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October 2023
Circle Side Chats with Kevin McKelvey
Making, Keeping, and Poeting a Place This program will give a brief overview of creative placemaking and placekeeping and discuss the importance of place in the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley, Mari Evans, and Etheridge Knight. Bio: Kevin McKelvey is a place-based poet, writer, designer, and social practice artist who also teaches at University of Indianapolis. His poems have appeared widely in journals, books, and as pieces of public art. McKelvey currently serves on the board of Central Indiana Land…
Find out more »Candle Making with Freetown Village
Join Freetown Village at SPARK for an immersive candle-making experience! Visitors will have the opportunity to learn the art of candle making, where they’ll create their very own drip candle. It’s a hands-on adventure in the world of candle making that’s perfect for individuals, families, and friends looking for a memorable and crafty day out SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board.…
Find out more »A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
Guichelaar Gallery Within the brief window of our human existence, the ability to come together, protect, and care for one another has allowed us to evolve into a complex, beautiful species. But have we lost these vital sensibilities? Collectively, we have forgotten how to connect with others, provide comfort, empathize and sustain community. A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH is an exploration of the friction, the barriers, and distance between the relationships we create with one another and how they…
Find out more »First Friday Night Market
Join us again for this upcoming First Friday for a wonderful evening in Garfield Park. We are celebrating local artists, musicians, food trucks and vendors by featuring them in our night market. Come check out our creative endeavors here around Cruft Street, where you will have the opportunity to purchase local goods from amazing artists and food vendors here at the Tube. During the winter months, the Night Market is held inside Tube Factory artspace. In the fall, spring, and…
Find out more »GOLDEN MYST: Tarot Art Show by Daniela Martín del Campo & Gloomy Zauros
Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative are partnering to present the works by Mexican Daniela Martín del Campo & and Colombian Artist Gloomy Zauros. GOLDEN MYST represents a unique visual and spiritual experience, where chromatic limitation becomes a window to reflection and contemplation: the deep black of the ink, the shimmering gold and the immaculate white of the paper. GOLDEN MYST is the artistic dialogue between two talented creators: Daniela Martín del Campo, outstanding Mexican children’s book illustrator,…
Find out more »Scavenger Hunt with Brittany Fukushima
Join us to kick off an on-going scavenger hunt, find all the little art sculptures and more around the Circle. About the artist: Brittany Fukushima is an Indianapolis-based painter and teaching artist who uses their practice to interpret their environment. Drawing and painting become a means to investigate the natural world, express the intangible, and to present alternate ways of seeing. Recently, they have experimented with paint making using foraged pigments. Teaching is an integral part of their process as it keeps…
Find out more »MUFON presents- The Experiencer’s Journey with Bill Konkolesky
Accounts of those who've opened up about personal first-hand contact with extraterrestrials have proliferated over the past 50 years. Investigators have calculated the data points and researchers have postulated about deeper meanings for our species. What increasingly gets left out, unfortunately, is the journey of personal discovery the experiencers themselves go through. Upon close observation, it becomes evident this is the true heart of the phenomenon. Bill Konkolesky has been the State Director of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual…
Find out more »Lunch Break Live-Cara Jean Wahlers
Wahlers is an Indianapolis based singer-songwriter and performer. Her fondness for folk music from the 60s and 70s gave her a sturdy understanding of storytelling, and she’s taken those cues to develop her own unique style of writing – a revealing balancing act of personal experience and inevitable human truth. She has released an album called “Goodnight Charlotte” withcollaborator and cellist Grover Parido and plays in the Indianapolis and surrounding areas both solo and as a duo. SPARK is a…
Find out more »Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle! For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand drums and explore the basics of playing with other people. Working with Rob, participants will begin making sounds on the instruments and learn some basic rhythms inspired by traditional music. SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by…
Find out more »John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting
Artist Kaila Austin will have a series of live painting sessions of the John Wesley Hardrick mural open to the public at Tube Factory artspace: October 11, 3-6pm, October 25, 3-6pm, November 1, 3-6pm, November 8, 3-6pm and November 22, 3-6pm. She will also be at SPARK on the Circle at Monument Circle painting the Harwick Mural on October 13, 2-5pm. The exhibit will run through December 17 with Tube Factory artspace’s regular business hours Wednesday-Friday, 9am-6pm, Saturdays and Sundays…
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