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Now Age Emcee
2019-08-02 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Live performances involve group chanting, a shrine, a cassette boom box and telephone mic to create a lo-fi shamanic Hip Hop ceremony; a boom bap sound bath. His moniker is inspired by the brilliant writings of Taraka Larson of the band Prince Rama. In November 2018, he released the first single, “Come out of Hiding” from his forthcoming debut album, Transition Vision. The record is a sound he dubs: Hep Cat Hippie Hop. Now Age Emcee considers himself a part of a transition team, using music to aid in our personal and social development into a new society. Thump goes the evolution!

Cry Salon
2019-08-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Featuring readings by Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy / Soundtracked by John Dawson and Jared Landberg

About Performance:

Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy will present their contributions to the recently released book “Cry List”, a collection of essays on the topic of crying, along with a variety show other of poetic conversations, and short plays. The soundtrack for the evening will be provided by John Dawson and Jared Landberg.

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Bios:

Sammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born, living, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a contributor at Reductress, the Hard Times, Bandcamp, and elsewhere. Her first book, a translation of several shooting screenplays by the Dardenne brothers from their original French, came out in June.
William Joseph Gass (St. Louis) has worked in the direct patient caregiving industry since 2012. His wordage has been featured in publications including and from Art Papers, Universal Love Upload, and Penny-Ante, among others. He is happily partnered with Dr. Monica Sentmanat and their pets Reagan (MacNeil) and Adele (Bertei).
Since the late 1990’s, Jeremy Kennedy has been creating and exhibiting sound, artwork, and concepts in both community and academic settings. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Kennedy is an active visual artist, writer, and sound-maker, as well as co-founder and playwright with P/Sicho Street Theatre Company, and a founding editor of Rebel Hands Press.
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About: Cry List
Contributors: Chelsea Rector, Jamie Iacoli, Jeremy Kennedy, Sammi Skolmoski, William Gass
Photography: Ang Wilson
Crying is nothing other than itself. Metaphor is a construct that brings crying out of itself… These essays are accounts of crying, and the essay lists are not metaphors. It is a way for the authors to say that these things have takenthem, emotionally, directly. No metaphors. What these essays account is the form of agitation we call crying. From joy to sorrow, the items listed explore the questions, what does it take/what makes us cry?. The lists are a conceptual framework, organizing the otherwise indomitable act of crying.
The essays each list five items that make the authors cry… Unlimited in range, about the tangible or abstract, the essays also ask you, the reader, to think about when you cry. “Cry List” is a collection of insights on opening the hermetically sealed core of crying through connection with another form of expression that appears outside the body. Scored throughout with watery photographic notation, “Cry List” assembles a world of feeling, tangential to objective reality.

Free Yoga at Lugar Plaza
2019-08-13 17:00 - 17:45 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, 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!

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-08-15 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
The second Thursday of each month will also include a free coffee cupping provided by Commissary Barber & Barista. For more information and to signup, check out the event page: Coffee Cupping w/ Commissary
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/

Chreece Block Party II
2019-08-15 17:00 - 20:30 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, United States
Join Chreece and Friends for our 2nd and final Block Party before Chreece – a hip-hop festival and celebrate Hip-Hop Month in Indy! This time we are getting a Cypher going so you won’t want to miss all the heat coming from the mics on the plaza!
Live Performance by Chreece – a hip-hop festival artist Pernell Jones
Also Featuring producer/DJ Nicholas Mandog Smith
Justin Cowan proving tunes on the 1’s and 2’s
Super Kid/Dog Friendly Event so bring the whole family!
Food Vendors!
Beer sales courtesy of Casba Indy
Games, Activities and More!
Feel free to bring blankets, chairs, picnic baskets. lawn games, etc. to fully enjoy all the public space Lugar Plaza has to offer!
FREE to join in on the fun!
Presented by Chreece, Big Car Collaborative, Richard G. Lugar Plaza, City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development

Live Music at Lugar Plaza
2019-08-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, 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!

Monday Art at Lugar Plaza
2019-08-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, 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!

Free Yoga at Lugar Plaza
2019-08-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-03 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-10 17:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2019-08-28 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.

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-08-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-12 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-19 01:00 - 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/

Indianapolis Cultural Trail Bike Tour
2019-09-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Lockerbie Marketplace, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Right in time for perfect biking weather! Ride at a relaxed pace and enjoy this world-renowned bicycle infrastructure. Learn about the history of the Cultural Trail, the public art projects, and the historic neighborhoods and cultural districts the Trail passes through.
Free and open to the public // All ages // Bikes provided by Indiana Pacers Bikeshare
MEET at Lockerbie Marketplace (the green space next to Needler’s Fresh Market). We don’t ride if the weather is terrible.
About The Cultural Trail
The Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick is an 8-mile world class urban bike and pedestrian path in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The Indianapolis Cultural Trail seamlessly connects neighborhoods, cultural districts and entertainment amenities while serving as the downtown hub for central Indiana’s vast greenway system.
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/

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2019-09-05 11:00 - 13:00 | IN

Live Music at Lugar Plaza
2019-09-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States

DigIndy Art Project: Guichelaar Gallery
2019-09-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The creative work of several local artists who transformed manhole covers into works of art will be on display throughout September at the Guichelaar Gallery. Learn more about what inspired their work and their creative interpretation of the DigIndy Tunnel System. The Guichelaar Gallery is located at 1135 Cruft St next to the Tube Factory artspace!

Brittany Rudolf: Collapse
2019-09-06 18:00 - 2019-09-22 18:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
COLLAPSE is an alternative rest-stop which brings the outdoors inside. An audio/visual installation created by Brittany Rudolf, COLLAPSE contrasts a spa experience with a camping trip, to
renegotiate who we are in spite of, as a condition of, and alongside the periphery of stress. The project s a temporary, working arrangement to think through the precariousness of increasing environmental, political, and social unrest. The tendency is perhaps to turn away from all of it, but we
receive daily reminders that things are not ok. COLLAPSE aims to simultaneously transport and ground. Through a combination of familiar but surreal markers, visitors are prompted to briefly
unwind.
Brittany is a mixed media artist originally from Indianapolis, now living in Portland, Oregon. She builds upon mood and environment to create multi-sensory experiences that bring awareness to one’s own body, other people, and the earth. Her work implicates stewardship as a primary site for
consideration, and she uses uncanny familiarity to subtly draw connections between the liminal space of what we think we know, discovery, and comfort.

Cult of Color:Call to Color
2019-09-06 18:00 - 2019-10-03 18:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In conjunction with Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination, the Main Gallery video room will screen Ballet Austin’s “Cult of Color: Call to Color,” a collaboration by choreographer and Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills, visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and composer Graham Reynolds.
“Cult of Color: Call to Color” is a chapter in Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ongoing artistic mythology. Hancock’s paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and individual performances work together to represent his characters, the Mounds, the Vegans, and other imaginative creatures, who are at the center of the artist’s unfolding operatic narrative. Hancock’s characters and their dilemmas embody themes of life and death, the struggle between good and evil, love, authority, spirituality and moral relativism. Biblical in scope, mythological in content, and comic book in style, the story tells of a battle fought between the gentle Mounds and the mutant Vegans. In this chapter of Hancock’s story we are introduced to the Vegan minister, Sesom (Moses spelled backwards) who, like his namesake, offers the possibility of salvation to the unruly and war-like Vegan followers through the intervention of a loving character, Painter. And, just as all the Vegans appear to convert to the goodness of “The Cult of Color,” one antagonist, Betto Watchow, resists. The ensuing violent struggles for power between these forces of will are at the core of this episode of Hancock’s tale. Balancing moral dilemmas with wit and a musical sense of language and color, Hancock creates a painterly space of psychological dimension.
The Collaboration
This unique project originated with Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin’s Artistic Director, who invited Trenton Doyle Hancock and Graham Reynolds to collaborate with him to create a new ballet based on Hancock’s ongoing visual narrative. Reynolds composed the music as well as the sound environments, and Mills created the unique choreography. Hancock conceived the story, designed the costumes, sets and properties which include a backdrop curtain and fabric made in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.”–Via Arthouse (Austin, TX)
The work was selected by Woolfalk and Tube Factory curator, Shauta Marsh as part of a series of artists that have influenced Woolfalk’s work. “Cult of Color: Call to Color” will run through October 3.
About Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, at the time becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in the prestigious survey. In 2014, his exhibition, Skin & Bones: 20 Years of Drawing, at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston traveled to Akron Art Museum, OH; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, VA. In 2019, a major exhibition of his work, Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass, opened at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA in 2019. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah and Atlanta, GA; The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. TX; The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Photo:”Vegans and Mounds in the Forest” Tony Spielberg
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
Courtesy of Trenton Doyle Hancock and James Cohan Gallery

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination
2019-09-06 18:00 - 2020-01-11 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In this new exhibition, New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth, growth, and death. This show explores how technology has allowed us to ease our suffering by making change less difficult and transformation more enjoyable. Perhaps the ultimate human technological advancement would be the elimination of mortality by extending human life indefinitely in a biological, digital, or other virtual state. Recent advances suggest our species may already be on the cusp of achieving this evolutionary landmark.
Woolfalk’s exhibit at Tube Factory includes her signature installations, sculptures, prints, video art works, and the works of artists who influence her practice. It builds on one of her first projects, No Place (a play on the translation of the word utopia), where she collaborated with filmmaker and anthropologist Rachel Lears. Both then in their mid 20s, they invited people into Woolfalk’s studio to talk about their ideas of utopia and created work from there.
“Similar to the way you would construct a folktale, we took these ideas and we constructed the culture of the NoPlaceans. People would come to the studio, put on costumes and enact the things that they were imagining,” says Woolfalk who created a six-chapter ethnographic film about this future utopian world based on people’s visions.
To explore the conceptual boundaries of this cultural moment, this also led Woolfalk to create a fictional transhuman species known as the Empathics, which she describes as a race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. “If you have a utopia, then how do you actually make that utopia real? I worked with biologists at Tufts University to think about what in nature could occur in order for people to mutate to become more like plants.”
Woolfalk’s Tube Factory installation will extend the story of the Empathics, blending multi-media aesthetic phenomena, spirituality, cultural hybridization, capitalism, technoscience, and artificial intelligence to conjure a broad network of interconnecting philosophical strands. Informed equally by science fiction and anthropology, the morally ambiguous future that the exhibit shares is open to the interpretation of its viewers. “Going from modularity to monumentality is how I approach my practice. I work in ways that are incredibly small and I also work in ways that are incredibly big. The work functions like collage.”
Should we fear the world Woolfalk and other transhumanist artists are mapping? Should we embrace it? Should we shrug it off as a Pollyannic fantasy, doomed by the human idiot factor? Woolfalk seems to be implying a potentially disturbing fourth option: Some of us — particularly those with special status or outlandish means — have already started to transform. Is this art, or a warning shot across the cultural bow of the human race?

About the artist
Woolfalk (b 1979, Japan) is a pioneer within an emergent, international aesthetic movement examining transhumanism — a theoretical belief that humans will mobilize technology to transcend their biological limitations and evolve into a non-human, or “posthuman” race. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of The Empathics and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. She has exhibited at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout Asia, Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (2012); the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2014); the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2014); SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA (2016); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2016); Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2016); the Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA (2017) and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many others.
“When I started making work it was very important that it was not autobiographical,” says Woolfalk. “The work is not about me at all. The work is about talking to people about their ideas and trying to understand what’s going on in the world then taking that material and adapting it into installation based spaces that people can experience.”
Made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Efroymson Family Fund.
Part of the Social Alchemy Series, this exhibition is in partnership with the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Image: Saya Woolfalk, Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination, Plate 2, 30”x40”, 2018.

Monday Art at Lugar Plaza
2019-09-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States

Bike-In Movie Night: "The Triplets of Belleville"
2019-09-12 18:00 - 21:30 | Richard G. Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St., Indianapolis, IN, United States
Bike to Lugar Plaza for a screening of THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003, dir. Sylvain Chomet, 80 mins.), an animated caper film featuring a Tour de France rider, three signing chantueses, other amazingly drawn characters, and contagious music [trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtU7YpYptC4]
Guarded bike parking provided for free. If you’re not a frequent rider, take advantage of the Cultural Trail and ride on down to Lugar Plaza. Family-friendly.
Beer from Tomlinson Tap Room and crepes from 3 Days In Paris for sale!
French cafe music by Classical Music Indy.
Film starts at 8:00 pm.
Brought to you by Big Car Collaborative, Bike Indianapolis, BikeParty Indianapolis, Tomlinson Tap Room, Indianapolis City Market & City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Indy Urban Acres
2019-09-18 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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*

Localized : Call Out meeting
2019-09-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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.
