Cincinnati Events

We are having a party in the Cultural Arts District and you are invited! Come shop from the local businesses, listen to live music, and have some beer from West Sixth Brewing.

Oh, the joy! 315 years of birthdays and anniversaries to celebrate in one sitting. We hope you are party-hardened! So, here it is: 200 years of Ludwig’s Ninth, 50 years of your favorite orchestra, 10 years of the Summermusik festival, and … ah, but we won’t tell you that last one just now. It’ll be a surprise! So, we close the festival with a birthday party, but we are mostly the guests. It is YOU, our audience, that we’ll be celebrating, because without your support of 50, 10, or any number of years, tonight would not have been possible.

Single Tickets: $30-40 for Adults, $10 for Students, Free for Children Under 13

Join Summermusik Director Eckart Preu for a pre-concert talk in the Mayerson Theatre at 6:45pm
Wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.

Discovering Ansel Adams
September 27, 2024–January 19, 2025
The Thomas R. Schiff Gallery (Gallery 234 & 235)
Ticketed. Free for Members. Save $2 when purchasing tickets online.
Adult tickets: $12 in-person, $10 online
Seniors, college students and children 6–17 years: $8 in person, $6 online
Children 5 years & under: free

See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m. and during Art After Dark on September 27 and October 25 from 5–9 p.m. FotoFocus passport holders have free entry from September 27–October 31.

Premiering at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Discovering Ansel Adams provides an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a 14-year-old tourist with a camera into America’s most celebrated photographer. Drawn from the definitive Adams collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the exhibition brings together approximately 80 virtuosic photographs with unique ephemera including the artist’s handwritten correspondence, snapshots, personal possessions, and photographic working materials. Featured works range from small, one-of-a-kind photographs from Adams’s teenage years to jaw-dropping mural-sized prints of his most iconic mature views. Join the artist on his journey from teenage musician to young mountaineer, as he makes his first pictures at Yosemite, experiences the American Southwest, learns how to communicate with a broad national audience, and undertakes an epic quest to photograph America’s national parks. Along the way, discover how Ansel Adams became Ansel Adams.

Founded in 1975 by the President of University of Arizona and Ansel Adams, the Center for Creative Photography is one of the world’s finest institutions for the study of the history of photography, and a singularly important archive for Ansel Adams studies. Discovering Ansel Adams presents a rare opportunity to encounter the CCP’s Ansel Adams collection outside of Arizona.

Touch-A-Truck returns with vehicles of all shapes and sizes to Tower Park! Check out large work trucks up close or sit inside an excavator.

Jack-O-Lanters far and wide look forward to this one-of-a-kind event! Walk among 300 pumpkins with lights and Halloween characters. This family friendly event continues to be a staple during the fall season!

Looking for a frightful display of Halloween houses? Look no further than the Halloween House Decorating Contest taking place on Tuesday, October 29 at 7pm. Drive around the community to see who has the most Halloween spirit and which street you will be stopping by on Trick-Or-Treat Night!

Fort Thomas Trick-Or-Treat will be taking place on Thursday, October 31 from 6-8pm!

Veterans Day will be on Saturday, November 9 at the Charters of Freedom at Tower Park.

The annual Fort Thomas Holiday Walk returns with a touch of Hallmark Movie Magic!
- Tour de Tinsel Bike Ride | 4pm
- Lighting of Inverness Tree | 5pm
- Lighting of City Building Tree | 7pm

Drive around and check out Fort Thomas homes all decked out for the holiday season on Friday, December 20 from 6-9pm.
If interested in participating or nominating, please email Sam at sshelton@ftthomas.org or call (859)572-1209.