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Joint initiative giving Monument Circle a summertime ‘SPARK’Monument Circle is a livelier place now – and for the rest of the summer – thanks to a partnership between city leaders; Downtown Indy, Inc.; Big Car Collaborative and the Capital Improvement Board. The initiative launched Friday – SPARK on the [Read More.…]
Traffic calming and public safety is goal of Kan-Kan’s ‘Paint-In’Over 100 volunteers have signed up to help create a street mural outside of the Kan-Kan Cinema at the intersection of Windsor and Commerce streets Friday through Sunday, June 3-5. The mural’s goal is to create neighborhood safety measures and to [Read More.…]
Adventure awaits when Scooby-Doo exhibit opens June 4 at The Children’s MuseumFamilies will be able to analyze clues and put their problem-solving skills to the test as part of an immersive experience in the new Scooby-Doo Mansion Mayhem exhibit opening Saturday, June 4, at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The exhibit, [Read More.…]
Indy Reads seeks $50,000 to boost Fountain Square operationAs Indy Reads officials gear up for a new program year of courses in job readiness, English literacy and high school equivalency, they are also aiming to build a more accessible and equitable home in Fountain Square – the Open Doors Project. If Indy [Read More.…]
Black cuisine to be on display at Benjamin Harrison site on June 17 The hidden history of diverse Hoosiers from the 1860s to the 1890s will be highlighted when the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site hosts the inaugural Juneteeth Foodways Festival from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 17, at the Old Northside historic site. [Read More.…]
Two viewpoints to be celebrated at Indiana Landmarks Center on First FridayWorks by glass artist Judie Sloan and Clayton “The Wall Guy” Hamilton will showcase their distinct viewpoints in Transparency, an exhibit opening on First Friday, Jun e 3, in the Indiana Landmarks Center’s Rapp Family Gallery. The free reception [Read More.…]
June is a big month at the Indiana State MuseumAmong other things, June is LGBT Pride Month, African American Music Appreciation Month and National Safety Month. For the staff at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, June also means several things – including Canal Nights, a new gallery [Read More.…]
Indiana Landmarks to explore ‘The Legacy of Juneteenth’Juneteenth – the oldest known celebration marking the end of slavery in the United States – commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived on Galveston Island with word that the Civil War was over and enslaved people were free. On Sunday, [Read More.…]
New at the Indiana Historical Society: ‘Documents That Shaped America’America’s founding was influenced by many different writers, philosophers, politicians and leaders. Beginning Saturday, May 21, the Indiana Historical Society will showcase many of these significant historical written works in its latest exhibit, [Read More.…]
Katrina J. Murray’s works to be unveiled on First Friday at Gallery 924Ceramic artist Katrina J. Murray has combined diminutive ceramic sculpture, collage and found objects to tell stories – all part of a new exhibition, This Is Us, opening at Gallery 924 at the Arts Council on First Friday, May 6. “Through the [Read More.…]
White River State Park will once again host twice-a-month Farmers MarketIndy’s Urban Farmers Market will return to White River State Park for a second season beginning this Sunday, May 1. Visitors will have an opportunity to support over 30 local vendors in Celebration Plaza from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. every first and [Read More.…]
Spirit & Place to present the Laugh in Peace comedy show on May 19Muslim comic Gibran Saleem, Rabbi Bob Alper and the Rev. Susan Sparks will bring their different religious backgrounds to promote interfaith dialogue and highlight commonalities during the Laugh in Peace comedy show to be staged Thursday, May 19, at [Read More.…]
Babyface to headline Walker Legacy Center’s big Juneteenth weekendOne of the city’s favorite and most celebrated sons – known nationally as Babyface – will headline the 95th anniversary Legacy Concert, part of the celebration of the grand reopening of the Madam Walker Legacy Center. Born in Indianapolis in 1959 [Read More.…]
Disabled artists to tell their own stories in Pulitzer Prize-winning playAs awareness has spread about representational casting for ethnic roles, American Lives Theatre has set the same expectation for Martyna Majok’s four-character play, Cost of Living. Two of the four characters in the play are disabled. Artistic [Read More.…]
District Theatre production to explore the concept of ‘self’A journey of “self in the aftermath” is at the heart of What Is This Place?, a play written by Jan White to be performed the weekend of April 22-24 on the District Theatre mainstage. Shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and [Read More.…]
Kan-Kan showing to benefit democracy effort in UkraineKan-Kan Cinema and Brasserie has scheduled a two-night screening of Maidan, a documentary about the 2014 revolution in Ukraine that led to the pro-Western government that is currently in charge today. During the 2014 Maidan revolution, more than 100 [Read More.…]
Deadline nears to sign up for celebration of African-American foodThe Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site is looking for food partners to participate in its inaugural Juneteenth Foodways Festival on Friday, June 17. The event’s special focus is on engaging and celebrating Black-owned restaurants and caterers [Read More.…]
February’s First Friday to include four exhibits opening at Big CarThe Tube Factory artspace will unleash no fewer than three exhibits on to the public on First Friday, Feb. 4, with a fourth opening at Listen Hear, the Big Car Collaborative’s nearby sound art studio space. The exhibits will remain open for nearly [Read More.…]
The January arts scene: First Friday openings plus active stagesAT THE CIRCLE CITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The Schwitzer Gallery will host street artist Kwazar Martin. The show, Kwiz, honors his grandmother Liz, and will feature Martin’s canvas acrylic and aerosol work, both in portraiture and in highlighting his [Read More.…]
Garfield Park to play host to two-day music festivalTickets will go on sale Friday, Dec. 10, for WonderRoad – a two-day music festival which will spotlight contemporary music on the weekend of June 11-12 in Garfield Park. The festival is organized by Elevation Festivals in association with MOKB [Read More.…]