by David Sedaris, Adapted by Joe Mantello
Directed by Eric Schmiedl
Presented by PlayhouseSquare at the 14th Street Theatre

The SantaLand Diaries, by best-selling author David Sedaris, is a one-man show about an out of work actor in New York City taking a job as Crumpet, a Macy’s Christmas elf, in 1989. As thousands of customers come through his display, our elf teaches parents and children the realities of holiday cheer. Now in his fifties, Crumpet’s hilarious recount of the trials and tribulations that the Holidays bring is sure to bring a smile to even the grouchiest face!

Looking to cast David/Crumpet:
Description: Male, 40 – 50, any ethnicity. Smart. Clever. Blunt. A quick witted, squirrely Scrooge. Like a modern-day Jonathan Swift, he is a storyteller who employs irony and humor to construct his keen observations about contemporary American culture. He is oftentimes mean-spirited on the outside, but this attitude only masks an unwavering sense of empathy and a heart of gold which he finds through the course of this journey.

In this version of The SantaLand Diaries, David/Crumpet will belooking back at a time in his early 30’s when he moved to New York City to follow his dream of being a celebrity and hanging out with the stars of One Life to Live.

Equity agreements may be considered for this production

Auditions will be held:
Sunday, September 30th: 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Auditions are by appointment only and will be scheduled in 15 minute increments. Actors will be asked to prepare sides provided by CPT after scheduling their audition.

Auditions will take place on the CPT campus, located at 6415 Detroit Ave. For directions and additional information, please visit http://www.cptonline.org.

Rehearsals for this play will begin in mid-October with performances at PlayhouseSquare’s 14th Street Theatre November 28th – December 22nd. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings (2 performances on Saturdays) with the possibility of adding performances on Tuesdays and/or Sundays later in the run.

To schedule an audition appointment, please email Associate Artistic Director, Beth Wood at bwood@cptonline.org. No phone calls please.

OPENING October 6, 2012  
@ We Gallery
6-10pm
20 N. High Street
Akron, OH 44308

This show is a convergence of technology and art. Utilizing only an iPhone to take all the pictures in this exhibit todd wanted to see how far he could take his fondness for iPhone photography. “I love photography, and I wanted to see what it would be like to really limit myself with just an iPhone. You have to take a lot into consideration when creating an iPhone image as you are so limited by focal distance and a tiny sensor. Using the phone as if it is an old-fashioned camera, you have to get creative to get the shots you are looking for”, says todd.

Primarily known as a painter, todd has been bitten by the photo bug. Using his unique perspective as a visual artist, he has been able to expand his artistic practice to include new digital media in photos and film.

This exhibit is not intended to be the end all be all photo essay of the city of Akron, but more the city as seen through todd’s eyes. The people that inspire him. The spaces that make up daily life in the city. A perspective of the city from the eyes of one of its most prolific artists. Prints, posters, and signed photo books will be available at the gallery during the show. The gallery is located at 20 N. High Street, Akron, Ohio.

OPENING August 4, 2012
@ We Gallery
20 N. High Street
Akron, OH 44308
330.252.0988
www.thewegallery.com
wegallery@live.com

New work (paintings and prints) derived from personal experiences, stories and myths about factory worker life in Akron during the 1970s and 80s. More specifically, the dark, makeshift vice dens created by scampish pipefitters in the tunnels running under the buildings and streets of the city.

Workers would escape into the tunnels into a world of 8mm porn, Lucky Strikes, cheap whiskey, one-hitters and poker.
A temporary break from the banality above.

Sweat, grease, lamp black, Banbury mixers, Pabst, broken pallets, arc welders, mercury, boxing, pickled eggs, High Life, whores, chili-mac, Friday night games, rubber knives, overalls, poker, Lake Erie perch, pot, Barberton Chicken, muscle cars, corn roasts, 8mm porn, Evel Knievel, salted draughts, racing pigeons, Blue Oyster Cult, graveyard shift, Union picnics, rubber, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Luckys, steel-toed shoes, breaks, pepperoni pizza, black iron oxide, Lava Soap, overtime, Marilyn Chambers, Kessler’s, steam, leather gloves, vacation, piss, collage…

Paul Sydorenko
fort
July 14 – August 3, 2012

Opening Reception: 7-10 PM, Saturday, July 14th

“When i was young, there was a fort in the woods at the end of my street. All of the neighborhood kids knew about it, but no one knew who built it? Maybe it was left over from the older kids who had grown up and moved on to driving cars and dating? It had definitely seen better days, yet this ramshackle fort made of old scrap wood and plastic tarping was magical to us. Even with the soiled carpet flooring, cigarette butts, and beer cans; it was awesome. Maybe that’s what made it awesome… it was an escape. It was adventure. It was the start of us trying to act like adults or trying to act cool. Becoming soldiers or looking at water damaged penthouse magazines that had sat through storms, winters, god knows what? It was there for at least ten years. And then one day, just as it magically arrived, it was gone. I still think about that fort today. I think about how cool it was to sit in that fort and just imagine… imagine that anything and everything was possib le.” – Paul Sydorenko

Paul’s latest solo exhibition, Fort, brings those memories back to life in an ambitious series of installation, mixed media and conceptual works. On view for three weeks only at our downtown gallery, Fort opens with a reception 7-10 PM on Saturday, July 14th followed by an after-party at Lava Lounge 10 PM – ? AM.

William Rupnik Gallery
1117 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44115

Gallery Hours: by appointment only
Admission: free
Parking: Valet at Wyndam Hotel, Statler Garage (adjacent to gallery), curbside on neighboring streets
Visitor Information: Call (216) 533-5575 or email info@wrgcleveland.com
Web: http://www.wrgcleveland.com

Offering everything from Alternative Rock to Zydeco, there’s a mix of something for everyone sprinkled throughout this year’s concert schedule. The FREE concerts will be held 6:30 – 8:30 pm in the museum’s High Street parking lot or in the Beatrice Knapp McDowell Grand Lobby in case of rain. A variety of beverages (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and tasty treats will be available for purchase on the terrace and in the Museum Café, while other activities including ArtCamps@Dusk and ArtTalks@Dusk will take place in the classroom and auditorium, respectively.

Live personalities from 89.7 WKSU will emcee each concert.

Family Fun Nights and ArtTalks@Dusk

During ArtCamps@Dusk children 7 -12 years old will explore fun and wacky hands-on art making in the museum classroom. Members free, nonmembers $5 each session. Space is limited, register online at AkronArtMuseum.org.

While the band takes a break, join museum staff, area artists and local experts for ArtTalks@Dusk. Presenters will offer a series of informal talks about the exhibitions on view as well as a variety of other art-related topics from 7:30 – 8 pm each Thursday.

The Museum Store will be open until 9 pm (admission not required to shop in the store). The galleries are open with paid admission except on Thursday, July 19 when the museum premieres Third Thursday. Every month on each third Thursday, visitors will enjoy free gallery admission to both the collection and exhibition galleries.

View the exhibitions Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui on view through October 7, String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles on view until July 22, Robert Stivers: Veiled Image on view July 28 – December 30 and The Anniversary Show: Commemorative Art Through the Years on view July 21, 2012 – February 3, 2013. The galleries are open until 9 pm with paid admission except on Thursday, July 19 when the museum premieres Third Thursday. Occurring every month on each third Thursday, visitors will enjoy free gallery admission to both the collection and exhibition galleries.

2012 Schedule

Thursday, June 21-Downtown@Dusk, The Wanda Hunt Band, Old School R&B, 6:30-8:30 pm
ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Mitchell Kahan, director and CEO, Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Thursday, June 28-Downtown@Dusk, Anne E. DeChant, American, Pop, Country, 6:30-8:30 pm.
ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Christy Gray, ZeroLandfill, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dumpster
Thursday, July 5- Downtown@Dusk, Blue Lunch, Chicago Blues, Jump & Swing, 6:30-8:30 pm
ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Kathleen Browne, Kent State University jewelry and metals professor, Magnificent Obsessions
Thursday, July 12- Downtown@Dusk, Lost State of Franklin, Rock-a-billy and more, 6:30-8:30 pm
· ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Michelle Stitzlein, artist, Recycled Materials; Inspirations & Artwork
Thursday, July 19- Downtown@Dusk, Robin Stone, Soul Pop, Intelligent Groove, 6:30-8:30 pm
· ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Fred Smith, Kent State University art history professor, Contextualizing the Art of El Anatsui
Thursday, July 26- Downtown@Dusk, The Speedbumps,Variety, 6:30-8:30 pm
· ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Al Bright, abstract expressionist, Artist Talk
Thursday, August 2- Downtown@Dusk, 15-60-75 The Numbers Band, Abstract Blues, 6:30-8:30 pm
· ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Ellen Rudolph, interim chief curator, Behind the Scenes with El Anatsui
Thursday, August 9- Downtown@Dusk, Zydeco Kings, Zydeco, 6:30-8:30 pm
· ArtTalks@Dusk, 7:30 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Arnold Tunstal, collections manager, 90 Years of Collecting

Downtown@Dusk 2012 is made possible by The City of Akron. It is presented in cooperation with 89.7 WKSU.

ArtCamps@Dusk 2012 is made possible by a gift from the Harris-Stanton Gallery.

ArtTalks@Dusk 2012 is made possible by a gift from the Sam & Kathy Salem Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Board of Akron.

Internationally renowned artist El Anatsui is celebrated for transforming discarded metal objects into shimmering, richly colored and luxuriously textured metal tapestries and sculptures of monumental splendor. This exhibition is so large in scale that it overflows throughout the museum into the collection galleries and lobby.

An Akron Art Museum visit is affordable family entertainment. Students 17 years and younger are free, adult admission is $7, older students and seniors 65+ are $5. Members are free. Admission includes a colorful and informative gallery guide about the artist El Anatsui.

Traditionally closed most major holidays, the museum is also closed Monday and Tuesday and is open Wednesday through Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm; Thursday 11 am – 9 pm. For more information visit AkronArtMuseum.org.

Museum Information
Address: One South High, Akron, OH 44308
Tel: 330.376.9185
Fax: 330.376.1180
Website: AkronArtMuseum.org
Gallery and Store Hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm, Thursday: 11 am – 9 pm, Closed Monday and Tuesday as well as most major holidays

The Pittsburgh crew is bringing 6 artists and over 40 pieces. The original Cleveland curators got so scared they jumped ship before walking the plank (actually, I don’t know the real story but I like referencing the pirate lore of the sea) and now it is up to us to throw down for our hometown. So please consider being involved or pass the word along. Any and all help will be accepted.

Thanks
Jef Scharf

Call for Art CLE Artists

Visit our website to view this year’s musical line-up, download the schedule, and get tips on how to make the most of the day. Stop by our info tent the day of the event for printed maps and PorchFest merch. See you Saturday!

The goal of the contest is to find one or more pieces of art that show off Shaker Square in a way that will capture the essence of our beloved community.

Purpose:
To reinvigorate the connection between art and Shaker Square, and to involve individual artists in a contest where they can earn money for their work. To celebrate the gathering of people at Shaker Square.

2012 Theme: Gathering Together
Closing date is August 25, 2012 for all entries.

Participants can download flyers and entry forms from http://lakeerieartists.com/essence-shaker.aspx

2012 Essence of Shaker Square Art Contest Contest Rules:

• Entries need to portray the theme: Gathering together at Shaker Square.
• Any flat medium will do–acrylic, water, oil, photography, etching, etc. It does need to be able to be reproduced in poster form. Must be presented in any 11 x 14 format or larger. If you would like to have your piece displayed, it must also be ready to hang.
• Submissions will be accepted from June 12, 2012 through August 25, 2012 at Lake Erie Artists Gallery.
• We will have a closing party on Saturday August 25, 2012 from 5 to 8 pm with wine, food, in order to view all of the contest entries. Artists are encouraged to attend, and the party will be open to the public.
• Judging will be coordinated by Paula Atwell and the winner will be announced September 30, 2012.
• A cash prize of $350.00 will be awarded to the 1st prize winner and $150.00 to the second prize winner.
• By entering this contest, you are agreeing that all rights to the two winning pieces of artwork will belong to Lake Erie Artists Gallery.

By entering this contest, you are agreeing that your piece may be displayed on the wall at Lake Erie Artists Gallery.

Pieces must be accompanied by an entry form or they will not be accepted.
Participants under 18 must have their entry form signed by a parent or guardian.
Artists may pick up their pieces after October 1, 2012 if they did not win a cash award. Cash awards may also be picked up after October 1.

For more information, contact Paula Atwell, Lake Erie Artists Gallery at 216-752-9960 or sales@lakeerieartists.com.

Lake Erie Artists Gallery is a gallery collection of art by local Cleveland, Ohio artists from in order to offer wonderful art gifts in a variety of media to the discerning public.

The live & silent art auction has featured individual works of art from locally and nationally recognized artists Janet Macoska, Michael Greenwald, Kristen Cliffel, Gary Dumm, Kirk Mangus, Douglass Max Utter, Randall Tiedeman, Judy Brandon, Dana Depew, Judy Brandon … and many others!

Included with admission:
· Bid to win artwork in the live and silent auctions
· Buy chances to win valuable raffle prizes from local businesses
· Munch on an assortment of light appetizers
· Enjoy plenty of good wine and beer served by celebrity bartenders
· Dance to the music of DJ Funk-Shway… spinning the tunes up until the live auction begins

WHAT: “Art Fur Animals” Benefit and Auction – All proceeds go directly to the care of animals at the City of Cleveland Kennel

WHEN: Friday, June 22, 2012 – 7:00-10:00pm

WHERE: SmARTspace at West 78th Street Studios (Gordon Square Arts’ District)
1300 West 78th Street, Cleveland OH 44102

TICKETS: $25 at the door; pre-sale available for $20 exclusively online at http://www.friendsofclevelandkennel.com

PARKING: FREE ON-SITE PARKING AVAILABLE

INFO: For further information or to reserve tickets, please visit http://www.friendsofclevelandkennel.com, call 216/274-9480 or email info@friendsofclevelandkennel.com.

For more information/press photos:
Becca Britton, Director 216/534-0624
becca@friendsofclevelandkennel.com