May 11 Saturday
Art & Poetry is our annual FREE celebration of the creative arts. Spend the day making art with friends, watch live performances throughout the day, and sign up to participate in the Poetry Slam. Thank you to Women Writing for (a) Change for sponsoring this year’s event.
ProgrammingArt in Poetry, Poetry in Art with Creative Asian Society | 10 AM - 2 PMLocal artist Priya Rama will teach participants how to create their very own abstract painting. This event takes place in front of NOLI Modern.
Floating Poetry Activity with Art Equals | 10 AM - 2 PMWhat happens to all those drafts of poems in the making? At Art Equals, they get used to make new paper. Join us to make hand made paper that can be the springboard for new creations. Using hand selected words and the power of water, let the muses select the arrangement of your next poetry masterpiece.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth | 1 PM - 3 PM Cincinnati Shakespeare Company presents Shakespeare's Macbeth, a supernatural thriller about free will and the price of ambition. Actors will put on 5-minute pop up performances from Macbeth around the Market.
Poems in a Jiffy with Mean Street Gallery | 1 PM - 6 PMOffer up just a few words and a resident artist from Mean Street Gallery will whip you up a poem…in a jiffy!
Open Mic @ Jane’s | 4 PM - 5 PMFeaturing DJ Queen Celine and Emcee Gifted Johnson-Wilkinson
Poetry Slam @ Jane’s | 5 PM - 8 PM Try your hand at our Poetry Slam for a chance to win one of the three top prizes!
Prizes:1st Place - $2502nd Place - $1253rd Place - $100
Judges:Clarity Amerin, Community Content Creator, Cincinnati & Hamilton Co. Public LibraryChristine Wilson, Executive Director, Women Writing for (a) ChangeMillie Ferguson, Local Poet
Please join us on March 8th from 6-9 PM for the public opening reception of our next exhibition, Delicate Ecologies, Painting Selections From: Kelley Booze, Katherine Colborn, and Samantha Haring.
The exhibition will be on view in the gallery and our website from March 8th-August 10th, 2024. Please visit indianhillgallery.com for more information and hours of operation.
Join us to celebrate the cultures, traditions, histories, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) through the powers of sound, sight, touch, and taste. All fun activities & programs are designed for audience and families of all ages.The event will be organized in two parts:From 5:00PM - 7:30PM, the fun & interactive activities (including the recreational table tennis game, taichi, jump rope, Chinese martial arts - qigong, Filipino bamboo dance & interactive, and more), cultural booths, and food trucks;
From 7:30PM – 9:30PM, performance (music and folk & traditional dances of Chinese, Indian, Filipino, and Korean);
Event Link https://myfountainsquare.com/events/aapi-heritage-festival-2024/
Participating groups:• Alliance of Chinese Culture & Arts Cincinnati• Asian American Coalition Ohio• China-US Cultural Exchange Academy• Creative Asian Society• Dancing Enjàmis• Dayton Association of Chinese Americans• Filipino American Association of Southern Ohio• Filipino American Cultural and Performing Arts• Freya Dance Studio• HuaYi Cincinnati Eastern Moon Dance Group• Ikebana-Japanese Flower Arrangement• ImagineMason Mason Community• Joy Flower Music Center• Kanu-Queencity Bollywood Group• Mason Comet Skippers Jump Rope Team• Nrityarpana School of Performing Arts• Tan’s Table Tennis Academy• Taoist Tai Chi®• The Association of Chinese Americans in Kentuckiana• Sound of Joy Choir• UC’s Korean Culture & Dance Club
LIVE MUSIC WITH VELVA SHEENMay 11, 2024 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmTickets: Free
Kathy Wade, Deondra means and more join the KSO Newport Ragtime Band to perform authentic ragtime, blues, stride, Dixieland, early jazz, swing and boogie-woogie. The songs from the 1890s-1930s are by Lil Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, James Europe, W.C. Handy, Scott Joplin, Artie Matthews, Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Smith, Fats Waller and more. Hep-Hep!
May 12 Sunday
Charles E. Boyk Law Offices are proud to offer our 16th annual Bikes for Kids Giveaway. To promote bicycle safety and recognize deserving children in the community, we are giving away 10 bikes to local children for the summer! To learn more and make a nomination visit our Bikes for Kids Giveaway page.
Creative Asian Society will have its annual exhibition to celebrate AAPI month at the Elevar Design Group gallery in downtown Cincinnati. The exhibition is titled Dragon, Etc., The eleven artists in the exhibition each interpret the images and concept of dragons differently.
The art will be available for viewing on Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm, starting May 4th and continuing to May 25th. The art is also available for viewing during Elevar’s normal business hours, 9am-4pm, from April 22nd to May 31st.
More details about the artists and the exhibit can be found at https://www.casohio.org .
Elevar Design Group gallery is just on the west side of the I75 at 555 Carr St., just off the Ohio River. It’s 1.9 miles (6 minutes) from Fountain Square.
African Modernism in America features nearly 80 dynamic and vivid works of art created in Africa during the 1950s and ‘60s. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries, the exhibition explores the relationships formed between African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War. Many of the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in the show were drawn from Fisk’s remarkable collection of gifts from the Harmon Foundation. Following World War II, this foundation, along with other institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Fisk University, and other historically Black colleges and universities, supported and exhibited the work of Black artists, including the important modern African artists Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). Showing African art in the United States rooted it in the present and encouraged American audiences to engage with African artists as contemporaries. The inventive nature of the works in this exhibition challenges the assumptions of the time about African art being isolated to a “primitive past.” Some pieces took inspiration from early Christian art, West African sculpture, and Nigerian literature, while others reflect the influences of American jazz and modern European art.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/AfricanModernism.
Nature can provide inspiration for beautiful objects or set the mood in a painting. Anything from flowers to a sunset can spark an artist’s creativity. For this exhibition from the Taft collection, our curators have selected small nature-inspired works of art from storage.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/NatureInspires.