Photo: Tina Gutierrez/Provided by Wave Pool
Wave Pool’s Pool Party will feature an inflatable water slide.
The Camp Washington community and arts organization Wave Pool is hosting a neighborhood “Pool Party,” and the event isn’t just a fun word game — it’s an “art-filled summer party,” according to a release.
On August 20, the area around Rachel Street and Colerain Avenue in Camp Washington will be transformed into a neighborhood party, complete with food, drinks, games, live music, an art fair, “psychedelic portrait-making” and an inflatable waterslide .
From noon to 5 p.m., attendees can watch live music from Mynah Tones, Cold Stereo, Static Falls and Willie and the Cigs, as well as parades from the Heavy Metal Marching Band.
There will also be creative and art-inspired carnival games like PLINKO, darts, a bean toss and a duck pond, with Wave Pool artist-in-residence Nikita Gross to draw portraits.
The Wave Pool parking lot will also return to the 9×18 Parking Lot Art Experiment art fair, full of “performance, artistic actions, experimental engagements and ephemeral works,” per a release. There will also be glassblowing demonstrations at nearby Glory Hole Glassworks.
Food and beverages will be available, including “poolside” themed items and tamales.
Wave Pool’s Pool Party is the annual fundraiser for the organization, which oversees programs for artists and the community.
According to the release, in addition to paying more than 180 artists for their “time and talent” in 2021, Wave Pool also “helped our community with access to food through our Soup and Stories and Cincinnati’s Table events, helped mental health and recovery through the Own Your Voice program and beautified our neighborhood with over 40 hand-built and hand-painted art flower boxes, in addition to dozens of other programs and initiatives.”
Wave Pool is located at 2940 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington. For more information, visit wavepoolgallery.org.
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