Price Hill – Cultural Heritage Festival

Aug 27, 2010 by classicgrrl

Saturday, August 28, 2010 is the first annual Cultural Heritage Festival in Price Hill. The Enquirer and Soapbox Media ran articles on the festival but I wanted to give a small plug for it here as well.

I’m a member of the Art Community Action Team headed by Price Hill Will’s Kara Watson-Ray and can attest firsthand how much time, sweat, and anxiety have gone into putting this together. The ArtCAT team is all-volunteer the work of calling bands, submitting applications, getting the call out to the art community, promotion through hundreds of networks and neighborhoods, food vendors, street permits and a thousand other details and to-do items were done by volunteers mostly living in Price Hill giving their time.

The Price Hill Will staff have worked their butts off to turn this into a reality and come Saturday sitting down to a Chai Latte at Corner Bloc Coffee Shop/ or Refuge Coffee Bar is definitely in order.

Cincinnati is experiencing a renaissance but the city is only as good as the sum of its parts. All of Cincinnati neighborhoods must experience the same push as one sees in Downtown and Over-the-Rhine. Price Hill, one of Cincinnati’s first neighborhoods, has long languished with crime, poverty, blight, and lack of pride. My partner and I recently purchased a home in East Price Hill based on the work of Price Hill Will.My partner grew up in Price Hill and wanted to return there. I wanted to be close to downtown and both of us wanted a home with character that could withstand time and weather. Price Hill offered all of this plus a spectacular view.

Price Hill Will is a co-lead agency of Place Matters, a partnership of Xavier, United Way, and Xavier’s Community Building Institute. Price Hill Will’s 3 main program areas are Community Engagement, Economic Development and Housing Redevelopment. Such programs as Good Guy Loitering and the Summer Concert Series are some of the initiatives PHW has begun. The housing stock of Price Hill is beyond outstanding. PHW has been working with the federally funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase homes that are in foreclosure and/or vacant, rehab them and sell them back to the public.

This festival means a great deal to the people of Price Hill Will. Those of us who live here are working class, family-oriented citizens who are seeking to make their community into something of which they can be proud. If you can, come to the festival this Saturday and support their efforts.

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