Contemporary art has a home in the Victorian-era mercantile building renovated by ArtSpace/Lima on Town Square in the heart of downtown Lima. There's always something new in the changing gallery exhibitions featuring local and regional artists working in all media. In the Gallery Shoppe, original artwork including paintings, jewelry, ceramics, glass, and cards by the area's most respected artists is on display as well as other unique art replicas. Many art enrichment classes, workshops, and special events are offered throughout the year for art-lovers of all ages.
Annual Spring Art Show, High School Art Invitational and Rallies in the Square!

Banquet capacity for 70.

Artspace/Lima
65-67 Town Square Lima, OH 45801
419-222-1721
www.artspacelima.com
Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Closed Sunday and Monday

Fridays between Mid-May and September, except Square Fair weekend, in Lima's Town Square in front of Artspace/Lima. 6:30pm to 9:30pm. For more information on musical entertainment visit www.artspacelima.com or www.rallyinthesquare.com

Rally in the Square
Town Square, Corner of Market & Main St.
419-221-1721
www.artspacelima.com

Watch for the 2011-2012 Series to be announced soon!

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2010-2011 Broadway in Lima!
Renewal Subscriptions On Sale Now!

Shows include:

'S Wonderful - Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:30pm

Grease - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 7:30pm

Forever Plaid- Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30pm

Riverdance: The Farewell Performance - Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm

5 Show Premiere Series
4 Show Classic Series

Benefits include: Best Seats-Ticket Insurance-No waiting - Discounts & Advance Notice

Call the Civic Center Box Office for Prices & more details 419-224-1552 or 1-888-377-0641

A community arts organization specializing in arts education programs and events. Located in Memorial Hall.
Close to 45 years of providing arts for the people of the greater Lima area. We bring you free Concerts in the Parks every summer Sunday; the Art Park program for area students; artist residencies in the school; annual Shakespeare productions; concerts, exhibits and some really great parties!

P.O Box 1124
Lima, Ohio 45802
419-233-3079
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The annual Dances in the Park will return to Lincoln Park on the designated Friday evenings.
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Lincoln Park, E. Elm St., Lima.
June 17 - Gene Wollenhaupt Band
June 24 - Al Best Band
July 1 - Gene Wollenhaupt Band
July 8 - Al Best Band
July 15 - Gene Wollenhaupt Band
July 22 - Al Best Band
July 29 - Al Best Band
August 12 - Gene Wollenhaupt Band

For Info: 419-228-7618

Community Theatre with 6 adult and 3 youth productions each year.

2011-2012 Main Season (see Youth Season below)

July 15-17, 22-24, 2011
Barry Manilow's Copacabana: A New Musical
"Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl..." Barry Manilow's Grammy Award-winning song is brought to life onstage! A love letter to the Technicolor musicals of the 1940s, this show takes you back to a time and place when "music and passion were always in fashion."

September 16-18, 23-25, 2011
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his own children against prejudice. Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, this classic is renowned for its warmth, humor, drama, and model of personal courage in the face of bigotry and hostility.

November 25-27, December 1-4, 2011
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. They become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

January 13-15, 20-22, 2012
Leading Ladies
Jack and Leo, Shakespearean actors performing in the Moose Lodges of Pennsylvania, hear of a nearby elderly lady about to die and leave her fortune to her long-lost English nieces. The two resolve to pass themselves off as the two women and get the cash. Laughs ensue as slowly but surely their charade starts to unravel.

March 16-18, 23-25, 2012
Rabbit Hole
The Corbetts have everything a family could want, until their young son is killed and their world turns upside down, leaving the couple drifting perilously apart. This Pulitzer Prize winning drama charts their bittersweet search for comfort.

May 11-13, 18-20, 2012
Moon Over the Brewery
A waitress by day, unmarried Miriam tries to forget her woes by painting scenes of her drab Pennsylvania coal town by moonlight. Her precocious daughter, Amanda, drives away all her mom’s suitors with the help of Randolph, a mischievous imaginary friend. The 2 meet their match when an unlikely suitor comes calling on Miriam in this heartwarming comedy/drama.

2011-2012 McDonald's Youth Theatre

October 21-23, 2011
Humpty Dumpty is missing! (or the mysterious case of the fallen egg)
A comedy by Joseph Robinette

February 17-19, 2012
Bridge to Terabithia
A play by Katherine Patterson and Stephanie Tolan
With music by Steve Liebman

April 20-22, 2012
Disney's MulanJr.
Music and lyrics by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel and Stephen Schwartz and Jeanine Tesori and Alexa Junge
Music adapted and arranged and additional music and lyrics by Bryan Louiselle
Book adapted and additional lyrics by Patricia Cotter
Based on the 1998 Disney film Mulan and the story Fa Mulan by Robert D. San Souci

Call 419-223-8866 for ticket information or visit Visitor Info, Calendar of Events for ticket details.

Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center Performances:
May 7, 2011-8pm-Celebrations & Ceremonies
June 18, 2011-8pm-John Phillip Sousa Concert: Sounds of Sousa
July 23, 2011-8pm-Welcome to the Cabaret
September 10, 2011-8pm-From Sea to Shining Sea

Additional Outdoor Summer Concerts:
June 26, 2011 -3pm Allen County Museum Children's Garden
July 17, 2011 -7pm Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum
August 21, 2011 -7pm Faurot Park
August 28, 2011 -7pm St. Marys

P. O. Box 732 Lima, Ohio 45802
419-228-7618
www.thelacb.org

October 8, 2011 730pm
Classical Triumphs
Lima native Paul Barnes triumphantly returns to the stage to celebrate the bicentennial of Fran Liszt's birth with the stunning and emotional Piano Concerto No. 2. The opening gala begins joyously with guest conductor Clyde Rauch leading the orchestra in a bouyant polka, and concludes with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, as remarkable for its grandeur and beauty as for its historic boldness.

November 12, 2011 730pm
Scaling Infinity
The Lima Symphony Chorus opens a concert of transcendent musical beauty with Ralph Vaughan Williams' exquisitely sweet and tender Serenade to Music. Celebrate the glories of childhood innocence, the struggles of adulthood and the final assent to the infinite reaches of heaven with Strauss' tone poem, Tod und Verklarung.

December 10, 2011 730pm
Bells, Brass and Bows
Experience the wonder of the holiday pops concert as the Lima Symphony Chorus and special guest Shannon O'Neill join them with sacred carols, timeless classics and sentimental holiday favorites sure to add joy, magic and treasured memories to your family's tradition.

December 31, 2011 7:30pm
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas: Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...unless it's music. On New Year's Eve, the Lima Symphony Orchestra joins "the Chairman of the Board" with Simply Sinatra. Acclaimed Sinatra interpreter Steve Lippia will fly you to the moon with his crooning styles and seductive singing. There's no better way to pay tribute to the classically cool style of Old Blue Eyes than with the youthful charisma, swinging stage presence and sumblime vocals of Steve Lippia as he performs Sinatra's biggest hits from The Best is Yet To Come and My Way to I've Got You Under My Skin and New York, New York. Don't miss a beat.

January 21, 2012-Trinity United Methodist Church, Lima 730pm
January 22, 2012-St. Mary's, Defiance 4pm
Mozart by Candlelight
Hundreds of glistening candles, stunning sacred spaces and the magnificence of Mozart combine for a truly spectacular evening.
Experience music the way Mozart's music was written to be performed, by the warm glow of candlelight in a glorious church.

February 18, 2012 730pm
The Romance of Spring
Join the Symphony for an exhilarating breath of springtime romance, beginning with the exuberant vitality of Berlioz's Le Corsaire Overture. Piano soloist and winner of the 2009 Friends of the Symphony Young Artists Competition Scott Cuellar will delight with the 24 variations of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, by turns playful, melancholy, militaristic and dramatic, and characterized by a soaring, soulful melody and structural ingenuity. The tour de force of Romantic composers concludes with Schumann's Spring Symphony, a buoyant, exultant composition written soon after his marriage for his "spring of love".

March 4, 2012 3pm
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Classical Kids: A Family Concert
Imagine Ludwig van Beethoven moving in to the apartment upstairs! The world-famous production of Beethoven Lives Upstairs features a lively exchange of letters between a young boy and his uncle about the "madman" who as moved upstairs. Audiences will be captivated by more than thirty-five excerpts of the master's music, including the Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, and the great Fifth and Nineth Symphonies. The music is magically woven into the drama as two actors share their anecdotes and observations based on true incidents from the composer's life. Presenting history, drama, music and fun, this engaging, fast-paced concert will captivate and entertain children and adults alike.

April 21, 2012 730pm
Lift Every Voice
The Lima Symphony Chorus and the Bowling Green State University Choral Society will join the orchestra as they transport the audience to the 13th century for a tale of war, treason and the power of the common people united by a hero with Prokofiev's renowned cantata, Alexander Nevsky. They conclude the season with the chromatic patterns of Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, known for its virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ, all sweeping to a dramatic finish.

Log on to stay in tune with LSO: www.LimaSymphony.com
Or call 419-222-5701 for ticket/seating and group rate information.

133 N. Elizabeth St.
P.O. Box 1651
Lima, Ohio 45802
Lima Symphony Orchestra
133 N. Elizabeth Street, P.O. Box 1651, Lima, Ohio 45802
419-222-5701
www.limasymphony.com

Square Fair is Allen County's community arts festival. This event will offer three days of entertainment, food, children’s and adults' hands-on activities, and art exhibitions, fine arts and crafts, farmers market and homespun crafts, along with many new events designed to offer something for everyone. Non-stop entertainment will begin at 5pm on Thursday and continue through Saturday at Midnight. Please visit website www.squarefairlima.com for up-to-date information.

Lima's Town Square
P.O. Box 418
Lima, Ohio 45802
419-296-2584
www.squarefairlima.com