art by K-12 students in the CH-UH public schools Opening reception April 14 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Cleveland Heights City Hall, Severance Circle, Cleveland Heights
through April 30, 2005 during City Hall hours (Monday- Friday 8:30-5:00)

Presented by HeightsArts and the Cleveland Heights- University Heights PTA with the cooperation of the City of Cleveland Heights

The art features work done in the classes of the district's 17 art teachers.

Information: 216.371.3344

April 15 12:20 p.m.
Listen live to Cleveland Heights first Poet Laureate Meredith Holmes and HeightsArts Board member Carole Wallencheck

Holmes read the following poem at her inaugural appearance at the April 4 Cleveland Heights City Council meeting:

Cleveland Heights Field Notes

You'd be surprised at the wildlife here:
I saw a red-tailed hawk
pluck a rock dove from the facade
of Heights Medical Arts
and fly up Fairmount with it.

During the blackout
of course people came outside
lit candles, talked on their porches.
All up and down my street we could hear
the usually drowned music of conversation
and in one house - singing.

The rink is frantic on Sunday afternoon
with girls in long skirts
and hockey skates assaulting the turns,
masters of the cross-over and the sudden,
ice-showering stop.

Barbara and I are sitting on the curb
in front of Tommy's.
It's mid-summer, and two beat cops
chug down Coventry
parting waves of revelers
staying their course
to Hampshire and back.

Barbara has toured and approved my new place.
"You always pick the greenest, leafiest streets,"
she says, "You'll enjoy the rain there."

I'm suddenly afraid this will be
our last, long conversation.
But it isn't. A year later
we are standing in front of Barbara's house
admiring the mail carrier:
his leather bag, his knee socks
and the long, grey ponytail
snaking down his back.
"Only in Cleveland Heights,"
Barbara says.

Meredith Holmes /Copyright March 2005 .

By Eric Coble Artwork by He ctor Vega

Dobama Theatre
April 15-May 8

Preview, April 14 at 7:30, $8
Meet cast, director, playwright following performance on April 16
"Pay What You Can" performance on Sunday, April 17 at 7:30

Ever wonder what would happen if you shopped too long in Legacy Village ? Is it possible to fall in love on a RTA train ? And what exactly is the role of prayer in a Cleveland Browns game ? Explore both sides of the river via an evening of short plays written by Cleveland Heights' nationally known playwright, Eric Coble.

If you think you know Cleveland, think again-

Information: 216.932.3396

Dobama's last Coventry Road production !

presented by HeightsArts and the CH-UH Public Library April 17
2:00 p.m.
Coventry Village Library
1925 Coventry Road
Free
Information: Carole Wallencheck 932-3600

Join in the National Favorite Poem Project and listen to the favorite poems of Meredith Holmes, Steven Haynie, Nadine Bendycki, Jason Rodney, Ben Gulyas, Bree Van Gunten, Adam Brodsky, Jim Lang, Steven B. Smith, Wendy Shaffer, Russ Vidrick, Bob Strosnider, Carole Wallencheck, and Andrew Genszler

April 16 noon to 5 pm
April 17 noon to 4 pm

Orange Arts Center
31500 Chagrin Boulevard, Pepper Pike
(enter through the Orange Library parking lot)
216.831.5130

Maryann Posch & John Gulyas*, Catherine Butler*, Earl James, Deborah Woolfork, Theresa Yondo, Natalya Romanovsky, Gai Russo, Tu Tu's Designs, Melissa O'Grady*, Lisa Schonberg, May Ann Vigliucci, Mark Yasenchach, Barbara Robertson, Paul St. Denis, Grace Stokes, Michael Romanik

*Heights artists represented in From the Heights-A Holiday Store

April 17
2 to 7 pm
The Wine Room
2317 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
Information: 216.932.2170

At The Alcazar, Grand Ballroom
2450 Derbyshire, Cleveland Heights
April 17
Noon to 5 pm

$25 in advance
Reservations: 216.321.5400
Mike Petrone Quintet-Big band, swing, jazz
Buffet luncheon noon to 2 pm

The College Club
(a Cleveland Heights Landmark)
2348 Overlook, Cleveland Heights
Opening reception April 17
1 to 4 pm
through April 24
weekly students of Paul St. Denis and Dee Zivchak
Information: 216.932.1683

A Group Show Paradise Gallery
2199 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights through April 30
Mon - Thur 12-5pm Fri & Sat 7 -10pm
Information: Rick Silverman at 216.554.5548

Ink Drawings by David Mull Headfooters
12610 Larchmere Boulevard, Cleveland

through May 14
Information: 216.795.1668

Drawing by Oswald Tschirtner Untitled (Headfooters) 1973

a tribute to Shakespeare's sonnets by five of American's contemporary playwrights. The Fine Arts Association
Shadowbox Theatre
38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby

April 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, & 23 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets $18/Adults; $16/Seniors & Students.
Group rates available
On site parking is free

Information: Fine Arts Box Office 440.951.6637