Winter is the best time to load wet color onto brushes and turn blank paper into other worlds

Heights Arts at the Library
2340 Lee Road (west side of the bridge)

Explore Art for K-5 Wednesdays after school with Jackie Connelly
4-week session begins February 28
(not a 5-week session as listed on our site-we’re having a make-up class for the last session on February 21 so the new session starts the following week)

Drawing for adults (18+) Tuesday evenings with Reed Simon

Watercolor for adults (18+) Sunday afternoons with Robert Raack

Print the registration form and mail it in or call 216.371.3344

pictured: Sunday afternoon watercolor class with Robert Raack

Heights Arts is pleased to present an Inlet Dance Residency at Heights High in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Bill Wade, Inlet’s founder and director, and his company will be in the school daily beginning February 20 through March 16. The residency is sponsored by an Ohio Arts Council Artist-in-Residency grant.

The residency is housed in the Mosaic Dance Studio but open to all Heights High students during 4th, 5th, and 8th periods. There will be a culminating performance in the high school’s Dina Rees Evans Theater on Friday evening, March 16 (time TBA).

This is the second Heights Arts OAC Inlet residency with the Mosaic Experience, one of 5 small schools at the high school. For the 2005-06 residency, the district retrofitted a classroom to become a dance studio with appropriate flooring and mirrors. This school year, Wade is additionally teaching a for-credit dance class during the school day that is a physical education elective, bringing dance into the curriculum for the first time. It is hoped that next year an after school component can be added.*

Wade, a recipient of the presidential Coming Up Taller Award, shares Heights Arts belief in the transformative power of the arts. Inlet Dance Theatre is an expansion of Wade's long standing belief that ‘dance viewing, training and performing experiences can be used successfully as tools to bring about personal growth and development in the lives of individuals.’

Catherine Butler: Botanical Earring Workshop
Saturday, March 3, 9:30-4:30
Orange Art Center
216.831.5130

Perhaps you saw Butler’s creations at Heights Arts Holiday Store. In her one-day workshop at Orange Art Center, you will create wild three-dimensional botanically inspired flora earrings from flat sheet copper or brass. All Skill levels welcome. Students will finish at least one pair or earrings. Advanced students may finish two pairs. STUDENTS PLEASE COME PREPARED WITH LEAF SHAPE SKETCHES. A material fee of $20 is payable to Catherine on the day of the workshop. Please remember to bring a bag lunch.

Wednesday, February 21 at 7 p.m.
Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard

Herb Ascherman shares 37 Years collecting 2000 Volumes of Photography

$3 admission or free to NOBS members
216.795.9800

Wednesday, February 21 at 8 pm (note new time)
Fairmount Presbyterian Church
2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights
216-321-5800

Under the direction of guest conductor Danail Rachev, CityMusic and Matt Haimovitz give concerts in Elyria, Rocky River, Slavic Village, Cleveland Heights, and Willoughby. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony #2 in D Major and "The Fair Melusine" Overture by Felix Mendelssohn, as well as the Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in C, which will be led from the cello by Haimovitz.

Saturday, February 24
9-11:30 a.m.
Heights Library, 2345 Lee Road
Brody-Nelson Meeting Room

The Cedar Lee Special Improvement District awarded Studio Techne a NOACA grant for a streetscape study for the Lee Road corridor. This meeting will gather community input. Let’s revisit all those great ideas put forth when FutureHeights held this event a couple of year’s ago.

Monday, February 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Nighttown
12387 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights
Tickets are only $10.

At the show, folk-pop singer-songwriter Noah Budin will perform songs from his new CD as well as his first CD, Hallelujah Land: Songs of Faith and Freedom, backed by some of the best musicians in the region, all of whom played on Metaphor – Ed Ridley, Jr. on keyboards, Rob Ticherich on percussion, and Sam Getz on guitar, plus Cleveland Heights resident David Budin (on bass and guitar), who also co-produced the CD with Noah.

The songs on Metaphor might be described as folk-pop, with influences ranging from rock to gospel (with the help of Clevelands Prayer Warriors) to country. The album was produced in Cleveland, at AnteUp Audio, using Cleveland-area musicians. All of the songs were written by Noah.

After receiving his degree in Theater from Kent State University, Noah spent several years touring the country with the Chicago-based a cappella pop group Four Guys Standing Around Singing, before returning to Cleveland to resume his solo career. His first solo CD was released in 1998. Noah performs in synagogues, churches and other concert venues around the country. Several of his songs are regularly sung in synagogues (and some churches) around the country.

Saturday, March 3 at 8:30 pm
Rockefeller Building, 3099 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights

Heights’-based Kassaba will perform music from its 2nd CD, Dark Eye

Admission is $10 with proceeds going to Reaching Heights’ Summer Music Camp Scholarship Fund.*

216.321.2100 or kassaba@kassaba.com

*do you have your tix yet for Reaching Musical Heights-Encore, Monday, February 26 at Severance Hall ?

Strong Bindery
13015 Larchmere Blvd, Shaker Heights

Mondays, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., for eight weeks beginning February 26

The class starts with a piece of paper and ends with a book—a blank journal that you have made. In the process you learn the technology, materials and tools of bookbinding.

The cost is $185, with an additional materials fee of $25.

216.231.0001 or strongbind@hotmail.com

Saturday March 10, 7:15 p.m.
Kalliope Stage

$75 includes:
pre-show reception and tiny silent auction
a performance of "The Music of Jacques Brel"
post-show dessert and champagne.

Tickets are $75 ($35 tax deductible; show tickets would be $32).
Call 216-229-4516 for reservations.

Funds raised by the Friends of Cain Park go toward sponsoring shows at the park, some of which are presented free to the public; plus scholarships for children to attend the Cain Park summer arts camp; and scholarships for graduating Heights High seniors who excel in the arts -- visual arts, music and other performing arts -- to help them continue those studies after high school.

Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Loren Weiss won first prize in the WCLV Valentine’s Day Love Poem Contest. He won a romantic getaway for two at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton Hotel, two tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra concert conducted by Nicholas McGegan, the weekend of 2/15; a dozen roses from Daisy Hill Greenhouses; a $200 travel bag from Larchmere Oriental Rugs; a $20 gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; romantic CDs by Placido Domingo, Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell from Sony Classical; Peter Buchi’s Tenor Torch Songs from Crossover with the following poem:

Sixtieth Reunion

This gray hair covers heads
bent forward awkwardly to read
name tags thru bi-focals.
A check for survivors.

Those we hardly knew
in nineteen forty-six
become new best friends.

Find Elaine. Tell her at last
how I loved her silently,
in grades seven, eight and nine.

Pressed against each other,
hug held. Soft and warm,
lips brush slowly, honestly,
sixty years late.

More poems at WCLV

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