Monday, April 9
Around Noon with Dee Perry on WCPN
Listen live to Cleveland Heights outgoing and incoming Poet Laureates

The Heights Arts Poet Laureate Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Loren Weiss as the 2006 Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. Loren‘s poetry contains the wisdom of experience as well as the wide-eyed openness of innocence, two qualities that make him a fine choice for a city that values its diverse community. Loren’s poetry reflects the immediacy of experience and treats fairly the experiences of others. With his understanding of the art of poetic form and of poetry’s true community function, Loren will make a fine Poet Laureate and will represent Cleveland Heights admirably.

Loren and his family have lived in Cleveland Heights since 1966. Trained as an engineer, he owned and operated a parts manufacturing business in Euclid, Ohio, until his retirement in 2001. Currently, he volunteers for both SCORE and the Beachwood Business Development Center as a counselor for entrepreneurs.

Although Loren wrote poetry as a young man in his 20s, writing was not an important part of his life until later in his life. Perhaps a spark was lit by one English teacher who insisted upon exposing the young engineering students to art, or by an artist friend who turned to poetry when unable to pursue painting. In any case, we can all be glad that Loren became a serious poet after taking a Cleveland State University poetry workshop with Rita Grabowski in 2001, developing his skill as a poet ever since.

Loren Weiss will be officially appointed Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate by Mayor Ed Kelley and City Council at Cleveland Heights City Hall on Monday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. Meredith Holmes, the outgoing Poet Laureate, and Loren will each read a poem at this occasion.

For more information, please call Heights Arts at 216.371.3344.

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Cleveland Heights, Home to the Arts

Through Saturday, April 15

David Brichford, one of the 15 artists in Collector’s Choice, has won Best in Show, a purchase award, in the annual Barbara Luton Art Competition at Shaker Heights Public Library* !!! Come see his luscious digital prints at Heights Arts gallery.

Collector’s Choice 2006
15 artists, three works each

Gallery hours Wed–Sat, 12–9 pm, Sunday, 1-5.

Heights Arts Gallery
2173 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216.371.3344

David Bergholz - Photography, collage
Christi Birchfield - Print, drawing
David Brichford- Photography
Cather ine Butler - Jewelry
Jeff Chiplis- Neon Sculpture
Bonnie Dolin - Pastel
Gretchen Goss - Enamel
Margaret Kimura - Chine-collée prints
Jean Kubota Cassill - Intaglio
Lisa Meek - Oil pastel paintings
Robert Muller - Photography
Michael Romanik - Cloisoné enamel
Lisa Schonberg - Printmaking; monoprint and relief woodcuts
K evin Snipes - Ceramics
Mark Sudduth - Glass

pictured: by David Brichford

*and congratulations to former Heights Arts board members George Rosenberg and Paula Zinsmeister for their acceptance in the show. Rosenberg, a former Best of Show winner, won Honorable Mention.

Monday, April 10
8 p.m.
Mac’s Backs ~ Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights

James Lardner, co-editor and author of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences (New Press 2005) will lead a discussion and sign books. The event is free and open to the public.

James Lardner is the co-editor and author of Inequality Matters, an anthology of political writing by Tamara Draut, Barbara Ehrenreich, Robert H. Frank, Robert M. Franklin, William Greider, David Cay Johnston, Meizhu Lui, Miles Rapoport, and several others. Economic inequality in America has been growing since the late 1970s. The top one percent of Americans now make more money than the bottom 40 percent. That’s roughly three million people out- earning 110 million. America’s divide is greater than that of any other developed nation. This economic inequality has a profound effect on our health, education and political institutions,

Lardner is a journalist and senior fellow at Demos, a New York City-based national think tank for everyday democracy. He is the author of NYPD: A City and Its Police, and he is the grandson of Ring Lardner.

216-321-2665 suzanne@macsbacks.com

Independent America
Tuesday, April 11
5:30 p.m Cedar Lee Theatre

Donations of $10 in advance to Cleveland Originals, 2533 Euclid Heights Blvd, Cleveland Heights 44106.

An exclusive showing benefiting Cleveland Originals, in conjunction with FutureHeights and C leveland Cinemas

Myra G. Orenstein
216.932.3322

Thursday, April 20
Annual PTA Young Artists Exhibition
Opening Reception 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Cleveland Heights City Hall
40 Severance Circle, Cleveland Heights

through Friday, May 5 during City Hall hours

a selection of art by students in the art classes of Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Schools
sponsored by Heights Arts with the support of The City of Cleveland Heights

Friday, April 21
7 p.m.
Wiley Middle School Auditorium
2181 Miramar Boulevard, University Heights

Featuring Wiley Instrumental Music Teacher Paul Hungerford with the Heritage Brass Quintet and the Wiley Jazz Band

Admission $5/adults and $3/under 18 includes fabulous dessert reception and more entertainment

Win an iPod ! Raffle tickets $5/apiece or 6/$25 sold at the concert or call 216.932.5392. Winner will be announced at the concert, but need not be present to win.

All proceeds fund coaches, lessons, and scholarships.
Your donation is instrumental to our students’ musical success !

Design a logo and/or slogan
Contest deadline May 1

More details

Check out our Annual Report for our 2004-2005 fiscal year

Thanks to Barb Cross and Susan Leggett, who donated computers to Heights Arts ! We really appreciate it !

Now, is there someone who wants to donate $50,000 ? (It never hurts to ask...)