Friday at the Fringe Festival

Aug. 22: Big Car hosting the outdoor stage on Mass Ave. on the opening night of the Fringe Festival featuring Vermillion Lies, Tonos Triad, Playboy Psychonauts and Chambray Blue Jumpsuit. Free.

About Vermillion Lies:

Check out their music here.

From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada to Moscow, Russia and Braga, Portugal Vermillion Lies has charmed audiences the world over with their unique brand of beauty, silliness, and creativity.

With songs ranging from lyrical folk ballads to raucous circus marches, the Vermillion sisters have earned a reputation for an amazing live performance which enchants audiences of all ages and has everyone clapping, singing, dancing, and playing along.

Real Life sisters, Zoe and Kim Boekbinder "Vermillion", have spent their lives honing their craft at clown boot camp and the local dump, where they found their favorite instruments like toy piano, accordion, typewriter, and BBQ grill.

The live show involves the sisters pulling their odd instruments out of a large trunk onstage before each song, prompting the audience to ask, "What's in the box?" which incidentally is the name of their brand new album.

Vermillion Lies is based in Oakland, CA, tours in a bio-diesel van, and uses recycled packaging printed with vegetable inks.

Also this weekend

Saturday Aug. 23: Acoustic music show at Big Car Gallery featuring Lovely Houses, Scott Hensley and Cliff Snyder. 8:30 p.m. by donation.

How We Remember: Images Found and Made
Creative Renewal Fellowship
Solo exhibition at Big Car Gallery, open through Aug. 30.

Judith G. Levy

The past is never dead, it's not even past.
-- William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Call (317) 450-6630 to schedule and appointment.

Here a capsule of the 5-star review of Levy's show that appeared in NUVO:

Judith G. Levy's strongest body of work to date probes how people recall experiences then interpret, record and reinvent them as individual or collective memories. Most works resulted from travels to Germany and Poland through support of a Creative Renewal Fellowship. New pieces still address the subject of identity through imagery, including some of Levy's trademark minimalist white-hooded and red-boot clad characters. But here, Levy's focus expands from gender questioning and slight voyeurism and ties in hard searching: How do memories translate into something significant?
-Susan Watt Grade

To find out more, read Levy's essay on the show
here.

Above: A still from Stop, Watch.

Upcoming Big Car dates of note:

Sept. 5: First Friday opening - Art Hospital show, 6 p.m. to midnight. Music at 10 p.m. Free.
Also check out the Stop, Watch video installation in Harrison Center's Gallery No. 2 by Big Car's Jim Walker. Free.

Sept. 19: BART (3rd Friday Beer & Art night), 8 p.m. Featuring Octoberfest beer and "Lynch One" the new documentary about director David Lynch. Free for those 21 and over.

Sept. 20: Big Car Collective installation/site specific performance at Oranje, 8 p.m.

Sept. 27: Masterpiece in a Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout Fountain Square. Featuring art, writing and music competitions. New art categories this year! Free to enter.

Oct. 3: First Friday opening - Debbie Reichard in Suite 4.
Arthur Silva in Suite 215. 6 p.m. to midnight, music at 10 p.m. Free

Oct. 17: Opening of Big Car Collective Halloween show at Sullivan Munce Art Center in Zionsville, 6 p.m. Free.

Oct. 24: Opening of Big Car Collective Outside/In show at Art Hospital in Bloomington, 6 p.m. Free.

Oct. 25: Big Car hosting a music stage at the Broad Ripple Music Festival at LUNA Midtown. All day. By donation.

Daily feature

Enjoy our daily (Mon-Thurs) comic by Jayson with a Y of Indianapolis who does all of his drawings in the fabulous Microsoft Paint program. Visit his myspace here and tell him what you think and view an archive of his work.

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