Our local culture is lighting the way. This week we throw the CoolCleveland spotlight on Community Greenhouse Partners, expanding their CSA in time for spring. Light a candle for the Capitol Theatre’s 100th birthday, and celebrate a new future for the Morgan Conservatory with a national juried show as Leonard Young is appointed ED after serving as interim on and off since 2017. BOP STOP lights up the radio dial picking up network affiliates in Texas and Wisconsin for their Live at the BOP STOP radio program.Home growers can check out seeds at the Cleveland Seed Bank’s libraries, WRUW holds its first fundraiser in 2 years, and BW & PHS present an original hip-hop musical. The CMNH Planetarium turns the lights back on with a show about the Mars landing. Monday is National Grilled Cheese Day, so Melt is donating 20% to Lakewood’s Beck Center. Now that’s how you lighten your neighbor’s load.
Tim Smith launched urban farm Community Greenhouse Partners in the Superior-St. Clair neighborhood on a shoestring a decade ago. Since then it’s established a regular presence at area farmers markets with its produce and value-added products.This year it’s expanding its CSA and the variety of starter plants it’s offering to home gardeners. The feline supervisor doesn’t get all the credit! Read More
Gordon Square was a very different place when the Capitol Theatre opened in 1921, when people’s whole lives — work, play, shop, live — took place in the neighborhood. Like almost all local movie theaters it seemed destined to die until the development organization took it over and made it the centerpiece of community rebirth.Celebrate on Thursday April 8 when all are invited for a group photo in front of the revived venue. Read More
The monthly Cleveland dinners, held on Zoom for now, bring together diverse groups to share viewpoints on racism and equity. The next, centered around Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste, is April 25; register by April 14. Read More
The Live at the BOP STOP radio program debuted in January and it’s just signed up with a network that services non-commercial stations across the country, picking up outlets in Texas and Wisconsin. Read More
Morgan Conservatory, the paper-based art nonprofit, has named Leonard Young its permanent executive director after two stints as interim. Meanwhile program manager Tana Pierro is going back to school & they’re seeking her replacement. Read More
Starting this week, independent stages can apply for grants from the “Shuttered Venue Operators” act passed to help businesses dependent on attendance, such as music venues, movie theaters, live theaters and museums. Read More
Waterloo Arts is hosting its annual juried show in August but it’s open for submissions now — and all artists in the U.S. and Canada are eligible. Read More
Artists Gail Crum, Jill Milenski & Gayle Pritchard share a studio and materials & exchange ideas about their lives as women. Their work goes on view at BAYarts in Uncovered Stories.
MON 4/12 Cheesy Treat Today is National Grilled Cheese Day & northeast Ohio-based Melt Bar & Grilled is ready with a grilled cheese sandwich for every taste. They’ve hooked up with Lakewood’s Beck Center for the Arts to donate 20% of all sales to its arts programming.
TUE 4/13 Mighty Oaks Author Douglas Tallamy shares his expert information on our native oak trees — including the role they serve in our biosystem, the life they support, and how to plant and care for them.
After witnessing one of the worse demonstrations of white privilege — where the white Republican members of the Georgia State Legislature enacted new Jim Crow laws meant to limit the ability of black and brown people to exercise their legitimate franchise — I wasn’t keen on witnessing another form of privilege. But I nonetheless tuned into the Minnesota murder trial currently underway… Read More
