09.13-09.20.17
Breaking Barriers
As sure as the waves will crash on Edgewater Beach, open your eyes and you’ll see our artists and entrepreneurs breaking through to new levels of engagement.From the free Kid’s Chess Fest at CPL, to Derek Hess & Marty Geramita’s Acting Out! Fest, to CMA’s Chalk Fest, to the Cleveland Eats Culinary Festival.
Writers break through this week, whether it’s Laura DeMarco’s Lost Cleveland or Ken Schneck’s Seriously, What Am I Doing Here, or James Renner on unsolved CLE mysteries.
Throw out the rule book: Do bourbon and coffee mix? Discussions of race and football? Craft beers and nature? Vinyl and vintage clothing? As it turns out, most barriers were made to be broken. –Thomas Mulready
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When beloved Cleveland artist Derek Hess shared that, despite his international success, he had battled mental illness and addiction, it opened a conversation that led to last year’s Acting Out! Fest, four days of music, comedy and educational events around mental health awareness and solutions.
The second edition is even bigger and hopes to offer more help to more people as well as some cool entertainment such as a Saturday night show at the Agora with prankster Andrew W.K. John Benson talks to Derek’s business partner Marty Geramita about what they’ve put together. Wed 9/13-Sat 9/16.
SPONSORED: Learn how to make a difference when you check out Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Open House happening on Sat 9/16 @ 9am- 4pm at their Environmental and Maintenance Service Center. Tour the Southerly Wastewater Treatment plant, see what happens after the flush, see educational exhibits and much more.
Cleveland has a terrible preservation track record. It has demolished much of its history, to the point where someone who left a mere half century ago would recognize little of it.
Plain Dealer writer Laura DeMarco has unearthed some of those places and things that once gave the city a unique charm and sense of place and compiled them in her new book, Lost Cleveland. She’ll spend an afternoon at Tremont’s Prosperity Social Club talking about the book and Cleveland’s fraught relationship with its past. Sat 9/16.
Come out and explore IngenuityFest: Metamorphosis taking place September 22-24 at the new Hamilton Collaborative in Saint Clair-Superior at 5401 Hamilton Avenue. Sip on local Goldhorn beer and Watershed cocktails as you discover the wacky, weird and just plain wonderful.
Experience art installations, makers, exhibits, performances, music, local food and vendors. Visit IngenuityCleveland for tickets, directions, hours and a sneak peak of what you’ll see at the Fest. $5 Day Pass or $10 Weekend Pass, Kids 12 and under get in for FREE!
SPONSORED: Why dance on the floor when you can dance on the wall? You’ll have to look up to watch MorrisonDance perform at IngenuityFest 2017: Metamorphosis taking place September 22-24 at the Hamilton Collaborative. Get directions, tickets, and hours at IngenuityCleveland.com.
Ken Schneck is a Baldwin Wallace professor, a podcast host and a funny guy who regularly delights audiences as the MC of local burlesque events. He’s now an author with his new book, Seriously, What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew, which relates some strange, unexpected adventures he’s had.
He’ll be joining local author Joanna Connors at a Lit Cleveland Between the Lines event at the Euclid Tavern, counterpointing his befuddled tales with her more serious story of searching for her rapist. Wed 9/20.
Never look at your toilet the same way again!
Check out Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Open House happening on Sat 9/16 @ 9am-4pm at their Environmental and Maintenance Services Center. View the video here.
Tour the Southerly Wastewater Treatment plant, enjoy workshops and special presentations, take home tips, kids crafts and more. Exhibits, food, games and surprises make up the free fun for friends and families. See what happens after the flush! Details.
Chess is supposed to sharpen one’s focus, perception and strategic skills. It’s also been found to help kids do better in school. A group called Invest in Chess focuses on teaching chess to inner-city kids. They’re holding a free Kids’ Chess Fest at the Cleveland Public Library to get them hooked on something positive. There will be snacks! Sat 9/16.
* Talespinner Children’s Theatre tells a creation story from Australia in its next production, The Rainbow Serpent. Sat 9/16-Sun 10/8.
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SPONSORED: Self-Express & Lower Stress! Try small-group music instruction for all ages, dance by Inlet Dance Theatre (age 3-adult), Arts for the Young classes, private & group music therapy sessions, or 100+ other courses. Music for all at The Music Settlement. Enrolling now: Call 216-421-5806 X100 or sign up online at TheMusicSettlment.org.
The Cleveland Eats Culinary Festival shows how much the city’s food scene has grown, with dozens of local chefs participating in a benefit Thursday evening and big bashes on Mall B Friday and Saturday. Thu 9/14-Sat 9/16.
* Cheesescaping class at Countryside Barn in Peninsula will teach students to put together a special cheese board board with Ohio-made cheeses and artisan crackers. Fri 9/15.
* Do bourbon and coffee mix? Find out at Cleveland Whiskey when they host an open house to sample the bourbon/coffee blend they created with Rising Star Roasters. Sat 9/16.
Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.
It’s time to Pleibol! at the Baseball Heritage Museum September 22-24. Our fall fundraiser, presented in partnership with Julia DeBurgos Cultural Arts Center, is a three-day celebration of African Americans and Latinos breaking the color barrier in America’s favorite pastime.
Start the weekend Friday night with a dinner program featuring former MLB players Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Joe Azcue and Vern Fuller. Tickets are only $50 and proceeds support our organizations. Then kids can enjoy free clinics and all can watch community organizations play all on the historic League Park field. Details can be found here: BaseballHeritageMuseum.org.
How do you know that the Blue Sky Folk Festival in Lake County is as much about participation as listening? You get discounted admission for bringing your instrument! Sat 9/16
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
Don’t miss out on the fun at Cleveland Metroparks Ledges to Lake Adventure Race on Sat 9/16 from 7:30am-2:30pm at Hinckley Reservation.
The race is composed of a lake and land portion and is ideal for both beginners and advanced racers. Fees range from $55-$100 with awards available for winners in each category. For more information visit ClevelandMetroparks.com.
WED 9/13
The Maltz Museum holds its 10th annual Stop the Hate essay contest for young people next year – something needed now more than ever. It hosts a kickoff event today where you can learn more and hear what past winners wrote.
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THU 9/14
Singer Nina Simone was one of the giants of 20th century music, spanning jazz, R&B, pop, gospel, classical and folk. Karamu debuts a new musical Simply Simone that traverses her life in the powerful songs she wrote and sang. Through Sun 10/8.
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FRI 09/15
If you are interested in unique, handcrafted furniture and home decor, the place to be tonight is the annual FSHO, where 30 designers/craftspeople will be displaying and selling their wares, and there will be music, and free food and drink.
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SAT 9/16
The Adopt-a-Beach clean-ups happen monthly during warm (or warmish) weather. But today is International Coastal Clean-Up Day with events around the world. Locally you can join volunteers at Edgewater, Euclid Beach and Sims parks.
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SUN 9/17
The CiCLeVia or “open streets” events, where a few blocks of major city streets are closed to vehicle traffic for an afternoon for bicyclists, walkers and hangers-out, moves to the east side this month, with a mile and a half of East Boulevard from University Circle to Glenville closed for frolicking.
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MON 9/18
Periodically, Akron’s Wandering Aesthetics theater troupe hosts a B4Bed storytelling event for adults. They’ll doing so this evening at the Firestone Park Library.
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TUE 9/19
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium Roll your rrrrrrrs for reduced admission, get a free eye patch, go on a treasure hunt and do pirate-themed crafts. Don’t try to spend those cardboard doubloons!
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WED 9/20
Why don’t black people in the U.S. use parks in proportion to their numbers in the population? That’s the topic that will be explored by a City Club-sponsored panel. It takes place, appropriately, at the new Edgewater Park Beach House where you can enjoy a drink as you listen.
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