Israel in the Park
2019-05-19 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Coxhall Gardens, 2000 W 116th St., Carmel, IN, 46033, United States
Celebrate Israel Independence Day with the Greater Indianapolis Jewish community at this FREE event. All are welcome!
Enjoy family-friendly activities including:
-A performance from visiting Israeli band להקת רוקדים – Rockdim Band, an energetic group of musicians and singers who will have you up and out of your seats, dancing in celebration!
-Help create a community mosaic with visiting Israeli artist Or-nah Ran
-Oversized games often found played along the beaches of Israel with Big Car Collaborative
-Interactive nature exploration
-Make an Israel collage with flower petals
-Henna tattoos
-Bedouin tent with shesh besh (backgammon)
-Green screen Israel photos
-Virtual reality goggles
-Face painting
-Hair braiding
-Write your name in Hebrew
-Play “Shimon Omer” (“Simon Says”)
-Israeli dancing
-Israeli Zumba
-And more!
Food and drinks for purchase, including Middle Eastern specialties and kid favorites.
Participating local Jewish organizations include JFGI, JCC Indianapolis, Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Family Services Indianapolis, Partnershiptogether WesternGalilee, PJ Library in Greater Indianapolis, JFGI NEXTGen, Chabad Center for Jewish Life – Lubavitch of Indiana, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Congregation Beth Shalom Indy, Congregation B’nai Torah, Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, Etz Chaim Sephardic Congregation of Indianapolis, Hasten Hebrew Academy, Indiana Jewish Discovery Center, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Jewish Student Association at IUPUI
Sponsored by (as of April 25, 2019):
– Gadi Boukai – F.C Tucker, Abrams EyeCare Associates, Glick Philanthropies(Gold Sponsors)
– American Friends of Magen David Adom, BRICS, Cohen & Malad, LLP, Katz Korin Cunningham, Klapper Eyelid & Facial Plastic Surgery, Dr. Tavel, Cheryl & Ray Waldman (Silver Sponsors)
– Say It For You, Brad and Tina Cohen, Chuck and Karen Cohen, Lana & Boris Fridman, Steiman-Weidberg Family (Support Sponsors)

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2019-05-20 18:00 - 2019-06-26 20:00, 2019-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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.

WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents-Smokey & The Bandit
2019-05-22 18:45 - 20:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason are in high gear and hot water after a cross-country road challenge results in one of the wildest series of car chases and crashes ever filmed! The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet that he can transport a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, TX, to Atlanta within 28 hours. It’s important to note that in 1977, it was illegal to sell the Coors brand east of the Mississippi River without a permit; if we don’t note that, then the plot won’t make sense at times. Already in danger of arrest from redneck lawmen like Buford T. Justice, Bandit furthers his chances at a stiff jail term when he offers a ride to Carrie, who hopes to escape her unwanted wedding to Justice’s boy.” ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Presented by Upland Brewing Company

Tactical Urbanism: Take Back the Streets
2019-05-28 17:30 - 19:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Take Back the Streets: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Tactical Urbanism Projects, is a FREE, public event open to anyone looking to spark change in their neighborhood and community.
The event will be facilitated by Grace Kyung, a Culture of Health Leader who managed traffic calming, tactical urbanism projects as part of a Plan4Health grant to Trailnet, in St. Louis.
The program will include time for Q&A and discussion.
Please RSVP online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TU52819.
Photo Credit: NUVO.net

Wendelien van Oldenborgh- Two Stones
2019-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Two Stones explores the trajectories and ideals of the Bauhaus-trained, German architect Lotte Stam-Beese and the Caribbean activist and writer Hermina Huiswoud through dialogues and appearances by contemporary protagonists. Both Stam-Beese and Huiswoud spent time working in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s and both ended up being active in the Netherlands after WWII.
Two Stones was filmed in the 1930s constructivist district of KhTZ in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the first large housing project on which Lotte Stam-Beese worked, and in Stam-Beese’s celebrated 1950s Pendrecht, designed during her period as Rotterdam’s main architect / urban planner.
In the 1970s, Hermina Huiswoud was agitating against the Rotterdam housing rule, which limited Caribbean Dutch inhabitants to settle in any of the city’s districts if their presence would exceed 5% of the population.
Resonances as well as dissonances between the distinct trajectories of the two women and their expectation from communist ideology, are sensed through thoughts and experiences of the protagonists, who all have a personal or professional relation to the issues at hand.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).

Sweet Garbij Presents "Manifest" a Listening Experience & Pop Up
2019-05-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Sweet Garbij is hosting a listening event dedicated to their curated playlist MANIFEST. Prepare for an art directive event and the opportunity to buy plants, clothes and sage while listening to new and familiar tunes.
Pop Up Shop Presented By: House of Adeola, Tanu, Sarah Jene’ Recycled Dope
Tunes & Spins By: DJ Cleo Patrah
Suggestive Donation: $5
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Tarkington Park Fest 2019
2019-06-01 08:00 - 23:00 | Tarkington Park, 45 W 40th St, Indianapolis, 46208, United States
Come laugh and play—all ages, all neighbors, all day. Bring your family, bring a pet, invite a stranger, invite a friend. We invite all midtown neighbors to come and experience a day-long festival of fun put on by neighbors for neighbors. The splash pad will be open, the stage will be poppin’, the food will be delicious (and local), and the cherry on top will be the movie in the park at sundown. The Wagon of Wonders and Big Car staff will be present with art, games, and more!

Record of Memory
2019-06-01 16:00 - 18:00 | New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 506 Main St, New Harmony, IN, 47631, United States
Carl Pope, Conner Green, Elisa Harkins, Osuma James Nakagawa & Yvette Mayorga
May 10-June 22
Record of Memory is a survey of artists who are reflecting on existing monuments and fashioning new monuments. At the time a public monument is conceived, it is a tribute to our cities built by its citizens and dedicated to social progress, industrial achievement, civic interest, patriotism and culture. Works were selected with this idea of monuments in mind by curators Shauta Marsh, Garry Holstein, and Jeremy Efroymson as part of Social Alchemy, a series of exhibitions and events exploring the concepts driving our current ideas of utopia and dystopia.
Monuments are symbols of hope, of warning, of honor, encountered daily. We often think of them as sculpture or statues but increasingly we are all creating them on the internet in the form of videos, websites, even Facebook profiles. Our monuments remind present and future people of what we should be striving for. They reference our current goals of utopia. Other times they serve as reminders of tragedy/of dystopia, and what happens when we deviate from our utopic goals, to help us avoid re-occurrence.
Carl Pope’s photography pulls us into his experience exploring rural Germany via train. The color process on his work references the multi-colored rainbow, a symbol of the LGBTQ community. The nuclear reactor, Mother Mary and the Tin Man give the viewer a new perspective, both capturing and asking us to reconsider what we believe about these objects and characters by presenting them the way we see standard monuments.
Conner Green’s inverted collage prints resembling schematic drawings investigate the social ramifications of monumental architecture through collages of found materials, drawings, and photographs. “I understand ‘architecture’ to refer to more than just the design and decoration of buildings, but also to how thought or action can make order and meaning out of random space,” Green says. “My work, in part, attempts to excavate those embedded meanings.” The rendered forms do not refer to any extant structures; rather they attempt to portray a kind of typological composite of built forms throughout history.
Muscogee (Creek) Hymn and The Plain Indians Sign Language video works by Elisa Harkins are monuments in their right. In Plain Indians Sign Language, Harkins tells the story of her friend’s death. She uses sign language, which was invented by indigenous people and adopted by settlers, to both honor her friend and remind us that ASL came from a people and culture white settlers attempted to destroy. Muscogee (Creek) Hymn asks us to reflect on how song influences our ideas. Creek songs were never taught, rather learned. The Creek may not know the details of where those hymns came from—common belief is they’re handed down from God himself—but they know what’s important: the people, the milestones, and the stories the songs represent.
In Osamu James Nakagawa’s work, Maps, the landscape often functions as a witness to history and suffering, as well as a platform to examine conflicts political and personal in nature. The works are rubbings of monuments to the dead erected post WWII throughout Japan. Raised in Tokyo, Japan, Nakagawa’s family moved to Houston, Texas when he was fifteen. As an artist he mines the complicated pasts of both countries, touching on nationalism, family, pop-culture, tensions between eastern and western ideals, and war.
Every aspect of Yvette Mayorga’s built world is adorned with spectacular, rapacious iconography. Monumental fashion accessories and gendered toys interrogate the true meaning of “status,” while decadent, Colonial aesthetics remind us of the fragility of national identity, and how frequently it depends on appearances. Her series Monuments feature sculptures that are an absurdist, Rococo Candy Land, where frivolity intersects with fear, as soldiers and ICE agents come face to face with quinceañera cakes, white swans, and Polly Pocket adventure sets.
A Record of Memory requests that viewers reflect on our public and private monuments. How do they currently embody what our county, our city, our neighborhoods, what we as individuals stand for? How do we begin to reach a consensus with the current social and political divides?

Photo: Yvette Mayorga, US Funds Drug War.

TransGlam 2019 Presented by Eskenazi Health
2019-06-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
On June 1st, Indy’s trans community invites you to join us during Pride Week at the Tube Factory Artspace for #TransGlam – a free night of food, music, dancing, friendship and fun. Dance the night away or chill, socialize, enjoy some food and play games. The party starts at 6p.m.
What does your #TransGlam look like? A sparkly ball gown? A jean jacket and a t-shirt? A tux and a bow tie? Anything goes at this queer-formal dance. Bring a date(s), or come solo and show off your style and your moves! Everyone is welcome at #TransGlam.
This event is absolutely free to attend! Use the “tickets” button to get the details on your calendar and to receive helpful information about the event.
Indy Pride is teaming up with QUIT NOW INDIANA to encourage healthy lifestyles for all members of our community with all Pride events being tobacco-free. For support and resources to quit tobacco, visit them at quitnowindiana.com or call 1-800-QUIT NOW.

99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country presents Town Mountain
2019-06-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Making their second trip to Duke’s Indy, do not miss one of our favorite Bluegrass Bands around.
Raw, soulful, and with plenty of swagger, Town Mountain has earned raves for their hard-driving sound, their in-house songwriting and the honky-tonk edge that permeates their exhilarating live performances, whether in a packed club or at a sold-out festival. The hearty base of Town Mountain’s music is the first and second generation of bluegrass spiced with country, old school rock ‘n’ roll, and boogie-woogie. It’s what else goes into the mix that brings it all to life both on stage and on record and reflects the group’s wide-ranging influences – from the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and the ethereal lyrics of Robert Hunter, to the honest, vintage country of Willie, Waylon, and Merle. The Bend Bulletin’s Brian McElhiney says Town Mountain, “has serious country and rock ’n’ roll DNA.” Town Mountain features guitarist and vocalist Robert Greer, banjoist Jesse Langlais, mandolinist Phil Barker, fiddler Bobby Britt, and Zach Smith on bass.
Town Mountain just finished recording their 6th studio album at Echo Mountain Studios with roots music hero Caleb Klauder producing. Slated to release this Fall, the album is full of new material and features several guest artists including Tyler Childers who co-wrote one of the songs, Miles Miller (Sturgill Simpson, drummer), and other friends. Their most recent album, Southern Crescent (April 1, 2016) debuted at #4 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart while staying for ten weeks on the Americana Music Association’s radio chart Top 40, and widely considered one of the best bluegrass albums of that year.

Mass Ave Histories + Oddities Walking Tour
2019-06-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us as we journey through the little-known histories and oddities of Mass Ave. Discover what makes Massachusetts Avenue one of the most well-liked streets in Indianapolis. This is the first walking tour of the season at that starts and ends at Lockerbie Marketplace! Led by creative writer Colin Dullaghan.
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 Colin Dullaghan
An Indianapolis native, Colin attended Ball State University, earning a degree in Philosophy and then graduating without much idea what to do with it. His first job, partially landed because a principal at Young & Laramore advertising liked his t-shirt, was at 310 East Vermont. After intervening gigs in both Carolinas and contributing to NUVO and the Indianapolis Star, Colin now works as Senior Writer at Borshoff, just above Needler’s Fresh Market. From his desk he can just make out the top of the head of a 38-foot-tall mural of Kurt Vonnegut, constantly reminding him to “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.”
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/

Zvi Efrat- The Most Beautiful Campus in Africa
2019-06-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A short film that critically illuminates the design by the Israeli architect and former Bauhaus student Arieh Sharon for the University of Ife campus, Ile–Ife, Nigeria, built in 1962 as part of an Israeli assistance program in West-Africa. Zvi Efrat, architect and architectural historian, is a partner in Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA) and was head of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, from 2002 until 2010. He studied at Pratt Institute, at NYU, and at Princeton University. He has taught at several universities, lectured worldwide, published extensively, and curated numerous exhibitions, among them Borderline Disorder at the Israeli Pavilion of the 8th Architectural Biennale, Venice, in 2002, and The Object of Zionism at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel in 2011. His book, The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948–1973, was published in Hebrew in 2004.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).
Photo: Keren Kuenberg

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace-Landon Caldwell
2019-06-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by 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.

June’s theme is ambient and experimental music and today’s schedule offers psych-rock mastermind, Landon Caldwell.

Live Music Lunch-Scrapper & Skelton
2019-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter Steve “Scrapper” Brown has over 55 years as a solo musician and bandleader. Blessed with a smooth baritone voice steeped in Blues/Jazz, Gospel and Funk, Brown brings a wealth of experience and versatility to the stage. He has appeared on 6 CDs including songwriting and production credits. ​
Blues Harmonica/Vocals Ken Skelton is a Blues enthusiast with a love for classic acoustic Blues. Skelton has received local recognition for his performances in the genre in which he hopes “not only entertains, but produces thought in the listener.

Michael Bauchert : Faux Ambiance
2019-06-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Faux Ambiance is an audio/video installation that wildly exaggerates the sound of a room. Created by Michael Bauchert, Faux Ambiance turns an ordinary space into an other-worldly cathedral which slowly morphs in character over time. All sound made by those present to Faux Ambiance has dramatic, sonic and visual consequences.
Projected onto the wall is a wash of vibrant color in the form of a gas, or is it a liquid? The sound of the room displaces this substance like a hand moving through water. It’s texture and shape morphs over time, reflecting the ever-changing timbre of the Faux Ambiance.
This installation is inspired by the diverse, acoustic properties of rooms and spaces. A hand clap sounds very dry and compact outdoors, yet thunderous and prolonged in a tall stairwell; the same action can have a very different reaction depending on its location. Faux Ambiance seeks to pay tribute and parody to this aspect of sound through technology.

Lugao Kasberg: Balay Means Home
2019-06-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Curated by Danicia Monét
Lugao Kasberg is a Mangyan-American artist based in New York City. His earliest memories were with family and community speaking his native Hanunó’o-Mangyan tongue in the Philippines. Balay means home in his traditional Hanuó’o language. Growing up in Indianapolis, IN as an indigenous person he experienced the hardships of poverty, depression, and abuse when his parents separated. Through the strength of family, education, entrepreneurship, and the arts he learned the importance of hard work and dedication as he was determined to attain a better life while also helping others.

During high school and college Lugao orchestrated community outreach initiatives which helped hundreds of youth explore, share, and celebrate art. This effort also ignited his love for film, photography, and documentation. As a successful commercial artist in New York City he was involved in creating works for some of the top brands in the world. After feeling creatively drained and unfulfilled in 2018 Lugao decided to reunite with his Mangyan family in the Philippines and live in the village.

He documented his journey through film, photography, and audio recording. Lugao is the first of his eight Mangyan-siblings and mother to return to their ancestral land after leaving for the United States in 1992. He shares the importance of family, community, and the connection to the land. Mangyans are the indigenous people of Mindoro Island in the Philippines. They have inhabited the land for thousands of years by practicing sustainable farming and developed tightly knit communities with their own language, writing systems, and government.

Like many other indigenous people, Mangyans also face issues of discrimination, land rights, and access to resources. As a solution, Lugao is using his platform to create visibility while also helping to grow the culture by developing initiatives for the youth and community through education and the arts. One such initiative is “Rice 4 Kidz”. This endeavor has had an impact by serving over 55,000 hot meals to one thousand Mangyan schoolchildren with the help of rice sponsors, faculty, and international community during the hunger months of August through October. Service being at the core of his work, Lugao aspires to bring positive change to this present generation for future generations.

To learn more about the artist visit
http://www.lugao.co
Instagram: @Lugao.co and @lugaokasberg

Otolith Group- O Horizon
2019-06-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The title refers to the surface layer of soil, changed in the area around Santiniketan as the result of Tagore’s introduction of new flora in development of the campus. In studying this trajectory, the film extends The Otolith Group’s ongoing consideration of the Anthropocene, a premise that denotes that the current geological age is one wherein human activity spurs the primary changes on climate and the environment. With O Horizon, The Otolith Group also proposes that Tagore’s project maps onto the notion of terraforming—a term originating in science fiction and now more widely used—whereby a party (typically but not always an interloper) reshapes the atmosphere of a place for their own needs.
O Horizon reflects upon modernist theories of dance and song developed by Tagore and the experimental practices of mural, sculpture, painting, and drawing developed by India’s great modernist artists affiliated with Santiniketan: K.G. Subramanyan, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij. O Horizon draws together visual arts, dance, song, music, and recital to assemble a structure of feeling of the Tagorean imagination in the 21st Century.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).

Tintype Portrait Studio Sessions with Keliy Anderson-Staley
2019-06-13 09:00 - 2019-06-16 19:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Appointments (required) start at 9am and end 7pm each day
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Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley will be making tintype portraits at Tube Factory June 13-16, 2019. Tintype is a 19th-Century photographic process rarely practiced today.
All participants should expect the shoot to take 20-30 minutes, and there might be a short wait, even if you have an appointment. By sitting for a portrait, you are participating in a long-term portrait project that now includes images of a couple thousand individuals. Everyone who sits for a portrait will be asked to sign a model release form and will receive a high resolution scan of the image via email 2-3 weeks after the shoot. Group portraits are possible, but family portraits need to be limited to 5 members. People of all ages, body types, orientations and ethnicities are encouraged to come participate in this free portrait shooting event.
What to Know before Your Portrait Sitting
• Exposure times for tintypes can last up to 30 seconds. Sitters must remain relatively still during that time to make a clear, sharp image (some blinking is okay). Small children or other subjects who may find it difficult to stay still for that amount of time may appear blurry in the final image.
• Due to time and material restraints, sitters will have only one image made.
• Please wear clothes that do not have text and are not all white or all black.
• Subjects who wear glasses may want to consider not wearing them for the portrait to reduce the chance of reflection in the final image.
Learn more at www.auroraphoto.org

Lunch at Lockerbie-Foreign Candy
2019-06-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by 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. June’s theme is ambient and experimental music and today’s schedule offers Foreign Candy.

Dinner and Poetry with Bryan Thao Worra
2019-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Bryan Thao Worra author of DEMONSTRA (2013); BARROW (2009); Winter Ink (2008); On the Other Side of the Eye (2007) and The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: Our Dinner with Cluster Bombs (2003) for a reading and dinner at Tube Factory artspace.
Worra’s work appears in over 100 international publications, including Astropoetica, Cha, Asian Pacific American Journal, Hyphen, Lantern Review, Kartika Review, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, Expanded Horizons, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Strange Horizons, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Innsmouth Free Press.
He was selected as a Cultural Olympian during the 2012 London Summer Olympics’ Poetry Parnassus convened by the Southbank Centre. His work is part of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story.” He is the first Lao American to be accepted as a professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, to which he currently serves as president. He is the first Lao American to hold an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and is a 2019 The Joyce Foundation Fellow.
In 2018, he was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to serve on the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans to advise state legislators on policy. He works on Lao and Southeast Asian American refugee resettlement issues across the United States. Bryan Thao Worra is the Lao Minnesotan Poet Laureate, and the president of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (est. 1978).
His forthcoming book is “Before We Remember We Dream” from Sahtu Press.

Lunch At Lockerbie
2019-06-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-06-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by 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. June’s theme is ambient and experimental music.

HEADSPACE-Silent DJ Party
2019-06-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This silent DJ party is the 3rd event for the Madam Walker Legacy Center’s Black Music Month Concert Series!
Pop on some headphones and immerse yourself into a carefully curated experience at the Tube Factory Artspace! Food trucks, visual art, free parking, and incredible music! DJ Godzillest and WTLC’s DJ King will be kickin’ out all of the best sounds for you to dance to!
Many thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission and Radio One for sponsoring this series.
4 Different Fridays / 4 Different Venues
21+ – cash bar – food trucks
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Amexin Tamaliza 2019
2019-06-22 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Saturday June 22, AMEXIN Tamaliza 2019 11am to 3 pm.
Tamales are not just something to eat — the harvesting, preparing and sharing of tamales is embedded in the history and culture of Mexico, on a family basis and on a community basis. The word “tamale” (meaning “wrapped food”) originates from the Nahuatl language spoken by the Aztecs. This free festival of tamales will highlight this history and tradition. The day will honor Mexican arts, music, dance, and food with:
+ A short presentation on the history and tradition of tamales
+ Music performances by Meztil-Cultural de Indianapolis and Yuri Rodriguez.
+ Dance performance & presentations by Grupo Folklorico Macehuani, a family band in the son juarocho style of music
+ Tamales for sale (tamale vendor will keep revenue from tamale sales)
+ Art activities
While enjoying AMEXIN Tamaliza, attendees can also see an exhibition of art by a Chicago-based Mexican-American visual artist, Yvette Mayorga (https://www.yvettemayorga.com/), on display at the Tube. Mayorga’s work examines the candy-coated idea of the American Dream and the risks all immigrants take. Our hope is that visitors will be inspired to express their own stories through creative channels. And enjoy some Mexican cultural traditions at the same time.
The event is made possible through the generous support of
The International Center‘s Festival Fund Grant. Gracias! 🙂

99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Film Series-Urban Cowboy
2019-06-26 18:45 - 21:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“You a real cowboy?” John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges and Aaron Latham of Latham’s article on Western nightlife. Texas country boy Bud (Travolta) moves to Houston to work on an oil rig with his Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin), and he swiftly becomes indoctrinated in the nighttime rituals of drinking, dancing, and showing off cowboy duds at Gilley’s, the enormous local honkytonk. There he meets and marries the sassy Sissy (Debra Winger), but the honeymoon quickly ends when Sissy starts spending too much time learning the men-only skill of mechanical bull-riding from ex-con Wes (Scott Glenn); Bud throws her out and hooks up with slumming Pam (Madolyn Smith). Under the paternal tutelage of Uncle Bob, Bud then learns not only how to master the bull but also what it takes to be a real man rather than just an ersatz cowboy. With a story, cast, and setting that were essentially Saturday Night Fever country-style, Urban Cowboy was poised to be a summer 1980 hit. Although its box office did not live up to Fever’s legacy, Urban Cowboy did spawn a soundtrack album of country-and-western hits and helped spur a Western fashion vogue; people from all regions began sporting cowboy boots, and mechanical bulls started replacing passé disco floors. The first of Travolta’s many comebacks, Urban Cowboy provided the star with a more “manly” image after his Moment by Moment (1978) fiasco, but it was neophyte co-star Winger who got even better notices. With its Western milieu and retro view of relationships, Urban Cowboy stands as a sign of the nascent Reagan era, as ’70s icon Travolta learned bull-riding himself and replaced his white polyester with a black Stetson.” ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Presented by Upland Brewing Company

Lockerbie Night Market
2019-06-27 18:00 - 22:00 | IN
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/

Garfield Park Art & Music Festival
2019-06-29 16:00 - 21:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
The 2nd annual Garfield Park Art & Music Festival (GPAMF) is an outdoor festival celebrating the art, music, and culture of Indianapolis. The Festival will feature a handful of local musicians and bands of diverse genres performing their original music. Up to forty local artists working in a variety of mediums will also host artist booths with their fine art and handmade wares for sale. Enjoy beers by Garfield Brewery, as well as local food trucks and vendors. This all ages, free event is part of Indy Parks and Recreation‘s annual Pack the Parks day and will also feature kids’ crafts and activities for family-friendly fun. Join us for a summer evening filled with local music and art behind the Arts Center!
*****Lineup *****
Sister Sinjin – 4:00 PM
Jacoby’s Invisible Band – 4:40 PM
Silent Bloom – 5:25 PM
Danni Al Mar – 6:20 PM
Brandon Wadley – 7:15 PM
Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine – 8:15 PM
This event is sponsored by Indy Parks and Recreation, Garfield Park Arts Center – Indy Parks and Recreation, the Friends of Garfield Park, Inc., the Garfield Park Neighbors Association, Big Car Collaborative, ACS Signs, and Renewal by Andersen Window Replacement, and it’s organized by a passionate committee of neighbors, artists, and musicians!
Interested in volunteering or sponsoring? Contact GPAC Manager Kavita Mahoney at email hidden; JavaScript is required to see how you can be involved.
Learn more about #GPAMF here:
https://www.gpacarts.org/garfield-park-art-music-festival

SOUND LAB
2019-06-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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

Wildstyle Paschall: Culture, Indy HipHop Music
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Wildstyle Paschall’s multi-media installation “Culture, Indy Hiphop Music”, is a captivating look into the unseen counter culture of America’s most popular music genre centered in the capital of a Midwestern city more known for cornfields, a 500 mile race and various amateur sports. The ever-evolving cultural movement created by people of color exists in Indianapolis, isolated from much of the financial success and mainstream consumerism seen in larger cities.
As a lifelong musician and long time hiphop producer, Paschall is a product of 1980s and 90s hip hop culture. During a time
when hiphop storytelling, music, and culture expanded internationally, he was concerned that even by 2015 significant accounts of the rich culture created in central Indiana was not being archived to shared with outsiders as well as passed down to future generations.
“Culture, Indy Hiphop Music” takes the viewers and puts them on stage with independent hiphop artists performing and creating music to see their passion and dedication to the art through picture and video.
