Big Car

Community Shop Meeting
2017-01-31 18:15 - 19:15 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Please join us Tuesday, January 24th at 6:15pm-7:15pm to discuss the future of programming in the Shop (part of the lower level of the Tube Factory Artspace). We have lots of ideas and plans in the works, and want to hear from you!
This meeting is informal, open to anyone who wishes to participate, and will include a few broad questions to help guide the discussion:
1) Options for Shop Access
2) Classes and Workhops Offered
3) Volunteer and Internship Opportunities
4) Donations and Other Resources
5) Promotion

Bilingual Yoga
2017-01-30 18:30 - 2017-03-27 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Big Car’s resident yoga teacher Jordan Thomas of Jordan Lee Yoga in a moderate Spanish/English yoga class at Tube Factory artspace in Garfield Park! This class will take place every Monday, same place, same time. Yoga mats are provided. Dress in comfortable clothing.
Acompaña a Jordan Thomas de Big Car Collaborative en clases semanales de yoga para todos los niveles totalmente gratis. Estas clases son bilingües, español y ingles, y tomará lugar en el Tube Factory Artspace (1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN 46203) cerca del area del Garfield Park. Tenemos tapetes de yoga disponible sin costo, por favor de vestir ropa cómoda.

Jeff Beaver Artist Talk
2017-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Jeff Beaver is interested in the small and ephemeral. His work consists of using forgotten or unusual materials in new ways to create something new. Inspirations include: old comic book ads, commercial painting technique, & sidewalk scrawl. His work is currently up throughout Tube Factory artspace.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2017-01-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Calling all gear heads and sound bit tweakers. Join me 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 to showcase in the near future.

Memory, Myth, and Metaphor
2017-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Memory, Myth, and Metaphor is a FREE, 5-week series for women and femmes only, that will explore the themes of memories, myths, and metaphors while exploring topics such as the body, self-presentation, and gender roles.
Join us for the first segment of the series in a special meetup with shehive. This meetup will include a dialogue about identity in the craft fields of wood and metalworking. Together, we will create pieces that explore a multi-faceted self. Bring materials that inspire you.
The following items will guide our conversation:
-article on gender construction:
http://www.criticalmediaproject.org/cml/topicbackground/gender/
-article on women and power tools: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/12/women_and_power_tools_ana_white_launches_a_trend.html
-website for a women-centered space:
http://www.aworkshopofourown.com/
-article about Vivian Beer:
http://www.writerloriferguson.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/MODERN-Vivian-Beer.pdf
Facilitated by Brittany Rudolf.
Brittany Rudolf is serving as a Public Ally with Big Car Collaborative for the 2016-2017 term. A graduate of Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Furniture Design and Sculpture, she combines her various creative interests with a love for people.
shehive is a grassroots project based in Indianapolis creating spaces to deconstruct gender inequity. Meetups are informal, gender neutral gatherings to explore gender issues in pop culture. To learn more about the project, visit shehive.org!
Reminder that shehive meetups are informal and gender inclusive gatherings to discuss gender issues in pop culture. Children ages 16+ are welcome. The conversation will not be censored.
*image by J.D. Hollis. http://densityofspace.com/archive/02011/April/week1.html

Melita Carter's SPEAK LIFE: Vision Board Workshop
2017-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This vision board workshop on January 21st from 2-3 pm at Tube Factory will be led by artist Melita Carter. This workshop is free, welcomes all ages and writing levels. Mixed media art supplies will be provided to participates but please feel free to bring materials that inspire you. During this workshop we will discuss our personal accomplishments and how to envision our true success. Snacks will be provided, coffee and tea will be available for donation.
To RSVP, or if you have any further questions about the SPEAK LIFE: Vision Board Workshop, please contact Melita Carter at email hidden; JavaScript is required.
S.eed P.lanting Of E.ncouragement A.ffirmations and K.nowledge to L.iberate I.nternal F.ears E.veryday-SPEAK LIFE

Artist Talk: Michael Jordan, a.k.a. ALKEMI
2017-01-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Jordan will talk about his work, philosophy and the Mari Evans mural he painted July/August 2016 on Massachusetts Avenue.
About Michael Jordan, a.k.a. ALKEMI
Jordan is a professional artist and poet living and working in Indianapolis for over 40 years. Norman Rockwell and Salvador Dali are among his influences and he has completed over 40 murals, including one for the Arts Council of Indianapolis’s 46 for XLVI. Jordan’s work has been part of both group and solo exhibitions at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Indiana Black Expo Fine Arts Pavilion, Crispus Attucks African American Museum, Jefferson Gallery, Central Library’s Meet The Artists, Athenaeum, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. He has lectured at Indiana University, Purdue University- Indianapolis, several high school and is a published writer.

Presidents & Possible Futures Film Screening
2017-01-20 12:00 - 18:00 | IN
Join us on Inauguration Day on Friday at the Tube Factory artspace as we play a few movies about presidents and possible futures in our video room theater — all free and educational.
Here’s the order:
Being There
First Kid
Back to the Future II
Idiocracy
We hope to see everyone there !

Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2017-01-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All events are free of charge and all community members are welcome to attend. Big Car will strive to celebrate Dr. King’s ideals and legacy through a day of activities, meaningful dialogue, and a homage to black artists.
Tindley Preparatory Academy students will be attending the event, the Tindley Preparatory Academy is an all-boys middle school designed to help young urban boys become successful scholars. The young visiting students have been asked to prepared ode poems with the theme “I Am.” All of the pieces shared will encompass their own self-image and how they feel about their cultural. The students will then host activities and a discussion on poets who helped lead the Civil Rights Movement such as writer Mari Evans, one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement and longtime Indianapolis resident – whom we are also currently commemorating in the Tube Factory artspace with an exhibit by Carl Pope.
We are excited to see all of you there!

Creative Writing Workshop Series
2017-01-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This monthly creative writing workshop led by author Amy Sawyer welcomes all ages and writing levels. Snacks will be provided, coffee and tea will be available for donation.
Amy Sawyer is an published author who is an Indianapolis native. Fellowshipping with other creative minds and exploring the city for inspiration are among her favorite things to do. To RSVP, or if you have any further questions about the Creative Writing Workshop, please contact Amy Sawyer at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Artist Talk with Jessica Kartawich
2017-01-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at Listen Hear with artist Jessica Kartawich as she discuses her latest exhibition “Dear Somebody”.
Dear Somebody is an art project by Jessica Kartawich that provides an outlet for emotional residue left behind by lost loves. If you are someone who has lost a loved one in their life, either through death or disconnection, you are encouraged to participate and find solace with others through your loss.
Dear Somebody provides an outlet to connect with others and is open to anyone who is interested in participating. Dear Somebody is accepting rolling submissions and is a living piece that will evolve with each submission, reflecting the ever changing emotions which surround the different losses human beings suffer
The artist invites you to be a part of Dear Somebody and join in a symphony of intimate spoken word. To participate write a letter to a person who is no longer in your life. It can be of any length and thecontent is up to you. Once you have written your letter, contact the artist at email hidden; JavaScript is required to set up a time to audio record you reading your letter aloud or record yourself and email it to email hidden; JavaScript is required.

The Banana Man-Mike Kelley
2017-01-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Kelley’s 28-minute video project pieced together a character study of the Banana Man, a character from the children’s television show “Captain Kangaroo.” Having never watched the Banana Man himself, Kelley enlisted his childhood friends to recount their memories of him, memories which were weaved together into a fragmented narrative.
Writes Kelley: “This is my only truly solo video project. The tape is an exploration of character and was done in direct reaction to my performance work at the time, which was characterless. Video seemed a good way, by virtue of it not operating in ‘real’ time, of dealing with character and psychological motivation. ‘The Banana Man’ was a minor figure on a children’s television show I watched in my youth. I, myself, never saw this performer. Everything I know about him was told to me by my friends. The Banana Man is an attempt at constructing the psychology of the character — problematized by the fact that the character is already a fictional one, and by the fact that none of my observations were direct ones.”
1983, 28:15 min, color, sound

Discussion to follow screening.

Grant Lewandowski's "Down on My Knees I Pray" Exhibition
2017-01-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at Listen Hear for First Friday featuring Grant Lewandowski’s “Down on My Knees I Pray” zine release/photo show as well as Jessica Kartawich’s “Dear Somebody” sound instilation.
Photographer Grant Lewandowski originally from Indianapolis, but currently based in Chicago, has been taking photos and making zines for several years now. Photographing what he sees around him, in his daily life, with his friends, and also documenting the people in the city he lives in. This is Grant’s second exhibition here in Indianapolis.
His new zine “Down On My Knees I Pray” has photos from this past year of his work in NYC, Chicago, a road trip out west. and Indianapolis. Along with his photographs on display this will also be available to flip through and purchase.

Brian Eno's Reflection Listening Party
2017-01-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brian Eno’s new album Reflection, an ambient release available in standard physical forms and an “endless and endlessly changing” generative app is dropping at the beggining of the new year via Warp Records.
Apart from his solo work, Eno took part in frequent collaborations with artists such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, David Bowie on his “Berlin Trilogy”, David Byrne , Slowdive and Grace Jones.
Join us and LUNA music at Listen Hear as we celebrate the release of his new unique album Reflection.
READ MORE ABOUT THE RELEASE -> http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/15/brian-eno-reflection-generative-music-app-endless/

Ronaldo V. Wilson
2017-01-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a reading and performance by poet Ronaldo Wilson. Wilson earned an BA at the University of California-Berkeley, an MA at New York University, and a PhD at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Discussing poetry’s role in the American imagination, especially as a tool to combat powerful, persistent ideas about race, the body, and trauma, Wilson told Elizabeth Hildreth in Bookslut, “I love poetry for allowing the tools with which one can capture, create and perform such an experience for the reader that tests the shifting limits of trauma by mapping out the power arrangements in such an encounter between human beings.”
Wilson is the author of the collections Poems of the Black Object (2009), which won the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008). His poetry has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, and he has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, the Anderson Center for the Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
With poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Duriel E. Harris, Wilson cofounded the performance-based Black Took Collective. In January 2015, Wilson was a featured writer for Harriet.

Pop-Up Woodworking Workshop
2016-12-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a Pop-Up Woodworking Workshop led by teaching artist Brittany Rudolf.
ALL materials are provided. No previous experience is necessary, as we will use pre-cut pieces, so come in with an open mind and leave with a handpiece work!
This workshop is FREE and FAMILY FRIENDLY; however, space is limited and children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Reserve your spot by clicking here!
Brittany Rudolf is a multi-disciplinary artist who is serving as Public Ally with Big Car Collaborative for the 2016-2017 term. A graduate of Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Furniture Design and Sculpture, she combines her various creative interests with a love for community engagement.
For more information and other inquires, please contact Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Creative Writing Workshop Series
2016-12-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Creating Dynamic Scenes:
Scenes are the building blocks of every story. In fiction, a scene is where a character responds to and interacts with their world. At December’s Creative Writing Workshop we will discuss the fundamentals of scene structure and how to create cohesion within the plot of your story using dynamic scenes.
This monthly creative writing workshop led by author Amy Sawyer welcomes all ages and writing levels. Snacks will be provided, coffee and tea will be available for donation.
Amy Sawyer is an published author who is an Indianapolis native. Fellowshipping with other creative minds and exploring the city for inspiration are among her favorite things to do. To RSVP, or if you have any further questions about the Creative Writing Workshop, please contact Amy Sawyer at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Small Scale Gray Scale Mural Painting by Samuel Penaloza and Eddie Calaca at Tube,
2016-12-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Near Westside Artists Samuel Penaloza and Eddie Calaca will be working with community members in attendance at the Tube Factory artspace to create a small-scale mural using a grey-scale palette. The work will later be on display in the River West Art Alley near Haughville Park. Art supplies will be avaliable to participants to complete the work. Please bring your own painting-friendly clothing!
Thanks to Big Car Collaborative for sponsoring this workshop.
Artistas del Near Westside, Samuel Penaloza y Eddie Calaca estarán trabajando con miembros de la comunidad que asisten al espacio artístico de Tube Factory para crear un mural a pequeña escala usando una paleta de colores grises. El trabajo será exhibido más adelante en el callejón del arte del River West cerca del parque de Haughville. Los materiales de arte estarán disponibles para los participantes para completar el trabajo. ¡Por favor traiga su propia ropa para pintar!
Gracias a Big Car Collaborative por pratocinar este taller.

J. Beaver: What is this?
2016-12-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
￼Explore Tube Factory to find J. Beaver’s work in small and secret places. He’s an artist based in Indianapolis interested in the small and ephemeral. Inspirations include: old comic book ads, commercial painting techniques, and sidewalk scrawl. Make a night of it and visit other exibits in three nearby buildings! J. Beaver’s work will remain on view during regular hours at Tube Factory: Monday–Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Marilyn Gatin' s Hands On Indiana
2016-12-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Happiness House, 1135 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203 , United States
HANDS ON INDIANA, the pilot project by Hands On Artists, is a public engagement art project celebrating Indiana’s Bicentennial in 2016. Together with Sustainable Indiana 2016 and Earth Charter Indiana, they are promoting awareness of sustainable living for now and future generations.This project collected hand tracings from Indiana youth and printed them onto plastic from computer keyboards. These hand tracings are then colored and mapped based on their Indiana county of origin. Their commitment to Indiana’s sustainability will be exhibited through the broad collection of hand tracings in both digital and physical form. Please join us on Friday, December 2nd at Happiness House located on 1135 Cruft Street from 6-10 pm to view the Hands On Indiana collection.
For more information about Hands On Indiana, please contact Marilyn Gatin at email hidden; JavaScript is required

The Nutcracker Presents: Another Twisted Classic
2016-12-01 - 2016-12-18 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Since 2010, Wolfgang Drosselmeyer and his band of misfits have delightfully terrorized Indianapolis with their own twisted rendition of the The Nutcracker. This year, however, Drosselmeyer demands to break the mold and re-tell a different holiday classic. The merry crew has escaped from the Land of Sweets and will again descend upon Indy to capture the imaginations of any willing guests. With elements of vaudeville, circus, magic, and puppetry, NoExit Performance invites Indianapolis to take a twisted journey to the tune of another holiday classic. Whether you’ve payed him a visit before or plan to take your first trip this year, Wolfgang insists you join him on his new delirious adventure. Recommended for ages 16 and up.
Thursdays & Wednesday – Doors at 7pm, Show at 7:30pm
Fridays & Saturdays – Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm
Student/Senior – $18
General Admission – $25
Industry Nights (Wednesday’s) – $12.50
Tickets Available at noexitperformance.org

Pop-Up Woodworking Workshop
2016-11-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a Pop-Up Woodworking Workshop led by Teaching Artist, Brittany Rudolf.
We will begin with cut-and-paste collages and end with our images transferred onto wood!

Family friendly. All materials provided.

Brittany Rudolf is a multi-disciplinary artist who is serving as Public Ally with Big Car Collaborative for the 2016-2017 term. A graduate of Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Furniture Design and Sculpture, she combines her various creative interests with a love for community engagement.

DeAmon Harges's Perception: What's Behind the Door Closing Reception
2016-11-18 17:00 - 21:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Please join us for the closing night of Perception: What’s Behind the Door from 6-9 PM at The Tube Factory. There will be a music showcase by Theon Jones as well as a poetry reading and a conversation: Love, Justice and Gentrification.

Day Is Done--Mike Kelley--Screening/Discussion
2016-11-17 06:30 - 21:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus, a genre-smashing epic in which vampires, dancing Goths, hillbillies, mimes and demons come together in a kind of subversive musical theater/variety revue by artist Mike Kelley. Running over two-and-a-half hours, this riotous theatrical spectacle unfolds as a series of episodes that form a loose, fractured narrative. The video comprises parts 2 through 32 of Kelley’s multi-faceted project Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions, in which trauma, abuse and repressed memory are refracted through personal and mass-cultural experience. The source material is a series of high school yearbook photographs of “extracurricular activities,” specifically those that represent what Kelley has termed “socially accepted rituals of deviance.” Kelley then stages video narratives around these found images.
In Day Is Done, these restagings take the form of “folk entertainments” that Kelley memorably subverts. Featuring characters such as Motivational Vampire, Morose Ghoul and Devil/Barber, much of the action—antic song-and-dance numbers and dramatic scenes, with Satan as emcee—takes place in a generic school gymnasium and a wooded landscape.
Writes Kelley: “For this project, I limited myself to specific iconographic motifs taken from the following files: Religious Performances, Thugs, Dance, Hick and Hillbilly, Halloween and Goth, Satanic, Mimes, and Equestrian Events. Many of the source photographs are of people in costume singing or dancing, so the resulting tapes are generally music videos. In fact, I consider Day Is Done to be a kind of fractured feature-length musical…. The experience of viewing it is somewhat akin to channel-surfing on television.”
The video reconstructions were originally seen within an ambitious, sprawling exhibition of video/sculpture installations, photographs, sets, props and drawings at the Gagosian Gallery in New York in 2005; the videos were incorporated into 25 sculptural viewing stations. Writes Kelley, “My intention was to create a kind of spatialized filmic montage: a feature-length film made up of multiple simultaneous and sequential scenes playing in architectural space.”
We will discuss Kelley’s techniques for creating psychic distortions and the perceived relationship between the person of the artist and the artistic persona.

Jillisblack
2016-11-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Jill is Black is a writer, blogger, and facilitator/trainer/lecturer, focusing on issues of Race, Power, and Privilege in modern-day America. She amassed a diverse following via her social media account, @jillisblack–where her social commentary is centered around inner and outer-community hierarchies, the myth of white fragility and other words for racism, the endlessly-pending and highly-exclusive revolution, and dating and relationships through the eyes of social media.
It is Jill’s belief that the shift away from anti-blackness will begin with an outpouring of radical, multi-generational, inclusive and validating honesty. This is the revolution she wishes to be invited to.
Jill was born in Oakland, raised in Alabama, and currently resides in Washington State.

Creative Writing Workshop Series
2016-11-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
November’s Creative Writing Workshop theme is Blogging: Narrowing Focus to Create Value.
In this month’s session we will explore how to choose a focused blog topic. We will create a blog that will serve and be valuable to an audience based on your “expertise” and interests. There are many different reasons to start a blog. Often times, writers want to share insight and knowledge of their passion while capturing the attention of an audience. Very easily blog topics can easy get ambiguous and scattered or stray from the writer’s mission.
This event is free and open to the public . All ages and writing levels are welcome to join. Snacks will be provided, coffee and tea will be available for donation.
Amy Sawyer is an published author who is an Indianapolis native. Fellowshipping with other creative minds and exploring the city for inspiration are among her favorite things to do. To RSVP, or if you have any further questions about the Creative Writing Workshop, please contact Amy Sawyer at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Brian Priest Artist Talk--das Andenken "Memory Souvenir"
2016-11-10 18:30 - 20:15 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brian James Priest will talk on current themes in German Art, about artists he met on his journey/studio visits in Germany, his exhibition at Nina Sagt Galerie and research for future works.
45 minutes–Q&A at the end
Priest is a interdisciplinary artist based in Indianapolis. He has presented his work at Yugong Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, White Flag Project Space and more. Priest was a recipient of the Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship and is a CICF renewal Fellow. He is a Visiting Professor of Sculpture at Herron School of Art and Design and DePauw University. He is also owner of Kurb Design, a fabrication and design studio. Priest received his BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in 2004 and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007.
Image: “Performance 2016. North Korean Embassy in Berlin.”
Starting from the front gate, Priest dribbled a basketball around
the North Korean Embassy, finishing with a long range
jump shot at the basketball goal located behind the
embassy on North Korean territory.

Indy Humane and Spirit & Place: Finding My Forever Family
2016-11-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Whether you own animals or love them from afar, Indy Humane invites guests of all ages to step into Big Car’s Tube Factory facility and to gain empathy and understanding for what shelter animals experience on their journey toward finding a forever home.
You begin the journey by choosing the profile card of a dog or cat. As you move through the room, you will stop at stations to learn a little bit more about your animal’s story. Each stop is a customized and interactive experience that will incorporate either some form of art (music, video, graphics, acting, paintings) or ask you to use one of your 5 senses (taste, touch, sight, smell, sound) before moving on to learn another step in your animal’s process. Each animal’s story is unique, so a person can choose to go through the stations multiple times, should they find the experience interesting. At the very last station in the experience, you will receive a current update on how the animal has been doing since leaving the shelter. To learn more, visit www.indyhumane.org/FMFF.
Walk-ins welcome, but RSVPs encouraged by November 9. Hope to see you there!
WHEN:
Thursday, November 10
6:00pm – 9:00pm
WHERE:
Big Car’s Tube Factory
1125 Cruft Street
Indianapolis, IN 46203
PARKING:
Parking on Cruft is for residents ONLY. Please park in the lot east of the Tube Factory building, or along Shelby Street!
Learn more about the Spirit and Place Festival here!

Carl Pope Artist Talk and Soup Dinner
2016-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for dinner (soup), talk and Q&A about the Mari Evans exhibit.
About Carl Pope: Carl Pope’s artistic practice is committed to the idea of art as a catalyst for individual and collective transformation(s). His multi-media installations were exhibited at prestigious venues including: The Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; receiving generous support from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Lilly Endowment, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. The installations gained national and international exposure with “New Photography 6” at the Museum of Modern Art and “Black Male” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since 1990, Pope’s methodology with public art evolved into ongoing collaborative efforts with artists and communities…producing large-scale public art inventions that stimulate public dialogue and/or community revitalization. Excursions into his internal landscape produced the video/text installation “Palimpsest” commissioned by the Wadsworth Atheneum; with funds from The Warhol and Lannan Foundations, was included in the Whitney Biennial 2000. The essay of letterpress posters: “The Bad Air Smelled of Roses” and his recent billboard campaigns continue his ongoing exploration into public and inner space.
“Carl Pope’s work is at once a form of geography, re-imagining and imaging the forgotten histories, people and places in America, and a new psychology, creating a state of mind capable of sustaining the shocks of the present. It’s soul food for the mind, in sharp contrast to the quick hit of consumer pleasure that dominates the art market, and it’s all the more important for that.”–Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communications, NYU

DAY OF THE DEAD Celebration on Pleasant Run
2016-11-05 11:00 - 14:00 | Barth ave. &Pleasant Run Pkwy. South Dr., indianapolis, United States
Celebrate the vibrant culture of Indy’s southwest side and enjoy beautiful public spaces along Pleasant Run! This is going to be a blast just like last year, so bring the whole family!
Food, Facepainting, Art, Games… and the amazing Wagon of Wonders!
This awesome event is a partnership between Reconnecting to Our Waterways, Sense Charter School, and Big Car Collaborative.
Visit event page on Facebook.
