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July 11, 2005
 
 
HeightsArts Newsletter
Art, culture, and entertainment in the Heights and beyond
 


Be There or Be Square !

We're still taking reservations
Tickets $75 per person
call 216.371.3344

Sunday, July 17, 2005
5:00 p.m.- ?
Lopez Bar & Grille
2196 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights

Free Valet Parking
Jazz it up or dress it down

Meet for 8 flavors of margaritas, tapas, and musica excellente.
Warm up with the spicy flavors of Cleveland Heights' premier Mexican cuisine !
Cool down with Jazz by the Joe Hunter Trio

Silent and Live Auction emceed by Big Fun's Steve Presser

All proceeds benefit HeightsArts, providing the arts in your neighborhood

Especial Gracias to Craig Sumers for this fiesta at his restaurante fabuloso !

The winning ticket will be drawn for Garden Still Life by Joseph O'Sickey ~ your tax deductible $50 donation to HeightsArts gives you a chance to own this painting. Details (scroll down)
Winner need not be present at Bebop Burrito.

Cedar Lee Street Festival
6th Annual Lee Road Summer Street Festival



Wednesday, July 13
6:30 p.m.til 9
Cedar Lee business district on Lee Road between Cedar and Dellwood

Rocket Car rides, food from Lee Road restaurants, great live music from local artists, jugglers, crafts, information on how to get connected with Cleveland Heights non profits, and more

Coventry Street Fair & Farmers' Market
with PARTY in the Heights @ the fair
Thursday, July 14
6 to 9 p.m.
Coventry Road between Euclid Heights Boulevard and Mayfield Road, Cov entry Village

PARTY in the Heights presents The JiMiller Band-a touch of Oroboros, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Phish, Blues, Roots and good old rock'n roll @ the Coventry Street Fair

On the library lawn:
The Society for Creative Anachronismsrecreate the life and times of the Middle Ages in conjunction with the Cle veland Heights-University Heights Public Library Teen Summer Reading theme Joust Read!

Harry Potter Festivities in the Neighborhood
Latest book release midnight, July 16
presented by Mac's Backs
1820 Coventry Road
321.2665

and Coventry Village Library
1925 Coventry Road
321-3400

During the Coventry Street Fair at Mac's Backs:
a fantasy art installation by Isaac Coblentz . Creative craft activities for the kids include origami, paper sculpture and wand-making. Kids (and adults!) can also attend potions and herbology class. Tarot readings and Harry Potter trivia games.

Friday, July 15, 3-4 p.m. Potter Party at the Coventry Library featuring magic, trivia and a jester.

Friday July 15 10 p.m. Mac's Backs will repeat the kid's craft activities, trivia games and tarot readings and copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be on sale at midnight.

Saturday, July 16 11:00 a.m. storyteller John McMahon will read from the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Mac's will sell $1.00 raffle tickets for the 5 foot "Who Is The Half-Blood Prince" promotional cardboard cut- out promoting the book as well as a set of the Harry & the Potter cds. The proceeds will be divided between HeightsArts and Reaching Heights, two Heights area non-profits supporting the arts in education.

The Heights, Naturally
A Lee Road Community Mural Project
sponsored by The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library and HeightsArts

We're collaborating to create a series of painted panels to cover the chain-link fences on Lee Road around the Library construction

Project Overview: When nature intersects with people there is an opportunity for inspiration and renewal. The Lee Road Community Mural will beautify an urban environment through a tapestry of images on panels designed and painted by local artists, kids and community organizations. Stretching across the block-long construction site for the new CH-UH main library, the imagery will be visually connected through the theme -- The Heights, Naturally: images inspired by the natural world around us, encouraging passersby to enjoy a moment of beauty and reflection and to consider the rich natural and cultural diversity and strong community that makes The Heights such a vibrant place.

How to Participate: Organizations or groups are invited to adopt, design and paint panels. Panel designs may include images of personal significance, etc., but must somehow connect to the larger theme of local nature as muse, (perhaps considering local flora and fauna, geology, seasonal changes, etc. as creative springboards to work from) Imagery may be couched within any artistic style. Invited individual artists can choose whether they prefer to paint their panel individually or include it as a community painting day panel. Designs which will be painted by community members must be clear and simple. All panels will have a standard 3" border design, although artists may choose the colors used in their panel's two-color border if desired. If you need thematic or artistic consultation, Nature Center staff are available for both - contact Crystal Birns 216 321-5935 x237 or birns@shakerlakes.org for more info.

Interested groups may also choose to simply adopt and paint a panel, and allow a local artist to create a design for them. Regardless, participating organizations must pay $20 per panel and are responsible for recruiting at least two and no more than 30 volunteers ages 10 and older to help with the painting process (see important community painting dates below).

Fee:
$20 per panel for organizations
Free for individual artists
This fee provides for a primed 4'x4' panel, latex paints, and brushes, (although participants are encouraged to supplement with their own weatherproof paints and brushes) and refreshments on the community painting days).

Individuals or groups who wish to design and paint a panel:
Friday, July 15 Registration Deadline: registration forms must be turned in to Samantha Fryberger by 5pm.
Thursday, July 28 Design Deadline: Final designs must be submitted as a 12" x 12" or 18" x 18" black- and-white or color image by or before 5pm. (Color designs are preferable if possible, so that community volunteers will have some color direction on the community painting days)
Sunday, August 7 - Friday, August 12 various times. Panel Prep (applying a basecoat, scanning, projecting and outlining designs onto panels):
Saturday, August 13 and Sunday, August 21 Community Painting Dates10am to 5pm, at the Nature Center Pavilion.
Sunday, August 28, 3pm - 6pm. Installation Date

Individuals or groups who wish to adopt and paint, but not design, a panel:
Contact Samantha Fryberger at 216 932 3600 x77250 or email sfryberg@heightslibrary.org to sign your organization's volunteers up for a work session at the Nature Center during the scheduled community paintings days (see above).

Parade Warehouse Sale
We're moving to a new location and we can't take everything!

16 years of really cool stuff!
Here's a partial listing of what you'll find:

Giant Puppets
Costumes
Banners/Flags
Masks
Props
42" x 12' theatrical flats
Lanterns
Industrial Sewing Machines
Power tools (including table saw and band saw)
Hand tools & Hardware
Shelving, Cabinets, Tables

2218 Superior Ave. 2nd floor
Tuesday, July 12 5 - 7 pm
Wednesday, July 13 11:30 - 1: 30 and 5 - 7
Thursday, July 14 11:30 - 1:30

You must pick up and move all purchases.
Everything must be removed by Thursday 6 pm

Prices are VERYLOW!!! - Everything is priced to SELL!
CASH OR LOCAL CHECKS ONLY! Questions ? Robin VanLear jesserhinehart@core.com

Photos from Parade the Circle

phone: 216-371-3344