Summertime, and the livin’ is … busy. One almost gets the impression that your summer vacation (if you’re lucky enough to get one) exists solely to allow you to attend more of the bumper crop of arts and culture events on tap this week.
The holiday is over, and it’s back to business. At least it is for the region’s arts and cultural community. Its various organizations have cooked up a week full of activities that go great with leftover brats, grilled chicken, corn on the cob and potato salad. Let’s get to it.
At Movers & Makers, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Art, Culture and the pursuit of Personal Betterment…
Pendleton’s most exciting (and dangerous) event will return for its fifth year of downhill Big Wheel races to benefit the beautification of the Pendleton neighborhood.
Friday will be the 172nd day of 2019, the first day of summer and about the 169th day it’s rained in Greater Cincinnati. Let’s hope the new season brings some seasonally appropriate weather.
Just when one might think it was time to take a break for, oh, I don’t know, relaxing with some iced tea on the patio, there are major art exhibitions and the opera season revving up.
Summerfair Cincinnati is the 900-pound gorilla of arts fairs. One of the nation’s oldest continuing arts fairs, it consistently ranks as one of the best in the United States.
The Art Academy of Cincinnati will celebrate its 150th anniversary with a block party, and the public is invited. The Art Academy will close off the 1200 block of Jackson Street.
So what to do when precipitation requires indoor activities? Glad you asked. We have just the answer.
