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Dates to Know in Cincinnati: November
November 1–30
Cyclones Blood Drive
Hoxworth Blood Center
Donate blood or platelets at any Hoxworth Neighborhood Donor Center or select mobile blood drive from November 1–30 and receive the NEW Cincinnati Cyclones performance hoodie (while supplies last).
November 10–16
BlaCkOWned™️ Week
Celebration of Black entrepreneurship, creativity, and community development in the heart of Cincinnati. Live performances, hands-on workshops, and their signature Block Party on 11/15.
Register here
Cincinnati Pizza Week
$10 pizzas from area restaurants.
November 10–23
6th Annual Winter Canned Food & Clothing Drive
HighGrain (Silverton & Brentwood)
Non-perishable foods, winter clothing, and personal care items. Drop off at either location.
Tuesday
Opening Day: Holly Jolly Days
Behringer-Crawford Museum
Includes the 34th Annual Holiday Toy Trains, Window Through Time, and Winter Wonderland exhibits.
10a–5p Tuesday–Saturday; 1–5p Sunday; closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day
Admission included with museum admission (free for members, $9 for adults, $8 for seniors 60+ and $5 for children ages 3–17)
Thursday
Lil Sprouts – On the Go: Compost Up Close
MadTree Parks & Rec, 10–11:30a
Join Civic Garden Center to explore agriculture and conservation. For children ages 3–8.
Free; no registration required
Friday
Opening Day: Holiday Junction Featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains at Union Terminal
Cincinnati Museum Center
The beloved Duke Energy Holiday Trains are back for their 79th season.
Free for members or included with museum admission
Opening Night: Pyramid Hill Lights
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, 6p
One million lights, scenic displays, and installations by local artists—all experienced from the comfort of your car.
Admission is $25 per carload ($15 per carload for members); Tuesdays are free for City of Hamilton residents (proof of residency is required and participating zip codes are 45011, 45013, and 45015)
Opening Night Celebration: Winter Nights & River Lights
Purple People Bridge, 6–7p
Annual holiday light show featureing over 10,000 lights, holiday decorations, and festive music spread across the bridge on select nights.
Free admission
4th Annual Power! Pride! Pro Wrestling!
Rhinegeist, 7p
Drag and wrestling extravaganza. Hosted by Cincinnati Pride.
Tickets
Opening Night: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, 7:30p
Click here for the 2025–26 season schedule
Opening Night: Winter Wonderland
Cobblestone OTR
Through January 4
Holidays in Cincinnati 2025
Friday–Sunday
Cincinnati Storytelling Festival
Know Theatre
Featuring national and local professional storytellers from a variety of backgrounds and traditions. There will be fairytales, scary stories, laugh-out-loud tales, and everything in between.
Passes and single tickets
Taproom Anniversary Party
Sam Adams Cincinnati Taproom
Celebrate seven years of Sam Adams in Cincy with Utopias, Decades Flights, and live music on Saturday.
Winter Mustard Seed Market
Clermont County Fairgrounds
Curated fall vendor market hosted by Rustic Grains and including over 100 small businesses, live music, food trucks, and family friendly fun.
Saturday
Books by the Banks
CHPL – Main, 10a–4p
Regional book festival with 100+ national, regional, and local authors; panel discussions; kids’ corner with arts and crafts, story time, and more; Teen Scene; 2025 writing contest. (Enter here.)
Free admission
Grand Opening Celebration
Tasty Bird Vintage, 5–9p
Curated selection of housewares, furniture, and clothes from the ’30s through the ’90s.
Opening Day: Warm 98.5 Ice Rink
Summit Park
Open daily through January 4 (with the exception of holidays).
LET’S DANCE!
Music Hall, 10:30a
This playful performance introduces children to the orchestra through dance-inspired music, showing how different instruments and sounds can make you want to march, twirl or even hop around.
Designed for young children (ages or ability 2–9)
Cincinnati’s Transit Experience
Esquire Theater, 11a–1:30p
Travel through time to uncover how Cincinnati has moved over the decades. From the first streetcar tracks to the incline planes, the mysterious tunnels of the abandoned subway, and the expanding Metro network that connects our communities today.
Tickets
BlaCk OWned Day Block Party
Elm Street (outside BlaCk OWned and Black Coffee Lounge), 12–6p
DJs, food trucks, vendors, health and wellness scans, financial resources, kids zone, and more.
Free admission
Out in the Outdoors: Indigenous Ingenuity
Shawnee Lookout, 1–2:30p
guided hike through the earthworks on the Miami Fort Trail in honor of Native American History Month. We’ll conclude with a hands-on exploration of ancient food-gathering technology, comparing spears to atlatls!
Free and open to all adults
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
Heritage Bank Center, 2:30p and 7:30p
The Ghosts of Christmas Eve and more.
Saturday and Sunday
Annual Holiday Open House
Rookwood Pottery
Holiday workshops, behind-the-scenes factory tours, artist demonstrations, complimentary refreshments, unique gifts, and more to kick off the holiday season.
Sign up for a free tour here
Holiday Market
Cincinnati Art Museum
Saturday: 10a–5p
Sunday: 10a–4p
Seasonal gift market in the museum’s main lobby featuring local artists and artisans.
Opening Day: 2025 Winterhaus
Fountain Square, 11a
With the move of the ice rink to Elm Street Plaza, Winterhaus is a cozy, glass-enclosed tented retreat in the heart of the city, complete with daily programming, a full bar, and space for everything from co-working to private events.
Sunday
Bengals vs. Steelers Watch Party
Sawyer Point Riverfront Rink, 12p (game at 1)
Watch inside the building at the Riverfront Rink, complete with free pizza (while supplies last), concessions available for purchase.
Free admission
Art on Vine Holiday Market
Rhinegeist, 12–6p
Shop local fine arts and handcrafted goods for the holidays.
Free admission
Ongoing
Union Terminal Rotunda Tours
Cincinnati Museum Center
Fridays at 1:30p, 2:30p, and 3:30p
Saturdays at 11:30a, 12:30p, and 1:30p
Sundays at 12:30p, 1:30p, and 2:30p
Free admission
Sports
Xavier Women’s Basketball vs. Kent State
Cintas Center
Friday at 6:30p
Watch: ESPN+
Cincinnati Cyclones vs. Toledo Walleye
Heritage Bank Center
Friday at 7:30p
Military Appreciation Night. $5 craft, draft, and seltzers; $1 popcorn; $3 burgers
UC Women’s Basketball vs. Georgetown (KY)
Fifth Third Arena
Sunday at 12p
Watch: ESPN+; Listen: The Project 100.7/106.3
Week Eleven: Cincinnati Bengals @ Pittsburgh Steelers
Sunday at 1p
Watch: CBS; Listen: 700WLW, ESPN 1530, and 102.7 WEBN
NKU Men’s Basketball vs. Cumberlands
Truist Arena
Sunday at 1p
Watch: ESPN+; Listen: The Project 100.7/106.3
UC Men’s Basketball vs. Mt St Mary’s
Fifth Third Arena
Sunday at 6p
Watch: ESPN+; Listen: 700 WLW
All college sporting events listed are Division I home games only. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please click on the link for more information.
through November 15
The Great Gatsby
Aronoff Center
through November 23
The Heart Sellers
Playhouse in the Park.
Click here for the Playhouse’s 2025–26 season schedule
through January 4, 2026
Recall. Reframe. Respond. The Art of Paul Scott.
Cincinnati Art Museum
Working with new ceramic forms or repurposing antique pieces, Scott breaks, reassembles, erases, and adds details using screenprinting, engraving, and collage processes to create new “historical” patterns. Broadly, his works address updated narratives about art, history and American experiences.
Free admission
through January 11, 2026
Indigo and the Art of Quiltmaking
Taft Museum of Art
For thousands of years, people around the world have treasured textiles dyed with indigo. A synthetic version, developed in the 1880s, still colors today’s blue jeans. This exhibition presents twenty quilts created between the early 1800s and 2015.
Tickets (admission to the museum is FREE on Sundays and Mondays)
through April 12, 2026
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
Cincinnati Museum Center, 10a
An exhibition the world needs you to see. Be a witness.
Through this daunting selection of more than 500 original artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, as well as more than 20 institutions and museums all over the world, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. portrays the complex reality of the notorious camp while sharing firsthand stories from those who survived, and those who perished.
Tickets
WEEKLY EVENTS
MONDAYS
The Workshop
Commonwealth Sanctuary, 7:30p (doors at 6)
Free Monday showcase featuring food and drink specials, plus comics in Cincinnati working out their best new jokes.
Free admission; reserve tickets here
TUESDAYS
Social Push Cincy Weekly Rollout
Venues change weekly; click here for schedule
Weekely group rollout featuring a new route every week. All wheels welcome.
Free admission
THURSDAYS
Salsa on the Square
Fountain Square, 7–10p
Live local and regional Latin bands specializing in Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia, and Latin Jazz music, as well as local dance instructors hosting large dance classes teaching basic and intermediate Latin dancing.
Free admission
Sundays
Music Bingo
MadTree Brewing, 6–8p
Hosted by Last Call Trivia
New To Do
The Barket
Findlay Market
Montclair Street
3134 Harrison Avenue, Westwood
Fresh cut flowers, retail wine, home goods, and gifts.
Open daily, 10a–6p
Now Available: Teddy Lou, Bell Guru
STEM picture book by local author Chris Demeropolis.
Tasty Bird Vintage
2533 Gilbert Avenue (Walnut Hills)
Curated selection of housewares, furniture, and clothes from the ’30s through the ’90s.
Mon, closed
Tues–Thurs, 11a–6p
Fri–Sat, 11a–8p
Sun, 11a–6p
Stumps Lanes and Cinful Eats
5536 Bridgetown Road
Casual bowling alley offering open play and leagues, plus pizza and yard games
Mon, 4–9p
Tues–Thurs, 9a–9p
Fri–Sat, 9a–11p
Sun, 12–9p
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Now open seven days a week, 10a–5p
Tokyo Pie
633 Madison Avenue (Covington)
Mon–Wed, 4p–12a
Thurs–Fri, 4p–2a
Sat, 11a–2a
Sun, 11a–12a
Japanese inspired pizzas and nightlife
Little Matcha
332 Scott Street (Covington)
First matcha forward cafe in Cincinnati/Covington, featuring matcha, hojicha, genmaicha, and viet.
Nice Life
1150 Main Street (OTR)
Retro cocktail bar and dance hall
Solhaus
15 W 14th Street (floor 2)
Yoga studio in OTR
St. Francis Apizza Oakley
3200 Madison Road
Wed–Fri, 4–9p
Sat, 12–9p
Sun, 12–8p
The Liberty Collective
6735 Lakota Lane (Liberty Twp)
Dining destination with five local restaurant stalls, two dessert stalls, and a coffee shop, as well as four bars. Click here for hours.
Doubt It
424 W Sixth Street (Covington)
90s- and 00s-themed bar
Monday–Saturday, 4p–2a; Sunday, 12p–2a;
Happy hour 4–6p, Monday–Friday ($4 drafts, $5 wines, and $6 specialty cocktails)
Island Frydays Food Truck
College Hill
Open Thursday–Sunday from 11a to 7p while they transition into a brick and mortar location in College Hill’s business district in 2026.
Bricks & Minifigs Maineville
3187 Western Row Road suite 107
Tickets and Registration for Future Events
Aquarium After Dark
Newport Aquarium, November 21, 7:15–11p
Exclusive after-hours admission to Newport Aquarium with pizza party, scheduled activities, self-guided twilight tour with scavenger hunt, and more.
Tickets
Cuisine Art Cocktails
Contemporary Art Center, November 22, 7–11p
The CAC’s largest fundraiser of the year, which celebrates the contemporary culture of Cincinnati with an artful collaboration between community, chefs and mixologists, creatives, and business leaders.
Get 10% off tickets with code lins10
Cincinnati Christkindlmarkt Holiday Beer Extravaganza
Moerlein Lager House, November 28 and 29
Local breweries bring their most festive seasonal brews to the riverfront, as well as live music and entertainment and The Cincy Hat onsite for purchases. Plus: The Cincinnati Christkindlmarkt will have food, festive drinks, and gifts.
Tickets
14 Delicious Hole-in-the-Wall Restaurants in Greater Cincinnati [citybeat.com]
Cincinnati Named No 19 Best Foodie City in America [wallethub.com]
Greater Cincinnati Breweries Win Big at Great American Beer Festival [citybeat.com]
Greater Cincinnati Restaurants, Bakeries and More Helping SNAP Recipients [citybeat.com]
Greater Cincinnati Restaurants That Have Been Open for at Least 75 Years [citybeat.com]
King Records Documentary Premieres on PBS [cincinnatimagazine.com]
Yelp Names Cincinnati’s Court Street Kitchen Among Best New Restaurants [citybeat.com]
