Cleveland Orchestra’s Opera & Humanity Festival Explores Theme of “Power”

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Wed 5/15-5/26 Wed 5/15 @ 7PM Fri 5/17 @ 7:30PM Tue 5/21 @ 7PM From Wednesday May 15 through Sunday May 26, the Cleveland Orchestra will be hosting its second Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera &...

Quartet Performs Chamber Music at Lakewood’s St. James Church

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Halida Dinova Sun 5/19 @ 4-5:30PM St James Catholic Church in Lakewood presents another in its series of “Sounds of St. James” classical music concerts, featuring some of the area’s most talented...

Re:Sound Festival Offers Three Days of Boundary-Pushing Music

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Screenshot Fri 5/17-Sun 5/19 @ 7:30PM Is your idea of music at the far end of the spectrum of catchy tunes with coherent lyrics, something Eagles or Taylor Swift fans might not even consider “music”?...

Play About Indigenous Water Walkers Has Two Performances in Akron Area

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Sat 5/18 @ 2PM Sun 5/19 @ 2PM   Playwright/environmental activist Sharon Day is an enrolled member of the Minnesota-based Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and an indigenous “water walker,” a person who...

Two Intriguing New Shows Open at 78th Street Studios This Third Friday

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Work by Bob Peck Fri 5/17 @ 5-9PM Once again, it’s time for that arts feast known as Third Friday, taking place at the huge 78 th Street Studios building. If you haven’t checked out all the new...

Cleveland Multidisciplinary Artist Georgio Sabino III Opens Two Shows of His Work

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Tue 5/21 @ 5PM Fri 5/24 @ 3PM It’s hard to pigeonhole veteran Cleveland artist Georgio Sabino III; he’s something of a renaissance man. Many have known him as a photographer, but his work stretches...

Cleveland Asian Festival Showcases Diverse Cultures

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Photo by Anastasia Pantsios Sat 5/18-Sun 5/19 Cleveland’s AsiaTown has come a long way since it was called “Chinatown” and consisted of a couple of restaurants on one block of Rockwell Avenue. Now it...

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Releases Album of Original Music by One of its Member

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Mon 5/20 @ 7:30PM The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, which features many of this area’s teeming population of jazz musicians, both up-and-comers and veterans, turns 40 this year. And this week, it will...

Young Cleveland Artist Shows Her Film About Being in Black in America

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Sun 5/19 @ noon-3PM Young Cleveland photographer/filmmaker/graphic artist Maya Peroune is still in college (at the School of Visual Arts in New York) but she’s been working on her film project Black...

African American Doll & Quilt Guild Showcases Work at Two-Day Event

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Fri 5/17-Sat 5/18 @ 10AM-2PM The Warrensville Heights African American Quilt and Doll Guild could almost be considered a guerrilla arts group in northeast Ohio, largely unknown but surfacing here and...

Come to the Baseball Heritage Museum for Some Free Family Fun

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Sat 5/19 @ noon-2PM Are your family members big baseball fans, or do you want to introduce your kids to this quintessential, languid summer sport? We know from countless sportswriter columns on the...

Printmaker Meryl Engler Shows Her Latest Nature-Inspired Work at Kaiser Gallery

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Thu 5/9 @ 6-9PM Last fall, printmaker Meryl Engler was one of six artists participating in a group show called Entwined at Kaiser Gallery in Tremont dedicated to the connection between humans and...

Local Rootsy Rock Quartet Hey Mavis Opens Riverdog Barn Season & Releases New Album at Kent Stage

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Thu 5/9 @ 7:30PM Sat 5/11 @ 8PM Lorain County’s Riverdog Retreat kept its music fans sated with a series of more intimate shows in its gallery during the colder weather. But now it moving back out to...

Inlet Dance Theatre Promotes Connections for Better Health at CPT Danceworks

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Thu 5/9-Sat 5/11 @ 7:30PM Cleveland Public Theatre’s month-long DanceWorks series gives dance fans a chance to check out new area ensembles and new work by established groups. In its third week, it...

City Goods in Ohio City Hosts Its First Monthly Summer Market

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Sat 5/11 @ 10AM-4PM In the fall of 2022 a cluster of silver, hangar-like, arched buildings cropped up on the corner of East 28 th and Church Avenue in the section of Ohio City dubbed “Hingetown.” City...