Joe Augustin, AKA Achilles Tenderloin, is a college librarian by day, and travels the tri-state area by night playing his original songs. He describes his style as Blues, Roots, Psychobilly, and/or Americana. Enjoy a free live concert presented by Virginia Ave. Folk Fest on the Circle!
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Oct 2015
DIY Playground
Family fun time in the Blue Foam Playscape.
Learn to build, create and play with a variety of shapes
including ramps, tubes and spheres.
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Oct 2015
ActiveIndy Self-Guided Bike Tour: Destination Garfield Park
Are you ready to explore Indianapolis? Every Sunday, use Spark Monument Circle as your launching point to experience this beautiful city by bike through a series of self-guided tours developed by ActiveIndy Tours. This 6.5 mile ride sweeps you down the Cultural Trail, through Fletcher Place and Fountain Square, before taking you to the oldest park in the city– Garfield Park! After exploring the park, you’ll be guided through the historic Bates Hendricks neighborhood on your way back to downtown. Check in at the Welcome Trailer to view the route and receive a cue sheet of directions before departing.
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Oct 2015
ActiveIndy Guided Bike Tour: Cultural Trail & Historic Neighborhoods
During Spark, the Circle is the launching point for ActiveIndy Tours’ most popular tour – a guided bicycle tour of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail & Historic Neighborhoods! This tour covers 10 miles at a casual pace allowing you to explore downtown while learning about our city’s history, architecture, public art & connections to pop culture. Rental bicycles available & advance registration required for this fee-based tour. Get details and sign up here.
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Oct 2015
Cool Bus presented by Word On The Street
Every Sunday at Spark, visit the Cool Bus (a mobile literary arts center) for a word challenge, a place to read, and free books! Explore word games, rhyming challenges, poetic forms, and maybe meet a visiting author. You can also check out the book selection and take a book home for free.
The Cool Bus is a program of Word On The Street, a not-for-profit focused on engaging neighbors in reading, writing, and exploring in spaces that inspire imagination and wonder. Word On The Street created the Cottage Home Microlibrary as well as the Cool Bus. Central to the organization’s mission is giving away free books and increasing excitement around and access to literacy opportunities. The Cool Bus was the “5×5: Make Your City” winner in 2013.
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Oct 2015
Living Memorial Parade
Take the opportunity to interact with an icon of Indianapolis– the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. Consider why it was built and what it stands for; make a rubbing of the names of veterans enshrined in the paved bricks; draw the Monument; and/or take a walk alongside a contemporary veteran at this special event conceived by artist Rebecca Pappas in collaboration with the Veterans for Peace (Indianapolis Chapter, Chapter 49).
Before, during, and after the event, make sure you do a few of these things:
While walking with a veteran, think about what you might like to discuss with him or her, as well as listen to what he or she might want you to know. Remember our young soldiers and all of the men and women of Indiana who never made it back from war. Consider the costs of war and what other options we might have at resolving conflicts, now and in the future.
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Oct 2015
Young Actors Theatre: Once Upon a Fairytale
Catch 180 young actors for a sneak preview of five original productions, opening this January: Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel & Gretel, Snow White, and Snow Queen. Performances BY kids FOR kids. Check out more info about the Young Actors Theatre here.
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Oct 2015
DIY Playground
Family fun time in the Blue Foam Playscape.
Learn to build, create and play with a variety of shapes
including ramps, tubes and spheres.
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Oct 2015
WFYI American Graduate Day
Join WFYI on the Circle as an extension of our 24-hour American Graduate Day broadcast. Stop by to thank an education champion in your life, write an encouraging letter to a local student, take a photo in our Champion photo booth, give advice via the WFYI Speak Up Phone (Question: “What advice would you give your high school self?), and learn more about how you can support kids’ education successes. Use hashtags #AmGradIndy and/or #AmGradDay to lend your support!
Additionally, Indy Pulse students will perform spoken word poems that echo the need for all community members to be Champions for education. Through sharing their stories, Indy Pulse students will remind us that creating a more democratic and more diverse-and-inclusive Indianapolis takes all of us!
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Oct 2015
Indiana Landmarks’ Monument Circle Tours
Indiana Landmarks’ guided tour explores the physical and symbolic heart of Indianapolis and tells the intriguing story of Monument Circle, past and present. During the tour, you’ll hear about the Soldier and Sailors Monument, including why the woman on top faces south, as well as the roundabout’s role in the city’s original plan and stories regarding encircling architecture.
No tour if raining cats and dogs! Reservation required. Advance tickets are $8 per adult (12 and up); $5 per member of Indiana Landmarks; $5 per child (6-12). If space is available the day of the tour, tickets are $10 per person regardless of age.
