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Upcoming Events

Aurora Cyanotype Workshop

June 20 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Make Music Indy

June 21 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Original Farmers’ Market

June 25 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Drum Circles With The Percussive Arts Society

June 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IndyGo Blue Line Outreach

July 2 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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Join us for a performance at SPARK by Sylvia Thoma

Join us for a performance at SPARK by Sylvia Thomas (@sheissylvia) during Lunch Break Live presented by Lake City Bank TOMORROW — Wednesday, June 4 — from noon to 1pm! 🎤🎶

Sylvia Thomas is an artist in Big Car Collaborative’s long-term residency program. She is a poet and musician who has performed across North America and Europe. At SPARK, she will be performing her relaxing and fun voice loops where audiences can listen to music growing!

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SPARK is a partnership between Big Car Collaborative (@BigCarPix), Downtown Indy, Inc. (@DowntownIndy), and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development (@indy_dmd) with support from the Indiana War Memorials Commission (@IndianaWarMemorials). It is a continuation of our work on the Circle in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2015.

At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase (@MerrittChase) to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city. Learn more at CircleSpark.org

#SparkOnTheCircle #Indianapolis #Do317 #art #CreativePlacemaking #placemaking #indy

Your favorite lunch-time pop-up Lockerbie Place is

Your favorite lunch-time pop-up Lockerbie Place is happening TOMORROW, Tuesday, June 3! 🤸

From 11:30am to 1:30pm:

• Food from 3 Marias Mexican food truck 🌮
• Music from 99.1 WQRT FM 🎶
• Pingpong, foosball, & giant Jenga 🏓
• Relaxing greenspace & seating 🌱

Located at the greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market in Downtown Indy. All events at Lockerbie Place are free to attend.

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Visit BigCar.org/Lockerbie for more info.

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Lockerbie Place is part of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program | @BigCarPix | #LockerbiePlace #Indianapolis #Placemaking #Do317

While you get prepared for SPARK 2025 to open this

While you get prepared for SPARK 2025 to open this weekend, check out this recap of our work on the Circle in 2024! 🌟

SPARK is a partnership between Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, Inc., and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development with support from the Indiana War Memorials Commission. It is a continuation of our work on the Circle in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2015.

At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase (@MerrittChase) to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city. Learn more at CircleSpark.org

@SparkPlaces @BigCarPix @DowntownIndy @Indy_DMD @IndianaWarMemorials

Video by Jeremiah Nickerson @wastedxnature

#SparkOnTheCircle #Indianapolis #Do317 #art #CreativePlacemaking #placemaking #indy

Lockerbie Place is TODAY, Tuesday, May 27! 🌤️

Lockerbie Place is TODAY, Tuesday, May 27! 🌤️

From 11:30am to 1:30pm:

• Food from FILLERS Stuffed Burgers food truck 🍔
• Live music from Peyton Womock 🎶
• Pingpong, foosball, & giant Jenga 🏓
• Relaxing greenspace & seating 🌱

Located at the greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market in Downtown Indy. All events at Lockerbie Place are free to attend.

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Visit BigCar.org/Lockerbie for more info.

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Lockerbie Place is part of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program | @BigCarPix | #LockerbiePlace #Indianapolis #Placemaking #Do317

Lockerbie Place is back in action TOMORROW, Tuesda

Lockerbie Place is back in action TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 13! 💃

From 11:30am to 1:30pm:

• Food from Arepas food truck 🌮
• Live music from Kara Cole 🎶
• Pingpong, foosball, & giant Jenga 🏓
• Relaxing greenspace & seating 🌱

Located at the greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market in Downtown Indy. All events at Lockerbie Place are free to attend.

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Visit BigCar.org/Lockerbie for more info.

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Lockerbie Place is part of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program | @BigCarPix | #LockerbiePlace #Indianapolis #Placemaking #Do317

The first Lockerbie Place of the season is TOMORRO

The first Lockerbie Place of the season is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 6! 🎊

From 11:30am to 1:30pm:

• Food from T’Days Jerk food truck 🍗
• Live music from Scrapper & Skeleton 🎶
• Pingpong, foosball, & giant Jenga 🏓
• Relaxing greenspace & seating 🌱

Located at the greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market in Downtown Indy. All events at Lockerbie Place are free to attend.

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Visit BigCar.org/Lockerbie for more info.

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Lockerbie Place is part of Big Car Collaborative’s Spark Placemaking program | @BigCarPix | #LockerbiePlace #Indianapolis #Placemaking #Do317

We’re set up and excited to be part of Symphony

We’re set up and excited to be part of Symphony on the Circle by @indysymphony today, April 26, from 1 pm into the evening on Monument Circle.

Visit us for a bit of a preview of SPARK on the Circle led by @bigcarpix in partnership with @downtownindy and @indy_dmd

For the Symphony on the Circle event today, ISO partnered with Downtown Indy, Inc. to offer a free day of live music, food trucks, and networking with community organizations. The event takes place outdoors on Monument Circle starting at 1 p.m., but also continues inside Hilbert Circle Theatre. The day concludes with a livestream at 5:30 p.m. of the ISO performing Märkl Conducts Strauss, conducted by Music Director Jun Märkl, broadcast on the large screen outside.

Indoor Stage
1:00 PM Teddy Bear: The Garden Symphony
1:35 PM Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra String Quartet
2:05 PM Teddy Bear: The Giant’s Violin
2:30 PM Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra String Quartet

Outdoor stage
1:15 PM Mariachi Sol Jalisciense
1:30 PM Sukhwinder Singh
1:45 PM Ballet Folklorico Mosaicos Indianapolis Kids
2:00 PM Ballet Folklorico Mosaicos Indianapolis
2:15 PM Allison Victoria
2:30 PM Indianapolis Suzuki Academy
2:45 PM Indianapolis Chinese Orchestra
3:00 PM Metropolitan Youth Ballet of Indiana
3:15 PM Castlewood Singers
3:30 PM Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts, Inc
3:45 PM Dance Squad Performance Academy
4:00 PM Bashiri Asad
4:15 PM Chris Bazz La and Lakay Dance
4:30 PM Natyalaya School of Arts
4:45 PM Okinawa Yuyukai
5:00 PM Indianapolis Association of Chinese-Americans
5:30 PM Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble & Concert

Would you like to learn latch hook and help comple

Would you like to learn latch hook and help complete a public art piece?

Stop by Tube Factory on Sundays, 12-2pm to work on the Taylor Swift album iconography inspired fabric art mosaic “Village.”

This piece was commissioned for SPARK on the Circle from Mary Jo Bayliss @andknits and will go on display when finished!

The community art piece began November 1-3 while Taylor Swift was in town. And Bayliss still needs your help creating this 24′ long and 8′ tall art piece made from 13 latch hook canvases of various sizes covered in pompoms to create a colorful composition.

The hands are done with the latch hook process–how people make rugs! The rest of the imagery is made of pompoms and friendship bracelets.

All the tags are from people who have helped make the work so far. Stop by @tubeartspace grab a hot beverage from @normalcoffeeindy hang out, learn latch hook and be part of making this amazing fabric sculpture on Sundays.☀️

SPARK on the Circle is an ongoing partnership between Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, the Capital Improvement Board, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission

#taylorswift #taylorswiftart #indianapolis #loveindy #downtownindy #fabricsculpture #contemporaryart

Are you missing SPARK on The Circle…and perhaps

Are you missing SPARK on The Circle…and perhaps the warm weather?

Come join us tonight, 6-10pm for the Circle Show at @tubeartspace !
We’re kicking off 2025 by sharing work of some the artists who helped make SPARK on the Circle happen at Monument Circle in 2024!

Visual artists Katie Faust, Dillion Imel and Sarah Montañez helped lead daily activities of our work in the pop-up park in the Northwest quad for five months. Kris Komakech was one of our SPARK Artists in Residence. He created a Monument Circle Hidden Picture, led a clock-making workshops, and more.

SPARK on the Circle is an ongoing partnership between Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, Inc., the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission, and is funded by the Capital Improvement Board. At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project.

The exhibition runs through January 23.

Image: Kris Komakech

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