GCAC Grantee Events
Pizzuti Collection Family Day
Family Day at Pizzuti Collection is a wonderful opportunity to gather the family for a full day of arts programming. Enjoy complimentary admission while exploring the exhibitions on view. Children and adults will have the opportunity for crafts and activities and guided tours. This Family Day at Pizzuti Collection we will be constructing More...
Fascinating Rhythm featuring Maurice Hines
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra's 2018-2019 season kicks off with a high energy, tour-de-force evening of hot jazz and dance featuring Broadway legend and Tony Award-nominated actor, singer, tap dancer, director Maurice Hines. Hines, a star of stage and screen, appeared on Broadway and nationally in “The Girl in the Pink Tights,” More...
Hixon Dance "From the Ground Up"
From the Ground Up, a night of interactive dance! Experience an intimate opportunity to see dance making up close. From improvisation to completed work, audiences will explore how the craft of choreography emerges and evolves. Audiences will also get to be the choreographer and create a work of their very own! Don't miss this incredibly More...
Falsettos
Falsettos is a Tony-award winning musical about a large, modern, dysfunctional, yet loving Jewish family in New York in the 1970s. Book by William Finn and James Lapine and music and lyrics by William Finn (A New Brain, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). Recommended for mature teens and More...
Soda_Jerk Astro Black (2007–ongoing)
Taking its title from Sun Ra’s 1972 album, Astro Black is an ongoing video series that features the cosmic jazz musician as the central character in an alternate, Afrofuturist history of music and culture emerging from what scholar Paul Gilroy has termed the hybrid, diasporic Black Atlantic space. In the four episodes on view, the More...
The Rocky Horror Show
Mad scientist and infamous transsexual Frank N. Furter leaps across the time warp to make his Short North Stage debut in this wildly popular tribute to sci-fi and B-grade horror movies. Dig out your fishnets and vinyl and dress up if you dare. Just don’t miss this fast-paced, high-energy explosion of fetish More...
Theo Watson
Conservatory visitors will interact with a 46’ long ecosystem projected on the Cardinal Health Gallery walls, where grasses and flora grow based on their bodies’ position and movement in the space. Transforming the virtual environment, visitors can attract unique species of butterflies that will interact with the visitors and the More...
Take Up Space
Take Up Space presents abstraction as it travels across floors, hangs on walls, and is suspended above stairwells. Abstraction runs throughout this space, exploring and becoming territory. The works – mostly paintings – are results of artists’ projects that consider the relevance and power of abstraction’s possibilities.The works More...
When Attitudes Become Chairs
In recent years the world of furniture design has been completely transformed. Once a fairly restrictive field in which form tended to follow function, it is today one of the most dynamic of all creative disciplines. Across a wide range of approaches - sometimes powered by new technology, sometimes simply by their imaginations - artists More...
Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me
“A hallmark of Thomas’s work…is what she describes as ‘recognition and acknowledgement and validation: you see me and I see you.’ It can be difficult to tear yourself away from those gazes. But then, why would you want to?”—Nicole Rudick, Paris Review
The work of celebrated, multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas More...
I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Uniquely curated by renowned author Wil Haygood, this exhibition celebrates the cultural blossoming that occurred in Harlem in the 1920-50s. Featuring works by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Beardon, Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, and unprinted photographs by James Van Der Zee, I, Too, Sing America explores the creative, religious, political, More...
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been...
Written by Carlyle BrownDirected by Nadine George-GravesLangston Hughes attempts to write a poem the night before he is scheduled to appear before the Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations on Un-American Activities led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in a staged reading of this lyrical drama that explores the intersection of art More...
Actors' Theatre presents The Shakespeare Underground: The Vampire
Presented by PNC Arts AliveATC's new project, The Shakespeare Underground, is an exuberant, fun, unpredictable take on classic plays from Shakespeare and a variety of authors. The concept of the project is a combination of guerrilla street theater and traditional Elizabethan staging methods. What’s more “underground” than that? More...
Mural Series: Harlem Renaissance at 100
The Short North Arts District is celebrating the Harlem Renaissance's 100th Anniversary with a temporary mural series showcasing 12 incredible Columbus-based, black artists: Antoinette Savage, Debbie Jackson, Edmond Boateng, Omar Shaheed, Wriply M. Bennet, Terry Norman, Annie Chrissy Burley, Cameron Granger, April Sunami, Malcom J., More...
Breaking The Code
Mathematical genius Alan Turing was a pioneer in the field of computers and computer science. His work breaking Nazi code during World War II saved countless lives, yet he plummeted into ruin after his secret life was discovered. Join CATCO in this co-production with Evolution Theatre Company. By Hugh More...
Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass with Yance Ford
Kick off the Unorthodocs. festival in this free workshop with award-winning filmmaker Yance Ford that explores the art of creating a simultaneously personal and political documentary in 2018. Together with fellow filmmakers and documentary fans, you’ll investigate how to a maintain a creative and authentic aesthetic in this highly More...
Shakedown Leilah Weinraub IN PERSON MIDWEST PREMIERE Postscreening Q&A moderated by Rooney Elmi
“An unparalleled documentation of a forgotten utopian moment [and a reminder of] just how trailblazing marginalized people from underground culture really are.”—Rooney Elmi, Dazed Digital
From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Leilah Weinraub was the resident videographer for Shakedown, a weekly party in Los Angeles that More...
Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986)
“Full of subtle, rich, and allusive argument as it is devoid of empty didacticism and stridency.”—Time Out London
A defining work of Black Audio Film Collective, a pioneering group of artists and thinkers, Handsworth Songs is a fascinating, free-form essay about race relations and civil disorder in 1980s Britain. Focusing on riots More...
Unorthodocs. 2018
Our festival devoted to the possibilities of creative nonfiction filmmaking is back for a second year! Many of today’s most exciting developments in cinema are happening with filmmakers pushing beyond the boundaries of the conventional documentary, and Unorthodocs. is a celebration of some of the most richly rewarding examples of the More...
Shorts
This crash course in the contemporary documentary features short films from both established and up-and-coming filmmakers working in a dizzying range of forms and tones. Among the highlights are Nathan Truesdell’s The Water Slide (2018), the latest film from the director of Balloonfest (an Unorthodocs. 2017 audience favorite) made up More...
Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene, 2018) Robert Greene IN PERSON
“In Bisbee ’17, Greene peels the layers of oblivion off history like so many layers of paint…[and] offers a passionately ambitious, patiently empathetic mapping of modern times.”—New YorkerAward-winning director Robert Greene (Actress, Kate Plays Christine) ranks among the most innovative nonfiction filmmakers working today, More...
The Myth of Faust
Opera Project Columbus and Maestro Alessandro Siciliani present The Myth of Faust (aka La Jeunesse: The Myth of Faust), a concert event with music by Gounod, Boito, and Berlioz featuring full orchestra and chorus, the Columbus International Children’s Choir, and the Brass Band of More...
The Sick World of Doctor Show
Experience the THRILL of your LIFETIME as Savage Tech's Horror Show Host Trio take the stage! Are your ready for MONSTERS in your comedy? How about SCARILY FUNNY short films? Could you brave this CRAZED HYBRID performance, intermingling between the realms of LIVE action and VIDEO screens, breaking through every fourth wall imaginable in More...
Lineage
Experience the intensely dazzling works of three prolific New York choreographers with Lineage: A Collection of Short Ballets. Step inside the spirited freshness of American folk dancing with George Balanchine's Square Dance, a boldly athletic work starkly contrasted by the melancholic beauty of Christopher Wheeldon's After the More...
Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)
“Rewrite[s] the rules of documentary to create a distinctly female form of expression.” —BAMcinématek
A key film of the 1970s and still considered among the most significant feminist films ever produced in this country, Soft Fiction is a collaboration between pioneering filmmaker Chick Strand and five other women. Blending their More...
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018) Bing Liu IN PERSON
“As a work of nonfiction, it’s stunning; as a piece of storytelling, it’s heartbreaking.” —Alissa Wilkinson, VoxWinner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking, Minding the Gap has probably won more film festival audience awards than any other documentary this year, and it’s easy to see More...
América (Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside, 2018) Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll IN PERSON MIDWEST PREMIERE
“An honest, intimate treatise on kindness. América is a film about what it means to have the best years of your life interrupted by the duty of care, and what’s more, to want that to happen.”—Little White Lies
This soulful debut feature by Ohio natives Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside is an affectionate, intimate, and More...
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, 2018) RaMell Ross IN PERSON MIDWEST PREMIERE
“Transcendental and immersive.”—Hyperallergic
“It’s not every day you witness a new cinematic language being born, but watching RaMell Ross’s evocatively titled documentary Hale County, This Morning, This Evening qualifies.”—Village Voice
In a category of its own, Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a captivating More...
Butch Ross Concert
Saturday, October 27, 8PM: Butch Ross Concert. Venue: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, OH. Chattanooga based Dulcimer Maestro Butch Ross astounds audiences by brilliant playing – both trad and stuff never meant for dulcimer: Beatles, Bach, Radiohead...". Jam Session (open to all) 6-7pm; Open Mic More...
Blue Velvet Revisited (Peter Braatz, 2016)
In 1985, young German filmmaker Peter Braatz was invited to Wilmington, North Carolina, to document the filming of David Lynch’s current low-budget project Blue Velvet, which became an instant cult classic on its release. Far from a conventional behind-the-scenes documentary, Blue Velvet Revisited is an atmospheric “meditation on a More...
Concert Pieces
Concert Pieces is a collection of pieces from Oyo Dance Company's repertoire, featuring special guest performances by Abdiel Jacobsen and Ari Mayzick.
Free Parking is Available in the Gold Lot. Follow Signs for Oyo Dance Company to the Matesich Theatre on Ohio Dominican University's More...
Wild Relatives (Jumana Manna, 2018) MIDWEST PREMIERE
“A profound meditation on resilience in an era defined by displacement, climate change, and war.”—Film Society of Lincoln Center
This remarkable essay film by Palestinian filmmaker and artist Jumana Manna starts by documenting the Svalbard Global Seed Vault before spiraling off to cover all manner of related complexities. The More...
Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979)
“An idol of iconoclasts everywhere, a pioneer of the postcolonial essay film, and the grandfather of the Philippine New Wave...one of cinema’s true originals.” —UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A truly sui generis filmmaker and protégé of Werner Herzog, Kidlat Tahimik is best known for his unexpected More...
Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts (Soda_Jerk, 2018) Soda_Jerk IN PERSON
“Weird, dazzling, kinetic, dizzyingly ambitious, sensationally mishmashed beast of an Australian film, one part video art installation project, one part revisionist documentary, and one part, I don’t know—LSD-infused YouTube compilation video.”—Guardian (Australia)
Few films have captured the horrors of our contemporary moment More...
The Trial (Maria Augusta Ramos, 2018)
Winner of numerous jury and audience awards at international film festivals, The Trial is a gripping account of one of the most disturbing political spectacles of recent years (and there have been plenty of those lately). Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was the world’s first democratically elected woman to be impeached, and this More...
Cinétracts ’68 (1968)
Cinétracts were a direct cinematic response by a group of French filmmakers—including the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker—to the revolutionary events that occurred during and following May 1968 in Paris. Produced quickly and often collectively, each “cinétract” was to be a 16mm, 100-foot-long, silent More...
CSA Songwriter Showcase
Each month, 10-20 local songwriters perform (2) of their newest original songs for live audiences. In 2018, audiences will select (3) songwriters from each showcase to perform for music industry professionals in the CSA Finale Showcase in December.Over the last 5 years, hundreds of songwriters have connected through Columbus Songwriters More...
Charles Atlas | Rashaun Mitchell | Silas Riener Tesseract
Tesseract fuses experimental cinematography, otherworldly set design, and hypnotic choreography into one spectacular evening of image and movement.
The visually dynamic performance is a collaboration between video artist Charles Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener—all three alumni of Merce Cunningham Dance More...
La Cage Aux Folles
Glittering and buoyant, this 2010 revival version of one of Broadway’s biggest and happiest hits, gains even more relevance in today’s world. Gay partners Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez. Their world turns topsy-turvy when Georges’s son, conceived from a one-night stand, brings his fiancé and her bigoted More...
Heels Class with Abdiel Jacobsen
Slayyyyyy!!! Show your stuff with one of the hottest and most sought after choreographers from New York City! Bring your heels and leave it all on the dance More...
Hustle Class with Abdiel Jacobsen
Learn from a New York Hustle Master! Get the most up-to-date moves and have a blast. Abdiel is one of the top hustle teachers in the More...
Jií Trnka: Five Animated Shorts (1946–65)
Spanning his 20-year career, this program focuses on Trnka’s early work, including the anti-Nazi satire Springman and the SS (1946), the dystopian space-age tale Cybernetic Grandma (1962), and Trnka’s masterpiece, The Hand (1965). Visit wexarts.org for a complete lineup closer to the screening. (100 mins., More...
City Dance: A Contemporary Choreography Showcase
City Dance, a contemporary choreography showcase, is an exciting display of local dance talent from central Ohio. City Dance promotes artistic growth for both emerging and established choreographers. Don't miss works by these local choreographers: Josh Anderson, Cassia Cramer, Alicia Hann, Gina Hoch-Stall, Mariah Layne French, More...
Martha Graham Master Class with Ari Mayzick
Experience a Master Class in the Martha Graham technique taught by Ari Mayzick. Ari is visiting us from New York where he is an accomplished Professional dancer and teaches at both the Martha Graham school and Broadway Dance More...
The Rodin Duo
Join us for a special performance by The Rodin Duo, featuring Mariko Kaneda, piano (Faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University) and David Niwa, violin (Assistant Concertmaster, Columbus Symphony and Artistic Director, Sunday at Central). The program includes "Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78" (1878-1879) by Johannes Brahms; "Distance de More...
Gifts of the Craftsmen Holiday Sale
The Ohio Craft Museum's 19th annual “Gifts of the Craftsmen" holiday sale features beautiful jewelry, functional pottery, art glass, wood cutting boards and utensils, whimsical puppets and animals, a large assortment of ornaments and more, by over 100 fine craft More...
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) NEW RESTORATION
One of the few American features directed by a woman to be theatrically released in the early 1970s, Barbara Loden’s tale of an unforgettable antiheroine is finally getting the widespread recognition it deserves. A former model and actress who appeared in a handful of husband Elia Kazan’s productions, Loden wrote, directed, and More...
Figure Drawing
This is a casual figure drawing group for everyone (as long as you’re over 18). It costs $7 per night.We meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 7-9, please contact info@wildgoosecreative.com for more info.Facebook Group: More...
Lunch & Learn Art: Macrame Hanging
Sunapple Studio & the Ohio Craft Museum are offering a monthly series of FREE art classes September through May at the Ohio Craft Museum. November 8 session: Macrame More...
A Conversation with Joe Sacco MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2018 KEYNOTE EVENT
Widely recognized as a pioneer in comics journalism, Joe Sacco is one of the most innovative and influential figures working in graphic narrative. His travels to war zones in Bosnia, Palestine, Chechnya, and Iraq led to some of his most highly acclaimed works, including Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (2009), which fetched the More...
Side B at the X Space
For its final exhibition of 2018 in the X Space, the Ohio Art League presents work by a trio of artists – Jana Pryor, Julie Keirle, and Rob Cook. "Side B" runs from November 5th through the end of December. An artist's reception is planned for Friday, November 9th, from 7 to 9 PM in the OAL X Space, 400 W. Rich Street, Columbus. An More...
Everything Else (Todo lo demás, Natalia Almada, 2016) Director Natalia Almada IN PERSON
The subject of a 2012 retrospective at the Wex, Mexican American filmmaker Natalia Almada returns with her first dramatic feature, the award-winning Everything Else. Oscar-nominated actress Adriana Barraza (Amores Perros, Babel) stars as Doña Flor, a longtime, low-level bureaucrat in Mexico City whose only meaningful connection is with More...
FLUFF | Vincent Haynes, Anna Nero and Malte Stiehl
FLUFF
painting and installation by
Vincent Haynes, Anna Nero and Malte Stiehl
Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 7 - 10 pm
Viewing Hours: Saturday, November 10, 12 - 4 pm
Artist Talk/Closing: Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 - 8 pm
Anna Nero is a current artist in residence of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s More...
The Shakespeare Underground presents No Holds Bard: William Shakespeare's Fight Night
Presented by PNC Arts AliveA TSU SPECIAL EVENT! Kings and Clowns will duke it out in swaggy, saucy Shakespearean swordplay with wrothful wit and warlike wordplay. Place your bets with Bard Bucks on who you think will drink from the cup of victory!Admission is $15 in advance, or "Pay What You Will" at the door. Complimentary reserved More...
Mozart & Montero
Gabriela Montero, piano & composer
David Danzmayr, conductor Known for her classical interpretations and remarkable improvisatory skills, pianist Gabriela Montero joins ProMusica for our “Composer/Performer” project as creator and soloist. We explore two contrasting symphonies of Beethoven—one reconstructed from sketches More...
Apollo's Fire - "O Jerusalem!"
4:00pm Concert
3:30pm Pre-concert talk with ArtistApollo’s Fire’s “Sephardic Journey” program won rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Now Jeannette Sorrell presents a sequel—an exploration of the three peoples whose music and faith brought such vibrancy to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The program is a More...
DIY Giftmaking
Join Columbus artist Jodi Murray in making an embroidered tree ornament. You'll learn basic embroidery techniques, as well as how to get started on your own embroidery projects. Jodi will also demonstrate iron-on transfers. All supplies More...
Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie IN PERSON
Full of visual delights and consistently showcasing the expressive and technical possibilities of 16mm film, the mesmerizing works of Australian artists Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie have to be experienced in person to be fully appreciated. This program focuses on the extraordinary multiple projector works that place the pair among the More...
Tosha Stimage The Self-Aware Subjects and Spaces of Mickalene Thomas
Whether an assemblage amassing into a robust pictorial landscape or a large-scale painting of a reclining nude, Mickalene Thomas’s constructed spaces and figures are loaded with a sense of memory and imagination that calls for a new type of engagement with one’s own identity as viewer.
This gallery talk will consider the More...
Who Will Write Our History? (Roberta Grossman, 2018) COLUMBUS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING Roberta Grossman IN PERSON
Who Will Write Our History? tells the story of a secret archive created in the Warsaw Ghetto by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and a band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders as a way to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the archive (known as the Oyneg Shabes) is the More...
Human School
Human School presents
Philosophy (for creatives) led by philosopher Michael Hiltbrunner.
Everything is on the table. Hilt will lead a conversation about a new topic each time.
Human School is Wild Goose Creative's newest program. A return to our educational roots. We bring you all the things you didn't learn in More...
Thursday Night Live!
Carpe Diem's Thursday Night Live! concerts feature a entertaining evening of Carpe Diem's adventurous out-of-the-box programming in partnership with the Columbus Museum of ArtHarlem Renaissance - Thursday November 15, 6pmWar and Peace - Thursday January 10, 6pmThe Dutch Masters - Thursday March 14, 6pmNature's More...
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman, 2018)
Over the course of 50 years and 43 documentaries, Frederick Wiseman has become our most dedicated filmic chronicler of American life and institutions—as well as one of the most-shown filmmakers in the Wexner Center’s history (including a memorable retrospective and visit in 2006). For his latest project, Wiseman visits the American More...
Lars Jan The White Album
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”—Joan Didion, “The White Album” (1968–78)
This multimedia, theatrical adaptation of Joan Didion’s groundbreaking essay explores the eerie similarities between the cultural unrest of the late 1960s and America’s turmoil today.
Created by director and visual artist Lars Jan, More...
Saint Lawrence String Quartet
The St. Lawrence String Quartet plays traditional and contemporary chamber music and with joy, excitement, drama and with a hint of rock 'n roll intensity. Whether it is Hayden or John Adams, their playing smolders with excitement, electricity, spontaneity and More...
Joe Pug with Brian Dunne
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Joe Pug rose to fame in the early 2000s and wowed fans at some of the country’s most notable music festivals, including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and The Newport Folk Festival. He toured relentlessly for several years, stepped away from the touring grind for a time, and More...
The Smallest Show on Earth (Basil Dearden, 1957) ZOOM FOR FAMILIES 35MM PRINT
In this charming British comedy, a young couple (played by real-life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) thinks their money troubles are over when they inherit a movie theater from a distant relative. But their plan to quickly flip the property for the cash is dashed when they discover they have a fleabag cinema on their More...
Rams (Gary Hustwit, 2018) Director Gary Hustwit IN PERSON
Documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit returns to the Wexner Center to present this long-awaited follow-up to his popular “Design Trilogy” of Helvetica (2007), Objectified (2009), and Urbanized (2001). Rams is a portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive and long renowned for his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe. More...
Home for the Holidays featuring Niki Haris
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra heats up the yuletide season with soul-jazz vocalist Niki Haris. Daughter of jazz piano great, Gene Harris, Niki burst onto the international music scene performing alongside mega pop diva, Madonna, on the “Who’s That Girl,” “Blond Ambition,” and “The Girlie Show” tours. Haris has More...
The Christmas Schooner
The crew of a Great Lakes schooner risks everything to bring the Christmas spirit to German immigrants in Chicago homesick for their motherland during the late 19th Century. Families and kids of all ages will be touched by this heartwarming musical that reveals the real meaning of Christmas. Show includes songs, such as “We All Have More...
None Shall Escape (André De Toth, 1944) NEW 4K RESTORATION
Set during the Nuremberg-like trial of Nazi Wilhelm Grimm (played by Alexander Knox), None Shall Escape tells through flashback the story of how a bitter German World War I vet evolved into a Third Reich commander responsible for the deportation of Jews and other minorities. Finished 18 months before the end of World War II, the film was More...
Winterfair
The 42nd annual "Winterfair," a juried fair of fine art and fine craft by over 400 artists from across the United States, will be held November 30–December 2 at the Ohio Exposition Center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Shoppers will find fine jewelry, functional pottery, blown glass, wearable art, sculpture, painting, photography and More...
Tommy Becker Mix Tape (2013–16)
This selection of videos from San Francisco–based artist Tommy Becker’s ongoing Tape Number One project combines poetry and songwriting with performance, found footage, and handmade costumes and props. Part video poem and part music video, the works included on Mix Tape set the artist’s sentimental yearnings against banal and often More...
The Emperor’s Nightingale (Císav slavík, Jií Trnka and Miloš Makovec, 1949) ZOOM FOR FAMILIES
Adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Emperor’s Nightingale tells the story of a Chinese emperor who becomes enchanted by a nightingale’s song, and then that of the bird’s mechanical replacement. Dialogue-free but bursting with imagery and imagination, it’s simply one of the most dazzling stop-motion animated More...
Lunch & Learn Art: Narrative Textiles
Sunapple Studio & the Ohio Craft Museum are offering a monthly series of FREE art classes September through May at the Ohio Craft Museum. December 6 session: Narrative Textiles with fiber artist Kate More...
The Concert for US: Sing Out. March On.
Kind Columbus presents Harmony Project: The Concert for US - Sing Out. March On. FEATURING: The 500-voice Spirit of Columbus choir, the Harmony Band and Orchestra, and singer/songwriter/actor Joshuah Brian Campbell. The Concert for US will present a set of songs surrounding the idea of being pro-voice, using the voice for good, More...
Studio 54 (Matt Tyrnauer, 2018)
For 33 months between 1978 and 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism and tolerance, glitz and glamor, the nightclub and its activities filled the gossip columns daily. Two college friends, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, succeeded in creating the ultimate escapist fantasy in the heart of More...
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Séancers
“What does it mean to defend the dead? To tend to the Black dead and dying: to tend to the Black person, to Black people, always living in the push toward our death?” —Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
Multidisciplinary performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko takes on the racialized body, systemic More...
Mamma Mia!
Celebrate the Holidays in the Greek Isles. The timeless hits of the Swedish pop group Abba propel this sunny, funny tale of a teen’s search for her birth father on the eve of her wedding in an Aegean paradise. Non-stop laughs, explosive dance numbers and a plethora of those songs we can’t help loving make Mamma Mia! the More...
Messiah Side-by-Side Sing-Along
Robert J. Ward, hostJoin the orchestra, community members, and the Ohio State University’s Director of Choral Studies Robert Ward for a beloved holiday tradition! Raise your voice in song with friends, families, and church choirs, and sing selections from Handel’s Messiah. Orchestra students and area music directors join ProMusica More...
Making Spirits Bright! 2018 Vaud-Villities Holiday Show
When Grandchildren visit Grandpa on Christmas Eve, imagination and memories mix to fuel a song and dance spectacular featuring a variety of holiday favorites from days of yore to the present day. Don't miss the 2018 Vaud-Villities Holiday Show that will most certainly be Making Spirits Bright!
Shows are at NPAC (Northland Performing More...
The Nutcracker
Witness magic in the making at The Nutcracker, a beloved holiday tradition that has stood the test of time. Co-created by Gerard Charles and Robert Post, this spellbinding production invites you inside the earnest and imaginative dreams of young Clara as she journeys with her Nutcracker Prince to meet the Sugar Plum Fairy. More...
Zoom Cereal and Pajama Party All ages
Begin the weekend by staying in your PJs and heading off to Zoom for free cereal before watching cartoons on the big screen! The party’s hosted by Heirloom Café.
Parents, if you have any questions about Zoom activities and films or their content, please contact Jean Pitman, youth and community programs manager, at (614) 292-4614 or More...
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) Ages 7 and up With live music by Sue Harshe
Join us for this sidesplitting, mind-blowing comedy by one of the true visionaries of cinema’s silent era! Scrawl’s Sue Harshe provides live music for this delightful story of a movie theater projectionist and janitor who’s studying to be a detective. While showing a movie about the theft of a pearl necklace, the projectionist More...
Kid Flix Mix Ages 4 and up
Our annual screening of lively animated shorts from the New York International Children’s Film Festival sells out fast, so get your tickets early! This year’s lineup features cartoons from around the world including one about Henriyeti, who’s a little bit girl and a little bit yeti and learns to be fearless; Party Mouth, promoting More...
Holiday Wreath Making
Make a wreath for the holidays with Columbus artist Henrietta Cartwright. You'll be guided through the basic wreath-making techniques, then you'll be free to select from a variety of materials on hand or bring items from home to create a wreath of your own unique design. The possibilities are More...
Zoom Hands-on Crafts and Activities All ages
Drop in for crafty fun at this free open studio featuring coloring pages and projects you can take home.
Parents, if you have any questions about Zoom activities and films or their content, please contact us at edweb@wexarts.org or (614) 688-3986. We can’t wait to see More...
Liyana (Aaron and Amanda Kopp, 2017, Qatar/Swaziland/USA) Ages 7 and up
Liyana combines documentary and animation to create a uniquely compelling movie experience. Set in a Swaziland orphanage, the film follows five amazing children taking a class with a master storyteller. The group creates a fictional tale about a young girl, Liyana, who embarks on a perilous quest to reunite with her brothers. The More...
Purple Dreams (Joanne Hock, 2017, USA) Ages 8 and up
This inspiring documentary tracks the first-ever high school production of the musical The Color Purple, a Tony Award–winning adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. Many of the musical’s themes mirror the lives of the at-risk students involved, and its story plays out through the lens of their struggles and triumphs during the More...
Zoom Ice Cream Social All ages
Join us between films and crafts for a free ice cream social featuring Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.
Parents, if you have any questions about Zoom activities and films or their content, please contact Jean Pitman, youth and community programs manager, at (614) 292-4614 or jpitman@wexarts.org. We can’t wait to see More...
Four Seasons Recomposed
Alexandra Soumm, violinDavid Danzmayr, conductorViolinist Alexandra Soumm, with her lush tone and lyrical personality, presents The Four Seasons Recomposed—Vivaldi’s classic, reimagined. ProMusica pairs this new twist with Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, which is itself a lively, wild—even manic—ride.MAX RICHTER – The Four More...
Funny Girl
Funny Girl follows the semi-biographical story of beloved comedienne and Broadway star Fanny Brice. As she waits for her husband to return from prison, the star of Ziegfeld Follies reflects on her life and her rise to fame. This hit musical is full of Broadway classics such as “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “People,” and “Sadie, More...
Art & Ecology Exhibition Reception
Celebrate this year’s Art & Ecology students and be among the first to see the works they’ve created as part of our annual course exploring art and environmental issues.
On view during regular gallery hours through December 31, the exhibition is the students’ chance to present their viewpoints on the biggest challenges facing More...
Wings of Desire (Der himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders, 1987) NEW 4K RESTORATION
Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wings of Desire offers one of cinema’s most beautiful portraits—both of a city and the love and longing it contains. Bruno Ganz stars as Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the silent fears, hopes, and dreams of all the people living below. But when More...
Art & Ecology Exhibition
Find inspiration for making the world a better place and celebrate the art created by local youth in this year's Art & Ecology course. Since August, high school students from all over central Ohio have been exploring art and environmental issues as part of the Wexner Center's annual Art & Ecology class. This exhibition is the More...
WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art
Every thinking mind needs a worldview. This half-day program builds on the cross-cultural understandings and perspectives that engage and influence many contemporary artists. This year’s program features All This Panic (Jenny Gage, 2016), a documentary following the lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age. The film More...
Open Lab
A completely low tech night where ANYONE has 5 to 10 minutes to do ANYTHING THEY WANT on our stage.
We'll throw on some lights and make sure there's a microphone if you need one.
Insure a spot in the lineup by emailing ahead of time to stephenw@madlab.net, or just show up and find the girl in teal wearing glasses and tell her you More...
The Rose Ensemble "A Tudor Christmas"
FAREWELL TOUR!“Twelfth Night Celebration: A Tudor Christmas”
Reverence and Revelry at the English & Scottish Renaissance Courts
8:00pm Concert Centered on the wealth of music associated with such legendary royalty as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots, voices and instruments resound in this joyful program More...
Berlin Zvizdal
The Belgium-based company Berlin presents this multimedia work—part documentary film, part diorama-installation, and part performance—that follows a married couple living in solitude ever since their town was evacuated by the nearby Chernobyl disaster. Zvizdal offers an intimate portrait of hope and love between two survivors More...
Sunshine
Grumpy landlord Mr. Sunshine likes things his own way — he especially likes quiet, or at least he thinks he does, until a less-than-perfect tenant/music teacher and her students change his life. CATCO is Kids presents this classic based on the book by Ludwig Bemelmans. Book by Jennifer Draganski and Sean Hartley; lyrics by John O'Neil More...
An Evening with Three Women and the Truth
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Mary Gauthier, Gretchen Peters, and Eliza Gilkyson individually have mined the depths of human experience to create powerful, soul-stirring music over successful solo careers. Together as the supergroup Three Women and the Truth they combine talents for a powerful More...
Songs & Sounds of the Harlem Renaissance
The Jazz Arts Group joins in the year-long, city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with "Songs & Sounds of the Harlem Renaissance," a reboot of its sold-out, “Ladies Sing the Blues: Songs & Sounds of the Harlem Renaissance,” from the 2016-2017 season. We’re expanding the list of More...
Harlem Quartet
The Harlem Quartet passionately plays jazz, world music and the classics while building diversity and engaging new More...
Every Brilliant Thing
A young man tries to make sense of his mother’s chronic depression. Fear of the onset of his own mental illness, leads him to make a list of a hundred, then a thousand, then a million of the greatest things the world has to offer. This one man tour de force will leave you with a deeper understanding of joy. By Duncan Macmillan with More...
Into the Woods
One of Sondheim's most popular works, this musical follows a baker and his wife on their quest to have a child, Cinderella who wishes to attend the King's festival, and Jack who wishes for his cow to give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that a witch has cursed them, they set off on a journey to reverse it. While they More...
Mark Lomax II ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD PROJECT 400: A Celebration
Columbus-based composer, recording artist, and drummer Mark Lomax II and his musical compatriots perform selections from his 12-album cycle 400: An Afrikan Epic. Supported by a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, this ambitious project tells the story of black America stretching from precolonial Afrika, through the 400 years after the More...
Sound the Trumpet
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpetDavid Danzmayr, conductorTine Thing Helseth, who is rapidly becoming one the foremost trumpet soloists of our time, joins ProMusica with Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto and MacMillan’s deeply spiritual Seraph. This evocative program concludes with Beethoven’s expressive yet powerful Pastoral Symphony.HAYDN – More...
The Orlando Consort "Voices Appeared"
3:00pm Concert2:30pm Pre-concert talk with the ArtistsCondemned in France and banned in England upon its release in 1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc is now crowned as one of the greatest films ever made. In Voices Appeared, the film receives for the first time a soundtrack of music from the lifetime of the French More...
Art Studio Clearance Sale
The 25th annual "Art Studio Clearance Sale," a juried event, offers high-quality fine art and fine craft by over 150 artists from across the country at discount prices. The event will be held February 1–2, 2019, at the Lausche Building at the Ohio State More...
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
Admired and loved by those within New York’s downtown art scenes before his untimely death in 1987, Peter Hujar is only now receiving wider recognition as one of the late 20th century’s greatest photo portraitists. Don’t miss this internationally touring exhibition that elegantly celebrates his achievement.
Peter Hujar: Speed of More...
John Waters: Indecent Exposure
Indecent Exposure gathers more than 160 photographs, sculptures, and videos by one of the most transgressive and celebrated figures working today. Moving from cult filmmaker to inimitable cultural commentator, Waters is a long-standing friend of the Wex, and we’re thrilled to be one of only two venues presenting the exhibition.
John More...
The Masters II
One of the resident chamber ensembles, Cygnus Quartet (all members of Columbus Symphony), will offer masterworks from the string quartet literature. More...
Ellis Paul with Kipyn Martin
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Ellis Paul returns to Six String Concerts with his immense talent for storytelling through song. A deep catalogue of thoughtfully expressive songs has made him a Columbus favorite for all ages. He will present a second show the following afternoon, with songs especially More...
Ellis Paul Family Show
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.It was the birth of his daughter that inspired Ellis Paul to create music for children, starting with the socially conscious, riveting stories on Dragonfly Races, and continuing with The Hero In You and its songs about true American heroes, including Woody Guthrie, More...
Corina Marti - Harpsichord at Mozart's Cafe
Join Early Music in Columbus at Mozart’s Café for a very special presentation. On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 enjoy a delicious buffet dinner in the ballroom, and hear Swiss harpsichordist Corina Marti in an intimate performance of 16th-century music from the Tablature of Jan of Lublin. Tickets are $60 each. More...
Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others with Benny Benack III & Lena Seikaly
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra provides the soundtrack to your romantic Valentine’s Day weekend with "Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others," celebrating the centenary of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and featuring two fresh-faced rising stars on the jazz scene, trumpeter-vocalist Benny Benack III, and vocalist Lena More...
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Enjoy the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, the world's most renowned wind ensemble, on its Farewell Tour. Its performances are breathtakingly perfect examples of unity, blend, precision, articulation and More...
Jason Marsalis & the 21st Century Trad Band
Vibraphonist/drummer Jason Marsalis, the youngest sibling of jazz greats Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo Marsalis, is, along with his brothers and dad, Ellis, part of New Orleans’ venerable first family of jazz, and the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters honorees. Splitting time between France and the U.S., Jason More...
Don Quixote
A classical story packed with a touch of guile, a heap of chivalry and plenty of humor, Don Quixote invites you on a quest of misguided love and longing. Join the man of La Mancha, at once charming and zealous, and a cast of colorful characters for one of the most celebrated dance dramas in history, known for its beautiful costumes More...
Babe The Sheep Pig
Based on the popular movie, Babe, comes Babe, The Sheep Pig: a "tail" of farmyard adventure full of heroes, villains and an adorable piglet who charms his way to success at the Grand Challenge Sheep Dog Trials at CATCO is Kids. By David Wood, based on the book by Dick More...
Brahms Horn Trio
Katherine McLin, violinStephanie Blaha, hornAndrew Campbell, pianoProMusica concertmaster Katherine McLin and principal horn Stephanie Blaha collaborate with guest pianist Andrew Campbell for an evening of chamber music, including one of Brahms’ most significant chamber works, his Horn Trio, Op. 40.For more details: More...
Newsies
A musical inspired by a true story and based off the 1992 Disney film, Newsies tells the story of newspaper boys in 1899 who make a meager living selling newspapers on the city streets. After a newspaper cost hike at the expense of the newspaper boys, one of them, Jack Kelly, plus an independent newspaper owner Katherine Plummer, More...
Where Are They Now?
This concert will feature Columbus Native,Chelsea Tanner, flute. Miss Tanner will be joined by Columbus Symphony harpist Jude Mollenhauer and violist Kenichiro More...
Chastity Brown with Ben Bedford
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Chastity Brown sings with soul and conviction of the complexities and contradictions of the human condition. Her music explores danger and safety, uncertainty and security, heartbreak and comfort. Based in Minnesota and with Tennessee roots, her songs leave no doubt More...
Nothing But the Blues with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra featuring Omar Coleman & Joel Frahm
March madness kicks off with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra getting down and dirty in blues country with celebrated windy city blues vocalist and harmonicist, Omar Coleman, and tenor sax heavyweight, Joel Frahm. Expect to hear red hot vocals and instrumental solos that will leave you feeling anything but More...
Ronn McFarlane & Paul O'Dette - "For Two Lutes"
8:00pm Concert
7:30pm Pre-concert talk
with the artistsThe lute was the most beloved solo instrument of the Renaissance, but lutenists often doubled the pleasure by performing as duos. A large repertoire of exciting lute duets survives from throughout Europe, but the pinnacle of this art was achieved in Italy and England. The More...
Life Sucks.
A contemporary spin on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya written in 1898. Decades later, a group of individuals explores life’s most perplexing questions and ponders whether life really does suck. Imagine Woody Allen interpreting the Russian playwright in modern times and you will understand a fraction of the hysterical angst. by Aaron Posner, More...
Pippin
There’s magic to do when a prince learns the true meaning of glory, love and war in this 1972 coming-of-age classic. “Pippin” takes us back to the time of Charlemagne as one young man struggles to be extraordinary. Featuring a thrilling score by Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked” and “Godspell”). Director Edward Carignan creates a More...
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Join ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch on his climb up the corporate ladder with a little help from a handbook. This comedic musical follows him from window washer to chairman of the board, overcoming dangers from the "company man," the office party, backstabbing coworkers, to More...
Kalichstein, Laredo, Robinson Trio
Since making its debut at the White House for President Carter's Inauguration in January 1977, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. It continues to play with all the brilliance, finesses and unity that comes from being a forty year old trio with all of its original More...
Seussical KIDS
Your favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life on stage in this musical production designed specifically for young theatregoers at CATCO is Kids! Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty; music by Stephen Flaherty; and lyrics by Lynn More...
The Huntertones
The Huntertones formed in Columbus, Ohio at The Ohio State University and hosted their first shows at a house on Hunter Avenue. Since then they've toured the world collaborating with top artists in pop, jazz, soul, and musical theater including Jon Batiste and Stay Human, O.A.R., Snarky Puppy, Stevie Wonder, Andy Grammer and Ed More...
NAKED CLASSICS: Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
Paul Rissmann, presenter & hostVadim Gluzman, creative partnerShostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 was later arranged for string orchestra, now known as his “Chamber Symphony.” Paul Rissmann and Creative Partner Vadim Gluzman shed light on this fascinating journey both musically and politically.SHOSTAKOVICH – Chamber More...
Hixon Dance "Entanglement"
Entanglement, where science meets dance! Science and Dance meet in this in-depth collaboration. Using principles of quantum mechanics as a jumping off point for creative design, Hixon Dance brings two new compelling works to audiences that examine the chaos and beauty of science and art. Speak with the artists immediately after the More...
Bach & the Russians
Alina Kobialka, violinVadim Gluzman, violin & leaderProMusica, led by Creative Partner Vadim Gluzman, weaves through a carefully curated program of gems of the string orchestra repertoire, ranging from Bach to Shostakovich. Violinist Alina Kobialka, with known for her effortless precision and musical maturity, joins Vadim for More...
The Early Interval "Musica Femina"
8:00pm Concert
7:30pm Pre-concert talk The Early Interval celebrates the 400th anniversary of composer Barbara Strozzi’s birth with a program of music by women composers of the Baroque period. In addition to lyrical Italian pieces for soprano by Strozzi, the concert includes vocal and instrumental chamber music by French composer More...
An Evening with The Ruth Moody Band
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Singer-songwriter Ruth Moody is internationally known as a founding and current member of The Wailin’ Jennys. She is visiting Columbus with The Ruth Moody Band, featuring her ethereal vocals and insightful songwriting and the rich contribution of Adrian Dolan (fiddle, More...
Cinderella
Race against the midnight toll with the grand return of Edwaard Liang's Cinderella. A fairy tale full of hope, hardship and happily ever after, this lush production, set to Prokoviev's score, brings your favorite characters to life with elegance and charm. With a little help from a certain Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is sure More...
Quartetto Gelato
Quartetto Gelato, musicians playing a violin, cello, oboe and an accordion, features a passionate, humorous, exotic, eclectic mix of folk music, opera, classical and popular music. Known for virtuosic showpieces, romantic tenor arias, pyrotechnical solos, blazing show pieces, multi-instrument mastery, artistic passion, and humor, More...
Six for Brahms
This concert will feature five graduates of the renowned Curtis Institute of Music and Leonid Polonsky (Associate Concertmaster of the Columbus Symphony) in Brahms's sextet for strings in B-flat major. More...
Gospel & Soul Meet Rock & Roll
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra concludes its 2018-2019 season with "Gospel & Soul Meet Rock & Roll" featuring former “Sounds of Blackness” lead vocalist, Quan Howell, alongside Shayna Steele, whose dynamic vocals can be heard on tracks by Moby including his #1 Billboard Dance track, “Disco Lies,” and in concert with Bette More...
2019 OhioDance Festival and Conference
On April 26-28, 2019, OhioDance, the state-wide dance network organization, will hold its annual festival co-sponsored by Ohio State University, Department of Dance, Columbus. There are classes, workshops, discussions and performances over the three days. Events will take place at the OSU Deptartment of Dance Studios and Barnett Theatre, More...
Beethoven's Cello
Marc Moskovitz, celloLarry Todd, pianoIn 2017, principal cellist Marc Moskovitz along with pianist and professor Larry Todd released their book, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World. Join us as they discuss and perform several of these works that are the cornerstone of today’s cello repertoire.For more More...
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
In this captivating work of fantasy peopled by magicians and fantastical talking animals, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the Sea of Stories. Along the way, he learns about the power of storytelling, naming, and identity. Featuring original composed music and dances of South East Asian descent, Haroun More...
An Evening with Sam Baker
Family-friendly concert in intimate, alcohol-free, smoke-free venue.Sam Baker brings to the stage an understanding of terrorism and survival borne of raw experience. From devastating injuries endured during a train bombing to his ultimate acceptance of every breath as a gift, Sam’s journey, music, and art inspire an appreciation of More...
Beethoven's Ninth
Kathrin Danzmayr, sopranoAbigail Nims, altoLawrence Wiliford, tenorAaron Wardell, baritoneLancasterChoraleDavid Danzmayr, conductorFor a poignant end to our 40th season, we turn to the Viennese masters—beginning with Mozart’s choral work Allegri Miserere, and continuing with eloquently orchestrated Schubert songs. We conclude with More...
Momentum Year End Performances
Momentum will celebrate the Harlem Renaissance by engaging more than 1,000 central Ohio children in dance, music and performance during their weekly, in-school Momentum classes throughout the 2018-19 school year. During the year dancers will learn original dances that tell the story of the Harlem Renaissance. The school year will More...
by Liang
In a celebration of creative vision, by Liang features three works from globally celebrated choreographer and BalletMet Artistic Director, Edwaard Liang. Two works with an understated poignancy, Symphonic Dances and Beautiful Child, will be premiering for the first time in Columbus. Wunderland, Liang's first ballet set on More...
Holmes and Watson
Sherlock Holmes is dead … or so it is assumed. The world knows the great detective went over the falls at Reichenbach with his nemesis Professor Moriarty. But as Holmes’ body was never retrieved, several frauds, fakes and charlatans have since come forward to lay claim to his identity, and it falls to Dr. Watson to disprove them. By More...
Jason Moran
Best known as a star jazz pianist and composer, Jason Moran is also a visual artist whose fascinating work explores the interplay between objects and sound, sculpture and stagecraft. This exhibition, the first to showcase his visual work in a museum context, presents Moran’s mixed-media installations based on such historically More...
Grease
Bad boy Danny and good girl Sandy fall for each other during summer break, but when the school year begins Danny has to find balance between his feelings for Sandy and his image with the T-Birds and Pink Ladies. Follow these two love birds through their senior year of high school put to a rock and roll More...
