July E-News, Cultural Creativity

Only in Butler County can you find such diverse activities as a hot sauce tasting event, a cardboard boating tournament, and a national watercolor painting exhibition all in the same region! Every member of your family can find fun in our spectacular summer events!

Think you can handle the hotness coming to Jungle Jim’s International Market? Mark your calendars for July 31-August 1 to join the manufacturers and diehard chile-heads who make the pilgrimage to Jungle Jim’s Annual Weekend of Fire! Held in The Oscar Event Center, this event will feature over 75 booths of hot sauces, barbecue sauces, salsas, marinades, mustards, jerky’s, peppers, and more from all across the U.S.!

The Crazy Cardboard Regatta is coming to Voice of America Park in West Chester on July 16-17! This event focuses on the teambuilding and the fun competitive spirit of building a boat from cardboard and racing it for creative prizes! You’ll have to paddle your boat 200 yards to the finish in order to win such prizes as Most Patriotic and The Titanic (for the best sinking ship).

Do you love watercolor paintings? If so, don’t miss the 143rd Annual American Watercolor Society Exhibit at the Middletown Arts Center July 6 through August 16! This collection will feature the very best of American Watercolorists, selected from over 1,000 submitted works! The 40 paintings shown in Middletown are the finest, chosen by an elite jury from a final 108 watercolors that were shown in New York earlier this year!