Ingenuity 2011 will be held September 16 – 18 at the Veterans Memorial (Detroit Superior) Bridge. Free admission. Festival hours for 2011 are: September 16 from 5PM until 1AM September 17 from Noon until 1AM September 18 from Noon until 5PM Read more about IngenuityFest 2011 Programming here. Browse our interactive schedule here. Need to know where the Festival is? Watch our handy how-to-get-to-the-fest video here. Ingenuity is not just one of the area’s newest and most successful events — it’s one of the most unique. We tap into and celebrate Cleveland’s rich engineering, bio-medical, and high tech resources along with its creative energy in design, music, theater and dance. And we’re now developing collaborative outreach programs with other non-profit organizations that will happen in a variety of locations all year round. IngenuityFest 2010 was our most successful ever. Over 40,000 attendees flocked to the unique venue of the lower

Here’s a photostream showing off the work of The Amazing Solar Fire Lightshow at Ingenuity’s Speakeasy 2.0.   They’re work really filled the space and enhanced the architecture of the place particularly as the sun went down.  Enjoy!

Here’s a terrific video from the folks at CoolCleveland.  Cool.  Cleveland Into The Catacombs Enter the secret doorway in the entranceway at the corner of Detroit & W. 25th Street, descend into the abandoned streetcar tunnel under the Detroit-Superior bridge, and you’ve entered Speakeasy 2.0 and the new venue for the 2010 version of Ingenuity Fest, which will take place Fri 9/24 – 26, 2010 in the very same catacombs. “Party Like It’s 1929!” was the theme for Speakeasy 2.0, with flapper-dressed partiers, models from Cleveland Fashion Week and gaming tables fighting for attention among the installations, cocktail classes, outrageous light show and some of Cle’s hottest DJs.  Read more…