Nan's Notes

AT ARTS COLLINWOOD

Music in the Cafe

Ladies’ Vinyl Listening Party, 8:29 on Tuesday evenings. Bridget Caswell will introduce a different lady DJ each week. (Gentlemen are invited to listen, too; they just can’t spin.)

Jazz on Wednesdays continues, with a different group each week (pretty mellow last time we were there) against a background of art that changes monthly.

Yoga in the Gallery   

Led by artist/yoga practitioner Lyz Bly, a series of Vinyasa Flow Yoga classes. Tuesday nights 6 - 7:15 pm, Saturday mornings, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Classes are $13 per session, and every second Saturday is Free.

Sand Sculpture   July 17

Is this the eighth Sand Sculpture contest? It’s the world’s most relaxing event – unless you’re intensely competitive, I suppose. Pack up the kids and some sand tools, pick your spot on the clean, little used Villa Angela beach, and relax. The contest opens at 1 pm; stay around for story telling, music and a cookout.  1 – 7 pm. No charge unless you’re an artist competing for an award, which involves a $10 registration fee. (To most peoples’ minds, everyone’s a winner.)

Euclid Beach area, Cleveland Lakefront State Park (Lakeshore Blvd at E. 174th).

NOT TOO LATE FOR ART CAMP   July 5 - 30

Arts Collinwood’s art & drama day camp has started its four-week run (July 5-30, Monday through Friday 9-12) but you can still register for the one-week flex option ($90). Each week, the campers will work on a different curriculum: theater games, percussion and music in Week 1; collage and relief print-making in Week 2; storytelling and painting in Week 3; and in Week 4 -- pulling it all together for that popular end-of-camp performance—drama production and costume design. Aftercare can be arranged. Camp will be held at the Arts Collinwood building, corner of Waterloo Road and E156, making full use of the community art center and the gallery (parents should feel free to make full use of the Café).

Call 216-692-9500, or stop at the Café (15603 Waterloo) and get a brochure/registration form.

Arts Collinwood  15605 Waterloo Road, 216-692-9500, www.artscollinwood.org. Gallery and Café hours: Tuesday –Saturday 11-11; Sunday 11-5.

AT THE BEACHLAND

July 25: The Human Fund presents Chris Barron (Spin Doctors); New Riders of the Purple Sage; and Tea Leaf Green. The Human Fund effectively supports arts education programs for the under-served youth of the city of Cleveland, providing a commitment to funding several arts programs annually.

July 31: The 2010 Ohio State Yo-Yo Contest – which I fully expect Steve Brown to win. We ran into him at the Waterloo Arts Fest and requested, “Do something impossible.” Steve pondered briefly – then he did something impossible. Who knew that yoyos could move like that?

IN STITCHES AT THE LIBRARY

A library-suited activity, knitting, although perhaps a little warm for summer. But the yarn as well as the instruction are free, and you get to make such extremely desirable items as covers for  Ipods and cell phones, wristbands and hats. Both boys and girls ages 10 to 14 are welcome on Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:30 –1 pm, June 28-August 6. Parents are welcome, too.

Memorial Nottingham Branch Library, 17133 Lakeshore Blvd, 623-7039 or email cpl-memnot@cpl.org.  

NOW AT THE MARKET

The Monday evening market is in full swing 4-7 pm, and Monday is now Blomming Patches day. They’re bringing cut flowers, free range eggs, cheese, herbs, cut basil and mints, berries, jams, baked goods, beans, beets, broccoli, cucumbers, garlic, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, new red potatoes, peas, zucchini. The SpiceHound will be there, too, so you can get your stir fries properly seasoned.

On Wednesday and Saturday, the Burton Floral and Garden stand is practically a market in itself, with bedding and vegetable plants, free range eggs, cheese, beans, cucumbers, garlic, herbs, potatoes, sweet corn, summer squash, tomatoes, zucchini; Pancoe Farms offers fresh greens (collard, mustard, kale); and of course the 250 varieties of spices and herbs from Spicehound.

Coit Road Farmers’ Market Coit Road Farmer's Market is located at the corner of Coit & Woodworth Road in East Cleveland. www.coitmarket.org. Open year-round Saturday 8 am to 1 pm; Wednesday, 8 am to 1 pm, mid-April to mid-December; and Monday, 4-7 pm, June to October. 216-249-5455 during market hours.

ART AND RAIN BARRELS

The Cuyahoga County Soil and Water Conservation Agency, having invited 28 artists to paint rain barrels, now has 28 really rather marvelous barrels for sale by auction. They can be viewed at http://www.cuyahogaswcd.org/RainBarrels-Art2.htm; minimum bid is $100 (and quite right, too). Send your bids to Amy Roskilly at aroskilly@cuyahogaswcd.org; or call 216/524-6580, ext. 22. The barrels themselves will be on display at sites around the city through September; “Seascape,” painted  by students at the Cleveland School of Architecture and Design at John Hay, is at Euclid City Hall. The winning bids will appear on the Web site on September 30. (Wouldn’t a painted rain barrel make an unusual wedding gift?)

COLLINWOOD NOTTINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, July 15th, at the Lithuanian Village Hal, 877 East 185th Street, beginning at 6:30. If you have any questions please call Mary Louise at 216-664-4236 (W) or 216-4861298(H).

THE NOTTINGHAM CIVIC CLUB

This month's meeting is July 20 from 6 to 9 pm, at Nottingham United Methodist Church, 18316 St. Clair Ave. This meeting will be a Pot Luck Picnic. Bring a dish to share, hotdogs and drinks wil be provided. Bring a friend and get a free raffle ticket. Come as a new neighbor and receive a free Welcome Bag.  NCC meets the third Tuesday of every month and dues are $12 a year.