Location: Joy's House
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Joy’s House is a safe and loving community devoted to safety, comfort and care. People are always asking how we came up with the name Joy's House for our adult day service. We liked the comfort that came with going to visit someone and the idea of what it takes to build a house. It made sense. Then came the second obstacle — choosing a name. We knew it was a “house,” but whose house was it? Then one day it just hit us — Joy! Not a person, but an amazing emotion.

Location: Indy Fringe
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

In 2001, Mayor Bart Peterson announced his Cultural Tourism Initiative, and appointed Keira Amstutz to oversee the project. Kathleen Robbins, a theatre transplant from New York City, organized a public meeting, “Theatre City Indianapolis 2012,” where the Mayor met with a panel of experts (Brian Payne, Margot Eccles, Dante Ventresca, Rob MacPherson, Ann Stack, David Hoppe) and more than 250 Indianapolis citizens. The group, asked to imagine what theatre in Indy might look like in ten years, brainstormed more than two hours. A few weeks later the same panel met to review the results of the meeting, and the single best idea—the one that met the most needs expressed in the room—was the idea of an Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival. Some seed money was given by Central Indiana Community foundation to support research and travel for the project, and IndyFringe was born.

Event: Monday After Party
Location: Zonie's Closet