07.22-07.29.2020 To Reinvent Everything

 

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To Reinvent Everything

07.22-07.29.20

We hear about American Exceptionalism. 

The US has 4% of the world’s population and 25% of the infections and deaths. Are we really exceptional, or just exceptionally slow?

What’s interesting is how our artists and creatives are showing us how to face reality, how to pivot, and how to reinvent just about everything.

CoolCleveland talks with poets and educators Sara Holbrook & Michael Salinger who lost all their teaching gigs and a major book contract overnight. So they thought about it for a weekend and decided to self-publish and kick up their marketing.

Can’t assemble an audience for live shows? Maelstrom puts on live performances in their storefronts for sidewalk audiences. Can’t present live dance? DANCECleveland kicks off a virtual dance festival, and you can shimmy along from your own bedroom. Can’t hang out in a jazz club? BOP STOP launches state-of-the-art streamed concerts.

A new spirit is all around us. There’s nothing we can’t do. It’s time to take control and get creative.

–Thomas Mulready

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 CoolCleveland.com

 

 VIDEO 
Creativity in the Time of COVID

Poets, writers and educators Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger write books and poetry for kids and adults and instructional books for teachers at international schools teaching English and writing.

Hear how they’ve pivoted after the pandemic hit, when an entire season of gigs traveling to conferences and school worldwide were cancelled overnight. Then a major publisher pulled out of a book contract.

Sara & Michael also discuss techniques for how to inspire yourself as an artist, and why everything you create should first be called, “Version One.”  Read More

 

 MUSIC/JUSTICE 
Rock Hall Looks at Racism

In response to the burgeoning social justice movement across the country, the Rock Hall has accomplished the virtually unheard-of feat of pulling together an exhibit in a month. Titled It’s Been Said All Along: Voices of Rage, Hope, and Empowerment, the new exhibit, which opens Saturday July 25, spotlights black artists, past and present, who have addressed racism in their music. “It speaks to the moment right now,” says curator Nwaka Onwusa. Read More

 

 SCAVENGER HUNT 
Fairies Are Hiding at Holden Arboretum

Discover thirty handcrafted fairy doors created by seven local artists on display July 23rd through August 27th at the Holden Arboretum’s outdoor Fairy Door exhibit. Read More
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 NEWS 
Artist & Musical Ensemble Join Forces

Les Delices chamber ensemble is calling its all-virtual 2020-21 season Embracing Change. One of those changes is a collaboration with local artist Lori Kella to create images that reflect the theme of each of the concerts.  Read More

Gift Cards for Eating Out

Many of the locally owned eateries who are part of Cleveland Independents are currently offering a sale on gift cards. Get creative and use them for carry out.  Read More

Theater News From Here and Elsewhere

Chagrin Valley Little Theater streams Visiting Mr Green, The Musical Theater Project talks about Damn Yankees, and more.  Read More

Leadership Training

Cleveland Leadership Center hosts free, public, virtual sessions Monday – Thursday to highlight how local leaders are adapting and innovating to address community needs.  Read More

Creative Bug

Cuyahoga County Public Library connects with communities during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing access, via library card, to digital resources. This includes Creativebug, which offers award-winning art and craft video classes. Read More

Caring Bears

Creative students at Willoughby’s Fine Arts Association have drawn and colored pictures of bears to show in public places in the community.  Read More

 

 BOOKS 
Examining a Presidency

This week, our columnist, C. Ellen Connally, casts her historian’s eye on three books about the current administration that have attracted major attention. One was written by a family member who is a professional psychologist; another by a former administration member with his own agenda; the third by a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists taking a broader, more disinterested view. Read More

THIS WEEK

 

WED 7/22
A Healthier Lake
Citizens, schools & community groups can join a new initiative to monitor the quality of Lake Erie’s water. A Zoom webinar today explains it all.* Cleveland History Center opens Women & Politics exhibit.* Cleveland artist Derek Hess adds new prints to his shop.

 

THU 7/23
Getting Active
A while back, state senator Nickie Antonio was selected as the most influential LGBTQ+ activist in the state of Ohio. Join her online fundraiser.* Veteran novelist Thrity Umrigar talks to first-time novelist Connie Schultz about her new book.* Have fun seeking out the Fairy Doors at Holden Arboretum.

 

FRI 7/24

Maelstrom Collaborative Arts’ Gordon Square storefront will be filled with art displays & performances every weekend through late August. Watch from the sidewalk!

* Cleveland Public Theatre presents “raw, vulnerable” ensemble work in progress.

 

 

SUN 7/26
Pets, Punks & Scary Monsters
Enter the Vanity Crash Pad to chat about four-legged friends, watch the premiere of a Bowie classic & catch special guest Marky Ray, Cleveland’s Rock ‘n Roll Mercenary, on the rise of Cleveland/Akron/Kent punk. Stick around for the After-Party to chat.* Learn to make ratatouille in online cooking class with the North Union Farmers Market.Games, music & more on Rock Hall Plaza for Family Fun Day.

 

MON 7/27
Masks as Art
Instead of complaining about their loss of “free-dumb,” 38 artists embraced masks, creating unique pieces on display in storefront windows in downtown Akron through September 25.Treat yourself by purchasing the July Maker Box filled with locally made goodies.

 

TUE 7/28
Music From Afar
UK-based guitarist Claude Bourbon won’t literally be in NE Ohio, but the Hudson Library is presenting a virtual concert of his folk/jazz/blues/classical blend.* NE Ohio singer/songwriter Christopher Reynolds releases his 20th album, which he calls “a soundtrack for the rite of passage we are now living.”

 

WED 7/29
New Mural in the Works
Graffiti HeArt is bringing internationally noted public art maker Beau Stanton to town to do a giant mural on its Superior Avenue facility. Come watch!* Baseball Heritage Museum holds youth clinics.* Artist Archives artist talk sheds light on textile show.

MANSFIELD

 

Highly Unusual and Indeed Suspect TimingThe fact that the Republican U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, a tRump appointee no less, had agents from the FBI make a bombshell arrest of Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four other high-ranking Ohio GOP political operatives just four months before the presidential election leads me to believe something remarkably strange is going on politically….  Read More 

MANSFIELD

 

Striking While the Iron Is HotOpportunity is like a door that opens, but one that will close if we are not prepared to go through it. Due to a number of occurrences, but particularly the brutal death of George Floyd, white America is moving towards a frame of mind that recognizes the wrongness of its ugly past, and seemingly wants to act to rectify it….  Read More 

Did Police Chief Calvin Williams Lie?

In fact, any police chief in any city in America, be they black or white, who dares to tell the truth about the departments they lead would suffer a similar fate. All of them are forced to lie through their teeth or the mad dogs they supervise will slip their leashes, turn on them and tear them to shreds… Read More

Confusion Over Chief Calvin Williams

The window of opportunity for police reform is opening up in departments across the country and as everyone knows, it primarily entails reforming or doing away with racist police unions… Read More

 

What are you inventing?

-Thomas Mulready
CoolCleveland.com

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