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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 2
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 2: Sister Sinjin + The Latin Flavor food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-2/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mo Gio: Picnic at the Park — a wearable art performance
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED FROM 6/8/2025 TO 9/5/2025 \nJoin us for this powerful performance that explores the unpredictable nature of life and the strength it takes to move forward in the face of adversity. A seemingly perfect picnic on a sunny day turns to chaos\, reminding us that faith is a choice\, and joy is a decision: even in the most unpredictable of circumstances. But as the storm rages on\, so does our resilience. \nGuests are encouraged to bring their picnic blankets and snacks to enjoy the show. And\, 3 Marias Mexican food truck and Juicy Pop-up will be on-site serving Mexican cuisine and fresh-pressed juice.  \nPerformances will take place outside on the Tube Factory campus. There will be performances at 6:30\, 7:30\, and 8:30 p.m. with meet-and-greets with the artist and performers — including photo opportunities — in between shows. (Performances last around 15 min.) \nAdditionally\, there will be a limited number of picnic baskets for guests to personalize\, embellish\, and take home. Early arrival is suggested! \n\nAbout the artist: \nMonique Burts is a wearable artist with a background in sculpture and a 2025 Art & Soul-featured artist through the Indy Arts Council. She received her degree in sculpture from Herron School of Art + Design and now works as a wearable artist and costume designer\, presenting shows for all under the alias “Mo Gio.” She uses unconventional materials and methods to create wearable art for shows and the runway. Her work is accompanied by live models\, music curation\, choreography\, and glamour. She has exhibited at various Indianapolis galleries and venues including the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center\, The Vogue Theatre\, and the Indy 500 Snakepit Ball. \n“Art and fashion is revealed in everything from daily interactions to ordinary objects. Even as a young girl\, I had a particular interest in design and fashion. This longtime interest has shaped my career as a professional artist. I create wearable art using various unconventional techniques and materials\, including — but not limited to — paper\, plastic\, wood\, metal\, hair\, plaster\, and ordinary found objects. My creative process involves trial and error\, problem solving\, risk taking\, research\, and material analysis. My ability to trust my unique process allows me to transform materials beyond what initially seems possible and create multifaceted\, wearable sculptures. I draw much of my inspiration from the possibilities that appear when perspective is altered. In addition to the art of manipulation and seeing the beauty in the unseen\, my artistry is also shaped by my culture and lived experiences as a Black woman. The wearable art performances that I produce reflect the theme of unconventionality seen throughout my body of work. Viewers can expect an immersive experience with glamorous live models\, music curation\, and supporting props that bring the story to life.” — Mo Gio \nMade possible by the Indy Arts Council and the City of Indianapolis’ Art & Soul program\, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/picnic/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sept. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Sept. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \n\nWe have a picnic-themed wearable fashion show by Mo Gio outside in our outdoor greenspace\, with performances at 6:30\, 7:30\, and 8:30 p.m. EST. Guests are encouraged to bring their picnic blankets and chairs to enjoy the show \n\nWe also have two brand new exhibits opening: \n\nSOMA in the Main Gallery\nKeren Cytter’s Rose Garden in the Video Gallery\n\n\nWill Higgins’ Museum of Fabulosity continues through Sept. 21. \n\nAnd\, 3 Marias Mexican food truck and Juicy Pop-up will be on-site serving Mexican cuisine and fresh-pressed juice. \n\nAnd\, as always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sept-2025-first-friday-at-tube-factory/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOMA
DESCRIPTION:Main Gallery \nThis exhibition explores the supernatural and ethereal states of somatic responses. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World\, where soma was a fictional drug used to pacify civilians in a state of existential bliss and disassociation. Exploring the socialized perceptions of figures occupying space\, Soma takes on confronting perceived utopia and dysmorphia in this exhibition. \nIn the works\, moments of adolescent innocence are paired with surrealist and folkloric expressions of figuration. Satirically\, this speaks to resisting and transcending moments that are out of alignment as people grow; without physically being dismissed. \nFeatured artists: \nJo Archuleta (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nTommy Lomeli (Helena\, Montana) \nKatherine Looney (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nOctober Sharify (Chicago) \nIsaac Tapia (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nCesar Velez (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nGuest Curator: Yashi Davalos\nDavalos is an Afro-Puerto Rican-Mexican\, Atlanta Native\, based in New Orleans. Her practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU\, Savannah State University\, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers socio-cultural epistemology\, the south and the global south\, through an interdisciplinary arts praxis. \nDavalos was the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow and interim grants and awards coordinator at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City\, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans. Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, Prospect New Orleans\, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans\, UMKC Music Conservatory\, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans\, ATL\, KCMO\, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center\, Burnaway\, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU. \nArtist Bios: \nJo Archuleta (b. Taos\, New Mexico 2000) is an artist living and working in Kansas City\, Missouri. Her work explores the complexity of identity and mythology of womanhood found within leisure\, desire\, pleasure and the specificity as a state of being. By acknowledging rules within the landscape of femininity\, gender roles and their societal expectations. Archuleta has found that there are multiple approaches to transgressive and transformative definitions of these identities. Her specific approach to this critique has been to use humor\, jokes\, and satire. Archuleta is interested in exploring how the figure is perceived and how she sees herself\, a constant battle between self-awareness and self sabotage. The figures seduce and confront complexities within the vapidness of beauty\, vanity\, and ego while also using self-consciousness as repulsion. The women in her work wear masks\, perform softness\, weakness\, shallowness\, and confidence; all while cowering within their own insecurities. \nTommy Lomeli (b.1993) is an emerging ceramic artist born in Stockton\, California. Lomeli holds a BA from CSU Sacramento and an MFA from the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award\, and first place at NCECA’s 2023 National Juried Student Exhibition. He was a 2024 Charlotte Street Foundation Artist in Residence. He is currently a 2025 Taunt Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation. \nKatherine Looney (b.1989 (she/her)) is a Black and Native American visual artist living in Kansas City\, Missouri. She usually works with oil paints when creating colorful portraits. Many of her works are based on photos she has taken of her friends and family. She was a part of Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2023 Artist INC cohort. She was also a 2024 recipient of Charlotte Street Foundation’s Artboards Award. Katherine has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Missouri-Columbia. \nOctober Sharify (b.1999) is an oil painter based in Chicago\, Illinois. Their longtime interest in history and theology blends in their work with feminine aesthetics and spiritual imagery. October has a developmental disability and believes that this is both a detriment to their work and integral to their process. October has an African American and Persian cultural background\, and often turns to the visual language of their respective cultures’ past for inspiration. “I enjoy working with a limited palette\, and I mix my own custom colors to use consistently across my work. Blue to me is a very atmospheric color and my favorite time of day has always been twilight. World-building and paintings that evoke a feeling are very important to me and this exists in every piece that I make.” \nIsaac Tapia was born in Mexico\, where he lived until moving to the U.S. when he was nine. Isaac focuses on portraits that elevate important\, yet often underrepresented\, members of his community and celebrate the complex narratives of contemporary migration. He blends photography\, audio interviews\, and traditional oil portraiture techniques to convey rich\, multilayered stories and create opportunities for identification and connection. Isaac’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Kansas City — including at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art — and his work has traveled in shows across the Midwest with the Mexican Consulate and La Onda and the M.A.S.A. Collective. He had a residency and exhibition at Casa Lu Sur en Mexico City in December of 2024. Isaac is a founding member of the M.A.S.A. Collective\, and is one of the resident artists at the Charlotte Street Foundation. He is also one-half of the mural duo IT-RA Icons\, which has painted murals across the country. \nCesar Velez is a self-taught painter and first-generation immigrant from Mexico based in Kansas City\, Missouri. Velez’s work draws from his personal experience growing up in the South and Midwest United States as an undocumented immigrant (now DACA Recipient) living amongst American peers. \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Efroymson Family Fund. \nIMAGE: Big Fish\, Cesar Velez\, oil on canvas\, 24×30\, 2022
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/soma/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Keren Cytter: Rose Garden
DESCRIPTION:Video Gallery  \nCytter’s short 2014 film explores the unsettling duality of American culture’s ideals regarding being protectors of life and harbingers of death. This title is a reference to both the 1964 Joanne Greenburg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden\, which deals with mental illness and the 1971-84 Marine Corp recruitment campaign “We Don’t Promise You A Rose Garden.” These references are meant to clue the viewer in that the seemingly ordinary setting hides a distorted reality. As the tension builds\, multiple guns and disjointed conversations between characters escalate the sense that the calm is about to be shattered. A chaotic shooting spree unfolds against the backdrop of normal daily life. The chilling final scene serves as a grim conclusion addressing violence and its pervasive presence within American culture. \nRun time: 8 minutes and 55 seconds \nPlease note: This work contains adult themes and gun violence that some may find triggering. \nAbout the artist \nKeren Cytter (b. 1977) creates films\, performances\, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation\, language representation\, and the function of individuals in predetermined cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Mostly characterised by a non-linear\, cyclical logic Cytter’s films consist of multiple layers of images; conversation; monologue\, and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries\, these montages of impressions\, memories\, and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition. The artist creates intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production. \nCytter was awarded the Joseph Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021)\, Absolut Art Award\, Stockholm (2009)\, Ars Viva Prize\, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft\, Berlin (2008) and the Bâloise Art Prize at Art Basel (2006). \nRecent solo exhibitions include Hot Lava Night\, Kunsthalle Bielefeld\, Bielefeld\, Germany (2023); Double Standard\, LLS Paleis\, Antwerp\, Belgium (2023). Cytter’s work was showcased in a major survey exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022)\, featuring: films\, soap operas\, plays\, sculptures\, drawings\, novels\, zines\, life coaching guides\, children’s books and a festival. Cytter’s videos were shown in solo exhibitions at Winterthur Kunstmuseum\, Winterthur (2020); Centre for Contemporary Art\, Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano\, Bolzano (2019)\, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien\, Graz (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago (2015)\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen (2014); State of Concept\, Athens (2014)\, Tate Modern\, London (2012)\, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011); München Kunstverein (2011); Kunsthaus Baselland\, Basel (2010); Moderna Museet\, Stockholm (2010); Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (2010); X Initiative\, New York (2009); Le Plateau Paris\, Paris (2009)\, Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2008)\, MUMOK Vienna\, Vienna (2007); Frankfurter Kunstverein\, Frankfurt (2005); Kunsthalle Zurich\, Zurich (2005) and Kunst-Werke Berlin\, Berlin (2006). \nKeren Cytter’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions such as MOMENTUM 10\, Momentum Biennial\, Moss (2019); Masculinity\, Düsseldorf Kunstverein\, Düsseldorf (2019); SUR/FACE: Mirrors\, Museum Angewandtekunst\, Frankfurt\, (2017); Instructions for Happiness\, 21er Haus\, Vienna\, State (in) Concepts\, KADIST\, Paris (2017)\, Vision on Vision- Lemaitre video collection\, SEMA Museum\, Seoul (2017); Busan Biennial\, Busan (2016); Creating Realities – Encounters Between Art and Cinema\, Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst\, Munich (2015); Political Populism\, Kunsthalle Wien\, Vienna (2015); John Bock\, Keren Cytter\, Paul Pfeiffer\, Gillian Wearing and Akram Zaatari\, Regen Projects\, Los Angeles (2013); Expanded Cinema\, Moscow Museum of Modern Art\, Moscow (2011); Videonale 13\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, Bonn (2011);  Found in Translation\, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York (2011); Morality\, Witte de With\, Rotterdam\, Revolution\, van Abbe Museum\, Eindhoven (2010); Scenväxlingar / Scene Shifts\, Bonniers Konsthall\, Stockholm (2010); 8th Gwangju Biennale\, Gwangju\, Future Generation Art Prize: 20 Shortlisted Artists\, PinchukArtCentre Kiev (2010); Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art\, Whitney Museum\, New York (2009); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus\, New Museum\, New York (2009); Museum für Gegenwart\, Berlin (2009); Fare Mondi 53rd International Art Exhibition\, La Biennale di Venezia\, Venice\, (2009); VideoZone: Video Biennale\, Tel Aviv (2008); Shifting Identities\, Kunsthaus Zurich\, Zurich (2008); Yokohama Triennial\, Yokohama\, (2008); Torino Triennale\, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art\, Rivoli (2008); Television Delivers People\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York (2008); The Second Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art\, Moscow (2007); The first Hertzelia Biennial\, Hertzelia (2007); The 9th Lyon Biennial\, Lyon (2007); All Hawaii Entrees/Lunar Reggae\, Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Dublin (2006). \nHer films have been screened in numerous film festivals such as The Wrong Movie\, Berlinale\, Berlin\, Germany (2024); Villae film festival\, Villa d’Este\, Tivoli\, Bolzano Film Festival\, Bolzano (both in 2019); European Media Arts Festival\, Osnabruck (2018); A Retrospective at Bergamo Film Festival\, Bergamo (2016); Rotterdam Film Festival\, Rotterdam and KunstFilmBiennale Köln\, Cologne (both in 2009); Berlin International Film Festival\, Expended Forum\, Berlin (2008); Berlin International Film Festival\, Expended Forum\, Berlin and Glasgow Film Festival\, Glasgow (both in 2007). \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/keren-cytter-rose-garden/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,The Show Room,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 9
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 9: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + BoxBurger food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-9/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: September Concert
DESCRIPTION:Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana are thrilled to continue as part of a national program to bring FREE\, high quality\, live concerts through the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series! In this — the second year of the series here — we’ll bring the free musical entertainment to our Tube Factory campus once a month over seven Sundays. We’re also adding cultural aspects like traditional dance performances and opportunities for local artists and artisans to sell their work as part of these lively community events. \nWhen: Noon to 3 pm on Sept. 14 (+ Oct. 12) \nWhere: Tube Factory campus\, on the near southside of Indianapolis\, at 1125 Cruft St. — Concerts will happen at the amphitheatre in our Terri Sisson Park greenspace and move inside Tube Factory in bad weather. While there will be some provided seating at this outdoor event\, we encourage visitors to bring blankets or other lawn seating for them to enjoy during the event. \nWho: Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana collaborating with partners\, sponsors\, and local and national musicians\, local vendors\, artists\, and creatives. \nWhy: To bring additional liveliness to an underused area of our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and neighborly\, inclusive\, fun\, and creative social gatherings. \nSept. 14’s lineup: \n\nDon Slepian (ambient)\nSound Ecologies (classical)\nIndianapolis Chinese Performing Arts (traditional Chinese dance)\nFood Truck: The Yellow Rose Texas Barbecue Company food truck\n\nAnd: \n\nFree Market (trade and receive free items)\nOpen picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink) is encouraged\nFun games will be on-site\nTube Factory galleries will be open\nBean Creek Outlook and Terri Sisson Park nature spaces will be open\n\nAND\, come help paint a mural that will be displayed on the side of Safeway on Raymond Street! This first community painting session will work on designs by neighborhood artists Chris Tower and India Hines. This mural project is possible thanks to the City of Indianapolis and the Indy Arts Council’s Public Art for All program. \nLearn more about the series here. \n_ \nThanks to the Levitt Foundation\, Efroymson Family Fund\, Lumina Foundation\, MIBOR REALTOR Association\, Eskenazi Health\, Penrod Society\, and Rundell Ernstberger Associates for their generous support of Levitt VIBE Indianapolis! \nThe Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation\, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces\, creating welcoming and inclusive destinations where the power of free\, live music brings people together\, fosters belonging\, and invigorates community life. www.levitt.org
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/2025-levitt-vibe-indianapolis-music-series-september-concert/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 16
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 16: Alejandro Renya + T’Days Jerk food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-16/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: JL Kato
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen mic prompt: Write a response to the phrase\, “Poetry alters reality.” You must use the Oxford comma. \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout Kato: \nJL Kato is the author of Shadows Set in Concrete\, selected by Indiana Center for the Book as the best Indiana poetry book of 2011. He was designated Indiana Literary Champion by the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards in 2022. His poetry has appeared in several journals and publications\, including Paterson Literary Review\, Indianapolis Review\, Flying Island\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, and So It Goes (the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library) \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-jl-kato/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Baile Monumental
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us at SPARK on the Circle with Baile Monumental on Sunday\, Sept. 21 from 3 to 8 p.m.! \nJoin us for a dance event filled with music ranging from cumbia\, bachata\, salsa\, reggaeton and many more latin music styles.  \nThis event will feature DJs Eddie Calaca\, Dimension 2000\, Sonido Campesino\, DJ Rumba\, and DJ Marley Dee from Hoosier Big Deal.  \nIn addition\, there will be games and creative activities for visitors of all ages\, so make sure to bring your family and friends! This event is free to attend. \nThis event is a collaboration between Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative. \n\nSPARK on the Circle is made possible by Big Car Collaborative in partnership with Downtown Indy\, Inc. and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/baile-monumental/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250921T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250921T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T135909Z
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SUMMARY:ALT(R) with Bryn Jackson
DESCRIPTION:ALT(R) is a site-responsive exchange ritual that highlights scent’s capacity as a vessel for memory and agency. Conceived in dialogue with the Soldiers and Sailors Monument—a towering emblem of triumph and permanence—ALT(R) counters stone with breath\, continuity with evanescence. Drawing from precolonial Visayan cosmology\, the perfume is composed of botanicals historically present throughout South and Southeast Asia: ylang ylang\, citrus\, sampaguita\, cinnamon leaf\, elemi resin\, vetiver\, patchouli\, and sandalwood. These notes form a complex\, woody\, and floral profile—an embodied invocation of the land. Each bottle becomes a portable oƯering\, carried on the body and released into the air\, making the wearer a living site of remembrance. The work is activated through an intimate exchange. Visitors are invited to receive the perfume in return for a single admission: “What’s one thing you wish you’d said or had the chance to say?” These unspoken truths—written on seed paper—will become an anonymous\, living archive of longing. ALT(R) invites participants to move through public space as carriers of an invisible monument—one that resists erasure not by carving ourselves in stone\, but through the persistence of breath\, touch\, and shared intimacy—a means of healing\, and a call to remember what history leaves unsaid. \nPresented by Bryn Jackson.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/altr-with-bryn-jackson/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250923T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250923T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 23
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 23: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + TBA \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-23-2/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250901T223439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T223439Z
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, come hang out and draw with Big Car long term artist in residence\, India Hines. \nOpen to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome\, just come & draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250924T191909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T193928Z
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SUMMARY:"What Nature Brings” Puppet Show at SPARK on the Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting and fantastical puppet performance at SPARK!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat Nature Brings is a puppet show focused on Indiana folklore with the intergenerational wisdom\n\n\n\n\n\nthat is forever changing how we treat the Earth. \n\n\n\nThe show is 15 minutes long\, and performances are at the top of the hour at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.\n\nAudio by Clockwork Janz and Play by Sylvia Thomas
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/what-nature-brings-puppet-show-at-spark-on-the-circle/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250901T213920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T145525Z
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SUMMARY:“In C” by Terry Riley at Monument Circle (RESCHEDULED FROM 9/13)
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Indianapolis musician Danny Marquis — one of this year’s SPARK on the Circle artists in residence — this improvisational performance of “In C” is free for everyone to hear and enjoy at Monument Circle in Downtown Indianapolis. \nIf you’d like to play along\, join us by 1:30 p.m. at the SPARK park and bring your instrument.  We’ll provide sheet music for Riley’s 1964 composition that directs any number of musicians to repeat a series of 53 melodic fragments in a guided improvisation. Don’t worry\, Danny will show you how it works. \nWhy “In C?” Why perform this piece now in a time where artificial music is becoming more and more proficient and sufficient for so many use cases? Because “In C” demands the humanity of players to choose and listen. To interact in the moment and notice what emerges. Because a computer can render these lines\, but only a live performance can breathe vitality into them. \nIn C — live at SPARK on the Circle\, Sunday\, Sept. 28 at 4 p.m.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/in-c-by-terry-riley-at-monument-circle/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250930T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250930T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T135207Z
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 30
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 30: TBA + Books Bourbon & Bacon food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-23/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251003T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250925T145718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T143030Z
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SUMMARY:Oct. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Oct. 3 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \nWe have one new exhibit opening: \n\nTarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery\n\nContinuing exhibits include: \n\nSOMA in the Main Gallery\nKeren Cytter’s Rose Garden in the Video Gallery\n\nIn addition\, join us for a community painting session as part of the Garfield Park and Bean Creek Celebration Mural project\, where neighbors will help paint panels featuring designs by local artists Justin Cooper\, Jim Kelly\, and Alejandra Carrillo. Led by Big Car Collaborative in partnership with the Garfield Park Neighbors Association and the Bean Creek Neighborhood Association\, the project will create a new mural on the side of the Safeway at Shelby and Raymond Streets to celebrate local identity\, strengthen neighborhood connections\, and brighten a busy Southside corner. No painting experience is needed — we’ll provide guidance and all the supplies. Children under 10 can join in the fun too with a special coloring activity based on the mural designs. \nAnd\, the Sakura Express food truck will be on-site serving delicious Japanese cuisine. \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/oct-2025-first-friday-at-tube-factory/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T182634Z
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SUMMARY:Tarrey Banks: A Thousand Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Tarrey Banks: A Thousand Drawings \nGuichelaar Gallery | on the Tube Factory campus | 1135 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN 46203 \nFriday\, Oct. 3 – Wednesday\, Nov. 19 | Opening Reception: Friday\, Oct. 3 @ 6 – 10 p.m. \nCurated by Sylvia Thomas \n\nTarrey Banks’ A Thousand Drawings gathers together a monumental series of works on paper — each one an individual mark of time\, memory\, and creative persistence. What began as a daily practice has grown into an expansive archive of drawings that capture shifting moods\, fleeting ideas\, and the evolving language of line and form. Installed collectively\, the drawings envelop viewers in a landscape of repetition and variation\, where each page is both self-contained and part of a larger whole. \n“This project is about showing up to the page again and again\,” says Banks. “It’s about discipline\, but also discovery — letting each drawing be a record of that moment. Over time\, the small gestures add up to something much bigger than me.” \nIn A Thousand Drawings\, audiences are invited to reflect on how ordinary acts accumulate into extraordinary impact. The exhibition underscores how creative practice\, like community itself\, grows stronger through repetition\, commitment\, and care. \n\nAbout the Artist \nTarrey Banks is an Indianapolis-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing\, painting\, and experimental approaches. His practice emphasizes persistence and process\, focusing on how small daily gestures of creation can grow into bodies of work that feel both intimate and expansive. Banks treats artmaking as a discipline of attention — a way to record time\, experiment with form\, and remain open to discovery. \nWorking across mediums\, he explores endurance\, variation\, and the transformative potential of repetition. His drawings and paintings often reflect a balance between control and improvisation\, discipline and play\, structure and freedom. For Banks\, art is not only a mode of expression but also a practice of resilience and care — one that continues to evolve as he adds to his ever-expanding archive of images and ideas. \nInstagram: @tbanks_art_company
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/tarrey-banks-a-thousand-drawings/
LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251006T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250911T001255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T180445Z
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SUMMARY:JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
DESCRIPTION: Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door \nA sound and visual meditation \nJon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism\, preternatural focus\, brute restraint\, and ecstatic\, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky’s photographs\, it becomes a deliberate focus on form\, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet\, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.  \n\n​​An apt reference point resides within the broad\, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate\, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real\, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges\, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose\, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity. \n  \nMueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago\, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer\, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States\, Canada\, England\, Europe and Japan. \n\nIn addition to his solo work\, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Mind Over Mirrors\, Volcano Choir\, Collections of Colonies of Bees\, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block\, Aaron Turner\, Faith Coloccia\, Dawn Springer\, Chris Hefner\, Jason Kahn\, Hal Rammel\, Asmus Tietchens\, Z’EV\, Rhys Chatham\, Jarboe\, James Plotkin\, Duane Pitre\, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Table of the Elements\, Type Recordings\, Important Records\, Taiga Records\, SIGE Records\, and American Dreams. \nwww.rhythmplex.com  IG: @jonmueller \n   \nTom Lecky has worked in photography\, music (as Hallock Hill)\, the book arts\, prose and poetry writing\, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory\, place\, and environment\, the work of the imagination\, perception\, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own\, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.\n \nThese creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books\, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com  \nIG: @tom.lecky
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/jon-mueller-tom-lecky-all-colors-a-sound-and-visual-meditation/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251007T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251007T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Oct. 7
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nOct. 7: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + TBA \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-oct-7/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251012T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250321T175329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T143856Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: October Concert
DESCRIPTION:Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana are thrilled to continue as part of a national program to bring FREE\, high quality\, live concerts through the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series! In this — the second year of the series here — we’ll bring the free musical entertainment to our Tube Factory campus once a month over seven Sundays. We’re also adding cultural aspects like traditional dance performances and opportunities for local artists and artisans to sell their work as part of these lively community events. \nWhen: Noon to 3 pm on Oct. 12. \nWhere: Tube Factory campus\, on the near southside of Indianapolis\, at 1125 Cruft St. — Concerts will happen at the amphitheatre in our Terri Sisson Park greenspace and move inside Tube Factory in bad weather. While there will be some provided seating at this outdoor event\, we encourage visitors to bring blankets or other lawn seating for them to enjoy during the event. \nWho: Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana collaborating with partners\, sponsors\, and local and national musicians\, local vendors\, artists\, and creatives. \nWhy: To bring additional liveliness to an underused area of our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and neighborly\, inclusive\, fun\, and creative social gatherings. \nOct. 12’s lineup: \n\nBonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (folk)\nIndygaita (traditional Venezuelan)\nGamelan Mojomanis (traditional Indonesian)\nFood Truck: Arepas (Colombian flatbreads)\n\nAnd: \n\nDaydream Market (mix of vendors selling vintage\, art\, and hand-made wares)\nOpen picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink) is encouraged\nFun games will be on-site\nTube Factory galleries will be open\nBean Creek Outlook and Terri Sisson Park nature spaces will be open\n\nAND\, come help paint a mural that will be displayed on the side of Safeway on Raymond Street! This third community painting session will work on designs by neighborhood artists Julie Xiao and Andrea Haydon. This mural project is possible thanks to the City of Indianapolis and the Indy Arts Council’s Public Art for All program. \nLearn more about the series here. \n \n_ \nThanks to the Levitt Foundation\, Efroymson Family Fund\, Lumina Foundation\, MIBOR REALTOR Association\, Eskenazi Health\, Penrod Society\, and Rundell Ernstberger Associates for their generous support of Levitt VIBE Indianapolis! \nThe Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation\, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces\, creating welcoming and inclusive destinations where the power of free\, live music brings people together\, fosters belonging\, and invigorates community life. www.levitt.org
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/2025-levitt-vibe-indianapolis-music-series-october-concert/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251014T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250822T142517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T142948Z
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Oct. 14
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. Oct. 14: Judy + the Golden Spatula food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-oct-14/
LOCATION:Lockerbie Marketplace\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251015T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251015T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250822T141039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T141652Z
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Bryce Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem that engages with your new or old life in a specific place.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout Berkowitz: \nBryce Berkowitz’s TV pilot\, Meaderville\, won the AMC TV Pilot Award from the Austin Film Festival. He’s the author of the poetry collection Bermuda Ferris Wheel\, winner of the 42 Miles Press | Indiana University Poetry Award. His poems have been selected for national and regional anthologies\, and his writing has appeared in publications such as The Sewanee Review\, The Missouri Review\, the Chicago Sun Times\, Ninth Letter\, and the Southern Indiana Review. Bryce is at work on two dark-comedy crime novels\, several TV pilots and feature-length screenplays\, and a second poetry collection. He co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Butler University. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-bryce-berkowitz/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251017T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251017T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
CREATED:20250930T142548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T142548Z
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-7/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140925
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Martinez sound performance
DESCRIPTION:Find out what it sounds like if the walls do indeed talk through Houston based artist Martinez’s experiments with the surrounding environment at Tube Factory a through a sound performance. \nBorn near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert\, Gabriel Martinez is an artist\, writer\, and performer living and working in Houston. He is the founding director of Alabama Song\, an experimental sound and art space for which he received the Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. His art explores relationships produced by the built environment and the body’s experience of history. He graduated with an M.F.A. from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses. \nMartinez’s work has been exhibited at various institutions and galleries including the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston TX\, Artpace San Antonio\, and the Wallach Gallery in New York City. He has performed at institutions such as Artist’s Space\, Menil Collection\, the Chinati Foundation\, and the Moody Center for the Arts. In addition to his extensive visual and performing background\, Martinez has received several grants\, fellowships\, and artist residencies. He was a 2022 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell\, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/gabriel-martinez-sound-performance/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nov. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Nov. 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \nWe have two new exhibits opening: \n\nAmy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery\nSelected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery\n\nContinuing exhibits include: \n\nTarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery\n\nAnd\, RMY’S Soul/Comfort food truck will be on-site. \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nov-2025-first-friday-at-tube-factory-artspace/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
DESCRIPTION:Main Gallery  \nImagine you are stepping into a bubble\, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact with or move around these objects that symbolize yourself? \nAmy Kligman’s series of 23 paintings glimpses an inner world\, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround us. Arranged in a deliberate\, symmetrical way\, these objects represent who we are.  \n“I love objects and environments that carry the history of the people that have shared space and time with them. I think about lineage — the patina of the world handed from generation to generation\, and what it means to try to make something of the world as we receive it from others\,” says Kligman\, who lives and works in Kansas City\, Missouri. “Generations of women\, generations of artists\, generations of family. In my paintings I pull together elements from these histories to suggest a kind of ‘bubble world’ where those disparate pieces come together in a place of hope\, reverence\, acknowledgment\, or sometimes a sort of aspiration for a future where the efforts of the past inform progress.” \nThroughout the history of art\, depictions of the table and its contents have been used as a storytelling device to convey skillfully coded meaning and sociocultural significance to the viewer. Taking the genre of still lifes as its entry point\, this exhibition expands upon art historical precedents to think about the table (or toolcart) not only as a site and signifier of power\, position\, and social status but also as a shrine. \nKligman’s series also gives form to Virginia Woolf’s idea of a “luminous halo” — a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end. Kligman’s works act like a book focusing on how we remember and what we think we know. \n“In the assembling of objects I’m often pulling together references and symbols as an invitation to a specific state of being or meditation or reflection. By creating these spaces and inviting others into them\, I’m inviting them into these states of reflection as well\, though folks are not meant to understand all the symbols and the visual language in a didactic way. I believe intention has its own halo\, echoing out into the universe\, subtly encouraging movement.” \n\nAbout the artist \nAmy Kligman is a painter and installation artist whose work is mostly about people\, even when it takes the form of rooms full of layered\, disposable party goods. Kligman holds her BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design. At the end of 2024\, after nine years in the role\, she stepped down as executive director at Charlotte Street Foundation to create her own opportunities by identifying gaps in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. She launched Special Effects gallery to make local artists more nationally visible. In March of 2025 she opened Salon for Possible Futures\, an artwork that doubles as a community gathering space on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally her work was featured in New American Paintings and she received the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award\, ArtsKC Inspiration Grant\, Art in the Loop Public Art Commission\, residency at the Luminary in St. Louis\, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission\, and the Byron C. Cohen Artist Award. 
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/amy-kligman-shrines-of-the-luminous-halo/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ilana Harris-Babou: Selected Works
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 7\, 2025 – Jan. 25\, 2026 | Video Gallery \n​​Red Sourcebook\, 2018\, 4:12 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nCooking with the Erotic\, 2016\, 11:37 minutes\, color\, stereo\, 2-channel\, HD video \nFinishing a Raw Basement\, 2017\, 6:41 minutes \, color\, stereo\, HD video \nReparation Hardware\, 2018\, 4:05 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nIlana Harris-Babou is a multimedia artist whose video works are an important component of a practice that includes sculpture and object making\, performance\, and installation. In her projects\, Harris-Babou mines the aesthetics of YouTube tutorials\, home improvement and cooking shows\, and corporate ad campaigns to call attention to how personal and social identities are constructed—and co-opted—by dominant ideologies. \nHarris-Babou unsettles the anodyne tone of these vehicles with wit and creative whimsy\, utilizing and re-contextualizing mainstream media forms to make explicit the forces that are elided by slick production strategies: social stratification; legacies of structured oppression; and the homogenizing push of consumerism. Fit within a history of artists using satire and mimicry to critique media and communication platforms\, Harris-Babou’s videos\, many of which feature her own mother\, also draw from her personal experience and lexicon of references to infuse her humor with deeply resonant meaning. \nHarris-Babou has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Candice Madey Gallery\, New York\, NY (2023); Storefront for Art and Architecture\, New York\, NY (2023); The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery\, Wesleyan University (2023); Artspace New Haven (2022); Kunsthaus Hamburg\, Hamburg\, Germany (2021); Goucher College\, Baltimore\, MD (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, NY (2017). In spring 2023\, the artist installed Liquid Gold in Times Square for the Midnight Moment series. Harris-Babou has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial\, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, NY (2019)\, and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection\, London\, UK (2023); California College of the Arts Wattis Institute\, San Francisco\, CA (2021); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2021); and Queens Museum\, Queens\, NY (2020). She lives and works in Brooklyn and Middletown\, CT. \nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts \nScreen still from “Decision Fatigue.”
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ilana-harris-babou-selected-works/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251112T183000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Sunia Won Gibbs:  What About Love Tour
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled.\n\nJoin artist and storyteller Sunia Won Gibbs for “What About Love: A Resonance Experience\,” an evening that transcends a traditional concert. \nSunia knows the profound ache of being caught between origins and belonging. Abandoned in South Korea and adopted internationally\, she has spent a lifetime asking\, “What About Love?”—a question she has been writing songs to answer since she was 12. Her music builds from a struggle to name a Love that is boundless\, not conditional. \nIn this resonant experience\, Sunia invites you into a space where love and connection become lived experiences\, not just ideas. Through a powerful blend of original song\, raw storytelling\, and shared presence\, she gathers the scattered\, wandering\, and wondering to explore one central question: In a world frayed by fear\, can Love be more than a passive hope? Can it be embodied and practiced? \nThis event is our collective laboratory to find out. You can expect an immersive journey that bridges divides\, offering a taste of the healing power that emerges when we choose to amplify the sound of love within ourselves and one another. \nPresented by Big Car Collaborative and Hoosier Asian American Power (HAAP).
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sunia-won-gibbs-what-about-love-tour/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251119T183000
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Karen Kovacik
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem that explores what you’ve inherited\, whether from your culture\, history\, religion\, family\, or other context.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout Kovacik: \nKaren Kovacik is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Portable City (Hanging Loose\, 2025). Also a translator of Polish poetry\, she has brought into English Jacek Dehnel’s Aperture\, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation\, and she is one of three translators of Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline\, a finalist for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize. The editor of Scattering the Dark\, an anthology of Polish women poets\, she has received many awards\, including two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. From 2012-2014\, she served as Indiana’s Poet Laureate. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-karen-kovacik/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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