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What's On Your Mind?
2017-07-22 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT. To ensure you have a time slot with Jones, please e-mail: email hidden; JavaScript is required

Art Workshop for Ages 6 +
2017-07-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Themed art classes for children 6 + every Wednesday of July. Classes will be mostly in English but Spanish can be used for children who are bilingual/Spanish speaking. Every week will be a new, dynamic and sensory adventure with a small lesson at the beginning. We will learn about patterns, shapes, rhythm, texture, image, line and color through a variety of media and engaging projects. Inspiration for art projects is drawn from the 50 Grand exhibition currently in the gallery at Tube Factory.
Your child can join any time. New registrations will take place before class each week, so plan to come a little early if it is your child’s first time in the class. Children will be broken into age groups and given an activity for their skill level. There is no fee for classes.
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Wednesdays 4-5:30pm
(July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26)
Clases del arte para niños de edades 6+
A Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St Indianapolis, IN 46203
GRATIS
Clases del arte de diferentes temas cada miércoles en Julio. Clases estará por la mayoría en inglés pero español puede ser usado si hay niños bilingües o hispanohablantes. Cada semana es una nueva aventura dinámica y sensorial con una lección pequeño al principio. La inscripción va a continuar durante el curso de clases, entonces su niño puede juntar en cualquier momento. Inscripciones nuevos tomará lugar antes de la clase cada semana, entonces planea venir un poco temprano si es la primer clase para su niño. Los niños van a estar separados en grupos por sus edades y los acividades van a estar apropiados para sus niveles de habilidad. Clases son totalmente gratuitas.
Dos opciones para la clase:
Los miércoles 4-5:30pm
( Julio 5, Julio 12, Julio 19, Julio 26)

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2017-07-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2017-08-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! 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 reoccuring 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.
hope to see you soon!

Six Ways To Sunday
2017-08-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Stories. Art. Drinks.
Six artist. Six stories. Coming together from Indiana and the Midwest, each artist provides works on paper available for purchase and a live performance the night of the opening. Performances range in topic but all deal with the artist’s personal history and background.

Drew Buys
Clare Gatto
Paolo Marino
Alex Meiser
Nick Witten
Liz Wierzbicki

TWIN PEAKS
2017-08-04 18:00 - 2017-09-23 18:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Ally Alsup, Philip Campbell, Justin Cooper, Alice Guerin, Grant Lewandowski, Terrance Majors, Kayla Pappas, Paul Pelsue, Robert Young and Natalie Woodlock

Ten artists created works inspired by the TV series, Twin Peaks, which reshaped popular culture and the arts worldwide. The series combined the underbelly of human nature with an artist’s aesthetic, forever changing the mainstream’s appetite for visual entertainment.

The Atlantic put it best, “Without Twin Peaks, and its big-bang expansion of the possibilities of television, half your favorite shows wouldn’t exist. The absorptive, all-in serial, sonically and visually entire, novelistically cantilevered with deep structure and extending backwards into the viewer’s brain, was simply not a thing before Lynch and Frost. With Twin Peaks they effectively renegotiated TV’s contract with its audience. You didn’t tune in to this show the same way that you tuned in to L.A. Law or Murder, She Wrote. You tuned in psychedelically, as it were, ready to be transported. You were in, or you were out: a binary decision. The story arcs, the curves of character development, were long, longer than the show itself, receding into mystery. If you missed an episode, you were disoriented. If you watched every episode carefully, you might still be disoriented. Remarkably, this has become something like the norm.”

And as promised, 25 years later a new series continuing the experience re-appeared this spring on Showtime.

On display in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery, August 4-September 23

Click here to read the rest of the Atlantic Story.
Image: Natalie Woodlock, Audrey Horne, three-color hand-pulled screen print.

Larissa Hammond: the / a mind the b mind
2017-08-04 18:00 - 2017-10-21 22:00 | IN
the/a mind the b mind, is a fully commissioned exhibit featuring four large scale paintings, one in collaboration with poet Ariana Reines.
The exhibit is several years in the making. “Through the years this show has evolved, my body has been attacking itself through my immune system,” says Hammond. “I went down many paths with both my art and physical body before I finally reached a turning point.”
The paintings happened after a series of conversations with Reines. “We spoke about the silence women carry, what it really means and feels like to give consent, communications that result from being mixed race and culture in America, the importance of ownership and protection over one’s own body, taking care, how crucial it is to identify as sane, and the importance of relating to other people with love and humor as a way through any kind of opposition,” says Hammond.
The paintings themselves are an exploration in communication using a collective unconscious that Hammond built through her writings alongside conversations with Reines. “This collective unconscious is a combination of my matrilineal cultural heritage (Afro-Caribbean), past experiences, and direct feedback from my body as I recovered from a brain injury,” says Hammond.
Born in Indianapolis, IN, Larissa Hammond studied Architecture and Linguistics at the University of Cincinnati before earning her BA from Portland State University. In 2012, Hammond earned her MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art + Oregon College of Art & Craft. Since graduating, her thesis was purchased by conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer and she was named by Modern Painters Magazine as 1 of 25 Artists to Watch. Her first solo edition, THE REDDENING, was featured by Monograph Bookwerks and Triangular Press at the Codex International and LA Art Book Fairs. THE REDDENING was also purchased by the University of Iowa, Indiana University, and Oregon College of Art & Craft Rare / Artist Book Collections.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines earned a BA from Barnard College, and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); and Mercury (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression (2011) and Gurlesque (2010). Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm.
Made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation and Sun King Brewery.

Exhibitions Book Club-Ariana Reines
2017-08-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Leading up to each exhibition at Tube Factory, we will host a monthly discussion about books releated to the exhibits we are hosting. For the August 4, 2017 exhibit, Initiation by Larissa Hammond and poet Ariana Reines, we will read and discuss Reines book, Mercury. Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines earned a BA from Barnard College, and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); and Mercury (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression (2011) and Gurlesque (2010). Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm. At once personal, Romantic, slippery, and extreme, Reines’s poetry investigates and overturns lyric conventions. Of her own work, she admitted in an interview with HTML Giant: “My best writing seems to have to be forced from me by some other force but that force has to be one whose power I agree to serve.”
Reines’s first play Telephone (2009) was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater and received two Obie Awards. A re-imagining of its second act was featured as part of the Guggenheim’s Works+Process series in 2009, and the script was published in Play: A Journal of Plays in 2010. Reines’s translations include a version of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore(2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (2012).
Reines has taught at Columbia University and the European Graduate School, and was the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley in 2009, the youngest poet to ever hold that position. She has traveled to Haiti multiple times as part of the on-going relief efforts there.—Poetry Foundation

Shop Safety and Orientation I
2017-08-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.

A few things to note:

*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.

*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.

*$25 (fee waived if taken in conjunction with Steps, Ramps and Rails/home repair project)

For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Portrait Making Meetup
2017-08-12 11:00 - 15:00, 2017-09-09 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring your own art supplies and get paired up with someone to do portrait studies in our open, concrete-floor community space. Describe your partner in your own medium (can be paint or charcoal, of course, but also can be writing, clay, or any type of abstraction! Realism is not necessary). We will have basic art supplies like paper, markers, crayons, and such.
All creatives, professional or amateur, are welcome. Even if you just want to come to be a model and hang out, you are welcome!

Ramps, Steps and Rails class
2017-08-12 13:00 - 16:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Ramps, steps, and rails are important things for homeowners and skateboarders alike to know how to make. At Bottom Level Tool Shop you can learn how to make these over a series of classes and be part of a small crew who’ll help neighbors in need.
During the class you’ll build small skate and home items for Tube and elsewhere. By taking the class, offered free in exchange for your help, we’ll supply wood and hardware needed so you can also take what you make home for your own mini skate park or maybe to help around your house or the house of a neighbor of your choosing.
This class requires the prerequeisite Shop Safety class offered in the morning before this class. Shop safety usually has a cost but this is waived, also, with your commitment to help with this summer community home repair project we’re piloting at Big Car Collaborative with support from INHP.

Keenan Lawler, John Krausbauer, and David Dove
2017-08-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a night of experimental compositions at the Tube Factory Artspace. Three sonic wizards come to town to perform solo sets of electroacoustic music. This will be a great evening show you don’t want to miss!
Dave Dove (TX)
Keneen Lawler (KY)
John Krausbauer (CA)
Keenan Lawler is a Louisville Kentucky based musician, sound artist, improviser and composer. For nearly thirty years he has been a restless explorer of sound. Lawler’s music can be found on such labels as Important,Tompkins Square, New American Folk Hero, Music Fellowship, Rebis, Eclipse and Table of the Elements who released the acclaimed,”Music for the Bluegrass States”. He performs live regularly and has participated in such festivals as High Zero, Fantastic Voyagers, Avantronics, Time of Rivers, Nutstock,Greetings Fellow Pickers,Transmissions,Terrastock 7, Wintervoid2, Table of the Elements Bohrium, Boomslang, Louisville Experimental Fest and New Music for Early Instruments.
https://m.soundcloud.com/r-keenan-lawler
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John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles. He will be performing an extended-durational piece for amplified violin, voice and synth, utilizing high volumes, just tunings and stroboscopic lighting, to create an immersive experiential sound environment.
Krausbauer has performed his music in a multitude of settings – from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of his work have been released on independent labels in both the US and Europe. In recent years his focus has been on his solo work, involving ritual endurance happenings with voice and violin, accompanied by synth and strobes; his compositions, mainly concerned with systems-based phasing constructions; the Ecstatic Music Band, exploring just tunings with amplified strings at high volumes and long durations, with stroboscopic lighting; The Essentialists, a country-blues-boogie-raga guitar/violin duo; and most recently the formation of the “M”inimalist psych-punk group, Night Collectors.
Trance-Psychedelia is the aim and goal.
https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/blues-for-the-grave
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David Dove (Houston, Texas)
A trombone player, composer, improviser, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops across North America and internationally. As Founding Director of Nameless Sound (a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas), he curates/presents a concert series of international contemporary creative music, and has developed an approach, philosophy and practice of creative music education based on creativity and improvisation. Dove has written on music pedagogy, including a chapter titled “The Music is the Pedagogy” that has been published in the collection “Beyond the Classroom” (Routledge). Dove’s early musical background ranged from studies in jazz and symphonic music, to punk rock bands. As a creative artist, free improvisation has been his primary (but not exclusive) approach to performance and collaboration. In addition to collaborations with other musicians, Dove has made music for film, dance, theater, poetry and visual/installation work. He has focused on acoustic playing for most of his career, developing a style that draws influence from jazz, 20th century composed music, the electric guitar, electronic music and European improvisation. He’s inspired by a wide range of influences from outside of his form, including hardcore punk rock, painting/visual arts, modern/contemporary dance, and Houston mixtape visionary DJ Screw. The influence of DJ Screw was the catalyst for more recent developments in Dove’s music. In an attempt assimilate the effect Screw’s extremely slow and low mixes (as a real time, improvisational music), Dove extends the trombone with the use of guitar pedals, pitch shifters, and (most importantly) sub-woofers. Non-musical performative activity has also been explored in recent projects. Dove has collaborated with a wide range of local, national and international creative musicians. He performs in both set groups and ad hoc ensembles, as well as solo.
www.namelesssound.org
https://elcangrejito.bandcamp.com/

Chreece Volunteer Meet UP!
2017-08-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The weeks are counting down until the third Installment of “Chreece 3 a hip hop Festival” and they need dedicated volunteers to help make this event run smoothly! If you want to get involved please join their volunteer meeting at Listen Hear . THIS WILL BE THE LAST VOLUNTEER MEET UP. If you cant make it we’ll have an online form with tasks that we will share ahead of time.
Can’t make it to the meeting? Please contact our Chreece Volunteer at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Love Witch
2017-08-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A 2016 horror–thriller film, written and directed by Anna Biller, about a modern-day witch who uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her with disastrous results. Shot in Los Angeles and Eureka, California, it premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In May 2016, it was acquired for distribution at the Cannes Marché du Film by Oscilloscope Laboratories. The Love Witch was shot on 35mm film, and printed from an original cut negative. The film has received positive reviews for its playful tribute to 1960s horror and Technicolor films, combined with its serious inquiry into contemporary gender roles.
We will discuss this film in relation to the Larissa Hammond exhibit, Initiation.

Brick Street South Poetry Series:Lisa Devon
2017-08-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. August’s featured poet is Lisa Devon.
Lisa Devon is a suburban Mom who uses poetry to express her frustrations with the world. With topics ranging from politics to parenting, no one is spared her ire. Luckily for the listener, the madder she gets, the funnier it is. Lisa Devon’s work is heavily influenced by Dr. Seuss, with word play sandwiched between rhythm & rhyme. Her unexpected voice and impassioned performance offers a fun and fresh perspective on the issues we all face.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

What's On Your Mind?
2017-08-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT. To ensure you have a time slot with Jones, please e-mail: email hidden; JavaScript is required

What's On Your Mind?
2017-08-19 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-08-24 17:00 - 20:00, 2017-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Woodworking I is an introduction to dimensioning wood- how to take rough sawn lumber and turn them into usable boards.
This 3-hour class will include demonstrations and discussion on wood selection, local suppliers, as well as limited hands-on practice with sample material at the end of the class.
Afew things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation Part I.
*Woodworking I covers these machines more in depth and includes more hands-on practice than Shop Safety and Orientation II. If you are totally new to the table saw, and jointer, this class is for you.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*$75
For more information or inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Chreece Volunteer Party!
2017-08-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
CHREECE 3 VOLUNTEERS! Join us at The Tube Factory Artspace
AKA “Chreece Headquarters”
on Friday evening August 25th
AKA the day before Chreece
BRING a WHITE SHIRT for us to screen print a “Chreece Volunteer” graphic onto so you can be seen on the scene!
Meet the crew you’ll be working working with!
Help us stuff some badges, and eat some pizza!
This couldn’t be done without you, thanks SO much
♥ + chreece

Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-08-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation II is the second installment that will cover basic and safe use of the jointer, planer, and table saw.
This 2-hour class will act as a refresher or as an orientation to our specific equipment models. Limited hands-on practice will accompany the demonstrations.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation I.
*If you are new to the table saw, jointer, and planer, please take Woodworking I which will cover these machines more in depth and include more hands-on practice.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$75
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Reading Series & Discussion
2017-08-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
In celebration of the Year of Vonnegut, Spark Placemaking in partnership with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is hosting a short story reading and discussion from the August to October. Each month a different story will be selected out of Kurt Vonnegut’s collection of short stories; “Welcome to the Monkey House”
Each discussion, facilitated by Chris Lafave, will be held at City Market’s Mezzanine level near the Tomilson Tap from 6-8pm. Enjoy a beer at The Tomilson Tap which will be open during discussion period!
Dates and stories are as follows:
August 30th:
Harrison Bergeron
Adam
The Foster Portfolio
September 20th:
Deer in the Works
Miss Temptation
Unready to Wear
October 25th: TBD
Limited copies available at the Tube Factory artspace (contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for a copy) and for sale at The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Copies also available at your local library and your local book store. Bring your EventBrite receipt in to the library or to Tube Factory to get the book at a cost.

Made possible by City SPARKet, a project of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program in partnership with Indianapolis City Market and the City of Indianapolis funded by Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces Heart of the Community program.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-09-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.

A few things to note:

*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.

*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.

*a $25 fee is obtained for this class on the day of class, however (fee waived if taken in conjunction with Steps, Ramps and Rails/home repair project class)

For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Ramps, Steps and Rails
2017-09-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Monumental Dance Party with Meltface
2017-09-13 20:00 - 22:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Come dance your face off with DJ Melt Face and his legions of glamorous weirdos at the Monumental Dance Party. A dance party that is affordable (FREE) and accessible (in an open public space in the middle of the city) to all!
Cosplayers,hula hoopers, break dancers, furries, bronies, luchadors, young, old, basic or deluxe, everyone is welcome!
Brought to you by Project for Public Spaces in partnership with The City of Indianapolis

Oktoberfest Block Party Fundraiser
2017-09-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Enjoy Oktoberfest beer from Sun King Brewing Company while you help us raise the rest of the dollars we need to receieve a $50,000 match through Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority via Patronicity! They are matching every dollar we raise all night (and now through Sept. 15). You can donate by clicking here.
On Sept. 14, there’s no admission charge. We’ll have beer and other drink options available for purchase as well as sausage, pretzels and sweets on hand from our southside area to enjoy while you socialize and listen to the classic country sounds of The RoundUps and some special Rhinestone Country tunes live on 99.1 WQRT FM — one of the great things funded by this campaign. Have fun, play ping pong, foosball, Dick the Bruiser mini golf, check out some art, and help us celebrate crossing the finish line raising money for the community FM station, neighobrhood garden with Solful Gardens, LLC.,community tool shop and tool libary at Tube Factory artspace, and improved home base for neighborhood-focused artists.
Art, culture, and creativity are powerful drivers for inclusive and equitable, artist-led community development. With this project in our home neighborhood of Garfield Park, just south of Downtown Indianapolis, our team of artists, placemakers, and planners are working closely with the Garfield Park Neighbors Association and residents of all backgrounds to help revitalize this area along the Shelby Street corridor between bustling Fountain Square and the University of Indianapolis. We’re also teaming up with our neighbors in the Bean Creek Neighborhood Association just to our east, separated by I-65.

Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Reading Series & Discussion
2017-09-20 18:00 - 20:00 | City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
In celebration of the Year of Vonnegut, Spark Placemaking in partnership with the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is hosting a short story reading and discussion from the August to October. Each month a different story will be selected out of Kurt Vonnegut’s collection of short stories; “Welcome to the Monkey House”
Each discussion will be held at City Market’s Mezzanine level near the Tomilson Tap from 6-8pm. Enjoy a beer at The Tomilson Tap which will be open during discussion period!
Dates and stories are as follows:
September 20th:
Deer in the Works
Miss Temptation
Unready to Wear
Limited copies available at the Tube Factory artspace (contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for a copy) and for sale at The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Copies also available at your local library and your local book store.
Made possible by City SPARKet, a project of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program in partnership with Indianapolis City Market and the City of Indianapolis funded by Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces Heart of the Community program.

Belladonna of Sadness
2017-09-20 20:30 - 22:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci with J.R.R. Tolkien influences.
We will be discussing this film, the role witchcraft and superstition have played in gender roles throughout history, all in relation to our exhibit Larissa Hammond: the/ a mind the b mind.
The last film in the Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (ASTRO BOY and KIMBA THE WHITE LION), BELLADONNA unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. A young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is assaulted by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa’s RAN) who appears as a sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire.
Extremely transgressive, BELLADONNA is fueled by a mind-blowing Japanese psych rock soundtrack by noted avant-garde jazz composer Masahiko Satoh. The film has been newly restored by Cinelicious Pics using the original 35 mm camera negative and sound elements and including over 8 minutes of surreal footage cut from the negative. On par with Rene Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET and Ralph Bakshi’s WIZARDS as an LSD-stoked 1970s head trip, BELLADONNA marks a major rediscovery for animation fans. If Led Zeppelin had a favorite film, this would be it. In other words, Stairway to Hell.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Gregg DeBoor
2017-09-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. September’s featured poet and writer is Gregg DeBoor.
Born a bastard adopted by poetry, Gregg DeBoor is an advocate for those who stay up late at night and never stop being good to what they love. He’s a fellow author on Chatter House Press after having published his first book Street Girls Have Guns. He is also the winner of the 2011 Indianapolis Grand Slam. In Gregg’s words, poetry (not sure if this the word you meant by “it’s”. If not, then we can change it.) is all about the inner monologue and trusting yourself to listen.
Gregg is a touring and spoken word performance artist. For the past three years he has toured throughout the Midwest and East Coast at some of the most prominent venues of today.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.
