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Elevate- Cincinnati

21c Museum Hotel
609 Walnut, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel property. Elevate provides hotel guests with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context...

Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel property. Elevate provides hotel guests with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context...

Riverfront Market

Smale Riverfront Park
Mehring Way & Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Come on down to the first ever Riverfront Market at the Castellini Esplanade! Every Wednesday (4pm-8pm) & Sunday (9am-3pm) from May 12 to Oct 27 you'll find a variety of vendors and rotating food trucks. The other days of the week in the same location, you can be sure to...

Come on down to the first ever Riverfront Market at the Castellini Esplanade! Every Wednesday (4pm-8pm) & Sunday (9am-3pm) from May 12 to Oct 27 you'll find a variety of vendors and rotating food trucks. The other days of the week in the same location, you can be sure to...

Yoga with Art

21c Museum Hotel
609 Walnut, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Find your inner peace at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati’s weekly Sunday yoga series. Perfect the art of oneness as you work through a variety of poses. Sessions are just $5 at the door and are led by certified yoga teachers from Modo Yoga. Attendees should bring their own mat or...

Find your inner peace at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati’s weekly Sunday yoga series. Perfect the art of oneness as you work through a variety of poses. Sessions are just $5 at the door and are led by certified yoga teachers from Modo Yoga. Attendees should bring their own mat or...

Cincinnati Burger Week

Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

From gourmet blends to off-menu specialties and even beer pairings, this is a week dedicated to America’s sweetheart, the Hamburger! Each restaurateur and Chef will prepare their unique take on the burger. Click here for a list of participating restaurants. 

From gourmet blends to off-menu specialties and even beer pairings, this is a week dedicated to America’s sweetheart, the Hamburger! Each restaurateur and Chef will prepare their unique take on the burger. Click here for a list of participating restaurants. 

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum All My Seven Faces

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum explores the notion of nomadism via alter egos. The works of this Botswana-born, Toronto-based artist reflect the idiosyncrasies of her upbringing across three continents, while discussing broader notions of time and place. Shifting transnational...

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum explores the notion of nomadism via alter egos. The works of this Botswana-born, Toronto-based artist reflect the idiosyncrasies of her upbringing across three continents, while discussing broader notions of time and place. Shifting transnational...

Sandra Cinto

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Throughout her career, Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes that swirl between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent...

Throughout her career, Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes that swirl between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent...

Joan Tanner: Flaw

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Californian artist Joan Tanner’s oeuvre has evolved from her origins as a painter to the large sculptures and installations that now preoccupy her. Throughout her prolific, 60 year career Tanner has been absorbed with ideas of history, disruption, and inconsistency in her...

Californian artist Joan Tanner’s oeuvre has evolved from her origins as a painter to the large sculptures and installations that now preoccupy her. Throughout her prolific, 60 year career Tanner has been absorbed with ideas of history, disruption, and inconsistency in her...

Bubi Canal: Into the Gloaming

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Into the Gloaming is a new photographic series by interdisciplinary artist, Bubi Canal (b. 1980, Spain), opening at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 12, 2019, organized by independent curator and writer, Maria Seda-Reeder. Showing in the Lower Level Lobby...

Into the Gloaming is a new photographic series by interdisciplinary artist, Bubi Canal (b. 1980, Spain), opening at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 12, 2019, organized by independent curator and writer, Maria Seda-Reeder. Showing in the Lower Level Lobby...

Creatures: When Species Meet

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Western civilization has long looked at the many living creatures outside of humankind as the subjects of dominion; as entities less than equals who serve a purpose rather than as peers. In this historically, almost exclusively one-sided arena, we have regarded the animal and...

Western civilization has long looked at the many living creatures outside of humankind as the subjects of dominion; as entities less than equals who serve a purpose rather than as peers. In this historically, almost exclusively one-sided arena, we have regarded the animal and...

Until We Meet Again: Cincinnati Portraits from World War I

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

In December 1918, just a month after World War I’s end, the US and Allied Governments War Exposition at Music Hall celebrated the Allied Victory and the Cincinnatians who served. The Expo featured more than 6,000 photographs of area servicemen and women, loaned by local...

In December 1918, just a month after World War I’s end, the US and Allied Governments War Exposition at Music Hall celebrated the Allied Victory and the Cincinnatians who served. The Expo featured more than 6,000 photographs of area servicemen and women, loaned by local...

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs unveils the mysteries and explores the realities of daily life in ancient Egypt. This extraordinary exhibition looks beyond popular culture’s fantastical portrayals to examine the lives of commoners and god-kings and queens alike. More than 350...

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs unveils the mysteries and explores the realities of daily life in ancient Egypt. This extraordinary exhibition looks beyond popular culture’s fantastical portrayals to examine the lives of commoners and god-kings and queens alike. More than 350...

odAOMO Pop-Up Shop in OTR

BRICK POP-UP SHOPS
1327 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

A truly unique brand, odAOMO produces garments and accessories from eco-friendly materials in Kenya. The leather, hide, shell, snake and fish skin goods are constructed of food byproducts and found materials so no lives are harmed for fashion. The fine silks, cashmere blends and...

A truly unique brand, odAOMO produces garments and accessories from eco-friendly materials in Kenya. The leather, hide, shell, snake and fish skin goods are constructed of food byproducts and found materials so no lives are harmed for fashion. The fine silks, cashmere blends and...

Magic & Melodrama: Cincinnati Posters from the Gilded Age

Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

At the turn of the 20th century, traveling actors, illusionists, and theatrical producers promoted live performances with brilliantly colored printed outdoor advertisements. These pictured magic tricks, fantastic battles, heartbreaking scenes, and grand dance numbers, among many...

At the turn of the 20th century, traveling actors, illusionists, and theatrical producers promoted live performances with brilliantly colored printed outdoor advertisements. These pictured magic tricks, fantastic battles, heartbreaking scenes, and grand dance numbers, among many...

L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters

Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Meant to stop people in their tracks with bold colors and seductive imagery, French advertising posters of the turn of the 20th century ultimately became highly collectible works of art. L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters presents the work of five innovative...

Meant to stop people in their tracks with bold colors and seductive imagery, French advertising posters of the turn of the 20th century ultimately became highly collectible works of art. L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters presents the work of five innovative...

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. In addition to increasing our understanding of the culture, religion, medicine and daily life thousands of years ago, scientists today are...

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. In addition to increasing our understanding of the culture, religion, medicine and daily life thousands of years ago, scientists today are...

Cincinnati Reds Baseball

Cincinnati Reds
100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Sounds of Summer

Rhinegeist Brewery
1910 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Enjoy live music on Rhinegeist's rooftop every Sunday this summer! 

Enjoy live music on Rhinegeist's rooftop every Sunday this summer! 

The Secret Society of Spirits

Memorial Hall
1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Memorial Hall and Watershed Distillery present this very special event!    Beat the late winter blues with a roster of revitalizing recipes, featuring Watershed’s trademark vodka, gin and bourbon along with tasty eats from The Rhined.   Cocktail lovers...

Memorial Hall and Watershed Distillery present this very special event!    Beat the late winter blues with a roster of revitalizing recipes, featuring Watershed’s trademark vodka, gin and bourbon along with tasty eats from The Rhined.   Cocktail lovers...

Cuba: Journey to the Heart of the Caribbean

Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

In association with BBC Earth, and filmed exclusively for OMNIMAX screens, discover a land preserved in time, yet continually poised on the cusp of dramatic change. Dive into the culture of the largest island in the Caribbean, a vibrant mix of meticulously maintained colonial...

In association with BBC Earth, and filmed exclusively for OMNIMAX screens, discover a land preserved in time, yet continually poised on the cusp of dramatic change. Dive into the culture of the largest island in the Caribbean, a vibrant mix of meticulously maintained colonial...

SummerSing 2019

Collegium Cincinnati
650 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Voices come alive during the most exciting music-making week of the summer! Collegium Cincinnati invites singers of all ages and abilities to join in putting together masterworks of choral repertoire.

Voices come alive during the most exciting music-making week of the summer! Collegium Cincinnati invites singers of all ages and abilities to join in putting together masterworks of choral repertoire.

DBL Law OTR Performs

Washington Park
1230 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Every Sunday, enjoy an evening of free arts programming in the Park that is sure to please the whole family.

Every Sunday, enjoy an evening of free arts programming in the Park that is sure to please the whole family.

Shakespeare in the Park: A Midsummer Night's Dream & Romeo and Juliet

Washington Park
1230 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company presents a free performance series, throughout the summer.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company presents a free performance series, throughout the summer.

Tiki Night

The Righteous Room
641 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Time to break out your Hawaiian shirts... your new Sunday Funday plans have arrived!   The Righteous Room transforms into an island retreat every other Sunday, starting May 26th! Join in the courtyard after 8pm for tropical drinks, tiki tunes from resident DJ, and island...

Time to break out your Hawaiian shirts... your new Sunday Funday plans have arrived!   The Righteous Room transforms into an island retreat every other Sunday, starting May 26th! Join in the courtyard after 8pm for tropical drinks, tiki tunes from resident DJ, and island...

Saya Woolfalk A Cabinet of Anticipation

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Born in Gifu City, Japan to a mixed race family marrying Asian and African American heritage, Saya Woolfalk lives, works, and performs the provocative concept of cultural hybridity. Her trans-national background informs colorful, multi-disciplinary work which explores the future...

Born in Gifu City, Japan to a mixed race family marrying Asian and African American heritage, Saya Woolfalk lives, works, and performs the provocative concept of cultural hybridity. Her trans-national background informs colorful, multi-disciplinary work which explores the future...

Cincinnati SEO and Social Media Bootcamp

Scott Keever SEO
1335 Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Learn what you need to know to be a SEO specialist and Social Media Manager for your company! Learn how to make your business more visible online and how to reach your target audience on social media. Would you like to sharpen your skills needed to handle SEO and social media...

Learn what you need to know to be a SEO specialist and Social Media Manager for your company! Learn how to make your business more visible online and how to reach your target audience on social media. Would you like to sharpen your skills needed to handle SEO and social media...

The Legacy of the Art Academy of Cincinnati

Cincinnati Art Galleries
225 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

The Art Academy of Cincinnati has been a dynamic force in cultivating a wealth of artists here in the Queen City and beyond. Artists included in this exhibition include the following: Tom Bacher, Terry Boyle, Paul Chidlaw, Jim Dine, Frank Duveneck, Kim Flora, Tim Folzenlogen,...

The Art Academy of Cincinnati has been a dynamic force in cultivating a wealth of artists here in the Queen City and beyond. Artists included in this exhibition include the following: Tom Bacher, Terry Boyle, Paul Chidlaw, Jim Dine, Frank Duveneck, Kim Flora, Tim Folzenlogen,...

ETC High School Summer Stock

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
1127 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Featuring workshops taught by the same professional artists that grace ETC’s stage, our summer stock camps offer children ages 7–18 an unforgettable collaborative experience while exploring acting techniques including improv, auditioning, script analysis, and acting for the...

Featuring workshops taught by the same professional artists that grace ETC’s stage, our summer stock camps offer children ages 7–18 an unforgettable collaborative experience while exploring acting techniques including improv, auditioning, script analysis, and acting for the...

Mambo Combo

Memorial Hall
1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Celebrating the classic mambo, Latin jazz and cha-cha of Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez and Mark Levine, Mambo Combo has its compass set toward Cuba. It’s stocked with an all-star cast of Cincinnati-area musicians from the bands Tropicoso, ZUMBA, Mambo Diablo, Salsa...

Celebrating the classic mambo, Latin jazz and cha-cha of Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez and Mark Levine, Mambo Combo has its compass set toward Cuba. It’s stocked with an all-star cast of Cincinnati-area musicians from the bands Tropicoso, ZUMBA, Mambo Diablo, Salsa...

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz

Locoba by Platform
1201 Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Every Monday night Locoba by Platform is hosting trivia! There will be 8 rounds of audio, visual, and live hosted trivia. 6 players or less per team.

Every Monday night Locoba by Platform is hosting trivia! There will be 8 rounds of audio, visual, and live hosted trivia. 6 players or less per team.

Trivia Night

Fountain Square
Fifth and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Every Monday from 7PM to 9PM, grab your friends and head to the Square for gift card prizes and plenty of fast-paced trivia! Teams must consist of no more than eight members in order to play. Fountain Square concessions offer beer, wine, drink specials, and Coca-Cola products...

Every Monday from 7PM to 9PM, grab your friends and head to the Square for gift card prizes and plenty of fast-paced trivia! Teams must consist of no more than eight members in order to play. Fountain Square concessions offer beer, wine, drink specials, and Coca-Cola products...

Blind Injustice

Music Hall
1241 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time. A child’s words are twisted. You might look like someone who committed a crime. Suddenly, your world is taken away. You’re in prison for a crime you did not commit, and no one is helping you get out. This was reality for Ricky...

You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time. A child’s words are twisted. You might look like someone who committed a crime. Suddenly, your world is taken away. You’re in prison for a crime you did not commit, and no one is helping you get out. This was reality for Ricky...

Women's Liberties Apprentice Presentation

Reverb Art + Design
130 W Court St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

oin ArtWorks as the Youth Apprentices of the Women’s Liberties Project team give a presentation that will recap tremendous work they have completed developing artist-driven materials and activities to educate and encourage both young voters. As part of a city-wide campaign in...

oin ArtWorks as the Youth Apprentices of the Women’s Liberties Project team give a presentation that will recap tremendous work they have completed developing artist-driven materials and activities to educate and encourage both young voters. As part of a city-wide campaign in...