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August 2022
Sister Song Womb Makers Artist Talk
Hear from some of the artists and community members that LaShawnda Crowe Storm invited to create a womb. Womb makers adapted and modified the womb by following these simple directions: "Make this into a talisman or spiritual object to heal your/our histories, be willing to allow what needs to emerge to emerge, and transform the womb to reflect a vision of healing." Each womb maker had to continuously ask themselves the question, “How do I reclaim the ‘spirit of the…
Find out more »Amy Kligman and Ish Muhammad In Conversation
Learn more about two of the artists selecting this year's Power Plant Grant recipients! Amy Kligman has been the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO since 2015. Kligman’s career and experience as an exhibiting artist and grassroots curator/arts administrator spans 20 years of studio & exhibition work, independent curating and organizing, and artist-run projects. In 2011 Kligman was one of a team of 5 artist-curators who established Plug Projects, an artist-run project space in Kansas…
Find out more »Dear Black Girl with Tamara Winfrey Harris
A public reading and discussion around the book "Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters About Stepping Into Your Power." Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. She says, “I want to tell the stories of Black women and girls, and deliver the truth to all those folks who got us twisted—tangled up in racist and sexist lies. I want my writing to advocate…
Find out more »September 2022
Select Few Sessions-Artist Interview Series
Join TroyTrackSelect live as he interviews Fre$co at Listen Hear.
Find out more »October 2022
Boot Scoot USA presents A Halloween Honky Tonk Dance Party
John Stamps & KNags of BootScootUSA are wrangling up a rootin' tootin' night of Halloween fun on Monument Circle with live DJs, line dance instructions, a vintage market and a bit of classic country music. Go into winter with some new dance moves and clothing no one else is wearing by scoring one of a kind vintage clothing AND free line dance lessons from Jeff Smilko. Plus there will be prizes for best dressed and best costume. Some of best…
Find out more »January 2023
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
Recently declared the new greatest film of all time, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is a singular work in film history. The film meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study…
Find out more »Betsy Stirratt: Unearthing
In Unearthing, Stirratt explores how natural and cultural objects are presented in collections and museum settings, and how we preserve, classify, and display them. From Stirratt: "I have visited many natural history, herbaria and medical museums in Europe and the US with the aim of understanding their objectives, collecting impulses, and labelling practices. With similar intent, I visited several regional historical sites and collections, including the Workingmen’s Institute in New Harmony, the Indiana University Paleontology Collection, and Angel Mounds. The…
Find out more »Mvhayv Radio Marathon
Mvhayv Radio is a language and cultural preservation project by multi-disciplinary artist, Elisa Harkins (Cherokee/Muscogee) based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. All day we will air episodes 1-10 to celebrate kicking off a new season starting Feb 4 with episode 11. Episode 1 – Can you dance to this? Episode 2 – Songs to find your radical lover to Episode 3 – TikTok Episode 4 – All Indigenous Episode 5 – Africa Episode 6 – Muscogee (Creek) & Seminole Hymns Episode 7…
Find out more »February 2023
African Dance with Uzuri
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car's Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the floor!
Find out more »April 2023
Jason Gray: Cthutopia
"I remember sitting in church one Sunday near Easter, trying to pay attention to the sermon but failing. I was six or seven, maybe. My mind wandered as I looked around the sanctuary. I started to think about these two hallways that led away from the main room. The one to the right was familiar to me; the choir room was down there and I found myself there often, waiting for my grandparents to hang up their robes after service.…
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