HeightsArts Newsletter )
Art, culture, and entertainment in the Heights and beyond August 23, 2004
in this issue
  • PARTY in the Heights
  • Heights Open Mic All Stars
  • Quilts, a selection
  • Historic Preservation Awards
  • ACE grants open review meetings
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    PARTY in the Heights


    Blue Lunch:
    Swing & Jump Blues
    August 26
    7:00 pm
    at the Lee Road mini park (between Starbucks and Lemon Grass) near Cedar

    Blue Lunch is an eight piece band that plays 1950's era swing and jump blues and Chicago-style blues. The band was founded by Cleveland Heights resident Peter London in 1984 and has performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Severance Hall and numerous other venues throughout the Greater Cleveland area.
    Back by popular demand !

    We're so sorry to cancel DanceAfrikaDance last week due to unremitting rain ! We're trying to schedule a rain date...we'll let you know next week.

    Heights Open Mic All Stars

    Heights Open Mic All Stars
    Friday, August 27
    featuring the best performers from the Heights Open Mic 2004 season
    8-11 p.m.
    at Studio You
    2180 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
    (diagonally south across the street from the Cedar Lee)

    $2 cover charge
    Refreshments will be available

    For more information call 321-7211

    featuring: 2% Milk
    The Tunnel Runners
    Might Maroons
    Ses
    Kelly Chapman
    Poetic Republic
    Kelly Harris

    Quilts, a selection


    HeightsArts is displaying a selection of quilts by Cleveland area quiltmakers for three days only, to complement Quilt s of Gee's Bend at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Saturday, August 28
    noon to 9 p.m.
    Meet the artists 6 to 9

    Sunday, August 29
    1 to 5

    Monday, August 30
    noon to 9 pm

    featuring contemporary art quilts by:
    Sharon Bell
    Dorothy Fusselman
    Barb Lind
    Ruta Marino
    June O'Neil
    Peggy Spaeth
    Kathleen VanMeter
    Martha Young

    Next HeightsArts exhibition opening September 10
    Jurgen Faust: Hermeneutic Circle
    Installation with video projection, photography, digital prints

    Historic Preservation Awards

    Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission Seeks Nominations for Historic Preservation Awards

    The Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission is seeking nominations for its first batch of Historic Preservation Awards. Eligible properties are those that have undergone recent exterior and/or interior preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive use, landscape restoration or sympathetic additions.

    The Landmark Commission will review the nominations and select final award recipients whose properties have retained and preserved the original historic character and features of the property. New additions or alterations that are in keeping with the character of historic homes may also receive awards.

    Nominations must be received by August 31, 2004. Awards will be presented on September 23, 2004. The Landmark Commission plans to give the awards annually. For a copy of the nomination form, visit www.clevelandheights.com, or call the city's Historic Preservation Planner at 216-291-4885.

    Kara Hamley O'Donnell, Historic Preservation Planner
    City of Cleveland Heights Department of Planning & Development
    40 Severance Circle
    Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
    phone (216) 291-4885 / fax (216) 291-3761
    kodonnell@clvhts.com

    ACE grants open review meetings

    The Cuyahoga County Department of Development received 59 eligible applications for the first round of Arts & Culture as Economic Development Grants (ACE). The adjudication sessions will be held at the Lakewood Women's Pavilion* on September 2 and 3, 2004.

    *Located in Lakewood Park at the intersection of Lake Road and Belle Avenue in Lakewood.

    The open panel meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and will adjourn around 4 p.m. both days.

    All are invited to participate in a public policy discussion on Friday afternoon.

    Contact Christine Nelson, Community Development Manager at 216-443-8066 or cdcsn@cuyahogacounty.us for further information.

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