9/11 Anniversary Events Schedule

In memoriam: 10 years since 9/11
The City of Bloomington and Ivy Tech's 9/11 remembrance ceremony will take place on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. in front of Ivy Tech's main campus, 200 Daniels Way. Speakers will include Bloomington Metropolitan Fire Fighters Union Local 586 President Bob Loviscek, Mayor Mark Kruzan and Ivy Tech Chancellor John Whikehart. The Monroe County American Legion Honor Guard and the Bloomington Metropolitan Firefighters Pipes & Drums band also will perform. The Indiana DeCycles will present Bloomington's beam from the World Trade Center along with a flag that was flown there. Following the ceremony there will be a Remnant Trust reception in the main lobby of the campus.

Indiana University remembers 9/11
Indiana University Bloomington will hold a remembrance service on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. on the steps of the IU Auditorium. Speakers include IU President Michael McRobbie, Mayor Mark Kruzan and Robert Loviscek, president of the Bloomington Metropolitan Fire Fighters Union Local 586. The event also will feature a performance by Heidi Grant Murphy a soprano who has appeared with many of the world's top opera companies and symphony orchestras, and a beam from the World Trade Center on display.

A heart to heart
Bloomington Sharing Heart to Heart will occur on Friday, Sept 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Islamic Center of Bloomington, 1925 East Atwater Ave. It will be a free, informal event where all can come for fellowship and ice cream.

Interdenominational perspectives
There will be a panel discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 7 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. Topics discussed will include the events of 9/11 and the ramifications for community, tolerance and freedom. The panel will be made up of Faiz Rahman, an associate professor at IU; Jasjit Singh, the associate executive director of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Rev. Linda C. Johnson, the Episcopal Chaplain to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association; and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. The event is sponsored by the IU Asian Culture Center, the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and the La Casa Latino Culture Center.

The words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
An audio recording of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Riverside Church speech will be played on Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Second Baptist Church. After the speech there will be a reflection on the major points of the speech, the points that connect to the events of 9/11 and the personal actions that can be taken for the present and future. The event is sponsored by the City of Bloomington, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission and the Monroe County Religious Leaders.

Crane Naval Base Ceremony
The Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, Naval Support Activity Crane and the Crane Army Ammunition Activity will host a 9/11 anniversary memorial ceremony and lunch at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8. The memorial will be held at the Crane POW/MIA grove and will include music, remarks and the laying of a wreath. Senior Crane leaders will speak, as well as Crane personnel who were at the Pentagon during the attack. The lunch will follow at Crane's Club Lakeview.

Remembrance by five local congregations
Five congregations - First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), First United Church, First Presbyterian Church, First United Methodist Church, and Trinity Episcopal Church - will join to offer the community the opportunity to come together to remember 9/11/01.

Starting at 8 pm on September 11, the doors of First Christian Church, 205 E. Kirkwood, will be open for those wishing to use the sanctuary for individual prayer.

At 8:45 pm, meditative music will be offered, followed by a 9-9:15 pm service of prayer, scripture reading, silence, and song. Those who wish to remain in the sanctuary following the service may do so. Prayer cards and candles will be available. Clergy members will also be present to pray with individuals as requested.

"Simplicity, silence, psalms, and sacred space will be the touch stones of this service of remembrance and hope," said the Rev. Helen Hempfling Enari of First Christian Church . "We simply want to give the community the opportunity to come together - as we did ten years ago - to find the solace and comfort and reconciliation that comes to praying with others."

In preparation for this service, participating members of each congregation will have the opportunity to write prayers on cards during their regular Sunday morning worship services. The prayer cards will then be offered during the joint evening service.

Prayers for Peace and Unity: An Interfaith Service of Hope for the Future
Indiana University First Nations Educational and Cultural Center will be hosting an interfaith service on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 3 p.m. in the Georgian Room of the Indiana University Memorial Union.