Upcoming events Multi-cultural
Salsa Fever Fridays - Latin Dance
July 1, 2011 — December 28, 2012
La Fogata Grill
Enjoy the remodeled Upper Lounge at La Fogata Grill with an elegant atmosphere and the best Latin dance music. As usual, we will cater to all your dancing needs, so please e-mail us your music… (more)
Alt Eats Ethnic Food Tour
July 8, 2011 — September 21, 2012
Columbus Aquatics Center
Travel the world while without leaving Columbus - this tour's itinerary will introduce you to some of the best ethnic food in the city. We'll experience a Nigerian food and hospitality, eat… (more)
Visual Rhythms
April 25, 2012 — June 15, 2012
Concourse Gallery
April 25-June 15 M-F 8am-5pm FREE Reception: May 3, 5-7 p.m. Paintings by Leah Gray and glass by Mary Ellen Graham. Leah Gray's expressive paintings evoke nature's visual rhythm; repetitious… (more)
Casting for Blue Rock play
April 27, 2012 — June 25, 2012
City of Upper Arlington Municipal Services Center
Blue Rock is an award winning play based on a true story of four young men caught in an Ohio 1850s coal mine disaster. Actors, musicians, and crew: please submit: headshot, resume, and names and… (more)
Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955‒1972
May 19, 2012 — August 5, 2012
Wexner Center Galleries
This international touring exhibition is one of the first large-scale surveys of Szapocznikow's work outside of Poland. Sculpture Undone concentrates in particular on works dating from 1955 to just… (more)
Omer Fast: 2001/11
May 19, 2012 — August 5, 2012
The Wexner Center for the Arts
Omer Fast's works give viewers just enough information to make us think that we are on the cusp of understanding his narratives but then often leave us feeling that they remain out of our grasp. 5000… (more)
Jon Shenk Introduces
The Island President
May 19, 2012 — May 20, 2012
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
In 2008, Mohamed Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, a nation composed of 1,200 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean, after being imprisoned and tortured under the… (more)
25th Anniversary GALA
May 19, 2012
King Arts Complex
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 8:00 p.m. KING ARTS COMPLEX The Silver Anniversary Gala will celebrate 25 years of the King Arts Complex. It is a party with a purpose to support the ongoing educational… (more)
Knocking on the Devil's Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
May 22, 2012
Drexel Theatre
While the ongoing meltdown continues at Fukushima, this 2011 film gives us information and motivation to act for change. Award-winning documentary director Gary Null deconstructs the corporate and… (more)
"Forever and a Day" & "Corridor of Mirrors"
May 24, 2012
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
These two classics from the 1940s are screened in conjunction with Cinevent 44, Columbus's long-running annual gathering of cinephiles and collectors. Forever and a Day, a star-studded omnibus… (more)
"Snapshots: A Trip to Nostalgia"
May 25, 2012 — May 26, 2012
The Columbus Perfoming Arts Center - Shedd Theater
Snapshots: A Trip to Nostalgia takes you on a time travel to the past joining current society with past situations that have impacted the lives of our communities. Come take flight traveling in… (more)
Operation: FEED Concert @ OSU's Mirror Lake
May 29, 2012
The Ohio State University South Oval / Mirror Lake
Operation: FEED is a live concert, canned food drive, massive local fundraiser to raise money and food for the Mid Ohio Food Bank! We'll have 8 bands in 4 hours, lots of your favorite local food… (more)
Julia Reichert and Jim Klein Introduce
"Growing Up Female"
May 31, 2012
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Yellow Springs-based filmmakers Julia Reichert and Jim Klein visit to introduce their groundbreaking 1971 film Growing Up Female, which was added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry… (more)
Watch This! The Last Day in May Party!
May 31, 2012
Brothers Drake Meadery
Columbus Film Council is gaining momentum for this year's 60th Columbus International Film + Video Festival! The CIF+VF is the longest running film festival in the USA and is located right here in… (more)
Columbus Arts Festival
June 1, 2012 — June 3, 2012
Downtown Riverfront
The Columbus Arts Festival, presented by Time Warner Cable and produced by the Greater Columbus Arts Council celebrates its 51st year of bringing the best in fine art and fine craft to Columbus, June… (more)
Short North Arts District Gallery Hop
June 2, 2012 — November 3, 2012
Short North Arts District
The Short North is renowned for the buzz of "Gallery Hop." The first Saturday of every month, thousands of visitors converge on the strip, the epicenter of the High Street Experience. They come to… (more)
A La Carte Food Tours. Blending Taste and Tourism
June 2, 2012
Worthington Place
A La Carte Food Tours feature van-based culinary tours in Columbus every Saturday. Tours take guests into restaurants,markets and shops, back-of-the-house operations, kitchens, and workshops where… (more)
Guillermo Klein Y Los Guachos
June 5, 2012
Wexner Center Performance Space
Guillermo Klein Y Los Guachos, a fantastic 11-piece band, bridges jazz and "folkloric futurism." One of the most original artists to emerge on the international scene in recent times, Argentine jazz… (more)
Guillermo Klein Y Los Guachos
June 5, 2012
Wexner Center Performance Space
Guillermo Klein Y Los Guachos, a fantastic 11-piece band, bridge jazz and "folkloric futurism." One of the most original artists to emerge on the international scene in recent times, Argentine jazz… (more)
Music in the Parks Concert Series
June 7, 2012
Amelita Mirolo Barn | Sunny 95 Park
The Cultural Arts Division invites you to enjoy our free summer concert series, Music in the Parks, Thursdays, 7:00-8:30p.m. June through August, 2012. This free concert series takes place outdoors… (more)
