Donna Mogavero Fundraiser August 18, 6pm, Lifestyle Communities (formerly Promowest Pavilion

Something truly worthy of your attendance! Special Benefit Concert Friday, August 18th Lifestyle Communities (formerly Promowest Pavilion) 405 Neil Ave (indoor show) 6:00 PM

Emceed by radio personality Dino of Sunny 95! This special benefit concert scheduled for Friday, August 18th at Lifestyle Communities (formally Promowest Pavilion) is for local singer-songwriter, recording artist DONNA MOGAVERO. Donna fell from the stage at the "Rockin' in the Streets" benefit concert on June 23rd. She broke her hip and crushed her pelvis. She was in the hospital for three weeks, enduring two separate operations. She is now home recuperating. Although she is recovering well, she will be unable to bear weight on her left side for three months. A little update on Donna for those of you who are not acquainted with her acoustic music. Donna Mogavero, singer, songwriter, recording artist and performer for over 30 years, has given of her time and talent for endless events and fundraisers. Without thinking twice, she has donated her time and talent for many worthy causes. Now, she is in need of our generosity to help her through these unfortunate times. Her most notable and recent endeavors include: • A Judge on Columbus's own "Gimme the Mic" Channel 6 (the past 2 years) • Experience Columbus Video - Performing an original tune (touting the highlights of our wonderful city of Columbus) viewed on the huge screen overlooking the Arena District • Volunteer Performer for Comfest since it's beginning • Volunteer mentor at Girlz Rhythm n' Rock Camp (foster young women with songwriting and performance abilities) • Volunteer mentor at "Oneness" (a songwriters symposium for youth to foster racial unity through music and the arts) • Chosen as a Taylor Guitar Spokeswoman • Winner of several local singer-songwriter awards (Best of Columbus Series) • Performances locally and nationally over the last two decades
Performances by:

Wahru's Drum Chorus Habeeba's belly dancers Hope Vitellis Sacred Fiction Jeff Altergott Sally Fingerett Girlz Rhythm n' Rock Band Ladies of Longford Katie Reider Band Molly with Grace Billy Zenn & the Ringers DOB with Kim Crawford

PLEASE COME AND ENJOY THIS SPECTACULAR EVENING OF MUSIC!! DONATIONS WILL BE TAKEN AT THE DOOR SPONSORED BY: Promowest Pavilion, Union Station Foundation, & Suziemuzic. All of the above artists have donated their time and several local business's are donating items for auction. ALL MONEY RAISED WILL BE GIVEN TO DONNA TO HELP COVER EXPENSES! PLEASE EMAIL suziemuzic@wowway.com or CALL KELLY 395-6067 IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DONATE FOR THE AUCTION OR RAFFLE.

Harry K Wozniak new website

Harry K Wozniak, Columbus painter, announcing new website. Check it out!
Wozniakart.com

Jeanette Williams & Willie Pooch - The Blues at the Zoo

The Columbus Jazz Orchestra / Byron Stripling, Artistic Director
At the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium,
August 11 / 8PM

Jeanette Williams Brewer and Willie Pooch – two of Central Ohio’s greatest singers – join the Columbus Jazz Orchestra for a high-voltage jam session packed with blues and boogie woogie. Join the CJO this Friday for the final JazZoo concert of the summer at the Columbus Zoo's beautiful Water's Edge Events Park!

More info?
Jazz Arts Group
Columbus Zoo

Victorian Village Tour of Homes

Sunday, September 17th, 2006 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Tickets are available at these Short North Businesses including Urban Gardener at 940 North High Street and Spinelli’s Deli, 797 Neil Avenue in the Thurber Shopping Center at the presale price of $10.00. Tickets can be purchased the day of the tour for $15.00 in front of Spinelli’s Deli. Tickets will go on sale the week of September 1st. Bus transportation will be provided the day of the tour for the tour route.

Short North Business Association
Sunday, September 17th, 2006 From 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM featuring a variety of shop owners showcasing home and arts displays, educational seminars and practical applications for home improvement. In addition, a number of short north restaurants will be offering special promotions to ticket holders on the day of the Tour.

Victorian Village Tour of Homes & Gardens Preview Tour
Saturday, September 16th, 2006 from 4:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Many of the main Tour houses will be open for this special preview evening event as well as a number of private homes hosting in-home Dinners & Desserts. This year’s dinner theme is “An International A’Fare.” In addition there will be a Preview party held at one of Victorian Village’s more prominent homes. Please contact the Victorian Village Society at 614-228-2912 or via the web at tour@victorianvillage.org for more information on attending a dinner or the Preview Tour.

4:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Preview Home & Garden Tour
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Preview Party
8:30 PM – 11:00 PM – In Home Dinners

Preview Tour only (Preview Party and Tour) – $75.00
Preview Dinner & Tour (Preview Party, Dinner and Tour) - $100.00

More info? www.victorianvilage.org

CAPAcity Celebrates!

Please stop by on August 16 for a celebration of CAPACITY’s wonderful accomplishments over the past five years and to help cultivate exciting new youth arts programs at Central Community House (CCH). Start your holiday shopping very early this year and support a great cause as you pick up fabulous art, organic produce, collector’s items (CAPACITY t-shirts & greeting cards) and more. Bring the family and join in a mask-making workshop, drum circle, Open Mic and other FREE activities for all ages. Donations for refreshments will be gratefully accepted. Proceeds from the Arts Market and Farmers’ Market sales will benefit youth arts at CCH.

All activities will be held in the Central Community House parking lot (unless Mother Nature decides to send us indoors).
More info? check out:
www.ecapacity.org
www.cchouse.org

Chris Mohler Sculpture Studio

Opening: August 18, 5-9pm

Sculptor Chris Mohler sent us an invitation to a studio opening. Chris creates rather large, monumental pieces from welded steel. Several of his works dot the Columbus landscape and many are included in private collections. Check out his new works and new space.

Studio of Chris Mohler
600 B North Cassidy Ave.
614 313 3220
www.chrismohler.com

I'm BacK!

Hello readers,
I have been absent from this blog for several weeks (months?). I was busy doing some taveling (Israel of all places, in early June before the current troubles.) Lynn and I found a beautiful country at peace and enjoyed meeting with family. What a contrast with what is going on today. Let's hop for a quick and lasting peace!

charlie

New Covered Bridge featured in InnerArt

The Dewey Road Bridge or Olin Bridge as it is now known, in Ashtabula County, Ohio, is Marc Berger's latest addition to his extensive and complete catalog of photogrpahs of covered bridges in Ohio.


For many years, Marc has photographed and documented over 160 covered bridges in the state and now has the largest, most comprehensive catalog of these unusual, beautiful structures that dotted the American landscape in previuos centuries. These bridges were built to last and many of these wooden structures still function on lots of backroads and carry traffic. Some have also been removed from major roads, but are being preserved on public and private land.


Check out Ohio covered bridges.

(Un)Official Doo Dah Parade Less-Than-Grand Marshall named

It's UnOfficially, official.
The 23rd Annual Doo Dah Parade Less-Than-Grand Marshal has been named!
(without too much arm twisting)
Congratulations & Salutations to Karen Kasler of the State House News Bureau!

Check Karen out at: http://statenews.org/employee_page.cfm?employeeID=21

Doo Dah Parade
July 4th, 2006 (Rain Date: July 3rd)
1:00 p.m. ~ Line-up @ noon
No Entry Fee! Just show up!

www.DooDahParade.com
www.DooDahParade.org
www.DooDahParade.net

Lindsay & Sherrie galleries hold a cooperative opening reception

LINDSAY GALLERY
& SHERRIE GALLERIE

Two Short North Galleries join into a Cooperative Opening
Champagne reception: Sunday, May 20, 2006, 5 -8 pm

Morris Jackson, works on paper in ink and colored pencil
at Lindsay Gallery
960 N High Street, Columbus, OH
614 291 1973
www.lindsaygallery.com

Janis Mars Wunderlich, "Family Matters", ceramic sculptures
at Sherrie Gallerie
937 N High Street
614 298 8580
email: SherrieGallerie@sbcglobal.net

Altered States of Reality Photography Exhibit at Riffe Gallery

The Ohio Art Council's Riffe Gallery is exploring altered states of reality with its latest exhibition opening May 11 and on view through July 9. Altered States will feature more than 100 works of photographic art by 12 artists from Ohio and Kentucky.

Produced by the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, Altered States is co-curated by Dennis Harrington, director of the Weston Art Gallery, and Dennis Kiel, associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs for the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Participating artists include: Barry Andersen and Diane Kruer (Ft. Thomas, KY); Barbara Houghton (Alexandria, KY); Kimberly Burleigh, Jymi Bolden, Diana Duncan Holmes, Cal Kowal, Guennadi Maslov, Nancy Rexroth and David Rosenthal (Cincinnati); Shawn Scully (Columbus); and Joel Whitaker (Dayton).

Altered States opens May 11 with a reception from 5- 7 p.m. Gallery admission and events are free and open to the public.
The Riffe Gallery is located on the first floor of the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, on the corner of State and High streets, downtown Columbus, Ohio.

For more information, visit www.riffegallery.org, e-mail riffegallery@oac.state.oh.us or phone 614/644-9624.

Schedule a group tour with Gallery Director Mary Gray at mary.gray@oac.state.oh.us or 614/728-2239.

Image seen here: Sheep and Standing Stone, Avebury England 2002, digital pigment print, 16" x 20" artist: Barry Andersen High resolution images are available upon request. Contact Lacey Luce at lacey.luce@oac.state.oh.us or 614/387-5670.

Circleville celebrates Ted Lewis Music Festival

2006 TED LEWIS MUSIC FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF CIRCLEVILLE’S FAVORITE SON

On Sunday, May 21, Ted Lewis Park will be filled with music fans to celebrate the music and the memory of Circleville’s "Favorite Son", Ted Lewis. The Ted Lewis Music Festival will honor the bandleader, musician, vaudeville icon and film star, whose trademark battered top hat and familiar, "Is everybody happy?" captivated audiences all over the world. Festivities will begin at 12:00 p.m. and will last until approximately 5:00 p.m. The musical entertainment will feature a number of outstanding professional jazz groups, including The West End Jazz Band from Chicago, Dwight Lenox, and Andre Keller and the Sounds of Dixie. The Everts Middle School 7th Grade Choir and The Westfall High School Jazz Band will also perform, providing a link between the veteran jazz players and the young student musicians who are just now learning of the wide-ranging influence of Ted Lewis.

The Ted Lewis Museum will be offering special souvenir items for sale, including a Ted Lewis Music Festival T-Shirt, as well as top hats. Food concessions will be handled by the Pickaway Shrine Club. “We Be Clowns” will also be on hand to entertain young and old between the hours of 12:30 and 2:30 pm.

The Ted Lewis Music Festival will be held at Ted Lewis Park on North Court Street in Circleville. Admission is free and the event will be held rain or shine in the middle of the park. Picnic tables will be provided for seating, but music fans can bring lawn chairs and blankets if they wish.

For more information, contact the Ted Lewis Museum at (740) 477-3630, Charlie Jackson at 1-740-412-5281, or visit www.pickaway.com on the internet.

Micreant Productions InFlux includes play directed by Aaron Einhorn

This note was sent by my son, Aaron Einhorn, who debuts as director of "Alone Tgether", presented as one of two plays in Miscreant Productionos' InFlux, part of the 2006 Columbus Fringe Festival.

Aaron Einhorn is an actor, director, and stage combat specialist who performs regularly along with Jonn Baca in The Blade Brothers, an act they present at Rennaissance festivals, schools, and other venues. Daughter Cordi gives Ramirez (Aaron) a big hug at the Ohio State Rennnaissance festival this past weekend of May 6. For more info: http://www.bladebrothers.com


Hey guys,

Time draws close and I thought a subtle reminder might be in order.

This Thursday, May 11th, Alone Together will get it's non-Oxford debut as a part of the Columbus Fringe Festival.

That's right. Miscreant Productions is putting on In Flux, a night of one-acts about, well, life. Alone Together is going to be Act II of the evening.

For those of you who are saying "huh?" Alone Together was written by this amazing author named Ted Brengle. Some of you might have heard of him, though he is a bit of a recluse. It stars Columbus area actors Trygve Hoff and Jill Hartley. It also happens to be directed by some guy named Aaron Einhorn. I don't think he's ever directed anything before, so this could be a gamble.

In Flux will be performed Thursday-Saturday the 11th-13th and 18th-20th of this month at the Short Stop Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. Showtime is at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $12, or $10 for students. There is also a reduced rate if you get a "Fringe Pass" to multiple shows that are a part of the Fringe Festival.

More information, including directions to the Short Stop and how to order tickets online can be found at: http://www.columbusfringefestival.com

Upper Arlington Cultural Division presents: Chalk on the Wak; and the Pump House Guys

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: May 1, 2006
Contact: Emily Cable, Arts Coordinator
Phone: 614-583-5311
Email: ecable@uaoh.net


“Chalk on the Walk” at Spring Fling

(Upper Arlington, OH) – Join Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Division for “Chalk on the Walk” in Thompson Park on Saturday May 13. As part of the Parks & Recreation Department’s Spring Fling event, Chalk on the Walk provides a chance to get creative while enjoying picturesque Thompson Park as part of an afternoon of fun family activities.

Sponsored by Larson’s Toys and Games, Chalk on the Walk begins at 11:30 a.m., when all participants grab colorful chalk for artistic creations on the Thompson Park walkway between the baseball diamond fences, just south of the North Shelter. Initially artist Michael Kaiser and Jones Middle School students will mark the walkway with chalk, creating images reflective of park memories. At 1:30 p.m. all participants finish these creations, in preparation for public enjoyment and a jurying process by Cultural Arts Commissioners. Awards will be presented to participants who creatively capture their favorite park memory.

Chalk on the Walk is one of many activities within the Spring Fling. The day includes “Touch a Truck” activities, a visit by “Turtle Lady,” the Focus on Fitness May Mile fun walk and run, inflatables, children’s activities, refreshments and more. Spring Fling events are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. throughout Thompson Park. Join us in marking the sidewalk with chalk. Please visit the Cultural Arts Division web section at www.ua-ohio.net, under Parks, Recreation and Leisure or call 614-583-5310.

ARTS IN WORK SPACES: Pump House Guys at Caspian II

(Upper Arlington, OH) – The Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Division is pleased to announce The Pump House Guys, the latest artwork on view through a creative art partnership program with Upper Arlington businesses entitled Arts in Work Spaces. The Pump House Guys exhibit of representational landscapes and cityscapes is on view through the end of June at the Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus, located at the Caspian II building, 3518 Riverside Drive.

The Caspian II exhibit includes the paintings of five artists-Ned Moore, Fritz Hoffman, Charles Rowland, Don Dodrill and James Devore-using the name the Pump House Guys to describe their art collective. The Pump House Guys are all from diverse art backgrounds including art educators, illustrators, designers and even an engineer turned painter. The group meets monthly for lunch to socialize, and discuss various topics of interest, share information on current projects, with critiquing often thrown in. In 2001, the group had an exhibit at the historical Pump House Center for the Arts in Chillicothe, Ohio. Soon after, Charles Rowland was asked to curate an exhibit of the group’s work at the High Road Gallery and it was during this exhibit that the group began using the name.

A long-range goal of the Cultural Arts Commission is to increase the accessibility of the arts for the community. In recent years the Commission has worked to create an art program that shares art with UA businesses. An art-lending program, Arts in Work Spaces gives artists another opportunity for displaying their work, increasing the visibility of the Cultural Arts Commission with the City of UA, and fostering an appreciation for the arts among businesses and their clients.

The Arts in Work Spaces program connects business and art establishing a creative partnership. Please visit 3518 Riverside Drive to view the artwork. For more information about participating in the Arts in Work Spaces program and/or purchasing art contact the Cultural Arts Division. Please visit the Cultural Arts Division web section at www.ua-ohio.net, under Parks, Recreation and Leisure or call 614-583-5310.