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Pack The Parks-Garfield
2018-06-30 10:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Art activities, concert and live music at various locations in Garfield Park.
The Garfield Park Art Center is open 10-4 pm with activities.
Crossroads Brass Band concert at the McAllister Center, 3p.m.
First Annual Garfield Park Music Festival
PARTY begins at 5PM
EVENT from 6-10PM

LINEUP:
Rebekah Osborn | 6:00-6:35
Chad Lehr | 6:45-7:20
Kacie Swierk | 7:30-8:05
Danni Al Mar | 8:15-8:50
Brandon Wadley Music | 9:00-9:45
Featuring some of Indianapolis’ prime songwriters for an evening of stories, songs, friendship, joy, and neighbors!
WHAT TO BRING:
lawn chair or blanket + your beautiful self
FREE ENTRY // ALL AGES
(donations encouraged to help next year happen!)
FOOD TRUCKS:
(TBA)

Collectors' Night: Make A Man
2018-07-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Experience Collectors’ Night at Listen Hear with an all new exhibition, “Make A Man” by Dana Kalachnik.
Catch a first look at this provocative photo series on the first Thursday of July.

Make A Man
2018-07-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Listen Hear presents “Make A Man”, the photo exhibition by Dana Kalachnik. Join us for First Friday in July as we pack the house with an all new exhibition and live music provided by Volunteer Department!
Experience your community in an all new way this First Friday! Celebrate with Big Car as we take over Cruft and Shelby St!
The Tube Factory Artspace opens with a last chance look at Christos Koutsouras’ series “Land Art”, with Food Trucks and a Revamped Night Market.

Placemaking Day
2018-07-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
Big Car Collaborative and City Market are working with Southwest Airlines, Project for Public Spaces, Downtown Indy, and the City of Indianapolis to celebrate placemaking and the role of art and culture in activating great places for people.
Join us for a day of food, games, art making and fun — while also enjoying Indianapolis’s Original Farmer’s Market. The free activities start at 10 am.

'A Life In Waves' Film Screening + 'Mr. M' Performance
2018-07-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a performance from Indianapolis artist Mr. M followed by a screening of the documentary ‘A Life In Waves’, detailing the life of electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.
From her earliest days learning the piano, to her multi-million dollar advertising ventures, to her successes in the world of New Age music, to her recent re-connection with her beloved Buchla synthesizer, the film is a journey into Suzanne’s mind, offering a feminine glimpse into the often complicated world of electronic music.

Wagon of Wonders at Garfield Park
2018-07-13 19:00 - 23:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Garfield Park Art Center is presenting the film CoCo at dusk, with a preshow concert by LABi – Latin American Band of Indianapolis. Big Car’s mobile museum, the Wagon of Wonders will be there with art activities.
About the movie Coco
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
1 hour 45minutes
At the MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 7pm.

99.1 WQRT Presents Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
2018-07-13 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
For the past twenty years, Chuck Mead has been at the forefront of what has come to be known as Americana Music. Raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Chuck has been a professional musician since the age of 13 playing in his parents country band and then leading several roots rock outfits in the midwest most notably the Homestead Grays. He landed on Nashville’s Lower Broadway in 1993 where he co-founded the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet BR5-49. The band’s seven albums, three Grammy nominations and the Country Music Association Award for Best Overseas Touring Act of 1997 built an indelible bridge between authentic American Roots music and millions of fans worldwide. Chuck has also co-produced popular tribute albums to Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, guest-lectured at Vanderbilt University, and became a staff writer at one of Nashville’s top song publishers. In 2008, he was the Musical Director/Supervisor for the Broadway/West End musical Million Dollar Quartet (which broke the record in Chicago for the longest-running musical) and acted in the same capacity for the CMT television show Sun Records producing all the re-recordings of classic rock n roll, country, and blues. He has released three solo works starting in 2009 with his acclaimed solo debut album, Journeyman’s Wager on the Grassy Knoll Records label, and continues tour clubs, concert halls and international Rock, Country and Rockabilly festivals with his band The Grassy Knoll Boys.
Chuck’s acclaimed 2012 release, Back At The Quonset Hut(Ramseur Records), was recorded at Nashville’s legendary Quonset Hut Studio where Patsy Cline, George Jones, Merle Haggard Roger Miller, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash and more cut some of country music’s greatest tracks. Produced by original BR549 producer Mike Janas and with the participation of students from Belmont University’s College of Entertainment and Music Business, the album of classic covers features surviving members of Music Row’s original ‘A-Team’ studio musicians Bob Moore, Harold Bradley, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, and Buddy Spicher as well as guest appearances by Old Crow Medicine Show, Elizabeth Cook, Jamie Johnson and Bobby Bare.
2014 ushered in Free State Serenade, on Nashville-based Plowboy Records. Produced by long-time ally and friend Joe Pisapia (KD Lang, Ben Folds Five) and featuring BR5-49’s Don Herron, and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Critter Fuqua, Free State Serenade is Chuck Mead’s love letter to his home state of Kansas.
Chuck is currently working up new material for a 2018 record release and still oversees two Million Dollar Quartet productions and is developing some new theatrical stage shows.
21+

Kevin Krauter presented by Winspear, LUNA music and Tube Factory
2018-07-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Useful Solitude. That’s the phrase Kevin Krauter uses to describe Toss Up, his upcoming full-length debut on Bayonet Records—both the conditions in which it was created and the prevailing theme of these nine iridescent indie-pop songs. In between tours, the Indiana musician spent long hours in his basement, guitars and vintage keyboards his only company, and tested out ideas, explored new sonic avenues, savored new sounds, and taught himself how to play a few instruments.
“I would wake up and have a cup of coffee, then I’d come up with a song or a melody and just sit and play it literally for three or four hours straight. Then I’d try to find new ways to play it, or do it with different notes or on different instruments. I don’t want to call it meditating, but it was pretty meditative to sit there by myself and play the same thing over and over and over and over.” The riffs and melodies became mantras, repeated back to himself until they became the rhythmically intricate, melodically bold, and emotionally complex songs on Toss Up. An insightful songwriter with a lyrical style that is both economical and evocative, Krauter crafts unique soundscapes that scramble a range of influences: ‘60s flower pop, ‘70s easy listening, ‘80s New Wave, ‘90s alt-radio, ’00s indie rock.
A gentle melancholy pervades the album, but it’s far too imaginative to sound morose or mopey. “You’re singing all alone and you’re dancing all alone,” he sings on “Who Do You Know,” as the guitars crackle and the synths fizz around him. As Toss Up proceeds, Krauter fills the songs with more and more people: a lover in the unabashedly sweet “Keep Falling in Love;” a friend in the album-closing title track who becomes an audience of one. Music becomes the bond between Krauter and the world: “Take my hand ‘cause we’re really alone in this world,” he sings on “Toss Up,” but adds a poignant promise: “I can carry you home.”
Best known as one of several guitar players, songwriters, and vocalists in the Hoosier indie-rock band Hoops, Krauter has been making music all by his lonesome for much longer. He grew up in a family heavily involved in local musical theater, even appearing in three productions of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He played in high school bands, but didn’t get serious about writing and recording until he enrolled at Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. His first efforts — recorded in his dorm room — weren’t intended for any kind of audience, but a friend asked him to record a few tracks for a class project. Eventually those sessions became 2015’s Magnolia EP, a short collection of gentle, gauzy songs that reveal his early obsession with one of his first musical heroes, Vashti Bunyan.
It was his first taste of the music business, and the experience left a huge impression. “I’d never put any music out under my name. I’d never put out a tape before. It all came together quickly.” Krauter began recording and releasing music prolifically, first with Hoops and then on his own. The ChangesEP, released in late 2016, showcases his deft guitar playing, mixing soul-baring songwriting with bossa nova rhythms and intimately lo-fi production. It was supposed to be a low-key release, but Changes became a word-of-mouth hit that amassed a small but avid cult behind it. “I didn’t think it was going to make any huge waves for me, but a lot of people told me they were still listening to it a year or more later. They were living with it, and I thought that was cool.”
Those first two EPs were mostly acoustic, just Krauter, his guitar, and occasionally a brushed snare drum or a textural electric guitar. “I was cool with it for a while, but I wanted to make something that sounded a little more pop.” Recorded at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana, Toss Up builds on the sonic worlds of his first releases, conveying a similar mood with a greater array of instruments and influences. Still, he worked with what he had around him. “I found this old two-stack organ at Goodwill and set it up on top of an old Yamaha teach-yourself keyboard that my mom had. I was playing those over and over.”
You can hear those vintage keyboards merging on “Keep Falling in Love,” which recalls R&B organist Timmy Thomas and West Coast marina pop artists Ned Doheny while showing off Krauter’s strong falsetto. “Rollerskate” audaciously marries a hypnotic keyboard theme to a loping drumbeat based on a popular ‘90s alt-rock hit. “I had been working on that guitar part and it sounded like another pretty folk song, so I thought, What if I put this weird funky beat on top of it? Most of these songs are very groove heavy.”
That is the secret tension on Toss Up, the engine that drives these songs: melody propelled by rhythm, melancholy fended off by the exuberance of simply creating art. “A lot of the songs are about solitude in a very healthy sense, about trying to make it something useful and productive. It was good to center myself in that experience. I was able to get to a place where I was not afraid to be really stoked by what I was doing.” Or, as he declares on “Lonely Boogie”: “I’m all alone and I’m having a good time.”
–Words by Stephen Deusner

Tickets on-sale now: https://ticketf.ly/2HCX5fj
All Ages

Quasi "Mother" Video Premiere
2018-07-15 16:00 - 23:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A demo and video premiere from Quasi Skateboard company.

Brick Street Poetry
2018-07-18 19:00 - 20:30
Poetry in song panel and open mic.

Sunken Gardens Beer Garden
2018-07-19 18:00 - 22:00 | Garfield Park Sunken Gardens, 2505 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Enjoy one of Indianapolis’s most beautiful gardens, play some games or simply socialize taking in the sunset and color-changing fountains while having a local craft beer.

Tube Factory Shop Club Open Meeting
2018-07-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join our first monthly gathering of wood and metal artists. Novices and masters are welcome. Discuss techniques and tools as a community and observe a resident artist demo. You’re also invited to bring a recent work for show-and-tell.

Old Soul Presents The DOJO
2018-07-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The DOJO; a (MONTHLY) Hip-Hop showcase that highlights the art of REAL MCing. The DOJO honors tradition and provides a platform to strengthen the local HIP-HOP CULTURE.
All ages welcome. Appropriate for ages 16 & over.
​Hosted by Indy artists, Gritty N’ The Craftman.
Every month, they feature the best Indy emcees.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-07-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring 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.

Lockerbie Night Market + Beer Garden
2018-07-25 18:00 - 22:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Big Car Collaborative and Spark Placemaking, in partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners, are back for another year to host three Night Markets at Lockerbie Marketplace!
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. Beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off Mass Ave.
Vendors, food trucks, and musical acts will be announced closer to each date.
All ages // Free and open to the public

Sunken Beer Gardens
2018-07-26 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-02 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-09 18:00 - 21:30 | Garfield Park Sunken Gardens, 2505 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Celebrate one of our city’s most beautiful gardens and public places every Thursday evening. Play some games, relax, get creative, and socialize at this family friendly place while taking in the sunset and fountains. And enjoy local craft beer. In partnership with Indianapolis Parks Foundation and Indy Parks and Recreation. And we’re excited to team up, as well, with Friends of Garfield Park, Inc. and multiple local breweries including Sun King Brewing Company, Centerpoint Brewing, Upland Brewing Company, Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis and our neighborhood’s own Garfield Brewery. Part of Big Car’s Spark Placemaking program with promotional support from 99.1 WQRT FM.
Kids and dogs are allowed. You can bring in a picnic. Food trucks will be on hand most nights. All ages. Beer is for 21-plus only and must be purchased. Otherwise free to attend. Some seating available, including hammocks. You can bring your own blanket or lawn chair. The Conservatory will be open to visitors with restrooms at no charge. Art activities, projects, and low-key performances will vary each week. You can always decorate and write your own special sunken garden postcards that we’ll mail for you for free.

Drew Gowran: Dismantle
2018-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Solo percussionist out of St. Louis, MO on tour for new album, Dismantle.
“… Most people will just call it busking, but Gowran elevates the act of turning a sidewalk or patch of grass into a stage with a clear sense of performance and percussive muscle. His new album, Dismantle, shows Gowran picking apart years of forceful rock drumming, distilling his sound down to a focused set of bells, pot lids and found percussion.”–Joseph Hess via Riverfront Times

Wagon of Wonders at Garfield Park
2018-07-27 19:00 - 23:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Garfield Park Arts Center will present the film Star Wars:The Last Jedi, with a pre-show concert by Clint Breeze & the Groove. And we will be there with our mobile museum, The Wagon of Wonders with free art activities and exploration.

About the movie:
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.
2 hours and 32minutes

Yoga on East Plaza
2018-07-30 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-08-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
Yoga on the East Plaza of Indianapolis City Market! Kick-off your work week the right way by taking a moment to center yourself, with instructor Katy Newton. Don’t have your own yoga mat? No problem, we’ve got plenty! If it rains, we will move indoors to the upper mezzanine.
Katy Newton is a RYT200 yoga teacher with 5 years of experience. She is a creative teacher that incorporates fun and engaging concepts into her classes. Katy specializes in community based yoga which serves to make yoga affordable and accessible to all people. She currently teaches at the City Market and Irsay Family YMCA. She is a local artist and fashion designer, consummate upcycler and table tennis enthusiast.
Free and open to the public // All ages
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.

Collectors' Night: No Peace Inc.
2018-08-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Listen Hear is proud to present Collectors’ Night featuring visual artist Terrible Tony.
From materials like pen and ink to oil paints, Terrible Tony is inspired by Internet and 90s pop culture. The series “No Peace Inc.” is inspired by the discomfort of today’s America.
Join us Thursday August 2nd from 7-9 pm to get a first look at this new exhibition.

Wagon of Wonders at Indiana State Fair
2018-08-03 - 2018-08-20 | Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
Spark Placemaking will return to theThe Indiana State Fair organizing, managing and staffing a pop-up public space to visitors. This space, located in the middle of main street across from the Coliseum and next to the grandstands, will offered a fun and free spot for children and adults to engage in games, art, and comfortable seating. In addition this year, the public can help us paint a mural designed by Indianapolis-based artist, Emily Gable. See photos from last year here.

No Peace Inc.
2018-08-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us this First Friday at Listen Hear for the opening reception of Terrible Tony’s new series “No Peace Inc”.

“No Peace Inc.” explores the push pull relationship of constant connectivity in America today- inspired by 90s pop culture, Tony aims to question our obsession with technology and instant gratification.

We will be taking over the intersection of Cruft & Shelby streets with food trucks, a revamped Night Market, and Live music.

Masters Retrospectives: Social Practice & Placemaking
2018-08-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Showcasing the work of UIndy Social Practice students! In the last year, they have engaged many communities, cultures & arts practices. The gallery show will highlight thesis projects & other projects from throughout the program.
Additional events are planned during the show to highlight individual projects in social practice art and creative placemaking.
About the thesis projects:
In Place is a series of pop-up events that create space for community connection through social exchange. For example, this summer Lauren Ditchley and a team of five TeenWorks youth employees collaborated with Joanna Taft of the Harrison Center to produce seven porch parties at the homes of longtime residents in the Monon 16 neighborhood. At each porch party, teens and residents shared lunch and responded to prompts such as, “How long have you lived here?” and “What was your first job?” The collaborative team share these conversations and tips for hosting your own porch party in a zine based on video and sound recordings, photos, and journals.
Arranged Encounters is a project by Linnea Gartin that records and archives the stories of women in the Midwest experiencing contemporary society. Through podcast episodes and a curated exhibition of artifacts from the interview experience, the goal is to expose the common woman’s wisdom, story, and perspective on the world. The twist is each episode is recorded in a different environment and questions are pulled at random by the guest.
Brittany Kugler, with No Exit Performance, is launching the Theatrical Assets Library in the late summer of 2018. The Theatrical Assets Library is an opportunity for performance groups in Indianapolis to join their assets, like costumes and sets, together. This will allow those groups to save money, increase green initiatives, and grow professional opportunities.
Emma Landwerlen’s Queer Between Coasts is an ongoing archive examining LGBT lives in the Midwest through personal interviews, ephemera, and art. The project also explores what it means to be visibly queer in the midwest, an act that can feel simultaneously powerful and vulnerable.
Easel Eats, by Danielle Wilborn, combines thoughtful discussion of the meaning behind an artists work with an informal shared meal of the artists choosing in an attempt to share the power of storytelling through art and how it can be used to launch community conversations. Participating artists will be shadowed during their work and all project documentation will be placed in a multimedia collection and made public.

Juan William Chávez: Mesa Hive:Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary
2018-08-03 18:00 - 2018-10-20 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Mesa Hive: Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary
Opening reception August 3, 6-10pm
These connected projects — related to bees, beekeeping, culture, and community — include an outdoor living sculpture and a resulting exhibit developed by Juan William Chávez, an artist and cultural activist based in St. Louis, during his six-week residency at Tube Factory.
The Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary is a 5-year project in the green space adjacent to Tube Factory that promotes environmental stewardship with the philosophy that a better environment for bees is a healthy environment for humans. This is fostered through Chávez’s pollinator-friendly hexagon design and is associated with a multi layered community outreach program. Located in the Tube Factory’s community garden, the Bee Sanctuary features a multi-color hexagon pattern concrete floor that houses two beehives. Surrounding the hives is a hexagon-shaped cedar eco wall filled with organic soil and is filled with an abundance of native plants and flowers for bees throughout the seasons. The Bee Sanctuary invites the public to wear beekeeping suits to observe and interact with the hives through a multi layered community outreach program that embraces the urban ecosystem, arts education and job training. The Bee Sanctuary embraces the concept of working as a hive. Chávez teamed up with TeenWorks Indianapolis on the construction of the sanctuary. TeenWorks is a six-week summer employment and college readiness program for high school seniors. Along with helping build, TeenWorks young people experienced several educational workshops that focus on ecology, plant biology, landscape design, beekeeping and entrepreneurship. Public programming continues over the next five years related to the Bee Sanctuary.
In Tube Factory’s main gallery, Chávez exhibits Mesa Hive, a multimedia Installation that highlights the process and construction of the Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary. The installation is presented on a large Mylar survival blanket with carefully arranged objects and artifacts created and harvested during the construction process. These objects are juxtaposed with new paintings made by Chávez during the residency. The survival blanket is inspired by Chávez’s Peruvian heritage. It references Mesa, a multicolored bundle containing various sacred objects used for healing in Andean shamanic rituals typically associated with a Huaca, a monument or natural location that represents something revered. The exhibition also includes photo and video documentation of TeenWorks, Chávez, and Big Car artists — led by Elliot Thornton — working on the sanctuary. Documentation includes preparing over 300 hexagon concrete pavers and beekeeping and gardening activities in partnership with Bee Public and Solful Gardens. Mesa Hive is curated by Shauta Marsh.
“I’m inspired by artist Joseph Beuys’ works with bees. He viewed bees as a symbol of society due to the nature of how they live and work together. He was also fascinated by the alchemy of honey production and used honey in many of his works. The collectiveness of the hive is a powerful and natural way of living and working. Working together to transform ideas and space plays a major role in my work. Bees teach me how to work within a group, how to build space as a group, how to transform ideas to make honey, and the alchemy of the studio within an ecosystem. For me bees and humans are the same. We enjoy a lot of the same plants and smells. We need them and they need us. A better environment for the bees is a better environment for humans, and as humans we forget that we are part of an ecosystem. Bees remind me of that, which keeps me grounded and connected.
Over the last five years in St. Louis we’ve been honing our concept and practice of a bee sanctuary and feel we were in a position and had the right partnership to try to take that concept to a different city. We are super excited that Indianapolis and the Tube Factory were an ideal partnership for this project.” – Juan William Chávez
The project is made possible by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, PNC, Penrod Arts Fair, The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs, Sun King Brewing and Managed Health Services.
About Chávez
Juan William Chávez is an artist and cultural activist who creates and shares space in the built and natural environments to address community-identified issues. At the heart of Chavez’s practice is his studio research, which includes drawings, films, photographs, craft, labor, architectural interventions, and unconventional forms of beekeeping and agriculture. Chávez utilizes art as a way of researching, developing, and implementing projects of creative placemaking and social engagement. His exhibitions feature his studio research in the form of multimedia installations. Chavez has exhibited his work at venues such as ArtPace, Van Abbemuseum, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, 21c Museum Hotel, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. His interdisciplinary approach to art has gained the attention and support of prestigious institutions like the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, ArtPlace America and Art Matters Foundation. Chávez holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Spice Listening Party
2018-08-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for the Spice Listening Party, hosted by Indianapolis local Baby Ebony. DJ Shawshank will be spinning on the decks with a special live performance by HeyZeus.

Free, all ages.

Yoga at Lockerbie Marketplace
2018-08-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us every Tuesday evening in August for FREE YOGA at Lockerbie Marketplace provided by The Hot Room Downtown! Step away from the hustle and bustle of Indianapolis for a relaxing experience in one of the city’s hidden green spaces. Take a moment to find your calm with instructor Joel Wayman and continue your week feeling relaxed and refreshed.
About Wayman
I have been in a relationship with fitness for over ten years. I am always finding ways to stay flexible, lean, strong and in the end transform my body to be healthier and my mind to become happier. My love for yoga started young with my mom, who learned from her mom, showing us children how to do stretches she used before the start of her days. It was not until 2016 that I started practicing yoga consistently. I was introduced to hot yoga by my best friend and cousin Bria. We decided on taking Bikram yoga class at The Hot Room. It felt incredible and my body and mind were feeling things I’d never felt before. I immediately signed up and started coming regularly as much as I could. It was transformative. I continued with my practice daily and tried not just Bikram, but Vinyasa and Pilates as well. I found it to be incredibly important to practice as many different styles as I could and found my body to start changing and my mind to start healing.
Within 6 months of practicing I became an instructor at The Hot Room by going through an Inferno Hot Pilates training in Chicago. Two months later I started my 200 RYT at The Hot Room.
I love teaching Inferno Hot Pilates because it’s like a workout party. Results are also noticeable within a short period of time as long as you commit to the practice.
I love teaching Hot Power Vinyasa because the continuous flow of the class connects you to your breath and movements at the same time. As a dancer it makes it feel like doing a beautiful choreographed dance and my heart creates that connection with my mind and body.
As long as you’re doing the work you will create strength and find healing. Every style is different and every teacher brings something different to the table and I am honored to be apart of the team at The Hot Room.
This program is brought to you by Spark Placemaking and The Hot Room Downtown in partnership with Citimark, Gershman Partners, and Big Car Collaborative.

Movies at the MAC-Black Panther with Clint Breeze & Groove
2018-08-10 19:00 - 23:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Each year, Indy Parks produces a full season of music, movies, and more for you and your family.
Featuring a wide variety of artistic styles – jazz, classical, blues, and Shakespeare in the Park – Indy Parks is excited to kick off its Summer Concert Series. From the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at Ellenberger Park to Garfield Park’s Music in the Gardens, they are offering an impressive selection of concerts and artists for all. Big Car will be present at this free concert and movie with art activities and more.
Concert starts at 7 p.m., movie starts at about 9 p.m.
Pre-show concert with Clint Breeze & The Groove
About Black Panther
After the death of his father, T’Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king — and as Black Panther — gets tested when he’s drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.
