Top 5 things to do in Cincinnati this weekend: July 23-25
1. Guinness Cincinnati Celtic Festival
Genetic testing is all the rage these days, and maybe you ve discovered some Celtic lineage in your family tree. Or perhaps the sound of pipes and fiddles stirs your soul. Or hey, maybe you just love the TV series Outlander and a good stout. You ll find all that and more at this family-friendly festival, which celebrates the Celtic territories of Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Highlights include a Highland dancing competition, a military tattoo featuring eight pipes and drums performances, live Celtic music, several Irish dancing performances, contests for the reddest hair, most freckles and tallest tale, traditional food, a whiskey tasting tent, guided beer tastings with Guinness Brewery ambassador Jimmy Callahan, dart throwing and fun games and activities. A Celtic Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Lawn Stage. The festival takes
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The scaffolding is down following the completion of almost four years of restoration works on the massive bastions at San Ġwann t’Għuxa in Cospicua,
19th Century European and American Art, is a visually rich experience comprising eighty-plus pieces from a time period in which Western nations radically transformed from agrarian cultures to industrial ones. This big change was reflected in the era’s aesthetic development, with visual art moving from traditional to modern, as evident in this show.
“In art,” notes Angelica Daneo, the DAM’s chief curator and curator of European art before 1900, “the nineteenth century began with a craze for antiquities and ended with a march toward abstraction, a shift so groundbreaking that there is hardly anything in comparison from centuries past.” The show has been installed on the second level of the Hamilton Building, where for many years the art of the American West was on display, but which will now be a permanent home for nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures.
Talks are under way for a multi-million euro regeneration of the Romeo Romano Gardens in Sta Venera.
With a vision to upgrade the garden in an organic style in a way that respects the style and atmosphere of the historic grounds, the concept will retain much of the natural aesthetic of the garden’s architecture, sources have said.
Discussions with the Environment Ministry are still ongoing, with plans to turn the French-style garden into a greener and more elaborate public garden which will include a kitchen garden and family area for children. The park would eventually be managed by Ambjent Malta.