Summer is the season when Cincinnati gets serious about its fun and this week is no exception with the kick off of twelve days of the sixth annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival featuring over 300 local, regional, national and intervational artists getting to know why art is important to the Queen City. Lokua Kanza arrives from the Congo to perform a benefit concert while Summerfair takes hold at Coney Island.
Cincinnati takes Memorial 'Day' and turns it into an entire week of celebration and fun. There's Of People and Not Things to get you in the Cincy Fringe spirit. The 20th Century Theater's Get Down Give Back Charity Concert supports local musicians and the community while May Festival 2009 Season at Music Hall offers a more classical music repertoire. And let's not forget, the staple of Memorial Day weekend, Taste of Cincinnati which takes over downtown for the annual food frenzy.
Just a reminder - Mother's Day is this Sunday. So if you have not planned something special, there are plenty of options for you to wow Mom. Get back to Cincinnati roots with the 40th Annual Appalachian Festival at Coney Island or take in Cincinnati Ballet’s Greatest Hits: A 45th Anniversary Celebration. No Mother, however, would want to miss all that Main Street has to offer with the kick off of the 5th Annual Second Sunday on Main.
Cincinnati is getting a little crazy this week as Surreal Escape: A Night of Absurd Reality his the Cincinnati Art Museum. Hal Holbrook sweeps into town for his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight and the Cincinnati Acclaim Awards honor the best in Cincy theater. MainStrasse Village gets into the summer spirit with their weekend-long Maifest.
It's time to get a little absurd in the Queen City this week as the Cincinnati Art Museum presents Surreal Escape: A Night of Absurd Realities. Hal Holbrook blows into town for a one-night performance of Mark Twain Tonight at the Aronoff and the Cincinnati Acclaim Awards honor the Best of Cincinnati Theater.
Cincinnati says a sad farewell this week to New Stage Collective as the company opens its final show, A Little Night Music. The 11th Flying Pig Marathon is will turn the streets of downtown into one big pig pen and Architreks begin their guided walking tours on Saturday. Then wrapping up the weekend is a Fiesta on Fountain Square to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the Latino culture.
The temperatures may be changing day by day but Cincinnati is constantly moving and shaking. InkTank invites you to evaluate the "American Dream" in their latest writer's workshop and the 2009 30th Anniversary YWCA Salute to Career Women of Achievement Luncheon will honor eight new inductees on Wednesday afternoon. Catch Swedish rockers Peter Bjorn and John at Southgate House or view Art of the Everyday at The Greenwich. Complete your garden Sunday with free pots of pansies on Fountain Square.
This week Know Theatre of Cincinnati hosts a little Post Tax Relief Fun at Hugo restaurant while Tick, Tick...Boom takes the stage at Below Zero Lounge. The art of India is on display at the Krohn Conservatory as well as multiple other galleries with the citywide exhibition Metamorphosis: Change and Continuity in Indian Contemporary Art, and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network of Cincinnati is getting into the high school spirit with their annual Alternative Prom.
If you're looking to get out of the rain this week, there are a slew of fun and dry activities. Miller Gallery opens its Beauty exhibit while the Coochie Chronicles: The Spoken Word Stage adds spice to the Madisonville Arts Center. The Esquire is screening the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and jazz musician Reggie Calloway returns home for a one night performance at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club.
March is coming to an end but April is just heating up. This week see works of art Cincinnati's finest design, architecture, construction and engineering firms created for the Freestore Foodbank's Canstruction art exhibit. Kites take flight at Voice of America Park for Kite Fest and catch Jake Speed and The Freddies as they put on an pre-Opening Day show at Northside Tavern. Then on Monday April 6 join thousands of Cincinnatians as they line the streets for the 89th Findlay Market Opening Day Parade.
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