Events

« Saturday March 29, 2008 »
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Leap Night in the Flats East Bank Start: 6:00 pm End: 11:00 pm 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. National Cityscapes Conference Start: 12:00 pm End: 12:59 pm 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. Cleveland Public Power energy conservation clinics Start: 10:30 am End: 12:00 pm Cleveland Public Power (CPP) and Home Depot will detail energy efficiency and conservation initiatives with easy step-by-step methods. Tonight's topic is a whole house approach on how to conserve energy with updated technology that include (but is not limited to) timers, thermostats, dimmers, as well as blocking air at the window and door frame, cleaning filters These four Home Depot locations will offer the same clinic on the same day: Berea Road - 11901 Berea Road, Cleveland, OH 44111 Brook Park – 10800 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44130 Steelyard Commons – 3355 Steel Yard Drive, Cleveland, OH 44109 East 200th Street – 877 East 200th Street, Cleveland, OH 44119 To sign up for any of these clinics call Cleveland Public Power at 216-420-7704 ext 235. Composting with worms workshop Start: 1:30 pm End: 2:30 pm Learn how to make bins for vermicomposting (composting with worms) at home. To get a list of materials to bring to the workshop and to RSVP, email or call 216-210-0874. Attendees may observe and build a bin later.