Arts & Entertainment Season Preview
This year’s preview includes more than 120 recommendation, plus peeks inside Newfields’ Harvest festival, Bryan Fonseca’s new theater, and the process of booking Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts.
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Q&A with Julia Muney Moore, Arts Council of Indianapolis public arts director
Indy Art & Seek is a collaboration between the arts council and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Funded with a $674,520 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the program will commission artists to create six large-scale, permanent installations in green spaces around the city, along with 100 smaller, temporary installations.
A&E Preview: Artist to test senses with Infinity Room
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms have proven wildly popular at museums in large cities worldwide; visitors have often waited in winding, hours-long lines that snake around museums to experience them.
A&E Preview: Newfields’ new seasonal offering offers lots of fall choices
The festival from Oct. 3-6 is about offering visitors a vast array of choices over 50 acres to celebrate autumn’s cultural and creative endeavors, stemming from farms, orchards, markets, wineries, breweries and farm-to-fork culinary arts.
A&E Preview: The art of booking the right act
After 8 years, the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel continues to learn what works and what doesn’t.
A&E Preview: A Q&A with Elaine Eckhart on the business side of making music
On the brink of her final season with the ICO (and in the midst of a $2.2 million capital campaign), Eckhart took time for a chat with IBJ.
A&E Preview: IndyFringe rolls the cultural arts into your neighborhood
Fringe on Wheels is a whizzbang customized van complete with a foldout stage, stunning lights and an amazing sound system. Funded with a $49,000 Lilly Endowment grant, the van brings live theater, music, poetry readings and more to locations that might lack exposure to the arts.
A&E Preview: Bryan Fonseca’s next stage
In 2018 his Fonseca Theatre jumped headlong into a full season of plays focused on diversity and issue-driven theater, using Indy Convergence and other existing spaces. At the same time, Fonseca and his team purchased and began renovating a new theater.
A&E Preview: Talking Points
What will be the chatter be in the Indy arts community this fall? These are just some of the topics you are likely to overhear.
A&E preview: 120+ events you shouldn’t miss this season
Welcome to the 2019/2020 central Indiana arts season. I say that assuming you are an audience member and not one of the thousands of local arts professionals and talented non-pros. Many of those folks have already been hard at work creating and curating what you’ll see on stages and in galleries and experience elsewhere over the coming months.
PETE THE PLANNER: Use bonuses to bolster finances, not to go on a spending spree
Anytime I break down a financial life, I explore three distinct areas. I look for long-term financial stability, midterm financial stability and, you guessed it, short-term financial stability.
HAYLEIGH COLOMBO: Listening will be key to fighting poverty
Reporting on poverty taught me the mantra, “nothing about us without us.” We must listen to those we are trying to help.
Editorial: Lawmakers must tax e-cigarettes to discourage youth vaping
Teens today are getting addicted to nicotine through vaping—without ever having tried a cigarette. And while that may be better than teens becoming addicted to smoking, it’s even better if they never start at all.
Sheila Suess Kennedy: Time to hit pause button on Drake demolition
The bleak transformation of the neighborhood surrounding the ever-expanding Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is one thing; the museum’s total indifference to the significance of Meridian Street and the transit goals of the city is another.
Phil Powell: A sound vision for inclusive economic growth in Indy
The attraction, retention and development of talent determines our region’s prosperity. Enhancing the viability of Indianapolis as a place to live and work is a dominant priority for business and government leaders. It is our best way to compete as a region.
Letter: Doing nothing about guns isn’t an option
Editorials in the Aug. 23 Forefront from State Rep. Jim Lucas and cartoonist Gary Varvel provide disturbing commentary from people who should keep their quills holstered with their guns.
Letter: Atlanta might hold Circle Centre solution
I recently returned from traveling to Atlanta for a long weekend. I was amazingly impressed by the Ponce City Market and how much the city has embraced it as a destination spot to shop, eat and socialize.
Letter: Federal mandates should offend Hoosiers
Speak up and speak out to our government representatives before further damage is done to our economy.
Letter: Balanced budget amendment needed
Government debt problems have led many nations to disaster. Debt can bring an economic crash to America also.
Letter: Not all virtual schools are the same
Virtual schools, like district public and private schools, are not all the same. It is time for policymakers and public communities to recognize that; there are bound to be a few in education who act as if they are above the law.