07.15-07.22.15
Exquisite
You could travel the world and not find the culture, the creativity and the chill attitude of the people of our region.But it’s the surrealists‘ parlor game termed Exquisite Corpse that relates even more: a collaborative creative project whereby each artist adds their own inspiration only having seen the very last bits of the artist who contributed before. Doesn’t that sound exactly like what has been going on around here lately?
Isn’t it about time for monthly walking tours of University Circle? We had Chris Ronayne tell us all about it. Or you could Cycle Canalway this weekend on the Towpath and support the CVNP. The Cleveland Print Room is taking the Exquisite Corpse concept even further and turning it into a benefit. We’re taking dance to another level with a dizzying array of performances for you to savor. Grab a Guinness, visit the Springfield Bog to celebrate the restoration of the habitat, and have your own exquisite mini-vacation right in your own backyard. –Thomas Mulready
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Playing off an idea invented by the Surrealists called Exquisite Corpse, the Cleveland Print Room is hosting a benefit that asked artists to create a section of mural without knowing what any of the other artists were doing. Guests can bid on those segments as well as create some of their own. Children are most definitely welcome! Sat 7/18.
University Circle didn’t grow up as a result of the freeways so it’s a world unto itself. It contains some of the city’s most valuable cultural, educational and medical assets. And in just the last few years, new development has exploded. University Circle Inc’s president Chris Ronayne talks to CoolCleveland about why they started monthly walking tours of the area. Sat 7/18.
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SPONSORED: The Ohio Light Opera is on stage now! America’s premier lyric theatre festival presents 7 musical gems in rep thru 8/8 at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio: Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon, Cole Porter’s Can-Can, Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash’s One Touch of Venus, George and Ira Gershwin’s Oh, Kay!, Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore and The Yeomen of the Guard, and Franz Lehar’s Friederike. Order your tickets today! Call 330-263-2345 or visit OhioLightOpera.org.
Cycle Canalway is designed for bicyclists of all ages, abilities and inclinations. Ride fast, ride slow, ride a long distance or short. The train drops riders off at various points in Cuyahoga Valley National Park and they ride back to Quaker Steak & Lube in Valley View for lunch and entertainment. Sat 7/18.
Summer offers multiple opportunities to see what some of the area’s top dance ensembles — GroundWorks DanceTheater, Verb Ballets, Inlet Dance — are up to these days, as well as take in companies less frequently seen in these parts such as the Parsons Dance, NEOS Dance Theatre and Philadanco! companies, most of them performing in bucolic outdoor settings and mostly for free. Fri 7/17-Sat 8/15
The Summit Metro Parks contain a prairie habitat known as the Springfield Bog. They’re joining with Ohio Prairie Nursery to celebrate the restoration and beauty of that area at an event where biologists will describe their efforts to restore the habitat and manage invasive species. Find out why prairies are so significant to maintain — even in Ohio, which isn’t necessarily considered a prairie state. Sat 7/18.
The Cleveland World Festival (formerly the One World Festival) is now in its third year. It’ll be a one-day blowout with musicians, dancers, actors, sports, food and arts from dozens of countries and cultures, taking place at the beautiful Cleveland Cultural Gardens at Rockefeller Park. If you’re like to be more than a spectator, they’ve got lots of volunteer opportunities available. Sun 8/2.
* The rapidly rising Collinwood neighborhood just landed a second grant from ArtPlace America, this one for $200,000. And residents get to vote on which projects that money will fund.
Bring your family and friends and check out Kamm’s Corners’ Asphalt Cinema, which takes place every third Friday through August in Impett Park. The flicks are free, start at dusk and family-friendly. See Frozen on Fri 7/17 and Big Hero 6 on Fri 8/21.
CoolCleveland met up with Kamm’s Corners Development Corps’ executive director Steve Lorenz to get the details. Lorenz filled us in on how, while the movies do start at dusk, the children’s activities start at about 7:30PM before the screenings: Hula hoop contests, balloon animals, a pork chop speedway and so much more!
The Akron Art Museum is offering an opportunity for kids — and their adults — to experiment with creating all kinds of buildings out of various types of building blocks provided in its new interactive exhibit. Photos, paintings and prints from its collective serve as inspiration. Through Sun 9/13.
* Solve-It Summer weekends at the Great Lakes Science Center engage hands and brains. Sat 7/18-Sun 7/19 & Sat 7/25/-Sun 7/26.
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Non-stick aluminum cookware may have taken over the marketplace, but there are people who still swear by traditional, hardy cast iron cookware. Those people will be having a gathering at the Coit Road Farmers Market where they’ll get together for an afternoon of exchanging tips, buying and selling cookware, eating and drinking, and just having fun. Sat 7/18.
* Sooner than you think, you home gardeners are going to have more vegetables than you know what to do with, if you’re lucky. Learn how to preserve that bounty for the winter at the Countryside Conservancy. Thu 7/16.
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Roberto Ocasio was a major force in Latin jazz in Cleveland. Since his death 11 years ago, the Roberto Ocasio Foundation, formed by his family & friends, has sponsored an annual camp for teens, led by his college friend Bobby Sanabria (pictured) to get them excited about this music. The camp ends with a free performance for the community at the Cleveland Institute of Music Fri 7/17.
* House concert benefits the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Sun 7/19.
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WED 7/15
Artist Michael Walsh travelled a long way to spend two months working at Cleveland’s Zygote Press — he’s from Alaska. Want to see what he’s been up to? He’ll screen some of his video and film work at the Underdog at the Happy Dog tonight.
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THU 7/16
Sustenance: From Palate to Palette at the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve is a group show featuring works about “the intersection of food, art, and culture” — some of it actually incorporating food. It opens with a reception tonight and runs through 8/29.
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FRI 7/17
Skateboard art reflects its adherents — colorful, aggressive, rebellious. Three area artists display three very different approaches to its iconography in No Comply: Artwork Inspired by of Skateboarding Culture at Akron’s Square Records.
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SAT 7/18
Wear something light and summery to go to Tropical Cleveland’s Noche en Blanco at the Music Box Supper Club. With a live 10-piece salsa band in the house, you won’t be leaving the dance floor all night.
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SUN 7/19
There’s a lot more to Cleveland’s baseball story than what is happening at Progressive Field this season. Spend a Sunday afternoon with baseball historian Morris Eckhouse as he takes you on a ride on Lolly the Trolley to places of historical baseball significance.
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MON 7/20
Jazz sax player Frank Morgan enjoyed great success and harrowing bouts of addiction and incarceration. The film about his life, Sounds of Redemption, will screen at Nighttown, followed by live music from the Richie Cole/Jackie Warren duo.
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TUE 7/21
Marijuana is a hot topic in Ohio now with a legalization issue likely to appear on the November ballot. The Chautauqua-in-Chagrin series presents a Denver police officer talking about how it worked out there and a Cleveland Clinic doctor talking about its medical uses.
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WED 7/22
You wouldn’t expect a blues band to come out of the Sahara region of Africa, but that’s where Tamikrest hails from. They’re taking the world music scene by storm, and they’ll be in Cleveland to perform for its annual July global music series Ohio Cty Stages.
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PHOTOSTREAM: Tri-C JazzFest by Anastasia Pantsios
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–Thomas Mulready
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