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
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum you can see Art Saved My Life, an exhibit of works by Cleveland-born Michelangelo Lovelace, through August 18th.
Akron Symphonic Winds
The Akron Symphonic Windswill present a half-dozen concerts around Northeast Ohio this summer. They'll perform ion Saturday, July 27th at the Akron Art Expo in Hardesty Park, and inn Parma Heights on Sunday evening, July 28th, at Nathan Hale Park in Parma Heights.
Apollo's Fire
The Summer Countryside Concert Series by Apollo's Fire presents Vivaldi's Four Seasons Rediscovered. Jeannette Sorrell and friends will present performances in a wide variety of venues ranging from the Holden Arboretum to the Gervasi Vineyard through August 13th.
Art on the Green
The Hudson Society of Artists’42nd annual Art on the Green show will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th. More than 150 juried artists and crafters will take part. The show will go on rain or shine at the at Joann Fabrics Headquarters on Darrow Road in Hudson.
Asian Lantern Festival
The Asian Lantern Festival returns to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo continuing through August 25th. There'll be live acrobatic performances every hour and a variety of culturally inspired cuisine.
Beck Center
Lakewood's Beck Center is presenting Beautiful, The Carole King Musicalthrough August 11th
Bop Stop
At the Bop Stop On Tuesday, July 23, it's an evening with contemporary trombonist Hank Bilal. On the 24th, you can hear the group Djangophonique.
Borderlight Festival
This year's BorderLight Theatre Festivalwill present 4 International Shows, 43 Fringe Shows, and 8 Workshops across 20 stages in and around the Playhouse Square District from July 24th through 27th.
Canton Museum of Art
Aa the Canton Museum of Art A Material World: Janice Jakielski's Impossible Objects, running through July 28.
Clague Playhoouse
Clague Playhousewill host A Night of Comedy on Friday, evening, July 26th. The evening will feature three local comedians: Kathie Dice, Rob Coleman and Bil Benden, The show may contain adult language. 440-331-0403
Cleveland Chamber Collective
The Cleveland Chamber Collective will present its next concert, Music of America, on Saturday evening, August 3rd, at Disciples Christian Church. The program will feature music by Caroline Shaw, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Canadian composer Michael Oesterle, Trevor Kazarian and Eric Charnofsky.
Cleveland Cinematheque
At the Cleveland Cinemateque, the Premiere Showcase will feature new international films by Bertrand Bonello, Marcho Bellocchio and others in 17 different programs in July and August. There'll be 28 different programs, new and old film, in the Second Look series. And there'll be three short series featuring early films of Francis Ford Coppola, Milestones of Pre=Revolution Iranian Cinema and three by Kenji Misumi.
Cleveland International Piano Competition
Tickets for this summer's Cleveland International Piano Competition are now on sale. The competition will take place July 28th through August 10th.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Piano Cleveland has placed six golden pianos in prominent—and sometimes unexpected—locations throughout the city.
As part of the installation, Piano Cleveland is hosting 30-45 minute pop-up concerts with local pianists at each site. When the pianos are not being used for scheduled performances, Piano Cleveland encourages pianists of all levels to play. “ Cleveland City Hall, Playhouse Square’s Connor Palace, Tower City outside the Eatery), Market Hall at Van Aken District, Pivot Center, and Cleveland Public Library Main Branch, Saturdays at noon
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art's new exhibition is titled Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience,a digital experience with animation inspired by a 19th-century folding screen depicting the Korean mountain’s scenery. The CMA’s exhibition will be on view through September 29.
Two monumental figurative sculptures by Native American sculptor Rose B. Simpson will soon be installed in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art . Rose B. Simpson: Strata, commissioned specifically for the museum’s space, consists of two 25-foot-tall sculptures constructed from the artist’s signature clay medium, in addition to metalwork, porous concrete, and cast bronze. The exhibit is in the Ames Family Atrium and will continue through next April 13th.
Picturing the Border is a new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It features more than four dozen photographs, showing that Latinx, Chicano/a, and Mexican photographers have significantly rethought what defines citizenship, nationality, family, migration, and the border beyond traditional frameworks. The exhibition in the Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery will be on view through January 5.
Cleveland Orchestra
At the Blossom Music Center on Saturday, July 27th, the Orchestra will be joined by Guest Conductor Hannu Lintu and principal cellist Mark Kosower for Walton's Cello Concerto as well as music by Sibelius and Shostakovich. And August 2nd through 4th, it's the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with live orchestra, chorus, and soloists.
There's another Summers at Severance concert coming up on Thursday evening, July 26th. Guest Conductor Petr Popelka and violinist James Ehnes join the Orchestra in music of Franck, Dvorak and Korngold
Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
The free Cleveland Shakespeare Festival Cleveland Shakespeare Festivalwill bring two plays to a wide variety of outdoor sites this summer, from Lorain to Bay Village, Tremont to Mentor, and many points in between. The season continues with King Lear through August 4th. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
DanceCleveland
Dance Cleveland presents the return of San Fransico-based O-D-C Dance, for an evening of three contemporary dance works. Performances are on Community Dance Day, Saturday, July 27th at Playhouse Square.
GroundWorks
After 25 years of contemporary dance performances in Northeast Ohio, GroundWorks DanceTheaterwill present its grand finale performances. These very special performances will feature three new dance works, including GroundWorks Founding Artistic Director David Shimotakahara's tribute to the music of jazz great Thelonious Monk, company Artist in Residence Antonio Brown's latest to an original music and sound collage, and the commissioned work "The Sixth" by Seattle-based guest choreographer Olivier Wevers set to original music by American composer Philip Daniel. Performances are Friday and Saturday, August 2nd and 3rd at Akron's Firestone Park, and Saturday, August 20th at Cain Park's Evans Amphitheater.
Kent Blossom Music Festival
The Kent Blossom Music Festival is a partnership between Kent State University and The Cleveland Orchestra. There are regular public performances, including faculty concerts on Wednesday evenings in Ludwig Recital Hall at Kent State, and the Young Artist Concert Series, performances by the young artists who attend Kent Blossom Music Festival. Those performances take place at a variety of venues throughout Northeast Ohio. The program runs through July 27th.
Lakewood Arts Festival
The 47th Annual Lakewood Arts Fest will be held Saturday, August 3rd, from 10 AM to 6PM.
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The next concert by the Lake Erie Wind Quintet is called Milk and Cookies: Music for your Inner Child. It will take place Sunday afternoon, August 4th, at Lakewood Presbyterian Church on Detroit Road in Lakewood.
LatinUs Theater
The next production by LatinUs Theater Company is "Trópico Macbeth Part One, The Rise to Power," an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise. It's the first installment of a two-part series focused on Macbeth. It will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, August 8th through September 7th, at the Pivot Center..
McGaffin Carillon
The McGaffin Carillon in University Circleis presenting a Friday evening Carillon concert on July 26th. There's a 6:15 pre-concert talk before the 7:00 concert. The concert can be heard from the car, from the Case Western Reserve campus around the bell tower, or via the online stream.
Medina Community Band
The Medina Community Band is presenting a Summer Gazebo Series of Friday evening concerts in the Gazebo on the Medina Public Up-town Park Square. The band's final summer concert on Friday evening, July 26th, will include music of Leroy Anderson, Lerner and Loew and John Philips Soua.
Musical Theater Project
The new season of the Musical Theater Project's The Songs is You series will sample and celebrate such new musicals as the Tony Award-winning The Outsiders, along with Water for Elephants and Suffs, a show about the women’s suffrage movement. The show will also look back 25 years to rediscover such hits as The Producers, Wicked and Light in the Piazza. There are two performances, Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th, at the Chagrin Valley Little Theater.
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. The schedule will include Janet Planet, a restoration of the classic Severn Samurai, Made in England: the Films of Powell and Pressburger, and a Car Video Fest.
Ohio Contemporary Ballet
Ohio Contemporary Ballet's Summer Season will include the Heinz Poll Summer Dances Festival July 26th and 27th at Forest Lodge Park in Akron. They'll perform a program called Ballet Under the Stars on Saturday evening, August 3rd in the group's own studio on Lee Road, Ohio Contemporary Ballet will appear at Lakeside Chautauqua with the Lakeside Symphony on Friday evening, August 9th, and will appear at Tremont's Arts In August Festival on Saturday evening, August 10th.
Ohio Light Opera
Ohio Light Opera is celebrating its 45th Festival Season at the College of Wooster. The season concludes on July 28th. Six productions will play in repertory. 330-263-2345
Old Brooklyn
In Cleveland's Old Brooklyn area, the Ben Franklin Community Garden will present its annual Music Series. On first and third Saturday evenings until September, the series will feature a wide range of performers through September 21st.
Piano Cleveland
Tickets for this summer's Cleveland International Piano Competition are now on sale. The competition will take place July 28th through August 10th.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Piano Cleveland has placed six golden pianos in prominent—and sometimes unexpected—locations throughout the city.
As part of the installation, Piano Cleveland is hosting 30-45 minute pop-up concerts with local pianists at each site. When the pianos are not being used for scheduled performances, Piano Cleveland encourages pianists of all levels to play. “ Cleveland City Hall, Playhouse Square’s Connor Palace, Tower City outside the Eatery), Market Hall at Van Aken District, Pivot Center, and Cleveland Public Library Main Branch, Saturdays at noon
Porthouse Theater
The summer season of Porthouse Theater, Kent State University's summer theater, located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center concludes with "Annie".
Rabbit Run Theater
At Rabbit Run Theater Music Man will run through July 20th. And Clue will be onstage August 2nd through 24th.
Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival
Akron’s annual Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festivalwill take place Thursday through Saturday, September 5th, 6th and 7th, at a variety of locations in downtown Akron. There’ll also be some panels going on throughout the day on Saturday 7th.
Stark Parks
Stark Parksand the Canton Symphony Orchestra are partnering
for the tenth year for the summer serenades outdoor concerts through September 5th at a variety of locations around Stark County.
Strongsville Community Band
The Strongsville Community Bandis celebrating its 35th season with a summer-long series of concerts, most of them taking place at Strongsville Middle School on Friday evenings.
Transformer Station
There'll be a mix of live local music and conversation at Third Thursdays at Transformer Station. Curated and hosted by Ideastream Public radio personalities, each event engages a different show host with a band, highlighting the diversity of Northeast Ohio’s music scene. On August 15, you can hear the Aidan Plank Ensemble with JazzNEO's Dan Polletta. are free, but a ticket is required. 216-421-7350
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Churchon Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On July 24th, Robert Myers will play Going Neo-Baroque - music by Paul Hindemith, Hermann Schroeder, Flor Peeters, Helmut Walcha, and Wilbur Held. And on July 31st, Florence Mustric plays “I’ve got your Bach”