July

July 29 - 48 Hour Film Project event at Central Libary

July 31-Aug. 2

48 Hour Film Project

August

Aug. 6 -- 7 p.m. 48 Hour Film Project Screening Event in Toby at IMA.

Aug. 7 -- Cindy Hinant First Friday opening at Big Car.

September

Masterpiece in a Day is Sept. 19, 2009.

Other big stuff coming up:

Big Curiosities: A Miniseries of Mysterious Events

Indianapolis Central Library
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204

All start at 7 p.m. and are free. The series, presented by Big Car Collective, is supported by The Efroymson Family Fund.

Aug. 26: Local experimental musicians provide a soundtrack to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a 1919 silent film by Robert Wiene. The moody horror film came at height of German Expressionist cinema. With its surreal sets and distorted camera angles representing madness and nightmare, this silent classic follows the story of the evil hypnotist Caligari and his unwitting sleepwalker pawn as they create fear and mystery.

Sept. 30: Jeffrey Meldrum, a prominent researcher on Sasquatch and professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University presents a talk. Also a preview of Big Car Gallery's Bigfoot-themed art show for October opening Oct. 2.

Meldrum's interest in Bigfoot grew after being shown 15-inch footprints in a plowed field near Walla Walla, Washington. Although initially believing the tracks to be forgeries, upon further examination he noticed what he believes is evidence of a high degree of flexibility in the print and a mid-tarsal break, traits he has come to believe belong to Bigfoot. Meldrum has published several academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum is the author of the 2006 book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, a companion volume to the Discovery Channel documentary of the same name.

Oct. 28: Big Car Collective assembles an unusual orchestra of experimental musicians to create a spooky and spontaneous soundtrack to the 1920 silent version of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde -- just in time for Halloween.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about the dark side of human nature comes to life with silent-era heartthrob John Barrymore as upright Dr. Jekyll and demonic Mr. Hyde. A dinner conversation on the topic of human duality at a dinner party prompts Jekyll to concoct a potion to divide the human psyche's two sides: good and evil. Soon, the dark side takes over to deadly results. All will be accompanied by a live soundtrack featuring a Tonos Triad, Shiny Black Shirt and Mana2.

Nov. 5: UFO expert Stanton Friedman presents a talk. Also a preview of Big Car's Outer Space related art show for November opening Nov. 6.

Friedman became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored "Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident." "TOP SECRET/MAJIC," his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through 6 printings.

November

Nov. 8: Spirit and Place event at Central Library. 2 p.m. Free.