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Latino Americans: Peril and Promise (1980-2000)
2016-06-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In the 80s the nature of the Latino Diaspora changes again. From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami . The same decade sees the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans (Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans) fleeing death squads and mass murders at home like activist, Carlos Vaquerano. By the early 1990s, a political debate over illegal immigration – has begun. Globalization, empowered by NAFTA, means that as U.S. manufacturers move south, Mexican workers head north in record numbers. A backlash ensues: tightened borders, anti-bilingualism, state laws to declare all illegal immigrants felons. But a sea change is underway: the coalescence of a new phenomenon called Latino American culture-as Latinos spread geographically and make their mark in music, sports, politics, business, and education. Gloria Estefan leads the Miami Sound Machine creating cross over hits in Spanish and English. Oscar de la Hoya, a Mexican-American boxer from L.A., becomes an Olympic gold medalist and the nation’s Golden Boy. Is a new Latino world being created here as the Latino population and influence continues to grow? Alternatively, will Latinos in America eventually assimilate into invisibility, as other groups have done so many times? Latinos present a challenge and an opportunity for the United States. America’s largest and youngest growing sector of the population presents what project advisor Professor Marta Tienda calls, The Hispanic Moment.Their success could determine the growth of the United States in the twenty-first century; however their failure, contributing to an underclass, could also pull this country down. The key, according to Tienda and Eduardo J. Padron, Ph.D., President of Miami Dade Community College, is education.
Latino Americans: 5oo Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of the NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.

Latino Americans:The New Latinos (1946-1965)
2016-06-23 18:00 - 20:00 | IN
Until World War II, Latino immigration to the United States was overwhelmingly Mexican-American. Now three new waves bring large-scale immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. As the Puerto Rican government implements a historic overhaul over a million Puerto Ricans are encouraged to leave for the US mainland, to alleviate the economic pressure. A young Juanita Sanabria arrives in New York, works hard in the garment district, but encounters hostility and discrimination. Ethnic tensions explode in youth gang warfare depicted in films like West Side Story, etching the stereotype of the knife wielding Puerto Rican in the American consciousness.
In the film, Rita Moreno plays the role of Anita and wins an Oscar. But for most Puerto Ricans empowerment remains elusive. A young Puerto Rican lawyer, Herman Badillo, takes on the political establishment, opening the door for unprecedented Puerto Rican participation in electoral politics. In the early 60s, the first Cubans flee the left-wing Castro regime, a relatively white, middle-class flight that soon forms a refugee enclave in Miami. A child of 11 at the time, Gustavo Perez Firmat believes like most refugees, that it is only a matter of weeks before the American government will wrest Cuba from the Communist regime. But Castro survives. Maria de los Angeles Torres is only six years old when she leaves Havana without her parents, one of 14,000 children are smuggled out through an underground network. Unable to leave legally, Manuel Capo and his two military age sons – make a dramatic journey to the US. With skills honed in the family furniture business in Cuba and support from the federal government, the Capos build thriving business marketing to the growing Cuban population.
In 1965, fearing another Communist takeover in the Caribbean, President Johnson sends Marines to the Dominican Republic, triggering a third wave of immigration. With a US visa in hand, 20 year-old university student, Eligio Peña, flees to New York. Eventually he brings his family to New York as Dominicans build a new home in Washington Heights. Julia Alvarez would take the immigrant experience – her own and that of her fellow Dominicans – to unprecedented literary heights in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. In her work, she explores the hybrid identity taking shape in a new generation of Latinos, who are now demanding their place in America.
Latino Americans: 5oo Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of the NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.

Julianna Barwick and Mas Ysa
2016-06-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
May 6th sees the release of Will, the revelatory third full-length album by Brooklyn experimental artist Julianna Barwick. Conceived and self-produced over the past year in a variety of locations, the ominous, compelling Will is a departure from 2013’s Alex Somers-produced Nepenthe. If that last record conjured images of gentle, thick fog rolling over desolate mountains, then Will is a late afternoon thunderstorm, a cathartic collision of sharp and soft textures that sounds looming and restorative all at once.

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Barwick’s life over the past several years has largely been lived in transit, and as such the genesis of Will was not beholden to location; Barwick worked on the album in a variety of locales, from a desolate house in upstate New York to the Moog Factory in Asheville, North Carolina to Lisbon, Portugal.
“I love touring, but it can be a wild ride,” Barwick reflects on this cycle of constant motion. “You’re constantly adjusting, assimilating, and finding yourself in life-changing situations.” Those experiences played into and helped shape Will’s charged, unstable atmosphere: “I knew I’d be playing these songs live, so I wanted some movement,” she explains. “Something that had rhythm and low-end.”
That sense of forward propulsion is largely owed to Will’s synth-heavy textures. The electric current that runs through the album takes on various shapes of intoxicating instability. Featuring contributions from Thomas Arsenault (Mas Ysa), Dutch cellist Maarten Vos and percussionist, Jamie Ingalls (Chairlift, Tanlines, Beverly), Will is largely a product of ups and downs, a reflection of a life lived somewhere in between transience and standing still. “While making this record, there were moments of isolation and dark currents,” Barwick admits. “I like exploring that, and I love when I come across songs that sound scary or ominous. I’ve always been curious about what goes into making a song that way.” The beguiling, beautifully complicated Will is the result of that curiosity, and proof of Barwick’s irresistibly engaging talent as a composer and vocalist.
Will comes off of Barwick’s busiest period in her career, following the release of Nepenthe—a spate of activity that included playing piano for Yoko Ono, performing at Carnegie Hall at the annual Tibet House concert with the Flaming Lips and Philip Glass, The Rosabi EP and beer created in conjunction with brewing company Dogfish Head, and a re-imagining of Bach’s “Adagio” from Concerto In D Minor.
Watch the Derrick Belcham-directed video for debut single, “Nebula” which was filmed in the Philip Johnson Glass House and presents the essence of Will and Julianna Barwick’s richly complex musical fabric.
Julianna Barwick’s music has been reviewed in Time Out New York, Time Out Lisbon, The New York Times, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Her music has also been featured as “Best New Music” on Pitchfork, which also gave, 2009’s “Florine” EP an honorable mention for an album of the year.
Mas Ysa
“Thomas Arsenault, the person who records as Mas Ysa, is difficult to pin down, and that’s probably the best thing about him. He’s lived in Montreal and San Francisco and Sao Paolo and New York and wherever Oberlin is. He’s scored modern dance productions and remixed synthpop groups. He sometimes sings in an angelic, reverby tenor and sometimes in a full, throat-wracked howl. He makes mostly electronic records, and he does it by itself, but “producer” somehow doesn’t seem like the right job title for him. (I’ve also seen people describe him as a “composer,” and that seems even more wrong.) Listening to his records, it’s hard to tell which sounds are electronic and which are made by actual physical instruments. His music drifts freely between ambient and synthpop and oblique dance and good old-fashioned indie rock. And he’s conclusively proven that you don’t need a full band to sound vaguely like Arcade Fire.
Mas Ysa made his name on last year’s Worth EP, which alternated between drifting, pretty synth-drone and big, chest-thumping psychedelic laptop-rock howlers. On Seraph, his first proper album, Arsenault pretty much smushes those two things together until they’re one thing, and the result is a pleasant drift that never settles on one genre for more than a few seconds and stays appealing and interesting throughout. All the individual sounds, like the glassy walls of keyboard on “Sick” or the happy-sigh New Order beeps of “Look Up,” have an impressive widescreen gloss to them. Arsenault’s voice has that quavery tone that was so popular among mid-’00s indie-dude singers, in which every word means so much that he just can’t choke it out without his throat catching. Some tracks play around with Euro-club house-thumps, which sounds shockingly good with this sort of singing and this sort of production. Nicole Miglis from Hundred Waters shows up on “Gun,” and her airy coo works as an absolutely lovely complement to Arsenault’s emotive gurgle. “Service” has some seriously badass Moroder-style Italo pulsing. There’s a lot to like here.
And maybe, for you, there will be a lot to love. Arsenault’s closest peer might be Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers, another indie auteur who pulls inspiration from wherever and whose songs seem to project meaning, even if you don’t necessarily know what that meaning is. Youth Lagoon has never really gotten past the “pleasant background music” stage for me, but that dude’s music means a lot to a lot of people. I suspect that the same will be true here. And even if you don’t end up loving this thing, it’s still an impressive piece of work, one that you should hear — if you can carve out the time. After all, there is a truly unprecedented amount of great music out there. If something is merely good, you can be forgiven for skipping it.”–Tom Breihan of Sterogum
This concert is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in 1987. In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, its mission is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation’s objective is to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice.

Big Car Collaborative Fundraiser Dinner at Punch Burger
2016-06-20 17:00 - 21:00 | Punch Burger, 137 E. Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Please join us for a fundraiser dinner on June 20th from 5- 9 p.m. at the downtown Indianapolis Punch Burger located on 137 E. Ohio Street. Your food and beverage purchases will help fund programming through our mobile art gallery Wagon of Wonders https://vimeo.com/bigcar/wow . With your help we can continue to provide educational and cultural programming to families all around the great city of Indianapolis. Thank you for supporting Big Car’s mission to bring art to people and people to art.
Gratefully,
Big Car Collaborative Staff

Father's Day Fishing at Ft Harrison - Wagon of Wonders
2016-06-19 09:30 - 17:00 | Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park, 6000 N. Post Road, Indianapolis, IN, 46216, United States
Come out to Delaware Lake at Ft. Benjamin Harrison State Park where the Wagon of Wonders / Mobile Bait & Tackle Shop will be providing everything you need for a great day of fishing and interactive art experiences! We’ll provide bait! You can even borrow a fishing pole! All you need is a fishing license and a little bit of luck! You can even play with some art while you’re there!
Fishing licenses can be purchased online here: http://www.in.gov/ai/appfiles/dnr-license/
If you’re not familiar with the Wagon of Wonders… here’s an intro:https://vimeo.com/138498618

BIKE FEST 2016
2016-06-18 11:00 - 23:00 | White River Greenway and Pleasant Run Trail, City Wide, Indianapolis, United States
Gear up for an exciting FREE bike crawl, Indy!
BIKE ALONG OR COME TO JUST ONE
This wild ride will take us along some of our city’s finest bicycle greenways to art and cultural destinations. This full day of activities includes BMX STUNTS, PUBLIC ART, OUTDOOR FILM SCREENINGS, FOOD and more! All events are FREE to the public so make a day of it!
LAUNCH: Indianapolis Museum of Art- Art and Nature Park from 11:00 – 2:00. 4000 Michigan Rd. Solstice activities, Bike activities, Food trucks, Local Music, Art Swap. extra bicycle parking will be available.
Stop1: Herron Fine Arts Center TIME 2:30 – 3:30. 1410 Indiana Ave. Art gallery, Bicycle short film screening, fun design activity.
Stop 2: BMX TRICKS at St. Anthony Festival TIME 4:00 – 5:00. 337 N Warman Ave
Stop 3: White River Trail TIME 5:30 – 7:15. 1015 Kentucky Ave. Bombastic activities and outdoor public sculpture
FINALE: PEE WEE’s BIG ADVENTURE at Pleasant Curve Amphitheater ARRIVAL TIME 8:00, MOVIE STARTS 9:00.
Free Public Screening of PeeWee’s Big Adventure. Food Trucks
IndyCog will lead the night ride back to IMA. Freewheelin’ will provide limited vehicle transport back to IMA.
More Info at Bigcar.org
Partners: Big Car Collaborative, Reconnecting to Our Waterways,StreamLines, IndyCog, Bicycle Garage Indy, Freewheelin’ Community Bikes, Knozone, Saint Anthony Catholic Church Indianapolis
Register at IndyCog.org/2016bikefest
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Creative Mornings-Elle Roberts
2016-06-17 08:30 - 10:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative communities. Each event is free, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!
This month features Elle Roberts, a musician and writer living on the near eastside of Indianapolis. She is the founder of shehive, a grassroots gender equity project based in the city.
Registration required, to attend click here.

Latino Americans-Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980)
2016-06-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Please join us for the screening of the fifth installment of Latino Americans documentary series.
For part five of the documentary will have the oportunity to converse after the screening with Monica A. Medina Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor IU School of Education – IUPUI.
Monica A. Medina Ph.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of curriculum and instruction and the Coordinator for the Master’s in Urban Education at the IU School of Education. Her research centers on teacher preparation for urban schools, full service community schools and the development of University assisted schools. Dr. Medina works extensively in the area of school and community relationships and particularly the operations of full service community schools. She has led the School of Education involvement at the George Washington Community High School (GWCS) and guides pre-service teachers from IUPUI on-site while they are assisting in the classrooms. Her university courses are taught in schools or community centers to create authentic cultural experiences for her students. In 2008 and 2014, she co-authored a five-year grants to the US Department of education and was awarded $2.45 million and $2.2 million to advance the development a full service community schools in the near west side of Indianapolis.
In 2012, IUPUI received an award from the University of Pennsylvania, Netter Center to develop a regional Center for University-Assisted Community Schools, a project involving the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning with collaborative facilitators, including Dr. Medina. The IUPUI-based center assists universities and schools in with implementation of university-assisted community schools strategies.
Dr. Medina has held various volunteer leadership positions in the community and was awarded a Sagamore of the Wabash from Governor Evan Bayh. Currently, she is a board member of the Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis and Concord Neighborhood Center. She served as the Chair of La Plaza Board of Directors, and was a founding member and former chair of the Indiana Latino Institute. In 2014, Dr. Medina was the recipient of the Indiana University Latino Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award and the IUPUI Chancellors Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement. In 2013, she receive the Latina Educator of the Year Award from Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard. Congressman André Carson and Citizens Energy Group also recognized her work in the community as one of the recipients of 125 Neighborhood Leaders Award.
LATINO AMERICANS is a landmark six, one-hour documentary featuring interviews with nearly 100 Latinos and more than 500 years of History. This PBS documentary serie presents the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape the United States over the last 500-plus years and become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the US.
The Latino Americans Film Series will start on Thursday, May 12 and continue through June. All Free screening will be at Tube Factory artspace.
Screening Dates.
June 16-Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980)
June 30-Peril and Promise (1980-2000)

Street Painting Workshop with Peter Gibson
2016-06-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Street Painting Workshop Saturday, June 11, 12:00-5:00pm
Local artists are invited to take part in this hands-on learning experience. International street artist Peter Gibson will share insights into his creative process and techniques for pavement painting.
Please register for this event.

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Places For People- Southeast Side Roadway Series.
Scheming for a more vibrant and inclusive community
Tube Factory Artspace 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis In 46203
The Southeast Side of Indianapolis is first and foremost a neighborhood and a community of people. However, when we look at the roadways, much of the infrastructure is oriented towards prioritizing car commuters.Residents, pedestrians, and cyclists seem largely excluded from the equation. What does it look like to imagine our roadways as something more? How can we include places for people to exist and thrive alongside our neighborhood thoroughfares? Capitalizing on the momentum of previous successful placemaking initiatives, we will look for solutions to these questions and more.
This series is presented as part of Big Car Collaborative’s placemaking initiative with Reconnecting to our Waterways. By using methods gleaned from Spark: Monument Circle and the Rethinking Our Streets project with DPW in Mapleton-Fall Creek, we will be envisioning and enacting positive steps toward a more vibrant and inclusive community. Come out to engage other artist, residents, and thinkers in some forward-thinking possibilities for the Southeast Side at this Places For People Southeast Side Roadway Series.
Check out bigcar.org for details on these other events from Places For People – Southeast Side Roadway Series:
Southeast Side Roadway Workshop: Thursday, June 2, 6:00-8:00pm
This workshop will take place in anticipation of the arrival of international artist Peter Gibson (roadsworth.com) to Indianapolis. We will engage the following topics and opportunities for Southeast communities:

Roadway art on Pleasant Run

Creating visual interest to reclaim public space
Locating target areas
Introduction to the work of Peter Gibson (roadsworth.com)

Reclaiming Shelby Street

How do we make Shelby Street more pedestrian friendly?
How do we address traffic volume/speed concerns?

Walkability and Bikability Signage

Identifying pedestrian friendly assets
Improving awareness of assets
Mapping wayfinding sign locations

Create Places For People Neighborhood Initiative

Identify bike/walkability goals for the Southeast side
Develop a plan for engaging residents

“Roadsworth” Peter Gibson Artist Lunch Talk- Friday, June 10, 12:00pm
Gibson will give a lunchtime presentation of his work at the Tube Factory Artspace on Friday, June 10 at 12:00pm and will discuss his process and intentions for the street painting workshop that will be held the following day. A light lunch will be provided.

“Roadsworth” Peter Gibson Artist Lunch Talk
2016-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“Roadsworth” Peter Gibson Artist Lunch Talk- Friday, June 10, 12:00pm
Gibson will give a lunchtime presentation of his work at the Tube Factory Artspace on Friday, June 10 at 12:00pm and will discuss his work and his process as well as preview intentions for the street painting workshop that will be held the following day. A light lunch will be provided. please register so we can plan accordingly!
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Places For People- Southeast Side Roadway Series.
The Southeast Side of Indianapolis is first and foremost a neighborhood and a community of people. However, when we look at the roadways, much of the infrastructure is oriented towards prioritizing car commuters.Residents, pedestrians, and cyclists seem largely excluded from the equation. What does it look like to imagine our roadways as something more? How can we include places for people to exist and thrive alongside our neighborhood thoroughfares? Capitalizing on the momentum of previous successful placemaking initiatives, we will look for solutions to these questions and more.
This series is presented as part of Big Car Collaborative’s placemaking initiative with Reconnecting to our Waterways. By using methods gleaned from Spark: Monument Circleand the Rethinking Our Streets project with DPW in Mapleton-Fall Creek, we will be envisioning and enacting positive steps toward a more vibrant and inclusive community.
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Details at bigcar.org about other Places For People- Southeast Side Roadway Series events:
Southeast Side Roadway Workshop: Thursday, June 2, 6:00-8:00pm
This workshop will take place in anticipation of the arrival of international artist Peter Gibson(roadsworth.com) to Indianapolis. We will engage the following topics and opportunities for Southeast communities:

Roadway art on Pleasant Run

Creating visual interest to reclaim public space
Locating target areas
Introduction to the work of Peter Gibson (roadsworth.com)

Reclaiming Shelby Street

How do we make Shelby Street more pedestrian friendly?
How do we address traffic volume/speed concerns?

Walkability and Bikability Signage

Identifying pedestrian friendly assets
Improving awareness of assets
Mapping wayfinding sign locations

Create Places For People Neighborhood Initiative

Identify bike/walkability goals for the Southeast side
Develop a plan for engaging residents

Street Painting Workshop: Saturday, June 11, 12:00-5:00pm
Local artists are invited to take part in this hands-on learning experience. International street artist Peter Gibson will share insights into his creative process and techniques for pavement painting. More details can be found at bigcar.org.

Magic in the Water: Choose Your Own Adventure on Pogue's Run
2016-06-05 14:00 - 15:00 | IN
This is a launch event for “Magic in the Water: A Pogue’s Run Choose Your Own Adventure”.
Pogue’s Run Waterway Lead Artist, and Cottage Home Resident, Bree Gerard has lead a team of talented creative writers in the creation of this one-of-a-kind exploration of Pogue’s Run and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Meet at the SPADES PARK GAZEBO to experience storytelling in a new way… and help us celebrate!!
Imagine…
You’re meandering past a local business on 10th street or taking a stroll through your neighborhood park when you stumble upon a set of three quaint boxes with an intriguing message written upon them. You investigate and learn you have discovered a CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE experience that will lead you to various cultural and natural attractions along Pogue’s Run waterway.
Those who choose to participate will follow the written instructions leading to destinations as compile their own fantastical story about the mythical history of Pogue’s Run.
Come adventure with us… if you dare.
This event is a Big Car Collaborative, Reconnecting to Our Waterways event.

Free Fishing Day at Mounds State Park - Wagon of Wonders
2016-06-04 09:30 - 18:30 | Mounds State Park, 4306 Mounds Rd, Anderson, IN, 46017, United States
It’s a free fishing day! No license required!
We’re Heading to Mounds State Park in Anderson IN! Our Wagon of Wonders / Mobile Bait & Tackle Shop will be providing everything you need for a great day of fishing! And fun art! We’ll provide bait! You can even borrow a fishing pole. All you need is a little bit of luck.

If you’re not familiar with the Wagon of Wonders… here’s an intro: https://vimeo.com/138498618

Southeast Side Roadway Workshop
2016-06-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This workshop will take place in anticipation of the arrival of international artist Peter Gibson (roadsworth.com) to Indianapolis. We will engage the following topics and opportunities for Southeast communities:

Roadway art on Pleasant Run

Creating visual interest to reclaim public space
Locating target areas
Introduction to the work of Peter Gibson (roadsworth.com)

Reclaiming Shelby Street

How do we make Shelby Street more pedestrian friendly?
How do we address traffic volume/speed concerns?

Walkability and Bikability Signage

Identifying pedestrian friendly assets
Improving awareness of assets
Mapping wayfinding sign locations

Create Places For People Neighborhood Initiative

Identify bike/walkability goals for the Southeast side
Develop a plan for engaging residents

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Places For People – Southeast Side Roadway Series
The Southeast Side of Indianapolis is first and foremost a neighborhood and a community of people. However, when we look at the roadways, much of the infrastructure is oriented towards prioritizing car commuters.Residents, pedestrians, and cyclists seem largely excluded from the equation. What does it look like to imagine our roadways as something more? How can we include places for people to exist and thrive alongside our neighborhood thoroughfares? Capitalizing on the momentum of previous successful placemaking initiatives, we will look for solutions to these questions and more.
This series is presented as part of Big Car Collaborative’s placemaking initiative with Reconnecting to our Waterways. By using methods gleaned from Spark: Monument Circle and the Rethinking Our Streets project with DPW in Mapleton-Fall Creek, we will be envisioning and enacting positive steps toward a more vibrant and inclusive community.
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Check out bigcar.org for details on these other events from Places For People – Southeast Side Roadway Series:
“Roadsworth” Peter Gibson Artist Lunch Talk- Friday, June 10, 12:00pm
Gibson will give a lunchtime presentation of his work at the Tube Factory Artspace on Friday, June 10 at 12:00pm and will discuss his process and intentions for the street painting workshop that will be held the following day. A light lunch will be provided.

Street Painting Workshop Saturday, June 11, 12:00-5:00pm
Local artists are invited to take part in this hands-on learning experience. International street artist Peter Gibson will share insights into his creative process and techniques for pavement painting. More details can be found at bigcar.org.

Latino Americans-The New Latinos (1946-1965)
2016-06-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

WHITE RIVER SUBMARINE RACE
2016-05-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Unnamed Venue, 3000 N White River Pkwy West Dr., indianapolis, United States
FREE EVENT! COME ONE COME ALL!
The first ever WHITE RIVER SUBMARINE RACE will take place just below the waters of our beautiful White River! You won’t be able to see them… but trust us, they’re down there! Plus, our host, comedian STEPHEN VINCENT GILES will be there to give us the play-by-play action so you don’t miss a moment!
This hiarious narrative storytelling event is hosted by Big Car Collaborative and Reconnecting to Our Waterways.

Check out the facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1097089510347349/

Latino Americans-War and Peace (1942-1954)
2016-05-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
World War II is a watershed event for Latino Americans with hundreds of thousands of men and women serving in the armed forces, most fighting side by side with Anglos. In the Pacific, East L.A.’s Guy Gabaldon becomes a Marine Corp legend when he singlehandedly captures more enemy soldiers than anyone in US military history. But on the home front, discrimination is not dead: in 1943, Anglo servicemen battle hip young “Zoot suitors” in racially charged riots in southern California.
After the war, Macario Garcia becomes the first Mexican National to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploits fighting in Europe, only to be refused service in a Texas diner. The experience during the war pushes Latinos to fight for civil rights back home. A doctor from South Texas, Hector Garcia, organizes the American GI Forum, transforming himself into a tireless advocate for civil rights and the friend of a future president. Although Latinos make significant gains, the journey for equality is far from over.
Latino Americans: 5oo Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of the NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.

Wagon of Wonders - Fishing at Fort Harrison
2016-05-22 09:30 - 17:00 | Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park, 6000 N. Post Road, Indianapolis, IN, 46216, United States
Come out to Delaware Lake at Ft. Benjamin Harrison State Park where the Wagon of Wonders / Mobile Bait & Tackle Shop will be providing everything you need for a great day of fishing! We’ll provide bait! You can even borrow a fishing pole! All you need is a fishing license and a little bit of luck!

Fishing licenses can be purchased online here: http://www.in.gov/ai/appfiles/dnr-license/

If you’re not familiar with the Wagon of Wonders… here’s an intro: https://vimeo.com/138498618

Waterworld - FREE FILM SCREENING
2016-05-21 20:30 - 22:00 | White River Greenway, 333 N White River Pkwy West Dr, Indianapolis, IN, 46222, United States
FREE. LITERALLY ON THE WHITE RIVER!
Do you want to see Kevin Costner standing- larger than life- IN OUR WHITE RIVER?! The film will be projected out over the White River onto the off-shore abutment for the New York St. bridge! Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and we’ll provide the popcorn for this post-apocalyptic-high-budget-flop-turned-cult-classic!
This event is part of our Reconnecting to Our Waterways spring series.
Find out more on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1733397293611861/

Nick Redfern
2016-05-21 13:30 - 16:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
1:30 p.m. Nick Redfern is the author of 36 books on UFOs, lake-monsters, the Roswell UFO crash, zombies, and Hollywood scandal, including Men in Black; Chupacabra Road Trip; The Bigfoot Book; and Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind. Nick has appeared on many TV shows, including: Fox News; the BBC’s Out of This World; the SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive; the History Channel’s Monster Quest, America’s Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens and UFO Hunters; the National Geographic Channel’s Paranatural; and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He can be contacted at: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com/
3 p.m. Stewart Hill
Stewart Hill has been the State Director for the Indiana Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network for the last six years and served previously as the state Chief Investigator and a state section director. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and worked for 26 years in the medical diagnostics industry working with state-of-the-art technology and chemistries. Prior to that he worked with commercial and military electronic applications and spent six years in the U.S. Air Force working in airborne navigation. First interested in UFO’s with the 1952 national wave, he lost interest when the subject of ‘flying saucers’ was discontinued in the popular media but regain interest when the Internet became an informational tool in the 1990’s. He has managed, investigated, researched and documented hundreds of Indiana UFO reports over the last sixteen years.
3:40 p.m. Phil Leech
Phil Leech, MUFON Indiana State Section Director, worked 25 years in public service in various departments: city police department 911 communications training officer, fireman, chief fire rescue ambulance, and for the county coroners office. He joined MUFON due to his interest Ufology and desire to search for the Truth. Being able to work with field investigators and those who share their experiences with MUFON creates a unique opportunity to look for that Truth.
Free
See the MUFON Indiana website for more information: http://indianamufon.homestead.com/

Latino Americans-Empire of Dreams (1880-1942)
2016-05-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins – first with a small group from Cuba, then a larger one from Mexico. Both flee chaos and violence in their home country and are attracted by opportunities in the United States. In 1898, the U.S. helps liberate Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain but then seizes Puerto Rico as its colony. The first Puerto Rican arrivals (now U.S. citizens) establish a network in New York.
Juan Salvador Villaseñor whose story is told by his son, Victor, flees the violence of the Mexican revolution of 1910, along with his mother and two sisters. We follow Juan Salvador’s story; first through a grueling journey and poverty, then as a bootlegger, and finally as a successful businessman along with his wife and children in the United States.
During the 1920s, immigration is encouraged with the expanding U.S. economy. Mexicans and Mexican Americans build a thriving community in Los Angeles and look forward to a bright future. But when the economic boom of that 1920s ends with the catastrophic Depression of the thirties, the pendulum swings. Immigrants encouraged to immigrate in the 20s are deported en masse in the 30s. Emilia Castaneda loses her home and her family when she and her father and brother are deported to Mexico, despite the fact that Emilia and her brother are U.S. citizens. Puerto Ricans, also caught in the depths of the Depression, rebel against U.S. rule on the Island, and eventually gain Commonwealth status from the U.S. Government.

Latino Americans: 5oo Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of the NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.

Fishing Derby & White River Cleanup
2016-05-14 09:30 - 15:00 | IN
HEY! ISN’T THIS GOING TO BE FUN!
Come on out to enjoy a great day on our beautiful White River! Catch a fish and clean up trash! Don’t have a fishing pole or a hefty trash bag? don’t worry, We’ve got plenty to share! We’ll even provide lunch!
Prizes will be awarded for both the morning and afternoon session to families with 1) biggest fish 2) smallest fish 3) most trash 4) weirdest trash.
Adults, don’t forget your fishing liscense. Even if you are just helping a minor fish, it is required. Find out more and purchase online here:http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/2347.htm
This event is brought to you by Reconnecting to Our Waterways Big Car Collaborative Friends of White River and Westside Bait and Tackle
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Latino Americans-Foreigners in their Own Land (1565-1880)
2016-05-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
One hundred years after Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean, Spanish Conquistadors and Priests, push into North America in search of gold and to spread Catholicism. With the arrival of the British in North America, the two colonial systems produce contrasting societies that come in conflict as Manifest Destiny pushes the U.S into the Mexican territories of the South West.
Apolinaria Lorenzana provides a window to the Spanish Mission System while Mariano Vallejo personifies the era of the Californio rancheros an elite class who thrive after Mexico gains its independence from Spain. Juan Seguín, a third generation Tejano or Texan, is caught between two worlds; his commitment to an Independent Texas and his identity as a Mexican. Through the Mexican American War, the U.S. takes a full half of Mexico’s territory by 1848. Over seventy thousand Mexicans are caught in a strange land and many become American citizens.
As the Gold Rush floods California with settlers, complex and vital communities are overwhelmed. The elites, including Mariano Vallejo and Apolinaria Lorenzana lose their land. Mexicans and Mexican Americans are treated as second-class citizens, facing discrimination and racial violence. Resistance to this injustice appears in New Mexico as Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps), burn Anglo ranches and cut through barbed wire to prevent Anglo encroachment. At the same time, New Mexicans manage to transform themselves through education, managing to preserve Hispano culture in New Mexico and their standing in the midst of an era of conquest and dispossession.
Latino Americans: 5oo Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of the NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.

Pleasant Run Futsal Court - Grand Opening!
2016-05-11 06:00 - 20:00 | Unnamed Venue, pin Hide Map E Pleasant Run Pky North Dr and Harlan Street, Indianapolis, United States
Come on out to the opening celebration of the Pleasant Run Futsal Court!
Kick a ball, get some ice cream, and have an interactive art experience with the #WagonofWonders! Meet the artists! Meet an Indy Eleven Professional Soccer player!!!
Help us celebrate and support a new futsal opportunity for the youth and community of near south side Indianapolis!
Local artists Matt Helfrich, Emily Gable, Paul B Pelsue, Alan Goffinski and Rachel Leigh have been hard at work painting Matt Helfrich’s amazing design onto the surface of this lonely old slab of asphalt. And it looks beautiful and fun!! Along with interactive maps, foursquare, hopscotch, and checkers, we’ve also incorporated a FUTSAL COURT!! Now, IT”S TIME TO PLAY! This event is especially suited for kids who love soccer!
Thanks from us!
Indiana Futsal, Indiana Soccer Association, Indy Eleven Professional Soccer, Indy Parks, Big Car Collaborative, Gordon’s Ice Cream Parlor

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Little Shop of Horrors - FREE FILM SCREENING
2016-05-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Fall Creek Gardens, 3045 Central Ave, , Indianapolis, Indiana , IN, 46205, United States
Let’s watch Little Shop of Horrors in a garden!
Come on out to this Free Screening! Bring your lawn chairs and blankets. We’ll be selling popcorn from our Welcome Trailer.
This takes place as part of our Reconnecting to Our Waterways spring series as a partnership with Fall Creek Gardens: Urban Growers Resource Center and The Sapphire Theatre Company
Check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1032843566801075/

Community Stage OPENING DAY
2016-05-07 12:00 - 16:00 | FALL CREEK GARDENS COMMUNITY STAGE, 3018 CENTRAL AVE, INDIANAPOLIS, 46205, United States
EVENT SCHEDULE LISTED BELOW
Join us to Celebrate the OPENING DAY of COMMUNITY STAGES, a performing arts playground at Fall Creek Gardens. Check out the imaginative, multi-purpose stages with giant maze, community table and chessboards with sets! Other OPENING DAY Celebration activities include…
12pm
Big Car Collaborative‘s WAGON OF WONDERS activities
The KNOWarrior – DJ Frank Smith III
COMMUNITY Pitch-in from Noon-2pm (Bring something to share! Beverages provided.)
Plant berries and veggies in Fall Creek Gardens: Urban Growers Resource Center!
2pm
Rexercise with Tony Rex at 2pm! Brought to you by Know No Stranger
Indianapolis Indians’ ROWDIE Bear photo opps & paw-bumps!
3pm
Drumming & Dancing around the new Fall Creek Gardens May pole!
COMMUNITY STAGES is a Reconnecting to Our Waterways Creative Placemaking pilot project and proud Indy community partnership betweenThe Sapphire Theatre Company, Big Car Collaborative, Fall Creek Gardens: Urban Growers Resource Center, Reconnecting to Our Waterways.

COMMUNITY STAGES at Fall Creek Gardens
2016-05-07 - 2016-06-05 | IN
Presented by SAPPHIRE THEATRE CO. and FALL CREEK GARDENS
in cahoots with Big Car Collaborative and Reconnecting to Our Waterways.
Brace yourself for a month long community stage-stravaganza! we’ve teamed up to bring you this amazing FREE series in the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood. Amazing theatrical and cultural experiences on an amazing outdoor stage in the midst of a beautiful community garden. The Calendar of events is listed below. Don’t miss it!

The People's 500
2016-05-06 18:00 - 2016-07-16 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The People’s 500 is a celebration of the relationship between the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the people of Indianapolis, marking the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. The exhibit will run through July 16.
In October of 2015, Sugarmann chose 100 residents of the Indianapolis community from a pool of applicants to drive two laps in a pace car — the drivers uniting to complete the equivalent of a single running of the Indianapolis 500. Sugarmann and his crew photographed and interviewed each of the drivers, the resulting documentation serving as the material of the exhibition. Some of the drivers are featured among the 16 large scale photos in the exhibit. There is also video, and a sculptural piece.
“The Indianapolis Motor Speedway serves as a cultural beacon within Indianapolis, a location of shared history and civic identity for all strata of Indianapolis society. Members of the Indianapolis community feel ownership of the Speedway,” says Sugarmann. “In this exhibit, the pace car is the vehicle through which this mutual connection is furthered, the civilian/citizen being able to immerse him or herself in the environment of a professional IndyCar driver. The People’s 500 uses pace cars to bridge the viewer and professional driver and create an even stronger sense of civic ownership.”
This exhibit is the first at Tube Factory, Big Car Collaborative’s new cultural center with a contemporary art exhibition area. Located in what was a boarded-up factory building on a residential street in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Tube Factory will host a variety of conversations, performances, and events — while also serving as the workshop and home base for Big Car artists.
The People’s 500 is curated by Shauta Marsh, funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital, and coordinated by Big Car Collaborative staff in partnership with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Framing provided by Editions Limited.
About Jesse Sugarmann: Sugarmann is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, photography, and sculpture. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in venues such as the Getty Institute, Los Angeles; el Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; the Banff Center, Canada; el Museo de Arte Moderno de Santander, Spain; and both the Paris and Berlin installations of Les Recontres Internationales. Jesse’s work has been written about in publications including ArtForum, Art Papers, the Atlantic, Frieze Magazine, the Huffington Post, and The New York Times. Jesse lives and works in Bakersfield, CA. You can learn more about his work at www.jessesugarmann.com.
About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts: The Foundation was established in 1987. In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, its mission is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation’s objective is to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice. http://warholfoundation.org/
About Big Car: An Indianapolis-based 501c3 nonprofit, Big Car uses creativity as a catalyst to a better city. By providing and supporting unique, educational, participatory, playful and personal experiences, Big Car engages people of all ages and backgrounds in art making and creative problem-solving — inspiring them to be creative thinkers and involved, connected citizens. Learn more at www.bigcar.org and see examples of our projects at www.bigcar.org/work.
About Creative Capital: Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel and career development services. Our pioneering approach—inspired by venture-capital principles—helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. http://www.creative-capital.org/
About Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Established in 1909, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the world’s largest spectator sporting facility and has long prevailed as an icon of motorsports excellence. After celebrating its Centennial Era in 2009-11, IMS and racing fans now look forward to the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race this year. In 2016, get ready for an unprecedented celebration of the human pursuit of progress as the world’s eyes turn toward the Speedway. For more information, visit indianapolismotorspeedway.com.

Flannelly's of the Future Festival
2016-04-30 16:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
To celebrate their marriage and the role music played in bringing them together, artists Brelyn Gerard and John Flannelly organized an experimental music festival. Flannellys of the Future Festival will take place April 30, 4-10 p.m. at Tube Factory artpace, 1125 Cruft St. Several musical acts were part the formation of their relationship so the pair wanted to share the music with Indianapolis by means of a free concert. The bands that will be featured are: Bad Psychic (Bloomington), DJ Littletown, Duncan Kissinger, Exploding Head Scene (Philadelphia, PA), Glitter Brains (Bloomington), Oreo Jones & Sirius Blvck, Jeron Braxton & the Tamagotchis (Bloomington), Rev//Rev (Lafayette), Rob Funkhouser, Sedcairn Archives, Skything (Marlboro, Vermont), Teen Brigade (Lafayette).
“Both of us are the kind of people who strive to view life from as many angles as possible, to feel from all those angles even if it means crawling around the floor of the house to feel the space usually reserved for our knees and ankles, or chilling in the bathroom for a shift in perspective,” says Gerard.
Many of the musicians in the festival were part of Gerard and Flannelly falling in love. Flannelly’s music was the first time experimental music clicked for Gerard. “Sitting in our friend’s living room, watching John deliver the experience of his art, I had an ethereal space to sort through my feelings. It was a space that somehow managed to be safe and challenging at the same time,” says Gerard. “After his set at Free House, he threw the flower he’d been wearing on his vest to the audience. I seized it. To this day, that flower still graces my bookshelf.”
Soon after that, on Valentine’s Day 2015, Gerard and Flannelly enjoyed their first date — at the Fountain Square music venue Grove Haus. Gerard sang back up for the band Memory Foam. She found out that Flannely had toured with one of her favorite bands, Shame Thugs, and that he was in the music video for her favorite Sirius Blvck songs. Eventually, Flannelly moved from Bloomington to Indianapolis into Gerard’s friend’s house. After a recommendation from their mutual friend, artist Erin K. Drew, Flannely got a job at the same place where Gerard worked.
“Now, we’re getting married and we’re doing it our way. With all the art projects in the community we’re involved with, neither of us are interested in fussing over centerpieces and flowers. We want to celebrate our love by sharing the music we love, made by the people we love,” says Gerard. “We can’t wait to groove with Indianapolis at the Flannellys of the Future Festival!”
Gerard has a new book, iForgot, out and Flanney a new album, Peace and Quiet now available. For their honeymoon after the festival celebration, the two will travel the country to promote their works.

WIND AND WATER FEST
2016-04-16 12:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Barth Ave & E. Pleasant Run Pky South Dr., Indianapolis, United States
Come celebrate all there is to celebrate!
SPRING!! PLEASANT RUN!! NEIGHBORS!!
bring your kite or make one with us! Team up with friends and family to participate in a slowest boat race! Eat food and listen to music! Make cool art! We’re going to have a great time enjoying the weather and making the most of our amazing public space along beautiful Pleasant Run!

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ROWPORT 2016
2016-04-15 09:00 - 11:00 | Barth ave. &Pleasant Run Pkwy. South Dr., indianapolis, United States
Big Car has been a partner in Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW), a collective impact initiative designed to reclaim the benefits of Indianapolis’ waterways, since its inception. Come on out for an interactive art experience on the banks of Pleasant Run! Learn about and celebrate the amazing things ROW has been up to and take a peek at great things to come.

Register at rowport2016.eventbrite.com
