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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
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