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SPARK on the Circle
We have returned with an even more transformational SPARK on the Circle this year. The entire southwest quadrant of Monument Circle is closed to traffic and has become a park […]
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Lunch at Lockerbie Place
Lunch at Lockerbie Place
Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace on Thursday, August 28 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the downtown greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market for artist-led activities like our Post Card […]
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Sylvia Thomas: VIGIL Book Release
Sylvia Thomas: VIGIL Book Release
Join us for a reading and music performance from poet, activist and artist, Sylvia Thomas. In 2016, Sylvia began performing her spoken word in Indianapolis. She performed at a few […]
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Lunch Break Live with Mandog
Lunch Break Live with Mandog
A producer/visual artist from Indianapolis, IN, Mandog combines elements from everywhere and anywhere and cooks them down into a nice Mandog soup. Hip-hop is his specialty, but you might find […]
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Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle! For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand […]
Planter Painting with Stephanie Williams
Planter Painting with Stephanie Williams
Join us down at SPARK for a creative and fun planter painting event! Unleash your inner artist as we provide you with all the supplies you need to decorate your […]
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Circle Side Chats with Kevin McKelvey
Circle Side Chats with Kevin McKelvey
Making, Keeping, and Poeting a Place This program will give a brief overview of creative placemaking and placekeeping and discuss the importance of place in the poetry of James Whitcomb […]
Candle Making with Freetown Village
Candle Making with Freetown Village
Join Freetown Village at SPARK for an immersive candle-making experience! Visitors will have the opportunity to learn the art of candle making, where they’ll create their very own drip candle. […]
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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
Guichelaar Gallery Within the brief window of our human existence, the ability to come together, protect, and care for one another has allowed us to evolve into a complex, beautiful […]
GOLDEN MYST: Tarot Art Show by Daniela Martín del Campo & Gloomy Zauros
Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative are partnering to present the works by Mexican Daniela Martín del Campo & and Colombian Artist Gloomy Zauros. GOLDEN MYST represents a […]
Kaila Austin- Process as Practice: Reimagining the Lost Hardrick Mural
As the United States continues to face its history of enslavement, oppression, and exclusion of Black Americans in museums and other arenas of power and recognition, "Process as Practice: Reimagining […]
First Friday Night Market
First Friday Night Market
Join us again for this upcoming First Friday for a wonderful evening in Garfield Park. We are celebrating local artists, musicians, food trucks and vendors by featuring them in our […]
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Scavenger Hunt with Brittany Fukushima
Scavenger Hunt with Brittany Fukushima
Join us to kick off an on-going scavenger hunt, find all the little art sculptures and more around the Circle. About the artist: Brittany Fukushima is an Indianapolis-based painter and teaching artist […]
MUFON presents- The Experiencer’s Journey with Bill Konkolesky
MUFON presents- The Experiencer’s Journey with Bill Konkolesky
Accounts of those who've opened up about personal first-hand contact with extraterrestrials have proliferated over the past 50 years. Investigators have calculated the data points and researchers have postulated about […]
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Lunch Break Live-Cara Jean Wahlers
Lunch Break Live-Cara Jean Wahlers
Wahlers is an Indianapolis based singer-songwriter and performer. Her fondness for folk music from the 60s and 70s gave her a sturdy understanding of storytelling, and she’s taken those cues […]
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Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle! For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand […]
John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting
John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting
Artist Kaila Austin will have a series of live painting sessions of the John Wesley Hardrick mural open to the public at Tube Factory artspace: October 11, 3-6pm, October 25, […]
Found Art with Giselle Trujillo
Found Art with Giselle Trujillo
Join Giselle Trujillo in creating a found art piece! Visitors will work in a variety of mediums to help create something unique! SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the […]
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Circle Side Chats with Deedee Davis
Circle Side Chats with Deedee Davis
The Magic Circle In October of 1900, the Fall Festivities Society of Indianapolis promoted a week-long carnival with its central focus being the Magic Circle. Monument Circle was transformed with […]
Indy Movement Arts -Bump City & Bollywood
Indy Movement Arts -Bump City & Bollywood
Bump City with Lauren Curry | October 12th, 4-5pm Bump City is an all levels, all bodies, all genders, all good guided dance party. Be there or be somewhere else. […]
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Alan Nakagawa / A.I.R. Head Book Tour
Alan Nakagawa / A.I.R. Head Book Tour
Join Alan Nakagawa as he talks about his book A.I.R. Head: Anatomy of an Artist In Residence. Within a short amount of time, Alan Nakagawa found himself in the midst […]
SPARK on the Circle- John Wesley Hardrick mural painting with Kaila Austin
SPARK on the Circle- John Wesley Hardrick mural painting with Kaila Austin
Artist Kaila Austin have a live painting sessions of the John Wesley Hardrick mural at SPARK on the Circle at Monument Circle. As the United States continues to face its […]
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Ink Workshop with Brittany Fukushima
Ink Workshop with Brittany Fukushima
Join SPARK artist in residence Brittany Fukushima for an all-levels ink painting workshop. In this workshop, you’ll learn basic ink techniques and how to paint intuitively using colors handmade by the artist. See […]
Sofar Sounds at SPARK
Sofar Sounds at SPARK
WHAT’S A SOFAR SOUNDS SHOW? Sofar transforms everyday spaces – like a rooftop or art gallery – and turns them into captivating, intimate venues for secret, live music performances, creating […]
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Plein Air Painting with Brittany Fukushima
Plein Air Painting with Brittany Fukushima
Join SPARK artist in residence Brittany Fukushima for a plein air painting session. Use painting (or drawing) as a way to observe and document your surroundings. Brittany will walk you […]
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Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle! For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand […]
Amulet Making with Rachel Leah Cohen
Amulet Making with Rachel Leah Cohen
Throughout the Jewish diaspora, people have created small pouch amulets to hold anything with protective energy and value. These are often made with everyday materials already on hand: medicinal plants, […]
NIGHTJAR, a poetry series
NIGHTJAR, a poetry series
NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann […]
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Circle Side Chats with Stephen Lane
Circle Side Chats with Stephen Lane
The Drag Queens of Indiana Avenue In 1933, Indianapolis hosted its first pansy ball with great fanfare in a jazz club along Indiana Avenue. Stephen Lane presents his graduate work […]
Wagon of Wonders Puppet Show
Wagon of Wonders Puppet Show
Human Size Puppets! Hand Puppets! All made by Indiana native Jenny Ollikainen, have united to tell a story about Monument Circle. Written by Big Car long term residency artist Sylvia […]
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Costume Pet Parade!
Costume Pet Parade!
Join us for a spooktacular event: The Halloween Pet Costume Parade! Get ready to show off your furry friends in their most creative Halloween costumes! Whether your pet is a […]
Artist Hangout
Artist Hangout
Artist hangout is a casual networking event for artists and creatives hosted by Dai. This event will take place at SPARK on the circle on Sunday, October 22nd from 4-6 […]
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Lunch Break Live with Rob Funkhouser
Lunch Break Live with Rob Funkhouser
Rob Funkhouser is a composer, performer, and instrument builder who can never quite sit still. His work is concerned with ideas of place, memory, and pattern and he is interested […]
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Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle! For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand […]
John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting
John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting
Artist Kaila Austin will have a series of live painting sessions of the John Wesley Hardrick mural open to the public at Tube Factory artspace: October 25, 3-6pm, November 1, […]
Graffiti Knitting with Mary Jo Bayliss
Graffiti Knitting with Mary Jo Bayliss
A gathering where knitting and graffiti collide! Simultaneously inspired by traditional knitting and graffiti, this ever-evolving piece combines fiber adjacent activities, coloring sheets derived from graffiti and knitting motifs, and […]
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African Dance with Uzuri Asad
African Dance with Uzuri Asad
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car’s Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the […]
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Circle SPARK Fest
Circle SPARK Fest
Have yourself a Pumpkin carving, pottery making, face painting, UBE Fest loving good time at Circle SPARK Fest! This two-day fall festival features live music by an amazing array of […]
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Circle SPARK Fest
Circle SPARK Fest
Have yourself a Pumpkin carving, pottery making, face painting, UBE Fest loving good time at Circle SPARK Fest! This two-day fall festival features live music by an amazing array of […]
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Día de los Muertos Altar
Día de los Muertos Altar
Join the Mexico Sister City Committee in an exciting and culturally enriching way for Dia de los Muertos at Spark on the Circle. Dia de los Muertos, or the Day […]
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Lunch Break Live-Progressive Knife
Lunch Break Live-Progressive Knife
Get geared up for Halloween with Indianapolis's own rock band Progressive Knife.
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John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting with Kaila Austin
John Wesley Hardrick mural live painting with Kaila Austin
Artist Kaila Austin will have a series of live painting sessions of the John Wesley Hardrick mural open to the public at Tube Factory artspace: November 8, 3-6pm and November […]
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Sylvia Thomas:Letters To A Haunted House
Many have experienced grief with the loss of someone close to them, but what if that someone was yourself? Transgender people have lived and existed in many forms for many […]
Opening Celebration of Terri Sisson Park
Opening Celebration of Terri Sisson Park
Join us on November 3 as we celebrate our new outdoor space on the Tube Factory campus and thank the many people who made this restorative outdoor space possible. Linked […]