Oxford Kinetics Festival

The Oxford Kinetics Festival, an event started by art teacher Jim McWilliams, is held every year here in our small town of Oxford, Ohio.

“I wanted to make Oxford a little weird,” said McWilliams.  In this festival, part race, part parade and part obstacle course, anything goes.  Art students here at Talawanda turn old bikes into art for the event.

“Oxford is just too normal,” said McWilliams.  “I got the idea for this event when I saw this boat race, the boats were made out of empty milk cartons and duct tape and I thought we should do something like that here.”

This year will be the third that this event has been around.  “It started as a sculpture race down High St. as part of the celebration of Oxford’s Bicentennial,”  said McWilliams “and it really went from there.”

This year’s festival will be held at Millet Hall on Sunday April 7, from noon to 4pm.  All are welcome to come and participate in the festivities.  Bring your bikes, bring your unicycles, absolutely anything you can think of on wheels.  Even a duct tape and milk carton viking ship on wheels!  For more information visit oxfordkineticsfestival.org