20th Anniversary - IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future

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I have written 21 blog posts about Ingenuity Cleveland and their events: IngenuityFest and Bal Ingénieux/Ingenuity Bal. We are very fortunate to have this gathering of Cleveland creatives that is Ingenuity Cleveland. On September 26 and September 27, 2025, I attended the celebration of their 20th anniversary season at IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future.

I have created a PDF file of the official IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future Program, which visitors used to guide them through the many entertainment options. As you will see if you click on the following image to open the PDF file in a new browser window, there was so much happening during every hour of the three-day event that you could not possibly see it all!

Open IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future Program PDF file (2.2MB) in new browser window.

 

 

Day One: Friday, September 26, 2025 - IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future

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On Friday, IngenuityFest 2025 started at 6:00 pm, and I arrived with my family at 6:13 pm, prepared for an evening of art, technology, music, and most of all, fun, at Cleveland's IngenuityLabs!

Here are my 118 photos from Day One of the event, followed by videos that capture the sounds and movements of the evening:

I recommend viewing videos in full screen mode.
Please feel free to pause the video to look more closely at the slides!!

 

I recommend viewing videos in full screen mode.
Please feel free to pause the video to look more closely at the slides!!

 

 

Day Two: Saturday, September 27, 2025 - IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future

I had a rough start on Day Two of IngenuityFest, since I got a flat tire on the way to the IngenuityLabs. Once I was finally there, I enjoyed a variety of activities.

On Day Two, I took 64 photos and several videos:

I recommend viewing videos in full screen mode.
Please feel free to pause the video to look more closely at the slides!!

 

I recommend viewing videos in full screen mode.
Please feel free to pause the video to look more closely at the slides!!

 

 

Sunday, September 28, 2025 - See our blog post: 20th Annual Remembering the Sights and Sounds of Euclid Beach Park

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As is tradition, the annual “Remembering The Sights & Sounds of Euclid Beach Park” event was recently held on the final Sunday of September, which once marked the end of the amusement park’s season. This was the first major public event organized by Euclid Beach Park Now since I stepped into the role of Vice President of the organization, as well as the largest display to date of my personal memorabilia collection! The weather was fantastic, and attendance was great for the main event as well as the vintage car show. event

The above quote is from the brand new website, Kevin's Northeast Ohio Amusement Memories, that my son, Kevin Smith, created this year in partnership with his brother, Michael Smith.

I missed Day Three (Sunday) of IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future, since our whole family was volunteering at the Euclid Beach event on Sunday, September 28, 2025. Last year, I wrote one blog post about the weekend that included both IngenuityFest and the Euclid Beach event:

• Blog Date: October 3, 2024 - End-of-Summer Weekend Fun: IngenuityFest 2024, PechaKucha Night Cleveland, and Remembering Euclid Beach Park

This year, I decided to break up these two events that take place the same weekend into separate blog posts. Please be sure to read how my weekend continued in my second blog post, which will be published soon:

• Blog Date: COMING SOON - 20th Annual Remembering the Sights and Sounds of Euclid Beach Park

 

 

What Others Say

To see more great photos from IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future, I recommend taking a look at the following:

• Photos: IngenuityFest 2025 Celebrated Cleveland’s Deep Industrial Roots
  Each year, IngenuityFest is held the last full weekend in September.
  September 29, 2025, by Emanuel Wallace - Cleveland Scene
  Please see these 121 IngenuityFest 2025 photos!

  Ingenuity Cleveland closed out their 20th anniversary season of programming with a 100,000 square foot expansion of IngenuityLabs. This year’s theme was Forging the Future. Here’s what we saw.

• Creativity gone wild: Ingenuity Fest 2025 stokes limits of art, technology, music
  Thursday, October 02, 2025, by Shawn Brewster and Reuben Kutash - FreshWater Cleveland
  See the 37 photos that they captured during the three days of IngenuityFest 2025: Forging The Future!

  At Ingenuity Fest 2025, artists, makers, and creators certainly forged the future as participants and revelers closed out Ingenuity Cleveland’s 20th season of programming and a 100,000 square foot expansion of Ingenuity Labs for three days of concerts, performances, and exhibits this past Friday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Sept. 28. Photographers Shawn Brewster and Reuben Kutash hit all three days of Ingenuity Fest—capturing the spectacle for all to relive or experience from afar.

 

 

Related Blog Posts

I always like to include in my blog posts a list of related posts that may be of interest to my readers, but since there are 21 Ingenuity Cleveland blog posts, I will just direct you to look at the following blog tags:

• "Ingenuity Cleveland" - I have been writing about Ingenuity events since 2012

• "Technology" - 201 past technology blog posts.

• "Art" - 103 past art blog posts.

 

I hope this blog post encourages you to attend future fun events hosted by Ingenuity Cleveland!

Thank you for reading my blog post. You can learn about my travel journeys with my wife and co-blogger, Julie, and the venues we explore in Cleveland and Akron at: sosAssociates.com/Blog