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Walking Wednesday-Instagram Meetup with Lauren Ditchley
2018-10-03 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
#WalkingWednesday Insta meetup with local artist Lauren Ditchley is a chance for you to hone your phone photography skills and capture Indianapolis in a new light. This week’s themed walk explores the fundamentals of photography in a digital age. Use our hashtag #walkingwednesdays to be a part of a group collage and see our city through a new lens.
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET on the East Plaza of City Market. We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Walks are free but bring some money if you’d like to stop for a snack or drink in the middle.
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.
About Ditchley
Lauren Ditchley is a mother, artist, teacher, placemaker, and Indianapolis native. She explores the meaning behind our human connection to place and things through conversation, written word, drawn images, and photographic media. Ditchley completed her Masters in Social Practice Art at the University of Indianapolis as part of the first cohort. As a result of the program incorporating collaborative practices in teaching, making, and experiencing art have become part of her creative process.

Sew, WHAT?
2018-10-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2018-09-24 17:00 - 18:30, 2018-09-17 17:00 - 18:30, 2018-09-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
A free sewing program at City Market! Bring your items that need repair or mending, learn how to do it yourself, and receive a free dewing kit. Get creative and learn how to make your own designs and easy-sew garments, too!
“Sew, WHAT?” is a project of local costume designer and artist, Katy Newton. Join us every Monday night from September 10 to October 1, 5-7pm on the East Plaza of Indianapolis City Market for free, friendly sewing guidance. If it rains, head indoors to the upper mezzanine of City Market.
This reoccurring event is for all ages and all skill levels.
Brought to you by Big Car Collaborative, Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.

Sunken Beer Gardens
2018-09-27 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-09-20 18:00 - 20:30, 2018-09-13 18:00 - 21:30, 2018-08-30 18:00 - 21:30 | Garfield Park Sunken Gardens, 2505 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
Celebrate one of our city’s most beautiful gardens and public places every Thursday evening. Play some games, relax, get creative, and socialize at this family friendly place while taking in the sunset and fountains. And enjoy local craft beer. In partnership with Indianapolis Parks Foundation and Indy Parks and Recreation. And we’re excited to team up, as well, with Friends of Garfield Park, Inc. and multiple local breweries including Sun King Brewing Company, Centerpoint Brewing, Upland Brewing Company, Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis and our neighborhood’s own Garfield Brewery. Part of Big Car’s Spark Placemaking program with promotional support from 99.1 WQRT FM.
Kids and dogs are allowed. You can bring in a picnic. Food trucks will be on hand most nights. All ages. Beer is for 21-plus only and must be purchased. Otherwise free to attend. Some seating available, including hammocks. You can bring your own blanket or lawn chair. The Conservatory will be open to visitors with restrooms at no charge. Art activities, projects, and low-key performances will vary each week. You can always decorate and write your own special sunken garden postcards that we’ll mail for you for free.

KnitNights
2018-09-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2018-09-20 17:00 - 18:00, 2018-09-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The Immigrant Yarn Project
KNITNIGHTS at The Tube Factory
EVERY THURSDAY | 5-6pm
Free admission—all ages and skill levels
Would you like to be part of a nation-wide community art project?
If so, every Thursday evening, 5-6 pm, the Tube Factory is the place for you!
The Immigrant Yarn Project is the nation’s largest yarn-based work of public art, and it’s dedicated to our rich, immigrant history. Based in San Francisco, The Immigrant Yarn Project will be exhibited first at Fort Point Historical Site, Spring 2019, and then go on the
road in a traveling exhibition around the United States.
“Hundreds of artist / knitter / activists from around the country are
collaborating in a single, magnificent gesture of unity, solidarity, and yarn-based creativity in a celebration of our nation’s glorious diversity. The Immigrant Yarn Project…represents a cross section of the American experience. We think it’s time to rise above division and come together to celebrate what we all have in common – citizenry in a nation composed of diverse backgrounds, families, politics, faiths, identities and ideas.”
—Cindy Weil, Founder of Enactivist, the San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) responsible for organizing The Immigrant Yarn Project
YARN DONATIONS WELCOME
Contact Mary Jo Bayliss at email hidden; JavaScript is required
For more information about The Immigrant Yarn Project and it’s
founding organization, Enactivist, go to https://enactivist.org/

Art21-Berlin
2018-09-26 18:15 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Berlin has become a haven for artists from all over the world—a free zone where experimentation, individual expression, and international influences converge. From creating large-scale public projects to intimately personal ones, the artists in this hour demonstrate the diversity of practice and sensibilities in the German capital. The “Berlin” episode features Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, Hiwa K, and Susan Philipsz.
Part of Art21’s new series ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century.” The new season, beginning September 21, will spotlights artists’ relationships with place, and will feature 12 artists as well as, for the first time, a nonprofit art center.
About Art21
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
Art21 provides unparalleled access to the artist’s voice to diverse audiences around the world, using the power of digital media to introduce millions of people to contemporary art and artists. For nearly two decades, Art21 has changed the paradigm for teaching and learning about the creative process.
In addition to its Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast television series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Art21 produces the digital film series New York Close Up and Extended Play; and special artist projects including the Peabody Award-winning feature William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Art21 also creates educational resources and professional development programs; an online publication featuring guest contributors; and a comprehensive website at Art21.org. Art21 also produces a number of public programs annually that connect audiences to artists and the artistic process.
Photo: Work by Robin Rhode in Johannesburg. Courtesy of Art21

Lockerbie Night Market + Sun King Beer Garden
2018-09-26 18:00 - 22:00 | IN
In partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemakingand Big Car Collaborative are back for another year to host three Night Markets at Lockerbie!
Thanks to our friends at Sun King Brewing Company, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street.
Join us for an evening downtown, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts, music, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors or relax and take in live music.
Vendors, food trucks, and musical acts will be announced closer to each date. All ages // Free and open to the public.
*All vendor spots are currently filled. If you have questions, please contact email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-09-26 18:00 - 22:00, 2018-08-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring 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.

The Dojo
2018-09-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The DOJO is a monthly Hip-Hop showcase that highlights the art of REAL MCing. The DOJO honors tradition and provides a platform to strengthen the local HIP-HOP. Catch this spectacular event on the third Friday of every month at Listen Hear

Walking Wednesday-German American Landmarks w/ Bill Selm
2018-09-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET on the East Plaza of City Market. The tour will end at the Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan Street. We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Walks are free but bring some money if you’d like to stop for a snack or drink in the middle.
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.
About Selm
Bill Selm is an Indianapolis-based architectural historian and fifth-generation German-American. Selm is an instructor at IUPUI and former historian for the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission. For the historic district surrounding Monument Circle, he prepared the nomination that resulted in its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In the early 1990s, Selm was a key figure in the crusade to save the Athenaeum, which by then had declined dramatically. Selm continues to teach, explore, and advocate for historic places and preservation.

Data Void Video Premier/Clothing release
2018-09-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Data Void Premiers their first skate team video along with a new clothing line performances by Nagasaki Dirt, Old World, and The WIKI.

WQRT DJ TRAINING
2018-09-14 09:00 - 16:00 | IN
A private one day DJ Workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones. This will be the first of many workshops offered to the public, You will have a chance to step into the booth with Oreo as he answers any questions about studio equipment, how to go live #ontheactualair and you will record a station ID!

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Teacher Story Slam
2018-09-13 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Listen to true stories from Indy area educators told live at this free event at the Tube Factory Artspace! Indianapolis’ sixth Teacher Story Slam kicks of the school year with hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales from Hoosier teachers.
Co-sponsored by Big Car Collaborative, Chalkbeat Indiana, and Teachers Lounge Indy.

KnightNights
2018-09-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Walking Wednesday-Public Art with Julia Muney Moore
2018-09-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
Public art is everywhere, but sometimes we miss it when we are in a hurry or are quickly driving by. Take time to relax and enjoy our city’s public art in this themed walk led by Julia Muney Moore of the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
MEET on the East Plaza of City Market. We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Walks are free but bring some money if you’d like to stop for a snack or drink in the middle.
Free and open to the public // All ages
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.
About Julia Muney Moore
Moore is an arts administrator, curator, educator, and art historian. She has curated, selected, and managed public art projects since 2000. Driven by a belief that public art should both inspire and reflect its community, Julia’s favorite projects are those that challenge traditional approaches to bring a mixture of surprise, thoughtfulness and joy into public space.
At the Arts Council, Julia oversees community and civic public art projects, public art master planning, and ongoing programming to improve artists’ capacity to create public art. She is currently developing a new Public Art for Neighborhoods program with the City of Indianapolis, integrating both grant funding for neighborhood organizations and percent-for-art-style installations in private development.
Prior to her work at the Arts Council, she served as the Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services at the Indianapolis Art Center, curating over 250 gallery and public projects in 14 years. As the Public Art Administrator for Blackburn Architects, Inc., she oversaw the selection, fabrication and installation of public art in new construction; key projects included developing multi-million-dollar public art programs for Indianapolis International Airport and Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, and planning public art for cultural districts and other civic initiatives. Julia has also taught art history and art appreciation at colleges and universities in Central Indiana. She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, in addition to a M.B.A. from Ball State University.

Breakout: Voices From The Inside
2018-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Every year PEN America sets aside an evening to celebrate and recognize excellence in writing from people in prison. This year’s program, “Break Out: Voices from the Inside,” commemorates the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising and PEN’s Prison Writing Program, which was founded in its aftermath and now reaches more than 20,000 incarcerated writers annually.
As part of PEN America’s national outreach initiative, PEN Across America, the Indiana Writers Center has invited local writers to read writing by people incarcerated in the Indiana prison system, and writing by winners of the PEN America Writing Contest on Monday, September 10 at 7:00 pm. The free reading will be held at Tube Factory. Please join us in honoring the struggle for free expression in prison and the importance of writing as an act of creative resistance and triumph.
Guest Readers include:
Debra, Des Vignes, Devon Ginn, Angela Jackson-Brown, J.L. Kato, Karen Kovacik, Michael McColly, Rachel Sahaidachny, Barbara Shoup, Celeste Williams

Flava Fresh
2018-09-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Annual juried exhibition contemporary art with over 50 participating Artists curated by D. Del Reverda-Jennings. At Tube Efroymson Gallery, 6-10 pm

Four, an exhibition
2018-09-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Four is an exhibition of eclectic mediums of Kevin Hofmiester, Kayla Pappas, Sean Smith, and Jeremy E. Tubbs

Walking Wednesday-Market East Neighborhoods with Marjorie Kienle
2018-09-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Explore one of Indianapolis’ oldest neighborhoods and Downtown’s first historic district in the National Register of Historic Places with heritage steward Marjorie Kienle of Historic Urban Neighborhoods of Indianapolis (HUNI).
This is walking tour to learn how Market East: the Lockerbie Square, Mass Ave and Cole Noble neighborhoods rose from urban decay to the inviting places to live, work and play that they are today. Beginning at Lockerbie Marketplace, 333 N. Alabama and ending at the City Market, 222 E Market Street, participants learn how these neighborhoods changed from 1970s to what’s happening today.
Free and open to the public // All ages
MEET at Lockerbie Marketplace (the green space next to Needler’s Fresh Market). We don’t walk if the weather is terrible. Walks are free but bring some money if you’d like to stop for a snack or drink in the middle.
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.
About Kienle
Marjorie Kienle is a heritage steward and preservationist that has been living in Lockerbie Square since 1975. Growing up in a small historic neighborhood of Westerville, Ohio, Kienle became interested in historic preservation at a very young age. While living in several historic districts around the country, Kienle learned about restoration, its history, and found her place in the home restoration movement. After moving to Lockerbie, Kienle served as President of the Lockerbie Square Peoples Club, President of HUNI, and continues her advocacy efforts in both organizations as well as the Rethink 65/70 Coalition.

Red Line Block Party
2018-09-01 15:00 - 18:00 | LLDM, 2842 Shelby St., IN, 46203, United States
Join Big Car Collaborative and LLDM Indianapolis, IN for another Red Line engagement event! As a part of a project to increase awareness about the new rapid transit system coming to Indianapolis, Big Car and LLDM are teaming up to bring you a Saturday celebration!
In addition to LLDM’s family-friendly activities and food, Big Car will bring out the Wagon of Wonders and other interactive art projects to encourage dialogue and discussion around the Red Line. Stop by, experience food + music, and visit the Wagon of Wonders!
This event will be a way for Big Car staff to engage with South Indy residents and gain useful feedback on our Red Line Public Art Project.
Made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis in partnership with Transit Drives Indy (TDI).

Walking Wednesday-Indianapolis Oddities with Kipp Normand
2018-08-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Indianapolis City Market, 222 E Market St, Indianapolis
Believe it or not, Indy is full of oddities. Explore what’s weird with artist Kipp Normand on this themed walk.
Free and open to the public // All ages
Brought to you by Spark Placemaking and Indianapolis City Market with support from Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces through the Heart of the Community program.
About Normand
Normand has no formal training in art. His grandfather taught him to paint, and his father taught him to build things. Normand is a scavenger and an obsessive collector, searching streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings looking for clues to explain the mystery of our world. He finds stories in discarded things: stories about himself and stories about all of us; our cities and our shared history. He first began making assemblage, shadow boxes and collage images as a way to justify his relentless collecting. They soon became much more. They are Normand’s way to dig deep into the vast museum of this world and share his finds with anyone who cares to look. He works out of his studio at The Harrison Center for the Arts.

Yoga at Lockerbie
2018-08-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us every Tuesday evening in August for FREE YOGA at Lockerbie Marketplace provided by The Hot Room Downtown! Step away from the hustle and bustle of Indianapolis for a relaxing experience in one of the city’s hidden green spaces. Take a moment to find your calm with instructor Joel Wayman and continue your week feeling relaxed and refreshed.
About Wayman
I have been in a relationship with fitness for over ten years. I am always finding ways to stay flexible, lean, strong and in the end transform my body to be healthier and my mind to become happier. My love for yoga started young with my mom, who learned from her mom, showing us children how to do stretches she used before the start of her days. It was not until 2016 that I started practicing yoga consistently. I was introduced to hot yoga by my best friend and cousin Bria. We decided on taking Bikram yoga class at The Hot Room. It felt incredible and my body and mind were feeling things I’d never felt before. I immediately signed up and started coming regularly as much as I could. It was transformative. I continued with my practice daily and tried not just Bikram, but Vinyasa and Pilates as well. I found it to be incredibly important to practice as many different styles as I could and found my body to start changing and my mind to start healing.
Within 6 months of practicing I became an instructor at The Hot Room by going through an Inferno Hot Pilates training in Chicago. Two months later I started my 200 RYT at The Hot Room.
I love teaching Inferno Hot Pilates because it’s like a workout party. Results are also noticeable within a short period of time as long as you commit to the practice.
I love teaching Hot Power Vinyasa because the continuous flow of the class connects you to your breath and movements at the same time. As a dancer it makes it feel like doing a beautiful choreographed dance and my heart creates that connection with my mind and body.
As long as you’re doing the work you will create strength and find healing. Every style is different and every teacher brings something different to the table and I am honored to be apart of the team at The Hot Room.
This program is brought to you by Spark Placemaking and The Hot Room Downtown in partnership with Citimark, Gershman Partners, and Big Car Collaborative.
