Happen Northside: GRAND OPENING!
Join us for the Longest and Funnest day of the year as we kick-off our brand new Northside location!
What?
A Grand Opening celebration is scheduled on June 21st from 4-8 PM in the new Happen facility located at 4201 Hamilton Avenue (at the intersection of Chase).
“We intentionally chose June 21st as our opening day, since it is the longest and now also the 'funnest' day of the year,” says Rueff, himself a big kid at heart.
Who?
Happen, Inc. is an award-winning non-profit arts organization, founded for children and adults to share creative experiences, that strengthen today's family structure both personally and within our community. Happen’s vision is to everyday, create a positive environment where shared creative experiences happen that participants look back on as life changing.
Happen, Inc. helps children and their parents share creative, bonding experiences using art as the medium. Some of Happen Inc.’s arts/educational outreach programs include:
• Community Canvas • Let’s Play with Clay • Lights, Camera, Learning in Action
• The Butterfly Project • Happen’s Toy Lab • and numerous After School Art Programs.
An estimated 7,000 Happen experiences take place in Greater Cincinnati each year, and more than 10,000 experiences are estimated for this year. Happen has won numerous awards the past decade and has been a finalist for the prestigious Cincinnati Post Corbett Award for Arts Education and Outreach in 1999, 2001 and 2005, and the winner in 2003. For more information on Happen, Inc. programs, visit the Outreach section of our site.
Where?
The new Happen facility is located at 4201 Hamilton Avenue (at the intersection of Chase).
Parking information:
A Happen shuttle will provide transportation from the Hamilton Ave. parking lots.
When?
A Grand Opening celebration is scheduled on June 21st from 4-8 PM.
In addition to a tour of the new space, highlights of the Grand Opening Celebration include:
• Free Happen Northside t-shirts for the first 400 people to arrive
• Cupcakes provided by Take The Cake Bakery
• Light food provided by The Hideaway
• Drink specials available at Northside Tavern
• Live music
Also, information will be available on the wide variety of classes that Happen, Inc. will be providing to the Northside community. These classes include: the Butterfly Project, ENO, the One-Point Perspective Alien, Superhero classes, Open Studios for ceramics, and Happen’s newest program, the “Do Good” Project, which provides fresh, homegrown vegetables to children who perform good deeds. Additionally, the Hideaway restaurant will be providing free dinner for the first 150 attendees, the Northside Tavern will offer drink specials, and local merchants will lengthen their evening hours.
“I do believe that Happen will have an extremely positive effect on the Northside community and its surrounding neighborhoods,” said Rueff. He added, “I have lived in this neighborhood for more than 10 years, and am delighted that I can bring Happen to the homes in Northside, an ever-growing and thriving community.”
Rueff added, “Although the [original location on] Beechmont Avenue location continues to serve us well, bringing more than 7,000 Happen experiences to 6-12 year old children each year, it’s time to spread our wings. I am pleased to announce that, thanks to the generous contribution and volunteer time provided by Procter & Gamble, we are about to open a second Happen location in Northside. This new facility will have a very positive effect on this diverse, cultural community and help us to bring our free programming to children on the west side of town for the next 52 weeks.”
In addition to the sponsorship and financial support from Procter & Gamble, Happen, Inc. has developed educational collaborations with several leading community organizations, including the Cincinnati Museum Center, the Cincinnati Children’s Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Cincinnati, enabling them to serve a much broader audience with their arts activities and programming.
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