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Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance

21c Museum Hotel
609 Walnut, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Bedecked and bejeweled, the figures populating Dress Up, Speak Up occupy fluid space and time, evoking past and present, fact and fiction, memory and desire, to illuminate the complexity of contemporary identity. Whether clad in the stylized garb of Enlightenment-era Europe, the...

Bedecked and bejeweled, the figures populating Dress Up, Speak Up occupy fluid space and time, evoking past and present, fact and fiction, memory and desire, to illuminate the complexity of contemporary identity. Whether clad in the stylized garb of Enlightenment-era Europe, the...

Herman and Bessie Wessel Collection

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

Downtown

Cincinnati Art Galleries is pleased to announce an historically important exhibition highlighting the works of Cincinnati artists Herman and Bessie Wessel featuring paintings from the Helen Wessel Estate opening Friday, October 25th from 5-8pm through Nov. 27th. Helen was the...

Cincinnati Art Galleries is pleased to announce an historically important exhibition highlighting the works of Cincinnati artists Herman and Bessie Wessel featuring paintings from the Helen Wessel Estate opening Friday, October 25th from 5-8pm through Nov. 27th. Helen was the...

Cincinnati Musical Legends: Art from the First Deck

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Main Library
800 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Shake It Records recently worked with ArtWorks to design a set of 36 trading cards featuring original portraits and biographies of recording artists that represent the diverse and fascinating history of music in Cincinnati. In partnership with the Public Library of Cincinnati...

Shake It Records recently worked with ArtWorks to design a set of 36 trading cards featuring original portraits and biographies of recording artists that represent the diverse and fascinating history of music in Cincinnati. In partnership with the Public Library of Cincinnati...

​Kevin Harris' FOOTPRINTS: A Retrospective of Explorations of the Landscape in Printmaking

Harmon Museum
105 S. Broadway, Lebanon, OH 45036

North

Footprints is a retrospective of over 30 years of work by Kevin Harris ranging from woodcuts to digital prints, combining traditional methods and contemporary technology. The exhibition is a record of Kevin’s observations of his familiar surroundings as well as a visual log of...

Footprints is a retrospective of over 30 years of work by Kevin Harris ranging from woodcuts to digital prints, combining traditional methods and contemporary technology. The exhibition is a record of Kevin’s observations of his familiar surroundings as well as a visual log of...

Santa’s Wonderland at Cabela’s

Cabela's
7250 Cabela Drive, West Chester, OH 45069

North

Santa’s Wonderland is the ultimate free family Christmas event returning to Cabela’s this holiday season. Cincinnati-area families are invited to enjoy this enchanting Christmas village offering FREE 4x6 studio-quality photos with Santa and free family holiday activities...

Santa’s Wonderland is the ultimate free family Christmas event returning to Cabela’s this holiday season. Cincinnati-area families are invited to enjoy this enchanting Christmas village offering FREE 4x6 studio-quality photos with Santa and free family holiday activities...

Santa’s Wonderland at Bass Pro Shops

Bass Pro Shops at the Cincinnati Mall
300 Cincinnati Mills Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45240

North

Santa’s Wonderland is the ultimate free family Christmas event. The magic returns to Bass Pro Shops and Cincinnati-area families are invited to enjoy this enchanting Christmas village offering FREE 4x6 studio-quality photos with Santa and free family holiday activities...

Santa’s Wonderland is the ultimate free family Christmas event. The magic returns to Bass Pro Shops and Cincinnati-area families are invited to enjoy this enchanting Christmas village offering FREE 4x6 studio-quality photos with Santa and free family holiday activities...

Joomi Chung: Image Space/Memory Space

Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Joomi Chung (Oxford, OH) unfolds an abstract landscape-map in an immersive installation combining objective representation and subjective experiences of places and moments. Her work explores the idea of memory-space from multiple angles: as long scrolls of multi-referential...

Joomi Chung (Oxford, OH) unfolds an abstract landscape-map in an immersive installation combining objective representation and subjective experiences of places and moments. Her work explores the idea of memory-space from multiple angles: as long scrolls of multi-referential...

John Humphries: Rules, Recipes, and Mythology—Works on Paper

Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

John Humphries’s (Cincinnati, OH) exquisite watercolors investigate tectonic ideas of space, narrative, texture, order/disorder, and connection through architectural interventions that explore the relationship between mythology, landscape, and the built environment. In this...

John Humphries’s (Cincinnati, OH) exquisite watercolors investigate tectonic ideas of space, narrative, texture, order/disorder, and connection through architectural interventions that explore the relationship between mythology, landscape, and the built environment. In this...

Emily Moore: Felt Embrace

Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

In her intricate and ethereal installations, Emily Moores (Cincinnati, OH) investigates the affective dimensions of texture: the intimate interaction with an individual’s feelings and body without physical touch. Responding to the vertical expanse of the Weston’s...

In her intricate and ethereal installations, Emily Moores (Cincinnati, OH) investigates the affective dimensions of texture: the intimate interaction with an individual’s feelings and body without physical touch. Responding to the vertical expanse of the Weston’s...

Confinement: Politics of Space and Bodies

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

Downtown

Confinement: Politics of Space and Bodies is a direct response to Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days (1961), which sees a woman buried up to her neck in the ground. Under the blazing sun, Winnie is anchored in a mound of sand, her belongings gathered in a black bag. She...

Confinement: Politics of Space and Bodies is a direct response to Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days (1961), which sees a woman buried up to her neck in the ground. Under the blazing sun, Winnie is anchored in a mound of sand, her belongings gathered in a black bag. She...

Robert Colescott Art and Race Matters

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

Downtown

The Contemporary Arts Center is proud to open our 2019 – 2020 exhibition season with Art and Race Matters, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The exhibition will reveal 85 total...

The Contemporary Arts Center is proud to open our 2019 – 2020 exhibition season with Art and Race Matters, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The exhibition will reveal 85 total...

Tom Schiff: Surrounded by Art

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

Downtown

The desire to represent the world in an all-encompassing, immersive experience has sparked the creativity of painters and photographers for many centuries. This drive led to the invention of artistic panoramas which were especially popular during the 19th century in Europe and...

The desire to represent the world in an all-encompassing, immersive experience has sparked the creativity of painters and photographers for many centuries. This drive led to the invention of artistic panoramas which were especially popular during the 19th century in Europe and...

Lauren Henkin Props

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

Downtown

The work of Lauren Henkin, which spans photography, video and sculpture, questions the relations that may exist between extant, architectural forms and the natural or urban landscapes in which they sit. Concerned with notions of placement and scale, her photographic body of...

The work of Lauren Henkin, which spans photography, video and sculpture, questions the relations that may exist between extant, architectural forms and the natural or urban landscapes in which they sit. Concerned with notions of placement and scale, her photographic body of...

Cincinnati Black Restaurant Week

Greater Cincinnati
, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Celebrating the second year, Cincinnati Black Restuarant Week will be celebrating 25 black-owned and operated restaurants who are offering dining specials across the city! Partcipating restaurants include: Just Q'in- 25% Discount when guests mention Black Restaurant Week...

Celebrating the second year, Cincinnati Black Restuarant Week will be celebrating 25 black-owned and operated restaurants who are offering dining specials across the city! Partcipating restaurants include: Just Q'in- 25% Discount when guests mention Black Restaurant Week...

Winter Wonderland

Sharon Woods
11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241

North

It’s a celebration of everyone’s favorite magical Nordic movie! Enter the nature center that’s been transformed into a frozen winter wonderland. Create a troll, walk through a snowstorm and try Nordic foods as you explore the nature and culture of Scandinavia. 

It’s a celebration of everyone’s favorite magical Nordic movie! Enter the nature center that’s been transformed into a frozen winter wonderland. Create a troll, walk through a snowstorm and try Nordic foods as you explore the nature and culture of Scandinavia. 

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura (b. 1981, West Bengal, India) in which the artist explores themes of connection, perspective and place. The landscapes and portraits of The Levee trace Hura’s travel along the...

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura (b. 1981, West Bengal, India) in which the artist explores themes of connection, perspective and place. The landscapes and portraits of The Levee trace Hura’s travel along the...

Women Breaking Boundaries

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

A special exhibition that explores the role of women in art and art history at the Cincinnati Art Museum through artworks from the museum’s permanent collection created by female artists from the seventeenth century to today. The cross-departmental selection of 38 artworks...

A special exhibition that explores the role of women in art and art history at the Cincinnati Art Museum through artworks from the museum’s permanent collection created by female artists from the seventeenth century to today. The cross-departmental selection of 38 artworks...

Christmas Casino at Rising Star Casino

Rising Star Casino
777 Rising Star Drive, Rising Sun, IN 47040

West

Santa, Mrs. Claus and elves return for one-of-a-kind holiday season experience with live reindeer 20-foot Christmas tree, Christmas Market Village and more.

Santa, Mrs. Claus and elves return for one-of-a-kind holiday season experience with live reindeer 20-foot Christmas tree, Christmas Market Village and more.

Cincinnati Computer Cooperative's Season of Giving 2019

Cincinnati Computer Cooperative
49 Novner Drive , OH 45215, Cincinnati, OH 45215

North

Christmas is Here Early at the Cooperative Get Your $20 Rebate Now!   At the Cincinnati Computer Cooperative from now to the end of the year, Get an Instant $20 Rebate when you get a desktop computer at a great price.   We are a community non-profit in...

Christmas is Here Early at the Cooperative Get Your $20 Rebate Now!   At the Cincinnati Computer Cooperative from now to the end of the year, Get an Instant $20 Rebate when you get a desktop computer at a great price.   We are a community non-profit in...

Gallery Gifts - Fine Arts and Fine Crafts for Holiday Giving

Off Ludlow Gallery
3408 Ormond Street, cincinnati, OH 45220

This year give an artfully created gift. 25 local artists will display for sale gift sized and gift prices items for Holiday Giving. Photography - Steve Barger, Kent Krugh + Glass - Shelby Hines + Ceramics - Gail Lungren, CRC Ceramic Class, Audra Daniels + Bookarts - Judith...

This year give an artfully created gift. 25 local artists will display for sale gift sized and gift prices items for Holiday Giving. Photography - Steve Barger, Kent Krugh + Glass - Shelby Hines + Ceramics - Gail Lungren, CRC Ceramic Class, Audra Daniels + Bookarts - Judith...

Santaland

Sharon Woods
11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241

North

After your tour of Holiday In Lights, head inside Sharon Centre for some more holiday magic. Enjoy the family-friendly entertainment, share your wish list with Santa, check out the train display, do some holiday shopping at Nature’s Niche and pick up a sweet treat. Visit...

After your tour of Holiday In Lights, head inside Sharon Centre for some more holiday magic. Enjoy the family-friendly entertainment, share your wish list with Santa, check out the train display, do some holiday shopping at Nature’s Niche and pick up a sweet treat. Visit...

Sycamore Art and Craft Show

Sycamore High School
7400 Cornell Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242

North

FUN for the whole family! 200 + craft vendors with lots of unique gifts Performances by all Sycamore bands, Grades 7-12, the JH Advanced Orchestra and the Sycamore Community Band. Bake Shop and Food Court Fabulous Raffles

FUN for the whole family! 200 + craft vendors with lots of unique gifts Performances by all Sycamore bands, Grades 7-12, the JH Advanced Orchestra and the Sycamore Community Band. Bake Shop and Food Court Fabulous Raffles

The Golden Ticket 2019 Juried Artist Exhibition

Clifton Cultural Arts Center
2728 Short Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219

Uptown

Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s 10th Annual Golden Ticket will feature the diverse, talented artists living or working within a 25-mile radius of CCAC. All fine art disciplines were encouraged to apply.   This year’s esteemed jurors are Melvin Grier, award-winning...

Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s 10th Annual Golden Ticket will feature the diverse, talented artists living or working within a 25-mile radius of CCAC. All fine art disciplines were encouraged to apply.   This year’s esteemed jurors are Melvin Grier, award-winning...

The Holiday OFF Market

MadTree Brewing Company
3301 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45209

East

Artists, bakers, chefs, scavengers, mobile boutiques, and everything in between will be converging on Madtree Brewing for an exciting indoor market in the Barrel Warehouse.  The focus of The O.F.F Market is on supporting the local innovative business community and that...

Artists, bakers, chefs, scavengers, mobile boutiques, and everything in between will be converging on Madtree Brewing for an exciting indoor market in the Barrel Warehouse.  The focus of The O.F.F Market is on supporting the local innovative business community and that...

Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting

Liberty Center
7100 Foundry Row, Liberty Township, OH 45069

North

Join at Liberty Center as we celebrate the fifth annual Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday, November 23! 10 AM – Kick off your holiday shopping with our Silver Saturday promotions. Hurry though, they are only valid on this day! Stay tuned for more details...

Join at Liberty Center as we celebrate the fifth annual Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday, November 23! 10 AM – Kick off your holiday shopping with our Silver Saturday promotions. Hurry though, they are only valid on this day! Stay tuned for more details...

Small Business Shopping Fair 2019

Hampton Inn & Suites Cincinnati/Kenwood
2000 Ronald Reagan Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45236

North

Shop dozens of local small business vendors, receive free gifts, enter drawings, receive hand & arm massages, free product samples, photos, and more! Co-sponsored by Valenti Salon and Dinner With Spice.

Shop dozens of local small business vendors, receive free gifts, enter drawings, receive hand & arm massages, free product samples, photos, and more! Co-sponsored by Valenti Salon and Dinner With Spice.

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...

Inked @ Rhinegeist Brewery

Rhinegeist Brewery
1910 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Get inked. Join us on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 12-10pm for a celebration of all things Ink! Special variants of our indelible Imperial Stout will be available on draft and in bottles, while some of Cincinnati's premier tattoo artists offer live flash tattooing in the taproom....

Get inked. Join us on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 12-10pm for a celebration of all things Ink! Special variants of our indelible Imperial Stout will be available on draft and in bottles, while some of Cincinnati's premier tattoo artists offer live flash tattooing in the taproom....

Turkeybration!

Summit Center
1580 Summit Road, Cincinnati, OH 45237

North

Make some fun turkey crafts, enter a turkey dance contest and make turkey noises at this fun turkeybration program.

Make some fun turkey crafts, enter a turkey dance contest and make turkey noises at this fun turkeybration program.

Goshen Chamber of Commerce "Light Up Goshen" Parade

Goshen High School
6707 Goshen Road, Goshen, OH 45122

East

A Parade sponsored by the Local Businesses of Goshen, OH supporting the youth in our Community. Youth receive financial rewards for participating in the parade. Goshen Fire Department along with surrounding Departments are a part of the parade as well as government officials,...

A Parade sponsored by the Local Businesses of Goshen, OH supporting the youth in our Community. Youth receive financial rewards for participating in the parade. Goshen Fire Department along with surrounding Departments are a part of the parade as well as government officials,...