Experience Columbus

June 7, 2013 / Creekside Plaza
Join us for the biggest Friday happy hour in Central Ohio. Live music performance by After Midnight bringing you all the fabulous 70's flavors: the bombast of KISS and Foghat, the musicianship of Led Zeppelin and Van Halen, the glorious dance grooves of KC & the Sunshine Band and the Bee Gees, and so very much more!

June 7, 2013 / Friendship Park
Featuring The Salty Caramels A blend of sweet and salty Americana pop-rock.

June 7, 2013 / Experience Columbus Visitor Center
How often do you get to see and sometimes even pet exotic animals? The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will bring animals to visitor center during the lunch hour. It's your chance to meet - and touch - zoo animals.

June 6, 2013 / Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Join young professionals, top executives, and community leaders for a casual spring evening on the Conservatory's beautiful West Terrace. Enjoy live music, tastings from local restaurants and samples of fine liquors. Proceeds benefit the Conservatory's horticulture and education programs.

June 6, 2013 / Amelita Mirolo Barn, Sunny 95 Park
The Cultural Arts Commission invites you to unplug from it all and spend time with us tonight. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy listening to the bluegrass sounds of Grassahol.

June 6, 2013 / The King Arts Complex
Enjoy wine while benefiting the KAC's gallery exhibitions and other programs.

June 6, 2013 / Departs from The Jury Room
Our original Historic Tavern Tour visiting The Gentlemen's Clubs of Three Eras of Columbus, spanning the 1830s-1930s: The Jury Room, The Elevator Brewery & Draught Haus and Ringside Cafe. Not to be confused with today's "gentlemen's clubs," these establishments serve as architectural markers for three eras of drinking, when drinking was, for the most part, limited to male patrons. Tour includes a look at the architecture and history of frontier taverns, Victorian Gentlemen's watering spots, and Arts & Crafts drink/and Prohibition nooks.

June 6, 2013 / Grandview Heights Public Library
The Carriage Place Players perform the hilarious parody, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Co-presented by the Grandview Heights Parks & Recreation Department. Bring a blanket or chair. No rain location.

June 6, 2013 / Grandview Heights Public Library
Join Ohio native, singer/songwriter Grace Adele for fun, interactive music. Join in and get a free kazoo! For kids of all ages.

June 5, 2013 / Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Along Conservatory Drive parallel to East Broad Street. Browse a wide selection of fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy, baked goods, and more. Grab dinner from a local food truck and enjoy family entertainment, activities and cooking demos. June 5: Kids' Craft--turn a cereal box into a magnetic shopping list or note pad.

June 4-5, 2013 / Huntington Park
Cheer on the Columbus Clippers baseball team in the award-winning Huntington Park.

June 5, 2013 / Bicentennial Park
Splish-Splash into summer! Join us for FountainSide presented by American Electric Power and Sunny 95 for a variety of FREE children's activities. This delightful Columbus Recreation and Parks series offers water play and fountain fun at the interactive Scioto Mile Fountain. This week we reduce, reuse, and recycle - the FountainSide way! Learn how to protect the environment with RecyColumbus, make recyclable jewelry with Eric Marlow and listen to the sounds of the Fort Hayes High School junk band! Get into character with Candace from Dramatic Impact, enjoy a sample of local honey with Central Ohio Beekeepers Association, participate in a compost activity with Local Matters, take a view of the underground world with Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District and join Lowe's for their weekly How to Grow workshop. Stop by and see some animal friends when "Bring the Farm to You" visits the city with chickens, rabbits, sheep, ducks and more! Don't forget, the Sunny 95/Meijer Treat Truck will be there every week to cool you off with some frozen treats!

June 1-5, 2013 / Gateway Film Center
Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman) is a widowed mouse with a young son sick with pneumonia, and her home is about to be flattened by a tractor. Brisby must seek help from the Rats of N.I.M.H., mentally enhanced lab rodents who've escaped from the National Institute of Mental Health.

May 25 - August 31, 2013 / Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
A Conservatory horticulturist will lead a tour through one of the Conservatory's indoor or outdoor garden areas. During this 45-minute tour, get behind-the-scenes information, plant identification, tips and tricks. A different area of the Conservatory is featured each week.

June 4, 2013 / Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Chef Hartmut Handke, CMC, is one of America's most accomplished chefs with over 40 years of culinary experience and many national and international culinary awards and professional honors to his credit. He has worked in world class kitchens in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Canada and the United States.

June 4, 2013 / Glass Rooster Cannery
Does it really matter whether I water bath or pressure cook those vegetables? Will the pressure cooker blow up in my kitchen?? How do I know it is safe to eat what I make? This class is for cooks who want to overcome fear of the bomb in the kitchen. Join us to create and can a fresh garden soup while learning the safe principles of pressure cooking. Soup will also be served for a light dinner along with a variety of other tasters from the Cannery.

June 4, 2013 / Grandview Heights Public Library
Supergroup featuring members of 1960s Columbus bands The Dantes, The Dominions, and The Mods.

June 4, 2013 / Camelot Cellars Winery
Join Writer's Block at Camelot Cellars for the perfect pairing: a night of wine and poetry! This summer series of poetry and wine will be in our Tuscan Room, where for $5 you can take in the best of local Columbus poetic talent, while enjoying a locally crafted glass of wine.

June 3, 2013 / Columbus Museum of Art
No writer - except perhaps for his father, Michael Shaara and his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel, The Killer Angels - better brings the Civil War to life than Jeff Shaara. The multiple-award-winning, New York Times bestselling author began a new Civil War trilogy in 2012 with A Blaze of Glory, about the Battle of Shiloh. A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg is the second book, and depicts the turning point of the Civil War through not just the well-known personalities like Grant and Pemberton. Shaara's unique skill is in bringing the soldiers themselves alive, in getting the reader to feel what it was like on that bloody battlefield where over 19,000 soldiers lost their lives.

May 31 - June 3, 2013 / Huntington Park
Cheer on the Columbus Clippers baseball team in the award-winning Huntington Park.