Programming occurs from 2 -5 pm
Marking the change of seasons, the Autumn Equinox Community Day fills the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park: 100 Acres with family-friendly performances by local and national sound artists and musicians. The diverse lineup of performers will present new immersive listening experiences compositions and performances, influenced and shaped by natural and man-made elements of the Park. In addition, free admission to the galleries and IMA campus all day.
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Programming occurs from 2 -5 pm
Marking the change of seasons, the Autumn Equinox Community Day fills the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park: 100 Acres with family-friendly performances by local and national sound artists and musicians. The diverse lineup of performers will present new immersive listening experiences compositions and performances, influenced and shaped by natural and man-made elements of the Park. In addition, free admission to the galleries and IMA campus all day.
The Lineup
Chris Kallmyer (Los Angeles)
Circles Circling: Cosmic Pattern Music for Casual Napping
Underneath Align
2pm-5pm
Chris Kallmyer will create live improvised compositions combining live and recorded sounds underneath the Art and Nature Park’s solar clock. Visitors will be invited to lounge in hammocks or on blankets to listen to the performance and interact with Kallymer.
Nat Evans (Seattle)
Sit With the Gaze
Meadow
2pm-5pm
Sit With the Gaze is an immersive ambient sound work created for gazing at the sky. Participants are invited to check out a pair of headphones to listen to this ambient work and lay on the ground, gazing upwards. Balloons on long kite strings drift above this gaze space, that moment of observing balloons as they drift away suspended in time. Collectively the experience of facing an open sky with sound and airborne ephemera creates an immersive experience for contemplation.
Nat Evans (Seattle)
That Summer
Park of the Laments Tunnel
2pm-5pm
That Summer is a sound-based document of a season and place by Nat Evans presented within the resonant tunnel of Park of the Laments. Field recordings made in Central Indiana during the summer of 2015 will be combined and broadcast into the space, and visitors will be able to activate and explore the piece by moving through the tunnel, and returning to it throughout the course of the evening. An Indiana native, now Seattle-based sound artist Nat Evans is fascinated by memories of listening to the shimmering summer choruses of cicadas, and observing the long slow fade of their disappearance at the end of the summer. As the evening continues, the field recordings of an Indiana summer resonating in this tunnel will shift and change over time and, like the cicadas, over a long period of time slowly fade to silence.
Robin Cox (Indianapolis)
Maybe I’m not even here
Grove of Trees near Funky Bones
2pm-5pm
Maybe I’m not even here a work of many speakers, trees, and live violin performance at intervals through the event by local musician, composer and professor at UIPUI Robin Cox.
Brian McCutcheon, Jordan Munson and Michael Drews
Water Mining
Near Stratham Pier
2pm-5pm with special performances at 3pm and 4pm
Water Mining, an interactive sound installation built to collect and amplify the underwater sounds of the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park lake. By casting stones into the lake, visitors will be able to experience soundscapes that will be broadcast into the open air. As part of the Autumn Equinox event, a musical performance utilizing the water broadcasts will occur at 3 and 4pm.
John McCormick (Indianapolis)
Every Meeting
Lilly Visitors Pavilion
2pm – 5pm88
Press your ear to the glass to hear the noise we made trying to be quiet.
Sun King Brewing Co. is the Official Brewery of this program.
Beast Truck is our food vendor for the evening.
IMA Community Days are supported by The Hagerman Group.
The IMA’s ARTx Series is made possible by a gift from the Efroymson Family Fund
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Native Tree & Spring Blooming Bulb Sale
Saturday, September 19/ 11am-5pm
Newfield Parking Lot
Celebrate the fall planting season with a fantastic selection of hard to find Indiana natives. This first of its kind, one day sale event is hosted by the Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse and is made possible through a partnership with Woody Warehouse of Lizton, IN. These locally grown trees and shrubs are sure to thrive at your home for many years. These natives offer the added benefit of excellent food sources for pollinators and songbirds.
Looking for a burst of spring color? Collections of unusual bulbs inspired by those in the IMA’s gardens will also be available for sale.
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