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09.24-10.01.25

 Get It Straight 

We seem to be making things difficult for ourselves. Are you a musician who needs career advice? The Music Biz Roadshow at the Vinyl Groove might be the answer. Looking to unite arts, technology and science? You have a couple options: the Renaissance Box at Kaiser Studios at CIA’s Immersive Media Lab. Or you could join the throngs at IngenuityFest at the Hamilton Collaborative and let your imagination run rampant as Cleveland’s coolest fest enters their 3rd decade. Tell me about it.

Concerned that our river hasn’t fully recovered from the fire(s)? Catch the thrills as 2500(!) athletes compete at the Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta. Worried Cleveland’s art isn’t fully world-class? Come to SPACES and behold the exhibit Cleveland curators were asked to prepare as the U.S. entry for the Venice Biennale.

It’s going to be a consequential week for free speech. Read CoolCleveland columnist Bruce Checefsky’s COMMENTARY on the Jimmy Kimmel affair and its implications. Don’t take CoolCleveland or any legit voices for granted. Here’s an idea. Get yourself off social media (we quit in 2019). Get outside and hang around real people in the real world. They are much nicer and they will bring out the best in you. That’s not too hard, is it?

 

 

 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE 
 2025 WINNERS HONORED 

The Cleveland Arts Prize celebrates outstanding creative work and cultural leadership in Northeast Ohio. Established in 1960 by the Women’s City Club, it is the nation’s oldest municipal arts prize. It gives out Discipline Prizes (for artists at different career stages), Special Prizes (for service, advocacy, and leadership), Verge Fellowships for early-career artists, and scholarships for students. Greg Peckham, Robert P. Bergman Prize Winner (pictured).

For 2025, the winners were announced in August and the 65th Annual Awards Event will be held on Wed 10/22 at 6:30 PM at the Simon and Rose Mandel Theatre, Tri-C Eastern Campus. The evening will include performances, tributes, the official presentation and an After Party. ClevelandArtsPrize.org.

 

 SPONSORED 

 

 INGENUITY FEST ENTERS
THIRD DECADE 

The first Ingenuity Festival was around Public Square in 2005 and moved around to similar underutilized spaces for more than a decade, before settling into its permanent space at the Hamilton Collaborative in 2016. There it’s been expanding and now covers multiple floors in the sprawling old industrial building.

That’s given it the chance to pack the place with an increasing number of performances, installations, interactive activities and more—so much that three days won’t be enough to see and do it all. Don’t try — just go with the flow, this weekend from Fri 9/26-Sun 9/28.  

 

 COMMENTARY: THE WAR ON
FREE SPEECH HITS HOME 

We are in a very dark and dangerous period. Politics and cynicism are tearing our country and communities apart. I hear more stories about hopelessness and despair than ever. Horrific circumstances that cut across the very grain of humanity. Within the arts community, history is being erased, shows and exhibitions are being cancelled, and a general assault on our cultural heritage is being waged, tattered and shredded. We are under attack by our very own government, invaded like a foreign entity determined to topple us. The war is here.

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel returned after a weeklong suspension from his parent company, Disney, following barely controversial comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk. Freedom of speech, a fundamental human right, is paramount to a healthy democracy and a free society. The free exchange of ideas holds leaders accountable and empowers individuals to participate in self-governance. Locally, we have seen this to be true in recent stories published here by CoolCleveland about the Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC). We fought successfully with our voice, and as a result, some of the funding was restored as grants to artists. Read the COMMENTARY by Bruce Checefsky.

 

 

 VISIT PIONEERING NEO VINEYARD 

Conneaut’s Marko Wineries was founded in 1968, many years before Northern Ohio’s wine scene exploded into a major force. They were pioneers in planting the so-called “noble grapes” in this region: varieties considered to produce superior wines in diverse terrains. The last of the original owners passed away five years ago, and now his children are looking to sell the business, promising to work with the new owners to ease the transition.

 CoolCleveland writer Claudia Taller has written two books about Ohio wines so she knows the territory well and has visited many times. She recently took a nostalgic trip back, enjoying a perch dinner and Chardonnay. “The mood was mellow. We could have sat there for a couple more hours. Maybe they would bring more tiramisu,” she says. You can visit Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6pm. 

 

 

 CUTENESS AT THE ZOO 

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is overcome with cuteness these days as it’s recently welcomed a couple of baby animals. In July a red panda, now named Leela, surprised the zookeepers and will soon be entertaining visitors. Then early this month a baby black rhino, an endangered species, was born.

 

 CALL FOR DARK &
GLOOMY PHOTOS
 

Photo Cleveland, a new organization founded to bring area photographers together to work on projects and shows, has announced a call for entries for a Halloween season show called Nocturne: anything ghostly, spooky, eerie.

 

WEDNESDAY
9/24

 

The members of New York trio Filament have known each other a long time and played in various combinations but just came together as Filament last year to apply jazz instrumentation to a wide range of musical styles.

 MORE on WEDNESDAY… 

THURSDAY
9/25

 

Karamu’s Theatre opens its season with Sistas The Musical, featuring five women sharing memories and beloved songs from across the years as they clean out their mother’s house.

 MORE on THURSDAY… 

 

FRIDAY
9/26

 

In LaVersion infinita at LatinUs Theatre, a humorous sci-fi play that asks serious existential questions, a woman dreams of walking on the moon.

 MORE on FRIDAY… 

 

SATURDAY
9/27

 

Bread & Puppet theater has been doing their radical political presentations since the mid ’60s, and still they soldier on despite (or because of?) the country’s backsliding. They’re in Akron tonight.

 MORE on SATURDAY… 

SUNDAY
9/28

 

Euclid Beach Park closed in 1969 but some still remember the sights and sounds. Those who don’t may be curious about what it was like. Come to its former Collinwood location for the annual nostalgia fest.

 MORE on SUNDAY… 

 

MONDAY
9/29

 

Polish folk metal band Percival was inspired by the fantasy series The Witcher, and wrote music for one of its video game spinoffs. It will play that score tonight at Severance Hall.

 

TUESDAY
9/30

 

Great Lakes Theatre is opening Sondheim’s musical about artist Georges Seurat this week. It will perform some of the songs in, appropriately, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Atrium.

 MORE on TUESDAY… 

 

WEDNESDAY
10/1

 

What made the hassles worth the headaches to three noted Cleveland TV investigative reporters? They’ll talk about their proudest moments tonight at the Music Box Supper Club.

 MORE on WEDNESDAY… 

BACKTALK

 

Uncomplicate your world.-Thomas Mulready
CoolCleveland.com

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