Check this page for upcoming events at the depot!
The third annual Depot Day Festival has been postponed until Saturday, September 25, 2021 due to concerns about public safety during this pandemic. Mark your calendars, stay safe, and we will see you next year!
first annual depot day festival, September 22, 2018!
visit the event website for details:
www.floradepotfestival.weebly.com
Frankenslam! Thursday, july 26, 2018 6:30 p.m.
Adam Henze is a doctoral candidate in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education program at Indiana University, and works as a Research Associate at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. He is one of the founders of Slam Camp, a summer writing academy for teenage poets, and is the director of The Power of a Sentence, a creative writing program at the Indiana Women's Prison. Adam is the official poet of the Indianapolis 500, and serves as the Vice President of Southern Fried Poetry, Inc., which hosts one of the longest running poetry slam festivals in the world. He has one book of poetry, "Written in the Dish Pit," published by Chatter House Press. This year Adam will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein as a part of the Indiana Humanities Speakers Bureau, and will be performing monstrous poems all over the state of Indiana.
Seventeen people brought lawn chairs and blankets to the Flora Depot for FrankenSlam! The event was held in conjunction with the evening Farmers Market in downtown Flora, and special merchant events and sales.