Dust off your bike and RIDE.

Mark your calendars and check out this super cool new drupal website...

http://www.clevelandbicycleweek.org/about

Attend the Hessler St. Fair and Beachland Ballroom and transport yourself to New Orleans or San Francisco or Paris or Casablanca or some other worldly place for a much needed head trip.

Tarace Boulba will perform on Friday and Saturday.  If you haven't experienced Tarace Boulba--you haven't lived!

Galleries, artists, and businesses have joined together to create an event to publicize this part of the city where many Cleveland artists work. The event, City Artists at Work will bring together about sixty artists whose studios are located in thirteen separate buildings.

Saturday May 16th, 11AM - 6PM
Sunday May 17th, 12PM - 5PM

On View:

From our friend Barb Clint:

Topic: An Economic Forecast for Northeast Ohio

Speaker: John Burke, President, Burke Rosen & Associates; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Cleveland State University; Adjunct Professor, John Carroll University

Program Sponsorships and tables available. Earn 1 Continuing Professional Development hour.

Location: Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown

The Cleveland Public Library Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday, May 21, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. in the Board Room of the Louis Stokes Wing, 10th Floor of the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue. The agenda will be made available at the meeting.

Submit your videos to MOCA Cleveland by this Friday, May 22--

Family/Community Empowerment Conference
May 22-23, 2009

Cleveland Convention Center -
Downtown Cleveland

Family/Community Empowerment Conference
May 22-23, 2009

Cleveland Convention Center -
Downtown Cleveland

Photo credit: Mifune http://www.myspace.com/mifunesound

Life doesn't get any better than grooving to Mifune in the Eastman Garden of the Cleveland Public Library.  

Bicycling on The Sound of Ideas - THIS FRIDAY

Meet up with Joan Southgate as she returns from her journey from Canada to University Circle. 

One woman's journey to make change and to restore Cleveland to HOPE!

READ about the mission to help Clevelanders remember the historic role played in the abolition movement in this month's Essence Magazine!

Come listen as these four amazing, award-winning women grace the Fine Arts Department at Cleveland Public Library. The Cavani String Quartet has been featured on the ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS networks. Enjoy the easy sounds on Saturday, May 30 at 4:00 p.m.

Local publisher is looking for artwork submissions for a forthcoming publication--see below link for additional information:

 The Future is Green!

• Meet at Tower City Rapid station. Tour will begin at Tower City Green/Blue Line Platform Track 10E directly into the Rail Shop (Transportation time 15-20 minutes to/from TC)
• Tour/Presentation of Rail Shop will be conducted by Timothy O'Donnell, Manager of Rail Equipment
• The Shop tour will consist of a walk 'n' talk through each Shop section. Inspection, Defect Repair, Motors, Truck Shop, Body Shop, HRV Midlife. There will also be a (very) short description of the Heavy and Light Rail cars.
• Return to Tower City

This is the annual Archwood Street Fair of renown.* We've been having it for so many years now I have to ask somebody else when it all started--I think it was in 1980-something. Originally, we tried to sell a lot of rehab and restoration items as well as antiques, and that is still the basic purpose. It now also functions as a way for all of us to clean house, so it's taken on aspects of the huge neighborhood garage sale as well. Some of us who don't live on Archwood actually haul our stuff in the night before. The inventory is usually pretty good.

 The Tipping Point Cooperative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

This is the annual Archwood Street Fair of renown.* We've been having it for so many years now I have to ask somebody else when it all started--I think it was in 1980-something. Originally, we tried to sell a lot of rehab and restoration items as well as antiques, and that is still the basic purpose. It now also functions as a way for all of us to clean house, so it's taken on aspects of the huge neighborhood garage sale as well. Some of us who don't live on Archwood actually haul our stuff in the night before. The inventory is usually pretty good.

 The Tipping Point Cooperative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Plain Dealer ran this hopeful story about the Montessori High School in University Circle.  I would love to see the financials on this model school.  There is an open house next Tuesday.

Montessori High School, 11025 Magnolia Drive, will hold an open house at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 9. Call 216-421-3033 to RSVP.

Register today for the 2009 Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council (GCLAC) 4th Annual Symposium, “Countdown to 2010: Revisiting the Past and Planning for the Future”, Friday, June 12, 2009 from 7:30 a.m. - noon at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1 Wade Oval Drive)

The Art of Lakewood Madison Art Walk is coming on June 13th in Lakewood.  Below is a list of shops that are involved.

This Saturday, June 13, 2009, the members of REALNEO are invited to a community meeting of our cooperative, REAL COOP. The REALNEO social network is owned and operated by all members of REALNEO, through their REAL COOP, an Ohio cooperative, making us entirely unique in the world of social computing. As such, all members are welcome to participate in the network and cooperative planning. This meeting is an important opportunity for REALNEO members to become involved in the operation of REAL COOP and the planning of our virtual network...

We've just formed a new group the "Old South Side Community Coalition."  This organization has no affiliation with TWDC and will be catering to the low income, long time and minority residents and renters in the Tremont  area.

Our first official meeting will take place on Monday, June 15, 2009, 6:30pm, at the Jefferson Branch Library, 850 Jefferson Avenue.  We are encouraging anyone with complaints, neighborhood issues and/or concerns to attend this meeting.  We will be meeting on the 3rd Monday every month thereafter. 

Come see what's in season at the Tremont Farmers' Market!

The following workshops have been scheduled to provide information about the ReImagining Cleveland Grant Program: