05.11-05.18.11
Rebirth
The miracle of the season is upon us. The earth comes back to life, friends want to hang outside, and your favorite groups are throwing open their doors with new shows, new food and fresh hospitality. This week, check out the new agronomists @ SPACES, Women Who Rock @ the Rock Hall, a coffee-infused biking adventure, a community arts extravaganza @ the Beck Ctr, an east meets west game of SKATE, and Ruined, a riveting tale @ Karamu. Experience the rebirth that is Cleveland. --Thomas MulreadyClick here to subscribe or for a web version of this email
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SPONSORED: How does your garden grow? At Holden Arboretum's annual plant sale you will have access to horticulture experts and shop from over 40 vendors featuring woody plants, perennials, annuals, wildflowers, herbs, container plants and even wood crafts. 10AM - 4PM May 14-15. Visit HoldenArb.org for event details.
Farmed: the New Agronomists is a marriage of the science and technology of Cleveland's local agronomists, and art. The show opens with a reception Fri 5/13 from 6-9PM @ SPACES.
Instead of offering a romanticized, idyllic image of local farming, this exhibition invites artists to address the harsh realities of the economic, genetic and environmental concerns that farmers face each day... Read more from Julie Cajigas here
Wanda Jackson is known as the "The Belle of Rockabilly," or "The Queen of Rock," but actually, she's just the nicest lady you'll ever meet. And then she gets on stage, and unleashes her trademark growl, her rat-a-tat-tat yodel and her sky-high shrieks, and you start to understand how she's influenced generations of rockabilly, roots rock and cowpunk stylists.
She's in town to perform at the Rock Hall's Spring Benefit "It's Only Rock and Roll" on Sat 5/14 with Cyndi Lauper, Darlene Love and Mavis Staples. Just moments before she took the stage at Cleveland's famed Agora on 04.29.09, when she was in town to be inducted into the Rock Hall, she was kind enough to speak with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready. Watch the video here, and experience the gracious personality of this legend of rock and roll.
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SPONSORED: Hey Cyclists! Come join the Pack! RideUNITED is a new regional, one-day bicycle tour traversing the Scenic Byways and Towpath Trail from Cleveland to Akron. The event takes place Sun 6/5. http://www.RideUnited.org. Register for one of five route options or a family ride through downtown Cleveland. All proceeds benefit United Way of Greater Cleveland and United Way of Summit County. RideUNITED.org.
Cleveland Bicycle Week is here. Ride on. Want to make Cle more bike-friendly? The first step is to get yr bike outta the garage & hop on. Park the car & meet up w/ other bike enthusiasts for a week's worth of events from Mon 5/16 - Sun 5/22. Bike to work, join the Ride for Silence, learn bike repair 101 & help Cle get some damn bike racks already. Fun for all.Click here for more News and Biz
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Exhibit Illuminates Diversity & Tolerance
Kristin Rogers is surrounded by great art all day. As Art Education Manager at Progressive Corporation, he works with their best-of-class corporate art collection.
Reinforcing the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage's ongoing themes of diversity and tolerance, he helped put together the groundbreaking exhibition, About The Right of Being Different, the first time this art has ever been seen outside the corporate walls. You can do a self-guided tour, or jump on a group tour, but do it soon. The exhibit closes Sun 6/26. Watch the videotour of the exhibition at the Maltz here. Contact: MaltzMuseum.org.
SPONSORED: See For Yourself The 24th Annual Student Art Exhibition and Award Ceremony at Virginia Marti College of Art and Design is ready to drop. You've heard about the amazing work VMCAD students are doing, now come see for yourself on Fri 5/13. Reception begins at 6:30 and Award Ceremony at 7:30. More info at VMCAD.edu.
Beck Celebrates the Arts! Stop by the Beck Center on Sun 5/15 for a community arts extravaganza. Try out an instrument, try dancing, dress up in costume, learn drumming, show off yr sidewalk chalk skills & make a CATS mask. And it's all free.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
One Lucky Elephant, directed by Lisa Leeman, is a "father and daughter interspecies love story" between a colorful and passionate circus producer, David, and Flora, his beloved and often stubborn rescue elephant. The stress, emotion and heartbreak that David and Flora both reveal exemplifies that relationships are rarely simple yet, simultaneously, uniquely universal.
Connect this to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's new African Elephant Crossing Habitat. Says Lisa, "After making One Lucky Elephant, I get a queasy feeling when I see any wild animal in captivity..." Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
WED 5/11
The Wed Night Acoustic Jam Group is a roving open mic night that happens to be @ MozART Gallery on Wed 5/11. Blues/pop/folk/country/bluegrass is all the rave here... as long as it's unplugged. Go pour yr acoustic heart out.
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THU 5/12
Quite a Lineup So they're not a formal art school... but their talent is impressive nonetheless. We're talking about Tri-C's Visual Communication & Design program, featuring students as bright & skilled as anywhere else. Just look at their Spring Portfolio Showcase on Thu 5/12 & Fri 5/13 for evidence.
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SPONSORED: On Thu 5/12, and Fri 5/13, at 8PM, WCLV presents live the fourth annual Stuart Jubilation Church Choir Festival. Six choirs with perform and be ajudicated by Frank Bianchi, Director, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus; Mack Wilberg, Conductor, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir; and Ann Usher, Director, Cleveland Children's Chorus. The winning choir will walk away with $1000. The other choirs will each take home $500. Details at WCLV.com.
FRI 5/13
Rustbelt Rock @ Happy Dog Hear two bands from fellow gritty city Pittsburgh on Fri 5/13: Boca Chica [pictured], purveyors of "orchestral twang pop," and Nik & The Central Plains, a twangy indie rock band. The music is organic & real... kinda like the rustbelt. Also onstage: Nicky English and Clovers.
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SAT 5/14
Bikespresso: Coffee-infused biking Celebrate our growing cycling community on Sat 5/14 — ride through town & stop at various locations for contests, food, caffeine & various fun. Start at Phoenix on W. 9th & stop at Root Cafe, Edgewater Prk & the Beer Engine before arriving @ XYZ Tavern. Bring money to donate for bike racks.
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SUN 5/15
Fly a boomerang in the Valley Head to Cuyahoga Valley National Park & throw a boomerang around. Why? Because you can. Dave Boehm from the Cleveland Boomerang School will show ya how it's done. All skill levels welcome.
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MON 5/16
Hike @ night Hike under a full moon... it's an experience like no other. Serene... and kinda spooky. But don't freak out -- a ranger will lead the way on this easy 3-mile hike on the Towpath Trail. Experience the beauty of a night hike on Mon 5/16 starting at 8:30PM.
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TUE 5/17
CAKE @ Cle Masonic Auditorium Seventeen years after inception... CAKE is still an outsider in the music scene. And they're damn proud. CAKE is quirky and downright fun. See 'em when they come to town on Tue 5/17 presented by the Grog Shop.
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WED 5/18
Meet cartoonist Rick Smith, creator of "Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery," which appears in every issue of Bicycle Times. Rick will talk about his comic strip, introduce you to some of his characters & share his bike commuting experience on Wed 5/18 @ Shaker Hts Public Library Bertram Woods.
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Bill Barrow is special. And his Special Collections Library, part of the larger Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University, has some of the coolest collections in Cleveland: the Cleveland Press archives (500K photos & 1M clippings!), Viktor Schrekengost, City Club audio of the 1960's & 70's, Channel 3's Montage footage, not to mention the archives of the Performance Art Festival. Watch this video interview and hear about their Cleveland Memory collections of the Sam Shepherd trial, Euclid Beach, Cleveland's bridges & trains, and much more.
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, the riveting tale of a group of emotionally torn and physically brutalized women who reside in a whorehouse in a war-ravaged African nation, made a strong opening on Friday night (May 6) under the sure hand of director Caroline Jackson Smith.
Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the play is battery-acid strong, emotionally challenging, and certainly a welcome relief and much-needed antidote to the Tyler Perry buffoonery black audiences have been subjected to of late...
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This weekend the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg performs Don Quixote or Fantasies of a Madman at PlayhouseSquare. Jaws must have dropped when the news reached Cleveland's ballet-starved dance audiences.
After a near-total 6-year famine*, a big, Russian ballet company is coming to the State Theatre for three performances. This can't be happening in Cleveland! Read Victor Lucas & Elsa Johnson's interview w/ Gina Vernaci here
Joey Ariemma has ambition. Listening to his music, watching him perform, and reading any interview will tell you that. His three-piece Cle-based group recently rolled out their debut album, Outspoken. A solid rock 'n roll album, Outspoken is being promoted with heavy touring through NEO, most immediately at a show Fri 5/13 at the Grog Shop.
The sound of their music is very radio rock, but not something you hear a lot of anymore... Read more from Laurie Wanninger here
Cindy Penter has a lot of experience. And she's passing it along. As one of three visiting artists at the Cleveland School of the Arts, she is working with students to create amazing videos, music, poetry films, and a very cool photo exhibit for the upcoming Rock Your World All-City Arts Festival on Sat 5/21 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The videos will also be shown at the Cleveland School of the
Arts New Play, Poetry, and Film Festival at the Cleveland Play House Drury Theatre on May 13-14, and May 20-21. Watch the video by Susan Schaul here.
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A few reasons Cleveland is cooler than Chicago If you think Cleveland is cooler than Chicago, I think you're in need of either some new glasses or a shrink, or possibly both...
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Soprano via Chile, via Cuba Performs Recital @ CSU I have heard Gabriela Martinez sing, many times. She has a warm, rich voice and a personality to go with it, as well as acting abilities...
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MANSFIELD: Signs of Intelligent Life The Harlem model is not just "more expensive," it's stunningly, dauntingly expensive. It would require a massive ramping up of funding to the point where, in this economy, most other domestic needs would have to be neglected...
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