WCLV Arts Calendar

At-a-Glance Summary of Events of Interest to WCLV Listeners

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

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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 December 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.