Advocacy, authorship and economic justice: GANGGANG’s plans for 2024

Putting Indianapolis artists on a global stage with BUTTER was just the start for GANGGANG. The culture development firm announced its plans for the first three quarters of 2024, leaning into the idea of authorship and identity as a means of economic justice and reparations, Alan Bacon, co-founder of GANGGANG said.  “I think in December, the world might be like, ‘Wow, like out of Indianapolis?’” because I think that that’s how much larger this advocacy will go,” Mali Bacon, co-founder and executive director of GANGGANG, said. “I hope that that programming and our message has gone so global that the narrative in Indiana changes.” Part of that narrative is already starting to change, Alan Bacon added, referencing the couple’s appointment to co-chairs of the creative council of the 2024 NBA All-Stars Weekend. The first of three of GANGGANG’s large-scale events in the city this year, the 2024 NBA All-Stars Game is providing a unique intersection for sports and arts to showcase Indiana’s long history with basketball while highlighting the diverse talent of the working artists in the city, Mali Bacon said. “We were always in the mindset of knowing that this event was coming to Indianapolis, just knowing just the...