April 7, 2008
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April is National Poetry Month
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Monday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland Heights City Hall
40 Severance Circle, Cleveland Heights
Cleveland
Heights City Council will reappoint Mary Weems Cleveland Heights Poet
Laureate for 2008 at the recommendation of Heights Writes, the poet
laureate selection committee convened by Heights Arts.
The
committee has recommended that the poet laureate term be extended to
two years going forward so that poets can more deeply infuse poetry
into the community. In her first term, Weems introduced
Found Poetry to encourage people to discover both each other and poetry by creating a poem together.
On April 7 at City Hall, Weems will read Opening the Lines of Communication,
a Found Poem that she created based on a project at Heights Arts Studio
last summer. Artist Migiwa Orimo from Yellow Springs, Ohio, was
an Ohio Arts Council artist-in-residence at the Studio and formed a
summer collective around the theme "Community as a Form of Art": One thing I am hoping to achieve is, at the end, the boundary of
each project gets blurred and viewers will experience the Gestalt of
community. Each project was set up for practical reason--to give us
entry doors and from them smaller nodes get developed.
One
of the projects was a large, artist-drawn map of Cleveland Heights
zoning parcels. People were encouraged to put a red dot on the
map and record on a slip of paper something about that place that was
meaningful to them, prompted by "This is where........" Weems'
poem is based on these slips of paper: our thoughts, memories, and
experiences.
Contact Heights Arts 216.371.3457 or heightsarts@heightsarts.org
for more about Community as a Form of Art, click here and scroll down a bit.
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8th Annual Heights PTA Young Artists Exhibition
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 8th Annual Heights PTA Young Artists Exhibition
Opening Saturday, April 12, 1 to 4 p.m.
Heights Arts Studio at the library
2340 Lee Road (west side of library bridge)
through May 17
A selection of art by students in the art classes of Cleveland Heights-University Heights public schools Grades K-12
Hours: Sun-Wed 1-5
Free reception with improvisation by the Inlet Youth Ensemble, Trainers, and Mosaic Dancers!
sponsored by Heights Arts, CH-UH Council of PTAs, Faber-Castell USA/Creativity for Kids, and Ronald McDonald House
Contact Heights Arts 216.371.3457 or heightsarts@heightsarts.org
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LAST CHANCE
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 Collector's Choice
through Saturday, April 12
Heights Arts Gallery
2173 Lee Road
Open Wed-Sat noon to 9 p.m.
More information about the artists and their work in the gallery guide.
Contact 216.371.3457 or heightsarts@heightsarts.org
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Dobama Theater presents First Mondays
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Harts and Flowers by Jean Cummins
Monday, April 7th at 7 p.m.
Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road (West side of the Street)
Read by Michael and Juliette Regnier
Follow Jennifer and Alan Hart as their marriage evolves to the strains of
the popular music of an era. At first it's Jack Jones' "Wives and Lovers" as
the young bride builds her nest and anxiously awaits the return of the
hunter. But as Arthur Prysock reminds us, "Everything Must Change." The
shoe is on the other foot in the 90s when Alan takes early retirement and
Jennifer is running her own fitness salon.
Suggested offering: $5
Reservations 216.932.3396
Contact Julie Friedman 216.932.6838 or jregimbal@dobama.org
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FutureHeights Annual Meeting
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 Lauren Rich Fine : "Tomorrow's Paper: Hyperlocal"
Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Free parking.
Heights Rockefeller Building, corner Mayfield Road and Lee Boulevard
Learn about civic media and celebrate the launch of FutureHeights' nonprofit Heights Observer project, serving Cleveland Heights and University Heights.
Lauren Rich Fine, CFA, is a Practitioner in Residence at Kent State University's
College of Communication and Information.
RSVP: 320-1423 or info@futureheights.org
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Apollo's Fire
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Mozart & Haydn on FIRE
Friday & Saturday, April 11-12, 8 p.m.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
2747 Fairmount Boulevard
Other dates and times here
Haydn,"Fire" Symphony
Aria from Mozart's opera Lucio Silla
Mozart,Symphony no. 40 in g minor
Contact Emma Joseph 216.320.0012, x2 or ejoseph@apollosfire.org
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Blakxtraploitationism Exhibition
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Friday April 11, 6-10 p.m.
Opening Night Reception
through May 3
Asterisk Art Gallery
2393 Professor Avenue
New
work by Tracy Amenn, Ronald D. Clayton, Devlin Collier, Tericka
Lynnette Henderson, Linda Herman, Richard Karberg, Julius Lyles, Craig
Brent Sullivan,
An'Angelia Thompson and Bob Walls, Frank Xavier Weiss.
Curated by Julius Lyles
Contact Dana Depew at contact@asteriskgallery or 330.304.8528
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| Spring Ice Show |
Soaring to International Heights
Saturday,April 12, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, 1:30 p.m.
Cleveland Heights Community Center
1 Monticello Boulevard (at Mayfield)
Tickets $10/adults, $8 seniors & under 12
Contact 216.691.7373
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| Pickin' Circle |
April 13, 2:00 p.m.
Fairmount School of Music
3473 Fairmount Boulevard
Contact Rick Sockel at rootsmusic@att.net or FSM at 216.321.5868
Admission fee
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| Swing to the Lord a New Song |
Sunday, April 20,7:30 p.m.
Forest Hill Church
3031 Monticello Boulevard at Lee
Featuring a jazz combo led by Paul Ferguson, trombone, and Jack Schantz,
flugel horn, the Forest Hill choirs will present sacred music influenced by jazz and
urban gospel idioms.
Music by Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Rollo Dillworth and others.
Free-will offering
Contact Anne Wilson at 216-321-2660 or acwping@adelphia.net
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THANK YOU!
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 Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
The Ohio Arts Council
The Judith Gerson Fund
The George Gund Foundation
The AHS Foundation
The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
Tommy's
Walter Haverfield
The Wolpert Fund
Faber-Castell USA/Creativity for Kids
Bluestone
Phoenix Coffee
Seitz Agin Hardware
Target
Zoss the Swiss Baker
The City of Cleveland Heights
The Heights Libraries
and YOU, our members and friends
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Heights Arts is generously funded by Cuyahoga residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
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