Just a few more weekends of summer! What are you up to this weekend? There are some more festivals happening this weekend to wind down your summer. Our Back To School Supply Drive continues! Make sure you get your votes in for the best Food Trucks in Columbus!
Thursday
FFOCOL, the Film Festival of Columbus kicks off tonight at the Gateway Film Center with The Keeping Room. The Last Night of Disco continues at Short North Stage. Learn some new lunch packing ideas at The Commissary. There’s another Heritage Concert at Mayme Moore Park. Pecha Kucha is happening at VUE Columbus. The Wex Drive-In returns with CRY-BABY from John Waters. Shadowbox Live continues Which One’s Pink? Actors’ Theatre continues The Miser. Check out the Songwriters’ Speakeasy at Little Rock Bar. The All Ohio Balloon Festival begins. Dance at Restart House Music at Brothers Drake.
Friday
Columbus Summer Beerfest begins at the LC. The Columbus Food Truck Festival begins at Columbus Commons. Matsuricon comes to town. It’s Beat the Heat Retail Week in the Short North. Check out Americover if you like stamps. Shop the Pearl Market. The Vessel and its Architecture opens at Glass Axis. Franklinton Fridays is back and there are some shows featuring Michael Bush and Christopher Tennant. Support Bands, Birds, and Beer at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center. Go to Belly Laughs! with Ben Morrison, Benefitting OSU Families w/ Crohn’s & Colitis at Strongwater Food & Spirits. Do Laps for Lunches at Grand Prix Carting. Cheer on your Columbus Clippers. Rhythm on the River presents Maceo Parker and HooDoo Soul Band at Bicentennial Park. Bass Jam presents Art Slam at Skully’s. Watch Psycho outside at the Greenlawn Abbey. Or watch Tangled at the Smith Farm Market. Church prznts CAThedral: Night of the Feline Overlords!! at Ace of Cups. Go to the Best Straight Outta Compton Party at the Gateway Film Center. See Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the North Market Downtown Drive-In. The Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival begins.
Saturday
Join the North Market for their Annual Farmers’ Festival and enter their apple pie and jam/jelly contests. Go to the Watershed Cocktail Dinner at The Kitchen. Do the Be the Match Walk + Run. Join the Ohio History Connection for Pleasures of the Cup. Run the Darby Creek Trail Run. Or the Jakestrong 5K. The Columbus Growing Company has Purre Barre at the Farm. It’s Lustron Day at the Ohio History Center. Lobster Days continue at Hills Market Downtown. Go on the “Guns of August” Bus Tour – The Story of Columbus in World War I with Columbus Landmarks. Make Faux Succulents. Taste Fall Beers at Lucky’s Market. Do a Record Swap at 934 Gallery. Slow Food Columbus invites you to the Shake the Hands that Feeds You VIII at Folsom and Pine Farm. Tacocat hosts Exposed 3. Enjoy the Sixth Annual Sangria Festival. Go on an Enchanted Evening at Stratford Ecological Center. Support Friends of the Shelter. The Clippers have another game. Enjoy the Running Gag Comedy Showcase at The Shrunken Head. Dance at Word Up, an 80s themed night at Little Rock. Dance dance dance at Future Maudit with Rawaat + Glacial23 at M I N T. Mojoflo plays Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza. Cruise the Ville in Clintonville.
Sunday
Shop the Market Flea. The Kitchen hosts a Yoga Brunch with Native Cold Pressed. Goodale Park Music Series: The Ramshacklers at Goodale Park. See A Tribute to Joe Cocker: Mad Dog and Englishman at Shadowbox Live. Go on a Walking Tour of Union Cemetery. Make a layered reversible enamel necklace with The Smithery. Check out the International Taste of Columbus happening at Mozart’s. Frank Fetch Park music series features the Pete Mills Quartet. Or listen to Luxury Brown at Music in the Park. Columbus Clippers have another game.
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