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January 21, 2008
Above: Coventry Peace Bench by Raymond Bugelski
TAKE A CLASS AT HEIGHTS ARTS STUDIO THIS WINTER!!!!!
Classes begin January 27
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MLK, Jr.
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Take a minute to remind yourself why today's national holiday is important here
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Book Launch Party
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 Friday, January 25, 7-9 pm
Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road (west side of Heights Library bridge)
216.371.3457
Celebrate Cleveland Heights' author Paula McLain's debut novel, A Ticket to Ride,
at a free public reception. Drawing on fourteen years spent growing up
in foster homes, chronicled in her critically acclaimed memoir Like Family,
Paula McLain brings a special poignancy to the character of Jamie, an
orphan who is sent to live with her uncle Raymond and is desperately
hungry for peer approval and acceptance.
Free
Hear McLain on Around Noon with Dee Perry Thursday, January 24
Plain Dealer review
NYTimes McLain article, Modern Love
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Hear Here!
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Kassaba
one of a series of concerts sponsored in part by Target
Saturday, February 2, 7 p.m.
Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road
(west side of Heights Library bridge)
216.371.3457 | Kassaba
has been resting after a busy 2007 season that included trips to
France, New York City, Ithaca and all over Ohio. Their CD Dark Eye, ranked as the #2 local release of 2007, was played on 125 stations throughout North America.
You'll hear some new music that even includes a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover!
Admission $12 adults/$10 children 18 & under at the door.
Reservations are suggested as seating is limited.
216.371.3457 or register@heightsarts.org
Kassaba has been nominated for a Free Times Music Award in the Jazz category. Vote here
(scroll down the page a bit to find the "Jazz" category)
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Dobama at UU
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Friday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Society
2728 Lancashire Road
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda
by Sonja Linden
A goodwill donation accepted at the door
Church: 216.932.1898
Dobama: 216.932.3396
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 Saturday, January 26, 3 p.m.
Vaughan Williams Festival
Christ Episcopal Church
3445 Warrensville Center Rd.
(corner of Warrensville Center Road and Chagrin)
The
festival concert features two of Williams' great song cycles, Songs of
Travel for voice and piano (poems by Robert Louis Stevenson) and the
Five Mystical
Songs for voice, choir, and organ (poems by George Herbert).
Christopher
Grundy, baritone, will sing both cycles, accompanied by Nathan
Carterette, pianist/choral conductor, the combined choirs of Christ
Episcopal, Trinity
Cathedral, and Church of the Covenant, and organist Daniel Hathaway, Canon
for Music at Trinity Cathedral.
Also on the program are works of Vaughan William's contemporary and mentor
Maurice Ravel, including the Five Popular Greek Songs, and his successor
Benjamin Britten, with a selection of his famous folk song arrangements.
Admission is free with a $10 suggested donation, and a reception will follow
the performance.
216.991.3432 or ncarterette@gmail.com
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Long Road
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Monday, January 28, 7 p.m.
Nighttown
from David Budin:
Long Road, which you either saw or missed at either Cain Park or the Kent
Stage, is playing again.
This show will be different than the one we did at Cain Park and the Kent Stage.
This one will not consist entirely of late-'60s singer-songwriter fare. It will
include songs from the '60s to the present, but all done in that late-'60s folk-pop
style. (And we'll include a small number of favorites from the first show.)
Seating for this show is very limited. Here is how I've figured out that it will
sell out: At Cain Park, we sold almost 300 tickets. At the Kent Stage, we sold
almost 100 tickets. This means that, historically speaking, the smallest crowd we
attract is about 100 people. Nighttown seats only about 100 people. That means it
will sell out.
If you need further proof, I offer this: Cain Park, where we drew 300 people is in
Cleveland Heights. The Kent Stage, where we drew 100 people, is in Kent. This
means
that, historically speaking, three times as many people come to see us
when we perform in Cleveland Heights. Nighttown in is Cleveland
Heights.
So you should reserve your seats now - if you want to see us. And you should.
Here's how I've come to that conclusion: If you saw us before and liked us, then
you'll like us again this time. If you didn't see us before, you should find out
what you've been missing. If you saw us before and didn't like us, well, this is a
different show. (Oh . But, I mean, if you saw us before and did like us, it's a
very similar show.)
And tickets are only $10. (And Nighttown is a no-smoking club now.)
Long Road is: David Budin (guitar, vocals), Julia Mell (vocals), Kevin Richards
(guitar, mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Bob Sandham (6-string, 12-string and electric
guitars and vocals), Ray DeForest (bass).
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Cleveland
Heights artist Raymond Bugelski designed the Coventry Benches, signs,
and Cedar Fairmount signs. And he has more talents. Read here.
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Apply for a grant
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The
Ohio Arts Council Artist in Residence Program received 49 applications
from across Ohio last year and all 49 projects were funded. On the one
hand, that is good. It means that every school and community
organization that applies stands an excellent chance of receiving a
grant. On the other hand, the limited number of organizations coming to
the Ohio Arts Council for assistance makes it difficult for the Arts
Learning Program to make the case for additional funds for residencies.
We want to expand the program to support 60, 80, or 100
residencies in Ohio schools and organizations every year. We have
skilled and experienced artists ready and willing to share their
talents with participants. But we need your help.
Check out the Ohio Arts Council's Arts Learning Web site and consider applying to the Artist in Residence Program for 2008-2009. The draft deadline is February 1. The
final application deadline is March 3, 2008. You already know the excitement that an
artist in residence can bring to a school or community organization. Help us build
the arts in Ohio by applying to host an Artist in Residence in 2008-2009.
Jeff Hooper
Director, Office of Arts Learning
Ohio Arts Council
727 East Main Street
Columbus, Ohio 43205-1796
614/466-2613
jeff.hooper@oac.state.oh.us |
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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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