Heights Arts Collaborative
November 15, 2004
 
 
From the Heights-A Holiday Store
Art, crafts, CDs, and books by Heights artists
 

Illustration by Cathie Bleck, prints available at the Holiday Store !

Opening Reception this week
Thursday, November 18 from 5 to 10
HeightsArts
2173 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216-371-3344 or 216-371-3457

Holiday Store hours:
November 19- December 23:
Wed-Sat 12:00-10:00 pm
Sun 1:00-5:00 pm, Mn 6:00-10:00 pm

December 24: 12:00-4:00 pm

Proceeds from your purchase directly benefit the artists in our neighborhood and HeightsArts. (Not to mention yourself, or whomever you give a gift of local, hand-crafted art.)

On the same night
Visit other Lee Road arts places
NONA
Noon-9 pm
2254 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216-321-1932
Create your own Bath oil and Bath Salts, and make a Mah Jong Bracelet.
Gift packaging will be provided.
(fees start at $7)
There is a no such thing as a NON Artist. Come, experience your creativity, or leave with a little bit of someone else's.

Art and Sol
11 am-10 pm
2218 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216-371-5672
Make Papel Picado (decorative paper cutouts from Mexico) from brightly colored tissue paper. Great for those holiday parties!
$2 fee
Art & Sol Gallery carries a collection of fun and funky Mexican folk art, including wood carvings, rugs, pottery, textiles, masks and paintings.

Paradise Gallery
2199 Lee Road
216-554-5548

Center Arts
5-9 pm
1930 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216-320-1459
Performance by Troupe Shabaana Belly Dancing
"Let's Share Art: Holiday Mart" featuring art by local artists. Refreshments and baked goods will be available.
Admission is free
Center Art is a neighborhood center with an easygoing and encouraging attitude where everyone is comfortable, even if it's your first art class. Classes and workshops are affordable, convenient, varied and open to all levels of artistic experience and development

 

Tellebration ! A Festival of Storytelling
Sunday, November 21
2:00 p.m.
Cleveland Heights - University Heights Public Library
University Heights Branch
13866 Cedar Road, University Heights

Free and open to the public
(216) 932-3600 x 3

Start your holiday season with an ancient tradition. For thousands of years stories have enchanted, edified, and uplifted people of all cultures. Tellabration, an international event that celebrates the oral tradition of stories, verse, and tales, is back at the Cleveland Heights - University Heights Public Library. This adult program features the extraordinary talents of performers from the Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers, The Jewish Storytelling Circle, teen poetry slam participants, other local storytellers and your neighbors in the Heights. Join us around the fireplace at the the University Heights Branch for the return of this popular program.

Presented by the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, Heights Arts, the City of University Heights, and the Cleveland Heights Oral History Project.

HeightsArts in the news



Read about the HeightsArts Poet Laureate project

and about the Heights Center Building mural

CD Release Party
Friday, November 19
Brainfever, featuring the Suspenders and Friends
with songs by Heights' own Big Johnny

Beachland Tavern
15711 Waterloo
Cover $5

The Suspenders have played for you at PARTY in the Heights, and the new CD will be available at the Holiday Store.

Shaker Square 75th Birthday Party
(She says she's 29)
Saturday, November 20
11 am-4 pm

Music, speeches, Lolly the Trolley tours, children's activities

Peter Rubin of the Coral Company, new owner of the square, has commissioned 4 artists to paint benches for permanent installation at the square. Artists include: Deborah Wuliger of Young Audiences, Augusto Bordelois from ParkWorks, Kevin Kautenburger from Cleveland Institute of Art and William Reed Simon representing Heights Arts.

Simon is a painter who teaches at Kent State University, Cleveland State University, and Tri-C. His oil paintings are mostly landscapes, some involving subject matter dealing with urban sprawl. Simon and the other artists will be working on their benches at the square,and his work is also represented in the Holiday Store.

Simon won the "Judges Choice" award at the 2003 Cain Park Art Festival, and lives in Cleveland Heights with his two children and wife Sandra Simon, an actress and singer appearing in Cleveland Opera's Sweeney Todd.

For more information call Denise Wyse at 216-595- 2950

More music on November 20
Apollo's Fire Family Concert
3 pm
St Paul's Episcopal Church
2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights
Tickets $5
for ages 6 to 96
216-320-0012

The Cleveland Orchestra Family Series
"Music, Noise, and Silence"
1:30 pm
Severance Hall in University Circle
Pre-concert activities 12:30-1:15 p.m.
The hilarious Magic Circle Mime Company joins The Cleveland Orchestra and conductor James Gaffigan for an afternoon of zany, musical fun!
For children 7 and older and their families

Art Sale, Two Days Only !
"Charm the Heart"
Saturday, Nov. 20 from 2-9 pm
Sunday, Nov. 21 from noon-4 pm
3124 Corydon, Cleveland Heights
216-371-8845
An annual (10 years!) sale of art by local artists and crafters featuring fabric purses, soap, notecards, jewelry, scarves, wool hats, stained glass, and more
phone: 216-371-3344