NIGHTJAR: Bryce Berkowitz
2025-10-15 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open mic prompt: Write a poem that engages with your new or old life in a specific place.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Berkowitz:
Bryce Berkowitz’s TV pilot, Meaderville, won the AMC TV Pilot Award from the Austin Film Festival. He’s the author of the poetry collection Bermuda Ferris Wheel, winner of the 42 Miles Press | Indiana University Poetry Award. His poems have been selected for national and regional anthologies, and his writing has appeared in publications such as The Sewanee Review, The Missouri Review, the Chicago Sun Times, Ninth Letter, and the Southern Indiana Review. Bryce is at work on two dark-comedy crime novels, several TV pilots and feature-length screenplays, and a second poetry collection. He co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Butler University.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2025-10-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
If you love sketching and are looking for community, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂

Gabriel Martinez sound performance
2025-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Find out what it sounds like if the walls do indeed talk through Houston based artist Martinez’s experiments with the surrounding environment at Tube Factory a through a sound performance.
Born near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert, Gabriel Martinez is an artist, writer, and performer living and working in Houston. He is the founding director of Alabama Song, an experimental sound and art space for which he received the Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. His art explores relationships produced by the built environment and the body’s experience of history. He graduated with an M.F.A. from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses.
Martinez’s work has been exhibited at various institutions and galleries including the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston TX, Artpace San Antonio, and the Wallach Gallery in New York City. He has performed at institutions such as Artist’s Space, Menil Collection, the Chinati Foundation, and the Moody Center for the Arts. In addition to his extensive visual and performing background, Martinez has received several grants, fellowships, and artist residencies. He was a 2022 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.

Nov. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
2025-11-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Nov. 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus!
We have two new exhibits opening:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

Continuing exhibits include:

Tarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery

And, RMY’S Soul/Comfort food truck will be on-site.
As always, enjoy coffee, beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-18 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Main Gallery
Imagine you are stepping into a bubble, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact with or move around these objects that symbolize yourself?
Amy Kligman’s series of 23 paintings glimpses an inner world, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround us. Arranged in a deliberate, symmetrical way, these objects represent who we are.
“I love objects and environments that carry the history of the people that have shared space and time with them. I think about lineage — the patina of the world handed from generation to generation, and what it means to try to make something of the world as we receive it from others,” says Kligman, who lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. “Generations of women, generations of artists, generations of family. In my paintings I pull together elements from these histories to suggest a kind of ‘bubble world’ where those disparate pieces come together in a place of hope, reverence, acknowledgment, or sometimes a sort of aspiration for a future where the efforts of the past inform progress.”
Throughout the history of art, depictions of the table and its contents have been used as a storytelling device to convey skillfully coded meaning and sociocultural significance to the viewer. Taking the genre of still lifes as its entry point, this exhibition expands upon art historical precedents to think about the table (or toolcart) not only as a site and signifier of power, position, and social status but also as a shrine.
Kligman’s series also gives form to Virginia Woolf’s idea of a “luminous halo” — a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end. Kligman’s works act like a book focusing on how we remember and what we think we know.
“In the assembling of objects I’m often pulling together references and symbols as an invitation to a specific state of being or meditation or reflection. By creating these spaces and inviting others into them, I’m inviting them into these states of reflection as well, though folks are not meant to understand all the symbols and the visual language in a didactic way. I believe intention has its own halo, echoing out into the universe, subtly encouraging movement.”

About the artist
Amy Kligman is a painter and installation artist whose work is mostly about people, even when it takes the form of rooms full of layered, disposable party goods. Kligman holds her BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design. At the end of 2024, after nine years in the role, she stepped down as executive director at Charlotte Street Foundation to create her own opportunities by identifying gaps in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. She launched Special Effects gallery to make local artists more nationally visible. In March of 2025 she opened Salon for Possible Futures, an artwork that doubles as a community gathering space on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally her work was featured in New American Paintings and she received the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award, ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Art in the Loop Public Art Commission, residency at the Luminary in St. Louis, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission, and the Byron C. Cohen Artist Award.

Ilana Harris-Babou: Selected Works
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-25 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Nov. 7, 2025 – Jan. 25, 2026 | Video Gallery
​​Red Sourcebook, 2018, 4:12 minutes, color, stereo, HD video
Cooking with the Erotic, 2016, 11:37 minutes, color, stereo, 2-channel, HD video
Finishing a Raw Basement, 2017, 6:41 minutes , color, stereo, HD video
Reparation Hardware, 2018, 4:05 minutes, color, stereo, HD video
Ilana Harris-Babou is a multimedia artist whose video works are an important component of a practice that includes sculpture and object making, performance, and installation. In her projects, Harris-Babou mines the aesthetics of YouTube tutorials, home improvement and cooking shows, and corporate ad campaigns to call attention to how personal and social identities are constructed—and co-opted—by dominant ideologies.
Harris-Babou unsettles the anodyne tone of these vehicles with wit and creative whimsy, utilizing and re-contextualizing mainstream media forms to make explicit the forces that are elided by slick production strategies: social stratification; legacies of structured oppression; and the homogenizing push of consumerism. Fit within a history of artists using satire and mimicry to critique media and communication platforms, Harris-Babou’s videos, many of which feature her own mother, also draw from her personal experience and lexicon of references to infuse her humor with deeply resonant meaning.
Harris-Babou has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY (2023); The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (2023); Artspace New Haven (2022); Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2021); Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2017). In spring 2023, the artist installed Liquid Gold in Times Square for the Midnight Moment series. Harris-Babou has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2019), and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023); California College of the Arts Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA (2021); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2021); and Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2020). She lives and works in Brooklyn and Middletown, CT.
Made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Screen still from “Decision Fatigue.”

CANCELLED: Sunia Won Gibbs: What About Love Tour
2025-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This event has been cancelled.

Join artist and storyteller Sunia Won Gibbs for “What About Love: A Resonance Experience,” an evening that transcends a traditional concert.
Sunia knows the profound ache of being caught between origins and belonging. Abandoned in South Korea and adopted internationally, she has spent a lifetime asking, “What About Love?”—a question she has been writing songs to answer since she was 12. Her music builds from a struggle to name a Love that is boundless, not conditional.
In this resonant experience, Sunia invites you into a space where love and connection become lived experiences, not just ideas. Through a powerful blend of original song, raw storytelling, and shared presence, she gathers the scattered, wandering, and wondering to explore one central question: In a world frayed by fear, can Love be more than a passive hope? Can it be embodied and practiced?
This event is our collective laboratory to find out. You can expect an immersive journey that bridges divides, offering a taste of the healing power that emerges when we choose to amplify the sound of love within ourselves and one another.
Presented by Big Car Collaborative and Hoosier Asian American Power (HAAP).

NIGHTJAR: Karen Kovacik
2025-11-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open mic prompt: Write a poem that explores what you’ve inherited, whether from your culture, history, religion, family, or other context.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Kovacik:
Karen Kovacik is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Portable City (Hanging Loose, 2025). Also a translator of Polish poetry, she has brought into English Jacek Dehnel’s Aperture, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and she is one of three translators of Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline, a finalist for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize. The editor of Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets, she has received many awards, including two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. From 2012-2014, she served as Indiana’s Poet Laureate.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Double Album Release Celebration: Ciaaattt and Rob Funkhouser
2025-11-22 16:00 - 19:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Rob Funkhouser and members of Gamelan Mojomanis in celebrating the release of two records: Gamut Ria by Ciaaattt and Respiratory Cycle by Rob Funkhouser.
Ciaaattt is a regular collaborator with Indianapolis’ Gamelan Mojomanis, and first appeared at Big Car during the gamelan’s performance at the 2024 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series. He is currently visiting from Bali and will perform his groundbreaking vocal interpretations of gamelan tunes past and present.
Rob Funkhouser is a resident in Big Car’s long-term artist residency program, and is putting out his first proper album in several years. Respiratory Cycle is a celebration of turning inward and outward in turn, and finding music both in solitude and in collaboration. Funkhouser will perform pieces from Respiratory Cycle featuring instruments he built during his residency.
In addition to performances from Ciaaattt and Funkhouser, there will be performances featuring Landon Caldwell, and members of Gamelan Mojomanis under the name Mojoalit (Little Mojo).
The event will open with a short interactive workshop on Balinese drumming led by Ciaaattt and members of Gamelan Mojomanis.
Admission is free and donations will be accepted at the door. Copies of the albums will be available for purchase.

December 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
2025-12-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Dec. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus!
Continuing exhibits include:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

As always, enjoy coffee, beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

NIGHTJAR: All Open Mic
2025-12-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open Mic Prompt: Bring your best haiku.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

January 2026 First Friday at Tube Factory on the the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Campus
2026-01-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Jan. 2 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus!
Continuing exhibits in the Tube Factory building include:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

Of note, January is the last month to see Shrines of the Luminous Halo and Harris-Babou’s selected works!
And, come check out our CAMi expansion!
As always, enjoy coffee, Sun King beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

NIGHTJAR: Kristine Esser Slentz
2026-01-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Featured Poet: Kristine Esser Slentz
Open mic prompt: Write a poem on how technology affects a close relationship.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About the Featured Poet:
Kristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman, depose (FlowerSong Press, 2021, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House, 2026). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saturday Evening Post, TriQuarterly, Five Points, TEDx, and elsewhere. Kristine is the co-founder, organizer, and host of Adverse Abstraction, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision, a stage production currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s Dada and headed for an upcoming run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday (this month is an exception, as it’s on the second Wednesday), C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Storefronts & Studios Open House
2026-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist, designer, or creative entrepreneur looking for a community where you can make, share, and grow your work? The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is now accepting applications for studio and storefront spaces in our new building opening May 2026 on Indianapolis’s near south side.
To help prospective applicants learn more, we’re hosting an open house where you can tour the spaces, ask questions, and explore what it means to be part of the CAMi campus.
Open House Details:
Saturday, Jan. 24
1–3 p.m.
Starting location: Tube building (1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN 46203)
Staff will be available to provide direction, share information about available spaces, and answer questions about the application and selection process.

Pavlina Vagioni: Cost Basis
2026-02-06 08:00 - 2026-03-18 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Tube Main + Video galleries | Friday, Feb. 6 – Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Curated by Audra Verona Lambert
“The commodity is… materialized illusion” — Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
We live in the shadow of AI’s ascendancy, with the rapid-fire pace of search engine algorithms increasing exponentially by the day. In Cost Basis, curated by Audra Verona Lambert, visitors encounter an installation that poses a critical question: in a period of unprecedented technological ascendancy, how can values be ascribed in a manner calculable by the human mind?
Visitors to the exhibit navigate a shadowy matrix: an inscrutable environment as murky as the matrices dictating social media algorithms and high-volume stock trades. Continuing forward, one navigates a semi-permeable, wraith-like maze where scattered light and cryptic sound and movement collide. The space appears nebulous, but unfolds according to a fixed pathway that demands action but restricts choice. A central feature within the exhibition space calls into question our system of values, forcing visitors to reflect on how we can remain unbiased in a world that is continually scaffolded around our individual interests by forces that financially benefit from subtle technological manipulations. A sound installation permeating the space turns stock trading data taken during the February–March period of the 2008 recession into a musical score, sung by Vagioni, reversing the algorithmic pipeline from that of creator content dispersed via murky metrics to metrics being captured and translated into creative output. The accompanying theater component to this exhibition plays with the tension between creativity and metrics, asking how we can subvert data in late-stage capitalism into artistic output.
Cost Basis at its core critiques the volatility of contemporary wealth. The installation’s multisensory environment evokes the ways in which market forces rapidly shift the value of commodities and capital: the same products that are sold via social media marketing metrics ruled by the all-powerful FYP. Through the concept of cost basis—typically applied to financial instruments but also relevant to life insurance policies, which can be borrowed against by policyholders—the exhibit underscores the unsettling reality that technologies are progressively being utilized to assess the value of human lives relative to market forces without input from actual people. The aleatory methodology of these financial systems recalls the ancient Greek satirical comedy Plutus by Aristophanes, in which volatile wealth redistribution incites the ire of both gods and the elite. Today, the Olympian gods of Aristophanes’ play are replaced by corporate boards and politicians who preserve cycles of inequality under the guise of merit and innovation: access to insider knowledge becomes the modern divine right. How can ethical considerations exist in a world where decisions are being made at speeds beyond the threshold of human competency?

About the Curator:
Audra Verona Lambert is the Curator of the University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, IN. Previously based in Louisiana and New York, she has curated exhibits at the American Scandinavian Society, Fountain House Gallery, Yeshiva University Museum, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and more. She was Director, Amos Eno Gallery from 2020–22, and has worked on projects for Art in Odd Places (NY), More Art (NY), Pro Arts Jersey City (NJ), and more. She co-founded the community-driven initiative alt_break art fair, dedicated to elevating mission-driven organizations (2016–20), and is curating an exhibition for Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College art gallery in March 2026. Lambert holds an MA in Art History & Visual Culture (Lindenwood University, MO) and a BA in Art History (Saint Peter’s University, NJ), with study abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata City, Japan.

About the Artist:
Pavlina Vagioni is a Greek-born interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, TX, whose work spans sculpture, painting, sound, and digital art. She has exhibited at notable venues across the US and Europe, including the Byzantine Museum, Hellenic American Union, Kappatos Gallery (Athens), TANK Space, Lawndale Art Center (Houston), Carillon Gallery (Fort Worth), and Opening Gallery (New York). Vagioni completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts and created a public art project at Houston’s ION Building. Her work is recognized internationally and held in multiple private and public collections, including the MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece).

February 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
2026-02-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) (formerly known as Tube Factory) campus on Feb. 6 from 6-10 p.m. for First Friday!
We have two new exhibits opening:

Pavlina Vagioni’s Cost Basis in the Tube Main and Video galleries
Stephanie Williams’ Common Matter in the Guichelaar house gallery

Artists and small businesses are welcome to join guided tours of our expansion to explore the storefronts and studios. (Applications for the spaces are due on Friday, Feb. 13 and can be submitted at camindy.org/opportunities.)
Also enjoy Sun King beer, wine, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Stephanie Williams: Common Matter
2026-02-06 18:00 - 2026-02-18 15:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Guichelaar Gallery | Feb. 6 – 18, 2026
Stephanie Williams’ exhibition Common Matter brings together ceramic wall sculpture and framed photography to trace the repeating structures that appear across nature and human design. The show includes modular ceramic forms that shift between geometric and organic designs, alongside photographs which explore cosmic patterns at the microscopic level. Across mediums, the work invites viewers to look closely at how familiar patterns emerge at different scales, from crystalline structures to engineered surfaces.
Williams explores the idea that the universe is built from recurring visual and mathematical “rules” that show up in both organic building blocks and artificial systems. The work considers proportion and measurement as a universal expression of those “rules” (including spiral and growth patterns associated with the Fibonacci sequence) and asks how the macro and the micro mirror one another.
This body of work is informed by diverse influences, from historical cosmologists such as Johannes Kepler to Williams’ daily encounters with the patterns embedded in the world around her. Over time, she has become increasingly interested in how micro-patterns replicate themselves in both large and miniature form, and how humans often echo these same micro-patterns in their design, technology, and impulse to create.
Williams’ studio practice is rooted in ceramics, using a combination of throwing, handbuilding, and slipcasting. The photographic work extends the investigation of her exhibition’s thematic concepts through digital microscopic imagery and black-and-white analogue film.
Ultimately, Common Matter asks viewers to reflect on their existence within the universe and their relationship to it at a fundamental structural level. In the spirit of Carl Sagan’s observation that humanity is “a way for the universe to know itself,” the work suggests that the patterns we notice (and the ones we recreate) are not separate from us, but part of what we are.
About the artist
Stephanie Williams is an Indianapolis-based artist in Big Car Collaborative’s CAMi Long-Term Artist Residency program. She graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design in 2019 and has exhibited in a variety of spaces and galleries across Indiana. Williams has worked at American Art and Clay Company (AMACO) going on ten years.

NIGHTJAR: Kenn Hunn
2026-02-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Featured Poet: Kenn Hunn
Open mic prompt: Write an ode or elegy to something absurd.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About the Featured Poet:
Kenn Hunn blurs + toes lines, as is true of nonbinary tradition. A poet, essayist, and artist, their chapbook Gristle has been a semifinalist at both Wolfson Press and Button Poetry. Their nonfiction has been queried by The Pinch, and they have forthcoming work in So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library), Dogwood Alchemy, Quotidian IV, and Prickly Pear. Kenn is also the host of Indianapolis’s most camp literary gathering, Bimbo Book Club, and the founder of #STFUArtistsCollective
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Lunar New Year Celebration: Fire Horse
2026-02-21 18:00 - 21:30 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Welcome the Year of the Fire Horse with us and the Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts (ICPAI) at our annual Lunar New Year celebration!
Enjoy vibrant traditional dance performances by ICPAI and take part in hands-on activities throughout the night, including fireworks, paper cutting, lantern decorating, fan painting, and bracelet making. Food will be available for purchase from the Hachi Machi Asian food truck.
Tickets are $14.64 apiece and can be purchased via Eventbrite.
Schedule of Events:

Activities: 6 – 9:30 p.m.
ICPAI Performances: 7 – 8 p.m.
Fireworks: 9 p.m.

About Lunar New Year:
Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean communities. Unlike the single-day Gregorian New Year, this holiday is traditionally celebrated over multiple days.
In 2026, Lunar New Year begins on February 17. Known as the Spring Festival (Chūnjié) in China, Seollal in Korea, and Tết in Vietnam, the holiday is tied to the lunar calendar. It originated as a time for feasting and honoring deities and ancestors.
Image: Julie Xiao, Fire Horse (2025)

www . RachelOrmont . com
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:30 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
An unflinching psychedelic techno-satire about a woman who unknowingly grows up in captivity working for an advertising agency, starring Betsey Brown (Assholes, The Sweet East), Dasha Nekrasova (Succession, The Beast, Materialists), and Chloe Cherry (Euphoria).

“Boasting a daring lead performance and a wicked sense of humor, this satirical sci-fi comedy delves into themes of performance, digital existence, consumer culture, and contemporary sexuality, offering a provocative and unsettling reflection of our hyper-connected society.” -BLEEDING EDGE

“A filthy and absurd midnight movie determined to fry brains and flip stomachs; a film so terminally online that even the milder scenes would, as the kids say, “kill a Victorian child“.–Pop Matters

Content Warning: This film contains graphic sexual content and nudity.
This screening is 21+ only.

Run Time: 120 min.

Director:Peter Vack
