Community dialogue, wine, rooftop garden

We have a really great evening planned for August 28th.
Shape your world!

4 to 6 pm : community dialogue : free
When Art Builds Bridges: Art, Environment, and Community
Reconnecting the natural and the built environment is an essential part of creating a sustainable future. Join in a community dialogue and brainstorming session—with artists, architects, educators, designers, scientists, arts and water advocates/activists and Ways of Knowing Water co-curators Rick Livingston and Prudence Gill—about the place of art and river ecology in the reinvention of civic identity.

6 to 8 pm : wine tasting : cash only
featuring organic and biodynamic wines

6 & 6:15 pm : informal gallery tours : free

7 & 7:30 pm: tours of the building’s rooftop garden : free

also downtown on the 28th:
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).

Wex Drive-in Outdoor Film Fest is 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. Call (614) 292-3535 or visit wexarts.org for more information.

Andy Goldsworthy film at The Urban Art Space

Thursday August 21st
5:30 - Program Space
Screen Works | Ways of Knowing Water

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
(2001 - 90 mins.)

Renowned environmental sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, works solely with the materials and elements of nature—wind, water, stones, ice, leaves—to produce art of exquisite beauty. Director Thomas Riedelsheimer follows Goldsworthy for more than a year as he collaborates with the “energy, breathlessness and uncertainty” of nature.

All The Time in the World / August 9th

Art events in downtown Columbus Ohio for the next few days...

Saturday the 9th
7:30-11 pm
Water on the Fire tonight at the Riverfront Amphitheater in Genoa Park. This is right behind COSI on Washington Blvd. I have never been to any of these events, but seems like a good way to chill with one of the best views of our lovely little city. Musical entertainment by Outpost.

Monday August 11
8pm
Experimental Jazzie hoopla at Cafe Le Spritz house (594 E. Rich St.). Featuring the stylings of Marina Peterson, Larry Marotta, Ryan Jewell, Dan Godston. Styrofoam on a snare drum sounds really really good, but also super intense, OK.

Tuesday August 12
11:45 am- 1:15 pm
As part of the Music in the Air concert series, the Topiary Garden / Deaf School Park hosts, Vocal Impact: Soulful harmonies with dynamic jazz arrangements. 11:45 a.m. 480 E. Town St.

Wednesday August 13th
noon-1pm
Screen Works | The Wonderful World of Dogs. A film by Mark Lewis. 52 mins.
This is happening here at the Urban Arts Space.
Bring your lunch and enjoy more Dog Days of August each Wednesday with us. See a women whose Chihuahua is carried off by a hungry pelican...and a dog with a sixth sense... The Wonderful World of Dogs explores the myths, the obsessions, and the wide variety of attitudes people harbor towards our four-legged friends by introducing a few of the barkers, bullies and roamers that make up the canine population.

Thursday August 14
5:30 - 7:30
Dialogue| Ways of Knowing Water here at the Urban Art Space.
Get With the Flow...Find Out How!
Learn from those who know! Representatives from MORPC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission), and local watershed organizations such as FLOW (Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed), FACT (Friends of Alum Creek & Tributaries), and other groups who work to protect our waters will be on hand to discuss creating a more river-friendly, greener Columbus. Become a river steward!

7:30 -11pm
After the talk at UAS, unwind with Cocktails at the Franklin Park Conservatory rooftop garden in the Palm House, where James Turrell has his new light installation. This is a new thing happening at the conservatory every Thursday. Full bar selection along with small plate hors d’oeuvres from Cameron Mitchell Catering. I think this place is gonna be amazing, (I like Turrell's work). I'll let you know. ( No cover – 21 and over – Free Parking)

All The Time in the World / August 7th

If I had all the time in the world to spend downtown at art events in the next few days this is the stuff I would do. (Columbus, Ohio)

Tonight, Thursday August 7th.
8pm
The Shelf Gallery, at 57 E Gay Street, is hosting an acoustic music event that is going to be perfect. All these bands can be found on myspace, but trust me, I think you'll really like it.

Friday, August 8th
12 pm
VOX - Columbus Gay Men's Chorus this just seems awesome. If someone can actually make it to this, please let me know what you think.

7pm
Horton Hears a Who is showing at Genoa Park on the Riverfront behind Cosi, 303 W. Broad St.
I will be at this. The film starts at 9ish and will surely give you alot to think about.

Saturday, August 9th
Mad Theatre presents Stripped Away.
"Carol is burning the candle at both ends. By day she is a sociology professor. By night, as part of her latest sociological study, she is a waitress at The Itchy Kitty, the tri-state's #4 gentleman's club. On top of that, her relationship with her boyfriend is crumbling, her sister wants to date the club DJ, her boss wants to fire her, and she'll do about anything to keep it together." Check out the trailer. This is gonna be super zany.

Screenings: Wild by Law: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Creation of the Wilderness Act. TODAY!

Tonight we host a screening, also part of Ways of Knowing Water, of Wild by Law: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Creation of the Wilderness Act (1991 - 60 mins).
Synopsis:
In 1964 America became the first country in the world to create a Wilderness Act. Wild by Law is the story of the three very different men—a famed naturalist, a millionaire socialist, and an inspired bureaucrat—responsible for its passage. (Nominated for 1992 Academy Award–Best Documentary Feature)
This starts of 5:30. And Liz made red velvet cupcakes. Yum!