Fri 9/5 @ 6-10PM
One of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s most popular events is its monthly first-Friday MIX parties: if you go, plan ahead for the traffic that clogs MLK Drive leading to the museum’s parking garage.
Each month has a different theme, and this month’s is ’90s Homecoming. It wants visitors to recall what it was like to go back to school in September in the ’90s in their Doc Marten boots or Air Jordans, neon or plaid flannel shirt, Nirvana tee or decorated denim duds. Do you still have them? Dig them out! Do they still fit? Wear them!
Two lady DJs will be pulling out the era’s hits for you to dance to: Cassie Trainor aka DJ Castronaut and Rachel Hunt aka DJ Guilty Pleasures. They’ll play everything from boy bands and girl groups (Backstreet Boys! Spice Girls!) to hip hop (hopefully no Vanilla Ice), grunge and industrial music. Trainor, co-owner of vintage store Paradise Galleria in Ohio City, will be bringing her custom-designed interactive selfie station in eye-popping style of that shop.
The staff of CMA’s Studio Go will be hosting art-making from 6-8pm to create ’90s retro-styled buttons. And guests will be able to see the current Takashi Murakami show, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, which closes soon. As usual, there will be food and drink available for purchase in the theme of the evening: tonight they’ll be inspired by ’90s movies.
This is a 21 and over event. Get tickets here.