Spark 2015 goes out in style: watch for the Spark logo to scroll across the colored lights in the windows of the IPL building. Thanks, IPL!
Check our partner, IPL, by clicking here.
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Oct 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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Oct 2015
Roaming Historical Characters
Stop by the Monument and get into a casual conversation with Architect Alexander Ralston (1771 – 1827), who platted the streets of Indianapolis and Entrepreneur John Freeman (1807-1902), an African American businessman who owned a restaurant near the Circle.
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Oct 2015
Placemaking Lunch Conversation: David Engwicht
With Spark: Monument Circle winding to a close, let’s consider the impact of creative placemaking projects. Bring your lunch as Australian public space guru David Engwicht discusses the challenges and outcomes of creatively transforming our shared spaces.
This event is part of the Big Car and Reconnecting to Our Waterways series on Creative Placemaking. Find out more at:
http://www.bigcar.org/placemak
Other partners include:
Indiana Arts Commission, Love Indy, Indianapolis City Market, IndyGo, Harrison Center for the Arts and City Gallery, StreamLines, White River Festival, DaVinci Pursuit, Ball State University Department of Landscape Architecture, Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC), TEDxIndianapolis, and Spark Monument Circle.
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Oct 2015
Theme Walk: Haunted Indianapolis
What downtown hotspots give you the spooks? Explore Indy’s haunted locations with Craig McCormick and others on this themed walk. Visit several stations to hear tales of downtown hauntings. It’s the last Walking Wednesday at Spark!
Before or during the event, download this link to Flickr for some related images: https://www.flickr.com/
MEET AT THE WELCOME TRAILER in front of South Bend Chocolate Company and you will be put in a group and dispatched to one of three stations to hear tales of hauntings.
Since this walk includes a visit to the Catacombs, proper footwear must be worn (ABSOLUTELY NO HIGH HEELS) due to the uneven ground.
EXPECT TO WAIT. Large crowds expected!
* For your dining pleasure: 3 Carrots and Circle City Soups will be open in the City Market
* For your musical entertainment: Chris Dance and the Holy Echo
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Oct 2015
Circle Walking
Borrow a pedometer from the Welcome Trailer and take a power lap around the Monument! It’s Walking Wednesday people, so let’s get stepping!
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Oct 2015
Indy Look Up
Every Wednesday at noon, bring your camera phone/camera, some comfy shoes, whatever you know about our city, AND meet us at the Spark Welcome Trailer to take part in British artist/writer Cara Courage’s Indy Look Up Project!
As you take pictures, share what you know as you walk with us and post to Facebook/Twitter.
To upload the images to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
Twitter (with the hashtag #IndyLookUp)
This can be done as the walk progresses or afterwards in one go– whatever you like.
You don’t have to wait till Wednesdays either; contribute to Indy Look Up anytime you are out and about!
More about Look Up from www.caracourage.net.
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Oct 2015
Indiana Landmarks’ FREE Monument Circle Walking Tour
Indiana Landmarks’ guided tour around the physical and symbolic heart of Indianapolis tells the intriguing story of Monument Circle, past and present. Join Indiana Landmarks docent Susie Dawson to hear about the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument and why the woman on top faces south. You’ll learn the roundabout’s role in the original city plan and the stories of the encircling architecture, both past and present.
Meet outside the South Bend Chocolate Company on the southwest quadrant of Monument Circle.
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Oct 2015
Rad Grrls Club
Rad Grrls Club is a gathering of female artists who take time to share and work on our art projects. Current project is a Rad Grrls Zine about nerdy feminism. Need a creative prompt? The Rad Grrls have one for you.
Everybody is invited to show up and be creative with the Rad Grrls at Spark — look for them at a picnic table on Tuesdays!
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Oct 2015
Ask Me Anything (About the Monument) presented by Indiana Landmarks
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument is the icon of Indianapolis. Who designed it? What’s it made of? What does the imagery mean? On Talking Tuesday at Spark, ask an Indiana Landmarks docent anything you want about the amazing Monument we sometimes take for granted.
