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Portrait Making Meetup
2017-08-12 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring your own art supplies and get paired up with someone to do portrait studies in our open, concrete-floor community space. Describe your partner in your own medium (can be paint or charcoal, of course, but also can be writing, clay, or any type of abstraction! Realism is not necessary). We will have basic art supplies like paper, markers, crayons, and such.
All creatives, professional or amateur, are welcome. Even if you just want to come to be a model and hang out, you are welcome!

Shop Safety and Orientation I
2017-08-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.

A few things to note:

*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.

*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.

*$25 (fee waived if taken in conjunction with Steps, Ramps and Rails/home repair project)

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Exhibitions Book Club-Ariana Reines
2017-08-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Leading up to each exhibition at Tube Factory, we will host a monthly discussion about books releated to the exhibits we are hosting. For the August 4, 2017 exhibit, Initiation by Larissa Hammond and poet Ariana Reines, we will read and discuss Reines book, Mercury. Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines earned a BA from Barnard College, and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); and Mercury (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression (2011) and Gurlesque (2010). Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm. At once personal, Romantic, slippery, and extreme, Reines’s poetry investigates and overturns lyric conventions. Of her own work, she admitted in an interview with HTML Giant: “My best writing seems to have to be forced from me by some other force but that force has to be one whose power I agree to serve.”
Reines’s first play Telephone (2009) was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater and received two Obie Awards. A re-imagining of its second act was featured as part of the Guggenheim’s Works+Process series in 2009, and the script was published in Play: A Journal of Plays in 2010. Reines’s translations include a version of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore(2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (2012).
Reines has taught at Columbia University and the European Graduate School, and was the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley in 2009, the youngest poet to ever hold that position. She has traveled to Haiti multiple times as part of the on-going relief efforts there.—Poetry Foundation

Larissa Hammond: the / a mind the b mind
2017-08-04 18:00 - 2017-10-21 22:00 | IN
the/a mind the b mind, is a fully commissioned exhibit featuring four large scale paintings, one in collaboration with poet Ariana Reines.
The exhibit is several years in the making. “Through the years this show has evolved, my body has been attacking itself through my immune system,” says Hammond. “I went down many paths with both my art and physical body before I finally reached a turning point.”
The paintings happened after a series of conversations with Reines. “We spoke about the silence women carry, what it really means and feels like to give consent, communications that result from being mixed race and culture in America, the importance of ownership and protection over one’s own body, taking care, how crucial it is to identify as sane, and the importance of relating to other people with love and humor as a way through any kind of opposition,” says Hammond.
The paintings themselves are an exploration in communication using a collective unconscious that Hammond built through her writings alongside conversations with Reines. “This collective unconscious is a combination of my matrilineal cultural heritage (Afro-Caribbean), past experiences, and direct feedback from my body as I recovered from a brain injury,” says Hammond.
Born in Indianapolis, IN, Larissa Hammond studied Architecture and Linguistics at the University of Cincinnati before earning her BA from Portland State University. In 2012, Hammond earned her MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art + Oregon College of Art & Craft. Since graduating, her thesis was purchased by conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer and she was named by Modern Painters Magazine as 1 of 25 Artists to Watch. Her first solo edition, THE REDDENING, was featured by Monograph Bookwerks and Triangular Press at the Codex International and LA Art Book Fairs. THE REDDENING was also purchased by the University of Iowa, Indiana University, and Oregon College of Art & Craft Rare / Artist Book Collections.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines earned a BA from Barnard College, and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); and Mercury (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression (2011) and Gurlesque (2010). Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm.
Made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation and Sun King Brewery.

TWIN PEAKS
2017-08-04 18:00 - 2017-09-23 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Ally Alsup, Philip Campbell, Justin Cooper, Alice Guerin, Grant Lewandowski, Terrance Majors, Kayla Pappas, Paul Pelsue, Robert Young and Natalie Woodlock

Ten artists created works inspired by the TV series, Twin Peaks, which reshaped popular culture and the arts worldwide. The series combined the underbelly of human nature with an artist’s aesthetic, forever changing the mainstream’s appetite for visual entertainment.

The Atlantic put it best, “Without Twin Peaks, and its big-bang expansion of the possibilities of television, half your favorite shows wouldn’t exist. The absorptive, all-in serial, sonically and visually entire, novelistically cantilevered with deep structure and extending backwards into the viewer’s brain, was simply not a thing before Lynch and Frost. With Twin Peaks they effectively renegotiated TV’s contract with its audience. You didn’t tune in to this show the same way that you tuned in to L.A. Law or Murder, She Wrote. You tuned in psychedelically, as it were, ready to be transported. You were in, or you were out: a binary decision. The story arcs, the curves of character development, were long, longer than the show itself, receding into mystery. If you missed an episode, you were disoriented. If you watched every episode carefully, you might still be disoriented. Remarkably, this has become something like the norm.”

And as promised, 25 years later a new series continuing the experience re-appeared this spring on Showtime.

On display in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery, August 4-September 23

Click here to read the rest of the Atlantic Story.
Image: Natalie Woodlock, Audrey Horne, three-color hand-pulled screen print.

Six Ways To Sunday
2017-08-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Stories. Art. Drinks.
Six artist. Six stories. Coming together from Indiana and the Midwest, each artist provides works on paper available for purchase and a live performance the night of the opening. Performances range in topic but all deal with the artist’s personal history and background.

Drew Buys
Clare Gatto
Paolo Marino
Alex Meiser
Nick Witten
Liz Wierzbicki

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2017-07-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2017-06-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join me at Listen hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccuring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by placeing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a inprovosation set.
hope to see you soon!

Art Workshop for Ages 6 +
2017-07-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Themed art classes for children 6 + every Wednesday of July. Classes will be mostly in English but Spanish can be used for children who are bilingual/Spanish speaking. Every week will be a new, dynamic and sensory adventure with a small lesson at the beginning. We will learn about patterns, shapes, rhythm, texture, image, line and color through a variety of media and engaging projects. Inspiration for art projects is drawn from the 50 Grand exhibition currently in the gallery at Tube Factory.
Your child can join any time. New registrations will take place before class each week, so plan to come a little early if it is your child’s first time in the class. Children will be broken into age groups and given an activity for their skill level. There is no fee for classes.
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Wednesdays 4-5:30pm
(July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26)
Clases del arte para niños de edades 6+
A Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St Indianapolis, IN 46203
GRATIS
Clases del arte de diferentes temas cada miércoles en Julio. Clases estará por la mayoría en inglés pero español puede ser usado si hay niños bilingües o hispanohablantes. Cada semana es una nueva aventura dinámica y sensorial con una lección pequeño al principio. La inscripción va a continuar durante el curso de clases, entonces su niño puede juntar en cualquier momento. Inscripciones nuevos tomará lugar antes de la clase cada semana, entonces planea venir un poco temprano si es la primer clase para su niño. Los niños van a estar separados en grupos por sus edades y los acividades van a estar apropiados para sus niveles de habilidad. Clases son totalmente gratuitas.
Dos opciones para la clase:
Los miércoles 4-5:30pm
( Julio 5, Julio 12, Julio 19, Julio 26)

What's On Your Mind?
2017-07-22 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT. To ensure you have a time slot with Jones, please e-mail: email hidden; JavaScript is required

Pop Up Opera
2017-07-21 19:30 - 23:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Whitney Cleveland, Benjamin Holbrook, Toiya Lister, Andrea Tulipana, Julia Gries, Jeremiah Marcéle Sanders, Meghan Bartcsch and the Chamber Ensemble for a night of opera and fun!

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Abegunde
2017-07-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, and a Reiki Master with a focus on the recovery and healing of ancestral memory from the Earth and human body. She chooses to forget that words and days have limits. Instead, she chooses to remember – and live by – the words of a young Black woman in the 5th grade: Poetry can change the world. As a result, she spends her days and dreamtime chanting silenced memories into spoken histories. On the weekdays, when she isn’t birthing new words out of sound and images, she shapeshifts into a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center at Indiana University. Her ongoing research and subsequent creations help us understand how unresolved ancestral emotions shape the lives of descendants of the Middle Passage and the links between ancestral wounding, contemporary violence, and illness and disease. She will read from ​her work-in-progress Learning to Eat the Dead: Juba, USA, ​a meditation on visiting Juba, South Sudan, living in the United States, and poetic transparency.
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Art Workshop for ages 6+
2017-07-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Art Workshops for ages 6+
2017-07-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Art & Entrepreneurship Workshop
2017-07-11 14:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The Speak Easy, Big Car Collaborative and Central Indiana Community Foundation are set out to grant access and opportunities for collision between art and entrepreneurs! We are blending the two ways artists and entrepreneurs create. Combining the strengths of their practices, they will be able to foster problem solving and design-thinking concepts. The Art and Entrepreneurship Workshop will consist of activities that fuel exploration and ideation through art as well as presentations by Big Car CEO and lead artist, Jim Walker and SmallBox CEO and entrepreneur, Jeb Banner.
Get your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-entrepreneurship-workshop-tickets-35390882081
Workshop themes you can expect are:
Decoding complexity and ambiguity
Creative leadership
Cultivating creativity & innovation
Improving collaboration and teamwork
Values creation
Appreciative inquiry and leading change
Hosting strategic conversations
Transforming corporate culture
New product development
Capturing and visualizing tacit knowledge
Idea-generation and problem-solving
Role-playing and improving communications
*Optional cocktail hour from 5-6pm*

Portrait Making Meet-up
2017-07-08 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Adrian Matejka-Presented by UIndy's Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press
2017-07-07 20:00 - 21:00 | IN
With the lean, long jab and agile step of a boxer, Adrian Matejka delivers this knockout dramatization of the larger-than-life life of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. In dexterous interpolating voices, and in forms ranging from enveloping sonnets to prose letters and interviews, Johnson emerges as a scrappy, hard-edged hero—troubled by his own demons but determined to win the “fight of the century,” a fight that underscored the bitter realities of racism in America. These poems don’t pull no punches.
Presented by UIndy’s Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press, a student-run publisher.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) and Mixology (Penguin, 2009). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards, a National Poetry Series Award, the New York/New England Award, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University and lives in Bloomington with his wife, Stacey Lynn Brown, and their daughter.

Carlos Rolón/Dzine: 50 GRAND, LIVE Fights
2017-07-07 19:00 - 21:00 | IN
50 GRAND, LIVE Fights is a newly commissioned performative installation consisting of Golden Gloves Sanctioned live fights.The participating fighters will wear Rolón’s 50 GRAND robe. The robe is on display in the ring when the ring is not in use. The overall art exhibition, also titled 50 GRAND, is open 6-10 p.m. the same evening.
Seating is limited but fights will be streamed on YouTube Live.
Made possible by Herbert Simon Family Foundation (a Central Indiana Community Foundation affiliate), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Top Rank Boxing, and Sun King Brewing Company.

Venezuela The Melody of Beginnings-works by Mary Mindiola
2017-07-07 17:30 - 21:00 | IN
Venezuela The Melody of Beginning-works by Mary Mindiola
International Awareness for Venezuela
Asociacion de Venezolanos en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative
are hosting an art exhibition to show the work of Mary E. Mindiola, a venezuelan artist with an extraordinary talent for creating pieces of art with different techniques such small cuts of paper, and other art mediums.
About the Artist
Mary Mindiola, Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1971, as the fourth daughter of an American and Venezuelan marriage.
The Family moved to the Andes Valley city of San Cristobal, Tachira when she was two years old. Mary showed an evident talent from a very young age in drawing, sewing and crafts.To promote this talent her parents placed her in the Escuela De Artes Plasticas de San Cristobal.
After graduating from high School Mary moved to the USA and enrolled at Lansing Community College and subsequently transferred to Kendal College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids to complete her degree in BFA in Illustration.
Mary moved to Indianapolis, IN in the year 2000 in the look of broader artistic opportunities and work.
Recently Mary has displayed her work in different galleries around Indy but mostly in festivals since she also makes other crafts like sewing goods and crochet and other crafts.
Mary’s work involves the combination of recycled goods with new items as well. Her most recent artwork involves paper magazine collages in the making of custom pet portraits, landscapes, and people portraits.
Mary wants to dedicate this gallery show opportunity to her country Venezuela. By displaying her recent work she hopes to create more international awareness of the deteriorating Venezuela economic and political situation affecting the country
and the people.
“As Venezuelan abroad it is very difficult to watch my country and my people suffer so much while we appear to live a normal life on the outside, it just doesn’t feel right” Mary Mindiola

July Art Workshops for ages 6 +
2017-07-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Tube Factory Closed for 4th of July Weekend
2017-07-01 08:00 - 2017-07-04 17:00 | IN
Normal business hours resume on July 5th.

Shop Safety and Orientation II
2017-06-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation II is the second installment that will cover basic and safe use of the jointer, planer, and table saw.
This 2-hour class will act as a refresher or as an orientation to our specific equipment models. Limited hands-on practice will accompany the demonstrations.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation I.
*If you are new to the table saw, jointer, and planer, please take Woodworking I which will cover these machines more in depth and include more hands-on practice.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$75
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Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-06-22 18:00 - 21:00 | IN
Woodworking I is an introduction to dimensioning wood- how to take rough sawn lumber and turn them into usable boards.
This 3-hour class will include demonstrations and discussion on wood selection, local suppliers, as well as limited hands-on practice with sample material at the end of the class.
Afew things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation Part I.
*Woodworking I covers these machines more in depth and includes more hands-on practice than Shop Safety and Orientation II. If you are totally new to the table saw, and jointer, this class is for you.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*$75
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The Haiga Duo with Eric Salazar at Listen Hear
2017-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
ERIC HOLLANDER is a multidisciplinary artist in search of mind-opening concepts and better methods for the globalization of original ideas. With extensive exposure in classical viola repertoire (especially focused on 20th and 21st century performance practice), traditional Irish and Celtic music, big band jazz, ska, funk, and free improvisation, Eric has found his way into a wide variety of ensemble, composer-collaborative, and creatively driven experiences. Most notably, he has participated in the Midwest Fleadh Chiol (1st place), the Massachusetts 2014 ASTA competition (2nd place), The Bowdoin International Music Festival, Gamper New Music Festival, and The Lucerne Festival Academy. Besides his musical adventures, Eric is deeply involved in poetry writing and works as the editor-in-chief of Crook & Folly literary magazine. Eric received his BM in viola performance from the Boston Conservatory in 2014 and an MA in writing and publishing from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois in 2015. Recently, Eric has been working extensively with keyboard artist, Jason Chen – whose positive collaboration, enthusiasm, and psychological tolerance he considers to be absolutely unparalleled.
Since his move to Chicago in summer 2015, JASON CHEN has been present primarily as a recent graduate in piano performance from a neighboring university and a freelance accompanist to the performance circle – despite his occasional reluctance. A peculiar tendency to indulge in any activity that would potentially prevent him from practicing the piano has recently brought him to the unexplored territory of playing other types of keyboard instruments, specifically the accordion and melodica. Jason works extensively with Eric Hollander, whom he considers one of the most politically incorrect, lucid and sincere violists and chamber music partners he has known thus far.

The Fantastic World of Fiber
2017-06-17 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The Fantastic World of Fiber is our first ever fiber art event at Tube Factory! There will be a fiber informational demonstration by one of our interns, Anna Hopkins. She will share the various ways to process wool and is bringing in her friendly (and fluffy!) sheep to play with!

The weaving demonstration will be conducted by our Program and Development Coordinator/Local Weavestress, Alexis Davenport. Alexis has 3 years of weaving experience and is an advocate for its meditative properties. She will be providing several smaller looms for guests to practice with and a small variety of yarn will be available for use — feel free to bring your own yarn and supplies (if you have it!) to use and share! Remember to bring your creativity and lots of patience!

This will be a fun event for kids and adults of all ages.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Sue Swartz
2017-06-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. June’s featured poet is Sue Swartz.
Swartz is community organizer by training, born and bred in New York, and now lives happily in Bloomington, Indiana.
“Words. I’ve got a million of them. Some have been published by Ben Yehuda Press in We Who Desire. The poems in this volume use the text of the Torah (aka the 5 Books of Moses) as a starting point to explore themes of belief, covenant, liberation, choice, and yes — desire.
If you want a taste of what I have to say… here tis (below). I’m available for readings as well as teaching both adults & kids about the process of midrash/commentary-making.”

ON THE EIGHTH DAY
Aaron’s sons Nadav & Avihu offered before God strange fire
that had not been commanded—

On the eighth day, Alessandro Volta
put metal coins on his tongue
and prophesied sulfurous electricity.
On the eighth day, Leucippus
considered the true nature of the void,
Teller the true capacity of the sun.
Curie was entranced by radium,
and Maxwell by luminous radiations.
On the eighth day, there were isotopes,
cloud chambers, alpha rays.
Life was vaporized in a simple test
of hydrogen. On that day outside
planned creation, God peered
into the universe and was afraid for us—
Noisy children snapping berries
off a poisonous bush, racing
down the street with pointy twigs—

Didn’t I tell you to knock that off?

And burned to the nub two sons of priestly
inheritance. Before the whole assembly
were they offered up, a soothing savor.
Object lesson: this may you burn
in your copper pan, of this sinew and thigh
may you eat. But this intoxicating notion,
this 4-legged swarming-thing—
It is polluted meat. Strange fire.

Your blowtorch future.
–Sue Swartz

Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Outdoor Movie Series-Raging Bull
2017-06-10 21:00 - 23:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us in an outdoor screening and discussion of Raging Bull and how it relates to our Carlos Rolón/Dzine:50 GRAND exhibit.
“It’s the movie that won Robert De Niro his Oscar for Best Actor. It’s the movie that earned Martin Scorsese his first nomination for Best Director. It’s the movie where the guy who would later play Coach on Cheers sees a handsome boxer get mutilated and says, “He ain’t pretty no more.” It’s Raging Bull, it came out 37 years ago this year, and it will punch you in the face. Here are 5 facts to enhance your next viewing of one of the best sports dramas ever made.
1. IT PARTIALLY OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO ROCKY.
Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected. Rocky was produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, and released by United Artists. When those same producers approached that same studio about doing another boxing movie, the studio said, “A sequel to Rocky? Sure!” That wasn’t what they had in mind (though they did soon enough), but in the meantime, Rocky’s huge success was enough to sell UA on another boxing movie.
2. IT WAS ONE OF SEVERAL BOXING MOVIES BEING SHOT AROUND THE SAME TIME.
Rocky started a trend, as movies that win Best Picture often do. In late 1978 and early 1979, when Scorsese was getting started on Raging Bull, there were at least four others in the works: Rocky II, The Main Event, The Champ, and Matilda (the boxing kangaroo). This glut actually helped Scorsese convince United Artists to let him shoot Raging Bull in black-and-white, as it would make his boxing movie stand out visually from the others. Hey, whatever works, right?
3. FOR RESEARCH, SCREENWRITER MARDIK MARTIN LIVED WITH JAKE LAMOTTA’S EX-WIFE FOR A FEW DAYS.
“Lived with” is how he phrased it on the 30th anniversary Blu-ray. Vickie LaMotta was open enough to the idea of a movie about her ex-husband that she let Martin visit her in Florida and pick her brain about her relationship with the volatile pugilist.
4. DE NIRO WANTED TO DO IT AS A PLAY, TOO.
This was in early 1978, before it was even written as a movie yet, when De Niro was collaborating with Mardik Martin to adapt LaMotta’s memoir, while simultaneously trying to convince a noncommittal and increasingly drug-addled Scorsese to take on the project. De Niro’s idea was to stage it as a Broadway play (to be directed by Scorsese), and then, during the run of the show, spend the daylight hours shooting the movie. De Niro liked the idea of the day’s filming influencing the way they performed the play that night. But Martin’s script wasn’t yet ready for either medium, and Scorsese was in no shape to do it then anyway.
5. PAUL SCHRADER FIXED THE SCREENPLAY BY ADDING JAKE LAMOTTA’S BROTHER, JOEY.
It’s strange to imagine Raging Bull without the Joe Pesci character, but that’s how Mardik Martin’s first drafts had it. He was adapting LaMotta’s 1970 memoir, Raging Bull: My Story, co-authored by LaMotta’s lifelong friend Peter Savage (born Peter Petrella). The book didn’t feature Joey as a prominent character, and it had Savage doing most of the things that Joey would eventually do in the movie. When Schrader was hired to build on the work Martin had done and take another stab at the screenplay, he decided the story would be more compelling if it involved brothers rather than friends (blood ties and all that), so he introduced the Joey character and excised poor old Pete. This creative license proved problematic later, when Joey LaMotta sued for defamation because the movie had attributed to him a number of unwholesome deeds (like beating the crap out of a neighborhood mobster) that had actually been perpetrated by Savage. “– Eric D Snider via Mental Floss
Due to violence and language this film is probably best for mature 13-14+.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-06-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.
A few things to note:
*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$25
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Lemi Vice "Rouge" - Listening Party
2017-06-07 08:00 - 22:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Lemi Vice presents Rogue, his first full length project featuring Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, John Stamps, Action Jackson, Cool Hand Lex, Bangs Nicely, Rambo Hustle, Grxzz, Tony Q-Sick, & SAS
✓ Hear the album in its entirety before it drops on June 13th
✓ Free Giveaways from Rad Summer and Dead Generation
soundcloud.com/lemivice
radsummer.com

Art Workshops with Inocente ages 8+
2017-06-03 11:00 - 15:00 | IN
Register your child for art workshop sessions with Inocente Izucar! Children will learn to paint with the expressive style that Inocente lends to all her work, and will take home their creations. There will be two different sessions, 11am-12:30pm and 1-2:30pm. Cost is $5 per child, and there is a cap of 30 children per class, so enroll today! Email email hidden; JavaScript is required with questions or click https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kids-art-workshop-with-inocente-tickets-34639090452 to enroll your child.
About the artist:
Inocente is a San Diego artist and activist, visiting Indianapolis June 1-3, 2017. As a young child Inocente and her family immigrated to the US from Mexico. After her father’s arrest and deportation for domestic violence, most of Inocente’s childhood was spent moving from one homeless shelter to the next. When she was 12 years old Inocente discovered the power of art, and since then she has been able to use the arts as a vehicle to rise above many great life challenges. Despite her sometimes bleak surroundings, her brightly colored art represents a world of survival, love and hope. Her story is the subject of the Oscar-winning film “INOCENTE”, which depicts her life and art at age 15. Inocente now supports herself as a professional artist and motivational speaker, while also working as an after-school art teacher. For more information on Inocente please visitoriginalinocenteart.com.
Made possible by the Central Indiana Alliance Against Hate and the The Clowes Fund Inc. Held in partnership with Heartland Film, who screened the Oscar winning documentary, Inocente, in 2016, CHIP Indianapolis andImmigrant Welcome Center.
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