Event Calendar

Events for Saturday, September 17, 2016

BoomerFest 2016 Presented by Home Repair Resource Center
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Caring for aging parents? Looking for resources and information to help aging loved ones? Recently retired and looking to define the next phase of your life? Come and join The Home Repair Resource Center at the 2016 "BoomerFest" Keynote speaker Atty. Laurie Steiner will discuss proactively redefining your life to your needs and desires. There will be workshops on topics like aging in place, Flex Design, sharing your time and talents through volunteer organizations and a whole lot of fun. This event is free to the public.
Location:
Cleveland Heights Community Center
1 Monticello Blvd
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Heights Heritage Home & Garden Tour Preview Party Celebration
6:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Heights Homes...and All That Jazz!

All preview party guest will get a sneak peek of three tour homes via Lolly the Trolley. Guests return to Ensemble Theater to enjoy jazz music and dancing with an open bar, wine tasting, heavy appetizers and desserts catered by The Fairmount.

Actors from Ensemble Theater will perform a scene from "The Great Gatsby" and all guests are encouraged to dress in 1920s period attire.

Ticket info at www.heightscongress.org.

All proceeds to benefit programs of HCC.
Location:
Ensemble Theater
Coventry School Building
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Live music – Twisted Fate: Famed and Forgotten Female Composers
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
$10-20 suggested donation

The history of western art music predominantly focuses on the lives and works of male teachers, composers, and performers. In eras when women rarely had access to the same educational and professional opportunities as their male colleagues, it can be easy to presume that women were simply not as productive and successful in the field. A closer look at history, however, reveals that some women in the past were able to rise above the gender restrictions placed on them and achieved great success as professional musicians. Others led more private professional lives cloistered in abbeys and composing for their fellow sisters. Burning River Baroque will present a program that blends works of both the famous and forgotten female composers from antiquity to the present, including Hildegard von Bingen, Jacquet de la Guerre, Princess Anna Amalia, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Martha Bishop. “Twisted Fate: Famed and Forgotten Female Composers” will explore the ways in which historical circumstances twisted the lives of some women into the spotlight and others into the shadows as well as their diverse portrayals of female characters.

Malina Rauschenfels and Josefien Stoppelenburg, sopranos
Phillip W. Serna, viola da gamba
Paula Maust, harpsichord

Burning River Baroque
Founded in Cleveland in 2012, Burning River Baroque takes its name from the famous incident in which the badly polluted Cuyahoga River caught on fire. This name not only connotes the fiery passion which the ensemble brings to its performances, but also reflects the practice of tying history and social change to music and current issues in a way that feels fresh and relevant to contemporary audiences. While Baroque performance practice informs the group's presentation of historical works, they have evolved its presentation to encourage a participatory concert atmosphere, breaking the fourth wall and involving audiences in the drama that is occurring onstage.

Burning River Baroque seeks to throw open the doors of the concert hall to audience members who may never have considered that classical music had something to offer them or could reflect their life experience and concerns. Classical music can be perceived as elitist or stuffy; Burning River Baroque shows that it can be the opposite. It is their mission to create concerts that educate and appeal to all types of audiences. Burning River Baroque has performed in NYC, Boston, Berkeley, California, Canada, and extensively in Ohio. The Boston Musical Intelligencer described them as a group that “...left an indelible imprint on my psyche.” Co-directors Malina Rauschenfels and Paula Maust manage the group and hire outside artists as necessary for a diverse array of programs each concert season.
http://www.burning-river-baroque.org/

Location:
St. Alban Episcopal Church
2555 Euclid Hts Blvd.
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The Mystery of Love & Sex
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were nine. She's Jewish, he's Christian, he's black, she's white. Their differences intensify their connection until sex and love complicate everything in surprising, compulsive ways. Spanning five years, Bathsheba Doran’s (KIN) new play is full of compassion and wry wisdom.

Full of twists and turns, this is a love story about the consequences of growing up.

Location:
Dobama Theatre
2340 Lee Road
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