As our region continues redefining its economy, those in the creative sector are vibrant and busy and preoccupied this summer exhibiting, performing, selling and creating their art. Preparing assiduously for weeks, teens in CPT’s STEP program perform their own original show on stages across the region. Or, if you’re feeling energetic, jump in on the poetry/spoken word/songwriter open mic at CBG.
Get focused on how to use a recording studio at The Sixty6 in Midtown, or check out ten artists who thrive on spontaneity at Yards Project. The Morgan’s 15 guest artists investigate the meaning of place, while artists at Zygote dig into the role of wetlands.
Concentrate on how to create a mini cottage garden at the Summit Metro parks or explore the healing power of nature at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes. Satisfy your hunger at the Ohio City Food Truck Festival, score vintage threads at the Peninsula Flea, move your body at DANCECleveland’s Community Dance Day, or immerse yourself in music al fresco with the Akron Symphony or the Cuyahoga Valley Concert Band.
Vigorously pursuing travel, both in our region and internationally, CoolCleveland travel writer Claudia Taller has discovered river cruising in the Netherlands. And since it’s about 100 Days Out from the election, your local Democratic groups (i.e. your neighbors) are engaging potential voters all across NEO looking to make a positive change in the upcoming Tue 11/3 election. Are you ready? Maybe it’s time to step up and get busy. Your region, and the country, have never needed you more.
Meet (some of) the 170 artists who will be exhibiting and selling their works (l. to r. above): Billy Ritter, producing Heirloom pottery from his studio in the Hildebrandt Building in Cleveland; Burnell McKee, Caribbean-born watercolorist who has exhibited worldwide, her first LAF show; and Brian Asquith, who maintains the V&A Gallery at 78th St. Studios, exhibiting his colorful creatures. Visit LakewoodArtsFest.org to meet more artists and learn more before your visit to the Festival on August 1!
