David Schalliol Artist Talk
2019-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a discussion with David Schalliol. Artist, filmmaker, researcher and sociologist, Schalliol will share stories, insights and more about his work.
David Schalliol is a visual sociologist. He is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and a principal of Scrappers Film Group. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, and been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial, the Belfast Photo Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies. His directorial film debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. He earned his BA from Kenyon College, and his MA and PhD in the Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago.

The Area
2019-04-20 15:00 - 17:00 | IN
A screening of David Schalliol’s The Area will mark the close of his exhibition, Three Communities at Tube Factory artspace.
The Area is a five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are being displaced by a multi-billion dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be “the last house standing,” and the Row Row Boys, teen friends who must start a new life across gang lines.
A production of Scrappers Film Group, it is a 2017 IFP Documentary Labs awardee and is supported by the Graham Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. The film was also a participant in the Tribeca Film Institute/Kartemquin Films Tribeca Hacks program.

-More about the Film-
DAVID SCHALLIOL — DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, AND PRODUCER
David Schalliol is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College who specializes in visual sociology. In addition to working on The Area, he has contributed to films including the ITVS/Kartemquin Films feature Almost There and the National Film Board of Canada’s Highrise: Out My Window, an interactive documentary that won the 2011 International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction.
Schalliol is also a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in such publications as Artforum, Mas Context, The New York Times, and Social Science Research, as well as in numerous exhibitions, including the inaugural Belfast, Northern Ireland Photo Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. The Japanese publisher Utakatado released his first book, Isolated Building Studies, in 2014.

BRIAN ASHBY — EDITOR AND PRODUCER
Brian Ashby began his filmmaking career co-directing the feature Scrappers, a three-year chronicle of two families surviving in Chicago’s informal scrap metal economy. Roger Ebert included Scrappers on his Best Documentaries of 2010 list.
Ashby co-created and co-directs two documentary web series: The Grid, distributed through Gapers Block, and Central Standard: On Education, a co-production with WTTW11. He recently co- produced the historical documentary feature Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, which premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Ashby’s documentary projects have been supported by PBS Digital Studios, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, and the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation, and have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.

DEBORAH PAYNE — PRODUCER
Deborah Payne is a life-long activist who is dedicated to community development on Chicago’s South Side. She has served as president of the Sherwood Peace Association, the Southwest Federation of Block Clubs, the CAPS Domestic Violence Subcommittee (7th District), and the Sherwood Local Advisory Council, and has worked as a community liaison and photographer for Teamwork Englewood, Chicago Embassy Church, and the Englewood Railroad Coalition.
She is currently the president of the CAPS Domestic Violence Subcommittee (2nd District), a member of the Chicago Public Schools Englewood Steering Committee, and a volunteer at the Englewood Satellite Senior Center and with various women’s shelters.

PETER GALASSI — EDITOR
Peter Galassi is a editor, director, and colorist. Recently, he finished editing Central Standard: On Education, an episodic documentary following five 8th-graders as they try to get into Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools. The show debuted on WTTW11 in the fall and is currently airing on PBS Digital’s YouTube channel.
In 2012 he produced and edited a cut of the feature documentary, Your Name is My Name, which explores the lives of albino children in Zimbabwe. Directed by Osato Dixon, Your Name Is My Name was funded by a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.

PHOELIX — ORIGINAL MUSIC
Hailing from the Fox Valley, west of Chicago, Phoelix has been constructing a kingdom of his own. On projects like Telefone, Bucket List Project, and Blkswn, he has implemented his own unique taste and influence that blends with eclectic artists such as Noname, Saba, Smino, and producers Monte Booker and Cam O’bi. Out of the studio, he has also toured with Noname, Smino, Eryn Allen Kane, and Jamila Woods. Phoelix’s debut project, GSPL, shows us much more of his identity through the unique sound he adds to the spectrum of music. He says, “Phoelix is like a future version of myself.”

YANA KUNICHOFF — ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Yana Kunichoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer based in Chicago. Her work has ranged from coverage of the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain to chronicling of the human casualties of rapidly disappearing affordable housing in Chicago.
Kunichoff won a Sidney Hillman award for her February 2016 investigation for the Chicago Reader into the way Chicago’s police union impacts the narrative around police shootings. Kunichoff’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Fusion.net, Al Jazeera, Pacific Standard and Chicago Magazine, among many others.

DAN RYBICKY — CONSULTING PRODUCER
Dan Rybicky is an award-winning filmmaker and tenured professor in Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago. He produced and co-directed ITVS/Kartemquin Films’ critically-acclaimed feature documentary Almost There, which screened at over thirty festivals before being distributed theatrically, digitally, and on public television in 2016.
Dan started his filmmaking career working with and consulting in various production capacities for Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, and John Leguizamo. Dan’s latest project a short documentary about health care — filmed in (and titled) Accident, MD — will premiere in the coming year.

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
Additional contributors to The Area‘s production include Aaron Cahan, Emmanuel Camacho, Danielle Davis, Natalia Echeverry, Matt Goetz, Astrid Goh, Akemi Hong, Ben Kolak, Hannie Lee, Isabel Mitchell, Ashley Mills, Kiyomi Mino, David Nagel, Mary Otoo, Luis Antonio Perez, Reshmi Rustebakke, Zachary Sala, Alexandra Scott, Agnes Starczewski, Brittain Williams, and Hayden Yaussy.

Marion County Free Naloxone Training and Distribution
2019-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Marion County Opiate Overdose Reversal Training with FREE naloxone (the opioid overdose reversal drug), open to people who use drugs, their family and friends, the general public and any community organizations interested in saving lives.
This training will certify you as a volunteer for the IRA, allowing you to distribute naloxone and to train others to distribute naloxone.
You will learn how to identify and reverse opioid overdoses, the laws that protect you, the stigma people who use drugs face, and other facts about Harm Reduction that empower you to save lives.
For those who do not want the full training, and only want naloxone, we will do a quick 20 minute training at the beginning of the session, after which you may leave with naloxone.
Overdose fatalities are preventable. Please join us to learn how to save lives and kick up the love a notch.
OUR MAIN GOAL IS TO GET NALOXONE INTO THE HANDS OF PEOPLE MOST AT RISK. PLEASE COME PREPARED TO TAKE LOTS OF NALOXONE KITS BACK TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO ARE AT RISK OF OVERDOSE!

Current State
2019-04-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
CURRENT STATE is a showcase of young electronic musicians and producers from IUPUI’s music technology program. Throughout the evening, 14 performers will display a diverse selection of original solo works. Performances happening from 7-8 p.m. will also broadcast live on WQRT-LP 99.1 FM Indianapolis. An encore broadcast of the entire event will air at a later date.
SCHEDULE:
7:00-7:10 P.M. – Kyle Barkes
7:10-7:25 P.M. – Michael Hanley
7:25-7:37 P.M. – Jared Nematollahi
7:37-7:44 P.M. – Galileo Asher
7:44-7:49 P.M. – Michael Lamb
7:49-8:00 P.M. – Will Graves
8:00-8:05 P.M. – Mitchell Sanders
8:05-8:15 P.M. – Sam Duncan
8:15-8:35 P.M. – Christian Rangel
8:35-8:40 P.M. – Collin Eades
8:40-9:00 P.M. – Charles Cheesman
9:00-9:10 P.M. – Cedar Lohraff
9:10-9:15 P.M. – Koltyn Alexander
9:15-9:40 P.M. – Alex Hauptmann

Divine by Sylvia Thomas -Chapbook Release Reception
2019-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | IN
Sylvia Thomas is releasing her first chapbook into the world, DIVINE! Please join us as we celebrate her book release! This will be the the first release party where people can buy the chapbook! There will be performances by incredible poets, a reading of the chapbook, and available autographed copies of DIVINE.
Book Description:DIVINE (written by Sylvia Thomas, foreword and edited by Elle Roberts) is a series of poems reflected on my experiences with sex, religion, love, divinity, and my trans body. In order to heal my spirit, faith, and womanhood from the violence I have experienced, my own self-love became my religion.
Sylvia Thomas is an international spoken word artist. She shares her experience as a plus-size, queer, multicultural, transgender woman through her poetry. She is an award winning advocate for transgender rights. Sylvia’s work as an artist is focused on restorative justice and community empowerment. In her full-time work, Sylvia works at Step Up Inc. in Indianapolis as a Medical Case Manager for people living with HIV/AIDS. After performing poetry for 3 years, she is releasing her first chapbook!
I would be honored for you to celebrate with us!
Please invite friends!
Chapbooks will be $15!

The Name of the Machine from the Moon
2019-05-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
An installation of sound, image and time travel by Toby Kaufmann-Buhler, centering around the inventor Richard Jordan Gatling and a radio play written by literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin.
The inventor Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903) made a home and started a family with Jemima Sanders in Indianapolis in the mid-1850s. He is most well-known for the early machine gun he invented, to which he gave his name. The design for this gun began with farm equipment (also of his design), then took shape as a complete design and went into production during the 1860s in Indianapolis; the Gatling Gun Company was also formed and headquartered in the city during this time. Currently, the only publicly extant evidence of Gatling’s life (and complicated legacy) in Indianapolis is in the form of a large grave memorial for his family in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a literary critic, essayist and
philosopher born in Berlin, Germany; he spent most of his early life in Germany, and subsequently he lived itinerantly throughout Europe. Benjamin had a complicated and largely unfruitful relationship with the German academic establishment, and resulting from this and the scattered nature of his work in WWII-era Europe, his writings (which have had a large impact on studies in the humanities and the arts) have been mostly published posthumously. His scripted work for the German radio during the years 1927-1933 has only recently been translated and published in English.
Both Richard Jordan Gatling and Walter Benjamin are relations in the artist’s family; as such the work presented here seeks to explore what connections can be made between them.
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This project is made possible by support of the Indiana Arts Commission.

To This Moment
2019-05-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Aaron Dodd, April Knauber, and Stephanie Williams are all graduating seniors from Herron School of Art and Design. To This Moment shares common occurrences and untold stories in domestic spaces. They hope to impact audiences by raising awareness about throw-away culture, non-representation of minorities, and other indecencies.

Yvette Mayorga-High Maintenance
2019-05-03 18:00 - 2019-08-04 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Yvette Mayorga’s multi-media installation High Maintenance is a flamboyantly chilling revelation, offering unsettling insights into how the forces of violence, make-believe, and consumerism infiltrate the contemporary immigrant experience, and subvert our understanding of identity.
Drawing inspiration from the politics of America’s southern border with Mexico, her own life as a first generation Latinx-American, and her parents’ often dangerous experiences as immigrants in the 1970s, Mayorga’s work examines how pain and uncertainty are covered with a veneer of celebration.
High Maintenanceconjures up an absurdist, Rococo Candy Land, where frivolity intersects with fear, as soldiers and ICE agents come face to face with quinceanera cakes, white swans, and Polly Pocket adventure sets.
Every aspect of Mayorga’s built world is adorned with spectacular, rapacious iconography. Monumental fashion accessories and gendered toys interrogate the true meaning of “status,” while decadent, Colonial aesthetics remind us how fragile national identity is, and how frequently it depends on appearances.
Is this a place of joy or fear? Does it welcome us in all our diversity, or demand our assimilation? Like the guileless inhabitants of Mayorga’s thickly impastoed paintings, the second we enter this uncanny, celebratory-looking tableau, we realize we are caught between a nightmare and a dream.
In partnership with Nopal Cultural and University of Indianapolis.
Made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Christ Church Cathedral, The Arts Council of Indianapolis, Managed Health Services – MHS,and Sun King Brewing Company.
Yvette Mayorga lives and works in Chicago. She earned her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, EXPO Chicago 2018, The Vincent Price Art Museum, The Chicago Cultural Center, and The National Museum of Mexican Art. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Guardian, Art News, and Teen Vogue, among others.

Indiana MUFON Spring Symposium with Barry Gaunt
2019-05-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Barry Gaunt will speak about alien abduction and the effect of the phenomenon on one’s life.
Barry, currently serves as a member of the renowned Society of the Supernatural. He is the MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) State Director of Kentucky and is a STAR Team Certified Field Investigator for MUFON. He is also a Cohost of “Into The Fire” a podcast on Blog Talk Radio. He is the Managing Director of the NightStalkers Paranormal Research Team, which researches, and investigates Hauntings, UFO Reports, Alien Abductions, and Strange Creature reports on a case by case basis.
Barry is a full-time volunteer at the famed and haunted Octagon Hall Museum and assists the Museum Director with the daily operations of the Museum, along with hosting the Museum’s popular Novice Hunts with his paranormal team, Nightstalkers Paranormal. He is an Administrator for the Kentucky UFO Research Center on Facebook, and he is currently writing a book on the UFO Phenomenon in Kentucky, which will be published by Leprechaun Publishing in late 2019 or early 2020.
Barry remains science minded, but always keeps an open mind, striving to find the truth, looking for the key to unlock the mysteries of the world we live in, with hopes of answering humanity’s oldest questions. What happens next, and are we alone in the universe?

Kader Attia- The Body’s Legacies (Part 1: The Objects)
2019-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Attia’s recent film The Body’s Legacies (Part 1: The Objects) is an extensive account of testimonies by academics, scholars, collectors, and museum directors from Canada, the US, Ivory Coast, and many other locations, relating the histories behind bodies and artifacts from the world over.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).
Kader Attia (b. 1970, France), grew up in Paris and in Algeria. Preceding his studies at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and at Escola Massana, Centre d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America.
The experience with these different cultures, the histories of which over centuries have been characterised by rich trading traditions, colonialism and multi-ethnic societies, has fostered Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach of research. For many years, he has been exploring the perspective that societies have on their history, especially as regards experiences of deprivation and suppression, violence and loss, and how this affects the evolving of nations and individuals — each of them being connected to collective memory.
His socio-cultural research has led Kader Attia to the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. With the principle of Repair being a constant in nature — thus also in humanity —, any system, social institution or cultural tradition can be considered as an infinite process of Repair, which is closely linked to loss and wounds, to recuperation and re-appropriation. Repair reaches far beyond the subject and connects the individual to gender, philosophy, science, and architecture, and also involves it in evolutionary processes in nature, culture, myth and history.
In 2016, Kader Attia founded La Colonie, a space in Paris to share ideas and to provide an agora for vivid discussion. Focussing on decolonialisation not only of peoples but also of knowledge, attitudes and practices, it aspires to de-compartmentalise knowledge by a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational approach. Driven by the urgency of social and cultural reparations, it aims to reunite which has been shattered, or drift apart.
Kader Attia’s work has been shown in group shows and biennials such as the 12thShanghai Biennial; the 12th Gwangju Biennial; the 12th Manifesta, Palermo; the 57th Venice Biennial; dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel; Met Breuer, New York; Kunsthalle Wien; MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; or The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York — just to name a few. Notable solo exhibitions include “The Museum of Emotion”, The Hayward Gallery, London; “Scars Remind Us that Our Past is Real”, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; “Roots also grow in concrete”, MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine; „The Field of Emotion“, The Power Plant, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; “Repairing the Invisible”, SMAK, Ghent; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; “Sacrifice and Harmony”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; “The Injuries are Here”, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne; “Contre Nature”, Beirut Art Center; “Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder”, Whitechapel Gallery, London; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
In 2016, Kader Attia was awarded with the Marcel Duchamp Prize, followed by the Prize of the Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the Yanghyun Art Prize, Seoul, in 2017.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Indy Shakes
2019-05-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life!
Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun!
6:30pm-7:30pm: “As You Like It” – Performed by TRAVELING TROUPE and Directed by Zach Neiditch
$1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation!
https://www.indyshakes.com
*Family Friendly*

Lugar Plaza Market + Movie Night
2019-05-08 18:00 - 23:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
The perfect night to check out the NEW Lugar Plaza!
Hang out for:
Arty things for sale by local vendors in our Night Market
Beer and wine for sale by Tomlinson Tap Room
Live jazz by local musicians
A 9 pm screening of BULLITT (1968). This slow-burning film is a love letter to the city of San Francisco, and features one of the most iconic car chases in film history. Laconic, Indiana-born Steve McQueen plays Frank Bullitt, a rogue cop with an axe to grind. The spare dialogue and nervous jazz score emanate a late 60’s vibe.
Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. FREE.
If you are interesting in becoming an artisan vendor for this event, apply here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V3S2CR3

World Collage Day
2019-05-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Big Car and Harrison Center for an evening of creative cutting and pasting.
Materials and tools will be provided, but by all means, feel free to bring your faves.
World Collage Day, an international celebration of collage, instituted by Kolaj Magazine, www.kolajmagazine.com
#worldcollageday

Shelley Selim: The Women of Bauhaus Discussion
2019-05-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus art school, join curator Shelley Selim and learn more about the trailblazing women of this famously influential academy. While often overshadowed by their male counterparts, recent renewed interest has brought to light the female students and teachers of the Bauhaus and their incredible contributions to the Modernist movement.
Shelley Selim is Associate Curator of Design and Decorative Arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. She provides curatorial oversight of the museum’s design and decorative art collections, as well as its two historic homes—the Lilly House and the Miller House and Garden. Her recent projects include Meadow, an interactive installation by artists Studio Drift now on display at the IMA’s Efroymson Entrance Pavillion, and a reinstallation of the IMA’s Design Gallery—the largest permanent collection gallery devoted to modern and contemporary design of any museum in the country.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).

Kjostad Live at Listen Hear!
2019-05-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for an evening of experimental jams live at listen hear
Kjostad (natural noise from Ithaca NY. A rewarding listen. Head of New Forces label.
Cinnamon Rose ( synth and speech)
John Collins McCormick ( confusing fun sounds)
5$ All Ages

(Poof taste drawing by Alice Bea Guerin )

99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country presents The Country Side of Harmonica Sam
2019-05-18 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The Country Side of Harmonica Sam represents a rare and unique branch of contemporary country music. This is country music like it sounded in the late 50’s and early 60’s; more modern sounding than the 40’s Hillbilly style some@mes seen on the rockabilly scene around Europe. At the same @me it’s far from the contemporary Nashville sound of country music. With a steady 4/4 shuffle, steel guitar and @c-tac bass, the band performs their own original songs right alongside classics from Faron Young, Skeets McDonald, Billy Walker and Ray Price – to name a few.

Israel in the Park
2019-05-19 16:00 - 19:00 | Coxhall Gardens, 2000 W 116th St., Carmel, IN, 46033, United States
Celebrate Israel Independence Day with the Greater Indianapolis Jewish community at this FREE event. All are welcome!
Enjoy family-friendly activities including:
-A performance from visiting Israeli band להקת רוקדים – Rockdim Band, an energetic group of musicians and singers who will have you up and out of your seats, dancing in celebration!
-Help create a community mosaic with visiting Israeli artist Or-nah Ran
-Oversized games often found played along the beaches of Israel with Big Car Collaborative
-Interactive nature exploration
-Make an Israel collage with flower petals
-Henna tattoos
-Bedouin tent with shesh besh (backgammon)
-Green screen Israel photos
-Virtual reality goggles
-Face painting
-Hair braiding
-Write your name in Hebrew
-Play “Shimon Omer” (“Simon Says”)
-Israeli dancing
-Israeli Zumba
-And more!
Food and drinks for purchase, including Middle Eastern specialties and kid favorites.
Participating local Jewish organizations include JFGI, JCC Indianapolis, Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Family Services Indianapolis, Partnershiptogether WesternGalilee, PJ Library in Greater Indianapolis, JFGI NEXTGen, Chabad Center for Jewish Life – Lubavitch of Indiana, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Congregation Beth Shalom Indy, Congregation B’nai Torah, Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, Etz Chaim Sephardic Congregation of Indianapolis, Hasten Hebrew Academy, Indiana Jewish Discovery Center, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Jewish Student Association at IUPUI
Sponsored by (as of April 25, 2019):
– Gadi Boukai – F.C Tucker, Abrams EyeCare Associates, Glick Philanthropies(Gold Sponsors)
– American Friends of Magen David Adom, BRICS, Cohen & Malad, LLP, Katz Korin Cunningham, Klapper Eyelid & Facial Plastic Surgery, Dr. Tavel, Cheryl & Ray Waldman (Silver Sponsors)
– Say It For You, Brad and Tina Cohen, Chuck and Karen Cohen, Lana & Boris Fridman, Steiman-Weidberg Family (Support Sponsors)

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2019-05-20 18:00 - 2019-06-26 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring 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 broadcasted live on 99.1 WQRT.

WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents-Smokey & The Bandit
2019-05-22 18:45 - 20:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason are in high gear and hot water after a cross-country road challenge results in one of the wildest series of car chases and crashes ever filmed! The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet that he can transport a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, TX, to Atlanta within 28 hours. It’s important to note that in 1977, it was illegal to sell the Coors brand east of the Mississippi River without a permit; if we don’t note that, then the plot won’t make sense at times. Already in danger of arrest from redneck lawmen like Buford T. Justice, Bandit furthers his chances at a stiff jail term when he offers a ride to Carrie, who hopes to escape her unwanted wedding to Justice’s boy.” ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Presented by Upland Brewing Company

Tactical Urbanism: Take Back the Streets
2019-05-28 17:30 - 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Take Back the Streets: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Tactical Urbanism Projects, is a FREE, public event open to anyone looking to spark change in their neighborhood and community.
The event will be facilitated by Grace Kyung, a Culture of Health Leader who managed traffic calming, tactical urbanism projects as part of a Plan4Health grant to Trailnet, in St. Louis.
The program will include time for Q&A and discussion.
Please RSVP online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TU52819.
Photo Credit: NUVO.net

Wendelien van Oldenborgh- Two Stones
2019-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Two Stones explores the trajectories and ideals of the Bauhaus-trained, German architect Lotte Stam-Beese and the Caribbean activist and writer Hermina Huiswoud through dialogues and appearances by contemporary protagonists. Both Stam-Beese and Huiswoud spent time working in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s and both ended up being active in the Netherlands after WWII.
Two Stones was filmed in the 1930s constructivist district of KhTZ in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the first large housing project on which Lotte Stam-Beese worked, and in Stam-Beese’s celebrated 1950s Pendrecht, designed during her period as Rotterdam’s main architect / urban planner.
In the 1970s, Hermina Huiswoud was agitating against the Rotterdam housing rule, which limited Caribbean Dutch inhabitants to settle in any of the city’s districts if their presence would exceed 5% of the population.
Resonances as well as dissonances between the distinct trajectories of the two women and their expectation from communist ideology, are sensed through thoughts and experiences of the protagonists, who all have a personal or professional relation to the issues at hand.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).

Sweet Garbij Presents "Manifest" a Listening Experience & Pop Up
2019-05-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Sweet Garbij is hosting a listening event dedicated to their curated playlist MANIFEST. Prepare for an art directive event and the opportunity to buy plants, clothes and sage while listening to new and familiar tunes.
Pop Up Shop Presented By: House of Adeola, Tanu, Sarah Jene’ Recycled Dope
Tunes & Spins By: DJ Cleo Patrah
Suggestive Donation: $5
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Tarkington Park Fest 2019
2019-06-01 08:00 - 23:00 | Tarkington Park, 45 W 40th St, Indianapolis, 46208, United States
Come laugh and play—all ages, all neighbors, all day. Bring your family, bring a pet, invite a stranger, invite a friend. We invite all midtown neighbors to come and experience a day-long festival of fun put on by neighbors for neighbors. The splash pad will be open, the stage will be poppin’, the food will be delicious (and local), and the cherry on top will be the movie in the park at sundown. The Wagon of Wonders and Big Car staff will be present with art, games, and more!

Record of Memory
2019-06-01 16:00 - 18:00 | New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 506 Main St, New Harmony, IN, 47631, United States
Carl Pope, Conner Green, Elisa Harkins, Osuma James Nakagawa & Yvette Mayorga
May 10-June 22
Record of Memory is a survey of artists who are reflecting on existing monuments and fashioning new monuments. At the time a public monument is conceived, it is a tribute to our cities built by its citizens and dedicated to social progress, industrial achievement, civic interest, patriotism and culture. Works were selected with this idea of monuments in mind by curators Shauta Marsh, Garry Holstein, and Jeremy Efroymson as part of Social Alchemy, a series of exhibitions and events exploring the concepts driving our current ideas of utopia and dystopia.
Monuments are symbols of hope, of warning, of honor, encountered daily. We often think of them as sculpture or statues but increasingly we are all creating them on the internet in the form of videos, websites, even Facebook profiles. Our monuments remind present and future people of what we should be striving for. They reference our current goals of utopia. Other times they serve as reminders of tragedy/of dystopia, and what happens when we deviate from our utopic goals, to help us avoid re-occurrence.
Carl Pope’s photography pulls us into his experience exploring rural Germany via train. The color process on his work references the multi-colored rainbow, a symbol of the LGBTQ community. The nuclear reactor, Mother Mary and the Tin Man give the viewer a new perspective, both capturing and asking us to reconsider what we believe about these objects and characters by presenting them the way we see standard monuments.
Conner Green’s inverted collage prints resembling schematic drawings investigate the social ramifications of monumental architecture through collages of found materials, drawings, and photographs. “I understand ‘architecture’ to refer to more than just the design and decoration of buildings, but also to how thought or action can make order and meaning out of random space,” Green says. “My work, in part, attempts to excavate those embedded meanings.” The rendered forms do not refer to any extant structures; rather they attempt to portray a kind of typological composite of built forms throughout history.
Muscogee (Creek) Hymn and The Plain Indians Sign Language video works by Elisa Harkins are monuments in their right. In Plain Indians Sign Language, Harkins tells the story of her friend’s death. She uses sign language, which was invented by indigenous people and adopted by settlers, to both honor her friend and remind us that ASL came from a people and culture white settlers attempted to destroy. Muscogee (Creek) Hymn asks us to reflect on how song influences our ideas. Creek songs were never taught, rather learned. The Creek may not know the details of where those hymns came from—common belief is they’re handed down from God himself—but they know what’s important: the people, the milestones, and the stories the songs represent.
In Osamu James Nakagawa’s work, Maps, the landscape often functions as a witness to history and suffering, as well as a platform to examine conflicts political and personal in nature. The works are rubbings of monuments to the dead erected post WWII throughout Japan. Raised in Tokyo, Japan, Nakagawa’s family moved to Houston, Texas when he was fifteen. As an artist he mines the complicated pasts of both countries, touching on nationalism, family, pop-culture, tensions between eastern and western ideals, and war.
Every aspect of Yvette Mayorga’s built world is adorned with spectacular, rapacious iconography. Monumental fashion accessories and gendered toys interrogate the true meaning of “status,” while decadent, Colonial aesthetics remind us of the fragility of national identity, and how frequently it depends on appearances. Her series Monuments feature sculptures that are an absurdist, Rococo Candy Land, where frivolity intersects with fear, as soldiers and ICE agents come face to face with quinceañera cakes, white swans, and Polly Pocket adventure sets.
A Record of Memory requests that viewers reflect on our public and private monuments. How do they currently embody what our county, our city, our neighborhoods, what we as individuals stand for? How do we begin to reach a consensus with the current social and political divides?

Photo: Yvette Mayorga, US Funds Drug War.

TransGlam 2019 Presented by Eskenazi Health
2019-06-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
On June 1st, Indy’s trans community invites you to join us during Pride Week at the Tube Factory Artspace for #TransGlam – a free night of food, music, dancing, friendship and fun. Dance the night away or chill, socialize, enjoy some food and play games. The party starts at 6p.m.
What does your #TransGlam look like? A sparkly ball gown? A jean jacket and a t-shirt? A tux and a bow tie? Anything goes at this queer-formal dance. Bring a date(s), or come solo and show off your style and your moves! Everyone is welcome at #TransGlam.
This event is absolutely free to attend! Use the “tickets” button to get the details on your calendar and to receive helpful information about the event.
Indy Pride is teaming up with QUIT NOW INDIANA to encourage healthy lifestyles for all members of our community with all Pride events being tobacco-free. For support and resources to quit tobacco, visit them at quitnowindiana.com or call 1-800-QUIT NOW.

99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country presents Town Mountain
2019-06-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Making their second trip to Duke’s Indy, do not miss one of our favorite Bluegrass Bands around.
Raw, soulful, and with plenty of swagger, Town Mountain has earned raves for their hard-driving sound, their in-house songwriting and the honky-tonk edge that permeates their exhilarating live performances, whether in a packed club or at a sold-out festival. The hearty base of Town Mountain’s music is the first and second generation of bluegrass spiced with country, old school rock ‘n’ roll, and boogie-woogie. It’s what else goes into the mix that brings it all to life both on stage and on record and reflects the group’s wide-ranging influences – from the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and the ethereal lyrics of Robert Hunter, to the honest, vintage country of Willie, Waylon, and Merle. The Bend Bulletin’s Brian McElhiney says Town Mountain, “has serious country and rock ’n’ roll DNA.” Town Mountain features guitarist and vocalist Robert Greer, banjoist Jesse Langlais, mandolinist Phil Barker, fiddler Bobby Britt, and Zach Smith on bass.
Town Mountain just finished recording their 6th studio album at Echo Mountain Studios with roots music hero Caleb Klauder producing. Slated to release this Fall, the album is full of new material and features several guest artists including Tyler Childers who co-wrote one of the songs, Miles Miller (Sturgill Simpson, drummer), and other friends. Their most recent album, Southern Crescent (April 1, 2016) debuted at #4 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart while staying for ten weeks on the Americana Music Association’s radio chart Top 40, and widely considered one of the best bluegrass albums of that year.

Mass Ave Histories + Oddities Walking Tour
2019-06-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us as we journey through the little-known histories and oddities of Mass Ave. Discover what makes Massachusetts Avenue one of the most well-liked streets in Indianapolis. This is the first walking tour of the season at that starts and ends at Lockerbie Marketplace! Led by creative writer Colin Dullaghan.
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET at Lockerbie Marketplace (the green space next to Needler’s Fresh Market). We don’t walk if the weather is terrible.
About Colin Dullaghan
An Indianapolis native, Colin attended Ball State University, earning a degree in Philosophy and then graduating without much idea what to do with it. His first job, partially landed because a principal at Young & Laramore advertising liked his t-shirt, was at 310 East Vermont. After intervening gigs in both Carolinas and contributing to NUVO and the Indianapolis Star, Colin now works as Senior Writer at Borshoff, just above Needler’s Fresh Market. From his desk he can just make out the top of the head of a 38-foot-tall mural of Kurt Vonnegut, constantly reminding him to “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.”
Brought to you in partnership with Citimark Management and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemaking and Big Car Collaborative.
To learn more about events at Lockerbie Marketplace, visit https://www.bigcar.org/lockerbie/

Zvi Efrat- The Most Beautiful Campus in Africa
2019-06-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A short film that critically illuminates the design by the Israeli architect and former Bauhaus student Arieh Sharon for the University of Ife campus, Ile–Ife, Nigeria, built in 1962 as part of an Israeli assistance program in West-Africa. Zvi Efrat, architect and architectural historian, is a partner in Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA) and was head of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, from 2002 until 2010. He studied at Pratt Institute, at NYU, and at Princeton University. He has taught at several universities, lectured worldwide, published extensively, and curated numerous exhibitions, among them Borderline Disorder at the Israeli Pavilion of the 8th Architectural Biennale, Venice, in 2002, and The Object of Zionism at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel in 2011. His book, The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948–1973, was published in Hebrew in 2004.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).
Photo: Keren Kuenberg

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace-Landon Caldwell
2019-06-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by to enjoy the various activities that this hidden downtown green space has to offer along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians from right here in your city. Challenge a friend to a game of table tennis, play giant Jenga, and find your new favorite musician.

June’s theme is ambient and experimental music and today’s schedule offers psych-rock mastermind, Landon Caldwell.

Live Music Lunch-Scrapper & Skelton
2019-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter Steve “Scrapper” Brown has over 55 years as a solo musician and bandleader. Blessed with a smooth baritone voice steeped in Blues/Jazz, Gospel and Funk, Brown brings a wealth of experience and versatility to the stage. He has appeared on 6 CDs including songwriting and production credits. ​
Blues Harmonica/Vocals Ken Skelton is a Blues enthusiast with a love for classic acoustic Blues. Skelton has received local recognition for his performances in the genre in which he hopes “not only entertains, but produces thought in the listener.
