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Heaven is Where Nothing Ever Happens Julie Langsam
Wednesday, September 28
7 pm
HeightsArts Gallery
2173 Lee Road
216.371.3344
heightsarts@sbcglobal.net

Saturday, September 24
10 a.m. to noon
meet at Studio You, 2180 Lee Road
FutureHeights 216.320.1423

Picture Project ~ Walk the neighborhood, camera in hand, and snap photos of what makes the area an interesting place to be. Your pics will be exhibited in October and we'll invite the public to lend their two cents, too.

Pictured: Cedar Lee Mural by Robert A. Muller

Heights’ Kulture Kids
Saturday, September 24
Sunday, September 25
Moore Education Center on South Bissell Road (just down the road from Aurora High School).
216- 371-2867

New Kulture Kids CD !

Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture
contemporary Native American art from 54 artists, representing 45 different tribes from U.S. and Canada.

Artrain USA, the nation's only traveling art museum on a train @ Cleveland's Amtrak station
200 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway, across from Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock Hall.

Opening reception and powwow
Wednesday, September 21
5:30 pm
Tickets for the opening reception $15 to benefit Artrain

Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25
10 am to 5 pm.
Admission $5.00 adults, $2.00 children and students with id.

sponsored by Sankofa Fine Arts Plus
216.791.2437

Wednesday, September 28
7:30 pm
Free

Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, and Mozart's Prague Symphony, plus the Ballet Music from his opera Idomeneo. The concert will begin with a musical tribute to those who are fighting or have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, with Beethoven's Cavatina.There will also be an exhibit of the work of Cleveland photographer Diane Schwartz.

CityMusic Cleveland
Fairmount Presbyterian Church
2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights
Free for all

A documentary film premiere about the healing journeys of women who leave violent relationships

Thursday, October 6
7:30 pm
Cedar Lee Theater, Cleveland Heights

Tickets $10.00 at the theater box office
all ticket proceeds benefits Ohio Domestic Violence Network
Mending Spirits, produced and directed by Monica A. Plunkett*, is about the emotional, spiritual and psychological journeys of women who leave abusive relationships. An often-neglected aspect of domestic violence, the film is an artistic presentation of healing that conveys both pain and celebration.

The film features three northeast Ohio women who share their personal experiences of healing. Their stories are echoed from across the country and around the globe by women whose spirits have been resurrected through artistic expression, political activism and spiritual exploration.

These voices recorded at The Rally for Women’s Lives held in Washington, D.C. and the U.N. Conference on Women, last held in Beijing, China convey the universality of the problem of domestic abuse.

Themes are woven together with poetry, journal entries and artwork. The artwork of Cleveland native Constance Pierce is featured along with work from women who participated in her workshop Visual Journal: Imaging the Interior Workshopİ

The powerful musical score, written and performed by Ohio native and Port Townsend, Washington resident, Lynn Wedekind is both evocative and soulful.

While the film celebrates the joy of achievement, it also chronicles the courage each woman has called forth to reclaim and rebuild her life- to define herself. The courage to leave is tremendous, but the courage needed to face the many days and nights after she closes that door is different. Mending Spirits is about that different, daily bravery.

Monica A. Plunkett moongale@earthlink.net or 216.832.9656

Ohio Domestic Violence Network
Nancy Neylon 800.934.9840

* a HeightsArts gallery volunteer