2013 Sustainable Cleveland Photo Contest

Sustainable Cleveland is looking for photos that capture Cleveland becoming a "thriving green city on a blue lake", something that should be pretty easy to do. Just check your file folders in between all your ruin porn of the flats/midtown/Broadway Ave./Lorain Ave./etc.

Cash money prizes for all your hard work and there are various categories.

Via Sustainable Cleveland Photo Contest -via Vibrant NEO 2040

 click to view flyer 

From the Sustainable Cleveland website…

Overview           

Sustainable Cleveland 2019 is a 10-year initiative that engages people from all walks of life, working together to build a thriving and resilient green city on a blue lake. You are invited to submit up to two photos that highlight how this vision is being made a reality in Cleveland.

You are encouraged to submit photos that relate to the Sustainable Cleveland celebration topics and key areas for climate action, including:

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• Local Foods
• Waste Reduction and Resource Conservation
• Clean Water
• Sustainable Mobility
• Vibrant Green Space
• Vital Neighborhoods and People
• Public Health

Awards

• 1st place: $1000 cash award and framed photoAmateur category
• 2nd place: $500 cash award and framed photo
• 3rd place: $250 cash award and framed photo

Youth category

• 1st place: $500 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo
• 2nd place: $250 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo
• 3rd place: $100 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo

All Entrants

The top 20 photos will be exhibited at the Sustainable Cleveland Annual Summit on October 3rd and 4th, the Sustainable Cleveland Center in Tower City, and other venues.

Entrants must be amateurs or students. Commercial photographers and post-secondary photo educators are not permitted to participate.

Eligibility Requirements and Contest Rules

• Entrants can submit up to two photos. Entrants can only win one award.
• Photos must belong to the entrant, be their original work and must not infringe the rights of any third party to the best of photographer’s knowledge. The original image may be cropped but must not be altered or edited beyond brightness, contrast and color adjustment.
• Entry into this contest constitutes the entrant’s irrevocable and perpetual license to Sustainable Cleveland, without further compensation, to use, reproduce, print, publish, transmit, adapt, enhance or display such submission for the promotion and conduct of this and future Sustainable Cleveland photo competitions. Photos will be credited to the photographer in all cases to the best of the sponsors’ abilities.
• Decisions of the judges are final and binding in all respects.  Judges reserve the right to disqualify any image.
• Contest open only to legal residents of Ohio.
• Cash Award Winners must complete and sign an IRS W-9 form with their name, address and Social Security number as a condition of receiving prizes.
• While all submitted photos must be less than 1 MB in size, all Winners will be asked to provide a high-res image for print purposes.  Make sure to save your larger file!
• There is no fee to submit.
• Entry deadline is September 1, 2013 (11:45PM EST).

Photo Submittal

Submit your information and photo(s) at the following site:  https://sustainablecleveland.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4m1/

If you would like to submit two photos, you need to fill out and submit this form twice.

If you have any questions, please email sustainability@city.cleveland.oh.us.

Taste of Tremont - 2013.07.21

There are so many nice neighborhoods around Cleveland that it is hard to filter through all the events constantly going on to pick your traditional favorites.

Taste of Tremont is one of those favorites.

Food? Check (obviously, amiright?). Booze? Check. Czechs? Um, check.

This particular year my favorite rum producers, Portside Distillery, will be making an appearance with their Clydesdale horses at 12 noon. 

AND, the heat wave should break so the weather should be GLORIOUS.

via Taste of Tremont webbernet page:

Over the past 10 years the Taste of Tremont has quickly become one of Cleveland’s “must attend” events of the summer. We have come to expect over 25,000 visitors, rain or shine, from all over the region. The Taste of Tremont’s visitor profile consistently reflects the demographics of our pre-event media outlets. This means it is a great opportunity for your company to reach this group in a very targeted and relevant way. So, consider supporting this event and enjoy the day in true “Tremont Style.”

This event is FREE to the public.  Beer in the Beer Garden is $5.00 per beer, wine is $4.00 per glass and water is for sale as well ($2.00.)  You pay each food vendor as you go, but admission is FREE!!! 

Date: Sunday, July 21, 2013

Time: 12:00pm – 8:00pm

Location: Professor Street - between Starkweather and Fairfield

Admission: FREE to attend, but you pay for food and drink as you go

Entertainment:

Beer & Wine Garden (located at north end of Professor):

New this year... serving Wine & Portside Distillery Beers 

Live music by SLAP and Big Ship

Corn Hole

Press & Barrio Parking lot: The Lucky Ones

Dante: various bands throughout the day in the parking lot

Treehouse: Mary's Lane & Boys from County Hell

Fahrenheit: DJ Gusto 

Starkweather & Professor Ave corner: Tremont Farmers Market Stage - live music all day, with Ariel Silks from 12p-4p

VENDORS: Taste of Tremont is a neighborhood festival and all vendors must have an affiliation with Tremont and Tremont West Development programs.  

Directions: 

From the EAST:

I-90 west to W 14th Street/Abbey Avenue exit

Or I-490 west to W 7th Street exit, right onto W 7th through Tremont

From the WEST:

I-90 east to W 25th Street exit, continue east on Wade to Scranton, turn left at Scranton, turn right onto Starkweather (or Kenilworth or Fairfield) into Tremont

Or

Take the Shoreway (OH 2) east to W 25th Street exit, turn right onto W 25th St, continue south to Lorain Ave (at Westside Market), turn left onto Lorain Ave then right onto Gehring Avenue and quickly left onto Abbey Avenue, continue on Abbey Avenue to Columbus Ave. Follow Columbus to Willey Ave. Turn left on Willey, which becomes Kenilworth as it crosses Scranton and continues into Tremont

From the SOUTH:

I-71 north to W 14th Street/Steelyard Commons exit, continue around the roundabout to W 14th Street, turn right onto W 14th Street, continue north into Tremont

Or

SR 176 north to W 14th Street/Steelyard Commons exit, continue around the roundabout to W 14th Street, turn right onto W 14th Street, continue north into Tremont

Or

I-77 north to I-490 west, continue on I-490 west to W 7th Street exit, right onto W 7th through Tremont

Sculpture Center Opening (with A/C) - 2013.07.19: R. Ferris

THIS FRIDAY, JULY 19 @ 6:30 - 8:00 PM IN THE MAIN GALLERY GALATEA GLANCE W2S PERFORMANCE BY R FERRIS R Ferris's Galatea Glance will eliminate the boundaries between a work of art and the viewer to establish viewers' engagement as the work itself. A nude model will portray the Greek Galatea, the ivory statue carved by Pygmalion of Cyprus that was said to spring to life because it was so perfectly modeled. ATTENTION!! THE PERFORMANCE CONTAINS NUDITY. This event is probably not suitable for most children. Also enjoy the opening at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve of Inspired by Nature from 5 - 8 pm If you haven't already done so, visit W2S artist Gary Blower's Active Vibrations in the Euclid Avenue Gallery and try playing his sculptures. It's more effective the more people are interacting with the pieces at the same time. via: the Sculpture Center

CLOG call for submissions: MIAMI

One of my favorite architecture journals (potentially my favorite) has announced their new call for submissions which strikes a particular chord for those of us from Cleveland. 

Miami.

Yes the home of CSI, Dexter, Vice and some basketball player who finally won a championship (without an asterisk) is the topic for CLOG's finely curated study.

Even as Miami stirs the architectural soul a bit as OMA and BIG battle royale for the rights to recreate the Miami Beach Convention Center in their own illustrious images (or at least in contextual interpretations) CLOG attempts to crash the party properly, shining a spotlight before the dawn (and eventual scattering) discovers the image of a new[er] city.

Courtesy of CLOG:

CLOG New York, July 16, 2013 CLOG Announces Call for Submissions for CLOG : MIAMI Photo © Andrew Kenney If you're having trouble reading this, view it online here. Submissions Due Aug 15 The largest city in the southeastern United States, Miami has long been subject to a range of unique forces—natural, political, and cultural—which have brought both booms and devastating busts. Despite setbacks, however, Miami has become a vibrant and broadly American city that mixes the historically Anglo-dominated North and the Latin South, vividly presenting many characteristics of today's United States: cosmopolitanism, an ever-shifting balance between public and private interests, economic volatility, and environmental tightrope walking. When it comes to architecture, something is definitely happening in Miami. Not only is real estate and development booming, but recently, significant civic projects have demonstrated a potentially serious public/private commitment to infuse the commons with design and the arts, as seen in the Wynwood Art District and Art Basel Miami. Miami invented a strand of mid-century Modernism, epitomized the design aesthetic of the 1980s, hosted the major intellectual center of the New Urbanism movement, and is now providing opportunities to a new (and hungry) crop of international architects in projects like the Miami Beach Convention Center, Coconut Grove, the New World Center, One Thousand Museum Tower, 111 Lincoln Road, and more. So like LeBron, it’s time for CLOG to take its talents to South Beach. Submission info here.