Movies in the Park returns this fall with all of your favorite blockbusters! Bring a blanket and pack a picnic for these free movies that start at sunset. Mobile concessions are available for purchase during the event, and be sure to share your pictures with us using #FishersMovies!

Join the IRT for opening night and experience the theatre like you never have before! Immediately following this performance join cast, staff and patrons in the lobby for appetizers and a celebratory champagne toast. Afterwards, join us on stage to explore the set and connect with the artisans who bring the set to life.

Join our Resident Naturalist as she shares her passion for Environmental Education and more than 30 years of experience on a hike through Central Park. Gain and build upon an understanding and appreciation of nature and the outdoors! We will observe the night time songs of birds, movement of wildlife and maybe even hear an owl call! Please dress for the weather and wear clothing and shoes that can get dirty. A flashlight or headlamp is required and binoculars are optional. Registration is per family.
The fee is $10.

Join us for a fun family Friday night around the campfire. Discover campfire cooking recipes and techniques, or listen to famous campfire stories and legends. Roasting sticks and s’mores provided, bring your own hot dogs and make a meal of it!

$5/person, pre-registration required by clicking here.

Discover campfire cooking recipes and techniques, or listen to famous campfire stories and legends. Roasting sticks and s’mores provided, bring your own hot dogs and make a meal of it! $5/person.

Tykes Night Out is a respite event sponsored by BACA Charities and serves young children with disabilities. Children who attend enjoy a fun night with friends. Activities include playing group games, eating dinner and watching a movie. Each child will receive individualized attention. Thank you to our friends at McAlister’s Deli on 116th St. for providing dinner. To register for an event, please contact Michelle Yadon at myadon@carmelclayparks.com.
This free event is for children ages 2 – 5 years old.

Oktoberfest has become an annual celebratory fall event for Carmel residents. It is free to the public and open to all ages.

Polkaboy, a 14-piece band that plays a variety of music from polka and waltz to classic rock, will perform on the upper deck of Carmel City Center, along Veteran’s Way. Guests are encouraged to enjoy food, entertainment and fall fun with the Palladium and the Center Green serving as a scenic background.

Zoolapalooza concerts presented by Central Indiana Honda Dealers are a great way to kick off your weekend with a wild lineup of live music on Friday evenings. This series features hit songs the whole family will love by some of Indy’s top bands.

Concerts are included with Zoo admission, so you can come play all day and dance all night! The after-hours ambience feels like a Zoo trip like no other. Plus you can also enjoy:

• Music: Performed live from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
• Food: Great specialty food stations offer a new menu available for purchase each night
• Beverages: A full bar, featuring beer sampling from Sun King Brewery
• Activities: Kids will enjoy playing with instruments, animal artifacts and a friendly game of tic-tac-toe
• Animals: On exhibit until 7 p.m.
• Rides: Available until 7 p.m. with Zoo member specials available on a different ride each night from 5 – 7 p.m.

Zoolapalooza concerts presented by Central Indiana Honda Dealers are a great way to kick off your weekend with a wild lineup of live music on Friday evenings. This series features hit songs the whole family will love by some of Indy’s top bands.

Concerts are included with Zoo admission, so you can come play all day and dance all night! The after-hours ambience feels like a Zoo trip like no other. Plus you can also enjoy:

• Music: Performed live from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
• Food: Great specialty food stations offer a new menu available for purchase each night
• Beverages: A full bar, featuring beer sampling from Sun King Brewery
• Activities: Kids will enjoy playing with instruments, animal artifacts and a friendly game of tic-tac-toe
• Animals: On exhibit until 7 p.m.
• Rides: Available until 7 p.m. with Zoo member specials available on a different ride each night from 5 – 7 p.m.

Zoolapalooza concerts presented by Central Indiana Honda Dealers are a great way to kick off your weekend with a wild lineup of live music on Friday evenings. This series features hit songs the whole family will love by some of Indy’s top bands.

Concerts are included with Zoo admission, so you can come play all day and dance all night! The after-hours ambience feels like a Zoo trip like no other. Plus you can also enjoy:

• Music: Performed live from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
• Food: Great specialty food stations offer a new menu available for purchase each night
• Beverages: A full bar, featuring beer sampling from Sun King Brewery
• Activities: Kids will enjoy playing with instruments, animal artifacts and a friendly game of tic-tac-toe
• Animals: On exhibit until 7 p.m.
• Rides: Available until 7 p.m. with Zoo member specials available on a different ride each night from 5 – 7 p.m.

Grab some friends and come paint! All ladies receive half-price studio fee from 5pm-9pm. It’s the perfect reason to spend time with your girlfriends! No reservation or experience needed.

uPaint Pottery Studio is a paint your own pottery studio located in Plainfield, Greenwood, and Hamilton Town Center. For more information, visit us on the web – www.upaintpotterystudio.com

uPaint Ladies Night
Date – Sept 22nd 5pm-9pm

Grab some friends and come paint! All ladies receive half-price studio fee from 5pm-9pm. It’s the perfect reason to spend time with your girlfriends! No reservation or experience needed.

uPaint Pottery Studio is a paint your own pottery studio located in Plainfield, Greenwood, and Hamilton Town Center. For more information, visit us on the web – www.upaintpotterystudio.com

Grab some friends and come paint! All ladies receive half-price studio fee from 5pm-9pm. It’s the perfect reason to spend time with your girlfriends! No reservation or experience needed.

uPaint Pottery Studio is a paint your own pottery studio located in Plainfield, Greenwood, and Hamilton Town Center. For more information, visit us on the web – www.upaintpotterystudio.com

Join the Joseph Maley Foundation for an afternoon on the green serving children of all abilities! Our annual Golf Outing takes place at the Eagle Creek Golf Club Pines Course, one of Pete Dye’s most beautifully designed courses in Indiana. Bring your colleagues, clients, family and friends to golf for an incredible cause: to raise funds for the programs of JMF. More info: www.josephmaley.org/event/jmf-annual-golf-outing/?event_date=2017-09-22

Suburban Indy’s Fall Home & Outdoor Living Show is coming to Grand Park Event Center in Westfield September 21-24  This show was designed to connect Suburban Indy homeowners with local businesses to discuss your landscape, home improvement and home building needs. Learn more here.

Musicians of all abilities are invited to bring an unamplified musical instrument for a free jam session! Participants are asked to bring sheet copies of their songs to share with others. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace area on the 1st floor.

Peewinkle learns from Sherman the Pelican all about
life under the sea. This show features a wide range of puppets and beloved music. Perfect for ages PK – 2nd grade. Educational info and post show workshops are available. Schools interested in buying out the house…please call us
at 317.695.5422

Peewinkle learns from Sherman the Pelican all about
life under the sea. This show features a wide range of
puppets and beloved music. Perfect for ages PK – 2nd grade.
Educational info and post show workshops are available.
Schools interested in buying out the house…please call us
at 317.695.5422

Thurs. Sept. 14 – 10am
Fri. Sept. 15 – 10am
Sat. Sept. 16 – 10:30am
Sun. Sept. 17 – 1pm
Thurs. Sept. 21 – 10am
Fri. Sept. 22 – 10am
Sat. Sept. 23 – 10:30am

Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; open until 9 p.m. during October’s Headless Horseman festival and open Labor Day

From hand-dipped caramel apples to candy or cider, the Apple Store at Conner Prairie has all your favorite fall treats. Returning favorites include salted caramel apples and toffee apples, cider slushies, apple butter, pies, donuts and fresh-from-the-orchard apples. The store accepts special orders; orders for gift baskets, gourmet dipped apples and specialty items for weddings, birthdays and other celebrations can be placed by calling (317) 776-6000, Ext. 199. Funds raised by the store support a variety of programs and exhibits at Conner Prairie. Admission is not required to visit and shop at the Apple Store at Conner Prairie.

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Between September 10 and 23, Indianapolis area residents can recycle used car seats! In celebration of National Baby Safety Month, 1,700 Target stores nationwide and across Indiana are hosting car seat collection programs to help residents reduce household clutter without sending waste to landfills. All car seats collected in this program will be recycled through TerraCycle so that each component will see a second life.

Residents should bring their car seats to participating Target stores and look for Target’s car seat collection box in the front of the store or in the baby/kids floor pad section. When a customer turns in a used car seat, he or she will receive a coupon for 20% off the purchase of a new one.

After the recycling program ends, TerraCycle will separate the different components of the car seats (cloth elements, plastics, metals, etc.) and process them for use in other products.

Join us for an educational meeting and learn how to use your carrier, or try one of our lending library carriers. We’ll do carrier demonstrations, and you can chat with a volunteer babywearing educator for hands on support and for answers to any questions you might have. Meet and socialize with other babywearing caregivers!

This is a free event. All caregivers, children of all ages, significant others, grandparents, etc. are welcome.

Meeting agenda:
10:00-10:15 – Arrival and sign-in, carrier check-in
10:15-10:30 – Brief volunteer introductions, announcements
10:30 – Meeting starts
11:00 – Carrier check-out starts
12:00 – Meeting ends

More information about meetings and the lending library here:
http://bwiofcentralindiana.wordpress.com/faqs

Want to know dates of future meetings?
http://bwiofcentralindiana.wordpress.com/calendar

Information about Krannert Park here:
http://facebook.com/krannertpark

Musicians of all abilities are invited to bring an unamplified musical instrument for a free jam session! Participants are asked to bring sheet copies of their songs to share with others. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace area on the 1st floor.

Designed for walkers ages 18 months to two-years-old, this 14-week, in-home program provides a safe, loving and fun space to nurture your child specifically at this stage of development. Your child will enjoy plenty of free play, art, outdoor play, movement and dance, stories and sensory activities all with the intention of instilling mindfulness – the practice of connection with oneself and others!

Creative Dance for toddlers offers a five part multiple intelligence curriculum including music, the BrainDance©, exploring a practical everyday dance concept such as level, speed or relationship. We use various props as we move practicing gross and fine motor skills. For the toddler age we focus on the social and emotional, encouraging bonding with parents while being introduced and dancing with friends. Language is supported with rhymes and each child is supported and encourage to learn in their own style at their own pace. It is also a nice workout for parents as they fully participate creating a model for the toddlers as they are watching and learning through their visual cortex where a major part of learning is taking place at this age. Safety and Fun are first priorities in this class! Based on the knowledge that if these are present then learning and connection can happen.

Creative Dance for toddlers offers a five part multiple intelligence curriculum including music, the BrainDance©, exploring a practical everyday dance concept such as level, speed or relationship. We use various props as we move practicing gross and fine motor skills. For the toddler age we focus on the social and emotional, encouraging bonding with parents while being introduced and dancing with friends. Language is supported with rhymes and each child is supported and encourage to learn in their own style at their own pace. It is also a nice workout for parents as they fully participate creating a model for the toddlers as they are watching and learning through their visual cortex where a major part of learning is taking place at this age. Safety and Fun are first priorities in this class! Based on the knowledge that if these are present then learning and connection can happen.

Join us for an educational meeting and learn how to use your carrier, or try one of our lending library carriers. We’ll do carrier demonstrations, and you can chat with a volunteer babywearing educator for hands on support and for answers to any questions you might have. Meet and socialize with other babywearing caregivers!

This is a free event. All caregivers, children of all ages, significant others, grandparents, etc. are welcome.

Meeting agenda:
10:00-10:15 – Arrival and sign-in, carrier check-in
10:15-10:30 – Brief volunteer introductions, announcements
10:30 – Meeting starts
11:00 – Carrier check-out starts
12:00 – Meeting ends

More information about meetings and the lending library here:
http://bwiofcentralindiana.wordpress.com/faqs

Want to know dates of future meetings?
http://bwiofcentralindiana.wordpress.com/calendar

Information about Krannert Park here:
http://facebook.com/krannertpark

Chemistry sets and science toys contained much more than their parts. Savvy marketing slogans played to parents’ hopes for the future success of their children and to the children’s own desires for fun and excitement: “Developing Today’s Young Scientist for Tomorrow’s Future” and “Fun! Mystifying! Give a Magic Show!” Science at Play, the first major museum exhibition to explore the many facts of these miniature laboratories for children, draws from the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s collection of more than 250 science kits and toys.
This exhibition is part of the Year of Science, presented by Lilly. 

Musicians of all abilities are invited to bring an unamplified musical instrument for a free jam session! Participants are asked to bring sheet copies of their songs to share with others. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace area on the 1st floor.

Musicians of all abilities are invited to bring an unamplified musical instrument for a free jam session! Participants are asked to bring sheet copies of their songs to share with others. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace area on the 1st floor.

DANCE!  is the first temporary exhibit to be featured in The Galleries for American Arts and Popular Culture. Visitors to this exhibit should be ready to move their feet to the beat and join the fun. This multigenerational exhibit looks at dance styles through the ages and around the world. Families who feel daring may want to put on their dancing shoes and take the stage to showcase their best dance moves.

Bring your child every first and third Saturday to read to a very special reading dog! The rotating cast of certified reading therapy dogs make reassuring (and adorable) listeners.

Reminisce about fads or pop culture events that affected your life and learn what shaped those things into becoming hot or hip. American POP: The Galleries for American Arts and Popular Culture will showcase American TV shows, movies, music, and fashion that can bring us together across generations. American POP is a new permanent exhibit that will explore how popular culture has influenced our daily lives in the past and the present, and imagine how it may shape the future.

Musicians of all abilities are invited to bring an unamplified musical instrument for a free jam session! Participants are asked to bring sheet copies of their songs to share with others. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace area on the 1st floor.

Bring your child every first and third Saturday to read to a very special reading dog! The rotating cast of certified reading therapy dogs make reassuring (and adorable) listeners.

On Tuesdays, ‘Cloud City Youth’s’ professional chess instructor Colin Hargreaves will facilitate a new chess club for kids, using a unique and exciting method that makes learning super easy and fun. They will provide plenty of boards and sets. Attendees should feel free to play organically but can receive lessons from the instructors during each meeting. You can expect a friendly tournament or just attend to learn chess techniques.

This club will be moderated by Colin Hargreaves who has been teaching chess since he was fourteen. For the last 10 years, he has taught professionally and developed a unique STEM focused, creative-play curriculum in over twenty private and public schools around Indy. His educational enrichment organization, ‘Cloud City Youth’, focuses on building a lifelong love of learning. These before, during, and after-school enrichment programs offer professional, competitive level chess instruction for children.”

Join us for Second Saturdays in Fountain Square for our Tiny Tots Rock! music class hosted by Michelle Marti of ShooBeeLoo Music!! (shoobeeloo.com)
ALL KIDS AGES 0-6 are welcome! In an effort to provide children with that special connection year round and to as many children as we can, we’ve developed Tiny Tots Rock! Now your younger rockers can join the fun! Parent and child fun, not a drop-off class. Also a great time for parents to meet other parents and there is always free coffee on hand!

Have you ever thought about running away to join the circus? Now you have a unique opportunity and you don’t even have to pack your suitcase! Circus — Starring YOU! is a colorful, highly interactive exhibit filled with the sights, sounds and even some of the enticing food smells of some of the greatest shows on Earth. Children and families are invited to step right up and join three rings of circus fun and history under the big top.

See the circus world as it was decades ago when it served as a rare form of exotic entertainment. Experience what has changed, and what has remained the same including the highly skilled athletes and performers who dazzle and amaze. Become part of the circus family as you dare to walk the virtual tightrope, learn to juggle, or practice your rigging skills.

Here is a sampling of some of the fun families will experience when they join The Children’s Museum circus experience:

• Virtual Reality Tightrope: Experience the thrill of the high wire when you put on a headset and walk along a “wire” from one basket to another in a realistic simulation of a classic circus act.
• Lyra Rings: Practice a real circus aerial act using real equipment in a safe and secure environment.
• Rigging Knots: Learn to tie and secure knots similar to those used in real circus rigging.
• Juggling: Work together as a family on a stationary roller board to learn the rhythm and timing of basic juggling then try your new skills using scarves or beanbags.
• Roman Ladders: Two sizes of ladders allow you and all members of your family to practice acrobatic skills on special ladders created just for circuses.
• Clown Car: Dress in clown costumes and see how many of your family members you can “fit” in a simulated clown car. Don’t forget to take your family selfie!
• Clown Face-Painting Touchscreen Game: Create your own clown face after learning the different types of clowns. Email your finished product to yourself.

Included with general admission and free for IMA members
The final of the three exhibitions in the IMA’s CSI: Conservation Science Indianapolis series, the Chemistry of Color explores the relationship between chemistry and art by discussing the discovery of colorants used by artists from pre-history to the present day, through relevant examples from the IMA collection. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.