Three years ago, professional dancers Cervilio Amador and Gema Diaz made the decision to leave their homes and families and defect to the United States from Cuba. Their decision brought them to the Queen City where dancing for the Cincinnati Ballet has given them a new home.
Cincinnati truly outdid herself this past weekend and Soapdisher, Casey Coston was on the scene. Between the success of the Downtown Tour of Living and Midpoint Music Festival, the city was alive in a way that bodes well for our collective future. The good news is, this is happening more and more.
The Creative Cities 2.0 Summit (CCS2), taking place October 13-15, 2008, in Detroit will provide a next-generation look at how communities are integrating innovation, social entrepreneurship, arts & culture and business to make vibrant economies. Highlights include a special Big Creative Three session on Tuesday, October 14 featuring Richard Florida, John Howkins and Charles Landry, the originators of the concepts of the "creative class", the "creative economy" and the "creative city" respectively.A pre-conference "Unconference" with the theme of "Detroit 2.0" will take place from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, October 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. There is a nominal $10 registration fee for the day. An unconference, which has its origins in the technology community, is a facilitated, participant-driven, face-to-face conference around a theme or purpose.The summit brings together change agents including architects, designers, urban planners, civic leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, students, educators and community leaders to share their experiences, their projects, their successes and failures as together we re-imagine cities.The conference fee is $300.For more information or to register for both the Unconference and CCS2, go online to http://www.creativecitiessummit.com.
With hurricane Ike gone and electricity back on, Cincinnati continues to bring a line-up of Fall events which you absolutely cannot miss. This week it’s rock and roll’s turn to blow into town as the MidPoint Music Festival takes over stages everywhere. Also sweeping in is the 20/20 Arts Festival which kicks-off Cincinnati’s arts season. Making smaller vibrations are short films from around the world and a radio’s look at this year’s Presidential race.
The Shawnee artifact known as Miami Fort is not a fort at all, but an ancient water works, according to University of Cincinnati researchers.Twenty-eight students from UC's Ohio Valley Archaeology Field School project have spent weeks working at the Shawnee Lookout park site, which at nearly six kilometers in length is twice as large as any other Native American earthworks in Ohio and one of the largest in the nation.What they found were a series of gates and dams, and raceways to carry water from areas containing artesian springs.The massive engineering feat means that the re-interpretation of the Shawnee and other indigenous cultures may be in order, according to UC assistant professor of anthropology and field school leader Ken Tankersley.Read the full article here.
On fire with the anticipation of their latest release, the sundresses is a Cincinnati band determined to make it to the top through a combination of great music, innovative business strategy and a fierce loyalty to themselves. While at it, they wouldn’t mind bringing the modern recording industry to its knees.
With a deadline of October 15, ArtWorks Cincinnati is seeking community applications for its spring and summer 2009 work program.
Think you know everything there is to know about our Midwestern, all-American city? Think again. A locally-produced radio show explores how the Cincinnati region relates to the world and challenges our preconceptions of who we are.
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