From a freshly painted storefront at Findlay Market to neighborhood coffee shops, fall is the season of harvest. This month, Soapbox features stories and images about harvests of ideas and personal passions that follow our neighbors from the field to the dinner table, from the iPad to the office, and far beyond.
We know you don't have plans for after work tonight, right? This is your last chance to register for our Soapbox Speaker Series sponsored by the Niehoff Urban Studio, tonight! When: Tuesday, Aug. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Niehoff Urban Studio
Mark your calendars the next Soapbox Speaker Series event, an engaging discussion about community arts centers as catalysts for creativity. When: Tuesday, Aug. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Niehoff Urban Studio
This fall, Cincinnati Public Schools celebrate higher test scores and make a plea for critical funding. As CPS students head back to school this week, Soapbox quizzed Ronan about the year ahead, the district she loves and her favorite school supply.
This month Soapbox explores the world of learning in Cincinnati -- in as many forms as we can manage in five issues. While local school doors reopen and students head back to classrooms with dreamy sighs of summer, we tap into the behind-the-scenes tales that cultivate knowledge around town and beyond.
I grew up visiting Findlay Market with my parents every Saturday. My mom and I explored Eden Park while my siblings took weekend art classes at the Cincinnati Art Museum. These were routines, not adventures. Or so I thought. In the eyes of city newcomers, and on the pages of Soapbox, I see the power in revisiting the familiar with a fresh perspective. I see the promise in a publication in which even natives can discover something new about their city every week. It's great to have a Soapbox. Let the next adventure begin.
Founded in 1871 to meet the social and spiritual needs of German immigrants, Emanuel Community Center's story follows the path of many newcomers who have chosen to call the historic city basin home. Now it's using its history and community building capacity to connect residents, old and new.
CincyDance! targets third-graders in city schools where students may have no other exposure to ballet, and uses the language of dance to build confidence and bridge communication barriers.
Sarah Corlett brings years of development and artistic experience to the launch of SpringBoard, an eight-week program based at ArtWorks in Over-the-Rhine that will help artists and creative entrepreneurs build better business plans.
The Ohio Innocence Project has attracted national attention to UC's College of Law for it's long list of successful exonerations of wrongfully convicted individuals. This week OIP and it's director, Professor Mark Godsey, will once again be in the limelight as host of the first globally focused Innocence Network Conference that also includes a moving display of artwork created behind bars by exonerees.
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