Downtown a Hub Of Activity Evening of August 28

OSU Urban Arts Space Hosts Talks, Tours, Wine Tasting

 Wexner Center Takes Wex Drive-in Outdoor Film to Statehouse

Live Outdoor Music in Derby Court

 

In what is taking shape as a late-summer mini-festival at or near the Statehouse Thursday, August 28, an array of free arts and cultural events will be offered to the public that evening:

 

Free live music featuring the band Conspiracy will begin at 5:30 pm (‘til 9 pm) in Derby Court outside the Hyatt on Capitol Square (corner of State and Third streets), as part of the Downtown LIVE! summer concert series.

 

The OSU Urban Arts Space – a 10,000-square-foot gallery in the historic Lazarus building at 50 W. Town St. – will present Art Builds Bridges at the space from 4 to 8 pm on the occasion of the art exhibitions Ways of Knowing Water and What Time is This Place. The evening includes a community dialogue from 4 to 6 pm titled “When Art Builds Bridges: Art, Environment, and Community” focusing on the place of art and river ecology in the reinvention of civic identity. The discussion will feature artists, educators, designers, arts and water advocates/activists, and Ways of Knowing Water co-curators Rick Livingston and Prudence Gill from OSU. A wine tasting featuring organic and biodynamic wines will be held 6–8 pm; informal gallery tours will be offered at 6 and 6:15 pm; and tours of the building’s “green” rooftop garden will be offered at 7 and 7:30 pm. All events are free except for the wine tasting. Call (614) 292-8861 for information or go to arts.osu.edu/uas.

 

Later that evening, the Wexner Center for the Arts takes its Wex Drive-in Outdoor Film Fest downtown for the first time, with a free open-air screening at dusk (around 9 pm) of The Talk of the Town (1942), a romantic comedy about justice starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, projected onto a huge screen set up on the Ohio Statehouse lawn (West Plaza). Visitors are welcome to bring blankets and chairs; the party starts at 8 pm with free Jeni’s ice cream, with additional food and beverages for sale. This summer’s Drive-ins at the Wexner Center Plaza have drawn several hundred visitors to each event. Call (614) 292-3535 or visit wexarts.org for more information.

 

The Wexner Center’s first 30 story Andy Warhol wallscape will be unfurled on the exterior of the Hyatt at Capitol Square around 8:30 pm.