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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/second-annual-larchmere-arts-fest-off
 ers-music-art-theater-film-poetry-and-more/
SUMMARY:Second Annual Larchmere Arts Fest Offers Music\, Art\, Theater\, Fi
 lm\, Poetry and More
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  Photo by Vince Robinson[/caption]\nFri 7/17-Sun 7/19\nVince Robinson has 
 been a mover and shaker in the Cleveland arts community for more than four
  decades. He’s a visual artist\, photographer\, poet\, jazz musician and
  arts advocate\, and he has a long-running space on Larchmere Boulevard ca
 lled Larchmere Arts\, where he hosts exhibits\, concerts and special event
 s.\nLast year\, he conceived the Larchmere Arts festival\, which will be h
 osting its second annual event this weekend. It includes a cornucopia of e
 vents including an opening reception\, concerts\, short plays\, short film
 s\, a poetry showcase\, an author’s forum\, visual arts exhibitions\, an
 d foos vendors.\nThe festival opens on Friday evening at 6pm with the rece
 ption and an exhibit called Of the Diaspora: Melanin in Motion featuring w
 ork by Bonnie Venable\, Rodney Carpenter\, Alsie Clay\, Chester Hopkins-Be
 y\, Craig B. Sullivan and more.  At 8pm there’ll be music by Vince Robi
 nson &amp\; his long-running ensemble\, the Jazz Poets.\nSaturday kicks of
 f at 1pm with an author showcase called “Cleveland Writers Making a Diff
 erence with Words.” It includes a panel and discussion and book fair fea
 turing Akil Bryan Marshall. Alan K. Nevil\, Andrea D. Campbell and Konnie 
 Peroune. That’s followed at 4pm by a screening of short films produced i
 n Cleveland by Wayne Smith\, Patience Katushabe of Uganda\, Zevan Faal Mat
 thew Thomas and others. At  6pm\, “The Second Act\,” a festival of sh
 ort plays curated by noted Cleveland writer Dr. Mary E. Weems\, starts\, i
 ncluding her play Ghostlight\, A Little Home Cookin’ by Michael Oatman\,
  Oasis by Arlen Hodges\, and Asked and Answered by Christopher Johnston.\n
 Saturday evening ends with a spoken word showcase by The Sparrow’s Fortu
 ne\, starting at 8.\nOn Sunday at 2pm\, the festival wraps up with Reflect
 ions of a Sepia Reality\, a digital photography exhibition and artist talk
  by Northeast Ohio photographers. At 5pm an artist recognition program  w
 ill honor artists for their contributions to NE Ohio’s cultural landscap
 e. It will also take a look at the Transformative Art Fund projects\, seve
 n projects funded with $3 million dollars of COVID money from the American
  Rescue Plan Act.\nFinally\, vocalist Ida Weston wraps things up at 7pm wi
 th a musical program\nFor more information go to facebook.com/events. Get 
 tickets here.\n[mappress mapid="3652"]
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CATEGORIES:Dance,Literary,Music: Jazz / Blues,RSS,Preview,Anastasia
 Pantsios,Music: Popular,----WRITERS----,Visual
 Arts,Theatre,Drinks,Film,Performance,Eats,Entrepreneurialism,Party,Educati
 on,Culture,Photography,college
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