With the support of the Julius Fund for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
                 The Department of Art History & Art, Case Western Reserve University

The Cleveland Council on World Affairs and the U.S. State Department are sponsoring a visit to NE Ohio by an international delegation of resource-managers, policy and decision-makers, business people, and journalists from around the world, all with interests and expertise in environmental issues. On Friday, April 28, the delegation will come to Cleveland State for a luncheon, presentations, and panel discussion focusing on linking local environmental initiatives to the global challenges of environmental sustainability and protection. Cleveland State University faculty and distinguished guest panelists will present information about regional approaches to environmental issues, followed by a panel discussion intended to promote exchange of ideas and collaborative links with our international guests.

"Coming Home" AAWR Annual Members Show
Exhibition runs 4/28/2006 - 6/2/2006
Artist gallery talks on 5/4 and 6/1/ at 6 pm

The South Wing Gallery of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights presents "Views/Vistas" an exhibition of works by four artists: Paul Yanko (painting), Doris Sugerman (pottery), Lenore Freeman (sculpture/works on paper) Gary Engle (photography/fiber) on view April 28 - July 23, 2006. Opening Reception Friday April 28th, 5-7 p.m.  ph. 216-932-5815          

New this year for JazzFest is the Debut Series.  The series is dedicated to presenting up-and-coming musicians who are quickly garnering national acclaim and are expected to be headlines in the near future.  Festival attendees get a preview of these talented musicians first... for free, in the spectacular new Greg L. Reese Performance Arts Center at the East Cleveland Public Library, which was recently renovated to a smart design by favorite Cleveland architect Richard Fleishmann... check this out...

More than 7,000 years ago, humans discovered how to make wine. Since then, the history of this beverage has been intertwined with that of human civilization. Attend a reception and lecture by a local sommelier. Then enjoy a seven-course dinner by Sammy's paired with wines from around the world and served in elegant, relaxed surroundings at the Museum. Seating is limited to 100 (tables of eight). Please notify us of any food allergies or dietary restrictions you may have when you make your reservation. Valet parking will be available.
Tickets: $150 per person. Please call (216) 231-1177 or 800-317-9155, ext. 3279, for reservations... see http://www.cmnh.org/special-events.html#food

IT Industry Clusters In the global knowledge economy, developed and developing regions worldwide are being challenged, as never before, to strengthen and sustain their economies by stimulating innovation, entrepreneurship and cluster development. Many regions focus on information technology as a key enabler in this endeavour. This seminar will present informative case examples, from Asia, Latin America, the EU and the US, of successful and challenged Public-Private Strategies for Cluster Development in the Global Knowledge Economy.
World Congress on Information Technology

!!! WCIT2006 participation now US$ 695 for participants in the Seminar !!!

May 2nd Round Table at 11:30am. The discussion will focus on the interbelt bridge (see http://neobridge.net). Ed Hauser will present. The location... TBA.

By the way, this is my first posting. So, Hi! I will be posting more events, quotes, etc as soon as my computer stops acting weird. I let Phillip touch it the other day, and it's been acting up ever since. :)

UCITE is honored to present this year's Glennan Fellows program. At this session, the five faculty members who were selected in 2005 for their promise of exceptional careers balancing scholarship and teaching will describe their award projects.

As Spider-Man 3 swings into town, Film Czar Alex P. Michaels is currently developing a new industry that will consistently produce movies and TV series here. To celebrate the creation of this new industry, the Film Czar and his company Prelude2Cinema are holding special event fundraisers at the Velvet Dog on April 27th and Massimo da Milano on May 4th.

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Reservation

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Vinton Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols, and in November 2005, President Bush awarded them the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Exhibit Dates: May 5th - June 1st

Works by Arabella Proffer

@ Art in the Village 5700 Gallery located at 5700 Broadway Cleveland, OH 44127 (free parking in back)

Opening reception Friday, May 5th 5:30pm - 8pm

I received a postcard of the upcoming exhibition and reception for Cleveland Institute of Art students completing their B.F.A. thesis exhibitions. I always enjoy touring the facility and looking at the work of the talented students and professors there.

RUBY DEE TO APPEAR AT THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE Staged Reading of Saint Lucy's Eyes to Benefit Play House, Karamu

Celebrated stage and screen actress Ruby Dee will join actors from Karamu House on the Drury stage at The Cleveland Play House for a fundraiser benefiting both theatres, each currently celebrating their 90th Anniversary Season.

The two theatres have been collaborating for some time on ways to have Dee, a Cleveland native, return to the city. Their efforts result in a staged reading of Bridgette Wimberly’s Saint Lucy’s Eyes at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 8, 2006. A special reception will follow in The Cleveland Play House Club.

Wimberly, another Cleveland native, now lives in New York City. She began writing Saint Lucy's Eyes in a workshop while a fellow in Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab. She became a 1999 Mentor Project Fellow at the Cherry Lane Alternative when Wendy Wasserstein chose to mentor Wimberly’s play, culminating in a workshop production at the Kauffman Theater. Saint Lucy's Eyes went on to a sold-out production at the Women's Project and Productions starring Dee and moved to The Cherry Lane Theatre.

The event is a fitting addition to the FusionFest line-up. FusionFest, The Play House’s upcoming first-annual multidisciplinary performing arts festival will run May 2 – 21, 2006. Tickets for the reading are $50.00.

Tickets to both the reading and the reception are $100. For $250, up to six individuals may attend the reading, the reception and join Dee and Wimberly for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 8 in The Play House Club. The roster of luncheon guests also includes Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom, Managing Director Dean Gladden, Karamu House Artistic Director Terrence Spivey, and Karamu House Executive Director Gerry McClamy.

Hello all,

You still have time to participate in Northeast Ohio's most innovative business matchmaker event.  There are some great opportunities still available.  To see the catalog of executives participating go to www.caao2006.cmarket.com

The Coit Road Farmers Market
15000 Woodworth (between E. 152nd and Coit)
East Cleveland, Ohio 44112
(216) 249-5455
Map at www.coitmarket.org

At this meeting, Bob Coppedge will be talking about making movies. We'll be discussing hardware, both on the camera and the PC, as well as demonstrating some of the editing software available to you George Lucas wannabes.

What kind of camera? Tape? Disc? What's the best brand? What about audio? And then once it's recorded, what do you do with it? We will take a look at some of the software available, like Microsoft Movie and others. Are there any websites that help with reviews and/or help?

Then are there any sites you can use to share your masterpiece? Like Google Video, iTunes, Download.Com?

 The following paragraph is in the 5/11/06 PD.   A tour of the water works would be an important infrastructure review I recommend - particularly in light of discussion of Mayor Jackson regarding taking over suburban water systems in exchange for an amorphous regional mutual city and town non poaching of businesses promise.

Benefit Native Plant Sale at the Nature Center at Shake Lakes, including Columbine, Milkweed, Butterflyweed, Asters, False Indigo, Wild Sienna, Turtlehead, Coneflowers, Joe Pye Weed, Bottle Gentian, Wild Iris, Blazing Star, Cardinal Flower, Lobelia, Foxglove Penstemon, Obedient Plant, Stonecrop, Royal Catchfly, Fire Pink, Goldenrod and Blue Vervain.

Join volunteers with the Lance Armstrong Foundation to focus attention on heath, medical research and saving lives and “Ride to Work” with the Lance Armstrong Foundation on Wednesday May 17th.  Be a part of nationwide activities right here in Northeast Ohio, raising the issue of medical research and therapies and talking about solutions for people with extraordinary challenges.

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Verb Ballets presents an evening entitled Verb Ballets Celebrates Cleveland Composers, performing to new music written by three Cleveland composers: Backlash by Eric Ericziolek, Eight Easy Pieces for Piano by Jonathan Sheffer, musical director of Red {an orchestra} and two world premiere pieces by Klaus Roy, formerly with the Cleveland Orchestra. The music will be performed live.

Support the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse -- a flowering oasis that is always free to the public -- and get beautiful potted plants for your garden. Sale is 10 am -4 pm Fri, Sat and Sun, but get there early for the best  or call 216-664-3103.

Join a distinguished list of artists exhbiting at this downtown gallery space dedicated to showcasing Ohio Artists.

Judged by Andrew Boroweic
(http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/borowiec_andrew.php)

Curated by Herb Ascherman
(http://www.freetimes.com/print.php?sid=3264&POSTNUKESID=24aa2fceed74b
ef7dde959c055a6603a)

Gallery 324
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, OH 44114

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 19th, 2006     5 - 8 PM
Light refreshments provided.
Exhibition continues through June 30, 2006
Gallery Hours:  Monday - Friday 10 - 6, Saturday 10 - 2, and by
appointment

More information:
216.780.1522
marcus [at] designerglass [dot] com" target="_blank">marcus [at] designerglass [dot] com 

About the Show:
Andrew Boroweic is well-known for his extraordinary eye. If you´re
bored with the ordinary photograph, this is the photography show to
come see.

Boroweic says that the challenge of finding art in photography is
similar to the challenge of finding poetry in language. The art
inheres in how the ordinary is made extraordinary - not because it´s
so different but because it´s often only a little different: just
different enough. Come see what he means in this show.

About the Gallery:
Founded in 2005, the mission of Gallery 324 is to showcase primarily
Ohio artists. Located in the Galleria at Erieview on the first floor,
near the Food Court, Gallery 324 is operated by Marcus Bales, a
Cleveland glass artist, in conjunction with Gary Roberts, a Cleveland
furniture designer. 

A gallery talk and opening reception for an exhibition at the Cleveland State Art Gallery, Into View: Celebrating 15 years of Window to Sculpture. An exhibition of current works by alumni of the The Sculpture Center's window To Sculpture program, which was created by David E. Davis, late sculptor and founder of The Sculpture Center, to nuture the careers of emerging Ohio sculptors.

The Fund for Our Economic Future, an unprecedented collaboration among organized philanthropy of northeast Ohio to promote regional economic development, needs your help with its bold and exciting initiative, Voices & Choices.  Voices & Choices is the most extensive public engagement process ever undertaken in this country.  We will involve thousands of people across the region to create an agenda of economic development transformation. 

Verb Ballets presents an evening entitled Verb Ballets Celebrates Cleveland Composers, performing to new music written by three Cleveland composers: Backlash by Eric Ericziolek, Eight Easy Pieces for Piano by Jonathan Sheffer, musical director of Red {an orchestra} and two world premiere pieces by Klaus Roy, formerly with the Cleveland Orchestra. The music will be performed live.

Support the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse -- a flowering oasis that is always free to the public -- and get beautiful potted plants for your garden. Sale is 10 am -4 pm Fri, Sat and Sun, but get there early for the best  or call 216-664-3103.

Since its beginnings in 1969, the Hessler Street Fair has become a music and arts tradition in Cleveland. This joyous festival of arts, handmade crafts, music, dance, poetry, theater, performance and food is held on University Circle's Hessler Street, Cleveland's first historic landmark district.

Viktor Schreckengost showed enormous talent while a student at The Cleveland Institute of Art (then the Cleveland School of Art). His figure drawing and design renderings from the 1920s are stunning examples of his sensitive approach to form. Viktor never forgot the power of observation; he perfected it in the industrial design products that followed his post-college years.

The Friends of the Crooked River has announced an exciting line-up of events for the 16th Annual RiverDay celebration to be held on Saturday, May 20, 2006. First held in 1991, RiverDay is a day long festival of activities celebrating the Cuyahoga River and its watershed. Join the celebration of the Cuyahoga River. This year's theme is “Bringing Down the Barriers- Opening the River, Hearts and Minds.”

Evening in Ohio City: Progressive food and wine tasting in six fantastic Ohio City homes featuring dishes from award-winning restaurants. Don't miss out on a Cleveland spring tradition. Make plans to join us as we celebrate the 2006 edition of Weekend in Ohio City -- your "passport" to Cleveland's historic west side neighborhood.

Support the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse -- a flowering oasis that is always free to the public -- and get beautiful potted plants for your garden. Sale is 10 am -4 pm Fri, Sat and Sun, but get there early for the best  or call 216-664-3103.

Since its beginnings in 1969, the Hessler Street Fair has become a music and arts tradition in Cleveland. This joyous festival of arts, handmade crafts, music, dance, poetry, theater, performance and food is held on University Circle's Hessler Street, Cleveland's first historic landmark district.

Ohio City Home Tour: Don't miss out on a Cleveland spring tradition. Make plans to join us as we celebrate the 2006 edition of Weekend in Ohio City -- your "passport" to Cleveland's historic west side neighborhood.

http://www.gcbl.org/events/explore-the-natural-flats-05-25-2006

CLEVELAND, OH—Kevin Phillips, a former GOP strategist, will speak about his newest book American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century at noon on Friday, May 26, 2006, at The City Club of Cleveland.

Closing Reception and Curators Remarks for Two Exhibitions at the Cleveland Artists Foundation Apr 29- May 27:

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