05.23-05.30.2018 Water Is Life

05.23-05.30.18
Water Is Life

The Washington Post recently called our current EPA director “a factory of bad ideas.” We wouldn’t disagree, but we’re more concerned with solutions.

So is Drink Water Drink Tap, which educates people with fun activities like the 4 Miles 4 Water walk/run and the All Things Water Festival, featuring an interactive exhibit on aquaponics and a poop-and-pee cornhole game. Now that’s a good idea.

Music is also life, as the families of Hawken School classmates killed in a car accident believed when they put together the Catch Meaning festival at the Rock Hall. Artist Thomas Sullivan gives new life to discarded items and assembles them into things of beauty in Child’s Play at Studio 2019 in Cuyahoga Falls.

Ride the rails with Thomas the Tank Engine, jam at Reggae Fest in Twinsburg, explore (in)justice at the For Freedoms town hall at MOCA, and celebrate the avant-grade with Syndicate for the New Arts at St. John’s Ohio City. Dip your pole. It’s your life. –Thomas Mulready

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Local nonprofit Drink Water Drink Tap is passionate about advocacy for Northern Ohio’s top resource – its lake. To educate people in a fun way, it hosts the 4 Miles 4 Water walk/run and the All Things Water Festival, taking place at Jacobs Pavilion in the Flats.

There’ll be food, drinks, games, exhibits, including an interactive exhibit on aquaponics, and a poop-and-pee cornhole board (Yes, really!) And all money raised goes toward helping make sure we have a supply of clean drinking water, while helping people understand how critical that is. Sat 5/26.

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When Hawken School classmates Josh Weil and Alex Doody were killed in a car accident in 2015, their families decided they wanted to do more than just grieve. So they started the Catch Meaning festival to honor their lives and give back to the community.

Alex’s father Michael calls the eight-act festival taking place at the Rock Hall “a legacy project to celebrate the boys and celebrate life.” He adds, “This breaks my heart, of course, because the Josh and Alex would love to be at this event as much as they would love everybody coming together on their behalf.” Sun 5/27.

Thomas Sullivan, with his long gray beard and overalls, is what some might call a “character.” But the Cuyahoga Falls-based artist specializes in transforming the discards that overflow his home studio into astonishing creations. “What’s great about it is that you can see what it was in a previous life,” he says of his assemblage art.

Our writer Nicole Hennessy visits Sullivan and gets an eyeful of his salvaged toys, vintage decorations, a pile of steel rods, large plastic monkey, string lights, a Goodyear blimp, baby doll heads. His work is on view in Child’s Play at Studio 2019 in Cuyahoga Falls through in the end of May.

Our career columnist Alex Sukhoy has walked those who want to change careers, or are forced to, through the first two stages of making that transition, and now we’re up to month 12.

“After taking a full year to research, get training in and then apply into a new and desired industry, you can gain greater insight into whether or not that professional step was the right step,” she says. “Is it time to dive deep? Or was it an interesting experiment that didn’t necessarily lead to a desired outcome?”

A Day Out with Thomas – as in Thomas the Tank Engine – is back at the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. “Big Adventures” include a ride on the railroad, photos with Sir Topham Hatt, a magic show, bounce houses and an Imagination Station. Fri 5/25-Sun 5/27.

* Even if you didn’t get invited to the royal wedding, you and the kids can get dressed up for Fairy Days at Peninsula’s Heritage Farms to enjoy music, food, face painting, crafts and visits from fairy characters. Sat 5/26 & Sun 5/27.

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Experience waterfront dining at e55 on the Lake. This full-service seasonal restaurant is adjacent to the E. 55 Street Marina on the shores of Lake Erie. Enjoy patio dining in a casual atmosphere with a full-service bar and a seasonally designed menu.

After your meal, stay and play at the sand volleyball and bocce courts. Live music every Friday. Learn more.

As usual, the Coit Road Farmers Market adds Wednesdays hours in addition to its year-round Saturday mornings once the weather’s warm. But this year, they’re trying something new. In addition to Wednesday mornings @ 10am-1pm, they’ll be open Wednesday evenings @ 4-7pm starting Wed 5/30. And they’ll have prepared foods if you want to stop by and grab some dinner to make home.

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In the 1980s, Bill March played bass in Beau Coup. Since then he’s dabbled in a lot of projects but he’s finally bringing his own songwriting to the front with an EP he’ll debut at a show at the Music Box. Wed 5/30

* Cleveland bluesman “Crazy Marvin” Braxton celebrates his 75th birthday at the Beachland. Sun 5/27.
* Quire Cleveland tours the centuries for its season finale at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Sat 5/26.
* Beachwood native singer/songwriter Marc Cohn returns to town to perform at the Music Box. Fri 5/25.
* Four of the area’s top reggae acts gather in Twinsburg for Reggae Fest Cleveland. Sat 5/26.

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WED 5/23
It’s that time of year to hang out by the water. The Music Box Supper Club on the river has again joined with oWow radio to present a series of free shows by some of Cleveland’s top acts, starting tonight with bluesman Travis Haddix. Good food and drink, music and a glorious view – what more could you want?

* Art collective Soda_Jerk’s new film TERROR NULLIUS will screen at the Capitol Theatre, sponsored by SPACES.

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THU 5/24
The group of more than 100 community leaders who take the stage at Severance Hall for Sing Out! for the Rape Crisis Center are raising money to make NE Ohio a better, safer, healthier place.

* Blossom Time Festival in Chagrin Falls has all the usual stuff – parade, food, music, rides etc – plus hot air balloons! Through Mon 5/28.
* For Freedoms town hall at MOCA explores the (in)justice system.
* Artists Archives of the Western Reserve presents the work of two artists in Secrets.
* MorrisonDance looks back at its 20-year history at CPT’s DanceWorks. Through Sat 5/26.
* Author talks about her book about adoption broker/baby thief Georgia Tann at the Lakewood Public Library.

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FRI 5/25
The highlight of all the best ethnic church festivals is the food made by the women of the church. The four-day Tremont Greek Fest at Annunciation Church, now in its 48th year, includes that food, plus drinks, dancing, music, a resale/craft market and church tours. Through Mon 5/28.

* Young Cleveland band the Punch Drunk Tagalongs play the Happy Dog on the heels of their debut album.
* The “Caramel Revue” at the Beachland spotlights black burlesque artists.
* Syndcate for the New Arts presents another cutting-edge performance at St. John’s Ohio City.
* Reggae women rock against cancer at the Grog Shop.
* Celebrate the 80s and more at the Norwalk Strawberry Fest, through Mon 5/28.
* The Cleveland Pops Orchestra makes great American music at Severance Hall.
* Six NE Ohio women jazz musicians share the stage at Akron’s Blu Jazz+.

Click here for more events on Fri 5/25

SAT 5/26
Cleveland Heights artist Fred Gearhart has turned the backyard of his home into a beautifully landscaped sculpture garden, filled with more than 150 of his works of all sizes. At his annual open house today and tomorrow, you can see and buy them, or hang out in his workshop and learn about his process.

* Larchmere Boulevard’s merchants hold their big annual Sidewalk Sale.
* Americana singer/songwriterCaitlin Canty brings her new material to Peninsula’s G.A.R. Hall.
* Ohio City’s Room Service boutique hosts a pop-up flower shop by Wild Fox & Flower. Also tomorrow.

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SUN 5/27
Standup comedian Jim Florentine may be from New Jersey, but he’s a supporter of the Cleveland Comedy Festival. He’s coming to town to do a show at Saschenheim Hall to benefit the festival, which takes place in November.

* Ramblin’ Deano of the Waco Brothers rambles into Waterloo’s Millard Fillmore bar.

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MON 5/28
Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1868 to honor the dead soldiers of the Civil War. Lake View Cemetery holds a morning ceremony, appropriately, on the lawn of Garfield Memorial – President Garfield fought for the Union – with a parade, music and speeches. Picnicking was always part of the holiday too, so you’re invited to bring yours.

* Lakewood’s Yuzu will have you on stage raging like Nick Cage.
* The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is open today so you can visit all the exhibits and the animals including the new bald eagle.

Click here for more events on Mon 5/28

TUE 5/29
Matt Harmon is one of three Cleveland area singer/songwriters, along with Joshua Jesty and the Village Bicycle’s Elizabeth Kelly, who will be part of Songwriters in the Round at the Beachland Tavern tonight.

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WED 5/30
Local professor/comedian Ken Schneck was the editor of a newly published photo-based book called LGBTQ Cleveland: Images of Modern America. He’s inviting all interested people to a party celebrating its release tonight at Jukebox in Hingetown.

Click here for more events on Wed 5/30

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