Why Louisville’s Cool — In Black and White

Do Not Adjust Your Monitor . . . 
Looks as if we’re in for a grey weekend, so we thought we’d add a little color to your day by sharing these awesome images sent in by a Friend of Lou, Larry Horn. Aside from being cool, they’re a nice reminder of what’s possible here.

Recognize these locations? Give us your best bet in the comments section below. We’ll pluck one lucky winner to shower with Possibility City swag. (And in color, too.)

 

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If you have any photographs you’d like to share, just upload them to our Flickr page.  (Photos courtesy of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.)

Give It Up for Possibility City

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Everyone <3 Louisville
There are many reasons Louisville’s an exceptional place — a terrific quality of life, affordable housing, brilliant logistics, a genuine sense of can-do-it-iveness, an awesome park system, a commitment to education, and a host of others too numerous to list (although you can be sure we will sooner or later).

But the thing that brings it all together . . . that people and outside businesses leave here marveling at . . . is our openness to helping folks out coupled with our boundless capacity for hospitality.

Big City, Big Hearts, Big Shout Out
Because Louisville is such a giving place, it’s no surprise there are umpteen different ways to give. From the Arts Council of Louisville to Youth Build Louisville, Metro United Way to the Home of the Innocents, there’s a group out there in our community in need. Here’s your chance to be their biggest fan. Click here to share your favorite cause and a story of how that group has made a positive impact in making more things possible here.

“Frankly, My Dear, I Do Give a Day”
Beginning on October 17, Louisville is going to experience its first ever “Give A Day” week.

Over thirty non-profit agencies, faith-based institutions, and other organizations are getting together to make a difference. And whether you wield a paint brush or a rake, help serve meals to kids or the elderly, or sort clothing for needy families, you too can join in this community initiative to make our city a better place.

Individuals, companies, and groups can volunteer online for the Give A Day service projects by clicking here. If you can’t volunteer you can still make a difference by donating new or gently used clothing, shoes, or non-perishable canned goods: items can be dropped off at any of nine Metro Parks’ golf course clubhouses between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Oct. 17–23. For golf course locations, click here. And for those more social media inclined, the fine folks at Louisville Digital Association will be doing their part. Check out their Web site for upcoming details or follow @PossibilityCity on Twitter.

Give Today. Give Tomorrow. Give Everyday
Think about it: By harnessing Possibility City’s natural resources of generosity, hospitality, compassion, and industriousness we can make our great city even greater.

Louisville: Where Big Ideas Are a No Brainer

You Don’t Have to Be Alfred Einstein to See What a Smart Idea This Is
The IdeaFestival is a celebration of innovation, imagination and cutting-edge ideas from around the world. And there’s no better place to hold such an event than Louisville. A city where ideas flourish in the fertile soil of “can-do,” and dreams grow into reality. It’s why they call this place possibility city. And why the IdeaFestival calls it home.

For the past six years this incredible event has been attracting and feeding an ever-growing number of minds from across the globe.

Speakers this year range from: Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Office who reports directly to the President; Cesar Millan, host of the show “The Dog Whisperer”; physicist and author Leonard Mlodinow, co-author with Stephen Hawking of the recent best-seller The Grand Design; Sam Graham-Felsen, a new-media strategist who was Barack Obama’s chief blogger; and Aubrey de Grey, a scientist and editor-in-chief of the journal Rejuvenation Science and co-author of the 2007 book Ending Aging.

For a full schedule of the mind-enhancing, brain-expanding, imagination-boosting events, click IdeaFestival.com.

IdeaFestival
September 21 — 24
Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

If you want to get tickets with a special (wink, wink) Friend of Lou discount, click here and then enter the ticket discount code IF10 to receive 10% off.
*Some restrictions apply.