Downtown Dayton Partnership

CURIO Lunch Box
2024-07-17 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-07-18 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Detroit) | Courthouse Square, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, OH, 45422, USA
Throughout the summer months, fun, out-of-the-box entertainment can be found on Courthouse Square, with CURIO serving as the hub of community, connection, and collaboration!
CURIO at Courthouse Square is the next evolution of programming formerly known as “The Square Is Where.”
Big ideas can come in small packages, and CURIO is the first step in a larger, longer-term plan to revitalize Courthouse Square. This shipping container transformed into an event hub has been combined with new outdoor seating and other touches to create downtown’s newest summer hotspot!
CURIO Lunch Box provides free lunchtime entertainment Tuesdays-Thursdays from noon to 2 p.m., including Trivia Tuesdays, Workout Wednesdays, and Unplugged Thursdays.
Bring your friends and coworkers for a midday break outside!
Similar to the former “The Square Is Where” programming, CURIO Lunch Box features free lunchtime entertainment from noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week during the summer months.
Food vendors also set up on Courthouse Square each weekday, allowing downtown workers and others to grab lunch from a vendor or a downtown restaurant and take in the entertainment while enjoying the outdoors downtown.
Find a full schedule of upcoming entertainment at https://downtowndayton.org/things-to-do/curio/

Nature Adventures Family Program
2024-07-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm, Main Library, Children’s Creativity Space: Participate in arts and crafts, activities, and experiments that focus on the diversity of the natural world. Every session has a different theme.

June 5: Camping
June 12: Gardening with The Ohio State University Extension Office
June 26: Get up close with encounters of Brukner Nature Center animals.
July 10: Nature scavenger hunt
July 17: Meet local author Christina Dendy who will share her book The Wall and the Wild and lead a garden themed art project.
July 31: Summer weather

CURIO Midweek Mix
2024-07-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Courthouse Square, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, OH, 45422, USA
Throughout the summer months, fun, out-of-the-box entertainment can be found on Courthouse Square, with CURIO serving as the hub of community, connection, and collaboration!
CURIO at Courthouse Square is the next evolution of programming formerly known as “The Square Is Where.”
Big ideas can come in small packages, and CURIO is the first step in a larger, longer-term plan to revitalize Courthouse Square. This shipping container transformed into an event hub has been combined with new outdoor seating and other touches to create downtown’s newest summer hotspot!
CURIO Midweek Mix provides weekly social hours featuring adult beverages and a mix of events at the end of the workday, including markets, CURIOKE, arts, cash bingo and pets, spotlight performances, and more.
Unwind after work – Meet up at the Midweek Mix!
The CURIO Midweek Mix brings fun, themed social hours on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. each week.
Grab a DORA beverage, socialize, and take part in this week’s themed activities while gathering with old friends and meeting new ones.

Find a full schedule of upcoming entertainment at https://downtowndayton.org/things-to-do/curio/

Stay Fit with DCDC
2024-07-17 18:00 - 19:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of RiverScape Community Fitness series
Stay Fit with DCDC
6:00pm – 7:00pm
AGE: All ages | FREE
Get fit the DCDC way. You’ve seen the dancers, and their phenomenal displays of strength and endurance. Now you can benefit from the fitness training these artist/athletes receive. Based on Tabata, classes are suitable for all levels of experience, body type and facility. Classes are conducted by members of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Weather Dependent.

Bootcamp with The Unit
2024-07-17 18:00 - 19:30 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of RiverScape Community Fitness series
Bootcamp with The Unit
6:00pm – 7:30pm
AGE: All ages | FREE
Join The Unit for an exciting boot camp workout that will take you through RiverScape in a whole new way. Whether you’re running the stairs, doing push ups near the reflecting pools, or stretching along the levee, this effective workout will keep you moving. Combined with the uplifting support of the community members that make up The Unit, this is a workout you will want to make part of your weekly routine. All fitness levels welcome and encouraged! Weather Dependent.

The Quiet World of Edward Hopper
2024-07-18, 2024-07-19 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
June 15–September 8, 2024

Few artists have been able to convey a distinct vision of the world as directly as Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967). With great clarity, Hopper expressed a deeply personal response to modern life with his enigmatic depictions of urban and rural environments. The everyday, even mundane slices of life and ordinary subjects regularly indicate a psychological state of mind, most often suggesting a sense of isolation or loneliness. He rejected the influences of European modernism to work in a realistic, representational style, and create a uniquely American point of view that expresses his response to living in the twentieth century.
The Quiet World of Edward Hopper, an exclusive exhibition to the DAI, will feature the holdings from the DAI collection, which include a drawing, etchings, watercolor figure studies from his early years as an illustrator visiting Europe, along with the celebrated painting High Noon, 1949. The exhibition will also have key loans from other museums and private collections.

Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection
2024-07-18, 2024-07-19 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
June 22–September 8, 2024

Riveting presents extraordinary art by contemporary women artists drawn from the major, private collection of Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell. This bold exhibition expresses the collector’s personal interest in finding emergent artistic voices and powerful artistic statements that speak to prominent social issues of the day, including those relating to LGBTQ+ communities and reproductive rights. All major media are included: paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and textiles, and themes range from humorous and irreverent to thought-provoking.
Internationally recognized artists include Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Ana Mendieta and many others, featured alongside under-recognized and local artists. One of the highlights will be Carolee Shneemann’s Interior Scroll (1974/75), a groundbreaking achievement of feminist art that remains relevant and controversial to this day.

Techie Camp
2024-07-18 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-19 09:00 - 16:00 | 120 W. Second St., Suite 611, 120 W. Second St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Students unleash their powers of creativity at Techie Camp, a dynamic week-long program. As students immerse themselves in the ever-evolving world of technology, they engage in hands-on, interactive activities, allowing them to flex their creative strength and explore the “T” in STEM. Students walk away brimming with pride and an array of TECH CORPS swag to celebrate their achievements.
Techie Camp is FREE and available to any Dayton, Ohio middle school student. Students may select App Development Camp (July 8-12) and/or Retro Programming Camp (July 15-19).
App Development allows students to go beyond the app store from consumer to inventor. With the power of innovation in the palm of their hands, Students bridge the physical world to the digital world. Students harness app development tools to build meaningful apps you may one day download on your phone.
In Retro Programming, old school gets a fresh makeover! Students bring a new twist to iconic games like Pong, PacMan, and MarioKart. With MakeCode Arcade, they dive into basic game design concepts to craft games they can download onto handheld consoles.
https://techcorps.org/techiecampb2b/

Exhibit: Katherine Kadish & David Leach: Crossroads
2024-07-18 11:00 - 18:00, 2024-07-19 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
The Contemporary Dayton is proud to present new and recent work by two of the area’s most esteemed artists, each and together exploring recent “crossroads” in their lives. The exhibition will feature Kadish’s evocative monotype and painted colorscapes paired with Leach’s abstracted landscape, architecture, and interior drawings and prints; as well as two new monotypes the artists created collaboratively for the exhibition.
Both artists have exhibited widely and are featured in prominent public and private collections all over the world. Kadish is based in Yellow Springs and often collaborates with Lisa Mackie, Master Prints, NY. Leach is based in Dayton, is Emeritus Professor, Wright State University, and an active member of the Dayton Printmakers Co-op.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a selection of monotypes and prints by the artists will be available for purchase in The CoSHOP Pop-up Print Shop.

Exhibit: Andy Snow: Time Mends, Space Blends
2024-07-18 11:00 - 18:00, 2024-07-19 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
The Contemporary Dayton presents a series of blended photographs from the Flood of 1913 and present day Dayton, Ohio by Dayton-based artist, Andy Snow.
Exhibit on display through August 10.

Exhibit: Tess Cortés: Vanishing Point
2024-07-18 11:00 - 18:00, 2024-07-19 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Using digitized family movies, photographs, and computer-generated 3D models of heirloom objects, Cortés invites viewers to contemplate the intersection of memory, perception, and the passage of time. Both recollection and imagination, Vanishing Point’s never-ending scroll along the screen symbolizes the convergence of past and present.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist has also produced a limited edition video print available for purchase in The CoSHOP Pop-up Print Shop.
Tess Cortés is an award-winning Dayton-based digital media artist and Instructor of Motion Design at the Modern College of Design, Kettering.
Work on display through August 10, 2024.

Summer Writing Challenge
2024-07-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Summer Writing Challenge, Thursday, July 18, and August 1, 2:30-3:30 pm, Main Library, Children’s Creativity Space:
Kids can explore storytelling and creative expression to write their own stories, with inspiration from the Summer Challenge. Work with fun prompts and new ways to spark imagination. For Tweens, grades 5-6

Scott Galloway: The Algebra of Happiness
2024-07-18 15:30 | Sinclair College, 444 W. Third St., Dayton, OH
Join Sinclair’s Chief Diversity Officer, Michael Carter, for a viewing and discussion of the pre-recorded video by Scott Galloway, who teaches brand strategy at NYU’s Stern School of Business, but his most popular lectures deal with life strategy. In the classroom, on his blog, and in YouTube videos garnering millions of views, he regularly offers hard-hitting answers to the big questions.
https://sinclaircc.wufoo.com/forms/zq0y8is1v2ig1p/

Kayak Rentals at RiverScape with Taiter’s Kayak Solutions
2024-07-18 16:00 - 20:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of RiverScape Kayak Rentals series
Kayak Rentals at RiverScape with Taiter’s Kayak Solutions
4:00pm – 8:00pm
AGE: 14 and up | $12.00
Paddle under the fountains with Taiter’s Kayak Solutions all summer long at RiverScape MetroPark! Regular walk-up rental hours will take place Tuesdays from 2-6pm and Thursdays from 4-8pm, June-October. Launch from under the Riverside Bridge along the Great Miami Recreational Trail. The cost to participate is $12 per person per hour. Taiter’s Kayak Solutions staff will provide visitors with brief instructions prior to entering the water, which will include a safety tutorial, and help visitors get into their vessels. All visitors will be required to wear a properly fitted life jacket. Swimming is prohibited in the Great Miami River, but visitors should come prepared to get wet. Those renting will not be permitted to go through the RiverScape River Run whitewater feature. No lifeguards are on duty, and paddling is at all visitors’ own risk. All visitors must sign a waiver to participate. Visit Facebook.com/TaitersKayakSolutions for more information. Weather Dependent.

Thirsty Thursday at Corner Kitchen with Tori Lee
2024-07-18 16:00 - 22:00 | Corner Kitchen, 613 E. Fifth St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Thirsty Thursdays with fantastic Tori Lee! Enjoy curated drinks, plates, and tracks from Tori and the CK team every Thursday starting March 14th! Specials include 9 Artisanal fat washed martinis, $5 off Prime Cuts, $9 small plates at the bar, $5 wine pours and $3 drafts.

History Series: Boss Kett & The Delco
2024-07-18 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dayton Woman’s Club, 225 N Ludlow St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Come hear Mr. Chuck Johnson, one of Charles Kettering’s engineers, discuss the founder of Delco & head of research at GM and what it was like to work for Dayton’s Most Famous Inventor! $10 per person. Light snacks provided. ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE REQUIRED – PURCHASE TICKETS – Members may call 937-228-1124 to pay by check.

Buffalo Nichols
2024-07-18 19:00 | Levitt Pavilion Dayton, 134 S. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
On his second album, The Fatalist, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols does things with the blues that might catch you off guard. There’s 808 programming, chopped up Charley Patton samples, washes of synth. There’s a consideration of the fullness of the sonic stage and the atmospherics of the music that can only come with a long engagement with electronic music. But this is no gimmicky hybrid or attempt to turn the blues into 21st century music by simply dressing it with skittering hi-hats. Nichols’ vision for the blues is of a form of music that’s intimately tied to everyday life in 2024, something that’s reflected not only in the choice of instrumentation, but in the complexities of the songwriting and the gray areas his lyrics explore. This is music that comes straight from the present, and as such, it’s a reminder that the same shit that drove the first blues singers to pick up a guitar is still present behind the throbs of deep bass hits today. The Fatalist sounds unlike any blues record you’re likely to hear in 2024.

The Dayton Jazz Orchestra
2024-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of RiverScape Summer Music series
The Dayton Jazz Orchestra
7:00pm – 9:00pm
AGE: All ages | FREE
Calling big band and jazz fans! The Dayton Jazz Orchestra returns to the RiverScape stage on July 18 from 7-9 PM. Don’t forget your dancing shoes! Plus, Gem City Swing will be offering a free dance lesson during intermission. Seating is limited, so we recommend guests bring their lawn chairs. The RiverScape Cafe will be open, and has snacks and refreshments available for purchase. For those 21 and over, a variety of beer, wine and more will also be available. Admission is FREE! The RiverScape Summer Music Series is sponsored by The Jack W. & Sally D. Eichelberger Foundation and Enterprise Roofing. Weather Dependent.

Blind Rage Records 4 Year Anniversary Bash
2024-07-19 - 2024-07-20 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Come to Yellow Cab Tavern on July 19 and 20 to celebrate Blind Rage Records 4 year anniversary! Featuring midwest hardcore legends Negative Approach, Zero Boys & The Crosses with a crop of modern up and coming punk hardcore bands.

Lineup:

Friday July 19thNegative Approach (Detroit) Colossal Man (Fort Wayne) Speed Plans (Pittsburgh) Peace Talks (Pittsburgh)Buthcher’s Dog (Cincinnati) Last Gasp (Cleveland) Hell Is Here (Columbus) Locked Up (Dayton)

Saturday at July 20thZero Boys (Indianapolis) The Crosses (Milwaukee) So Automatic (New Bedford) Flesh Commodity (Chicago) Parasitic Twins (Fort Wayne) Body Farm (OH/PA) Minority Threat (Cleveland) Small Steps (Lexington) Slutbomb (Cincinnati) Piss Flowers (Cincinnati)Wounded Paw (Dayton/Toronto

Purchase 2 day tickets at:https://blindragerecords.limitedrun.com/…/798838-blind…
1 day ticket at:
https://blindragerecords.limitedrun.com/…/786806-blind..

Exhibit: Part of a Whole: 1/2
2024-07-19 12:00 - 17:00 | Dayton Society of Artists, 48 High Street, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
PART OF A WHOLE: 1/2
DSA’S ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW
The Dayton Society of Artists (DSA) is thrilled to present PART OF A WHOLE: 1/2, the first segment of our annual members’ exhibition. This unique two-part event showcases the diverse and vibrant talents of our member artists, encompassing a wide range of mediums, techniques, and styles.
We are honored to have Marsha Pippenger, past president of the DSA, as our juror for this exhibition and this year, DSA has divided the annual members’ exhibition into two parts to ensure all members have the opportunity to present their best work. We are excited to see the incredible variety and quality of art that will be on display, and make sure to come back on August 2nd for another unique members exhibition!
PART OF A WHOLE: 1/2 runs from Friday, July 5th to Saturday, July 27th. Our gallery is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with additional viewing times available by appointment (email info@daytondsa.org to schedule).

JAM Foodie Tour
2024-07-19 15:00 - 18:00 | Sueno, 607 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402
JAM Foodie Tours are currently walking, talking, and eating on select Fridays and Saturdays in June and July @3:00p starting at Sueño. Every tour varies slightly, but aims to be wrapping up around 5:30-6:00p. Tickets are $100 per person.

JAM Foodie Tours strives to create a unique, communal culinary experience that feeds your mind and belly. Experience our local community while sharing food, exploring culture, and discovering history. Our goal is to create a business that supports and grows the fantastic food and culinary operations in Dayton, as well as enhance the economic development of the streets where we will walk and eat.

What’s Included

Tour guide
Scenic walking route
6-ish samples of food and/or drinks at various establishments in and around the Oregon District.
Education and history about the places we eat at and some of the places we walk by.
