Kamm's Corners Farmer Market opens - June 5th

Kamm's Corners Farmers Market season opening

Sunday, June 5th

10am - 2pm

@ the Municipal Parking Lot at W. 168th St. and Lorain Ave.

Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market - Growing Healthy Produce, Healthy People and Healthy Connections in the West Park Community and beyond.

The popular neighborhood market kicks off its fifth season on June 5^th. The thirty market members grow or produce their offerings so the food is as fresh as it comes - from Ohio raised meat to produce picked the morning its sold. Also featuring live music, local artists and healthy living education; the Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market serves up much more than food.

“Local food” has become somewhat of a buzzword in recent years, but there are a number of reasons behind the buzz. Locally grown food and farmer’s markets not only benefit farmers, but are also good for consumers, the environment, the local economy, and the community.

Healthy Produce - Eating local food is healthier for our environment because it requires less fossil fuel to transport and little, if any chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

Healthy People - Locally grown food is healthier than food imported or transported over long distances - it is both fresher and less susceptible to contamination because of its short journey from farm to plate.

Healthy Connections - Food grown and sold locally is also healthier for the regional economy because it lends support to local farmers and cottage industries as well as increases pedestrian traffic to traditional mom and pop storefronts. Local food deemphasizes big box stores, chain restaurants and fast food and re-introduces aspects of community long forgotten. It is healthier for our relationships, helping to bridge the gap between people of different ages, races, religions, and income levels. While food is essential to our survival, local food also reconnects us to a larger essential, community.

Collaborative efforts to increase access to and availability of fresh, local food and produce have resulted in educational programs, subsidized produce vendor incubator space, joint marketing campaigns as well as the $5 EBT incentive program offered at the Kamm’s Corners and six other Cleveland area farmers markets. More information about the Growhio / ODA programs can be found atwww.growhio.org

LEAF Night Spring Fest 2011

LEAF Night begins June 1st with

SPRING FEST 2011!

Come kick off the growing season with Lakewood Earth And Food Community's First Annual Spring Fest on Wednesday, June 1 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm in front of Lakewood Public Library. All are welcome to join in the celebration as LEAF begins our fifth year of providing broad access to fresh, local foods, knowledge and culture to the Lakewood community. Spring Fest will go above and beyond the typical LEAF Night activities, to incorporate more local vendors, a plant swap, hands on activities for the kids, and a sampling of local restaurants.

Details of the evening's activities are listed below:

• Local Vendors - Stroll along Mars Ave and check out nearly a dozen local vendors. From produce to soap to local eggs and honey, there's something for everyone.

• Plant and Seed Swap - Bring your divided perennials, extra seedlings, etc to the LEAF Plant Swap and add some variety to your garden at the same time! Bring a plant, take a plant- plus learn from your fellow gardeners at the same time!

• Food - Get a taste of 56 West, watch as Gatherings Kitchen prepares seasonal fare, and cool off with lemonade from Root Cafe.

• City Fresh Sign Up - It isn't too late to sign up for Lakewood's favorite CSA program. Come on June 1st, sign up and pay for the first City Fresh pick-up on June 8th!

• Kids Activities - Hang out with LEAF to plant seeds, do a craft, or learn more about local food through reading in the Library's Children's section.

• Music - Listen to the musical talents of featured local artists.

• EBT - This year LEAF has applied for and received a grant that will allow us to take EBT payments, not only for City Fresh, but for all of our other (food) vendors and farmers as well. This means that our friends, family and neighbors who receive SNAP benefits can buy healthy local food at LEAF Night! Look for the EBT sign for more information.

LeafCommunity

'Gasland' screening and discussion

'Gasland' screening and discussion

Thursday, May 26th

Lakewood Main Library

15425 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, Ohio 44107

6pm

What is Fracking? How will it affect the health of yourself, your family, and your community? Why does it matter to Ohioans right now?

We will discuss these and other important questions at a special FREE screening of the award winning documentary Gasland (http://youtu.be/dZe1AeH0Qz8), followed by a discussion on Fracking in Ohio featuring Cleveland area State Legislators and Environmental experts.

Hosted by:

State Representative Nickie Antonio, State Senator Mike Skindell, No Frack Ohio Coalition, ProgressOhio.org

High volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as "Fracking", is here in Ohio after drilling its way through the other states. Right now, the House and Senate are considering multiple proposals, including parts of the Budget, to open up State Parks and public lands to oil and gas drilling, including Fracking. The House is even working right now to delete current state level prohibitions against drilling for oil and gas under Lake Eire, one of our most precious resources.

From upstate New York to Arkansas, Fracking has polluted ground water, ruined crops, lowered property values, increased traffic, devastated small communities, and even caused earthquakes. Yet, this technique is exempted from the Superfund Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA) and many other environmental regulations. Other states are enacting moratoriums to study the detrimental effects of Fracking and ensure that State regulations are up to the task, but Ohio government is moving full speed ahead without taking the time to get the data.

Please come learn the facts about Fracking, the consequences for our communities, and find out how you can get involved in the fight.

More information about Gasland (http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/): "The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."

Wall Eye Gallery bike-art show to benefit OCBC

Wall Eye Gallery bike-art show to benefit OCBC

This Friday, May 20 from 6 - 11pm we hope you'll join us for the opening reception of Pedaling Art, a juried show of more than 100 works of bike-themed art to mark Cleveland Bicycle Week, and benefit the OCBC's educational mission.

Wall Eye Gallery, at 5304 Detroit Ave, is a very cool, co-operatively owned venture located in the up-and-coming Gordon Square district.

The event is free, and open to the public. We'll be valet parking bikes all night, and staffing a table to present info about OCBC membership, and our own bike part arts and crafts for sale.

If you are a member of the OCBC or would like to help you can sign up here.

If you are a facespacer you can catch them on facespace here.

Burning the Midnight Oil - Cheerio Exterior Installation

A while back a friend who ran an office in LA moved back to Cleveland to finish up a local project, the rehab of a mixed use structure on the West End of the Cleveland neighborhood known as the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood (which has recently undergone some major rehabilitation). Adam (my buddy) asked if I would be interested in helping him "do something" with the building (known as the Cheerio Building) as the residential units are reaching completion and the commercial units are still rather raw.

Regardless to say (and I won't bother with the minutia just yet) the storefront installation (Or installation 1 of 2-oh my god time is flying too fast) is 60% done and up for the world to see. With this in mind I figured I may as well put the word out before massive rumors of an urban animal menagerie got too far out of hand.

The exterior installation is simply an attempt to make the construction barricade/boardup palatable to the community. We put some CDX on 2x framing, spray painted a graphic (morse code for you math nerds), perforated the plywood (to play with back lighting) and began putting the larger graphics up as well. There is still more to do, including installing the panels on the other storefronts and finishing the stencil work.

And this is the exterior installation, one is in the works for the interior when the building is "opened" for an exhibition.

As the whole thing comes together, more explanation, written in archi-prose completely self referential and ironic (so no one can understand it) will be offered. In the mean time just enjoy the giant pink rhino that now graces Detroit Ave. in Cleveland. (insert rhino noise here)

Sculpture Center After the Pedestal Call for Artists

AFTER THE PEDESTAL CALL FOR ARTISTS

OPEN TO CURRENT MFA STUDENTS AND 2009-11 MFA GRADUATES OF SCHOOLS IN OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND ONTARIO, CANADA

CLOSES JULY 16, MIDNIGHT

for call for artists and application click here

The Sculpture Center is focused this year on the many exceptional artists at our larger region's institutions of higher learning, art schools, colleges, or universities. Our summer exhibitionSculptureX: 6 Sculptors from Ohio and Western Pennsylvania was curated by David Carrier from submissions from 35 schools in that area and is part of the SculptureX.org website, created by Edinboro University of Pennsylvania to serve as a collaborative professional exchange and marketing tool for all schools that want to participate. To launch these endeavors we held the well attended and highly successful SculptureX Symposium #1: The State of Sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art in November 2010.

Continuing with this theme of exchange and promotion, The Sculpture Center's call for artists for the annual juried After the Pedestal is being restricted, this one time only, to all current MFA students and 2009 -2011 MFA graduates from studio art programs in Ohio, its contiguous states (Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania) and Ontario, Canada. The artists can be working in all media of sculpture, including installation, conceptual work, and performance video if object based, are eligible. Barbara Hunt McLanahan, Executive Director of the Judd Foundation, is the juror for After the Pedestal. The exhibition will tie in withSculptureX Symposium #2: The State of the MFA, again being held at the Cleveland Institute of Art, on October 15, 2011, free and open to the public.

If you would like to register for the sympsium, please email me your name, school affiliation (if any), interest in participating if you are a graduate student, and email address. More information will be sent to you.

Sculpture Center website

2011 Cleveland Design Competition Launch

from the nice folks at the Competition:

The 2011 Cleveland Design Competition is now Open for Registration!!!

We are pleased to announce the 2011 Cleveland Design Competition: A NEW School Vision is now Open for Registration!!!

The 2011 Cleveland Design Competition invites professionals, students, firms and designers from all over the world to submit extraordinary visions for a new K - 12 public school in Downtown Cleveland. At a time when educators are implementing dramatically new ideas in pedagogy, curricula and organization models, the reinvention of learning environments deserves equal attention. The 2011 Cleveland Design Competition presents an opportunity to re-imagine the school and explore how educational facilities must evolve to provide world-class opportunities for learning.

The challenges that education and educational facilities are currently experiencing are not unique to the City of Cleveland. Many cities throughout the world are faced with a growing achievment gap between high performing and poor performing schools. Families from communities with poor performing schools who seek to improve the educational opportunities for their children have little choice but to move to communities where the school districts are better funded, operated and offer more opportunities for academic success. The 2011 Cleveland Design Competition invites designers to re-evaluate prescribed formulas for school planning and design and offer new approaches that support new educational philosophies that will influence better learning environments in the City of Cleveland and around the world.

For 2011, the Cleveland Design Competition has partnered with the Cleveland Metroplitan School District (CMSD) and Cleveland State University (CSU) to solicit ideas for a new innovative school for Campus International School (CIS) in Downtown Cleveland. While Cleveland Design Competition is an ideas-based, single stage competition, our CMSD and CSU competition partners have contributed invaluable information and support developing the competition challenge over the past year. Their involvement has been critical to developing the competition brief as well as selecting a great site that CSU is currently recommending as the future home for the Campus International School. All three partners (CSU, CMSD, CIS) are very excited to see the results!

At the conclusion of the 2011 Cleveland Design Competition, a jury of nationally renowned experts will select submissions to receive the following prizes:

First Place: $5,000.00 USD

Second Place: $2,000.00 USD

Third Place: $1,000.00 USD

The Jury for the 2011 Cleveland Design Competition will be announced on May 27th, 2011. A list of previous nationally renowned jurors can be viewed here.

Download the 2011 Cleveland Design Competition Brief by CLICKING HERE.

River Sweep 2011

River Sweep 2011

Saturday, May 7 2011

9am-noon

Please join us as Ohio Canal Corridor celebrates 22 years of Ohio’s largest done-in-a-day cleanup effort. Over the course of our 22+ years, we have recruited local businesses, corporations, and even individuals for contributions and volunteer teams to support this cause. This year the event will be held on Saturday, May 7th from 9 am until noon- volunteers receive gloves and bags. First 1,000 volunteers to sign up will receive a commemorative Buddha Frog t-shirt designed by George Cogill. Don’t forget to join us at the luncheon after the event from noon to 2 pm at the Rivergate Room located in the Power House on the West Bank of the Flats. (Address: 1400 West 10th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113) Lunch includes pizza (presented by Pizza Pan) and entertainment by Ray Conde. To become more involved please see the list of clean-up sites below and corresponding contact information:

Volunteer waivers must be signed before you participate in the event!

The Flats: To clean up in the Flats please email Kathy Cole at Kcole@ohiocanal.org.

Canal Basin: Please contact Kathy Cole at Kcole@ohiocanal.org or at 216-520-1825. Meet at the intersection of Merwin and West. North of Flat Iron/Red Swing Bridge, south of Settlers Landing.

Scranton Road: Please contact Kathy Cole at Kcole@ohiocanal.org or at 216-520-1825. Meet at the intersection of Scranton Road and Carter Road (Eagle Ave. Bridge).

Morgana Run: Link to Slavic Village Development Corporation. Please contact Jacob Van Sickle at jacobv@slavicvillage.org or at 216-429-1182 ex. 107. Meet at 6711 Broadway in the parking lot of Aldi and Metrohealth.

Train Avenue: Link to Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, and Brooklyn Center Community Development Office. Please contact Sasha Ottoson-Deal at sottoson-deal@dscdo.org or 216-961-9073. Meet at Aries Industries.

Tremont: Link to Tremont West Development Corporation. Please contact Scott Rosenstein at scottrosenstein@twdc.org or 216-575-0920. Meet at Clark field (approx. address: 2690 West 7th Street).

West Creek: Link to West Creek Preservation Committee. Please contact Sue Zurovchak atzuros@aol.com or 440-915-2948. meet at Pleasent Valley and Broadview Rd. in parma. Park at Giant Eagle off Broadview Rd.

Big Creek/Lower Havard: Link to Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation. Please contact Lori Peterson at lorip@oldbrooklyn.com or 216-459-1000. Meet at Lower Harvard, Jennings, W. 14th.

Millcreek: Link to Slavic Village Development Corporation. Please contact Marlane Weslian at marlanew@slavicvillage.org or at 216-346-3018. Meet at Brilla House (8411 Webb Terrace) located at the intersection of Turkey, Broadway, and Warner.

May is National Bike Month - Bike Fairs this week 2011.05.04 + 05th

As the weather finally warms up to tolerable temperatures it's time to take the winter cycling clothes and pack them away, tune up the bike for spring, check your fenders (it's the rainy season in most locales) and celebrate National Bike Month by riding safe and often.

Local programs are in effect:

Local Bike Safety Fairs

May 4th Rocky River Bike Safety Fair:

Rocky River Middle School, 1631 Lakeview Ave.

6.30-8pm

May 5th Bay Village Bike Safety Fair:

Bay Middle School, 27725 Wolf Rd.

6.30-8pm

at the fair-

• Professional bicycle mechanics from Century Cycles bicycle store in Rocky River will provide free bicycle safety inspections, display essential bike commuting gear, and hand out flyers with bicycle safety tips and etiquette.

• Century Cycles and Raleigh Bicycles are teaming up to give away 20 bicycle helmets to the first 20 families who attend each fair (limit: one helmet per family).

• University Hospitals’ Rainbow Injury Prevention Center, Safe Kids Coalition, and Why Not Wear A Helmet will be on hand to communicate the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet and will assist Century Cycles staff with helmet fittings.

• Informational booths, including one hosted by Bike to School Challenge organizers, who will be available to answer questions about the program.

• The Bay Village and Rocky River Police Departments will be providing free bike licenses.

The sponsors of Rocky River Middle School Bike to School Challenge are Century Cycles, Fuel Up to Play 60, Raleigh Bicycles, Chipotle, Honey Hut, Bay Lanes, and Rocky River Middle School PTA. The sponsors of Bay Bike To School Challenge are Century Cycles, Raleigh Bicycles, Chipotle, Honey Hut, Bay Lanes, Project Earth Environmental Club, Bay Skate and Bike Park Foundation, Bay Kiwanis, and Bay PTAs.

For more information and regular updates about Bay and Rocky River Bike to School Challenges, go to www.centurycycles.com/to/bts.

With My Own Two Wheels documentary Cleveland premiere

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

With My Own Two Wheels - documentary

@ the Cedar Lee Theatre

2163 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

7pm

Century Cycles is proud to be one of the community sponsors of a benefit for World Bicycle Relief that will feature the Cleveland premiere of an award-winning documentary film, With My Own Two Wheels, on Tuesday, May 3, at 7 p.m. at the Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights).

Filmmaker Jacob Seigel-Bottner will attend the benefit screening to introduce the film and lead a post-show discussion. The documentary weaves together the experiences of five individuals -- from California, Zambia, India, Ghana and Guatemala -- into a single story about how bicycles can change the world, one pedal stroke at a time.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students/seniors. The benefit will include a raffle to which Century Cycles and other local sponsors have donated prizes, and those tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. All proceeds benefit World Bicycle Relief, which is an organization that provides access to independence, health care, education and livelihood through the power of bicycles.

Reservations can be made via email at WBRbenefit@gmail.com or by visiting the event listing at http://www.clevelandbicycleweek.org/.

special thanks to Century Cycles for the heads up.

Cleveland Stories Opening Event - 2011.04.19

Cleveland Stories: True until proven otherwise

April 1 – 30, 2011 @ the Cleveland Institute of Art

Reinberger Galleries | Opening Event April 19, 6:30 - 9 p.m.

The Cleveland Stories exhibition features historic fragments, semi-fictional narratives, and outright fabrications about Cleveland. These stories provide the raw material for new ways of understanding and intervening in the city.

Cleveland Stories is a reminder that we write and (re)write the history of Cleveland every day. We invite you to be part of this work. Do you have a Cleveland Story to tell? You can add your drawings, text, or diorama to the show throughout the month of April. Then in the following months, we will be bringing some of these stories to life through installations in city neighborhoods. Visitwww.clevelandstorybook.com for updates and information on these projects.

Cleveland Stories is a joint program of the Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland State Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, andThe LIT. With support from the George Gund Foundation and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

For more information on Cleveland Stories, please visit: www.ClevelandStoryBook.com

Record Store Day (4th annual!)

Record Store Day

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Music Saves + Blue Arrow

Waterloo in Collinwood Neighborhood of Cleveland

RECORD STORE DAY at MUSIC SAVES!

Here is the long-awaited list of releases we have ordered!

(LAST UPDATED APRIL 12)

Download it! EXCEL

(use this option if ya want FULL info, and to get sorty!)

Download it! PDF

(use this option if ya want GENERAL info, and to get printy!)

GET DOWN!

Please note that we did our best to place orders to meet anticipated demand, but what we receive in the end is up to the Record Store Day gods!

We open at NOON on Saturday!

*Get in line early if you want any of the LIMITED RSD releases!*

*We will let a certain number of people into the store initially,

then will let 1 in for every 1 out!*

*All RSD releases will be limited to 1 copy of each title per person!*

The first group of folks through the door will get a bag filled with tons of cool goodies!

AND

Did you know we signed the pledge?

On RSD, please only visit stores who did! They are on your side!

A list of stores who signed is here!

Read the pledge here!

We'll be Tweeting the madness all day!

Follow us on Twitter!

Also in the store:

4-4:30pm Dan Friel (of Parts & Labor) solo in-store performance!

4:30-7:30pm Watch the debut of the Deerhunter 3D Pitchfork Session w/ 3D glasses!

This kick-ass poster is by Cleveland's own Jake Kelly!

*The MUSIC SAVES stage will be in the Beachland parking lot!

In the event of rain, bands will play in the Beachland Tavern!

***the whole bunch of this was stolen from the Music Saves website, sorry Melanie, my paraphrasing skills are not so strong this morning!

Cleveland Earth Fest April 17th

Earth Day 2011

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

10am - 5pm

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Official EarthFest 2011 Art. Illustration by Ralph Solonitz.

T-Shirts and Posters available.

Regular admission includes all Zoo exhibits and EarthFest activities

FREE Admission if you:

1. *Walk for the Earth (9am Kick-off). Registered participants only.

-or-

2. Ride the FREE RTA Clean-Air Bus

from Cleveland Public Square to the Zoo

*All Walk for the Earth proceeds will benefit Earth Day Coalition's

Student Environmental Leadership programs in Greater Cleveland.

Unintended Consequences - Camera Obscura

This Saturday I was perusing the site of an installation (pre-installation of course) with Adam Rosekelly of f i e l d s. We were exploring some smaller commercial bays of a building currently under renovation when we stumbled upon the following in the last bay. The image was created by a suspended plastic sheet about 15' from the boarded up storefront.

(the lower image was created by adjusting the f-stop on the camera, it was much darker inside than shown)

It took a while to figure out what we were looking at but when we realized that the movement at the top of the plastic sheet was passing cars it dawned on us that a small knothole in the sheathing was creating the effect of a camera obscura. For clarity I have rotated the image (see below).

...and adjusted the f-stop a touch more (after stacking some things to hold the camera steady) which allows one to really pick out the shapes and colors. I obviously couldn't catch any of the cars on "film" since the exposure was set so long. However you could see the projection of the cars on the walls before and after they "drove" across the plastic.

We spent quite a bit of time watching the effect. I don't know if this is interesting to anyone else but the awe of discovering something like this was really exciting to me.