Wonderland remains more concept than reality
Wonderland, the project that promised to “catalyze Columbus’s creative community,” is moving forward with its programming regardless of the fact that the organization still can’t call the old Wonder Bread factory on North Fourth Street home.
Board members said that they’ve already started hosting events around the city to build relationships with like-minded organizations and the young urban creatives Wonderland is designed to serve. More than 1,000 people showed up for a “Food Truck Food Court” held recently in the old factory’s parking lot, and they hope to have similar success with “Float,” an event running from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday on the West Terrace of Franklin Park Conservatory.
For a $5 minimum donation, visitors will receive a latex balloon on which they can write their wishes for the city and Wonderland over the next 12 months. The balloons will be tethered to the terrace and outfitted with small L.E.D. lights to create a twinkling canopy effect, organizers said via press release.
Franklin Park donated the space to the organization as an in-kind trade, said Josh Quinn, Wonderland staffer and owner of Tigertree,"The trick was to get this compound into a fiber dstti structure, something that had never been done before." Using an innovative high-pressure chemical-deposition technique developed by Justin Sparks, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Badding and his team deposited zinc selenide waveguiding cores inside of silica glass capillaries to form the new class of optical fibers. a boutique in the Short North.
Float is loosely based on the Chinese New Year tradition of launching candle-lit paper lanterns into the sky. Originally,CALLS have been made to turn off the lights at one of led lighting Oxford's busiest junctions, after the traffic ran more smoothly when they failed. it was conceived with real paper lanterns and real flames, but a quick Google search convinced organizers this would be a bad idea.
“We wanted to do paper lanterns, but they’re illegal now because barns have burned down,” Quinn said.
The press release says the event is designed to “give the wishes of the local creative community and its supporters shape and strength in numbers.” Besides the balloon launch, it will feature live music by Survivalist, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, new Wonderland merch and the chance to rub elbows with Wonderland staff and volunteers.
Well, that makes for a great buzz, but it doesn’t disguise a question looming over the organization that took its name from the abandoned factory before inviting guests to the official launch party in April 2010. Now, looking back, some critics see that launch party as a self-congratulatory circle jerk, considering the building is still vacant and nothing’s on the books.
It’s easy to think that, considering guests were presented with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before perusing proposed designs and project renderings. Everyone was so caught up in how this new project would fortify Columbus’s creative community and finally (finally!) put us on the map.Corrine Grimley Evans, a spokesman for the Oxford Pedestrians cfl bulbs Association, said the county council's plans for a redesign involving roundabouts would improve life for those on foot.
Apparently, though, it takes more than cocktails and noshes to launch a multi-use creative space, judging from the lack of progress that’s been made in the ensuing months.
Perhaps likening this situation to Dubya’s 2003 “mission accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln is unfair. But it sure has been awhile since the scenesters who promised so much have delivered any good news.
So where’s the beef? Or, more aptly…bread?
As of Wednesday, one organizer wasn’t willing to go on record about building specifics. Adam Brouillette, the project’s executive director,The lights, which change colour, are part sky lanterns of the continuing overhaul of the centre. Plans are currently underway to install new tiered seating in the main auditorium which is due to be completed in the summer. cautioned that it’s going to be a very long time before anyone steps foot in the Wonder Bread factory. In fact, Wonderland still hasn’t shelled out a nickel to purchase or even lease the building.
Meanwhile, organizers are peddling their message of creative catalysis to anyone who’ll listen.
“We’re trying to do as much programming as possible to drive home the point that Wonderland is a concept,” staffer and co-founder Josh Quinn said. “We want to encourage and allow people to be creative prior to having that building.”
Brouillette echoed Quinn’s sentiments, saying Wonderland will continue planning events aimed at different demographics and areas of the city. The next such event is a grown-up science fair at COSI on March 26.
“We have to do (what’s) best for the creative community. If the building goes away, the project doesn’t go away,He said that a county council employee had witnessed a near miss between led lamp a car and cyclist, and he added: "If the argument is leave them off for good, then the answer is ‘no'."” Brouillette said.
As of today, there’s no timetable on building acquisition, but organizers are moving forward with focus groups and talks with potential tenants.
“With some certainty, it’s going to be a long and extensively boring process,” Brouillette said of purchasing or leasing the building from L.S. Development, the commercial real-estate developer that owns the space.
Brouillette also responded to criticisms that the Wonderland board is a coalition of MacBook-toting grifters.
“People think we’re getting paid bunches of money. That’s not the case, but we’re also not a team of volunteers,” he said.
Wonderland, the project that promised to “catalyze Columbus’s creative community,” is moving forward with its programming regardless of the fact that the organization still can’t call the old Wonder Bread factory on North Fourth Street home.
Board members said that they’ve already started hosting events around the city to build relationships with like-minded organizations and the young urban creatives Wonderland is designed to serve. More than 1,000 people showed up for a “Food Truck Food Court” held recently in the old factory’s parking lot, and they hope to have similar success with “Float,” an event running from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday on the West Terrace of Franklin Park Conservatory.
For a $5 minimum donation, visitors will receive a latex balloon on which they can write their wishes for the city and Wonderland over the next 12 months. The balloons will be tethered to the terrace and outfitted with small L.E.D. lights to create a twinkling canopy effect, organizers said via press release.
Franklin Park donated the space to the organization as an in-kind trade, said Josh Quinn, Wonderland staffer and owner of Tigertree,"The trick was to get this compound into a fiber dstti structure, something that had never been done before." Using an innovative high-pressure chemical-deposition technique developed by Justin Sparks, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Badding and his team deposited zinc selenide waveguiding cores inside of silica glass capillaries to form the new class of optical fibers. a boutique in the Short North.
Float is loosely based on the Chinese New Year tradition of launching candle-lit paper lanterns into the sky. Originally,CALLS have been made to turn off the lights at one of led lighting Oxford's busiest junctions, after the traffic ran more smoothly when they failed. it was conceived with real paper lanterns and real flames, but a quick Google search convinced organizers this would be a bad idea.
“We wanted to do paper lanterns, but they’re illegal now because barns have burned down,” Quinn said.
The press release says the event is designed to “give the wishes of the local creative community and its supporters shape and strength in numbers.” Besides the balloon launch, it will feature live music by Survivalist, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, new Wonderland merch and the chance to rub elbows with Wonderland staff and volunteers.
Well, that makes for a great buzz, but it doesn’t disguise a question looming over the organization that took its name from the abandoned factory before inviting guests to the official launch party in April 2010. Now, looking back, some critics see that launch party as a self-congratulatory circle jerk, considering the building is still vacant and nothing’s on the books.
It’s easy to think that, considering guests were presented with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before perusing proposed designs and project renderings. Everyone was so caught up in how this new project would fortify Columbus’s creative community and finally (finally!) put us on the map.Corrine Grimley Evans, a spokesman for the Oxford Pedestrians cfl bulbs Association, said the county council's plans for a redesign involving roundabouts would improve life for those on foot.
Apparently, though, it takes more than cocktails and noshes to launch a multi-use creative space, judging from the lack of progress that’s been made in the ensuing months.
Perhaps likening this situation to Dubya’s 2003 “mission accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln is unfair. But it sure has been awhile since the scenesters who promised so much have delivered any good news.
So where’s the beef? Or, more aptly…bread?
As of Wednesday, one organizer wasn’t willing to go on record about building specifics. Adam Brouillette, the project’s executive director,The lights, which change colour, are part sky lanterns of the continuing overhaul of the centre. Plans are currently underway to install new tiered seating in the main auditorium which is due to be completed in the summer. cautioned that it’s going to be a very long time before anyone steps foot in the Wonder Bread factory. In fact, Wonderland still hasn’t shelled out a nickel to purchase or even lease the building.
Meanwhile, organizers are peddling their message of creative catalysis to anyone who’ll listen.
“We’re trying to do as much programming as possible to drive home the point that Wonderland is a concept,” staffer and co-founder Josh Quinn said. “We want to encourage and allow people to be creative prior to having that building.”
Brouillette echoed Quinn’s sentiments, saying Wonderland will continue planning events aimed at different demographics and areas of the city. The next such event is a grown-up science fair at COSI on March 26.
“We have to do (what’s) best for the creative community. If the building goes away, the project doesn’t go away,He said that a county council employee had witnessed a near miss between led lamp a car and cyclist, and he added: "If the argument is leave them off for good, then the answer is ‘no'."” Brouillette said.
As of today, there’s no timetable on building acquisition, but organizers are moving forward with focus groups and talks with potential tenants.
“With some certainty, it’s going to be a long and extensively boring process,” Brouillette said of purchasing or leasing the building from L.S. Development, the commercial real-estate developer that owns the space.
Brouillette also responded to criticisms that the Wonderland board is a coalition of MacBook-toting grifters.
“People think we’re getting paid bunches of money. That’s not the case, but we’re also not a team of volunteers,” he said.
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