This Saturday, Marvin Curtis and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present a special film on Juneteenth, the first time the company has performed to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, in 1865.
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This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are trying something new. Our friend John Garry is joining the show to share "prose for the city" with us—shorter episodes that will contain a poetry reading and guided reflections.
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This week we welcome Pam Blair to South Bend on Purpose. Pam is a local artist and organizer of the Poetry Den—a community-based safe stage for the spoken word hosted at the Civil Rights Heritage Center.
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“Doesn’t that place look more like an aquarium than a pumphouse to you?”
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Close your eyes and you can almost see the future. It is 2031. You are in downtown South Bend. You walk to Michigan and Colfax and hop on the streetcar. Where do you want to go? Notre Dame for the football game? The Farmers’ Market for breakfast? Mishawaka for a bar where you can smoke cigarettes inside? Pick one. The tram will take you there.
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We could go up on the tracks? is one of my favorite texts to send. Last year, I made a short film about what happens next. Today, here’s episode two, produced by Ryan Blaske.
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A couple of weeks ago, I met up with Ryan Blaske and Nik Guiney for a Saturday morning stroll in Miami Village, a neighborhood on South Bend’s southeast side anchored by a string of storefronts, churches, homes, and a cemetery along Miami Street.
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Life during a South Bend winter is life under the permacloud. As the city wakes up with signs of spring, we reflect on the tolls and strange blessings of this uniquely cold and lonely season.
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Over the past year, Ryan Blaske’s stories with us have centered around his simple practice of walking the city with a camera in hand. Today, he continues this thread with a new friend along for the stroll.
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In 1919, Busse Baking company built a new, modern bakery in the heart of South Bend's Near Northwest neighborhood. Today, a team of incremental developers is reimagining the building as a collaborator village.
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