Trepanning Trio is an instrumental avant-chamber ensemble named for a surgery in which a hole is drilled into the human skull. Cave paintings indicate that people believed the practice would cure seizures, migraines, and mental disorders by letting evil spirits escape.

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Concerts at the Crossroads, the performing arts series at Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights, announces this Spring's Midday Music Mosaic lineup.  Midday Music Mosaics are brownbag lunch concerts, the only such series in the Heights, that are free to the public, and present the best of local Cleveland musicians.  Full schedule below.

All concerts are free, on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm in Christ Episcopal Church, 3445 Warrensville Center Road, Shaker Heights, OH, 44122.  The church is unmistakably located on the corner of Warrensville Center Road and Chagrin Blvd. 

I have attached a file with a few pictures of C.E. Van Duzer working on the Estonian Cultural Gardens Monument.

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How many saw the news (or noticed it at all) that “Lux Interior, frontman of "psychobilly" pioneers the Cramps, died yesterday in Glendale, California” and realized it was another example of Ohio creativity let loose on the world?

Preview, Thurs 2/5 noon -8pm; Fri 2/6 noon - 5pm Last minute preview 2/7 11:30am - 1pm

The shining star of this auction ...

A Claude Cononver Vase, lot 84, estimates $5000-7000

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Songs and music of the Civil Rights Movement will be presented by Muszikat-Shalom.

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Cleveland Public Library will host Eric Etheridge, the journalist/photographer behind the new book Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, at an author visit on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E.

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Please Join us for a look at the works of some of Cleveland's finest African American Filmmakers

Works by: Fred Boswell, Georgio Sabino, Marcell Dorsey, Nikki Byrd, Robert Banks Jr. and Preston Pickett.

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The Cleveland Public Library welcomes the Year of the Ox with two Lunar New Year celebrations at the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, FREE and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue, on Saturday, February 7 at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m.

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The Cleveland Public Library welcomes the Year of the Ox with two Lunar New Year celebrations at the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, FREE and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue, on Saturday, February 7 at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m.

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Despite corruption and cronyism galore, Ohio does have it's bright and shiny moments of good and brilliant. Here's a way to make history come alive for your kids (from ODOT!) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D06/Maps/Pages/OhioUndergroundRailroadMapsPage.aspx

We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

Shout out to Slavic Village Sandy, who is the voice of NEO. Thanks for the heads up!

This is your invitation to join Miami alumni and friends from around the globe for a Charter Day Celebration 200 years in the making. Space is limited at each event and the deadline to RSVP is February 7, 2009.

More information and online registration are available at www.MiamiAlum.org/Chapters or you can Joanne Harper at 1-866-MU-ALUMS.

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I was very saddened to learn today we lost a great artist, loved friend and family to many, and inspirational Clevelander with the passing of Clarence E. Van Duzer. I knew Van Duzer as a family friend and always was inspired and energized by talking with him, his work, and his approach to life. At our last meeting, at his Convivium opening, in 2006, he was so strong and clear it seemed he would live on forever.

Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio offers ARTWORKS, a program where students work with professional artists and other students to create work in music, dance, theater and visual art.

Students entering 10th, 11th and 12th grade are eligible. to apply, go to http://www.yaneo.org/what/artworks.php

Student applications are due March 20. Professional artists who want to work with the students are encouraged to apply by February 12th. The program takes place June 17-July 30th.  Call 216.561.5005 for more information.

Chers Amis, Join us for a reading of short stories in French by Author Marie-Jeanne Urech. Afterwards tour the Foreign Literature and Audio-Video Departments.

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 Pecha Kucha Night Cleveland #2

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Start 8:20pm (doors open at 7)
House of Blues 308 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

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East Cleveland Theater presents "Jitney" by August Wilson.
Sunday, February 15, 2009.
Sponsored by Windermere Renaissance.

At a ramshackle taxi depot, the middle-aged men who drive unlicensed gypsy cabs, or "jitneys," strive to find honor and accomplishment amidst a landscape of diminishing opportunity. When the station owner's estranged son returns from 20 years in prison, their reunion unleashes two decades of brutal, raw emotion.

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I just listed Loren Naji's Portaits of Barack Obama in Gunsmoke on Ebay, each created on inauguration night, January 20, 2009, on the streets of Cleveland.  Let's see if there is support for Cleveland artists out there. 

A Tremont performance art extravaganza! Cleveland Artist Loren Naji's original portraits of President Barack Obama, created on the spot, in gunsmoke.