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 in downtown Columbus Thursday, August 28, an array of arts and cultural events will be offered to the public that evening:

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 uas.osu.edu.

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.

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.