Heights Arts Gallery Through February 26
2173 Lee Road
216.371.3344

Rea d Liz Bly's review in the Free Times

Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday noon to 9 p.m.
Sunday 1 to 5

a benefit by and for the North Coast Men's Chorus Saturday, February 11
6:30 p.m.
Cleveland Playhouse Club
Tickets $75.00/person and includes dinner, cabaret show, live and silent auctions, and dancing until midnight.

Reservations

A Beethoven Celebration
Free
Wednesday, February 22
7:30 p.m.
Fairmount Presbyterian Church
2757Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights
216.321.5800

Directed by James Gaffigan
violinist Kyung Sun Lee
cellist Edward Arron
pianist Daniel Shapiro

For other venues, visit www.City MusicCleveland.org or call 216.321.8273.

Heights' Susan Weber has been nominated by Cleveland Free Times editors as one of 5 finalists for Best Female Singer/Songwriter in The Free Times 2006 Music Awards.

Go to www.freetimes.com and then to CAST YOUR VOTE (third item on the page.) The Free Times will guide you through the process.

Artists, street performers and musicians wanted for Coventry summer street fairs
Contact coventryroad@earthlink.net

Mayor Highberger of Lawrence, Kansas, proclaims International Dada Month
In Dada spirit, Highberger did not select a specific month to celebrate Dada. Instead he’s proclaiming International Dada Month as Feb. 4, April 1, March 28, July 15, Aug. 2, Aug. 7, Aug. 16, Aug. 26, Sept. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 1, Oct. 17 and Oct. 26. Highberger selected the dates by rolling dice and pulling numbers from a hat.

The next Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate will be appointed by City Council on Monday, April 3.

The deadline to apply for this position is Wednesday, February 15, at 5 p.m.

Details

Rita Dove, the youngest poet and the first African American to be named poet laureate of the United States, will preside at Cleveland Public Library's Writers and Readers Series:

Sunday, February 12, 2006
2:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue.

Dove, currently Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the featured guest for African American History Month. Dove received the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for her book of poetry, Thomas and Beulah. She has received national and international recognition for her poetry, including a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination for On the Bus with Rosa Parks. Born in Akron, Ohio in 1952, Dove is the daughter of the first Black research chemist who, in the 1950's, broke the race barrier in the tire industry. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, followed by two semesters as a Fulbright scholar at Universität Tübingen in Germany.