March 1: Dayton's Schuster Center for the Performing Arts opens

March 21: The Lion King opens at the Aronoff Center.

March 28: Great American Ballpark opens with an exhibition game against Cleveland. (Season opens March 31.)

March 31: Public art display Bats Incredible! begins

May 17: The Cincinnati Wing opens at Cincinnati Art Museum

May 31: Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art opens

July: Dayton's Inventing Flight celebration

Aug. 16: Baseball as America opens at Cincinnati Museum Center.

Fall: The renovated Taft Museum of Art reopens

Sept. 25-27: MidPoint Music Festival

Oct. 15-19: Tall Stacks Music, Arts and Heritage Festival

Dec. 20: St. Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes opens at Museum Center.