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.
It's been a busy year at the new Erich Kunzel Center for Arts Education, the sparkling downtown campus of Cincinnati's School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Beyond their performances and demanding schedules, students have enjoyed another year of master classes, private lessons and special sessions with visiting and resident professionals thanks to the Mayerson Foundation's Artistic Excellence Fund. Fledgling dancers stretched and spun with the Cincinnati Ballet's internationally known choreographer-in-residence, Adam Hougland, whose contemporary reimagining of Igor Stravinsky's classic "The Firebird" will be performed March 18 and 19.In April, visual arts SCPA students will hear from Jimmy Baker, a Northside-based artist fresh from his first solo show at the Contemporary Arts Center.All year, young musicians have enjoyed private lessons and public performances with members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's renowned Brass Quintet."The purpose of the Fund is to help ensure that the arts education taking place in the new facility is as world-class as the facility itself," says Jeff Seibert, grants officer with the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation.Since it began in 2009, the Fund has introduced SCPA students to master classes with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, pianist Gabriela Montero and violist Nokothula Ngwenyama. Future collaborations are in the works with musicians in the MusicNow Festival and WCET. Seibert has been surprised both by the generosity of artists who enjoy sharing their talents with SCPA students and "the dramatic and nearly immediate impact on students' level of artistic excellence when they come into contact with extraordinary master artists."In the $72 million facility, the vision of learning by engaging performing professionals in the educational process, has always been part of the plan. "Although Erich (Kunzel) didn't live to see the fruition of his vision, his spirit is present whenever the talented SCPA students strive for the level of artistic excellence that embodied Erich's lifelong work," Seibert says.Do Good:• Get brassy. Attend a free concert at SCPA by the Mayerson Brass Ensemble-in-Residence, March 23, 7 p.m.• Catch a rising star. Mark your calendar for the 25th Anniversary Corbett-Mayerson Awards at SCPA, May 12, from 5 to 7 p.m., with a free performance following dinner and entertainment. Proceeds of the $50 dinner benefit the non-profit Friends of SCPA. Email Karen Dorn for more information.• Support your local artist. Attend an art show or a concert, buy an original painting, take piano lessons. Repay their generosity with your own. Need inspiration? Watch this!By Elissa YanceyPhoto of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg working with SCPA students courtesy of Scott Beseler.
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