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