We’re not in the clear yet, but compared to last summer, the dog days of 2021 are pretty cool. Cleveland Heights is turning 100 and throwing themselves a party at Cain Park. Apollo’s Fire is working like a dog with three new CDs, seven concerts and a tour to six states. Murals are popping up on all our walls and this week, international mural festival presenter POW! WOW! arrives in Midtown with local and national artists, performances, talks, workshops and kids activities.Speaking of performance, for those of us who participated in, performed in, or witnessed the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (1988-03), we’re planning a series of live shows and livestreams in September, and you are invited to submit a video. Hot dog!
Cleveland Heights turns 100 this year, and Cain Park marks the occasion with a full day of diverse arts programming. In the afternoon there’ll be two free performances of hip-hop style movement and sound with Raphael Xavier and local dancers.Then, a cast of nearly two dozen performers from Cain Park shows of decades past will take the stage for an evening of highlights from some of those shows. Read More
Last week our columnist C. Ellen Connally told us about how now-convicted former Cleveland councilman Ken Johnson had contrived to have the deed to an $85,000 house, owned by the defunct Buckeye-Shaker Community Development Corporation, transferred to a man he claims as his “son” — for free.His “son” will have to look for other housing. The deed transfer has been cancelled. But questions remain about how and why this deal was cooked up in the first place. Read More
Cleveland’s baroque orchestra will have no time to catch its breath in 2021-22. It’s just announced seven regular season programs, touring that includes a return to Carnegie Hall plus concerts in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois and North Carolina, and the release of three (!) new CDs. Read More
International mural festival presenter POW! WOW! sweeps into Midtown & surrounding neighborhoods for Cleveland Walls!, a weeklong (August 23-28) cultural festival featuring not only mural painting by both local and national artists, but performances, talks, workshops and kids’ activities. Read More
With the Delta variant surging, 14 NE Ohio music venues, already hard-hit by a lengthy shutdown they don’t want to repeat, will start requiring patrons to show a vaccine card or proof of a recent negative COVID test. If you want your favorite club to survive, don’t even THINK about trying to get around this. Read More
On September 16-19, Thomas Mulready presents a two-part live show and livestream featuring rare archival video from the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, which hosted over 1000 performance artists in Cleveland from 24 countries from 1988-2003. The show is called (*)Everything Is Subject To Radical Change: Cleveland Performance Art Festival Revisited.
Featuring brand new interviews with artists, panelists, researchers and staff, the two-part show will be presented on subsequent evenings at both BOP STOP and Jilly’s Music Room on September 16-19, as well as livestreamed.
Artists, audiences, or anyone connected with the PAF are encouraged to send a short video or note to INFO@ThisAnalogWorld.com. A limited number of tickets are available now. Read More
MON 8/23 Valuable Insights Isabel Wilkerson, author of acclaimed books on race in America, keynotes the Cleveland Foundation’s week of annual meeting programming in a free, open-to-the-public virtual talk.
One factor the court looks at when determining a sentence is the degree of remorse exhibited by the accused. The white woman showed such remorse when she paid back every penny of the money she stole, while the black woman wanted to beat the system by hiding her assets and transferring her house to… Read More
