Use your library card to check out books at the Indianapolis Public Library’s library on wheels. Books on board are both kid and adult-friendly!
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Sep 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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Sep 2015
Parachutes with Cloud Preaser
Do you remember those giant parachutes you used to play with during recess or at summer camp? There were different games you could play with them– cat and mouse, popcorn, or sharks and minnows– but the best game was played simply when everyone grabbed a handle, raised the parachute into the air, and then ran underneath it and sat inside, creating a giant bubble-like clubhouse. Imagine playing with twelve of those parachutes, which were once white but have now collected pictures and messages from all over the country! Cloud Preaser, an art collective providing public and participatory art, are behind these playful and creative parachutes! In 2014, they traveled all over the United States and invited hundreds of strangers to play with, add pictures, messages, thoughts, and other positive, creative energy to their parachutes. Now, they are coming to Spark Monument Circle to share more of the fun!
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Sep 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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Sep 2015
ActiveIndy Self-Guided Bike Tour: White River Trail North
Use Spark Monument Circle as your launching point each Sunday for a series of self-guided tours developed by ActiveIndy Tours, which are designed to get you out and about and exploring Indianapolis! This 7 mile ride showcases the Cultural Trail/White River Wapahani Trail connection in White River State Park, leads you down paths surrounded by Indiana’s famous, native limestone, and haves you cycling across the Fall Creek suspension bridge. Bonus: You’ll be treated to one of our personally favorite art installations along the Cultural Trail at Indiana Avenue on the return trip! Check in at the Welcome Trailer to view the route map and receive your cue sheet of directions before departing.
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Sep 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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Sep 2015
Localmotion
Localmotion is a creative hub and open mic presented by Old Soul Entertainment for local artists to develop their craft as a way of cultivating the local art scene. Hear the words, rhymes, beats, moves, skits and comedy of:
+ Eli Crow
+ Alex Hall
+ Brooks the Prophet
+ Elle Roberts
+ Know No Stranger
…and more!
Hosted and curated by Mathew Davis.
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Sep 2015
Civil War Living History Encounter
Monument is being taken over by a Civil War regiment! Meet 1860s-era impersonators (male and female, military and civilian) strolling the circle. Visit fixed stations to learn about medicine, weaponry, relief efforts, and more. General Lew Wallace, the Indiana-born Union general and novelist (1827-1905), and Lt. Col. William Henry Wishard, MD, a Civil War surgeon (1816-1913). While you’re there, slip into the best kept secret museum in town: the Col. Eli Lilly Civil War Museum in the base of the Monument. Presented by the Mid States Living History Association, Inc.
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Sep 2015
Forensic Friends Drawing
Describe your friend to an artist who will sketch him or her. How accurate do you think the sketch will be with only your descriptive words as the artist’s guide? Find out with Forensic Friends!
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Sep 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.
