Cincinnati Park[ing] Day
A worldwide event, Park[ing] Day this year involved over 800 parks in 30 countries.
Park[ing] Day is a one day event held every year where citizens turn metered parking spots into a temporary park. A public space.
It seemed like the last couple years it was gaining traction in Cincinnati. Until this year that is, on a day that dawned cool and overcast everyone stayed home. Its a little disappointing, but after lunch it was brilliant out.
You want some IRL old school social networking as apposed to the new fangled virtual type?
Sit at a table in front of Park+Vine for a couple hours.
Next year we need to find a way to get Artswave and the Art Academy involved. Who else, there has to be other creatives out there who could really sink their teeth into this.
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Chris and Otto looking for a good parking space to turn into a park.
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5 comments
Holy crap this is awesome!! The issue tho... I didn't even know about. Where was all the hub bub? This should have been a huge thing! tweeted, blogged, postered, FB events. I didn't even know it existed sans a blog post i saw from 2009.... dang this would have been awesome too!
ReplyDeleteNest year we need to get the word out.
ReplyDeleteI'll get with as many people as possible and start ramping up interest a month out, see what happens.
I think the event was a bit of a bigger deal in years past, though always smaller than it could have been. I hope that the positive momentum is growing!
ReplyDeleteOne thought I always had in the back of my mind when I helped to organize this is that downtown and Over-the-Rhine [really, Cincinnati as a whole] has a lot of parks and green space, so the basically strategy doesn't exactly work in the way it may in another city. The basin does have a lot of surface parking, though, I love seeing that put to other uses temporarily.
Thanks Maya, I talked to a contact at the CAC last night, turns out they really want to be involved but September is a bad time for them, tearing down one show and setting up another doesn't leave them much leftover energy for other projects.
ReplyDeleteShe also told me good luck getting the Art Academy involved.
Yeah, we tried reaching out to different institutions and companies, and it was a struggle.
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