BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Indy Reads - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Indy Reads X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://indyreads.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Indy Reads REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230907T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230907T190000 DTSTAMP:20230907T183619Z CREATED:20230907T183619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T183619Z UID:10000001-1694106000-1694113200@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Game Night! DESCRIPTION:Bring your family to our weekly game night.\n\n\nGame night is free for kids and families! Thursdays at 5pm. We have some chess sets and games but feel free to bring along your favorite to play. \nFor more information or questions\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. \n \nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to empower adults and their families through literacy\, English language skills\, and job readiness programming. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-game-night/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/84c2dfdeae835a0d8b9bbbe1eb4e6cab-7xb2sX.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230908T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230908T130000 DTSTAMP:20230907T183622Z CREATED:20230907T183622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T183622Z UID:10000003-1694174400-1694178000@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Volunteer Info Session\, In-Person DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Indy Reads Community! We are so excited to have you as a volunteer with us!\n\n\nThank you for your interest in volunteering with Indy Reads! Please click the link on this page to register for the Volunteer Info Session date you selected on the survey. \n \nIn-Person Sessions are at 12pm on every 2nd Friday! \n \nIf you are interested in a Virtual Info Session\, those take place on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 6pm. You will need to register on the Virtual Info Session EventBrite. \n \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to email volunteer@indyreads.org. \n\n\n\nWhile you’re here\, support Indy Reads by following our social media! \n \nFacebook\, Twitter\, Instagram. \n \nAlso\, don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter! URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-volunteer-info-session-in-person/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/89e578e6c8a6099765be961d2e991445-E3WrDp.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230914T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230914T190000 DTSTAMP:20230907T183625Z CREATED:20230907T183625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T183625Z UID:10000006-1694710800-1694718000@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Game Night! DESCRIPTION:Bring your family to our weekly game night.\n\n\nGame night is free for kids and families! Thursdays at 5pm. We have some chess sets and games but feel free to bring along your favorite to play. \nFor more information or questions\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. \n \nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to empower adults and their families through literacy\, English language skills\, and job readiness programming. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-game-night-2/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/84c2dfdeae835a0d8b9bbbe1eb4e6cab-7xb2sX.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230916T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230916T113000 DTSTAMP:20230915T140903Z CREATED:20230907T183626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T140903Z UID:10000007-1694860200-1694863800@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Illustrator Candice Hartsough: Bing Bang Pling DESCRIPTION:Meet and color with local illustrator Candice Hartsough during Art Squared\n\n\nThe Event \nCelebrate Art Squared with local illustrator Candice Hartsough. After reading Bing Bang Pling\, Candice will share coloring pages for the entire family. Signed copies of the book will be available to purchase. Recommended for ages 3+. \nThis event is Pay What You Can — Here’s what your Suggested Donation can do for the Indy Reads community: \nFREE – This ticket is for attendees that would like to attend this event and are unable to purchase a ticket. Indy Reads values our community and facilitators. We are proud to provide programming to all. Thank you for being a part of our community! \n$10 – This donation covers the cost of one attendee to this event. Indy Reads strives to bring the very best programming to Fountain Square and all Hoosiers. Thank you for helping us to keep our quality programs accessible for all! \n$20 – This donation covers the cost of two attendees to this event. If you are attending as an individual\, your ticket at this level makes it possible for another who cannot afford a ticket to attend. It is only through the generosity of our community that we are able to support programs that enrich the lives of all Hoosiers. Thank you for your support! \nOther – “Pay What You Can” really does mean pay what you can. Indy Reads appreciates that every one of our community members is able to support our vision of 100% literacy for all in different ways. Whether you can pay $5 or $50\, we are so excited to see you – and thank you for your support! \n \nFor more information\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. \n \nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to empower adults and their families through literacy\, English language skills\, and job readiness programming. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. \n\n\n\nAbout the Illustrator \nCandice Hartsough is an illustrator based in Indianapolis\, Indiana. Despite being a real actual grownup she finds her greatest joy creating children’s illustrations. Her style is simple\, yet attention and care are paid to small details. Her color palettes are bright and inviting\, and her expressive characters take center stage. \nSince graduating from The Herron School of Art in 2005 she has illustrated for children’s books\, magazines\, small and large businesses and non profits\, travelled the Midwest selling prints of her work\, and participated in group and solo gallery shows. You will often find her making little weird sketches\, curled up with some embroidery\, or surrounded by her husband\, three children\, and crazy dog. \n\n\n\nAbout This Book \nBING BANG PLING \nTwist the ratchet. CLACK\, CLICK\, CLACK. Now a hammer. Just one THWACK! Celebrating the pride in a job well done\, BING\, BANG\, PLING is a charming ode to backyard fun. Join in the fun as a young girl helps her mom and dad build a swing set. In simple rhyming verse\, children learn the names and sounds of the different tools and what they are used for as each tool has a job to do. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/illustrator-candice-hartsough-bing-bang-pling/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/f7980f6cb11b1b8502b9f0b162eaa30b-xemnuu.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230918T203000 DTSTAMP:20250306T144643Z CREATED:20230907T183627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T144643Z UID:10000008-1695063600-1695069000@indyreads.org SUMMARY:An Evening with Katie Barnes DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with award-winning journalist Katie Barnes on September 18 at VisionLoft Stutz to celebrate the release of Fair Play.\n\n\nIndy Reads and the Indiana Youth Group are excited to host an evening with award-winning journalist Katie Barnes on September 18 at VisionLoft Stutz to celebrate Fair Play: a richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. Katie will be in discussion with Ali Brown\, a nonprofit executive and City-County Councillor for Indianapolis’ Fifth District. \nThanks to GANGGANG\, all tickets are free\, but you must reserve your seat. \nDoors open at 6:30pm. Discussion begins at 7:00pm. \nWhen placing your reservations\, please select the number of tickets. You may add on a donation\, which will be shared with Indy Reads and Indiana Youth Group. Each book reservation includes tax and service fee. \n\n\n\nFor decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law\, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school\, college\, and professionally\, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play\, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena\, where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades\, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on that very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is crumbling as a result of intense culture wars. Whether we are talking aboutbathrooms\, gender affirming care for trans youth\, or sports\, the debate about who gets to decide gender is being litigated every day in every community. Many transgender and intersex athletes\, from a South African runner\, to a wrestler in Texas\, to Connecticut track stars\, to a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania\, have captured the attention of law and policy makers who want to decide how and when they compete. \nWomen’s sports\, since their inception\, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward. \n“I am beyond excited that Katie Barnes wrote this book\, because I know I’m not alone when I say I often find myself increasingly confused and agitated by the debates swirling around trans athletes and women’s sports. Katie is uniquely qualified to write this book\, as they have covered trans athletes extensively for ESPN & identify as non-binary. This book will help you better understand this very important topic of our time. It really is a must read given how divisive this issue has become.” \n—Julie Foudy\, two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist\, and current ESPN broadcaster \n\n\n\nKATIE BARNES (they/them) is an award-winning journalist covering the intersection of sports and gender for ESPN. Barnes is a three-time GLAAD Award nominee\, a nominee for the prestigious Dan Jenkins Medal\, and they were named the 2017 Journalist of the Year by NLGJA – The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. They were an executive producer on “Mack Wrestles\,” an ESPN 30 for 30 short documentary that premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and was shortlisted for awards by Critic’s Choice\, NY DOCS and the International Documentary Association. This is their first book. \n\n\n\nALI BROWN is a nonprofit executive and City-County Councillor for Indianapolis’ Fifth District. From her activist work with organizations like Freedom Indiana to her efforts connecting people with new careers as a workforce development nonprofit executive\, Ali has dedicated her life to empowering people and lifting up her community. She is currently the Executive Director of the Indianapolis Propylaeum Historic Foundation\, one of Indiana’s oldest women’s organizations that is focused on leadership\, arts & culture\, and historic preservation. \nAli has been married to her husband\, Zach\, for more than seven years and their son\, Dylan\, attends elementary school in Lawrence Township Schools. Ali is a Ball State graduate and was a 4 year varsity letterer on the Division 1 Ball State Women’s Track and Field Team. \n\n\n\nCreating spaces for LGBTQ+ young people since 1987. \nIndiana Youth Group (IYG) serves young people ages 12-24 who self-identify as LGBTQ+\, as well as their ally peers. All programs and services are offered free of charge. \nIYG strives to provide safer spaces to build self-confidence\, explore individualism\, and develop friendships within the LGBTQ+ community. \nWe also advocate for LGBTQ+ youth in schools\, the community\, and through family support services. \n\n\n\nGANGGANG activates the creative economy to center beauty and culture in cities. We believe that culture brings humanity together and that art challenges mindsets. It is our vision to build new ecosystems that center the care and economic viability of creatives. We do that via programming\, advocacy and production. Thank you for considering a collaboration with GANGGANG to make all spaces more vibrant and equitable by way of the creative economy. \n\n\n\nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to build the literacy\, English language\, and job readiness skills to empower adults and families to reach their full potential. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. \nFor more information\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/an-evening-with-katie-barnes/ LOCATION:Visionloft Events Stutz\, 1060 North Capitol Avenue\, #Suite 1-102\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/da24c5b2793f2b006e17a73aff46bb9f-LoxQ83.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230921T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230921T190000 DTSTAMP:20230915T140905Z CREATED:20230907T183628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T140905Z UID:10000009-1695315600-1695322800@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Game Night! DESCRIPTION:Bring your family to our weekly game night.\n\n\nGame night is free for kids and families! Thursdays at 5pm. We have some chess sets and games but feel free to bring along your favorite to play. \nFor more information or questions\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. \n \nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to empower adults and their families through literacy\, English language skills\, and job readiness programming. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-game-night-3/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/84c2dfdeae835a0d8b9bbbe1eb4e6cab-7xb2sX.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230927T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230927T190000 DTSTAMP:20230927T165745Z CREATED:20230907T183629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T165745Z UID:10000010-1695837600-1695841200@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Volunteer Info Session\, Virtual DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Indy Reads Community! We are so excited to have you as a volunteer with us!\n\n\nThank you for your interest in volunteering with Indy Reads! Please click the link on this page to register for the Volunteer Info Session date that works best for you! \n \nVirtual Info Sessions are at 6pm on every 4th Wednesday! \n \nIf you register for the Virtual Info Session\, you will receive an email with the Zoom link prior to the session. \n \nIf you are interested in an In-Person Info Session\, those take place on the 2nd Friday of the month at 12pm. You will need to register on the In-Person Info Session EventBrite. \n \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to email volunteer@indyreads.org. \n\n\n\nWhile you’re here\, support Indy Reads by following our social media! \n \nFacebook\, Twitter\, Instagram. \n \nAlso\, don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter! URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-volunteer-info-session-virtual/ LOCATION:IN ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ec197be6528dbd25b3f4916b273bed28-5vpNcz.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230928T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230928T190000 DTSTAMP:20230927T165745Z CREATED:20230907T183630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T165745Z UID:10000011-1695920400-1695927600@indyreads.org SUMMARY:Indy Reads Game Night! DESCRIPTION:Bring your family to our weekly game night.\n\n\nGame night is free for kids and families! Thursdays at 5pm. We have some chess sets and games but feel free to bring along your favorite to play. \nFor more information or questions\, please email bookstore@indyreads.org. \n \nIndy Reads is a 501c3 nonprofit. Our mission is to empower adults and their families through literacy\, English language skills\, and job readiness programming. For more information about Indy Reads and the students we serve\, visit our website at indyreads.org. URL:https://indyreads.org/event/indy-reads-game-night-4/ LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/84c2dfdeae835a0d8b9bbbe1eb4e6cab-WUvFfy.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR