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Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-10-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-26 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-19 01:00 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 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/

Free Yoga at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-15 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-10-08 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-10-01 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-24 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-17 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!

Monday Art at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-16 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!

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!

Live Music at Lugar Plaza
2019-10-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-20 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!

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

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

Lori Miles:Baptized In Sugar
2019-10-04 18:00 - 2019-10-19 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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″

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
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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.

German Lockerbie Walking Tour
2019-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 | 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/

Travelogue Night at Lugar Plaza
2019-09-30 19:00 - 21:30 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
Listen in as eight globetrotters bring back inspiration to Indianapolis with quick 7-minute presentations about a country they’ve recently visited. Expect to hear about the amazing, the troubling, the unforgettable.
Emceed by Danicia Monét.
DJ’d by Gabby Love.
Outdoors on Lugar Plaza.
Program starts at 8 pm with music and mingling before.
Presented by Big Car Collaborative, City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development & Indianapolis City Market.

Lockerbie Night Market
2019-09-26 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/

Walking Wednesdays at Lugar Plaza: Italian History
2019-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, United States
A Downtown Indianapolis Italian History Tour
Brush up on your Indianapolis Italian history! Led by Ray E. Brown Jr. of the Italian Heritage Society of Indiana, this 2-mile walking tour explores the history of Italian fruit vendors, proceeds to Fletcher Place with stops at Holy Rosary Church (the traditional heart of the Italian community) and the bocce courts there. End up with a drink or dinner on your own at Iaria’s, Turchetti’s or Bluebeard before heading back to Lugar Plaza.
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET at Lugar Plaza near the swings. We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Tour will be rescheduled to Tuesday, October 1 in case of rain.
Free parking may be available at 320 E. Market. Or take the Red Line bus. A driving option is available for the tour. Contact IHSI through their website if you want to drive the route.
About the Italian Heritage Society
The Italian Heritage Society of Indiana is a non-profit organization, established in 1993, as an offshoot of the Columbus ’92 Commission for the State of Indiana, which worked tediously for three years so that the State of Indiana could participate in our nation’s year long celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ Discovery of America. The enthusiasm of this project brought together a variety of people with family roots from all parts of Italy. More than six hundred persons of Italian descent and many non-Italian friends who have a fondness for the Italian culture and its arts contributed to the establishment of this Society. Since its foundation, the Society has continued to offer its members many enjoyable activities and opportunities for fellowship.
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.

Localized : Call Out meeting
2019-09-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Calling all Garfield Park and Bean Creek artists!
Set between lush trees and historic homes the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods are a hub to a diverse community of sound, visual and preforming artists.
Localized is a juried exhibition in partnership with The Garfield Park Art Center and The Tube Factory Artspace to highlight artists of various mediums from the Garfield Park neighborhood. This exhibition will be on display during December 2019.
Join us at the Tube Factory Artspace on Saturday September 21st from 2-3pm to learn more about how to submit to the show.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Indy Urban Acres
2019-09-18 17:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life!
Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun!
$1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation!
https://www.indyparksfoundation.org/indy-urban-acres/
*Family Friendly*
