Change Your World
This Common Theme invites IUPUI students, staff and faculty and the broader community to a two-year discussion about how to change the world around them. Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many. [More..]
Change Your World Film Festival
An Exciting Campus/Community Collaboration!
March 20-April 20
"Not My Life"
Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, "Not My Life" features more than fifty interviews with human trafficking victims and their advocates in government, law enforcement, civil society, and the private sector. From 10 year-old girls raped in USA truck stops or brothels in India; to street beggars in Africa; to domestic servants in Washington, DC.
- Wednesday, March 20 at 7:00 p.m.
- IUPUI Campus Center Theater
- FREE and open to the public, with discussion to follow.
"Half the Sky"
COMMUNITY PARTNER EVENT
The award-winning documentary based upon the best-selling book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. These are stories of heartbreaking challenge, dramatic transformation and enduring hope. You will be shocked, outraged, brought to tears. Most important, you will be inspired by the resilience of the human spirit and the capabilities of women and girls to realize their staggering potential. "Half the Sky" is a passionate call-to-arms, urging us not only to bear witness to the plight of the world's women, but to help to transform their oppression into opportunity. Our future is in the hands of women, everywhere.
- Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m.
- Butler University, Jordan Hall 141
"Fambul Tok"
"Fambul Tok" tells the story of healing in post-conflict Sierra Leone through the intimate stories of perpetrators and victims.
- Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m.
- IUPUI University Library Lilly Auditorium
- FREE and open to the public, with discussion to follow
"Kinyarwanda"
COMMUNITY PARTNER EVENT
At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. "Kinyarwanda" recounts how Muslims gave refuge to the Tutsi and those Hutu who refused to participate in the killings.
- Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m.
- University of Indianapolis, Ransburg Auditorium
Change Your World
A selection of extraordinary films from local social entrepreneurs, including The Village Experience, SOHO, Mercy Foundation, OBAT Helpers, Provocate Haiti, and Timmy Global Health.
- Tuesday, April 16, 7-9 p.m.
- IUPUI University Library Lilly Auditorium
- FREE and open to the public, with discussion to follow
Campecine Film Festival
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP EVENT
Campecine Film Festival (from the Latino/a Youth Collective)
Indiana’s first Latino/a film festival featuring the work of students.
- Saturday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m.
- Indianapolis Museum of Art, DeBoest Lecture Hall
Join Us
IUPUI Social Entrepreneurship Network on LinkedIn
You may also join the "Social Entrepreneurs" project site in Oncourse by searching on "social entrepreneurs" in Oncourse, or by contacting Kathleen Hanna (kgreatba@iupui.edu) to be added manually.
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