All The Time in the World

If I had all the time in the world to take in the arts of Downtown Columbus Ohio, this is what I'd do for the next few days. What fun!
-Eva Ball, exhibition preparator and guide

Friday, August 1st

12pm: Summer Fridays at the Statehouse: Opera Columbus
Free lunchtime performing arts and music series held on the West Lawn of the Ohio Statehouse. Broad St. & High St.

1pm:Midwestern Visions of Impressionism: 1890 - 1930
I think I am really going to this during my lunch break.
Christine Fowler Shearer, curator, will conduct a guided tour of the new exhibit at the The Riffe Gallery, located in the Vern Riffe Center for the Government and the Arts, across from the Statehouse on High Street in Downtown Columbus: 77 S. High

6pm: Happy Hour at Tip Top!!


8pm:Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits
This is super awesome afro-pop at Riverfront Amphitheater at Genoa Park, which is in front of COSI, i.e. Washington Blvd. between Town & Broad Streets.

"Called the Grand Master of Zimbabwean traditional pop, Oliver Mtukudzi is truly one of Southern Africa's greatest musicians."

Saturday, August 2nd

7-11pm: One Man's Junk Is Another Man's Treasure: Photography by Gina Christoffersen at ZenGenius Gallery 243 N. Fifth St.

Tuesday, August 5

11:45 am: The Ark Band
This concert is at my current favorite park in the city: The Topiary Garden / Deaf School Park at 480 E. Town St. The Ark Band is local reggae. This event is catered, but I think you have to buy your lunch. But a good way to get out of the office.

Wednesday, August 6th

12pm – 1pm: Read Aloud Program at the Urban Arts Space
Bring your lunch, sit back, and listed to author Charlene Fix read one of Thurber's dog stories and share her own poetic reflections on dogs -- from Elkhound/Keeshond, Collie/Shepherd, Great Pyrannes, to Basset Hounds.

"Charlene Fix is a Professor of English at the Columbus College of Art Design and a member of The House of Toast Poets. She has received poetry fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and has published poems in various literary magazines, among them The Journal, The Manhattan Review, The Cincinnati Review, Alimentum, and Poetry."

6pm: Brock Clarke at the Thurber House

Brock Clarke will read from his latest novel for the final installment of Thurber House's 2008 summer Literary Picnics Wednesday.