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Jan
30
Sat
Dreamgirls: The Virtual Concert Experience @ Renaissance Performing Arts Association
Jan 30 @ 12:00 am – 11:59 pm

The Renaissance has added Dreamgirls: The Virtual Concert Experience to its winter lineup as an online streaming production. Dreamgirls will be available to stream at your home on January 23, January 30, and February 6 as part of the Park National Bank Broadway Series.

Originally premiering on Broadway on December 20th, 1981, this dazzling musical won an astounding seven Tony Awards. The film version, released in 2006 and starring Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Based on the lives and careers of Diana Ross and the Supremes, James Brown, The Shirelles, and other R&B groups, Dreamgirls tells the story of a Chicago girl group who become musical superstars. Set in the 1960s, it contains such unforgettable songs as “I’m Telling You I’m Not Going,” “I Am Changing,” “We Are Family,” and “When I First Saw You.” It is credited with shining a light onto the struggles of African American and female artists as they fight to gain success and acceptance in the entertainment business.

Tickets for Dreamgirls: The Virtual Concert Experience are $25 for each date of the at-home stream. The virtual experience can be viewed on any device with a web browser and is available from 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM on each date.

The Art of Trees  @ Buchwald-Wright Gallery & Gund Gallery
Jan 30 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

January 22–April 11, 2021
Buchwald-Wright Gallery, Gund Gallery

The Art of Trees reveals the many resonances, forms, and relationships of trees. Exploring themes of restoration and destruction, community and isolation, location and identity, and fragile temporalities, the artists featured in the exhibition experiment with a range of mediums, and even use trees as creative collaborators to express our essential and inseparable bond with these guardians of the earth. The Art of Trees invites an interdisciplinary dialogue about personal, local, and global relationships to the environment, while simultaneously drawing attention to interactions between trees themselves, the communities they form, and their resilience despite human interference.

Featuring: Nearby Voices

Nearby Voices bridges the gap between global and local environmental concerns by engaging with the art and voices of local community members. This special section of The Art of Trees exhibition offers artistic reflections on the local landscape as a shared point of witness and imagines trees as archives of commonly held stories and experiences that branch across generations of a community.

The Art of Trees is curated by a committee of Gund Associates, Kenyon faculty, and Gund Gallery staff who worked together in a collaborative, multi-year process to bring this project to life.

Virtual Bridal & Wedding Expo
Jan 30 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 pm

Plan Your Wedding In One Day at Virtual Bridal & Wedding Expo – Central Ohio! All you need is a mobile device or desktop computer that connects to the internet! On the date of the event, the Expo will go live in the Facebook Event. Again, all you need is your computer or mobile device to login to Facebook – you can join the event from home… or anywhere! Vendors will be online to greet you… and you can chat with vendors, post questions, view their promo videos, and download their digital brochures. You’ll be given an Event Vendor list IMMEDIATELY at the beginning of the event in your email for easy reference after the event. Plus there will be interactive Raffle Giveaways, and the opportunity to network with other couples if you like. It’s a productive and safe way to meet allies and new friends from your local community… and wedding professionals who are eager to work with you and your fiancee with the respect and joyfulness you deserve! Help spread the word to your friends about the upcoming Bridal and Wedding Expo and we look forward to fun and exciting event! FREE – admission to the event on Facebook $25 Ticket – admission to the event on Facebook and Wedding Swag Bag (sent in the mail after the event)

Birdwatching for Beginners @ Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Jan 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
If you’ve wondered what birdwatching is about, but can’t even see a bird in a pair of binoculars, this is for you. Bring your binoculars or use ours. We’ll teach you tricks to start or improve upon a fun hobby. Weather permitting, we’ll go on a short hike or ‘arm chair’ bird watch.
Our Birdwatching for Beginners event is free but, due to Covid-19 pandemic, participants must register ahead of time at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center Eventbrite link at https://www.eventbrite.com/…/grange-insurance-audubon…
For more information, please contact Allison Clark, Education Program Manager at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center (614-545-5482
DIY Hot Chocolate Heart Bomb!!! @ Dublin Toy Emporium
Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Brrr..its cold out! Our Winter sessions can be quite chilly! ❄ 🌨 Come and Kreate 1 Jumbo Heart Bomb and 1 Heart Cup to fill with sweets for your special someone this season. Heart Molds are pre-made, you fill the inside and seal it. For the Chocolate Heart Cup, the Kafé will play a fun heart stacking game with you, and those hearts will go into your chocolate cup, we have other options other than sugar hearts. Ages 4+ years $12, Light Chocolate $12, Dark Chocolate $12, White Chocolate $12, Funfetti White Chocolate $12+ other flavors & colors are available upon request HEART DECOR BOXES available upon request for an additional $8. $20, 1 Heart Bomb – 1 Heart Cup w/sweet treats, plus 1 heart box. Two boxes for $28 total. Temp checks will be taken upon arrival. Hands will be washed upon arrival. Sign in/liability form/Signs&Symptoms sheet will need to be filled out. Each session is for 1 family. 2pm-2:45pm 3pm-3:45pm 4pm-4:45pm 5pm-5:45pm To reserve your family’s session please text or call 614-582-3749 Let’s get Kreative together!

TITANIC: THE MUSICAL @ Theatre 166
Jan 30 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The sinking of the Titanic in the early hours of April 15, 1912, remains the quintessential disaster of the twentieth century. A total of 1,517 souls—men, women and children—lost their lives (only 711 survived). The fact that the finest, largest, strongest ship in the world—called, in fact, the “”unsinkable”” ship—should have been lost during its maiden voyage is so incredible that, had it not actually happened, no author would have dared to contrive it. But the catastrophe had social ramifications that went far beyond that night’s events. For the first time since the beginning of the industrial revolution early in the 19th Century, bigger, faster and stronger did not prove automatically to be better. Suddenly the very essence of “”progress”” had to be questioned; might the advancement of technology not always be progress? Nor was this the only question arising from the disaster. The accommodations of the ship, divided into 1st, 2nd and 3rd Classes, mirrored almost exactly the class structure (upper, middle and lower) of the English-speaking world. But when the wide discrepancy between the number of survivors from each of the ship’s classes was revealed—all but two of the women in 1st Class were saved while 155 women and children from 2nd and 3rd (mostly 3rd) drowned—there was a new, long-overdue scrutiny of the prevailing social system and its values. It is not an exaggeration to state that the 19th Century, with its social stricture, its extravagant codes of honor and sacrifice, and its unswerving belief that God favored the rich, ended that night.

Titanic, The Musical examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. This is the factual story of that ship—of her officers, crew and passengers, to be sure—but she will not, as has happened so many times before, serve as merely the background against which fictional, melodramatic narratives are recounted. The central character of our Titanic is the Titanic herself.

Jan
31
Sun
The Art of Trees  @ Buchwald-Wright Gallery & Gund Gallery
Jan 31 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

January 22–April 11, 2021
Buchwald-Wright Gallery, Gund Gallery

The Art of Trees reveals the many resonances, forms, and relationships of trees. Exploring themes of restoration and destruction, community and isolation, location and identity, and fragile temporalities, the artists featured in the exhibition experiment with a range of mediums, and even use trees as creative collaborators to express our essential and inseparable bond with these guardians of the earth. The Art of Trees invites an interdisciplinary dialogue about personal, local, and global relationships to the environment, while simultaneously drawing attention to interactions between trees themselves, the communities they form, and their resilience despite human interference.

Featuring: Nearby Voices

Nearby Voices bridges the gap between global and local environmental concerns by engaging with the art and voices of local community members. This special section of The Art of Trees exhibition offers artistic reflections on the local landscape as a shared point of witness and imagines trees as archives of commonly held stories and experiences that branch across generations of a community.

The Art of Trees is curated by a committee of Gund Associates, Kenyon faculty, and Gund Gallery staff who worked together in a collaborative, multi-year process to bring this project to life.

Virtual Bridal & Wedding Expo
Jan 31 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 pm

Plan Your Wedding In One Day at Virtual Bridal & Wedding Expo – Central Ohio! All you need is a mobile device or desktop computer that connects to the internet! On the date of the event, the Expo will go live in the Facebook Event. Again, all you need is your computer or mobile device to login to Facebook – you can join the event from home… or anywhere! Vendors will be online to greet you… and you can chat with vendors, post questions, view their promo videos, and download their digital brochures. You’ll be given an Event Vendor list IMMEDIATELY at the beginning of the event in your email for easy reference after the event. Plus there will be interactive Raffle Giveaways, and the opportunity to network with other couples if you like. It’s a productive and safe way to meet allies and new friends from your local community… and wedding professionals who are eager to work with you and your fiancee with the respect and joyfulness you deserve! Help spread the word to your friends about the upcoming Bridal and Wedding Expo and we look forward to fun and exciting event! FREE – admission to the event on Facebook $25 Ticket – admission to the event on Facebook and Wedding Swag Bag (sent in the mail after the event)

Feb
1
Mon
The Art of Trees  @ Buchwald-Wright Gallery & Gund Gallery
Feb 1 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

January 22–April 11, 2021
Buchwald-Wright Gallery, Gund Gallery

The Art of Trees reveals the many resonances, forms, and relationships of trees. Exploring themes of restoration and destruction, community and isolation, location and identity, and fragile temporalities, the artists featured in the exhibition experiment with a range of mediums, and even use trees as creative collaborators to express our essential and inseparable bond with these guardians of the earth. The Art of Trees invites an interdisciplinary dialogue about personal, local, and global relationships to the environment, while simultaneously drawing attention to interactions between trees themselves, the communities they form, and their resilience despite human interference.

Featuring: Nearby Voices

Nearby Voices bridges the gap between global and local environmental concerns by engaging with the art and voices of local community members. This special section of The Art of Trees exhibition offers artistic reflections on the local landscape as a shared point of witness and imagines trees as archives of commonly held stories and experiences that branch across generations of a community.

The Art of Trees is curated by a committee of Gund Associates, Kenyon faculty, and Gund Gallery staff who worked together in a collaborative, multi-year process to bring this project to life.

#POSTYOURLOVE @ Indian Mound Mall
Feb 1 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

In honor of Valentine’s Day, there will be a new art display encouraging guests to celebrate the love in their lives – and share it to inspire fellow guests to feel the love this Valentine’s season. Guests are invited to participate by placing a sticky note for someone or something they love on the Post Your Love wall!

This art installation will be at the Food Court between next to Boost Mobile. It will be on display February 1, 2021 through March 1, 2021