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North Star Festival

  • Findlay Street between Race Street and McMicken Avenue Cincinnati, OH (map)

In case you missed the historian panel discussion or would like to see it again, click below to watch the video recording.

Video recording of the “Ask a Historian” panel discussion

Join us at the first annual North Star Festival - Sunday, October 2nd from 10a-6p!

This northern Over-the-Rhine street festival will take place on Findlay Street between Race Street and McMicken Avenue. Come to celebrate local artisans, businesses and community history. During the festival:

  • Enjoy a selection of beer from Northern Row (all profits will benefit the Over-the-Rhine Museum!)

  • Visit local food vendor Essen Kitchen

  • At 1:00pm, attend a "Three Asks of Over-the-Rhine" program where attendees can ask three historians questions about the neighborhood's history

  • At 2:00pm, see the unveiling of a new Over-the-Rhine Museum exhibition in the recently uncovered windows of our building at 3 West McMicken Avenue

  • Meet Polly Campbell, former restaurant critic and food writer for the Enquirer. Polly will be signing her new book "Cincinnati Food: A History of Queen City Food"

  • ​Grab a cocktail and lounge or play a board game​ ​at​ The Orbit Room, a ​cozy​ neighborhood jazz bar

  • Receive handmade mementos created by printing press by the ​Cincinnati ​Type & Print Museum

  • Record your memories of Over-the-Rhine with the Over-the-Rhine Museum’s Oral History Coordinator

Participate in the Festival as a Vendor/Sponsor!

Vendor booth rentals are $150 for a 10ft x 10ft space. We are offering a discounted rate of $100 for the first year and waiving the $35 application fee. For an additional $20, vendors can sign up to rent a set-up package that includes a 10ft x 10ft tent, 6ft table, and 2 folding chairs.

Please email us at hello@otrmuseum.org will any questions!

Earlier Event: June 15
Three Acts in Over-the-Rhine: Places of Community
Later Event: December 14
Three Acts: Jewish Over-the-Rhine

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The Over-the-Rhine Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

The views and opinions expressed by program presenters are theirs alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the Over-the-Rhine Museum. The museum believes in sharing the broadest possible range of experiences, memories, and histories to expose audiences to the breadth of stories embedded in this neighborhood. We encourage all to engage critically with the stories we present to build their own understandings of Cincinnati’s past.