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German Lockerbie Walking Tour
2019-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Lockerbie Marketplace, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Just in time for for German-American Day (6 Oktober)! Explore Indianapolis German American History with architectural historian Bill Selm. You don’t need to be German to take the tour, but just interested in knowing more about this hidden history of Indianapolis. This tour includes a narrated walk-through of the Athenaeum interior.
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 Selm
William L. Selm is an Indianapolis-based architectural historian and fifth-generation German-American. Selm is an instructor at IUPUI and former historian for the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission. He authored the National Historic Landmark nomination for Das Deutsche Haus-Athenaeum and co-authored the NHL nomination for the Indiana Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument. Selm has authored numerous National Register nominations for buildings and districts throughout central Indiana since 1980. He co-founded the IN German Heritage Society in 1984 and the Athenaeum Foundation in 1991 and authored the 2008 Wegweiser: A Self-guided Tour of German-American Sites in Indianapolis.
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/

Free Yoga at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-01 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-10-08 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-10-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
FREE, every Tuesday from 5 – 5:45 p.m.: do a relaxing flow on the wide-open Lugar Plaza lawn. Katie Carlson, Tony Wiederhold & teachers from Haven Yoga Studio take turns offering feel-good stretches and gentle moves set to music that will lead you toward mindfulness and tranquility right after the work day!
Bring your mat: but we have back ups if you forget yours.
Visit https://www.lugarplaza.org/events to see which teacher is teaching when.
How to get to Lugar Plaza: walk or bike The Cultural Trail, take IndyGo bus (transit center right across the street) or park in the Whole Foods lot at 320 E. Market.
In case of rain, class will be cancelled and notice posted here.
See you on the Plaza!

Walking Wednesdays at Lugar Plaza: Downtown, Then and Now
2019-10-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, United States
Downtown, Then and Now
A mix of historical deep-diving and modern Downtown Indianapolis history! Led by Nelson Price of Hoosier History Live, this walking tour explores what was on Monument Circle during the 1800s and what was in the center before the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in addition to the Circle Theatre as a cinema house and City Market as a place to hear foreign languages spoken. Join us on this walk through history.
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET at Lugar Plaza near the swings. We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Free parking may be available at 320 E. Market.
About Nelson Price
Nelson Price is an Indianapolis-based author, journalist and historian. An award-winning former feature writer/columnist for The Indianapolis Star, he specializes in writing books about famous Hoosiers (both contemporary and historic figures) and Indianapolis city history. His books include Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman (Hawthorne Publishing, 2005 revised edition), which features profiles and vignettes about 160 notables, and The Quiet Hero: A Life of Ryan White (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2015), a biography of the Kokomo teenager with AIDS who drew international attention during the 1980s with his crusade to attend school. Nelson also is the author of Indianapolis Then and Now (Thunder Bay Press, 2004), a visual history of his hometown
Brought to you in partnership with City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development and Big Car Collaborative.
To learn more about events at Lugar Plaza, visit lugarplaza.org.

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-10-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Lockerbie Marketplace, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace! Every Thursday, we feature food from a different local food truck and live music from Indianapolis-based artists.
Stop by from 11am-1pm 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!
SCHEDULE:
May: Singer-songwriter musicians
June: Ambient sounds
July: Classical Music Indy
August: Hip-Hop beats in partnership with Chreece
September: Classical Music Indy
October: Classical Music Indy
This event takes place in the green space right next to Needler’s Fresh Market, located at 333 N Alabama St.
Made possible in partnership with Citimark Management, Gershman Partners, Big Car Collaborative, and Spark Placemaking.
To learn more about events at Lockerbie Marketplace, visit https://www.bigcar.org/lockerbie/

Live Music at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
FREE live music on Lugar Plaza every Friday midday from 12 pm to 1 pm. Music styles will vary each week from Classical Music Indy to drumming to electronica. Join us at Lugar Plaza and enjoy the sounds each week during your lunch break!
Visit https://www.lugarplaza.org/events to see what music will be played each Friday.
How to get to Lugar Plaza: walk or bike the Cultural Trail, take IndyGO bus (transit center right across the street).
In case of rain, cancellations will be posted here.
See you on the Plaza!

Guichelaar Gallery: Adam Reynolds
2019-10-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We welcome documentary photographer Adam Reynolds to the Guichelaar Gallery from October 4-18.
Explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in three parts: Along the Edge of the Strip, Architecture of an Existential Threat and Area C: Taxonomy of an Occupation.
Adam Reynolds is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on contemporary political conflict, with a particular emphasis on the Middle East. He pursues projects that balance photographic creativity with a journalist’s thematic fidelity. Originally from Bloomington, Adam now calls Indianapolis home and is a co-founder of Aurora PhotoCenter.
Guichelaar Gallery
1135 Cruft Street, Indianapolis IN 46203
Available by appointment
Opening Reception October 4, 6-10pm
www.adamreynoldsphotography.com
www.tubefactory.org
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Lori Miles:Baptized In Sugar
2019-10-04 18:00 - 2019-10-19 18:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
*This will be my first show in Indianapolis in ten years.
*The show is called “Baptized in Sugar,” and is a visual memoir of growing up in a house with a unique kind of privilege: we were saturated in unconditional love, allowed boundless exercise of our own free will, and we were always allowed to make any autonomous choice we wanted.
*That kind of love makes the rest of the world, forever, pale in comparison.
*My parents let my sisters and I spend an entire summer trying to dig our own swimming pool in the back yard (it ended up being nearly 3 feet deep and about 10 feet across, lined with trash bags, and required a constant stream of water from the hose just to rest in a mud pit). We could cook whatever we wanted, but we never used recipes, we just messed up the kitchen inventing horrible concoctions and baking them. I still do not know the actual rules to board games, because in our house, we could mix pieces between games, make up our own rules, and the winner was determined by democratic vote.
*The show includes several sculptures (like a 14-foot tootsie pop called “Death Wish Summer”, 2019), photographs, videos, paintings, and one ceramic pig with a pink fur jacket (“You’re No Esau”, 2019).
*The experiences described are not quite factual, but pulled from a combination of memories and impressions (some of my own and some I’m sure I borrowed- with three sisters, you never really know. Some memories even turned out to be dreams (there was no clown painting on my bedroom wall as an infant, but I recreated it for this show anyway).
*In general, my work does not concern itself with truth. The truth is just waiting to be proven wrong, The world of the fake- copies, replicas, plastic tchochkes- these things know themselves to be false. Fake things can never be proven true, and in that way, they are the most honest things I know.
*For instance, I prefer plastic animals to real ones. In fact, I have a famous distaste for real animals. They reek of the real world. A statue of an animal is neutral, lovable, permanent. I can project whatever I want onto it and it can handle the burden.
*I don’t care about craft: it have no interest in impressing an audience with how good I am at something. The real challenge, to me, is to make my viewer care about something I didn’t make, something that knowingly exhibits only a level of craft that could be achieved from a short youtube video. To that purpose, much of the work that looks prefabricated is actually made and vis-versa. If they think “this is just a piece of paper stuck on a board, they’ll actually come to realize it’s not paper at all, but a painstaking layering of spray paint and gel markers on a board.
About Lori Miles
Miles is an associate professor of art and art history at DePauw University. Her work focuses on art making, mostly dealing with cultural memes – especially looking at the gap between sculpture and contemporary controversies. She works at the intersection of traditional sculpture and use of online images for which copyright has expired. Online images inspire her sculpture and art. During summer 2015, she was recipient of a faculty-student research grant through which she worked with students to merge traditional art with online images and other online research.
This exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Efroymson Family Fund.
Image: Lori Miles, “Pieta (Why Deny the Obvious Child)”
Digital Print on panel
2019
30″x20″

Barb Shoup, Michael Martone and Nick Reading
2019-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In partnership with the Indiana Writers Center, join us for readings from authors Barb Shoup, Michael Martone and Nick Reading.
Barbara Shoup is the author eight novels, including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony, Faithful Women, Vermeer’s Daughter, Everything You Want, An American Tune, and Looking for Jack Kerouac and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times Travel Section. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. She is the former Executive Director of the Indiana Writers Center and is currently the Writer-in-Residence.
Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne and is the author of over a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. His latest are BROODING, essays, and THE MOON OVER WAPAKONETA: FICTIONS AND SCIENCE FICTIONS FROM INDIANA AND BEYOND. In october 2020, BOA Editions will publish RHW COMPLETE WRITINGS OF ART SMITH, THE BIRD BOY OF FORT WAYNE. He also has edited six anthologies of prose. This reading is part of the 44th Annual Double-Wide World Tour of Indiana. He lives in Tuscaloosa and teaches at the university there.
Martone will have books available for sale.
Nick Reading is the author of Love & Sundries (Split Lip Press) and The Party in Question, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in many journals including Barrow Street, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly and jubilat. He serves as poetry editor for Sport Literate and lives in Indianapolis where he teaches at Butler University. He also offers workshops through the Indiana Writers Center and the Indiana Humanities Writing Program. For more visit nickreading.com

Monday Art at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
Come to Lugar Plaza to add some creativity to your day every Monday at 12 pm to 1 pm! FREE portrait sketches by Ken & Roberta Avidor, printmaking with Ess Mckee, or crafting with ReCraft.
Visit https://www.lugarplaza.org/events to see which artmaking activity will be occuring when.
How to get to Lugar Plaza: walk or bike the Cultural Trail, take IndyGo bus (transit center right across the street).
In case of rain, cancellations will be posted here.
See you on the plaza!

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-10-10 11:00 - 13:00 | IN

Plaza Movie Night: “Isle of Dogs"
2019-10-12 18:00 - 21:30 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, United States
ATTENTION ANIMAL LOVERS: Bring the whole family, including your well-behaved pets, for a social hour and outdoor screening of ISLE OF DOGS (2018, dir. Wes Anderson, 105 mins.) on Richard G. Lugar Plaza!
Play games, meet adoptable dogs from IndyHumane and IACS Rescue, have a FREE PET PORTRAIT drawn by local artists, grab a beer from the Tomlinson Tap Room tent, enjoy local food, and participate in a DOGGIE COSTUME CONTEST to win fun prizes! IndyHumane will also have its Pet Awareness Wagon onsite for you to explore. All of this before the film even begins!
Not in the market to adopt? We’ll be sharing a Wish List of supplies that you can bring to donate for pets in need!
Film begins at 7:30 PM.
*No onsite adoptions of animals will take place at this event. You can meet adoptable dogs and plan a time to make it official!

Breakfast with Davy Rothbart
2019-10-19 09:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In Indianapolis to promote his film at the Heartland Film festival, 17 Blocks director and author Davy Rothbart will join us for breakfast and live on 99.1 WQRT with Anne Laker.
About 17 Blocks
In 1999, nine-year-old Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his Washington, D.C. family began to film their daily lives in America’s most dangerous neighborhood — just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol building. They’ve been filming ever since. Made in a unique collaboration with filmmaker and journalist Davy Rothbart, the film focuses on four generations of the Sanford Family, including Emmanuel, a promising student; his brother Smurf, a local drug dealer; his sister Denice, an aspiring cop; and his mother Cheryl, who must conquer her own demons for her family to prosper. Spanning two decades, “17 Blocks” illuminates a nation’s ongoing crisis through one family’s raw, stirring, and deeply personal saga

5:15 PM DeBoest Lecture Hall at Newfields

Fri, Oct 18 7:20 PM AMC Castleton Square Theater 9

Sat, Oct 19 2:50 PM AMC Castleton Square Theater 9

Sun, Oct 20 2:30 PM DeBoest Lecture Hall at Newfields

About Davy Rothbart
David Ira “Davy” Rothbart is a bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, contributor to This American Life, and the editor/publisher of Found Magazine.

Rothbart’s magazine Found is dedicated to discarded notes, letters, flyers, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling book, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World, published in April 2004. A second collection was published in May 2006, a third in May 2009. The magazine is published annually and co-edited by Rothbart’s friend Sarah Locke.

In December 2006, Geffen Records released Rothbart’s documentary film How We Survive about the punk rock band Rise Against on a DVD called Generation Lost. His second Rise Against documentary, Another Station: Another Mile, which follows the band as they write songs for a new album and perform shows around the world, was released in October 2010, and was among the year’s bestselling music DVDs in the U.S. and Germany. In May 2011, Rothbart directed a behind-the-scenes featurette for ItGetsBetter.org about the making of Rise Against’s “Make It Stop” video, which was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award. Rothbart and Rise Against lead singer Tim McIlrath are former roommates.
In the spring of 2008, Easier With Practice, a film based on an article Rothbart wrote for GQ about his life on tour, was shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The movie, written and directed by Kyle Alvarez, stars Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker; Boardwalk Empire) as Davy and Kel O’Neill as Davy’s brother; it premiered June 12, 2009 at the CineVegas Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize. A week later, Easier With Practice premiered internationally at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Feature. In December 2009, Easier With Practice was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. The film was released in theaters in February 2010, and met with great critical success: The Los Angeles Times called Easier With Practice “fresh, flawless, and totally captivating,” and The Village Voice praised the film as “emotionally honest and achingly true.”
In January 2009, Rothbart filmed his first full-length narrative feature, Overhaul, which stars rapper Daniel “D Shot” Garvatt as a pizza driver in desperate circumstances on New Year’s Eve. Rothbart himself delivered for Bell’s Pizza in Ann Arbor, Michigan for six years. Overhaul was scheduled to be released in 2015.
From late 2010 to spring of 2012, Rothbart filmed a documentary called Medora, which follows a resilient high-school basketball team in the small, struggling town of Medora, Indiana. The film, co-directed by Rothbart and Andrew Cohn, premiered at SXSW in 2013 [2] and was released in theaters in fall 2013, receiving widespread praise from The New York Times, The Village Voice, NPR, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, which named it one of the Best Films of 2013. Currently, Medora holds a 92% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film aired in April, 2014 on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens, earning an Emmy Award. The documentary was produced by Beachside Films and Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Wren Arthur of Olive Productions, among others.
Rothbart is the subject of a documentary, directed by David Meiklejohn, called My Heart Is An Idiot, which premiered in April 2011, and screened in twenty U.S. cities that spring. He has also made token appearances as an actor, including a role as Miami night club manager Jake Sylvano in the film The Strongest Man, directed by Kenny Riches, which premiered in January, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival.

Minor Sweat @ Listen Hear
2019-10-19 19:00 - 22:00 | IN
Low Pone presents: Minor Sweat A safe space to be your queer selves. A mashup of open mic, art drag, radical thoughts, and community for the youth of Indy.

Join us @ Listen Hear located at 2620 Shelby St. From 7-10pm

Serenity Now Reconciliation Hour with Duncan Kissinger Live Studio Audience Taping
2019-10-24 17:00 - 18:00 | IN
Join us at Listen Hear for the live taping of Serenity Now Reconciliation Hour with Duncan Kissinger!
Special guests, fan favorites, surprises. Join amateur emotional anthropologist Duncan Kissinger for some Tonight Show cosplay.
Listen to the show live on 99.1 WQRT FM from 5-6pm every Thursday or Join us live in studio at Listen Hear Located at 2620 Shelby St.

Lockerbie Night Market
2019-10-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
In partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemaking and Big Car Collaborative are back for another year to host four Night Markets at Lockerbie!
Thanks to our friends at Sun King Brewery, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street.
Join us for an evening downtown, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts, music, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors or relax and take in live music.
Vendors, food trucks, and musical acts will be announced closer to each date. All ages // Free and open to the public.
*If you would like to become an artist vendor for June, please fill out the following application: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LGNDZK8
To learn more about events at Lockerbie Marketplace, visit https://www.bigcar.org/lockerbie/

Silent Horror Film & Live Score: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2019-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Lockerbie Marketplace, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, United States
The last Lockerbie Night Market of the season will also feature an outdoor screening of the iconic silent horror film THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI with a LIVE SCORE brought to you by Classical Music Indy and Bad Boys of A.V.
In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community.
All ages // Free and open to the public.
Thanks to our friends at Sun King Brewery, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street. We are also happy to announce that Ash & Elm Cider Co. will also be available. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors while you take in this classic film with live music.
A MUSICA FABULA event presented by Bad Boys of A.V. Programming in partnership with Citimark Management and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemaking, and Big Car Collaborative, Classical Music Indy.
To learn more about events at Lockerbie Marketplace, visit https://www.bigcar.org/lockerbie/

Harry Otaku Presents The It Tape Listening Party @ Listen Hear
2019-10-25 19:00 - 22:00 | IN
A horror based flixtape based on the Steven King film bearing the same name. Prepare to have your feelings unsettled, your senses twisted, and your perception of hip hop gutted as Otaku plays you a collage of terror infused songs to get your heart beat racing. Join us at Listen Hear from 7-10pm Located at 2620 Shelby St.

MUFON featuring Thomas Wertman
2019-10-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
–Army Reserve Helicopters Encounter with the Unknown–
Recent announcements indicate the Pentagon funded a program to identify unknown aerial threats between 2007-2012. Naval aviators encounter with UFOs in 2004 have been connected to the programs many areas of study. While of high interest, have there been equal if not more interesting cases since this event.
In 1973 an Army Reserve helicopter was on what the crew assumed would be a non-eventful flight from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio. Little did they know they would have a close encounter with an object of unknown origin near Mansfield, Ohio. The crew reported their encounter to their superiors who appeared to do nothing. But certain facts raise the question that their superiors knew more than they let on. Additional research and interviews with not only crew, but ground witnesses who revealed previously unknown details.
The program interlaced with graphics in order to experience the event through the crew and ground witness’s perspective.
About Thomas Wertman
It is said we are all products of our environment. Growing up in the 60’s and watching television shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits fueled an interest in space and the unknown. Television shows and movies soon led to books, but unfortunately this interest had to be put aside to build a career, raise a family, and earn a bachelors in business and master’s in education.
Now with my family grown and pursing their own careers I decided to return to my lifelong interest in the unknown. The first step was in 2008 by joining the Ohio based group the Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP). CUP was primarily a discussion group that provided an avenue to explore various areas associated with ufology. In 2018 I stepped down as co-director of the group in order to allow more time for private UFO research.
The second step also in 2008 was becoming a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Since that time, I have advanced from field investigator to State Director of Ohio. Currently have investigated over 300 cases in Ohio with one of the most interesting involving two fisherman who experienced over three and one-half hours of missing time. In addition to working Ohio cases I have also conducted over 230 investigations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico for MUFONS Case Assistance Group.
If that was not enough, I have participated in over 200 community outreach programs discussing UFO’s, been a featured guest on radio and television shows, participated in three documentaries, played an alien in a short film, and host a podcast called UFOdyssey.
In the back of my mind I’ve often wondered why I’m so passionate about ufology. A series of regressions explored my past in search of a possible connection. The regressions indicated personal encounters with UFOs and nonhuman beings beginning in the 1960s. These experiences if true explain that connection.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2019-10-30 18:00 - 20:00 | IN
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.

Jane Kim and Sean Smith: Far From Anything Like The Movie
2019-11-01 18:00 - 22:00 | IN
In February 2019 we flew to Madagascar in hopes to uncomfortably disconnect; It worked. The Island of the Moon is home to around 200,000 plant and animal species and has some of the most breathtaking scenery you could ever imagine. Unfortunately 90% of their rainforests are gone along with species uprooted due to deforestation. There’s a divide between the native Malagasy that belong and are acclimated to the pace of life in the island off the Indiana Ocean. An abundance of ethnicities, sex trafficking, climate change, extreme poverty, and the longest humanly possible commute in a taxi brousse.
Far From Anything Like The Movie is a photo/ mixed media exposé documenting the rode less traveled. Jane and Sean have no formal artist training and began this journey with the yearning to save their relationship.

This will take place at Listen Hear located at 2620 Shelby St.

Shelby Alexander : Afterthought
2019-11-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Afterthought by Shelby Alexander will be on display at the Guichelaar Gallery from November 1-15.

Alexander’s large scale multi-media paintings articulate the tension between the modern experience of beauty, consumption, and industrialization—and what that means for the future of the environment and global sustainability efforts.
S. Alexander graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2014 with a degree in studio art & design with a concentration in painting. She also studied fashion design at Pratt Institute in New York and was a studio resident for the South Bend Museum of Art. Most recently, she was awarded the 2017-18 Emerging Artist Residency Program with the Stutz Artists Association in Indianapolis. She is now currently working and residing in Cincinnati.
Guichelaar Gallery
1135 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN 46203
Available by appointment
Opening Reception November 1, 6-10pm
www.tubefactory.org
www.bigcar.org

Respecting POTUS & the National Trust
2019-11-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Efroymson Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Both quotes are attributed to one of our founding fathers and third president, Thomas Jefferson, and they perfectly illustrate the vital, acrimonious, and sometimes outright hostile relationship that has always existed between a free press and the halls of power within a democracy. Traditionally the press, this fourth estate, has served as an additional check on the government’s power. In Jay Seawell’s project, National Trust, he dissects the “careful manufacturing of appearances in relation to power, politics, and media in the United States.” His subjects range from historical structures to political spectacles and media culture, and they are all inextricably tied to superficial appearances and perceptions. Meanwhile, in Andrew Miller’s project, Respecting POTUS, he explores these appearances and perceptions as they relate to the Office of the President both inside and outside of the Beltway. According to Miller, “Political pundits, elected representatives, along with 24-hour cable news exist to hold those in power accountable but at times contribute to the divisive and hostile nature of our political culture today.”
Jay Turner Frey Seawell is a photographer based in Washington, DC. He earned his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. His photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States as well as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Seawell is a two-time nominee of The Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Seawell is the 2016 recipient of the Award for Innovation in the Documentary Arts from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. His first photobook National Trust was published by Skylark Editions. Seawell was a winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward competition in 2018.
Andrew “Drew” Miller is a Chicago-based fine art photographer specializing in interiors, architecture, and portraiture. His personal work explores the intersection of people and politics that is found in the urban environment.
Efroymson Gallery
Tube Factory Artspace
1125 Cruft Street Indianapolis, IN 46203
Opening Reception November 1, 6-10pm
www.auroraphoto.org
www.tubefactory.org
www.bigcar.org

Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys Presented by 99.1 WQRT
2019-11-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Over the last three decades, Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys have kept up a constant cycle of traveling back and forth across the lower 48, then hopping across the pond to Europe and beyond. They bring with them a brand of American music that has earned them an induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, several national television appearances, guest spots on The Grand Ole Opry, and a slew of adoring fans.

Spirit & Place Festival Presents: A Tailored Fit, Part 1
2019-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
What does it mean to fit in? How do we do so when who we are conflicts with our community? How does our decision create a society in which fitting in does not require becoming someone we are not? Join Maria Hamilton Abegunde, who uses African-based spiritual practices to heal intergenerational trauma.

Spirit & Place Festival Presents: A Tailored Fit, Part 2
2019-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
What does it mean to fit in? How do we do so when who we are conflicts with our community? How does our decision create a society in which fitting in does not require becoming someone we are not? Join Brenda Weber, who as a teenager grew up non-Mormon in a Mormon community.
