A group dedicated to preserving and promoting America's native music - jazz. All stlyes and denominations, from swing to bebop to modern. A resource for jazz musicians, educators and patrons.

Meet other local writers and let creativity bloom! Come to a Writers Meetup to review work, trade literary tips, make friends and have fun! All writers -- and should-be writers -- are welcome!

You Want to Write If you want to write or improve your writing, then you've come to the right place. Pen to Paper is Indianapolis's premier authors' group.  Founded in 2009, Pen to Paper has been steadily growing ever since, gaining new members and expanding its events. Where to Start So, you're new to the group.  How does it work? Please go to our website and get all the details: Get the basics www.pentopaperblog.org/what-we-do/ FAQ's www.pentopaperblog.org/faqs/ Your Next Step Get your feet …

The Indy Webcomics Group is a monthly meetup group for artists and writers in the graphic storytelling medium based in Indiana. The group is open to all those looking for interaction and community with other creatives in the area. Share your work, attend book events, create jam-comics with other artists at your favorite local restaurant or pub. We also have an independent comics blog at www.indywebcomics.com which helps promote and support our group.

A group devoted to creating a better life for everyone through the arts. No art experience needed!!! We all have creative energy that needs to be unleashed! Sometimes it just takes time to dig it up from our childhood. If you would like to work with clay, paint, pencil, paper or any other art medium then this is the forum for upcoming classes, one time workshops and studio events.  We share fundraising events that involve art making for a specific cause.  We also share upcoming events you might …

A forum to actively engage emerging, amateur and professional filmmakers, videographers, photographers, musicians and others who want to become filmmakers or just interested in the film industry. We are based in Indianapolis (Central Indiana) however we seek to connect our talents, collaborate and engage with the greater film community here in the USA and around the world. Anyone with a passion for films, movies, commercials, video, web based content and similar genres is welcome to join!

This group is formed with the intention of bringing the Lesbians out of the woodwork, to come together to build friendships and build a real community in this area.  There are SO MANY cool women out there and SO MANY great and fun things to do.  Some of the plans include hiking, theater, picnics, game nights, movie nights, dinners, bowling, biking club, women's festivals, book clubs, women's music events, golfing club, backpacking, camping, horseback riding, comedy club dates, event caravans,sup …

This is a Place For Fans of Genecy to Meet up and share there love of Comic Books, Art, Movies, Sci Fi , music and all things related to the enjoyment and creative process. Genuine FanS

Hardly anyone reaches adulthood without learning to be silent—to hold it in, suck it up, and put on a smile to please. But we often reach a point in our lives where our truth must come out. We may be afraid, but the need to speak, to break our silence is unbearable and we must find a way to have courage to say how we feel. Our truth may be powerful or shocking. It could be an insight of inspiration that comes to us in a whisper. Or, maybe we aren’t ready to speak yet, but feel the need to liste …

This group is for anyone interested in talking about/doing/building/making/exploring steampunk Hoosier Style We meet roughly the second Tuesday of every month and are currently planing a Steampunk takeover of a restaurant in December, and a Steampunk New Year's Eve party in a downtoown building from the late 1800s. We also have a facebook page http://facebook.com/HeartlandGaslight  like us there for more information as well.

If you want to spread Peace throughout the world so that we have Peace on and with Earth please join with us. We will join together and write and record music that is intended to spread Peace, Love, Tolerance, Awareness, Beauty and all Positive Energy and in various ways get that out to the world and encourage others to do the same no matter who or where they are.......

The SW Ohio Writers & Poets Group offers hands-on workshops and seminars for writers interested in learning a variety of creative techniques to improve their short fiction and poetry. Led by experienced teacher and workshop leader, active writer, and published poet Porter Manring, the single event and multi-week workshops put on by SW Ohio Writers & Poets are held in a comfortable studio and creative arts space in Liberty Twp, just off Rt 4 east of Hamilton, 25 miles from downtown Cinti and 30 m …

This group is dedicated to discussions of the darker side of fiction. Mystery, horror, sci-fi - anything that goes bump in the night. But we'll stray from the authors everyone knows, and discuss up and comers with a preference for local or regional names as well.

Writers: Bring yourselves, leave your work at home. At the Indy WordLab, we're all about experimentation and trying new things with our writing. Each meeting starts with a set theme and puts participants to work with challenging writing prompts built around the strange and unfamiliar. Stop by Indy Reads Books at 7:00 pm on the first Monday of every month to meet local authors and spend just an hour and a half outside of your literary comfort zone.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning desire to succeed, to make it big, and, in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just an id …

Design Thinking Cincy brings together people who are passionate about design, community engagement, and the arts. We share techniques, experiences, and practices. We explore Cincinnati through a creative lens. And, we collaborate to shape a more vibrant community. What Is Design Thinking?: - Wikipedia: ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context. - Stanford d-School: a …

Places everyone! Broadway in Indianapolis has announced their 12/13 season and what a season it is! Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Sister Act, Green Day's American Idiot & West Side Story are all coming to town and this year I thought I'd start a meetup group so theater lovers could join forces and come out to the shows together! Let's start the weekends off right and head to the theater on Thursday night to see a great show! The first show of the season is Billy Elliot The Musical & our meetup will …

I started this group because I want to have fun in Indy with other professional minded people in their 30's. Things I have in mind for this group are going to concerts, good and fun local bars, go out dancing, festivals, art events and anything else that looks like fun.

We are about all things Geeky. Do you believe in The "IDIC" Cons, Comics Movies, Music, Cosplay, Amime , Action Figures, Gaming, and you agree that spelling SyFy is just plan wrong? Do you Want to play Quiddich but just don't know where to go? Have you always love this stuff but just didn't have a place to meet with folks that get YOU, Whelp you've found that right place. We just don't get you We want YOU . w00t :) This group is about all things Geeky Heres a partial list: Comics and Novels · …

This is a group for anyone who is interested in the arts. Whether you're an artist, crafter, or just looking to meet new people, this group is for you.

Indiana is a scenic place for making movies, television and webseries with its varied architecture and landscapes. The state also provides incentives for moviemaking. Indiana has some awesome educational programs producing promising cinematographers, directors, actors, writers and production staff. What is missing is a place and resource to bring all this talent together. The South Central Indiana Film and Independent Media (SCIFIM) group will offer workshops to educate and develop skills, promo …