Literary Cleveland is introducing a new online anthology titled, “Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life and Love in Northeast Ohio” at a virtual launch party and reading on Friday, April 9 at 7 pm.
With the opening of the Digital Weaving Lab at Praxis Fiber Workshop last month, the Waterloo Arts District in Collinwood added another jewel to its already glittering crown. It is the only such training center with a digital loom that offers professional residencies on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The 80,000-square-foot “Pivot Center for Art::Dance::Expression” unites arts and social services, including a program led by a victim of a notorious kidnapping nearby. Gina DeJesus helps families like hers on the same square block where she was held captive for nine years.
At Euclid High School, students needed this safe space and made it happen on Saturdays to avoid bullying and stigma. Now, the group boasts active participation from around 20 students each meeting (now held every other Friday after school). Though their club may have been “officially” cut, these students persist.
The Bellaire-Puritas neighborhood on Cleveland’s west side will break ground on two new projects in the coming weeks: a 60-foot-long mural honoring and celebrating individuals who have developmental disabilities, and the first new house to be constructed in Ward 16 in decades.
Several Cleveland School of the Arts students in the Cleveland Orchestra’s Music Mentors program have branched out as teachers themselves, using what they’ve learned to train younger players at Cleveland’s Mound STEM School.
Two cousins used to interpret for the U.S. Army in their native Kabul. Now they’re selling Asian and African clothing and housewares at Kamm’s Corners. The cousins opened Asia Star Clothing and Houseware at 17108 Lorain Ave., selling dresses, scarves, headgear, bracelets, carpets, flags, cups, flasks, blankets, clocks and more.
Developers have proposed a seven-story, 102-unit apartment building on Detroit Avenue, but Mexican-American activists say tearing down the club would erase an important part of their history.
Will Sanchez hopes to open his new gallery March 1 and keep growing there as a painter, proprietor, poet, and neighborhood activist.
Refugee Response, a nonprofit organization that empowers refugees resettled in Northeast Ohio to thrive in their new home, and Facing History and Ourselves, a group that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and students to stand up to bigotry and hate, are relocating to the Urban Community School campus.
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