get your caboose to ingenuity fest (doesn't really work as a train metaphor but I can try)

Ingenuity Cleveland
Friday, July 10 4pm - 1am
Saturday, July 11 noon - 1am
Sunday, July 12 noon - 8pm
mappidy doo (.pdf)



Last years ingenuity fest was an amazing collection of art/technology and most importantly LOCAL TALENT. The weather was amazing, Hot Sauce Williams had a stand (!), my MarJ met the Mayor and Pecha Kucha was rather invigorating (and impressive).

I hope some of you will join me this weekend to participate in the wonder. There will be art stuff and culture (don't worry, it washes off), music, food, and lots of Clevelanders.

ps. Pecha Kucha night is Friday at 8.20

photo taken on a crummy camera phone of the 99 rot balloon installation - i had better but more obscure photos to offer, if you can believe that...

"Feeding Cleveland" Photography Contest

Deadline for submissions: Friday August 21, 2009

Feeding Cleveland

The Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University is conducting a yearlong series exploring how to build our future beyond the foreclosure crisis. The foreclosure crisis in Cuyahoga County did not happen overnight. Similarly, the strategies for moving our communities and residents “Beyond Foreclosure” will take time to evolve. Over the coming year, the Levin College Forum will focus on strategies, tactics and projects that are new, creative, environmentally sustainable and invigorating to the marketplace. Challenging times are not new to Cleveland, and on this issue, where no roadmap exists, we have an opportunity to create a new path to our future.

As part of this series we will be having a photo contest. This contest is open to all photographers living in Northeast Ohio. The theme is “Feeding Cleveland” and we are looking for images of the greater Cleveland area that convey the role that urban agriculture has played in feeding Cleveland in difficult and challenging economic times and provide visually ideas for what Cleveland may look like using local agriculture for the reuse of vacant and abandoned land in Cleveland.

Contest Rules
Photography Release