Ingenuity Cleveland Dreamer's Bal

The theme for Ingenuity’s 2019 fundraiser is the Dreamer’s Bal — a surreal creation of a living daydream — which will take place on Saturday, May 4 from 8:00pm until 1:00am (May 5) at IngenuityLabs, Ingenuity’s headquarters in the Hamilton Collaborative at 5401 Hamilton Avenue, Cleveland.

Attendees of this year’s Bal will step into an ethereal landscape of our subconscious hopes and aspirations that sit latent or ignored, brought to fruition by larger-than-life art installations, immersive music and dance performances, and engaging artistic activities.

Ingenuity’s Bal celebrations make reference to the historic masked Bals of the Kokoon Club, whose name was self-described with this image:  “As the lowly cocoon was the forerunner of the beautiful butterfly, so might they hope that from this small beginning something of beauty should develop and emerge.”

It is with this same goal that Ingenuity Cleveland works today, igniting the spark of creativity among artists, entrepreneurs and innovators of all types, through joy and collaboration, in service to civic progress. The arts have a rich history in Cleveland, with the Kokoon Club being the counter-elitist and avant-garde movement dominating the area from 1911-1946.

The Bal is a celebration of the dreams that have led us to this space and time. Once a bustling city of innovative manufacturing, Cleveland continues its uphill battle to rebrand into a new artistic identity. The Made-in-Cleveland stamp has found its way from steel furnaces or car parts to year-round public art or theatrical displays.