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[marcus at designerglass.com]

November 4, 2006 - Kathleen Cerveny, Ray McNiece, Terre Maher, and 
Anne Armentrout at the Every Saturday at Noon Literary Readings and 
Performances Event.

Gallery 324 presents a weekly literary reading and performance 
series: Every Saturday at Noon. The Featured Readers read, starting 
with a piece by an artist other than themselves whose work they 
admire, and then there is an open mic afterwards, followed by an 
encore reading of one final piece by each Featured Reader.

There is Free Parking for these events on Saturdays in the Galleria 
Parking Garage: enter off Lakeside between East 9th and East 12th. 
There=B4s a large sign with a 3-D curly-cue design that says "Galleria 
Parking", and a ramp down under the building.

Readings will begin at Noon, and rarely do they run past 2pm. 

For more information:

Marcus Bales
Gallery 324
The Galleria at Erieview
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

216/780-1522
mbales at oh.verio.com

About the Featured Readers

KATHLEEN CERVENY is a working artist, educator, development officer 
and an award-winning producer of arts programming for public radio 
station WCPN.  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.  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. 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.

TERRE MAHER lives in Cleveland Heights with her husband, Steven Tatar 
and their two daughters. She walks every day under tall trees in her 
neighborhood on sidewalks made of stone, and with and eye out for 
patterns in brick, eyebrow dormers, and doors with sidelight windows. 
She has found poetry teachers at the Poets and Writers League of 
Greater Cleveland and from listening and responding to poets at open 
mics. Her response to reading the words of Naomi Shahib Nye led to a 
connection and eventual collaboration on the book "Amaze Me" (Harper 
Collins, 2005), for which Terre provided drawings. 

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. 

Next Week at the Every Saturday At Noon event:

November 11 - Joanne Cornelius, Dan Smith, 
Wanda Sobieska, J.E. Stanley, 
Don Bryant

Founded in 2005, Gallery 324 mainly showcases the work of Ohio 
artists, but this month features the work of STORM THORGERSON, who 
designed album covers for PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, THE RASPBERRIES, 
MUSE, 10CC, and many others. Located in the Galleria at Erieview on 
the first floor near the Food Court, Gallery 324 is operated by 
Marcus Bales, a Cleveland glass artist, in conjunction with Gary 
Roberts, a Cleveland furniture designer. 

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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