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  • Where Dreams Find Their Rhythm

    • 7 November 2025
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    For students in the Cincinnati Jazz Academy, music has become a source of confidence, creativity, and community. A partnership between Kennedy Heights Arts Center and Cincinnati Public Schools, the Jazz Academy provides high-quality, barrier-free jazz education to students across the city. Through..

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  • Investing in Young Minds: Empowering Kids to Learn, Create, and Grow

    • 19 May 2025
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Summer is almost here—my favorite time of the year. Over ten amazing weeks, our campus bursts to life with the creative energy of more than 300 young people. They’re creating art, devising and performing plays, making films, writing stories, designing fashions, and..

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  • Investing in Teen Voices: Empowering Young Artists to Be Seen, Heard, and Valued

    • 12 May 2025
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

      At Kennedy Heights Arts Center, we believe every young person deserves a place where they can feel seen, safe, and celebrated. Through our scholarship campaign, Invest in Imagination, we’re shining a light on our programs that give teens the freedom to..

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  • Summer Art Camps 2026

    • 28 February 2023
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Unleash your creativity and imagination this summer at Kennedy Heights Arts Center! We offer a variety of one-week camps..

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  • Call for Summer Camp Volunteers!

    • 1 January 2022
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Are you a high school student (ages 14 – 18) who is helpful, creative, models leadership, and likes working..

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  • PORGY & BESS – REMIXED

    • Thursday, April 23 7:00 pm
    • Kennedy Heights Arts Center Lindner Annex

    Experience an intimate evening of music inspired by Porgy and Bess, reimagined through the lens of Cincinnati’s vibrant jazz community. Featuring Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame vocalist Kathy Wade, May Festival chorus member and dynamic soloist Robert Lomax, the Cincinnati Jazz Academy..

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  • Opening Reception – Coming of Age | New Works of the HAIRitage Series by Erin Smith Glenn

    • Saturday, April 25 from 6-8pm
    • Lindner Gallery, 6620 Montgomery Road

    Since her graduate school experience at the University of Cincinnati D.A.A.P. (Design, Architecture, Art & Planning) program in 2008, Erin Smith Glenn has been constantly examining, understanding, and developing what HAIRitage means to her, and how she can use it as a..

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  • Cincinnati Jazz Academy Presents Jazz Saxophonist Bill Pierce

    • Friday, May 8 at 7:30 pm
    • KHAC Lindner Annex, 6620 Montgomery Rd

    The Cincinnati Jazz Academy and Jim Anderson presents jazz tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce and The Semaj’ A Consort. A former member and musical director of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and longtime collaborator with the Tony Williams Quintet, Bill Pierce has spent decades..

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