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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.…]
’Tis the Season of (For)giving at the Harrison Center“It is better to forgive than to receive.” This revision of the altruistic phrase graced the studio of Lorie Lee Andrews as she created prints for last year’s Forgiving Tuesday at the Harrison Center. On Tuesday, Nov. 30, the nonprofit [Read More.…]
Circle of Lights returns to Circle on Friday evening / holiday weekend street closingsDowntown Indy Inc.’s Circle of Lights presented by IBEW 481 – Indy’s most time-honored holiday tradition – returns Friday, Nov. 26, the day after Thanksgiving. The celebration will once again be a live, in-person event on Monument [Read More.…]
Ground is broken on landmark expansion of the Indianapolis Cultural TrailLocal dignitaries and officials of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail convened on the corner of South and Meridian streets on Nov. 4 to break ground on the trail’s expansion. As reported in the March 2020 edition of Urban Times, the project involves [Read More.…]
Second Annual 10-Minute Play Festival returns to IndyFringe / updates on street closures / art at District TheatreThe Indiana Playwrights Circle will present the Second Annual 10-Minute Play Festival Thursday through Sunday, Nov 11 – 14, at the IndyFringe Basile Theatre. This event is bringing seven distinct companies together by producing seven [Read More.…]
Bier & Building Tours to offer adults-only Athenaeum experienceIndiana Landmarks and the Athenaeum Foundation are partnering to serve up a triple bill in November, offering tours of the Athenaeum and treating attendees to beer and German food during the Bier & Building Tours. Open to people 21 and over, [Read More.…]
Monumental Marathon will wind through Mass Ave and several Urban Times neighborhoodsThe gun will sound at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, for the 2021 CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, with both the marathon and half-marathon beginning on Capitol Avenue at the Indiana Statehouse. A 5K run will start 35 minutes later at the [Read More.…]
Updated: Indy Reads Books to open in Fountain Square on Nov. 5Delayed over a year by a certain pandemic, Indy Reads Books will finally open the doors to its new home on Friday, Nov. 5, at 1066 Virginia Ave. in the heart of Fountain Square. The space is no stranger to books, however, having been for many years [Read More.…]
Fletcher Place coffee shop to celebrate 12 years of giving back to communityCalvin Fletcher’s Coffee Co.and its Charitable Foundation will host the Fletcher Place coffee shop’s 12-year anniversary celebration from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9. This year’s silent auction will benefit ProAct Indy. The day will be an [Read More.…]
Fall fun at the Indianapolis Zoo and Indiana State MuseumZooBoo marking four decades at the Zoo / The Indianapolis Zoo will present 20 days of “spooktacular fun, active animals, new, larger-than-life décor and more” when ZooBoo launches for its 40th year on Wednesday, Oct. 6. ZooBoo will continue for 20 [Read More.…]