WCLV Arts Calendar

If your organization is planning an event you would like us to consider adding to the WCLV Arts Calendar, submit detailed information to John Simna via email.

Akron Art Museum
At the Akron Art Museum On exhibit through January 25th, you can see Ordinary Miracles: Robert Glenn Ketchum’s Photographs of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Also on exhibit is Myrlande Constant, one of Haiti’s most prominent contemporary artists. She works in the tradition of drapo (literally meaning “flags”), a style of art created with fabric, embroidery, sequins, and beads depicting symbols, stories, and spirits from the Vodou religion.

Akron Symphonic WInds
The Akron Symphonic Winds will present a series of holiday concerts throughout Northeast Ohio. TOn Monday evening, December 15th, they'll play a side by side concert with the Coventry High School Band, and on Tuesday evening, the 16th, they'll be part of the City of Green Holiday concert at The Chapel, Green Campus, featuring the Akron Symphonic Winds, with prelude music and sing along led by the Green 8th Grade Chorus.  

Akron Symphony

Apollo's Fire
Apollo's Fire's Christmas program, the Praetorious Christmas Vespers will return for five performances in Northeastern Ohio through December 21st.

Arts Renaissance Tremont
Arts Renaissance Tremont will present the Burning River Brass in its annual Holiday Concert, called An ARTful Christmas on Friday evening, December 19. The series has returned to Pilgrim United Church of Christ on West 14th Street in Tremont.

Baldwin Wallace University

Beck Center
Coming to Lakewood's Beck Center is The SpongeBob Musical, based on the animated series by Stephen Hillenburg, with music by David Bowie and Panic! At the Disco, through January 4th.

Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop,

Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, they’ve added a screening of the new documentary The Librarians, which focuses on recent book bans sweeping the US. Other new films include Sierra Falconer’s feature debut Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), and Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu’s Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait. There's also a new 4K restoration of Ardak Amirkulov’s hypnotic epic The Fall of Otrar. The Body’s Night series will continue with Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void shown from a 35mm print. And they Architectural Affect series continues with Wim Wenders’ award-winning Perfect Days, which will be followed by a Film Club discussion lead by film scholar Linda Ehrlich.

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project will join forces to explore Music of Hoagy Carmichael and featuring vocalists Erin Kufel Keckan, Michael Shirtz, and Evelyn Wright Saturday January 24th at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.

Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art and FRONT International present New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington, the capstone exhibition of the FRONT 2022 Art Futures Fellows. The exhibition is on view at the CMA’s Transformer Station through December 27th.

The Cleveland Museum of Art is currently presenting its exclusive exhibition, Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses, showing connection between modern fashion and Renaissance art. The exhibit is on view through February 1st.

Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra's holiday concerts will run from December 13th through 21st.

The regular subscription concerts will resume January 8th, 9th and 10th will a concert including Mozart's 40th Symphony. And the Orchestra will present it's annual Martin Luther King Junior Celebration Concert on Sunday evening, January 11th.

Dobama Theater
Dobama Theater will feature an adaptation by Greg Banks of J .R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Hobbit will run through January 4th. 216-932-3396

Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater will present the 37th anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, at the Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square. A Christmas Carol runs through December 21st.

Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet will present a program called Reed 'em and Weep, an afternoon of solos, duets, and trios performed by members of the ensemble. The program will be presented twice, on Sunday, January 11th at United Methodist Church of Brookpark on Smith Road in Cleveland, and again on Sunday, January 18th at United Methodist Church of Macedonia. 440-332-7763

Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum will present El Sueno Americano - The American Dream, an exhibition on the migrant experience at the U.S./Mexico border. The exhibit will feature works by photographer Tom Kiefer and artist Elizabeth Z. Pineda. It will continue through February 26th.

Music at Bath Concert Series
The Music at Bath Concert Series will present a Holiday concert by the Burning River Brass on Thursday evening, December 18th.

Musical Theater Project
The Musical Theater Project and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will join forces to explore Stardust: Music of Hoagy Carmichael and featuring vocalists Erin Kufel Keckan, Michael Shirtz, and Evelyn Wright Saturday January 24th at Maltz Performing Arts Center.

Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. Current screenings include Train Dreams, 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour, Rental Family and Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain.

No Exit
Cleveland's No Exit and the group's frequent collaborators, the Saint Paul-based new music ensemble Zeitgeist will present a concert-plus experience in the form of a 50-minute immersive multimedia extravaganza, An Evocation of Our Current Time. No Exit and guests will create a very different kind of sound bath via improvisation, film, artificial intelligence, environmental manipulation, lies, magic, gaslighting and other forms of chicanery, all to serve as an outpouring of our present reality.
Performances tkae place Thursday, Friday and Satuday evenings, January 8th, 9th and 10th, at Trinity Cathedral in Downtown Cleveland, Spaces at1900 Detroit Road and Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights.

North Pointe Ballet
Lorain County's North Pointe Ballet will continue to celebrate its 10th Anniversary Season with its annual production of The Nutcracker. There will be performances in Berea December 19th through 21st at Berea-Midpark High School Performing Arts Center.

Oberlin College
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College will present Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City. The exhibit will feature Monet’s early cityscapes of Paris as it emerges as a modern metropolis. The show is on view through December 23

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oberlin graduate violinist Jennifer Koh will join the will join the Contemporary Music Ensemble and conductor Timothy Weiss at Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday evening, January 23rd. The free program will include Olly Wilson's song cycle Of Visions and Truth, the premiere of Oberlin Associate Professor of Composition Jesse Jones' Ennead and Courtney Bryan's Syzygy. The program is free, but tickets are required.

Resonance Project
The Resonance Project will present another in the series of Chamber Music in the Galleries concerts at the Cleveland Museum of Art. on Wednesday, December 17th. Harpsichordist Qin Ying Tan will play program of music suggested by the exhibit. Its a free concert in the Baroque Painting and Sculpture Gallery.

Saint James Episcopal Painesville
The Saint James Episcopal Church Choir in Painesville will present a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas on Sunday evening, December 21st.

Symphony West
Symphony West will present its holiday concert on Friday evening, December 19th, Baldwin Wallace’s Gamble Auditorium. The program will include traditional holiday favorites and some rarely heard items such as the Christmas Overture by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On Wednesday December 24th, Robert Myers plays Music for Christmas, selections by J.S. Bach, Louis D’Aquin, Gordon Young, and others. Linda Kempke will perform on 17th and 31st.

Wolfs Gallery
Wolfs Gallery is presenting the works of Cleveland-born artist August Frederick Biehle in an exhibit titled Reckoning with Modernism. The show will be on view through December 30th.