Fans heading down to MidPoint Music Festival this month will discover a vibrant street fair along 12th Street in Over-the-Rhine. The MidPoint Midway will offer food, interactive fun and music from 5 p.m. to midnight, September 25–27, 2014.
MidPoint Midway is organized in partnership by MidPoint and ArtWorks
And thanks to sponsorship from P&G, the block between Vine and Walnut Streets will offer free music throughout the duration of the festival. Along with music, food trucks, and vendors, there is a major art and activities component to the Midway.
ArtWorks officially launches a citywide celebration of love for Cincinnati calledCincyInk. Through a range of interactive art-making experiences attendees can “ink their love” for our city.
2014 MidPoint Midway Venues
ArtWorks CincyInk will be officially kicking off here. Postcards will prompt attendees to submit written reflections on Cincinnati. The postcards will be amassed and applied in the creation of a crowd-sourced poem. This poem will later be divided and permanently inked on 200+ participants as part of 2015’s Cincinnati Tattoo Project.
ArtWorks Inked Goods is selling temporary tattoos, posters, and postcards that celebrate Cincinnati love.
“SkateAble Track” and on-site screen-printing by Able Projects. Live professional and amateur skateboarding will be on demonstration using ink themed sculptural ramps. Attendees can also select a MidPoint-inspired design and watch it get screen printed on a t-shirt of their choice.
Erasure by nipnip is another poetry project, which provides a range of media for visitors to make their own poem from Cincinnati-centric words. Participants can take home their stamped blackout poetry creation as a memento.
Short-Order Poetry by Chase Public will co-create poems about personal connections to Cincinnati. Each visitor will receive a poem inspired by their own responses to various prompts and questions. They may take it with them or contribute it to CincyInk. It would then become the basis for one of Chase Public’s crowd-sourced poems to the Queen City. This work will be featured as part of an assembly of all of the poems collected throughout CincyInk.
Ink Our Icons by Amanda M. Crane invites people to help raise solidarity for Union Terminal and Music Hall by “inking” their memories of the landmarks on postcards.
Write It On Your Heart That Cincinnati Loves You Back will prompt visitors to design Cincinnati-inspired tattoos that will be “inked” onmannequins throughout MidPoint Music Festival.
Attendees will encounter Matt Grote’s “GargantuHands” along the Midway, “inked” by artists.
FREE Happy Hour Concert presented by P&G
Friday, September 26, at 5 p.m. the band Real Estate performs a happy hour concert on the free Midway Music stage presented by P&G. The community is invited to enjoy this showcase by one of today’s most admired bands.
