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Nov. 6-15
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First, you are forgiven for being confused about what exactly the Spirit & Place Festival is. With a theme that changes each year and with more than 40 events (which often sound like graduate theses, i.e. “An Eye to the World: Photography as Transformation” and “The Geography of the Sacred: How We Sanctify Space”), it’s very easy to be confused.

Combine that with the fact that events are held at dozens of different locations and you’ll understand why an alleged refocusing of the Spirit & Place Festival this year hasn’t helped much in the clarity department.

Still, there are lots of promising events—if you are willing to search for them. Opening weekend includes “Ordinary Space to Sacred Place,” a Nov. 6 discussion of ways to transform your environment, held at St.Luke’s United Methodist Church. Panelists include singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer and former Mayor Bart Peterson. Want something a little more experimental? “Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!” is choreographer/dancer Oguri’s response to the writings of William Faulkner. It’s Nov. 7 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Toby Theatre.

The $3 Bill comedy troupe lightens things up with a.MUSE.ment@theLibrary on Nov. 9 at the Central Library. Also on the 9, bestselling author Bill McKibben visits IUPUI to talk about sustainable communities.

And local city-planner types have high hopes for “Pecha Kucha: The Next Indianapolis,” a Nov. 12 event described as “Fight Club meets PowerPoint.” Presenters will compete for $10,000 grants to pay for projects that turn various Indianapolis locations into more inspiring places. It’s at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

For details on these and other Spirit & Place events, click here.

Today more schools will be handing out consent forms to students in Marion County, seeking permission to give children the
H1N1 vaccine during school hours. But thereâ??s still a major concern: Officials expect 70,000 students will sign up for the
vaccine, but the health department admits it doesn’t have that many doses. Even so, the health department hopes to have all
elementary kids vaccinated before Thanksgiving break.

Friends are mourning the death of 12-year-old Helaina Hawkins after she was struck by a car last night on 10th street near
Country Club Road on the west side. The Chapel Hill Junior High student was heading home after playing with friends when she
was struck crossing the street on roller blades. She died at the scene. Police say there’s no indication the driver, Clarence
Waters, 60, of Waterloo, was impaired or driving at a high rate of speed. Neighbors say the street is poorly lit.

Police are looking for a sport-utility vehicle that witnesses say was damaged when a man drove it into an east-side bar following
a fight early today. The incident occurred at Bar 52 near Sherman Drive and English Avenue. Bystanders said a man left the
bar after a dispute and got into a Dodge Durango, which he rammed into the side of the building several times. No one was
injured.