Category Archives: nature

Weekend visual art events

Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden is opening for the season on Saturday, March 30 featuring blacksmith/sculptor Jeff Reinhardt and his friends along with the annual Kite Flying Extravaganza. 21c is showing “Wild Card: The Art of Michael Combs, a 15-year survey” beginning on Saturday, March 30. 700 W. Main St., 217-6300.

Panel discussion on mountaintop removal at Carnegie

The Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336, is hosting a panel discussion on mountaintop removal and Renewable Energy on Thursday, Jan. 10 from 6-7:30 p.m. The panel discussion is presented in conjunction with the Center’s current exhibit “Project Reclamation,” a visual art exhibition to help raise awareness [...]

Weekender: Oct. 27-28

•Harvest Hootenanny Saturday, Oct. 27 Brown-Forman Amphitheater, Waterfront Park mightykindness.org Free; noon-6 p.m. What happens when the local farmer meets up with the social justice advocate who was hanging with the eco steward and the minister, who had a lunch date with the peace activist and the artist? It’s the ultimate vision of the Mighty [...]

Weekend visual art events

The eighth annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! Event is on Saturday, Sept. 29. Participating museums and cultural institutions offer free admission: Carnegie Center, Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site, Howard Steamboat Museum & Mansion, Locust Grove, Frazier History Museum, Kentucky Derby Museum and Louisville Science Center.    

Yew Dell Concert Series

Thursday, Aug. 18 Yew Dell Botanical Gardens 6220 Old LaGrange Road Crestwood, Ky. www.yewdellgardens.org $15 (members), $20 (general); 7 p.m. Bourbon Baroque performs the music of the 17th and 18th centuries on the instruments for which the music was composed. Yew Dell Botanical Gardens is Louisville’s 34-acre public botanical garden and horticulture resource center dedicated [...]

Monarch Butterfly Show @ Arts Council of Southern Indiana

Through Aug. 25 Arts Council of Southern Indiana 820 E. Market St., New Albany 812-949-4238 www.artscouncilsi.org I once heard butterflies described as “flying stained glass.” The huge, gorgeous insects that are monarchs really fit that description, so much so that the Arts Council of Southern Indiana decided to showcase the monarch butterfly in a garden [...]

Yew Dell’s 4th Annual Sculpture Show

With over 40 sculptures, including site-specific pieces by Louisville’s Anne Peabody, the Sculpture Show at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens has something for everyone. The Sculpture Show is an exhibit and sale of outdoor sculpture in stone, glass, metal, ceramic and more; each piece elegantly displayed in one of Yew Dell’s exceptional garden settings. Show is [...]

Bonsai Symposium @ Fern Valley Hotel & Convention Center

June 16-19 Fern Valley Hotel & Convention Center 2715 Fern Valley Road • www.louisvillebonsai.org $10; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thu.-Sat.), 9 a.m.-noon (Sun.) Before miniature versions of normal-sized items became an accepted part of American consumer culture, there was the bonsai. Literally meaning “plantings in a tray” in Japanese, the ancient art of pruning the tiny [...]

Weekend visual art events

The Communities of Southern Indiana are presenting an Art Trolley Hop on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Trolleys will leave all day from the Howard Steamboat Museum on the hour and the Arts Council of Southern Indiana and Hidden Hill on the 1/2 hour. $15 includes admission and transportation to all three locations. [...]

Peony Fest @ Whitehall

Monday, May 16 Whitehall House & Gardens 3110 Lexington Road • 897-2944 Free; 5:30 p.m. The 8th annual Peony Fest features more than 50 peony varieties. Peonies will be sold for $20/plant.

Weekender: May 14-15

•Art in the Arbor May 14-15 4936 Brownsboro Road • 425-6943 www.artinthearbor.org Free; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (Sat.), 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sun.) A Louisville tradition since 1968, the Art in the Arbor Festival once again brings a host of attractions to help ease your post-Derby hangover. From live music to a wine garden, plus intriguing live [...]

16th Annual Gardeners’ Fair @ Locust Grove

May 13-15 Locust Grove 561 Blankenbaker Lane • 897-9845 www.locustgrove.org $5 ($3 children 6-12); 10 a.m.-5 p.m. If the late, great Fred Wiche taught us anything, it’s that people love gardening. Be it flowers, vegetables, herbs … more flowers, whatever, there is a sense of accomplishment to planting, nurturing and ultimately harvesting botanical life. Not [...]

Free Seedlings @ Rainbow Blossom

Friday, April 22 Rainbow Blossom (all locations) www.rainbowblossom.com Earth Day is upon us, which means it’s time for Rainbow Blossom’s annual seedling giveaway. They’ll be giving away 800 Kentucky-grown seedlings – 400 Eastern Redbuds and 400 Gray Dogwoods – on Earth Day, Friday, April 22.  The seedlings will be available at all five Rainbow Blossom [...]

Girlhood to Womanhood Empowerment Retreat

Registration is required.       Do you have a daughter that you’d like to celebrate and support as she makes her way into womanhood? Women’s Rites Kentucky announces a free Girlhood to Womanhood Empowerment Retreat on May 14 at Black Acre Nature Preserve in Louisville. Through storytelling, sharing and art, we’ll empower the time of intense changes that young women experience. For 5th grade [...]

Weekender: Nov. 6-7

•Harvest Hootenanny Saturday, Nov. 6 Louisville Nature Center 3745 Illinois Ave. www.mightykindness.org Free, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Ya’ll, it’s about to get mighty kind up in here — the free kind of kind. If you are looking for a way to connect with sustainable, earth-friendly services in our region, the folks at Mighty Kindness have made [...]

Weekender: Oct. 16-17

•Love Your Guts Sunday, Oct. 17 Molly Malone’s St. Matthews 3900 Shelbyville Road www.ccfa.org $5; 6-9 p.m. For the 1.4 million Americans who suffer from the digestive disorder Crohn’s Disease, it feels a little like this, according to LEO freelancer Kevin Gibson, who wrote about his condition in June: “The pains that pierced my gut [...]

Weekender: Oct. 9-10

•‘Neighbors’ on TARC Saturday, Oct. 9 930 Art Center 930 Mary St. Free; 4:30-6 p.m. The TARC bus knows no boundaries. Every day, it navigates the city — street to street, neighborhood to neighborhood, zip code to zip code. That’s why it makes a natural subject for the public art project “Neighbors: Saint Catherine Street” [...]

“Pecha Kucha Nights #1” at Bernheim with Julia Oldham and Karen

Drawing its name from the Japanese sound for “chit-chat”, Pecha Kucha nights encourage exciting but short lectures. On Aug. 28 from 7-10 p.m., Bernheim will gather 10 creative presenters and give each a mere 400 seconds to present a visual idea under the theme “Mother Nature told me to tell you this …” Each participant then [...]

Weekender: Aug. 28-29

•Louisville Zombie Attack Sunday, Aug. 29 Bearno’s Pizza 1318 Bardstown Road Free; 8:29 p.m. Beware Highlands residents and passers-by — the zombies are coming, and they’re hungry … for pizza. Zombie Attack 2010 is going down Sunday at 8:29 p.m., and Bearno’s Highlands is ground zero for the bloodied and butchered undead marchers. They’re trying [...]

CONNECT at Bernheim on Sept. 11

CONNECT at Bernheim is a nighttime collision of art, music, science and technology on Saturday, Sept. 11. CONNECT is Bernheim’s grand invitation for all to experiment, play, dance and dream. 5:52pm – 9:92pm (Two hours before and after sunset). Enter at the Sunset Amphitheatre on Lake Nevin There is a suggested donation fee of $5 per person (funds [...]