Tap, beat, thump, bang, and strike a variety of percussion instruments & join a drum circle!
09
Oct 2015
Musical Family Tree presents Petri
It’s lunchtime, and you probably need a break… So take it on Monument Circle and enjoy Petri’s ambient music with electronic/noise leanings!
Learn more about how Musical Family Tree makes it their mission to spread Indiana music!
09
Oct 2015
Sparking Monument Circle: Ash Robinson, Stuart Hyatt
During this casual, brown-bag lunch, artists involved with Spark will discuss placemaking and projects that engage people in new and creative ways before a brief walk around the Circle led by Big Car’s Jim Walker.
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.
09
Oct 2015
Mobile Cassette Motorbike
You don’t want to miss out on this weekly performance by Stuart Hyatt Studio as part of “Phono Fridays.” This artist designed cassette motorbike will be making its way around the circle every Friday. Cassettes will be available for purchase. Ahhh… let the nostalgia set in!
08
Oct 2015
Fantastical Film Shorts by Georges Méliès, the First Wizard of Cinema
In 1916, film was a brand new art form and the Circle Theater (now home of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra) was brand new, too! Around this time, Frenchman Georges Méliès was experimenting with cinema by using it for fantastical (not just documentary) purposes. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and take your place on the Monument steps for a three-hour marathon of two-to-four minute films crafted by Méliès between 1896 and 1913. Get ready for wizards, devils, and magicians, starring in film titles like “The Triple Conjurer and the Living Dead,” “The Four Troublesome Heads,” and Méliès’ most famous, “A Trip to the Moon.” Presented by Big Car and the Indy Film Fest.
08
Oct 2015
In C: A Collaborative Sound Composition
Experience a wave of sound as 15 musicians encircle the Monument for a layered, collaborative sound sculpture — a performance of In C (composed by Terry Riley in 1964). In C fills space with pulses, note clusters, and undulating, otherworldly walls of sound. The Monument Circle version of In C is coordinated by Indianapolis-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Derek Johnson (Sample performance here: https://soundcloud.com/
08
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!
08
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 Governor Oliver Morton (1823-1877), who ran the state of Indiana during the Civil War.
08
Oct 2015
Roaming Historical Characters
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, will be roaming on Monument Circle and ready to chat with you about their life and experiences in Indy.
07
Oct 2015
Theme Walk: Indiana Avenue “History and All That Jazz”
Meet at the Spark Welcome Trailer by the South Bend Chocolate Company and join an exploration of little known history of African Americans in Indianapolis with tour guide Dona Stokes Lucas. Along the walk meet David Leander Williams, author of “Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legend & Legacy of Indiana Avenue” (enter to win a signed autograph copy).
Tour includes a snack break at the Historic Bethel AME Church (Indianapolis’ first Black Church, est.1836). Enjoy bottled water & a snack of your choice (minimum $3 donation suggested).
The walk concludes at the Historic Madame Walker Theatre.
