That’s why we’ve updatedour Summer Festivals Guide to keep you bewitched and believing every weekend between now and October. It’s a favorite, so send the link to your fam & BFFs.This week:
* Be mindful at the outdoor yoga retreat hosted by CoolCleveland contributor Claudia Taller.
* Be amused by Dawn & Eric Olsen’s new podcast and novelization of Ten Cent Beer Night.
* Be delighted as you taste and judge bread at the Grog Shop Bake Off 2.
* Be there as Micro Theatre CLE debuts at the Brownhoist.
* Be pleasantly surprised by the new Korean couture exhibit at CMA.
* Be as sustainable as possible at the Foraged Feast at Tinker’s Creek.
* Be blown away by the Metroparks’ al fresco summer music concert calendar.
* Be exposed by Drag in Bloom at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes.
* Be supportive of local talent as Cleveland Ballet dancers showcase their own choreography.
* Be a part of history as Akron dedicates Sojourner Truth Plaza.
* Be dazzled by hot air balloons at Chagrin Falls Blossom Time festival.
And if you can’t be there, then bestow your favorite artist or nonprofit with a donation or a shout-out. Either way, be active, be aware and be tuned-in. This summer won’t happen again.
ARTEMIS is the all-women jazz ensemble that performs with joy, power, passion and high-wire intensity, and named for the Greek goddess of the hunt. They perform at the 45th annual Tri-C JazzFest on Sat 6/22 at 2:30PM at the Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square. Also on the bill is the exciting all-star Trumpet Summit featuring Sean Jones, Dominick Farinacci, Tommy Lehman, and Curtis Taylor. This is a special tribute to the outstanding educational program at Tri-C JazzFest.
The 45th Tri-C JazzFest features a cornucopia of jazz flavors from June 20-22, from superstars like Ledisi, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Take 6 and the Marcus Miller/Bob James Quartet to Scary Goldings, Jason Moran and the Bandwagon to Harold López-Nussa: Timba a la Americana/Diego Figueiredo and Charles Lloyd Ocean Trio II featuring Gerald Clayton & Marvin Sewell. Get your tickets now. Read more.
It’s time to really think about making the most of your summer: drinking in the beauty of nature and the warmth of the sun, and slowing down your pace a little. There’s no better way to do this than with an outdoor yoga retreat such as the ones hosted by CoolCleveland writer Claudia Taller and her daughter.
On her upcoming retreat (June 7-9) at Parma’s Jesuit Retreat Center, she promises, “We will walk, meditate, journal, dance, laugh, create mandalas, and discuss the meaning of presence, mindfulness, authenticity, judgment, love, joy, abundance, and faith. And in the spaces between, we will practice the physical movements of yoga with yin, restorative, and vinyasa flow sessions. Read more.
We’ve already shared with you the schedules for weekly Wade Oval Wednesdays and Lakewood’s Front Porch Concerts which both start in early June. CVNP’s Howe Meadow and Lake View Cemetery announced monthly schedules long ago.
This week, Cleveland Metroparks revealed a bunch of new chances to hear free live music at six different locations: Huntington Beach, the Emerald Necklace Marina, the East 55th Marina, Euclid Beach, Merwin’s Wharf, and three at one the most popular locations, Edgewater Park, with summertime favorite Carlos Jones on July 25. Concerts start the week of June 12. Read more.
As you can see by our listings, the festival season gets up to full speed this weekend, with few chances for avid festival-lovers to catch their breath until late September. It’s time to take a close look at our annual festivals guide, if you haven’t done so already, and map out a plan so you don’t miss the events you really want to go to. With events from Ashtabula to Lorain to Medina, focusing on food, music, art, history, culture, the environment, sports, gardening, theater, animals, motorcycles and more, you’ll find more than a few things to make your summer special. Read more.
On the heels of the 50th anniversary of Cleveland’s infamous 10-cent Beer Night, Dawn & Eric Olsen discuss the historical fiction novel Heading For Home, and how it inspired the podcast of the same name.
The couple detail how their screenplay idea morphed from novel to podcast and their respective methods for character-building and storytelling.
Dawn Olsen is a former writer for Blogcritics and various other publications. She’s also worked as an editor and writer for Technorati’s entertainment section, and garnered the reputation of a legendary blogger. Other works by Eric Olsen include America’s Most Haunted,The Encyclopedia of Record Producers, and Networking In the Music Industry.Read more.
TUE 5/28 Love for Nature A Greater Akron Audubon Society naturalist with talk at Summit Metro Parks Cascade Valley Park about the important of maintaining a diverse ecosystem and how to do so.
