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Cool things to do in Cleveland each week,

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Week of January 3

Sat 1/7, Fri 1/8, Sat 1/9

The Cleveland Orchestra opens the 2016 by bringing back a popular pianist: 58-year-old Uzbecki/Israeli/American Yefim Bronfman (pictured). He’ll perform on a program entirely dedicated to a very popular composer: Beethoven.

Music director Franz Welser-Möst will lead the orchestra in three concerts at which Bronfman will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and the orchestra will play his String Quartet No. 15 for string orchestra.

On Thursday and Saturday evenings the orchestra will be joined by the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus to also perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, a work described as a precursor to the well-known “Ode to Joy” choral finale of his Symphony No 9.

Tickets are $29-$149.

clevelandorchestra.com

yefimbronfman.com

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106

 


Week of January 10


Sun 1/10 @ 1-6PM

Cleveland has a problem with professional sports and its attachment to them. Prodded by the media, the city over-identifies with its sports teams, thus tying its self-esteem to something it has no control over: whether the teams win or (more typically) lose.

And lose they do. With a half century of failure behind them, the teams’ records leave a patina of failure over a region that holds them up as symbolic of that region’s culture. It’s not a scenario for rebuilding the area’s self-esteem or public reputation.

Instead of “Take me out to the ballgame,” how about “Take me out to the art gallery”? A much more vibrant and successful — and locally generated — northeast Ohio sector, its arts community, will reflect on the region and its outsized relationship with its sports teams in an exhibit titled Fandom 216, with 20 artists participating at three galleries. The artists include some with serious credentials and resumes as well as some newcomers.

Among them are exhibit curators Dana Depew and Michael Loderstadt, SPACES executive director Christina Vassallo, Zygote co-founder Liz Maugans, ceramicist Kristen Cliffel whose work is currently on display at the Canton Art Museum, 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize winner painter Michelangelo Lovelace, photographer Lori Kella, light sculptor Jeff Chiplis, painter Timothy Callahan and CAN Journal publisher/editor and printmaker Michael Gill. Others include Rian Orso Brown, Bruce Checefsky, Elizabeth Emery, Kevin Everson, Bob Kelemen, Karin McKenna, R Eric McMaster, Ricky Rhodes, Anderson Turner and John Williams.

It will have staggered openings, starting this week Sun 1/10 at Waterloo Arts, followed by the HEDGE Gallery at the 78th Street Studios on Fri 1/15 and finally at Zygote Press on Fri 1/29. The kickoff “tailgate” party takes place at Waterloo Arts from Sun 1/10 @1-4pm. There will be food, drinks, polka music from Malphonia, spoken word by youth poet athletes from America Scores and an in-person appearance by colorful Cleveland Browns booster the Bone Lady, whose memoir about her own fandom just came out on Cleveland’s Gray & Company press.

But while the city’s excessive adulation of its teams might lead one to stereotype all Clevelanders as overweight beer swillers sitting in front of their TVs, that’s far from the truth. The number of local residents who are active in participatory sports is growing — and one of the biggest growth areas is bicycling. So bicycle fans are building on the exhibits — as well as the fact that 2016 is Sustainable Cleveland 2019’s Year of Sustainable Transportation — to create the Fandom 216 Department of Transportation.

“Bicycling fans in the Fandom of the 216 don’t watch as other athletes perform miraculous feats,” they say. “We have not pegged our hopes to games beyond our control. The journey is our game, and in our game everyone who rides, wins.”

To join the group, just snag your free official Fandom 216 Passport at one of the participating galleries, including Waterloo Arts today. Get it stamped at each of the three locations. The stamped passport will be good for buy one/get one deals at participating bars and restaurants and will earn you a free letterpress poster by Elizabeth Emery. The exhibits run through 2/20.

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waterlooarts.org/fandom216-the-art-of-sports-in-ne-ohio/

Cleveland, OH 44110

 


Week of January 17

 

Fri 1/22 11:30AM – 1:15PM

Join us for the first of four presentations in the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce 2016 Speaker Series, featuring headline speakers discussing some of the region’s most interesting topics. $20 members, $25 non-members. Events can be purchased individually or as a series here.

Make plans to attend the luncheon with Joseph Roman, CEO and President of the Greater Cleveland Partnership and Vice Chair of the 2016 Republican National Convention Host Committee.

http://lakewoodchamber.org/event/your-business-your-community-and-the-2016-rnc/

@LWOH @LakewoodOhio @LakewoodAlive @LakewoodChamber

Cleveland, OH 44111

 

Week of January 24

 

Sun 1/24 11:30AM

David Bowie has made a career of breaking barriers in music, film, live theatre, fashion and style. His music videos defined a new genre. His frank bisexuality shocked, then titillated, modern culture. He is known by many for his iconic film roles. Through it all, he has stayed true to his musical journey, morphing like a chameleon at every turn and influencing generations of artists from Nirvana to Lady Gaga to Arcade Fire.

Join CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready in a multi-media exploration of one of the modern era’s most influential and creative artists. Celebrating Bowie’s 69th birthday, the artist is releasing ★ (pronounced Blackstar), his 25th studio album. Ditching his band of 15 years, Bowie and his longtime producer and collaborator Tony Visconti brought on a team of New York jazz musicians to create an entirely new sound.

The session will feature the BOP STOP’s new audiophile high-fidelity sound system, and will include video, film and slides, along with selected needle drops of vinyl selections from Bowie’s deep musical legacy. Starting with Bowie’s early efforts to breakthrough as a pop artist in the 1960s, through his outrageous glam rock Ziggy Stardust persona, to the plastic soul of his first American hits with “Young Americans” and “Let’s Dance”, all the way to his latest LP, Blackstar ★, this fast-moving presentation is sure to be entertaining and informative to Bowie fanatics as well as the casual listener.

Cleveland’s own Vanity Crash will perform a short showcase set of live music featuring their Bowie-inspired originals, including selections from their 2015 release, Love. The presentation will include a Bowie trivia contest, with merchandise and special gifts as prizes. https://www.facebook.com/VanityCrash

Opt for the BOP STOP brunch if you wish, served a la carte, and enjoy a Sunday afternoon on the shores of Lake Erie with one of the most important artists of the past 50 years. $10, plus optional a la carte lunch.

themusicsettlement.org/event-rentals/

Bop Stop, 2920 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113 @BopStopTMS #Blackstar #NewBowieAlbum @MusicSettlement @DavidBowie @VanityCrashUSA

Cleveland, OH 44113

 

 


Week of January 31

Fri 1/8-Sun 2/21

Jen Craun is one of the area’s best known printmakers, whose work has been exhibited all around town including at SPACES, the Morgan Art of Paper Conservatory, the Beck Center, Heights Arts and Zygote Press where she worked for a decade and was associate director.

Versed in a variety of printmaking techniques, she’s developed a new body of work in the last year of wood intalgio prints. An exhibition of this latest work, which she calls Inherent, opens at the Maria Neil Art Project this weekend. With a theme of mining and exploration, featuring gold leaf laid over images of mountains, sonography and gem-like structures, it explores, she says, “the molecular and chemical makeup of these elements invisible to the eye, revealing similarities to the final state of refinement.”

“I’m interested in notions of value, and how we examine and measure this ideal. Through the lens of the earth as the giver of these inherent gifts or treasures to be searched and found,” she says.

The show opens with a free reception Fri 1/8 @ 5-1pm during Walk All Over Waterloo. It runs through Sun 2/21.

jencraun.com/

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Cleveland, OH 44110

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