Make an Offer
2018-06-01 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In the series “Make An Offer” , Jacob Gardner utilizes illustration, printmaking and sound as media to discuss the depth of the human condition. Gardner investigates repetition of form in the communication of emotion.

99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country Presents Mike & The Moonpies
2018-06-08 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
On-stage and on record, Austin’s Mike and the Moonpies keep the torch of Texas country burning. Whether it’s a hardcore two-step, freewheeling Western swing, Doug Sahm‘s Cosmic American Music, or George Strait‘s sweet, burnished ballads, Mike and the Moonpies tap into the traditions of the Lone Star State, yet their music feels nimble and fresh thanks to their deft interplay and sly touch.
A nascent version of Mike and the Moonpies premiered in 2008, with guitarist Catlin Rutherford leading a variety of musicians through a Monday night residency at the Hole in the Wall, a dive on the University of Texas drag. Toward 2010, the band solidified around Rutherford, vocalist Mike Harmeier, steel guitarist Zach Moulton, drummer Kyle Ponder, and bassist Preston Rhone, with this lineup releasing the independent The Real Country that year. Pianist John Carbone joined in 2011 and the band claimed the East Side venue the White Horse as its new Austin haunt. The following year found the band releasing its second album, The Hard Way.
After the release of The Hard Way, Mike and the Moonpiescontinued to tour regularly, expanding to the rest of Texas. The group’s third album, 2015’s Mockingbird, began to earn the group attention outside of Texas. After delivering a double live album called Live at WinStar World Casino & Resort in 2016, the group returned in early 2018 with its fourth studio album, Steak Night at the Prairie Rose. (source: Allmusic.com- written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-06-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves, each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by placeing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a inprovosation set.

Pack The Parks-Garfield
2018-06-30 10:00 - 22:00
Art activities, concert and live music at various locations in Garfield Park.
The Garfield Park Art Center is open 10-4 pm with activities.
Crossroads Brass Band concert at the McAllister Center, 3p.m.
First Annual Garfield Park Music Festival
PARTY begins at 5PM
EVENT from 6-10PM

LINEUP:
Rebekah Osborn | 6:00-6:35
Chad Lehr | 6:45-7:20
Kacie Swierk | 7:30-8:05
Danni Al Mar | 8:15-8:50
Brandon Wadley Music | 9:00-9:45
Featuring some of Indianapolis’ prime songwriters for an evening of stories, songs, friendship, joy, and neighbors!
WHAT TO BRING:
lawn chair or blanket + your beautiful self
FREE ENTRY // ALL AGES
(donations encouraged to help next year happen!)
FOOD TRUCKS:
(TBA)

Wagon of Wonders at Garfield Park
2018-07-13 19:00 - 23:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Garfield Park Art Center is presenting the film CoCo at dusk, with a preshow concert by LABi – Latin American Band of Indianapolis. Big Car’s mobile museum, the Wagon of Wonders will be there with art activities.
About the movie Coco
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
1 hour 45minutes
At the MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 7pm.

Kevin Krauter presented by Winspear, LUNA music and Tube Factory
2018-07-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Useful Solitude. That’s the phrase Kevin Krauter uses to describe Toss Up, his upcoming full-length debut on Bayonet Records—both the conditions in which it was created and the prevailing theme of these nine iridescent indie-pop songs. In between tours, the Indiana musician spent long hours in his basement, guitars and vintage keyboards his only company, and tested out ideas, explored new sonic avenues, savored new sounds, and taught himself how to play a few instruments.
“I would wake up and have a cup of coffee, then I’d come up with a song or a melody and just sit and play it literally for three or four hours straight. Then I’d try to find new ways to play it, or do it with different notes or on different instruments. I don’t want to call it meditating, but it was pretty meditative to sit there by myself and play the same thing over and over and over and over.” The riffs and melodies became mantras, repeated back to himself until they became the rhythmically intricate, melodically bold, and emotionally complex songs on Toss Up. An insightful songwriter with a lyrical style that is both economical and evocative, Krauter crafts unique soundscapes that scramble a range of influences: ‘60s flower pop, ‘70s easy listening, ‘80s New Wave, ‘90s alt-radio, ’00s indie rock.
A gentle melancholy pervades the album, but it’s far too imaginative to sound morose or mopey. “You’re singing all alone and you’re dancing all alone,” he sings on “Who Do You Know,” as the guitars crackle and the synths fizz around him. As Toss Up proceeds, Krauter fills the songs with more and more people: a lover in the unabashedly sweet “Keep Falling in Love;” a friend in the album-closing title track who becomes an audience of one. Music becomes the bond between Krauter and the world: “Take my hand ‘cause we’re really alone in this world,” he sings on “Toss Up,” but adds a poignant promise: “I can carry you home.”
Best known as one of several guitar players, songwriters, and vocalists in the Hoosier indie-rock band Hoops, Krauter has been making music all by his lonesome for much longer. He grew up in a family heavily involved in local musical theater, even appearing in three productions of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He played in high school bands, but didn’t get serious about writing and recording until he enrolled at Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. His first efforts — recorded in his dorm room — weren’t intended for any kind of audience, but a friend asked him to record a few tracks for a class project. Eventually those sessions became 2015’s Magnolia EP, a short collection of gentle, gauzy songs that reveal his early obsession with one of his first musical heroes, Vashti Bunyan.
It was his first taste of the music business, and the experience left a huge impression. “I’d never put any music out under my name. I’d never put out a tape before. It all came together quickly.” Krauter began recording and releasing music prolifically, first with Hoops and then on his own. The ChangesEP, released in late 2016, showcases his deft guitar playing, mixing soul-baring songwriting with bossa nova rhythms and intimately lo-fi production. It was supposed to be a low-key release, but Changes became a word-of-mouth hit that amassed a small but avid cult behind it. “I didn’t think it was going to make any huge waves for me, but a lot of people told me they were still listening to it a year or more later. They were living with it, and I thought that was cool.”
Those first two EPs were mostly acoustic, just Krauter, his guitar, and occasionally a brushed snare drum or a textural electric guitar. “I was cool with it for a while, but I wanted to make something that sounded a little more pop.” Recorded at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana, Toss Up builds on the sonic worlds of his first releases, conveying a similar mood with a greater array of instruments and influences. Still, he worked with what he had around him. “I found this old two-stack organ at Goodwill and set it up on top of an old Yamaha teach-yourself keyboard that my mom had. I was playing those over and over.”
You can hear those vintage keyboards merging on “Keep Falling in Love,” which recalls R&B organist Timmy Thomas and West Coast marina pop artists Ned Doheny while showing off Krauter’s strong falsetto. “Rollerskate” audaciously marries a hypnotic keyboard theme to a loping drumbeat based on a popular ‘90s alt-rock hit. “I had been working on that guitar part and it sounded like another pretty folk song, so I thought, What if I put this weird funky beat on top of it? Most of these songs are very groove heavy.”
That is the secret tension on Toss Up, the engine that drives these songs: melody propelled by rhythm, melancholy fended off by the exuberance of simply creating art. “A lot of the songs are about solitude in a very healthy sense, about trying to make it something useful and productive. It was good to center myself in that experience. I was able to get to a place where I was not afraid to be really stoked by what I was doing.” Or, as he declares on “Lonely Boogie”: “I’m all alone and I’m having a good time.”
–Words by Stephen Deusner

Tickets on-sale now: https://ticketf.ly/2HCX5fj
All Ages

Sunken Gardens Beer Garden
2018-07-19 18:00 - 22:00 | Garfield Park Sunken Gardens, 2505 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Enjoy one of Indianapolis’s most beautiful gardens, play some games or simply socialize taking in the sunset and color-changing fountains while having a local craft beer.

Old Soul Presents The DOJO
2018-07-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The DOJO; a (MONTHLY) Hip-Hop showcase that highlights the art of REAL MCing. The DOJO honors tradition and provides a platform to strengthen the local HIP-HOP CULTURE.
All ages welcome. Appropriate for ages 16 & over.
​Hosted by Indy artists, Gritty N’ The Craftman.
Every month, they feature the best Indy emcees.

Sunken Beer Gardens
2018-07-26 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-02 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-09 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-16 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-30 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-09-13 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-09-20 18:00 - 20:30, 2018-09-27 18:00 - 21:30 and 2 more dates | Garfield Park Sunken Gardens, 2505 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Celebrate one of our city’s most beautiful gardens and public places every Thursday evening. Play some games, relax, get creative, and socialize at this family friendly place while taking in the sunset and fountains. And enjoy local craft beer. In partnership with Indianapolis Parks Foundation and Indy Parks and Recreation. And we’re excited to team up, as well, with Friends of Garfield Park, Inc. and multiple local breweries including Sun King Brewing Company, Centerpoint Brewing, Upland Brewing Company, Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis and our neighborhood’s own Garfield Brewery. Part of Big Car’s Spark Placemaking program with promotional support from 99.1 WQRT FM.
Kids and dogs are allowed. You can bring in a picnic. Food trucks will be on hand most nights. All ages. Beer is for 21-plus only and must be purchased. Otherwise free to attend. Some seating available, including hammocks. You can bring your own blanket or lawn chair. The Conservatory will be open to visitors with restrooms at no charge. Art activities, projects, and low-key performances will vary each week. You can always decorate and write your own special sunken garden postcards that we’ll mail for you for free.

Masters Retrospectives: Social Practice & Placemaking
2018-08-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Showcasing the work of UIndy Social Practice students! In the last year, they have engaged many communities, cultures & arts practices. The gallery show will highlight thesis projects & other projects from throughout the program.
Additional events are planned during the show to highlight individual projects in social practice art and creative placemaking.
About the thesis projects:
In Place is a series of pop-up events that create space for community connection through social exchange. For example, this summer Lauren Ditchley and a team of five TeenWorks youth employees collaborated with Joanna Taft of the Harrison Center to produce seven porch parties at the homes of longtime residents in the Monon 16 neighborhood. At each porch party, teens and residents shared lunch and responded to prompts such as, “How long have you lived here?” and “What was your first job?” The collaborative team share these conversations and tips for hosting your own porch party in a zine based on video and sound recordings, photos, and journals.
Arranged Encounters is a project by Linnea Gartin that records and archives the stories of women in the Midwest experiencing contemporary society. Through podcast episodes and a curated exhibition of artifacts from the interview experience, the goal is to expose the common woman’s wisdom, story, and perspective on the world. The twist is each episode is recorded in a different environment and questions are pulled at random by the guest.
Brittany Kugler, with No Exit Performance, is launching the Theatrical Assets Library in the late summer of 2018. The Theatrical Assets Library is an opportunity for performance groups in Indianapolis to join their assets, like costumes and sets, together. This will allow those groups to save money, increase green initiatives, and grow professional opportunities.
Emma Landwerlen’s Queer Between Coasts is an ongoing archive examining LGBT lives in the Midwest through personal interviews, ephemera, and art. The project also explores what it means to be visibly queer in the midwest, an act that can feel simultaneously powerful and vulnerable.
Easel Eats, by Danielle Wilborn, combines thoughtful discussion of the meaning behind an artists work with an informal shared meal of the artists choosing in an attempt to share the power of storytelling through art and how it can be used to launch community conversations. Participating artists will be shadowed during their work and all project documentation will be placed in a multimedia collection and made public.

Juan William Chávez: Mesa Hive:Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary
2018-08-03 18:00 - 2018-10-20 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Mesa Hive: Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary
Opening reception August 3, 6-10pm
These connected projects — related to bees, beekeeping, culture, and community — include an outdoor living sculpture and a resulting exhibit developed by Juan William Chávez, an artist and cultural activist based in St. Louis, during his six-week residency at Tube Factory.
The Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary is a 5-year project in the green space adjacent to Tube Factory that promotes environmental stewardship with the philosophy that a better environment for bees is a healthy environment for humans. This is fostered through Chávez’s pollinator-friendly hexagon design and is associated with a multi layered community outreach program. Located in the Tube Factory’s community garden, the Bee Sanctuary features a multi-color hexagon pattern concrete floor that houses two beehives. Surrounding the hives is a hexagon-shaped cedar eco wall filled with organic soil and is filled with an abundance of native plants and flowers for bees throughout the seasons. The Bee Sanctuary invites the public to wear beekeeping suits to observe and interact with the hives through a multi layered community outreach program that embraces the urban ecosystem, arts education and job training. The Bee Sanctuary embraces the concept of working as a hive. Chávez teamed up with TeenWorks Indianapolis on the construction of the sanctuary. TeenWorks is a six-week summer employment and college readiness program for high school seniors. Along with helping build, TeenWorks young people experienced several educational workshops that focus on ecology, plant biology, landscape design, beekeeping and entrepreneurship. Public programming continues over the next five years related to the Bee Sanctuary.
In Tube Factory’s main gallery, Chávez exhibits Mesa Hive, a multimedia Installation that highlights the process and construction of the Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary. The installation is presented on a large Mylar survival blanket with carefully arranged objects and artifacts created and harvested during the construction process. These objects are juxtaposed with new paintings made by Chávez during the residency. The survival blanket is inspired by Chávez’s Peruvian heritage. It references Mesa, a multicolored bundle containing various sacred objects used for healing in Andean shamanic rituals typically associated with a Huaca, a monument or natural location that represents something revered. The exhibition also includes photo and video documentation of TeenWorks, Chávez, and Big Car artists — led by Elliot Thornton — working on the sanctuary. Documentation includes preparing over 300 hexagon concrete pavers and beekeeping and gardening activities in partnership with Bee Public and Solful Gardens. Mesa Hive is curated by Shauta Marsh.
“I’m inspired by artist Joseph Beuys’ works with bees. He viewed bees as a symbol of society due to the nature of how they live and work together. He was also fascinated by the alchemy of honey production and used honey in many of his works. The collectiveness of the hive is a powerful and natural way of living and working. Working together to transform ideas and space plays a major role in my work. Bees teach me how to work within a group, how to build space as a group, how to transform ideas to make honey, and the alchemy of the studio within an ecosystem. For me bees and humans are the same. We enjoy a lot of the same plants and smells. We need them and they need us. A better environment for the bees is a better environment for humans, and as humans we forget that we are part of an ecosystem. Bees remind me of that, which keeps me grounded and connected.
Over the last five years in St. Louis we’ve been honing our concept and practice of a bee sanctuary and feel we were in a position and had the right partnership to try to take that concept to a different city. We are super excited that Indianapolis and the Tube Factory were an ideal partnership for this project.” – Juan William Chávez
The project is made possible by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, PNC, Penrod Arts Fair, The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs, Sun King Brewing and Managed Health Services.
About Chávez
Juan William Chávez is an artist and cultural activist who creates and shares space in the built and natural environments to address community-identified issues. At the heart of Chavez’s practice is his studio research, which includes drawings, films, photographs, craft, labor, architectural interventions, and unconventional forms of beekeeping and agriculture. Chávez utilizes art as a way of researching, developing, and implementing projects of creative placemaking and social engagement. His exhibitions feature his studio research in the form of multimedia installations. Chavez has exhibited his work at venues such as ArtPace, Van Abbemuseum, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, 21c Museum Hotel, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. His interdisciplinary approach to art has gained the attention and support of prestigious institutions like the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, ArtPlace America and Art Matters Foundation. Chávez holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Spice Listening Party
2018-08-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for the Spice Listening Party, hosted by Indianapolis local Baby Ebony. DJ Shawshank will be spinning on the decks with a special live performance by HeyZeus.

Free, all ages.

Old Soul Presents:The DOJO
2018-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Sunken Beer Gardens
2018-08-23 18:00 - 21:30

Flava Fresh
2018-09-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Annual juried exhibition contemporary art with over 50 participating Artists curated by D. Del Reverda-Jennings. At Tube Efroymson Gallery, 6-10 pm

Teacher Story Slam
2018-09-13 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Listen to true stories from Indy area educators told live at this free event at the Tube Factory Artspace! Indianapolis’ sixth Teacher Story Slam kicks of the school year with hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales from Hoosier teachers.
Co-sponsored by Big Car Collaborative, Chalkbeat Indiana, and Teachers Lounge Indy.

Danicia Monét: Blue Black
2018-10-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A photo exhibition exploring black and brown bodies, the power of touch and the many forms of intimacy.
Danicia Monét is an arts & culture ambassador and urban planner pursuing her PhD on the User-Experience of Race. Her research uses a multidisciplinary approach to examining Black & Brown bodies in public space as she focuses on the context of Race & Space – Growing Critical Cultural Capacity in the Built Environment.
The exhibit runs through October 13 in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery at Tube Factory, Monday-Friday 9am-6pm Saturdays 11am-3pm.

The Designer's Road Map
2018-10-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
An honest panel discussion on the pathways for a creative professional
The Indianapolis creative community offers a variety of pathways to a career as a design professional. Some are straight, most are windy and none of them are for the faint of heart. There is no singular experience because our community is made up of a tapestry of traditional ad agencies, boutique design shops, freelancers and in-house creative teams. And while we benefit from the array of options, it can also isolate us to our own experience, leaving us to make assumptions about what it must be like on the other side. Are all agency gigs 60+ hour workweeks? Do freelancers hang out at coffee shops all day and sip lattes? What is it like to work in-house? When does a side hustle become a business? And what the hell is a boutique design shop anyway?
What if we had the opportunity to have a candid conversation with Indy’s most talented and gracious design leaders to get answers to some of these questions? What if we could dig into the similarities and differences between these pathways and how to know what to expect? More mentorship, more honesty, less romanticization, fewer assumptions.
Please join AIGA at The Tube Factory on Oct. 24 for a guided panel discussion that will leave you better educated about your opportunities and more equipped to build the type of creative community that cares for one another.
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PANELIST
Ryan Hunley // Owner and Art Directory, 2nd Street Creative
Amy McAdams-Gonzales //Co-Founder and Designer, Matinee Creative
Aaron Scamihorn // Principal, RONLEWHORN Industries
Anna Saraceno // Product Designer, Trello
Katie Clements // Associate Creative Director, CVR
MODERATOR
Kolby McElvain // Senior Designer, High Alpha
Special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor:
Artisan is a boutique recruitment agency that has a unique approach to making the right connections – and they’ve honed, mastered, and put it to work over the past few decades. Their secret? It’s the realization that they’re humans helping humans.

What It's Like To Be Sarah
2019-01-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Sarah Matthews sound experience comes to Listen Hear First Friday in January. This sensual, immersive soundscape is a one-night exhibition that includes sound clips of a woman’s sexual responses during pleasurable intimacy with a partner. Her installation, LUST, invites participants to listen to a positive sexual experience from a woman’s perspective in order to consider the importance of female sexual empowerment in today’s hyper sexualized and heteronormative world.

Rachel Leigh: Light Scheaux
2019-01-04 18:00 - 2019-01-21 18:00
Welcome to a world where grownups still build forts and play with flashlights. Where physics are not a classroom subject but a tender and flamboyant muse. Rachel Leigh teases out the sumptuousness of thrift-store glass and discarded TVs, bathing visitors in luminous, improbable delights.

Wear comfortable clothing and join us for a 20-minute live interactive audiovisual performance by the artist: Jan 9, 13, and 21 at 6pm.

Rachel Leigh is an Indianapolis-based graphic designer, electronic musician, and all-around visual tinkerer who spent formative years in Europe. Her intricate, immersive work invokes subtleties of physics, geometry, and history. Leigh is a member of performing art collective Know No Stranger, contributing to numerous original stage shows and multimedia experiences since 2014. Her graphic design work has appeared at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and Simon Malls. Light Scheaux is her debut solo exhibition.
Follow her projects at majuscule.co. Follow on instagram @reallyearly.

99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents Read Southall
2019-02-13 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Formed In Stillwater Oklahoma, The Read Southall Band is comprised of 4 native Oklahoman’s. Read Southall (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) Reid Barber (drums) Jeremee Knipp (Bass) JT Perry (Lead Guitar and harmonies). With all members having different influences in music, they have come together to create a unique red dirt/southern rock sound. With overdriven guitars and heavy drums the Read Southall Band aims to deliver a rock and roll experience at every show.
