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To mark the beginning of the 2021 ArtsWave Campaign and in celebration of Valentine’s Day weekend, nearly 50 buildings representing arts organizations, businesses and community partners, will light up in “ArtsWave red.”
To mark the beginning of the 2021 ArtsWave Campaign and in celebration of Valentine’s Day weekend, nearly 50 buildings representing arts organizations, businesses and community partners, will light up in “ArtsWave red” on Friday and Saturday, February 12-13, from 6 to 9 p.m. The lighting event offers both a unique and safe way for people to celebrate Valentine’s Day weekend during the pandemic, by driving, biking, streetcar, bus or on-foot.
A photo contest will take place during the weekend for the best photo during the two evenings of lights, posted on its social media platforms with an iPhone offered as the prize.
As part of the #ILoveTheArts weekend, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has created performances, Friday and Saturday evening at 7 p.m., of William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, for the community to stream online. WVXU will air a third performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The Fitton Center for Creative Arts, working with TV Hamilton and Queen City Cabaret, will also participate, presenting an evening of music and storytelling about Hollywood star and Cincinnati native, Doris Day, through Tea for Two at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening.
The annual ArtsWave Campaign is the largest local source of funding for many arts organizations across the 15 counties that make up the Cincinnati Region. ArtsWave is offering anyone who donates on Valentine’s Day weekend an #ILoveTheArts face mask as a thank you gift, in addition to an array of ongoing donor benefits that are cumulative, based on donation amounts.
For more information on the event, as well as an interactive map of the illuminated buildings, visit ArtsWave.org/ILoveTheArts.
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