09.15-09.22.2021 Priorities

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Priorities

09.15-09.22.21

It’s not time to head south just yet. 

You have your priorities, we have ours. Some of you knew me from before CoolCleveland when I ran the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (PAF), and the rest of you missed out. Fortunately, the archives of the PAF reside at CWRU and I’ve been interviewing artists for our show, Everything Is Subject To Radical Change, (our tagline, which has never been more appropriate than recently). Join us on Fri 09.17 at BOP STOP, or on the livestream. You won’t believe your eyes. Unless you were there.Plus, put the Pekar Comics Fest at the top of your list, right up there with Mark Howard’s show at HEDGE, the Claudettes at Jilly’s, the FireFish Finale on Lorain’s Black River, the Fall Fest at Shaker Lakes, the online Bicycle Film Festival, and the Legal Aid Society’s Jam For Justice. Then you can take wing and fly.

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Photo by Thomas Mulready
 CoolCleveland.com

 SOIRÉE 
Centennial Soirée Series

Celebrate the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s 100 years of discovery with a special series of dinner and wine pairings featuring conversations with Museum experts on a variety of science topics.The next soirée is on September 24 and explores biodiversity in the Museum’s newly redesigned courtyard.

Learn more and register at CMNH.org/centennial-soiree-series.

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 PERFORMANCE 
Everything Is Subject To Radical Change This Friday

There’s a debate as to whether progressive values have taken hold in today’s society, or if regressive forces are winning. For those of us who lived through (and are still fighting) the culture wars, there’s no doubt that we won the battles, and we are winning the war.During the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (PAF) from 1988-2003, some of the 1000 artists from 24 countries were vilified for sniping about the lack of U.S. funding for AIDS. Now we spend over $35 billion a year. LGBTQIA+ and sexually explicit art work was banned by agencies regularly; now same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states and anything explicit is a click away. The PAF presented each of the notorious “NEA Four” who were defunded, and had undercover vice squad in attendance — fortunately all the hyperventilating local TV news coverage was saved in the archives… and it’s hilarious. We have come so far. And those 90’s hairstyles!

Thomas Mulready talks with performance artists via Zoom from their homes in Germany, Tokyo, Vermont, Chicago, NYC and Cleveland, and is combining that with rare archival video for one show on Fri 09.17. Yes, he’ll talk about the times they almost got arrested, but mainly focus on how far ahead of their time these performance artists were. Find out how we got where we are today. Read More

 

 

 ARTS & CULTURE 
Local Storytelling Legend Remembered

Harvey Pekar, who died in 2010, acquired an international, albeit underground, reputation as a writer of engaging graphic novel/comics stories about the dreary lives of ordinary working stiffs. He was also a noted jazz fan and legendary curmudgeon.Each year, his Cleveland Heights hometown honors him with the Pekar Comics Fest, taking place on the Coventry Plaza named for him and nearby PEACE playground. It features comics & art vendors, a chalk art contest, a panel discussion, a zine-making workshop and much more. Read More

 

 

 NEWS 
Kids Film Fest To Debut in February

The Lakewood-based Young Filmmakers Academy, founded in 2017, has spawned a new project: the Cleveland Kids International Film Festival. It’s open to filmmakers ages 7-17 from anywhere in the world. Deadline is November 21. Read More

Kent Short Film Fest Taking Submissions

Kent’s Standing Rock Cultural Arts will host its 19th annual Short Film Festival in January at the Kent Stage. It’s currently accepting short films in all genres from local and International filmmakers for consideration.  Read More

Hair Makes a Statement

The Kent State University Museum has just opened a show called TEXTURES, which explores the complicated history of Black hair and its political, cultural, economic and aesthetic meanings. Read More

 

THIS WEEK

 

 

THU 9/16
A RagTag Band
Wizbang! Theatre presents Boston’s Cirque Us for four performances of its show RagTag: A Circus in Stitches.* Chicago’s rockin’ Claudettes hit Jilly’s in Akron for belated album release show.

 

FRI 9/17

 

 

SUN 9/19
Family Fall Fun
The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes’ Fall Fest features hikes, pumpkin painting, music and a special perennial plant sale. * Pat Harris closes Cain Park season with her big voice.* Jazz & classical groups collaborate at the BOP STOP.

 

MON 9/20
Animals Misbehaving
Science journalist/author Mary Roach talks about her new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, exploring the intersection forensic science and conservation genetics, in a virtual program via the Hudson Library. 

 

TUE 9/21
Bikes on Film
The online Bicycle Film Festival is 90 minutes of short films from around the world, telling stories of cyclists in Iran, Nigeria, Amsterdam and New York, available to stream through Sunday September 26.  * Proponents of transparent, bipartisan redistricting gather in Columbus for Fair Maps Day.

 

WED 9/22
Legal Rock Stars
Each year, local lawyers, judges & friends bring their bands together for Jam for Justice to support Cleveland Legal Aid.* A good reason to visit the Cleveland Museum of Art is to check out its newly opened show on out-of-the-mainstream 19th century artist Odilon Redon. 

 

Prioritize this.

-Thomas Mulready
CoolCleveland.com

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