Have you seen the Purple Martins roost at Nimisila Reservoir at Portage Lakes? It’s perpetual motion in the sky. How about CLEVELAND WALLS!, which takes over Midtown all week? A sunset rooftop party in Gordon Square? Or world-class bocce in Wickliffe?CoolCleveland correspondents Jenna Thomas & Jack Brancatelli asked three questions of all seven Cleveland Mayoral candidates, and we’ve got their answers to the first one in this week’s video. Stay tuned for the rest.
Send your video to the Performance Art Festival and you may be included in the show, Everything Is Subject To Radical Change: Cleveland Performance Art Festival Revisited on Sept 9-16, with tix here.
Take a haiku walk with a local poet, ride Bike Cleveland’s Fundo, float your own water lantern at Voinovich Park, walk amongst Cleveland’s cultures at One World Day.
Story Club returns to CLE Urban Winery and Coventry Village hops on Final Friday, but fair warning: the Asian Lantern Festival at the Zoo is closing soon and Arts in August Tremont wraps this weekend. Don’t stop.
Emerging from a long-term strategic planning effort, Fine Arts Association is recommitting to their mission to “create and discover beauty” by engaging entire communities of aspiring artists, educators and the public.Fine Arts Association CEO Paul Holm spoke with CoolCleveland about the affordable year-round concerts, recitals, camps, classes and performances that engage people of all ages and abilities to help them discover pathways for success that best fit everyone’s goals and aspirations. Read More
CoolCleveland contributors Jenna Thomas and Jack Brancatelli interviewed all seven candidates competing to be Cleveland’s next mayor: Zack Reed, Ross DiBello, Kevin Kelley, Justin Bibb, Sandra Williams, Basheer Jones, and Dennis Kucinich. And they asked each of them three questions.This first video compiles the candidates’ answers to the first question: “What particular issue gets you most fired up, and what is one thing you will do in office to address it?” View the Video
On September 16-19, Thomas Mulready presents a two-part live show and livestream featuring rare archival video from the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, which hosted over 1000 performance artists in Cleveland from 24 countries from 1988-2003. The show is called Everything Is Subject To Radical Change: Cleveland Performance Art Festival Revisited.Featuring brand new interviews with artists, panelists, researchers and staff, the two-part show will be presented on subsequent evenings at both BOP STOP and Jilly’s Music Room on September 16-19, as well as livestreamed.
Artists, audiences, or anyone connected with the PAF are encouraged to send a short video or note to INFO@ThisAnalogWorld.com. A limited number of tickets are available now. Read More
CLEVELAND WALLS! takes over the Midtown neighborhood all week as 20 local & national artists transform blank walls. It culiminates with an all-day “block party” on Saturday August 28, with performances, family activities, artist talks and even a film about local graffiti. Read More
Fair Districts Ohio is inviting Ohioans to submit legislative & congressional maps based on criteria for fair, nonpartisan redistricting established by 2015 and 2018 ballot issues. There are cash prizes too, so get busy! Read More
The Akron Symphony Orchestra has announced a 2021-22 season that runs the gamut, from concert hall classics like Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, to seldom-heard works by black women composers & music for Korean dancers. Read More
A few days ago, we published an article that said, “Kucinich was the sole Democrat to join Republicans to sign onto a bill that sought Obama’s impeachment.” That statement was a misrepresentation of the facts. A more correct statement is that Kucinich voiced in numerous venues that he believed the President had committed impeachable offenses as it relates to the United States bombing of Libya in March of 2011. Read More
MON 8/30 Bug Hunting Join a naturalist in Twinsburg for a night hike to look for nocturnal insets and learn about the constellations.
TUE 8/31 Brassy Band The brass quintet from BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will take the stage at Cain Park tonight for a free program of diverse music.
WED 9/1 Golden Walks Autumn is the perfect time for a hike, with temperatures & humidity falling & leaves turning colors. Join the Summit Metro Parks Fall Hiking Spree, where you have until the end of November to earn your Hiking Shield.
What the president now must understand is that in Third World countries most things work via the bribe. If we indeed have U.S. representatives that are in contact with the Taliban they have to use the universal language of money to coax the forces now in control of Afghanistan to grant safe passage to the people we want… Read More from Mansfield Frazier
In the late 1970s, Dennis Kucinich was Cleveland’s youngest mayor for one chaotic, two-year term. Now he’s among the seven candidates vying to replace Mayor Jackson; if he won, he’d be the oldest ever elected.That was a long time ago. Today many know him mostly as an unreliable liberal gadfly, a former congressman and long-shot presidential candidate. In her latest column, CoolCleveland commentator C. Ellen Connally asks, “How long does his political energy last? At what point do those loyal fans age out of the campaign scene, die, move to Parma or Florida, or transfer their allegiance to another political movement or candidate…?” Read More from C. Ellen Connally
