We hosted 5x5: Indianapolis Arts and Innovation's MAKE Your City, Make it Happen last month. Here's a quick look at what happened, who won, and what's next!

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PUP to present 5x5: Indianapolis Arts and Innovation; Make Your City: Make It Happen offering $10,000 prize, PROPOSALS are due March 15. MAKING is critical to how the arts, design, and innovation shape our urban environment. PUPs 5x5 arts innovation competition, applicants are challenged to submit proposals for high impact projects that can be executed in an extremely short timeline. Completed by June 28, 2013.

On April 12, PUP and several innovative local partners will will host the 5x5 series second event. 
The theme is Make Your City: Make it Happen. Open Call Submissions are due March 15. Submission requirements and details can be found here. Five will be selected to present their idea on 5 slides in 5 minutes. Presentations will take place at a free public event at Indianapolis Fabrications (1125 Brookside Ave, Suite G50) on April 12 at 7 p.m.

Collaborators helping PUP on the event — including with the selection and judging of ideas — include Indianapolis Fabrications, We Are City, URBN DSGN, Indianapolis International Network (IIN), Centric Indy, Bayonet Media, Civic Center of New Orleans and special guest Hiba Abdallah, Research Fellow at Broken City Lab from Windsor, Ontario.

5x5: Indianapolis Arts and Innovation is a year long series of four themed idea-pitching events funded by Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), the Efroymson Family Fund and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. At each, an idea will be awarded $10,000. Big Car announced Round 1 winner on February 8. The next two 5x5 events — hosted by local nonprofits IndyHub and Harrison Center for the Arts — take place in June and September.

We've accomplished a great deal in the past four years by staying focused and true to our mission of DOING. As we plan for 2013, we'd love for you to be a part of that in a greater way.

• $20: Covers an hour of product prototyping time. (75 anticipated hours needed in 2013.)
• $100: Sponsors a Volunteer Day. (4 scheduled days in 2013.)
• $300: Covers material storage for a month.
• $850: Provides one (1) new PUPstop - An IndyGo bus stop with refurbished Bush Stadium Seats. (5 have been installed, anticipate installing 30 more in 2013.)
• $1500: Pays for a workday to process materials. (Estimated 10 days needed in 2013 - Need to tackle 5 workdays in January 2013.)

You or your company can make a contribution through our secure giving site or contact amy@peopleup.org.

Thank you for your continued support and following our work.

Four new PUPstops were installed last month at Nora, Broad Ripple, Ivy Tech, and Garfield Park Library. We've got 5 more stops lined up for early next year. Help sponsor more stops here.

How the magic happens.

We have officially launched the PUPstop program in partnership with IndyGo. Perhaps you've noticed some new Bush Stadium Seat installations around town? Do you invision these seats in a neighborhood near you? Read more about the program and put in your request here!

This information serves the 829,718 people that call the Nation's 12th Biggest City, Home. Sponsored by the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Save a copy.

Location: Highland Vicinity Park (29th and Capitol). In collaboration with the Highland Vicinity Neighborhood, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Boise Cascade, Synthesis and Indianapolis Fabrications, PUP developed and installed a shade structure for this amazing urban community. It was invisioned back in 2008, that the RCA Dome roof top would provide shade throughout Indianapolis.

We hope that you take advantage of this new pocket park for impromptu meetings among neighbors, community gatherings, or simply a place to grab some shade.

You may have already heard, we have been working diligently here on ways to repurpose over 5 miles of Super Bowl Signage. Hours of thinking, planning, trying new things we are happy to announce the first round of items will be available First Friday, April 6 exclusively at PUP offices (1043 Virginia Ave, Suite 213) as well as available at Outpost, Indianapolis Local Apparel (located on street level next to La Margarita).

New items include wallets made from heavy duty vinyl signage. Shower curtains that are repurposed fence wrap used here in the city. And finally, beach bags made from a vinyl material we thought, simply made for the beach!