna Slade, a story of a woman who looks back on her life of 92 years, during which she has experienced the full range of emotions of the human spirit.
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Authors Peter Matthiessen (Lost Man's River), Reynolds Price (Roxanna Slade) and Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts) will visit Indianapolis Nov. 13-16 as headliners of the third annual civic festival "Spirit & Place: A Gathering of Voices." The three will meet at Butler University's Clowes Memorial Hall on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 5:30-7 p.m. for the festival's keynote event: a public conversation on the themes of spirituality, creativity and place. They will discuss how their spiritual beliefs, and the places they have known, have shaped both their personal and creative lives.
Free tickets are available at the Clowes box office and at all TicketMaster locations. The conversation will be hosted by Brown County resident Sallyann J. Murphey, author of Bean Blossom Dreams and The Zen of Food-A Philosophy of Nourishment.
In its third year, "Spirit & Place" is a citywide, collaborative project that seeks to create opportunities through the arts and humanities for the public to explore and discuss the relationship between spirituality and community in Indianapolis. The festival features a variety of performances, exhibits, lectures and public discussions at various locations throughout the city.
Among the highlights this year is a "mock" trial in which a team of leading trial lawyers contest the role of the arts in the life of Indianapolis (see story).
For a complete schedule of events, please contact the Polis Center at 317 274-2455, or visit the center's Web site at:
http://www.thepoliscenter.iupui.edu
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