When: 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 2
Where: Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St.
How much: Free for the public to attend
Info: (317) 450-6630
Sponsors and supporters: Goodwill, LUNA Music, Asthmatic Kitty, Musical Family Tree and IMCPL.
Big Car has created an experimental twist on musical competitions with Thrift Store Music happening at Central Library later this month as part of the Made for Each Other series of interactive, community-building programs.
On April 28, 14 teams drew random thrift stores where they'll shop for the instruments used to create original songs. Limited to budgets of $25, teams will likely be challenged to get creative in choosing items to play. Maybe they'll get lucky and find an old Casio keyboard or out-of-tune toy guitar. Or maybe they'll find no regular instruments and have to bang on glass jars or shake baby rattles. Either way, the musicians will take a few days to write new songs and then perform them in 10-minute sets at Central Library on May 2. Winners will be chosen that day -- with prizes going to top performers. Winning teams will receive gift cards from Goodwill and prizes from LUNA Music and Asthmatic Kitty.
Find out more about our related Made for Each Other project at www.made4.org.
Up Next in May: Replanting the Garden Group Show
May 7, 6-11 p.m. as part of IDADA's First Friday Gallery Tour.
Although painted over 500 years ago, Hieronymus Bosch's triptych THE GARDEN of EARTHLY DELIGHTS has lost none of its allure, beauty or ambiguity. Theories attempting to illuminate its hermetic iconography abound yet noone seems to have been able to definitively pin down what exactly the artist is attempting to do in the painting or why. Is it a visual representation of the alchemical process? a cautionary depiction of the dangers of the flesh or just the opposite: a voyeuristic revel extolling the pleasures (and consequent dangers) of free love? Regardless of original intention, the painting functions as a mirror of the viewer: we take away from it what we wish to see and it becomes many things to many people.
With this in mind, REPLANTING the GARDEN brings together the works of over 40 artists and craftsmen from all over the country who were simply given the directive to create a piece in direct response to Bosch's greatest work.
The show is curated by New York-based artist Richard Saja.
Artists include:
Richard Saja - click
Emily Thompson - click
Elizabeth Corkery - click
Guy Davis - click
Aaron Nicholson - click
Marina Borker - click
Jeff Grant - click
Larrybob Phillips
Joel Blazer - click
Robin Vanvalkenburgh - click
Mark Meadows - click
Steven Levan
Inbred Hybrid Collective - click
Amanda Cartagena
SCUBA -- click
Mab Graves - click
Jenny Hart - click
Martin Bland - click
Michael Aaron McAllister - click
Diane Field
Bascom Hougue - click
Penny Nickels - click
Johnny Murder - click
Stacey Holloway - click
Albo Jeavons - click
Ryan Wilson Kelly - click
Britt Browne - click
Brooke and Justin Rothshank - click
Eluvium coming to Big Car
Portland-based ambient/experimental act Eluvium will come to Big Car on May 25 at 8 p.m. with Charles Stanyan (member of Concert Silence) and other opener TBA. $8 cover goes to the bands.
Find out more and listen to their music at www.eluvium.net.
Read a review here.
Made for Each Other events at Central Library
Find out more about our Made for Each Other project at www.made4.org.
Pics from Big Car events & programs