Duane Busick Video

This is the trailer for my documentary on Jasper Strassenfest. Strassenfest is the Jasper community’s annual celebration of its German heritage.

This week during Strassenfest Jasper Community Arts will be screening my documentary throughout the first three days of the festival. Showings in the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center Black Box Theatre begin at 11:30 on Thursday & Friday and at 10am on Saturday. 100 3rd Ave. Suite A Jasper, IN 47546

DVDs of the documentary are available for purchase for $25 at the Jasper Chamber of Commerce
302 W 6th St Jasper, IN 47546
I’m donating $10 to the support of Strassenfest for each DVD sold.

First held in 1979, Strassenfest has grown into a four-day community celebration that is one of Indiana's finest festivals.
This program documents the institutional history of Jasper Strassenfest and explores the reemergence of the area’s community pride in their German culture and ancestry after two generations of suppression after World War I. It’s the culmination of over five years of gathering oral history and capturing the sights and sounds of events and activities that reflect the rich cultural heritage of this part of southern Indiana.

Bloomington Climate Strike was a Day of Action, organized by the IU Sunrise Movement and Golden Bicycle Extinction Rebellion US. The event was a part of a Global Climate Strike day taking place across the world. Students from the Bloomington Project School, Harmony School, Indiana University and Bloomington High Schools North and South were part of the school strike element of the movement. Protesters marched from a rally in Dunn Meadow across the Indiana University campus, to People's Park and down Kirkwood Avenue to City Hall and of Bloomington, IN - Office of the Mayor. Eliza Nancy & Ross E Martinie Eiler did an outstanding job in organizing the rally & march.

Bloomington's Pop-Up Farmers' Market - Bloomingfoods and the Monroe County Growers Association had only two days to arrange and organize an alternative farmers' market after Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced a two-week suspension of the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market. The weather was cooperative and the town turned out to support the Market vendors at Bloomington's Pop-Up Farmers' Market yesterday in the K-Mart parking lot on the east side of town.
One of the vendors at yesterday's Market called this, the Lemonade Market. When the world deals you lemons....
Thanks to Travis Puntarelli and Kevin Weinberg for providing me a wonderfully poignant sound track to work with for this video.