Almost ever since I moved to downtown Cleveland just over two years ago, I have wanted to start a blog about how awesome this city is. I don’t know what took me so long. Maybe it was getting more comfortable with the lay of the land, or getting to know some other Cleveland folks both on- and offline. Whatever it was that kept me from beginning, I definitely know what has prompted to to finally start:
Ingenuity Fest 2008 Performance
Ingenuity Fest 2009 starts tomorrow, and I don’t think I could be more excited. Ingenuity is a celebration of art, music, technology and science that takes over Cleveland’s theatre district for one weekend a year and completely rocks the area (and my world).
I feel like the Ingenuity Festival is a testament to all our city could be if everyone applied themselves. Cleveland is home to a NASA research center, an incredible medical community, wonderful art museums (especially once the Cleveland Museum of Art completes its renovations) a theatre community that is unlike any other in a city its size (that I know of), and of course – a bitchin’ music scene.
For one weekend a year, all of the best things about Cleveland (except the food!) converge for one crazy festival that somehow manages to bring it all together.
As if that weren’t enough, in addition to Ingenuity this year, we’re also being treated to the Screaming TikiCon, a comic/superhero/pop culture convention. Tickets for Screaming TikiCon get you into Ingenuity Fest as well – either $20 for one day or $30 for the weekend.
Ingenuity Fest itself is $10 for a day or $15 for the weekend. There are several ways to get discounted tickets — you can follow @IngenuityFest on Twitter to get the inside scoop on special offers and events.
If you want my play-by-play updates, I’ll be at Ingenuity Fest and Screaming TikiCon just about all weekend, and will be posting my thoughts here (when I get a chance), and during the festivities on Twitter (@laurelmackenzie). If you’re going and you see me, come say hi!
See you at Ingenuity, Cleveland.
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Ingenuity Festival was great fun! I loved the fashion show. Wish we could have gone the whole weekend.
I think I ruined my shoes with the green slime from Noah’s art installation.
Is that Doc Brown from Back to the Future RAPPING? If so, I will so fucking be there next year.
That WOULD be awesome, but alas, Doc Brown it is not. I don’t know the guy’s name, but he is pretty freaking awesome nonetheless. He does some cool musical/technology performances. In this one, his gloves are wired and he’s wearing thimbles, and touching different wires/thimbles together mixed different song bits he’d recorded. Is that dope enough to get you to Ingenuity Fest 2010??