We get the party started right inside the Ingenuity Tech Center + Gallery in the Halle Building, the perfect place for our Cool Cleveland jam session. Nosh, drink & network at will, be the first to see the Tech Center exhibits and special performance, then step out and explore the entire Ingenuity Fest on Friday during Opening Night festivities with your complimentary admission to take in the full range of Ingenuity activities and presentations. Map here. Watch our Cool Cleveland video interviews with featured artists: Watch videos here. Get your discount tix here.

Check out everything you get at the Cool Cleveland Ingenuity party:

Get comp tix to Ingenuity and the Cool Cleveland party by volunteering to usher at our cool event on Fri 7/25 from 5:30-7:30PM. Help out & meet people at the same time. Info@CoolCleveland.com

Kidist Getachew
Angels By Night
Ingenuity Festival of Art & Technology

Kidist Getachew moved to Cleveland from Addis Ababa, Ethopia for the same reason that a lot of young people move here: to attend higher education. After a few career changes, she received her Masters in 2007 in Digital Arts and now is Adjunct Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Now, as it turns out, she won't leave because she fell in love with one particular aspect of Cleveland. Watch the video interview with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready to learn more.

Her video work for Ingenuity, Angels By Night, was inspired by the Northern Ethiopian village of Laibela, a Christian Orthodox culture which has carved cathedrals out of stone, and which has changed little in 900 years. Her three-DVD projection video work explores spirituality and will be presented in the All Go Alley off Huron Road behind Star Plaza where this video was shot. You can get discount tix to the Cool Cleveland Ingenuity opening night party here. More info on Kidist can be found here: http://www.kidist.com. Ingenuity Festival info: http://www.IngenuityCleveland.com.

Alex Boxerbaum
Ingenuity Festival of Art & Technology

Alex Boxerbaum started out life as an Art History major; now he builds robots at Case Western Reserve University where he is taking his PhD. at the Center for Biologically Inspired Robotics Research, where they study how cockroaches move, and build robots that emulate their gate and movement. He and partner Chris Steele will be presenting some of their robots at the Ingenuity Festival of Art & Technology and the upcoming Cool Cleveland party on opening night.

In one of our most technologically sweet video interviews, Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready visits with Alex in his lab at Case, examining a number of historically important robots that have used Case's top cockroach research to create ingenious mechanisms for self-propelled, fully autonomous movement such as climbing stairs, walking over obstacles, and jumping, some of which can move 10 body lengths per second. Plus, Alex shows off some of the robots that Ingenuity Festivalgoers will be able to operate and play with. http://biorobots.case.edu. Get Ingenuity Festival information here. Get your discount party tix online here.

Create, Celebrate, Innovate
An In-Depth Look at Ingenuity's Fourth (and perhaps best) Installment

You already know about our Ingenuity CC Party (if not, see here) but if you're looking for a sneak preview into what makes Ingenuity the hot ticket of the summer, then you should check out the Ingenuity Premiere Event -- a VIP inside look at the featured artists who are participating in the festival this weekend. Live performances and demonstrations will be delivered by artists including Angelin Chang, Lisa K. Locke, Jenny Marketou, Piotr Szyhalski, Jared Bendis, Tom Jarmusch, Kidist Getachew and many more. And with more than 70,000 people expected to attend the festival, this is your chance to get a leg up on all of them! The sneak peek event hits tomorrow (Thu 7/24) from 5:30 - 9PM @ the Idea Center on Playhouse Square Center. You can get tickets for this sneak peek (and for the entire festival) by calling 589-9444 or by visiting http://www.ingenuitycleveland.com.

As for detailing all the spectacular events this weekend? Well, we could editorialize until we're blue in the face. We'll let the intrigue speak for itself as you peruse here.

From Cool Cleveland Managing Editor Peter Chakerian peterATcoolcleveland.com

OSTN NBS International MediaFest The Ingenuity Festival participants Open Student Television Network will bring more than 1,000 media, film and journalism students from across the United States, Canada and the UK into downtown Cleveland mid-October 2008. The fest plans to put Cle on the map "as the international center for trend-setting television, broadcast journalism and film programming and world-class talent in media production." Sounds pretty darned cool to us. Can't wait! Catch OSTN at our Cool Cleveland Ingenuity party this Fri 7/25 at the Ingenuity Tech Center in the Halle Building from 5:30-7:30PM. http://www.ostn.tv/OSTNWebsite/OSTNmediafest/Index.html.

HOT Ingenuity 2008 It's music, art, technology and so much more -- all wrapped up into a spectacular weekend of events starting Fri 7/25 and carrying on all weekend long. The 4th annual Ingenuity Festival will transform the Playhouse Square district into a unique art, music and technology extravaganza with dozens of can't-miss installations and performances for the whole family. The festival inhabits East 14th Street and Star Plaza, The Idea Center Building (home to ideastream), the Halle Building and the PSC theaters. Call 589-9444 or visit http://www.ingenuitycleveland.com for details, tickets and schedules. And read this week's issue for many other super details.

Ingenuity Party Invite sent out 07.17

Get your online discount for this exciting event before midnight tonight here: https://coolcleveland.net/tickets/072508/index.php

The party takes place right inside the Ingenuity Tech Center + Gallery in the Halle Building, the perfect place for our Cool Cleveland jam session. Nosh, drink & network at will, be the first to see the Tech Center exhibits and special performance, then step out and explore the entire Ingenuity Fest on Friday during Opening Night festivities with your complimentary admission to take in the full range of Ingenuity activities and presentations. Map here. Discount tix here.

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Be our guest and reserve your place now before midnight tonight Thu 7/17 to take advantage of this offer. Join your friends and colleagues and be a part of the action as Cleveland is transformed by technology and art:
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We'll see you on the 25th!

—Thomas Mulready
CoolCleveland.com

More information on this event can be found online here: Newsletter/Party

Capture this low price now, as our ticket price will rise each week. Join your friends and colleagues and be a part of the action as Cleveland is transformed by technology and art: Get discount tix here.

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