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New Project Approved for Garfield Park

Weekly View — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:10:09 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — The Friends of Garfield Park, Inc. recently announced that Indy Parks & Recreation has approved the design of the landmark vistas that were conceived and created by their partners at Big Car Collaborative.
The project will engage visitors by identifying important park features and providing information in both visual and auditory form. Visitors who encounter these vista markers, with shapes abstracted from classic RCA Victrola phonograph players, will be encouraged to dial a phone number unique to each marker that will launch an audio history of the relevant park feature. Visitors will be encouraged to place their phones inside the metal cylinders of each vista marker to take advantage of the natural ampliﬁcation provided by the shape of the metal, which will allow multiple visitors to share the experience simultaneously.
Garﬁeld Park, ﬂanking downtown’s southern edge, is the oldest city park in Indianapolis. An essential part of noted landscape architect George Edward Kessler’s Park and Boulevard Plan for the city, it is also on the National Register of Historic Places. At 128 acres, there are fascinating and important assets in the park of which many visitors are not aware.
Big Car Collaborative is a nonprofit arts collaborative that was established 11 years ago. They will be focusing the programs this year on the Garfield Park area, including establishing a home base. They continue to do pop-up programming in Lafayette Square and the Far Eastside.

Applause!: Jan. 17-24

Weekly View — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:08:25 +0000

• The Irvington Garden Club will meet at 6:30 p.m., on January 27, at the Irvington Presbyterian Church, 55 S. Johnson. Justin St. John of Maximum Grow Gardening will present a program on hydroponics (a method of growing plants using nutrient solutions in water). Located at 6117 East Washington Street, Maximum Grow Gardening, sells hydroponic systems, lighting, controllers and supplies. Guests are welcome to attend.
• All Indianapolis Public Library locations will be closed on Jan. 20 in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, except the InfoZone, located within The Children’s Museum at 3000 N. Meridian St., which will be open from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• For the fourth year, a blood drive held in memory of fallen IMPD Officer David Moore is scheduled for Jan. 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at The Platform (west wing of the City Market), 202 East Market St. The public is encouraged to volunteer blood donations at the event which is held in conjunction with the Indiana Blood Center. Donors must be 17 years old (16 with parental consent) and weigh at least 110 pounds. Donors who are unable to attend the City Market blood drive are encouraged to donate at any of Indiana Blood Center’s nine locations throughout the state. Please visit www.indianablood.org for more information.
• The Metropolitan School District of Warren Township Board of Education will host a Legislative Forum on Jan. 25 beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the Warren Education and Community Center at 975 N. Post Rd. This forum is open to the public and the Warren Board of Education strongly encourages staff members, parents, students, and community patrons to attend and share your ideas and concerns with our state legislators.
• Garfield Park is opening a new exhibition, “Family: Past and Present” by Southport Artistry, Jan. 18 at the Art Center. The opening reception is Jan. 18 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit runs until Feb. 22 and will be open during regular GPAC hours. Call 327-7135 or visit www.gpacarts.org for more information.
• A big thank you needs to go out to all the people who volunteered to brave the cold to remove graffiti from the vandalized signal boxes in Irvington. The boxes on Brookville Rd. and Arlington were vandalized in the middle of the night; Rita Spalding took a photo of the damage done to hers and posted it on Facebook. Within hours, she received hundreds of e-mails and pledges to help clean it up. Fortunately, hers was restored, but one on Brookville Rd. was very badly damaged.
If anything, the experience brought home the fact that the east side wants public art, and is willing to fight for it. Foundation East, the organizers of the signal box art, have done an amazing job bringing artists, the arts, and the community together.
• It was good to see neighbors helping neighbors in the aftermath of Snowpalooza 2014. Block by block, people pitched in to clear sidewalks and get cars unstuck. In Irvington Terrace, one good neighbor rented a Bob Cat and dug his neighbors out.

News Briefs: Aug. 30-Sept. 6

Weekly View — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 05:09:15 +0000

NESCO Summit Sept. 5

INDIANAPOLIS — The Near Eastside will host its quarterly Neighborhood Summit to discuss our Quality of Life Plan on Sept. 5 at Clifford Corners: Urban Box, 3125 E. 10th St., Suite 1. Topics will range from the neighborhood energy project, neighborhood diversity initiatives, re-entry programming, and more. Babysitting will be provided. RSVP by e-mail to Megan Fetter at mfetter@jhbcc.org

CERT Training Classes Begin

INDIANAPOLIS — Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training will be offered Sept. 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at East District Headquarters, 201 N. Shadeland. CERT classes can be set up for individual groups if there is a group of at least 30. To register, visit https://ifdquartermaster.wufoo.com/forms/dhs-cert-training/

America We Remember Concert at Garfield

INDIANAPOLIS — The Friends of Garfield Park present The 16th annual America We Remember concert Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m. at the Garfield Park MacAllister Amphitheater. The event is free.
Music will feature the Indianapolis 500 Gordon Pipers, and, back by popular demand, 7 Bridges, the ultimate Eagles tribute band. Food vendors will be on site, and there will also be fireworks once it gets dark.
The MacAllister Amphitheater is located at 2524 Conservatory Dr. in Garfield Park. Call 327-7135 for more information.

$10 Spay/Neuter Offer Extended

INDIANAPOLIS — Spay-Neuter Services of Indiana (SNSI) recently announced the extension of a $10 spay-neuter discount special. Through the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP), pet owners and caretakers with limited incomes and receiving public assistance can get their pets fixed at half SNSI’s normal rate.
The $10 surgeries are available to qualifying pet owners through Dec. 31. Families living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines are eligible for this price reduction. Families are also eligible if they qualify for the Energy Assistance Program, Food Stamps, Major VA Disability, Medicaid, Public School Free Lunch Program, Section 8 Housing, Social Security Disability, WIC, and Supplemental Security Income.
For more information, visit www.GetThemFixed.org. Call 317-767-7771 to have an application mailed.

Film Historian Hosts Summer Movies

Weekly View — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:10:15 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson is hosting four programs in July and August in Indianapolis, including one you’re very unlikely to have seen unless you were going to the movies in 1929. Grayson, a film collector, lecturer, and preservationist, has brought back to life a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff.
An informative and illustrated talk along with a special showing of the recently restored King of the Kongo, Chapter 5, will be offered at Indiana Landmarks on July 26 at 7:30 p.m. King of the Kongo, made in 1929, was the first sound film serial and features Boris Karloff before he became famous in Frankenstein. Grayson has restored and preserved several old films and shorts, but this chapter was his most ambitious effort to date. He recently screened it for fellow film historians and the general public at a special gathering hosted by the Library of Congress. Admission is $10 ($7 for members). For more information, visit www.indianalandmarks.org.
The monthly Vintage Movie Nights series continues at the Garfield Park Arts Center on July 20 at 8 p.m. with The Thing from Another World starring Kenneth Tobey and James Arness (later of Gunsmoke fame). This isn’t the 1982 version. It’s not the sequel to the 1982 version that was released a couple of years ago. It’s the original 1951 film. Admission is $4 and concessions $1. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org.
The August 17 Vintage Movie Night selection at Garfield Park is Metropolis, a 1927 film, accompanied by a live piano score with Roger Lippincott. The film stars Brigitte Helm and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. The Germans have restored this film to most of its original length, but the original U.S. release by Paramount was a very different film, rewritten by socialist writer Channing Pollock. Grayson will be running this version, now very hard to find!
For more information on Grayson, visit www.filmeric.com. To read his popular blog on many aspects of film, visit www.drfilm.net/blog. Join his Dr. Film group on Facebook: www.drfilm.net/Facebook.

“Through the Lens” at Garfield

Local News Release — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:10:15 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Photographic Society 7th Annual “Through the Lens” Exhibition and Indianapolis High School Student Art Exhibition will be held April 6-June 1 at the Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Dr. Admission is free. There will be a free reception held April 6 from 5-7 p.m. featuring live music and refreshments.
More than 80 works of fine art photography will be on display at The Garfield Park Arts Center, each an interpretation of the theme “Reflections. . .” This year, for the first time, the show will share the GPAC with artwork from top art students from 15 Marion County High Schools. Works in Drawing, Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture and Mixed Media, representing the best student work as nominated by High School art teachers, will line the hallways of the GPAC.
The GPAC is open Tues, Wed, & Thurs, 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Fri, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.; and Sat, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Closed Sun, and Mon. Call (317) 327-7135 or visit www.gpacarts.org for more information.