It will be dark soon. The sun sinks lower every day since the solstice and the evening air is beginning to shake away its last traces of summer. But Cincinnati is just waking up, its electric pulse soon to radiate across the night sky with sound and light. By the time the street lights flicker on, the city will already be glowing.
That will be the case, at least, when BLINK — a four-night light and art experience spanning 30 city blocks through Over-the-Rhine, downtown and, new this year, across an illuminated Roebling Bridge into Covington — returns to the area by popular demand after the event’s inaugural event in 2017. Now in its second run, BLINK will kick off on Thursday, Oct. 10 at dusk with a 3,200-participant-led parade down Vine Street. Through Sunday, Oct. 13, the cityscape will be transformed by way of large-scale new murals, light installations, interactive sculptures, performance art, live entertainment and projection mapping — a technique that projects computer-programmed light, color and animations across three-dimensional surfaces.