[NEohioPAL]Every Saturday at Noon Literary Readings and Performances:

[marcus at designerglass.com]

Every Saturday at Noon Literary Readings and Performances: 

November 4 - Kathleen Cerveny, Ray McNiece, 
Terre Maher, Anne Armentrout

KATHLEEN CERVENY is a working artist, educator, development officer 
and an award-winning producer of arts programming for public radio 
station WCPN. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, she has 
exhibited her artwork nationally. She is a past board president of 
Ohio Designer Craftsmen and a past member of the Executive Committee 
of Grantmakers in the Arts, a national service organization. 
Currently, she serves as an advisor to the Community Partnership for 
Arts and Culture and the Convention and Visitor's Bureau Cultural 
Tourism Committee. 

Cerveny holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and 
maintained a professional ceramic studio for nearly 20 years.  She 
was a founding member of the New Organization for the Visual Arts, a 
local service organization for individual artists, and is a past 
Chairman of the Board of Ohio Designer Craftsmen, a state-wide 
professional service organization.  She taught art, art history and 
world mythologies at the high school and university levels and spent 
five years as a producer and on-air broadcaster for Cleveland Public 
Radio, earning numerous awards for coverage of the arts, and 
contributing features to NPR=B4s Morning Edition and Performance Today 
programs.  

Kathleen joined the Cleveland Foundation in 1991.  In addition to 
crafting the Foundation=B4s overall grantmaking strategies in Arts and 
Culture, she designed and managed an $11 million five-year capacity-
building grants program for the arts and a $5 million three-year 
advancement program.  Her efforts with the Foundation=B4s 1996 Civic 
Study Commission on the Arts was recognized by Northern Ohio Live 
magazine with its Award of Achievement in Arts Advocacy that year.  

Kathleen is a past member of the board and Executive Committee of 
Grantmakers in the Arts, a national service organization for 
professionals in arts philanthropy and is an Advisor and member of 
the Programs and Services and Public Policy Committees of the 
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, a regional research, 
advocacy and service organization.  She also serves on the Advisory 
Committee for Cultural Tourism for Cleveland=B4s Convention and 
Visitor=B4s Bureau.   Kathleen is a 1999 graduate of Leadership 
Cleveland.  She likes to play Tai Chi, write poetry and score 
baseball games. 

RAY MCNIECE has been a poet and performer for almost two decades. He 
has captained 2 National Poetry Slam Championship teams, and is the 
author of six poetry books - Dis, The Bone-Orchard Conga, The Road 
that Carried Me Here, Song that Fathoms Home, and Wet Sand Raven 
Tracks -New Haiku, and Us? Talking Across America, two solo theatre 
works - Dis - Voices From a Shelter, Us? Talking Across America, two 
music/poetry collaborations - Mouth Music, A Rust bowl Hootenanny, 
and one collaborative theatre work - Homegirl meets Whiteboy -- with 
Shawn Jackson. He also co-edited the anthology of Contemporary 
Buddhist Poetry, America Zen. 

Highlights of his recent work include a keynote address shared with 
Robert Bly at the First Coast Writer=B4s Conference, a featured reading 
at the opening of City Light=B4s Italia in Florence with Lawrence 
Ferlinghetti, and a performance with his band Tongue in Groove at the 
Starwood Festival, opening for legendary drummer Babatunde Oluntunje, 
as well as providing the voice of Woody Guthrie in WCPN/NPR=B4s award 
winning radio documentary, Hard Travellin=B4. In the summer of 2001 he 
toured Russia with Yevgeny Yevtushenko where he appeared on Good 
Morning, Russia and performed at the Moscow Polytech, the Russian 
Poets=B4 Hall of Fame. 

McNiece has received numerous awards for his writing and performance, 
most recently the 2001 Hart Crane Award from KSU, a residency in the 
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and a residency at the Jack Kerouac 
House in Orlando, Florida. He was the captain of two National Poetry 
Slam Championship teams (=B492 Boston, =B494 Cleveland) and won the 
Arkansas Grand Slam, the largest performance poetry prize ever 
awarded.

McNiece is also an accomplished actor and has appeared in plays at 
Ensemble, Dobama, Cleveland Public and Cleveland Playhouse theatres.  
He was an original cast member of the improv comedy Flanigan=B4s Wake. 
He performs in schools as Johnny Appleseed and Thomas Jefferson. 

TERRE MAHER didn't send in a bio, but Google tells me she has 
illustrated a book by Naomi Shihab Nye, called "A Maze Me, Poems For 
Girls", from Harper Collins Press. Google almost fooled me into 
announcing what a great athlete she is, too, because in Terre Haute 
Indiana a woman named Menzie Maher won the women's best time on 
Saturday, October 15, at the Saturday at the Race for the Cure at St. 
Mary-of-the-Woods, and the combination of "Terre" from Terre Haute 
and "Maher" from Menzie Maher almost got me.

ANNE ARMENTROUT,  a member of the great New Orleans diaspora, is now 
living a higher life in the Mountain Empire.  She has a graduate 
degree in English from Georgetown University where she studied poetry 
with people you may actually have heard of.  Being a peripatetic 
polymath, she has directed plays, taught writing, made art in fiber 
and paper, and presided over philosophy cafes and literary salons, in 
addition (of course) to  writing poems and essays that have been 
published sporadically.  Though she has roots in Ohio, she has not 
been in the state or the city of Cleveland in fifteen years. 


DIRECTIONS to the GALLERIA

>From the west side

2 East - East Ninth Street, right - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking
Garage, right (if you get to 12th street you went too far - go around 
the block, right on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right 
on Lakeside, and then right at the Parking Garage sign). Parking is 
Free
on Saturdays, $3 after 4pm on Fridays. Go up the escalator or 
elevator 
to the FIRST FLOOR. Out of the elevator turn right and walk past the 
escalator to the Courtyard

480 - 176North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left -
 Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right 
on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at 
the Parking Garage sign)

71 North - 90 East - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, 
left - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 
12th street you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, 
right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then 
right at the Parking Garage sign)

77 North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left - 
Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street
you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right on St 
Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at the 
Parking Garage sign)

>From the east side

480 - 77 North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left -

Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street 
you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right on St 
Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at the 
Parking Garage sign)

90 West - 2 West - East Ninth Street, left - Lakeside, left - 
Galleria
Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th street you went too far - 
go around the block, right on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, 
and right on Lakeside, and then right at the Parking Garage sign)

>From the Heights

Martin Luther King Jr Blvd North - 90 West - 2 west - East Ninth 
Street, left - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if 
you get to 12th street you went too far - go around the block, right 
on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and 
then right at the Parking Garage sign)

By RTA Rapid

>From wherever you are go to the Tower City station and change for the
Waterfront Line - get off at East 9th street, up the stairs, turn 
right on 
East Ninth Street (away from the lake, away from the R&R Hall) walk
half a block to Lakeside, cross Ninth Street to your left, cross 
Lakeside,
and half a block further on is the Ninth Street Entrance to the 
Galleria. 

If the weather's nice, you can also walk from Tower City across 
Public
Square away from the Terminal Tower building you came out of (the
building in which the RTA Rapid lets you off) and toward the BP
Building. Walk east (that is, turn right just past the BP building) 
on any of Superior, Rockwell, or St Clair streets, to East Ninth. 
Turn left. From St Clair, it's right there; from Rockwell, one block, 
from Superior two blocks, to the entrance at East Ninth and St Clair.

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