Immigrants built our region, and our hand is always out to our new neighbors. Indian-born Cleveland-based author Thrity Umrigar will read from her tenth novel, Missing Sam, destined to be a best-seller like her others. Curling is better known in Canada, but you can get a crash course on Public Square for free. Dinara Mirtalipova came to Cleveland from Uzbekistan as an artist/educator and now she’s launching her new children’s book, The Vanishing Sea. Lakewood Public Library looks at the internment of Japanese during WWII with programs accompanying a stunning exhibition of newly released full-size photos by Dorothea Lange of the infamous camps. Two lonely immigrant women are at the heart of a new Dobama play The Heart Sellers, a Cleveland premiere.
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Queue Up reunites in the Rubber City at Jilly’s Music Room with all-female MEDUSA, in a preview of their upcoming appearance at Our Day Will Come celebrating women rockers in our region in March. Tix for both shows are on sale now. Cle Metroparks are already planning their series of free concerts for the summer. And XCSB is planning their comeback. CPT’s Test Flight offers a peek into the works-in-progress that might become masterpieces. Ohio Now: State of Nature is moCa Cleveland’s new show on what we’re doing to our natural environment. Don’t be afraid to reach out and speak out. As CoolCleveland columnist Claudia Taller writes, “This is wrong, it has to stop. We need hope to carry on, to take a stand, to be a beacon to the world.” Knock yourself out.
