A pop up experience with food, fun, and spectacle in the Flats East Bank.

FOOD
Food vendors Ideally, some of the restaurants that will be part of the Flats East Bank development will set up stands and sell food and drinks. Pig roast and/or oil drum barbecues Grilling meat will add warmth and protein to the evening.

FUN
Ice skating If the weather is cold enough in the days leading up to the event, we will flood part of the Flats East Bank site for skating. If the weather is too warm, the rink area will become a pond for toy boat races. Open snowboarding and competition on rails, boxes, and ramps set up for the night.

Video game competitions Large-scale video games (Rock Band, etc.) projected on a blank building wall at the southern end of the site. (Vertical Sound for audio/projection equipment) Snowsuit fashion show and the crowning of Miss Leap Night.

SPECTACLE
Snow installation The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and local artists will create a temporary snow environment as a setting for the event, using ice blocks and snow that will be stockpiled on the site in January and February. The snow installation will be constructed during the last week of February, generating interest and publicity in the days leading up to the event.

Central bonfire and/or a series of trash can fires at the river’s edge to provide light and warmth. Dead Christmas tree forest Old Christmas trees will be stockpiled and used to landscape the site for the event; trees will be harvested throughout the night to fuel the bonfire(s). The Christmas tree forest will be populated by polar bears (actually people in polar bear costumes) who will hand out snacks and deliver trees to the bonfire(s).

SAFMOD Cleveland’s multi-media performance ensemble will create a special fire performance for the event.

LOGISTICS
Safety Fire truck and ambulance on site; off-duty police officers will provide security.

"Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference" sponsored by a diverse group of environmental, labor, industry, and philanthropic organizations.

More information and registration.

Speakers will be David Gustashaw, vice president of engineering, director of Interface Carpeting, Atlanta, Georgia and Jack Gustashaw, senior vice president, Middough Engineering. David will be presenting sustainability from an owner perspective and Jack from a consultant perspective.

RSVP to m.herlevi@csuohio.edu or by phone at 216-523-7278.

Explorer Lecture Series with Harriet Washington:  The history of medical research with African Americans remained largely unexplored until journalist Harriet Washington published the book Medical Apartheid, the product of years of research into long-undisturbed medical journals and experimental reports. Using this work and many arresting, rarely seen images, she discusses the science and ethics behind this long-neglected chapter in the history of medicine, which paralleled American culture at large. She also demonstrates how for centuries, racist mythology, economics and politics trumped scientific and medical discipline – and how this history can serve as a cautionary tale.

Ticket information.

A pop up experience with food, fun, and spectacle in the Flats East Bank.

FOOD
Food vendors Ideally, some of the restaurants that will be part of the Flats East Bank development will set up stands and sell food and drinks. Pig roast and/or oil drum barbecues Grilling meat will add warmth and protein to the evening.

FUN
Ice skating If the weather is cold enough in the days leading up to the event, we will flood part of the Flats East Bank site for skating. If the weather is too warm, the rink area will become a pond for toy boat races. Open snowboarding and competition on rails, boxes, and ramps set up for the night.

Video game competitions Large-scale video games (Rock Band, etc.) projected on a blank building wall at the southern end of the site. (Vertical Sound for audio/projection equipment) Snowsuit fashion show and the crowning of Miss Leap Night.

SPECTACLE
Snow installation The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and local artists will create a temporary snow environment as a setting for the event, using ice blocks and snow that will be stockpiled on the site in January and February. The snow installation will be constructed during the last week of February, generating interest and publicity in the days leading up to the event.

Central bonfire and/or a series of trash can fires at the river’s edge to provide light and warmth. Dead Christmas tree forest Old Christmas trees will be stockpiled and used to landscape the site for the event; trees will be harvested throughout the night to fuel the bonfire(s). The Christmas tree forest will be populated by polar bears (actually people in polar bear costumes) who will hand out snacks and deliver trees to the bonfire(s).

SAFMOD Cleveland’s multi-media performance ensemble will create a special fire performance for the event.

LOGISTICS
Safety Fire truck and ambulance on site; off-duty police officers will provide security.

The annual Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities conference this year focuses on the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place.

It kicks off on Thu 3/27 with the exhibit "The Mind of Cleveland" by artist Carl Pope, tfollowed by a keynote on his work by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Programs continue Friday and Saturday with discussions on creating and performing community, contested spaces and social divisions, organizing the city and looking at Cleveland's future, ending on Sat 3/29 with a talk by public artist Lee Quiñones on the Lincoln-West High School mural project.

The 66th annual Human services institute—learn about issues, trends, and best practices in health, social service, education, civic and cultural organizations. For more information.

To help community development organizations and staff navigate the possibilities of working with artists, the Cleveland Neighborhood Development Coalition and Cleveland Public Art are hosting this workshop. Learn the various ways in which public art can be used as a tool to promote community and economic development agendas, as well as for marketing and branding neighborhoods. Topics include:

• successful neighborhood public art projects;
• where to find funding sources;
• how to engage with artists;
• case study: Public Art in Neighborhood Parks. Joy Johnson, Sherita Williams, and Jeff Sugalski from Burten Bell Carr Development, with artist Melissa Daubert;
• case study: Public Art on Neighborhood Streetscapes. Steve Lorenz from Kamm's Corners Development with artist Gauri Torgalkar.

For information, call 216-621-5330. Fee.

"Looking at Cleveland’s Future" is Norm Krumholz’s keynote address for Cityscapes, Humanities Week 2008. Former Cleveland Planning Director and recipient of the 2007 Cleveland Arts Prize, Krumholz’ public presentation coincides with The Mind of Cleveland exhibition.

Complimentary admission. For more information.

Painters Dana Oldfather, Susan Danko, and Laura Sanders explore environmental themes.

Opening reception tonight; exhibition runs through late April.