We did a lot of things last year, check it out!
Wow! Big Car's 2012 year in Review from Big Car on Vimeo.
Read about all of these things in the video here.
Service Center Winter/Spring Classes by Big Car
You can help Indianapolis enjoy music in the dark at Service Center
It's been performed in New York and L.A. Now it comes to Service Center at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 -- a concert by New-York-based JACK Quartet performed in total darkness, a live musical experience we guarantee you'll never forget! And, with our friends from Ensemble Music Society, we are raising $2,350 to bring it here. You can help fund this project by making a tax-exempt donation here. Tickets are available for purchase here. Don't delay as seating for this truly unique experience are limited. Give yourself to this musical experience; give to help make this concert happen! The concert is the JACK Quartet's performance of contemporary Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas' Quartet No. 3, "in iij. Noct."-- written with instructions to be performed in 100 percent pitch dark and the musicians as far apart as possible in the space. JACK Quartet, one of hippest chamber groups around, has performed this piece in just a few other venues in the U.S.
Craig Mince's idea chosen for $10,000 prize!
5x5: Indianapolis Arts and Innovation offered a $10,000 prize on Feb. 8 when a panel of judges and an audience of more than 200 people teamed up to choose the top idea of five presenting five slides in five minutes. The theme was Revolutionize Your City: Art + Technology = Innovation. Presentations took place on Feb. 8. And the winning idea was: Craig Mince with "Roving Cinema: The Pop-Up Edition." What do a field, an art gallery, an old warehouse and a neighborhood street corner have in common? They are the perfect venues to see a film that might inspire you to do great things.
Other finalists:
Lori Leaumont
"The Action Girl's Storytelling Workshop"
Why stories about girls matter, and how we can empower girls to start telling them. Check out her presentation here.
Ezra Birt
"Montransiscope"
How to enhance Indianapolis bicycle commuting with animation-based public installation art, and a riff on the New York subways. Check out his proposal here.
Pete Brown
"Smart Art: Access Over Excess"
A safe avenue for artists and arts organizations who aim to engage under-served and under-interested arts patrons by realistically incorporating multimedia experiences. Check out his proposal here.
Ben Bernthal
"The Dick and Jane Project"
Workshops that pair middle school students with local musicians to create radio-ready songs. Check out his proposal here.
A team of innovative collaborators helped Big Car. Teaming up were Central-Indiana-based tech, design and startup innovators Dreamapolis, Idea Architects, IndySpectator, KA+A, The Levinson Center, SmallBox, and Verge.
This was the first of four 5x5 events to give away $10,000 for arts ideas. Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), the Efroymson Family Fund and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation are funding the series as a platform for sharing innovative arts ideas in Indianapolis. The goals are to help projects get off the ground while launching a fun series of idea-generating events, hosted and shaped by some of the city's most important creative leaders. The only rules for the Five by Five series: projects must involve the arts; and each event features five finalists, presenting five slides in a maximum of five minutes. The winner at each receives $10,000. The broad themes for the three other Five by Five events are Make Your City (People for Urban Progress), Face Your City (IndyHub) and Connect Your City (Harrison Center for the Arts).
Drop by and see us soon Service Center!
Big Car Service Center Garden from Craftedspoon on Vimeo.
Service Center for Culture and Community is open Wednesdays and Thursdays 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for co-working, perusing the library, using the computer lab with free wi-fi, and participating in creative projects.
Check out this excellent national coverage in The Atlantic Cities here and Idiom here. See detailed coverage of Big Car and Service Center in the Indianapolis Business Journal here. Also read an excellent story from the Central Indiana Community Foundation about Service Center and Big Car here and another by Indiana Humanities here.
Saying YES to fun in our public spaces
Big Car: Creativity, Culture and Community from Big Car on Vimeo.
Big Car is excited to help invigorate our public spaces: parks, city squares, the Canal, The Cultural Trail, White River State Park. We're working to raise $20,000 over the course of 2012. Please join us in saying Yes to helping make fun and innovative things happen in our city.
Want to know more about Big Car?
In 2013 Big Car is busy with several citywide efforts including organizing TEDxIndianapolis and participating in collective projects like Reconnecting to Our Waterways.
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