10/1/08

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LEC
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SPONSORED: Join the Lake Erie College Community for a Celebration of Chinese Folk and Classical Art Sat 10/4 from 1:00-2:15PM in the Fine Arts Building. The program will kick off with "Chasing Butterflies,"” a Chinese fan and scarf dance presented by Lake Erie College dance students choreographed by Cha-Lee Chan. A presentation of "Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art" by Marjorie Williams will follow. Guests are invited to stay and view an exhibit of Chen Chi's artwork which is on loan from the Butler Institute of American Art. This program has no admission fee and is open to the public. The Fine Arts Building is located on Gillett Street. Visit www.lec.edu/aboutus/directions/main/ for directions to campus.

CIA
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SPONSORED: The Most Inventive Writer on the Planet? Jonathan Lethem will be interviewed by Betsy Sussler of BOMB Magazine on 10/2 at 7:30PM at CIA. Lethem has been dubbed a "genius" by the MacArthur Foundation and "the most inventive writer on the planet" by the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. Deftly weaving the conventions of noir mysteries, westerns, science fiction and comic books into evocative coming-of-age tales, Lethem is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel Motherless Brooklyn. Soon this work will be made into a feature film starring Edward Norton. His recent works include the novel You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday) and The Disappointment Artist (Doubleday), a book of essays on popular culture. The event begins at 7:30 in the Aitken Auditorium, in the Gund Building at 11141 East Blvd. on the CIA campus. Refreshments served at 7. Info: www.cia.edu.

CPL
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SPONSORED: John Leland, Reporter for the New York Times for over 25 years, will speak at Cleveland Public Library's Writers and Readers Series on Sat 10/4 at 2PM. (No admission fee, open to the public.) Leland has covered Hugh Hefner and Paris Hilton, hip-hop's South Bronx roots, payday loans and the ongoing home foreclosure crisis. Main Library, E. 6th and Superior. Seating is first-come, first-served. More info: www.cpl.org.

CPL
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SPONSORED: Dan Moulthrop, Host of 90.3 WCPN Ideastream's Sound of Ideas, will moderate Politics & Propaganda: Designing the President on Mon 10/6 at 6PM at the Cleveland Public Library. Donna Brazile, political strategist and chair of the Voting Rights Institute, and Frank Rich, New York Times Op-ed columnist and author, will delve into the tactics used to sell presidential candidates to the American public over the past century. Limited seating (no cost admission). Reservations required, tickets limited. Call (216) 621-5330 or e-mail contactus@clevelandpublicart.org before 9/24. Info at www.cpl.org.