April 2009
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go fly a kite
So I’m coping with the Kimono as Art exhibit closing this week. I would link the site as usual, but it seems that even a few days after, they’ve already taken it down. Weird. We had a good run, didn’t we, kimono? I think I ended up seeing it four times, though that’s nothing compared to the final visitor counts. The last I heard, more than 50,000 people showed up through...
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world tai chi day
Again, this is something I’m more tied to myself than it is arts, but tai chi is cultural, too! This year’s World Tai Chi day was last Saturday, and about 50 tai chi players got together during the morning at a park in Medina to play through a few forms and share different styles. A few local schools were represented, including the Progressive School of Martial Arts, for which I have...
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earth day
Earth Day has come and gone, but the only area recognition that I’ve found is happening this Saturday at Nimisilla Park. B-Earth Day looks like it’s set to be sort of an arts and culture party out in the park with some events about cleaning and planting. There’s music and food promised, and best of all the event looks pretty much free.
Kent State University Stark Campus has had...
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we're halfway there
Way more than halfway, actually. The Kimono exhibit is wrapping up soon, and I joined a few friends in seeing it one more time this weekend. One friend had come from South Dayton, New York, just to see the exhibit. I expected it to be a quick visit, but I was really surprised to see a line stretched all the way to the back of the lobby and around the corner. As I was buying tickets, I overheard...
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h-a
This Friday night, the actors will be mostly silent but the crowd will hopefully be laughing loudly. The ASL Comedy Tour will visit the Kent State University Stark Campus, with Keith Wann and Crom Saunders. I know this isn’t outright art/culture, but I’ve got some personal connection to ASL, and this evening sounds hilarious. It’s even voice-interpreted for us hearing people. I...
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your vote counts
A few days ago, a friend passed this along to me, so I thought I’d share. The Canton Stark County Convention & Visitors’ Bureau is determining the winners of the 2009 Best of Stark County Awards. Now, this isn’t directly arts-related, but it might make a difference to some of the cultural events coming in the next year. Listing your favorites for each category doesn’t...
April shower fashions
There was so much art stuff going on last week that it has bled through into this week for me. One of the events that I missed because of the Akron Film Festival was the NOTO Boutique’s spring line fashion show. I didn’t even know Akron had enough fashion for a spring line of anything.
Of course, I know about Rubber City Clothing (which has a cool little blog that I came across a...
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oh my
Last week, apparently in celebration of the Kimono exhibit, George Takei visited the Canton Player’s Guild Theatre for An Evening with George Takei. I thought he’d be promoting his recurring role on an NBC show that I am not going to mention or upcoming films, but it seemed like he was just wanting to share some time with us. As if he has anything better to do on a Thursday night in...
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film weekends part two
I’m really not thinking of the Akron Film Festival as a part two to the Cleveland International Film Festival - they just happened close together. I’m glad I was able to make it up to the Akron Art Museum almost every night of the festival, because I saw some movies with great potential. And a few that were kind of not as cool. But mostly the former. The theatre was about twice as...
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first friday april
It looks like Ohio finally realized that it missed out a couple weeks of cold weather back in March, so it’s sort of been making up for it the last few nights. Unfortunately, one of those nights was First Friday.
I’m pretty sure I saw even more people out doing things on the February night. Things were pretty low-key outside, but if you headed down to the Canton Civic Center, it was a...
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more art for the fridge
During a few weeks fairly heavy with film, I thought I’d drop by the North Canton Elementary School Art exhibit at the Little Art Gallery. The exhibit will be up through Apr. 5 (which you would know if you remembered to check out the calendar in the sidebar - all the exhibits I hear about are updated on every Sunday), and I think I might be even more impressed than I was by the middle school...
