The National Ballet of Canada performs The Firebird and The Four Seasons at Playhouse Square for one weekend only Jan. 27-29. Inspired by the Russian fable, Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1927) founder of the Ballets Russes commissioned Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) to write the music for the company's 1910 season. for tickets call 216-241-6000

The National Ballet of Canada performs The Firebird and The Four Seasons at Playhouse Square for one weekend only Jan. 27-29. Inspired by the Russian fable, Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1927) founder of the Ballets Russes commissioned Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) to write the music for the company's 1910 season. for tickets call 216-241-6000

Please join us at the "Meet the Artist" reception brunch at 12:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 29 when the exhibition closes.

A meeting to discuss water quality issues in Northeast Ohio. Call to RSVP. Free and open to the public.

 Contact: Kristy Meyer

Contact phone: 614-48

Come out and show your support!

Friends and supporters of Cleveland's new Sustainability Program
are encouraged to attend a public hearing about the program held
by the Utility Committee of City Council at 2 p.m., Wednesday,

Date: Wednesday, February 1

Time: 5:00 P.M. to 6:45 P.M.

Place: Myers University, Chester Campus

The International and Domestic Dimensions

The Cleveland Foodbank made a commitment to incorporate sustainable design principles in the new food distribution center and registered the project to pursue LEED-NC. Hear from the project team about the real challenges and successes of this green building's design and construction, and the data gathered since the building's occupation.

Steve Rugare, Public Programs director, Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio will discuss, Tales of Two Reconstructions, an examination of post-war and post-communist urbanism in a group of cities in Poland and the former East Germany. Free and open to the public.

There will be no charge for this event. (Cash Bar)
Spouses are welcome

Please make reservations by contacting Radhika Reddy at Ariel Ventures,
LLC, 1375 East 9th Street, Ste 155, Cleveland, Ohio 44114: Phone

Noted author, art historian, Case Professor and captivating speaker will discuss his controversial book Eakins Revealed at The Union Club. Thomas Eakins has long been heralded as one of American's greatest painters and an exemplary American but only because evidence of the darker aspects of his life and career have been suppressed. Cocktails (cash bar) at 5:30 p.m., talk begins at 6:15 p.m., Dinner at 7:15 p.m. for reservations call 216-621-4230

CSU Black Alumni Association and other black professional organizations are putting on the 2nd annual State of Black Cleveland Event on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 CSU's University Center Room 1 8:30am-12noon

Those of you who are interested in championing CityWheels in your neighborhood, building, workplace or extended community, this is your chance to meet with us, get your questions answered, and learn what we’re planning for your area. We will also give you all the information and materials you need to hit the ground running.

Are you ready to enter the rapidly growing green building market? Attend the LEED for New Construction Technical Review Workshop presented by the U.S. Green Building Council. Gain the knowledge needed to maximize building performance, achieve LEED certification and take the LEED Professional Accreditation Exam.

Experimental electronic music, concert Tuesday night featuring 3 bands: All Have Numbers (Cleveland) Lovid (NYC) and The Fancelions (Cleveland) Check out the gallery's website.

CASE

Actor, singer and social activist Harry Belafonte will give a motivational lecture drawing upon his extensive background in entertainment and social activism.  Feb. 7, 7pm.  FREE.  Case's Strosacker Auditorium.  Reservations required, e-mail upbexec [at] case [dot] edu" title="mailto:upbexec [at] case [dot] edu" target="_blank">upbexec [at] case [dot] edu, http://www.case.edu/news/2006/1-06/belafonte.htm

The First Suburbs Development Council will host its first event in a series. Economic development directors from our fifteen Northeast Ohio member-cities will be present to discuss potential office and industrial opportunities and to provide details on their communities' zoning and building codes.

June Holley is President and founder of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet), a regional entrepreneurship organization in southeastern Ohio. She has pioneered the implementation of many innovative entrepreneurship strategies including business networks, Kitchen Incubators, youth entrepreneurship, regional entrepreneurship networks, policy networks and cluster-focused initiatives.

Baldwin-Wallace College Spahr Chair lecture on business ethics will take the form of a panel discussion including Steve Percy, retired CEO of BP America, David Beach, executive director of EcoCity Cleveland, and Patrick Conway, co-owner of Great Lakes Brewing Co.

Strapped offers a look at the new obstacles facing young adults as they try to build careers, buy homes and start families. Key Note Speaker: Tamara Draut, dir., Economic Opportunity Program at Demos & author of Strapped. Respondents: Daniel Gray-Kontar, Catalyst Cleveland and Hannah M. Fritzman, The Cleveland Executive Fellowship & Civic Innovation Lab.

STRAPPED:

Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead

Starting Friday, just in time for Valentines Day, The Cleveland Opera presents Romeo et  Juliette by Charles Gounod, sung in French with English subtitles. Soprano Laura Pedersen sings the role of Juliette and Tenor Gran Wilson sings the role of Romeo – both have performed with the Cleveland Opera.  Romeo et Juliette is directed by Nick Olcott. Gerhardt Zimmerman conducts the Cleveland Opera Orchestra. for tickets call 216-241-6000 or go to the Cleveland Opera Website

Awaken from hibernation and discover a world to cultivate body, mind and spirit. Special exhibits and vendors - free with admission to the garden. Co-sponsored by Balanced Living Magazine

The public is invited to join Friends of Big Creek for a walk from Memphis Ave. north to Big Creek.

Contact: Bob Gardin

email:    bgardin [at] friendsofbigcreek [dot] org

Phone :  216-661-4998

Create a digitally inspired valentine from a selection of artful papers, CD cases and your imagination -- and see the current exhibit, All Digital! This event is free 

Starting Friday, just in time for Valentines Day, The Cleveland Opera presents Romeo et  Juliette by Charles Gounod, sung in French with English subtitles. Soprano Laura Pedersen sings the role of Juliette and Tenor Gran Wilson sings the role of Romeo – both have performed with the Cleveland Opera.  Romeo et Juliette is directed by Nick Olcott. Gerhardt Zimmerman conducts the Cleveland Opera Orchestra.

Cleveland Institute of Music

15th-Annual Black Heritage Concert.  Guest performances by The Cleveland School of the Arts Ensembles, R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir, Chamber Orchestra and the Urban Dance Collective.  Feb. 12, 4pm.  FREE (Seating passes required, handed out 30 minutes prior to performance.)  www.cim.edu

Happy hour discussion with CMA's renowned curator, Sue Bergh. Free hors d'oeuvres, cash bar. For details and information about other curators who will discuss their work on Mondays at the House of Blues go to the events section of The Cleveland Museum of Art website.

The Cleveland Clean Air Century Campaign quarterly meeting. Agenda items: NOACA SIP Planning for Ozone and Small Particles,Campaign News.

Subject:  Air  Quality

Contact: Linda Kimble    LKimble [at] ohiolung [dot] org    216-532-8211
 

Social hour, dinner, brief annual meeting and keynote speaker Sandra Pianalto, pres & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Fee.

contact:  cvcc [dot] org [at] sbcglobal [dot] net   (Fred Holman)   440-526-1822

The Digital Photography Special Interest Group of the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group will host a presentation by computer professional Phillip  Williams on the GIMP, a FREE open source graphics creation and manipulation application similar to Adobe Photoshop.  The meeting will be a short "course" showing how to use the GIMP to do common digital imaging tasks, such as manipulating a photo, removing red eye, correcting colors, resizing images and changing them to black & white.
 
Phillip will provide a FREE copy of the program to a limited number of people who rsvp before the meeting.  Reserve your copy by visiting www.digitalphotosig.org.

Cleveland Institute of Art

The Student Independent Exhibition is an annual juried gallery show, planned entirely by the students at CIA for their work. This year's exhibition marks its 60th anniversary.  Opens Feb. 17 with a reception from 5pm-8pm.  FREE.  Reinberger Galleries. 

Starting Friday, just in time for Valentines Day, The Cleveland Opera presents Romeo et  Juliette by Charles Gounod, sung in French with English subtitles. Soprano Laura Pedersen sings the role of Juliette and Tenor Gran Wilson sings the role of Romeo – both have performed with the Cleveland Opera.  Romeo et Juliette is directed by Nick Olcott. Gerhardt Zimmerman conducts the Cleveland Opera Orchestra.

This one-day symposium features internationally known experts, who will share insights into the newest and best in garden design and ecological landscape solutions. For landscape designers and home gardeners alike. Fee.

Starting Friday, just in time for Valentines Day, The Cleveland Opera presents Romeo et  Juliette by Charles Gounod, sung in French with English subtitles. Soprano Laura Pedersen sings the role of Juliette and Tenor Gran Wilson sings the role of Romeo – both have performed with the Cleveland Opera.  Romeo et Juliette is directed by Nick Olcott. Gerhardt Zimmerman conducts the Cleveland Opera Orchestra.

HealthSpace Cleveland

HealthSpace Cleveland has FREE admission on President's Day.  Feb. 20, 10am-4:30pm  http://www.healthspacecleveland.org/events/eventdetail.asp?eid=148

Sponsored by Case Western Reserve University “Perspectives on Recent Advances in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders: How to Lower Your Risk” on February 20, 7:30 p.m.

Participate in a public meeting where the community and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will debate the merits of ODOT's plans to alter exisiting freeway access within the Innerbelt Trench, including the planned elimination of Carnegie and Prospect Avenues.  

 Fifth Annual E4S Food Meeting & Celebrating the 50th E4S Third Tuesday Network Event!

• Discover new ways to bring local sustainably produced foods to your employees and customers.
• Explore how your business can support local farming.
• Build a new industry in Northeast Ohio that will create new businesses and jobs.
• Rebuild our access to healthy foods that are not dependant on foreign oil.

William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D., is the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Center.

Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony #7

2/22/06   7:30 p.m. free admission 

More and more chemists are "going green"—thinking about the environment when they design new molecules, compounds and products. Paul Anastas, director of the American Chemical Society's Green Chemistry Institute, will give the first of a series of talks on this theme when he leads off the Frontiers in Chemistry Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University on Thursday, February 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Goodyear Lecture Hall of the Agnar Pytte Science Center on Adelbert Road. This free, public event, sponsored by the Case chemistry department and Engelhard, is geared toward a general audience interested in learning how chemists are working for a safer environment.

JumpStart Breakfast --> Friday, February 24th - Legal Essentials for
Start-Ups and Pitfalls to Avoid!  

This session highlights the key legal issues faced by every early-stage

I hope you will join me on February 24th @ 8:00am for the region's leading
Private Equity Investment Summit. The event will take place at the
beautiful, new Corporate College facility on Richmond Road (see attachment).

Just wanted to let you know that CAAO will be part of a special sponsorship presentation at half court at the Q before the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Washington Wizards game. At 6:00 PM CAAO will be presented with a platinum level sponsorship check. Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers will also be meeting with the staff of CAAO at half-time to talk about how our organizations can work together.

Orchid Mania: Blossoms & Butterflies
Major Exhibit February 25 through March 26, 2006  

artists, scholars and activists discuss the social implications of war. Free. info [at] spacesgallery [dot] org

www.spacesgallery.org 

The East Cleveland Theater presents: "The Amen Corner",  sponsored by East Cleveland UP

Saturday, February 25, 2006.
7:00 p.m. reception with Gospel Singers
8:00 p.m. performance

Peggy Kwong-Gordon, MOCA featured 2006 PULSE artist, whose exhibition, Life Studies, is now on view at MOCA talks about her approach to art-making with friend and fellow artist, Douglas Max Utter. A Visual artist himself, Utter exhibits nationally and internationally and is the distinguished recipient of three Ohio Art Council Fellowships. He is also co-founder and contributor to Angle: A Journal of Arts and Culture and his reviews are published in Art Papers, Northern Ohio Live, The Cleveland Free Times, Ceramics Monthly and Fiber Arts.

Press Release 3/1/2006
Croskey & Associates LLC –A Real Estate Development Company is pleased to announce their “2006 Single Parent Home Initiative.”  This initiative will assist Single Parents with purchasing a custom remodeled home in metorpolitan Cleveland
 while reducing some of the barriers that prevent homeownership.   The initiative will provide the following:

Please join a casual collaboration of Northeast Ohio leaders interested in supporting "Film" as a cultural, educational, technological and economic engine of this community. "Film" is an important factor in the NEO economy, with many talented "film" professionals involved here in management, production, creative and other roles, creating $ millions in spending and wealth and making NEO a more interesting and fulfilling place to grow up and live. But, what is film, and what matters to the community and our economy?