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Living Large In the Cheap Seats---> June -July 2025

 


Living Large In the Cheap Seats

June- July 2025

I was first introduced to “Living Large In the Cheap Seats” by a college friend, Chris J., who introduced me to lawn tickets for popular bands.   We were able to see concerts at a significantly discounted rate.   After reading Brokenomics by Dina Gachman, I revised this concept and decided to share it with you.  I have been doing this for years and enjoyed wonderful experiences for FREE!

Concert in the Park Series


The Keehner Park concerts are 7-9 p.m. on select Saturdays between Memorial Day and Labor Day at the Keehner Park Amphitheater.  The free concerts welcome all guests to pack a picnic for the evening.  Sorry, but alcohol is NOT permitted.


Kite Flying at VOA Park- Pigs Aloft Kite Association fly their extraordinary kites each month on the front lawn of the VOA Park, 7850 VOA Park Drive. 

Date: June 8, 2025, July 13, 2025, August 10, 2025, September 14, 2025

Time: 12:00- 4:00

Location: Voice of America Metro Park 


West Chester Farmer’s Market: 

Date:   Saturday 

Time: 9:00- 1:00

Location: Midpoint Library


Colerain Park has their summer concerts posted starting in June at 7:00 pm. 

  • June 6- TaylorMade

  • July 18- Cincinnati Civic Orchestra

  • July 25- FOG


Liberty Center: Join us in the Square from 6:00- 9:00 PM for a new concert experience on Thursday.   


  • June 2025

June 5: Reds (Taylor Swift Tribute)

June 12: 2nd Wind

June 19: Anywhere Like Heaven: The Music of James Taylor
June 26: Cassette Junkies 


Movies In the Park Series


Deerfield Park has their Movies in the Park Series starting in June. 

  • June 20, 2025- Wish: When You Wish Upon A Star  (PG)

    • When You Wish Upon A Star Activities at 6:30-8:30

    • The movie starts at dusk (about 8:30 PM)

  • July 18- Under the Boardwalk-  A Day at The Beach (PG)

    • Crafts and Popcorn 

    • The movie starts at dusk (about 8:30 PM)


Colerain Park has their summer movies posted. 

  • June 13- Inside Out 2

  • June 20- Wicked

  • June 21- Wizard of OZ

  • July 11- Musufa 


Summer Cinema will move to the great lawn at Zieglar Park (1322 Sycamore St., 

Cincinnati, OH 45202)  Movies will be on Friday evenings (See below). Pack up the lawn chairs and a picnic basket and enjoy this beautiful downtown park! Open 7:30-11:00.   All movies start around 9 PM.


  • June 27→ Barbie  

  • July 25→ Migration 


4th of July Events

Taps, Tastes, and Tunes - July 4-5, 2024

Taps, Tastes, and Tunes at the VOA Museum is the best place to enjoy Fourth of July Fireworks presented by West Chester Township. Celebrate the Independence Day holiday weekend with bands, food, beer, and fun! Admission is free to this three-day outdoor festival. Taps, Tastes, and Tunes is a ColdIron Productions, LLC event offered in cooperation with MetroParks of Butler County and will benefit the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. 

Friday, July 4

  • 12:00: TBA

  • 2:30: 9404

  • 5:00: Kenny Welch Band

  • 9:00:  John Morgan 


Saturday, July 5

  • 12:00: Pandora Effect

  • 4:15: Everyday People Band

  • 8:00: LIt

  • 10:00→ Fireworks


Sunday, July 6 

  • 12:00: Shuffle

  • 2:30: Joey Said No

  • 7:00: Nine Days 

  • 9:30: Smithereens with Guest Vocalist John Cowsill 


Colerain Park 

Date: Thursday, July 3rd

The park is hosting a 4th of July Spectacular at 7:00 PM with Fireworks at 10 PM.


Red, Rhythm, and Boom

Date: July 3rd 

The city of Mason is hosting→  Better Than Ezra (8:00 PM) with the opening act—> Tonic  (6:00 PM).   However, there will be carnival activities starting at 4:00 for the kids, with food and adult beverage trucks available.  All of this is followed up with Fireworks at 10:00 PM. 


Location: Mason Municipal Center, 6000 Mason-Montgomery Rd, Mason, OH 45040

6:00: Tonic

8:00: Better Than Ezra

10:00: Fireworks 


Summer Planning


Free Bowling For Kids (ages 2-17)  This Summer

Register your child(ren) for a summer of free bowling.   Your children will receive 2 free games per day for the entire summer.   (Note- You will need to rent shoes or bring your own.  We purchase used shoes and resell them each summer to pay for our new shoes.)   

https://www.kidsbowlfree.com/



Museums 

National Museum of the Air Force

Free Admission and Parking daily from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day) 


Since 1923, the museum has grown from a small engineering study collection to the world's largest military aviation museum, and is a world-renowned center for air and space power technology and culture preservation. The museum is home to countless one-of-a-kind objects. Our once small engine collection now includes more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles, thousands of artifacts, and spans 20 indoor acres with additional outdoor Air and Memorial Parks that continue to grow yearly.


Cincinnati Art Museum 

General Admission and Parking in the Museum Lots are FREE. 


One of the oldest art institutions in the United States, the Cincinnati Art Museum has a rich collection of more than 67,000 works of art, celebrating 6,000 years of human creativity.


Special Exhibit prices vary, but some special exhibits do not charge additional fees, and Thursday evenings from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm seem to be consistently FREE. 


Tintoretto’s Genesis

  • April 18- August 31, 2025

  • FREE Exhibit

  • In the early 1550s, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) made a series of large paintings depicting scenes from the Book of Genesis for the Scuola della Trinità, a charitable organization in Venice. Painted just as the artist was coming into his maturity, these canvases display a fusion of Michelangelo’s forceful conception of the figure, Titian’s renowned colorism, and Tintoretto’s own vigorous brushwork, dynamic compositions, and command of the workshop system. The paintings mark the beginning of Tintoretto’s rise as the powerhouse of Venetian Renaissance painting—a position he would hold for the next four decades.


Cycle Thru! The Art of the Bike

  • April 4 - August 24, 2025

  • Free→ Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m., during CAM Kids Day on Saturday, April 5,  Art After Dark on Friday ( April 25, May 30, June 27, and July 25 from 5–9 p.m.), and Tuesday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 15.

  • Gear up to see a cast iron velocipede designed in the mid-1800s, a 1901 Wolff-American Ice Bicycle engineered to traverse a frozen course, a seafoam green 1950s Huffy Radiobike designed so riders could cruise to their tunes of choice, and Pee-wee Herman’s customized 1953 Schwinn DX Cruiser starring in Tim Burton’s 1985 film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. These are just a few of the highlights waiting for you to discover in Cycle Thru! The Art of the Bike, an exhibition featuring the bicycle as a way to explore intersections of history, popular culture, design, and modern and contemporary art.


Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism

  • June 13–September 21, 2025

  • Free —> Thursday Evenings from 5-8 pm and during Art After Dark on Friday (June 27, July 25, and August 29)

Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism explores the intersections of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-siècle France. The exhibition showcases over sixty paintings and sculptures, including the work of Claude Monet, Eva Gonzalès, Victor Gilbert, Paul Gauguin, Jules Dalou, and Vincent van Gogh, artists who examined the nation’s unique relationship with food. The bounty of France’s agriculture and the skill of its chefs had long helped to define its strength and position on the international stage. This self-image as the world’s culinary capital became more important in the late nineteenth century as the country grappled with war, political instability, imperialism, and industrialization. In this climate, France’s culinary traditions signaled notions of its refinement, fortitude, and ingenuity while they also exposed fractures that destabilized national identity. From cultivation to consumption, food was central to notions of glory but also to those of collective pain. Farm to Table puts this history on view through the eyes and hands of the period’s greatest artists, who avidly brought subjects from agricultural fields to Parisian dining rooms into their painting and sculpture, documenting and reinforcing monumental cultural shifts at the heart of European modernity.
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