It’s been a challenging time, but the past few weeks have been a respite for many. The political situation is changing, the darkness is getting brighter, and our local culture mavens have stepped up to lead us through these difficult times.
Performance artist Uno Lady has created a film and accompanying album for meditation and mindfulness practices. Waterloo Arts is training teams in urban gardening to care for the raised beds on their street. Summit Metro Parks offers a self-guided poetry walk. The Rock Hall saves the day with a FamJam you can do from home. Mansfield Frazier keeps us focused on the social justice issues that need our healing.
Mentally and physically, now is a good time to get healthy. It’s also time to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday, as we do every year. Join us for a unique livestream with lots of music. And for a guy whose own family mental health issues haunted him, he’s a good example of getting healthy and turning things around to inspire his success and creativity.
We need a little of that inspiration right about now.
Tune in to this unique livestream premiere of A Lad Insane: The Beautiful Mind of David Bowie, featuring originals and David Bowie music by Vanity Crash, with a closer look at how this iconic artist used the mental health issues in his family to drive his legendary personas and creativity. Click above or here to view the trailer and get your ticket. $5 OFF for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members, and patrons of BOP STOP, Jilly’s Music Room, Grog Shop, The Kent Stage and others.
Mental health experts, musicians and authors drill down into some of Bowie’s most enigmatic and enlightening songs and personas: Scary Monsters, All the Madmen, Ziggy Stardust, Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, and others. Thomas Anonymous hosts, and Vanity Crash provides the tunes. You’ll never hear Bowie’s music the same again.
Christa Ebert aka Uno Lady is well known around NE Ohio for her music, which is built entirely on layering and manipulating her own voice. She’s now applied that technique to a film consisting of vignettes intended for meditation and mindfulness practices, as well as an accompanying album. Read More
You’ve seen artwork of the Old Masters. Check out the New Masters 2: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio in Ursuline College’s virtual Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, at https://bit.ly/3npfxsv.
Waterloo Arts is launching a new program called The Green Palette to train community members in urban gardening and then have teams take over the raised beds on Waterloo Road to transform the street with color and greenery. Read More
The Akron Art Museum has debuted a special free artist-designed poster that lets you use your phone to access digital features to manipulate, move and alter its images. Read More
Whether you resolved to exercise or meditate regularly or to eat more vegetables or cook healthier meals in general, the Cleveland Public Library has a vast range of digital resources to get you started. Read More
So Long, Albatross have been around the music scene for a decade and released several EPs, as well as a previous full-length. Now they’ve put out Wait a Minute, Man, with a fuzzy, howling sound that’s a throwback to the early 70s. Read More
Tune in to this unique livestream featuring David Bowie’s music and originals by Vanity Crash, with a song-by-song investigation of how he turned his family mental issues into inspiration for his wild imagination. Part 1 is Friday, Part 2 tomorrow.
MON 1/11 Take a Walk The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes has posted a YouTube video of a summer hike along Doan Brook, past its marshes, woods and lake. But if you want exercise now, its trails are open from dawn to dusk and there’s plenty of winter wildlife to see.
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To some small extent I can identify with the “anti-maskers,” but not enough to go out without one. I’m not that crazy. They feel, with some degree of accuracy, the government is turning our country into a nanny state, trying to berate us into eating our collective broccoli. And to a degree it’s working since increasingly you see people driving down the street, alone in their vehicle… Read More
