Sunday, May 7
3 p.m.
Bread and Puppet Theater
On the grounds of Coventry Elementary School
Euclid Heights Boulevard and Coventry Road

Presented by Heights Arts, The Mosaic Experience, and Coventry Village Special Improvement District, Inc.
millerbowen@adelphia.net

Bread & Puppet Theater, one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in this country, was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand-puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police and other problems of that neighborhood.

More complex theater pieces, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners, followed. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread & Puppet staged block-long precessions involving hundreds of people. In 1970 Bread & Puppet moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, combining puppetry with gardening and bread baking in a serious way, learning to live in the countryside and letting itself be influenced by the experience.

In 1974 the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The 140- year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. The Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two-day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998. The company makes its income from touring new and old productions on the American continent and abroad and from the sales of Bread & Puppet Press’s posters and publications. The traveling puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company, to extensive outdoor pageants, which require the participation of many volunteers.

Join Bread and Puppet for a performance opportunity of your life May 7, 2006 9 a.m.-5-p.m. on the grounds of Coventry School Euclid Heights Boulevard and Coventry Road.

Recent Paintings by David Szekeres

Closing Reception
Friday April 28
6pm - 10pm

Music by Hovaround
Irene's Pastry, Wine and Good Vibrations

P aradise Gallery
2199 Lee Road
216.554.5548
rick@paradisegallery.net

Friday, April 28
6:30 p.m.
Cleveland Heights High School
13263 Cedar Road
Parking lot and entrance on Washington Boulevard

The Legend of Nguzu Saba
Roxboro Elementary 4th-5th Graders & DanceAfrikaDance
$5 adults/free under 18

Reception follows
216.321.7606

Monday, May 1-Saturday, May 6
MANIFOLD
Christi Birchfield
Printmaking thesis exhibition
May 1-5 6:30 am-9:30 pm
May 6 9 am-6 pm
CIA-JMC Bldg. 11610 Euclid Avenue
itschristi@aol.com

Birchfield was represented in Heights Arts Third Annual Collector's Choice

Tuesday, May 2-Friday, May 12
Andrea Joki
MFA thesis exhibition
Reception Thursday, May 11 6-9 pm
Kent State University School of Art Gallery
Terrace Drive, Kent, Ohio
ajoki@earthlink.net

Joki is a Heights artist who was represented in Heights Arts Holiday Store

Wednesday, May 3
8 am-noon
The Business of Art 1:
Practical Information for Artists and the Attorneys who Represent Them

1301 East 9th Street, Second Level, Galleria

Presented by The Cleveland Bar Association and its Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Committee

This class is designed for the artist as well as the lawyer, to learn about artist specific issues such as business entity basics, intellectual property issues, current legal issues and governmental programs affecting local artists.

Artists can attend this program for $15 Artists can also receive the course materials for $30

Contact CLE Department
216.696.2404
cleweb@clevelandbar.org

Artemis Herber
through Saturday, May 6
E. Gordon Gallery
2026 Murray Hill Road
info@gordongallery.com

Heights artist Herber was represented in Heights Arts' Painting 2004

Saturday, May 6
7 p.m.
Roxboro Middle School Auditorium
A World of Music
Presented by Open Doors, Inc.
$5 in advance/$8 at the door