A Big Event At The Urban Arts Space
WOSU Theatre Critic Joy Reilly talks with the director of the OSU Urban Arts Space, Valerie Williams.

by Joy Reilly

The OSU Urban Arts Space is partnering with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Statehouse for a late-summer "mini-festival" downtown Thursday evening, August 28.

The arts space is located in the historic Lazarus building at 50 West Town Street.

The new director of the Urban Arts Space, Valerie Williams, talks with WOSU Theatre Critic Joy Reilly about the upcoming event and other activities she is developing.

The event includes a presentation of "Art Builds Bridges" at the space from 4 to 8pm 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 6pm titled "When Art Builds Bridges: Art, Environment, and Community" focusing on the place of art and river ecology in the reinvention of civic identity.

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.

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).


For more information:

Call (614) 292-8861 or go to uas.osu.edu.

WOSU Theater Critic Joy Reilly can be heard Wednesdays at 12:35pm during NPR's "Day To Day" on WOSU 820.

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