04.06-04.13.16
Raise Your Eyes
Look up. With our ironed-flat lake and glacier-scraped land, we’ve got more sky than almost anyone.So raise your eyes inside the about-to-be-renovated-again Akron Civic this weekend to feel the sky move. Raise a toast to City Year for their help in keeping at-risk kids on the path to academic success and graduation. And sneak a peek inside SPACES’ soon-to-be-new-home in the Van Rooy Coffee building under the Bidwells’ penthouse.
Apollo’s Fire indulges us in Commedia dell’arte renaissance street theater while Troubadour Andru Bemis plays a farewell show at the Riverdog. Artist Derek Hess is featured in Forced Perspective, screening at CSU, while the Screw Factory throws an open house. It’s Spring Cotillion at Pat’s in the Flats, while Dancing Wheels explores politics at Chagrin Arts. We might all be in the gutter, but some of us have our eyes raised to the stars. –Thomas Mulready
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The Akron Civic Theatre is a jewel at the heart of downtown Akron, with its splendid Moorish-inspired interior. Built in 1929, the theater underwent a major restoration early in the last decade, and it’s about to embark on the second phase.
Meanwhile, it continues to present some of the area’s most eclectic programming, from rock concerts to dance programs to films – Three Stooges film fest this Sunday! – and it will host its “Spirits of the Civic” benefit this week. Executive director Howard Parr talks to John Benson about what’s in the future for the Civic. Sat 4/9.
City Year Cleveland’s AmeriCorps program offers young people the opportunity to spend a year in public service, working full-time in area schools to help keep at-risk kids on the path to academic success and graduation.
This week City Year is hosting its Rock the Red Jacket gala at the Q to honor those who have supported it and to raise money to continue its work. CoolCleveland’s Kendall Embrescia-Hridel tells us more about what City Year does. Thu 4/7.
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SPONSORED: Hear the music of Sting and Steely Dan like you’ve never heard it before when the Columbus Jazz Orchestra performs these artists’ classics at 7:30PM on Thu 4/14, at Hudson High School, as part of the Tri-C Presents performing arts series. The concert will feature vocalists Michael McElory and Phil Clark. Tickets are at TricTickets.com or 216-987-4444.
SPACES, Cleveland’s longtime nonprofit contemporary art gallery, sold its current building on Superior Viaduct in late 2013 and in mid-2014, it announced it would be moving to an empty industrial building in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. Then that deal fell through.
Now the organization has finally revealed that it’s nailed down a new space for real – across the street from the one originally planned, at W. 29th and Detroit. Restoration is starting; look for the grand opening of the new space in January 2017.
With so much uncertainty surrounding the upcoming Republican National Convention in Cleveland, local bluesman Colin Dussault came up with an RNC-themed T-shirt that’s catching fire, with orders coming in from around the country.
* With its longtime home in Voinovich Park now undergoing development, and preparations for the RNC derailing its usual June date, Cleveland Pride announces its new date and location.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Musical Rainbows series introduces kids ages 3-6 to orchestral instruments one by one so they don’t get overwhelmed by all that sound. In “The Terrific Trumpet,” orchestra member Jack Sutte demonstrates the bright, brassy sound of the horn. Fri 4/8 & Sat 4/9.
* Short family-oriented program at the Maltz Performing Arts Center and Hudson Library introduces kids to Apollo’s Fire’s music with clowns, dancers and more. Sat 4/8 & Sun 4/9.
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Happy National Grilled Cheese Month! Sandwich Special: My Big Fat Gyro Melt. Seasonal Sides: Cheesy Romano Cauliflower & Mediterranean Chickpea Salad. Bread Pudding: Tiramisu Bread Pudding. Beer Feature: Sierra Nevada Summerfest. Cocktail Feature: Strawberry Sashay.
Melt News: Melt Partners with the Cleveland Aquarium: All kids 10-under ordering off the Melt children’s menu will receive a coupon for $5 off at the Cleveland Aquarium! Melt to Sponsor the 2016 Cleveland Lottery League The Big Show Sat 4/16 at the Cleveland Agora 12PM-12AM. Cleveland Music Day Hangover Party on Sun 4/17. Melt Independence is now booking parties. Now taking reservations in select Melt Bar and Grilled locations. Melt Catering is now available for all events! MeltBarAndGrilled.com.
As a nonprofit market with its own building, the Coit Road Farmers Market needs to raise money. So it’s hosting its annual French Toast breakfast at the market with toast made from local products. Come eat and shop! Sat 4/9.
* The North Union Farmers Market at Crocker Park opens outdoors this week. Sat 4/9.
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SPONSORED: Boot Up at The Kent Stage featuring SuperMonkey, Jonathan Edwards with Alex Bevan, Alan Cox Comedy Tour 2016, An Evening With Andy McKee, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Glass Harp, The Sheepdogs, Welcome To Wonderland, Todd Rundgren, Scott Stapp, The Voice of Creed, Ricky Scaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Richard Nader’s Doo Wop and Rock N’ Roll, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Terry Sylvester, The Vogues, The Crests featuring Tommy Mara, JD Souther, plus more. TheKentStage.com.
Dancers will join the musicians of Apollo’s Fire for a program called “A Harlequin Romance” as characters from Commedia dell’arte renaissance street theater while the orchestra plays Telemann and Bach. Thu 4/7-Sun 4/10.
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WED 4/6
With talk about “punishing” women for the legal act of having an abortion, the documentary TRAPPED, screening at the the Cleveland International Film Festival, couldn’t be more timely. It explores laws intended to make this legal procedure nearly impossible to obtain. Also tomorrow.
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THU 4/7
The Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet have joined forces to present a pair of Bartok ballets centering on exotic tales of dangerous passions. Through Sun 4/10.
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FRI 4/8
The Lake Erie Building aka the Screw Factory has filled its two upper floors with artists’ studios. Come to one of its periodic open houses to meet the artists, see their studios and buy some of their work.
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SAT 4/9
Digital photography is cool. But sometimes you just want a photo to hold in your hand. The Cleveland Print Room hosts a workshop to explore a new app that lets you print Polaroids from your smartphone.
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SUN 4/10
Akron’s Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is normally a place for people to hang out and enjoy. But on most Sundays throughout the season, you can also bring your dog along for its Woof Walks.
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MON 4/11
You wouldn’t normally think of bike safety and abortion together. But as part of its monthly community outreach series, abortion clinic Preterm will be hosting the staff of Ohio City’s Joy Machines bicycle shop to share tips for bicyclists.
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TUE 4/12
Want to know just how absurd it is for Republican presidential candidates to talk about cutting spending while expanding the military? Come to Cleveland Peace Action’s monthly Peace at the Pub at Market Garden Brewery where members of the group will do a presentation on the federal budget and where your tax dollars are actually going.
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WED 4/13
The Cleveland Stories series continues at the Music Box Supper Club, relating tales of shipwrecks, ghosts and maritime mysteries from the Great Lakes. Order a dinner featuring foods that were served on the Titanic.
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