Friday, Oct. 30: Dead Zone Boys group art show and Jookabox CD release show, opening at 6 p.m., music at 8 p.m. $5 with Normanoak, Grey Granite and DJ Jessicka. Featuring local craft beer for sale from Upland.
Asthmatic Kitty Records recording artist Jookabox has teamed up with Big Car Gallery and 11 artists from Indianapolis and Bloomington to create an art show that renders each one of the songs on his new album, Dead Zone Boys, as a work of art. Dead Zone Boys, the third album from Jookabox (Indianapolis-born David "Moose" Adamson and Co.), is love story meets psychedelic zombie-musical. The zombie part came easy: Moose grew up on the east side of Indianapolis in the 90s, an area plagued by constant recession, pandemic homicide, and racial tension. A few strong tribes chose to stay in the area despite constant warnings from fleeing acquaintances. It was this frantic energy and violence that infused itself into the Jookabox experience. Since then, the area struggles to revitalize and Adamson's musical interests and excursions have crystallized into a startlingly singular and eclectic songwriting strategy. One thing is certain here: if vacant strip malls occupied only by shitdragged liquor stores and fluorescent check cashing joints are foreign to you, then Dead Zone Boys will be your guidebook, Jookabox your tour guide. This is more evident now than ever on what is sure to become a cult classic.
Artists in the show: Jessica Sowls, Jim Walker, NERS, Liz Janes, John Clark, Erin Drew, DM Stith, Ryan Irvin, Craig McCormick, Casey Roberts and Tom Streit. Dead Zone Boys stays open as Big Car's First Friday show on Nov. 6, 6-11 p.m. and throughout November.
Our first MFEO community art event
Made for Each Other: Southeast photography exhibition
and Inspiring Places reading and music event
as part of the Spirit & Place Festival
Friday, Nov. 13, 6-10 p.m.
art exhibition also open Saturday, Nov. 14 1-4
Wheeler Arts Community
1035 Sanders St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Free
Made for Each Other art series starts with photo projects in Fountain Square
Inspiring Places essay readers also featured in this Spirit & Place event
Big Car Collective members distributed 100 disposable film cameras to residents in the neighborhoods southeast of downtown and will display the results as part of Made for Each Other: Southeast -- the first in a series of eight community art projects happening around the city in 2009 and 2010. The November 13 exhibition and celebration is part of the Spirit & Place festival and also features photos taken by artists at the other seven neighborhoods in the project. The celebration is capped off by a special reading event by eight local writers and community leaders who contributed to this year's Spirit & Place Festival magazine.
The community-driven photography project is in line with what Big Car will do as the Made for Each other series continues. The idea with each project is to include people from all walks of life in the process of making art and enjoying cultural experiences together. For this project inspired by the work of Portland, Oregon-based social practice artist Harrell Fletcher -- an advisor and artist working on the series -- participants received a recyclable disposable camera and a list of 20 assignments such as take a picture of two people kissing, take a picture while jumping, take a picture of what makes your neighborhood unique, and take a picture of a hero in your neighborhood. They will all receive a copy of the pictures on the night of the event.
The Inspiring Places reading, a partnership with the Second Story project for young writers, includes eight of this year's Spirit & Place essayists: Maurice Broaddus, Gloria Gaither, Edgar Huang, Meghan McCormick, Kevin McKelvey, Vop Osili, Bryan Payne, Rob Smith, Joyce A. Sommers and Aaron Spiegel.
Each will read the essay they contributed for the magazine. After the reading, essayists will answer questions from the audience. Also during an intermission and after the reading, attendees can enjoy music by the local band Tonas Triad.
Also artists from the Wheeler Arts Community will show related work and studios will be open for visits.
Find out more about Made for Each Other at www.made4.org.
More curious events coming soon
Indianapolis Central Library
Clowes Auditorium
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Nov. 5, 7 p.m. at Central Library, free: UFO expert Stanton Friedman presents a talk. Friedman became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He was a nuclear physicist who had worked for GE, GM, Westinghouse on far out nuclear and space systems. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored "Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident." "TOP SECRET/MAJIC," his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through six printings.
a.MUSE.ment at Central Library
Prepare to exchange your typically quiet library for a teeming, whimsical, and joyous place of active creativity.
When: Sunday, November 8, 1-5 p.m.
Where: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St., Indianapolis, IN 46208
Music, art, and comedy sketch will examine the changing role of the library in modern society and within the community. Enjoy interactive art stations, performance art, improvisational singing from the Indianapolis Women’s Chorus, a performance by the Three Dollar Bill comedy group, and digitally record your own experiences and stories with the help of inspirational storytellers from JourneysFire. Presented by the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library and Big Car Collective.
November First Friday
Nov. 6, 6 p.m. to midnight
Dead Zone Boys art show continues on the walls plus...
Pattern-Hungry Records will be presenting a night of hip-hop, spoken word, and everything in between. Exploring the art of poetry on and off the beat, Both Sides of the Beat will showcase hip-hop and spoken word artists presenting their most adventurous work. Featured performers will include Pattern-Hungry Records recording artists Lorax, Ligyro, and Yeti One appearing together as Twin Monster alongside spoken word artists TJ Reynolds, Ace One, Neil Cain and Dan Marquis.
The biggest Pecha Kucha Indianapolis ever!
VOLUME 7: The Toby (Indianapolis Museum of Art), November 12
Pecha Kucha Indianapolis has picked 12 slideshow presenters to compete for a $10,000 prize and help turn an Indianapolis location into a more inspiring place.
On Thurs., Nov. 12, at 9 p.m., Pecha Kucha Indianapolis will hold its seventh volume in what is its most collaborative and meaningful event yet. Hosted at The Toby by the Indianapolis Museum of Art as an officialSpirit & Place Festival event, the judges of "Pecha Kucha Vol. 7: The Next Indianapolis" will grant an award of $10,000 from the Central Indiana Community Foundation to one of a dozen presenters for use towards a project that turns an Indianapolis location into a more inspiring place.
Winners will also have access to the ears and brains of a crackshot team of Indianapolis' best thinkers and planners, specially grouped together to help the winner turn their vision into a reality.
The event is free to the public.
Organizations helping to promote and organize the event include: Asthmatic Kitty Records, Big Car, the Indiana Humanities Council, Indianapolis Downtown Inc, the Local Initiatives Support Coalition, and Method Architecture.
video corner
all about relational art (some of the kind of stuff Big Car likes...)