Sooner or later, we all take that important first step. No matter how daunting. It’s just… some of us are really good at it.
Black Women fighting for voting rights. Artists presenting their works-in-progress for the very first time. A jazz vocalist returned home from L.A. to record and release an album. Readying the arts community for the 2020 Census. Discovering what it means to be an artist around here with a genre-bending potluck. Igniting fire and ice on the farm.
Welcome to the new CoolCleveland. Take the leap with us.
–Thomas Mulready
RED HOT Jazz Vocalist Releases Bootleggin’ at the BOP STOP
Jazz vocalist/songwriter/educator Maria Jacobs has released 7 albums, spent 10 years in L.A., now teaches vocal jazz at KSU.THU 1/23
STAGE Entry Point is First Step for CPT Shows
Ever wonder how works-in-progress become fully realized stage productions?THU 1/23 – SAT 1/25
MUSIC Musical Theatre Project Aims To Make Someone Happy
Betty Comden and Adolph Green finally hit it huge on Broadway with Bernstein’s On The Town. Then it got interesting. Multimedia show digs deep.FRI 1/24 & SUN 1/26
ART SAYMO Gallery Re-Opens in AsiaTown
Open for about 6 months in Kamm’s Corners, the gallery moves to Asian Town Center near Negative Space Gallery and Up In Space Gallery. SAT 1/25
NEWS Kent Art & Wine Fest Call; FRONT International Theme
SAT 1/25 Farmpark’s Ice Festival: Fire and Ice Wood carvers, live music, fire pits and s’mores. Ice carving, speed-carving, ice slides, ice thrones. A 6-foot ice tower set afire.
SUN 1/26 Maelstrom Arts’ Genre-Bending Potluck Creatives come together over food, share ideas, birth something new. Theme: what it means to be an artist in Cleveland. Followed by “a night of genre-bending performance art.”
MON 1/27 Everyone In Cleveland Is Reading This Book Last week, nine area library systems, the City Club of Cleveland and Playhouse Square launched One Community Reads, a series of events and discussions focused on a single book. Now the community is coming together to discuss.
TUE 1/28 How Black Women Fought For Voting Rights Celebrate the centennial of the 19th amendment with CWRU prof Joy Bostic with Our Voices, Our Votes: Courage and Persistence in Black Women’s Struggle for Voting Rights.
WED 1/29
Heard of the Iraqi maqam?Hamid Al-Saadi is the only contemporary who has memorized and mastered all 56 of the Baghdad repertoire maqamat.
“All Money Ain’t Good Money”
Most of us, particularly those of us in the black community, have heard this truism all of our adult lives, and for good reason. Sometimes we can be tempted to break weak by the dangling of money in our faces, causing us to fail to accurately assess the negative consequences of selling out… Read here
Coming Home To Roost?
One of the byproducts — albeit a downside — of the popularity of the Internet has to do with how fast and far disinformation, conspiracy theories and flat-out lies can spread. Indeed, an untruth can travel halfway around the globe before truth can get out of bed, get dressed and attempt to defend itself… Read here
The Winston I Knew:
A Long Retrospective
Both the Black Power and Black Pride movements were still in their nascent stages in the early ’60s when Winston Willis, a brilliant, enigmatic, and ultimately tragic, figure of Shakespearian proportions first burst onto the Cleveland scene, soaring across the local landscape like a bright, white-hot comet… Read more
