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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> “Chautauqua
Saturday” Comes to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> on January 26<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>First in “Chagrin Arts”
Series to Feature Noteworthy Speakers in Literature, Music, Art, and Politics<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'>January 10, 2008 – Chagrin Falls, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place> – </span></i>The
Chagrin Foundation for Arts & Culture presents “<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Chautauqua Saturday: a one-day spa for your mind</span></i>,<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>”</span></i> the first program of its
“Chagrin Arts,” winter series, on Saturday, January 26, 2008.
Featuring speakers in literature, music, art, and politics and offered in the
spirit of the Chautauqua tradition, this daylong event takes place at venues
throughout <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>
“The Chagrin Foundation for Arts & Culture continues its commitment
to bring stellar arts programming to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. “<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Chautauqua Saturday”</span></i> builds upon the
popularity of last summer’s Chautauqua in Chagrin series, features
renowned experts in field, and showcases our historic <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
community,” notes Christina Thoburn, Executive Director of the
Foundation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-style:italic'>“Chautauqua Saturday: a one-day spa for your
mind”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>
The inaugural “Chagrin Arts” winter series begins on Saturday,
January 26, with <i><span style='font-style:italic'>“Chautauqua
Saturday,”</span></i> a daylong lecture series hosted at venues
throughout <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Gate passes for
the entire day are $40 for preferred seating plus reception with speakers and
$25 for general seating. Individual lecture tickets, if available, will
go on sale at $10/lecture on January 21. Complimentary shuttle bus
service is provided from venue to venue. The complete schedule is as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Chautauqua Saturday</span></font></b><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>a
one-day spa for your mind<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Saturday, January 26, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Gate passes for the entire day: $40/preferred seating and reception with
speakers; $25/general seating<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Individual lecture tickets: if available, will go on sale for
$10/lecture on January 21<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Complimentary shuttle bus service provided from venue to venue<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>10:00am, Federated
Church, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">76 Bell Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Ralph G. Williams,
Professor of English at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Michigan</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic'>“Be
Your Tears Wet?” Shakespeare, The Sense of Touch, and the Human<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>In his later plays in
particular, Shakespeare locates, in the sense of touch and in the ability to be
touched, the criterion of our humanity. This lecture focuses on King Lear
and The Tempest, but will include references to a number of other plays.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>1:30pm, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lutheran</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">87 East Orange Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Ori Z. Soltes,
Professorial Lecturer at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Georgetown</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and former Director
and Curator of the National Jewish Museum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic'>Sacred
Signs: Shared Symbols in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Art<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Learn what
"symbol" means, why art uses symbols, and why there are different
"modes" of symbols; how a number of familiar symbols in Abrahamic
traditions derive from imagery that pre-dates any of them; how and why in the
course of history symbols are often shared among Jewish, Christian and Muslim
artistic traditions, and how and why the "modern" age in the West
continues use religious symbols more often than commonly thought.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>1:30pm, Chagrin Valley
Little Theatre, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">40 River Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Ross W. Duffin, Kulas
Professor of Music at CASE<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic'>Reconstructing
Shakespeare’s Songbook<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Discussion of how
integral music was to theater in Shakespeare’s time; the 160 songs that
appear in, are quoted in, or are alluded to in Shakespeare’s plays; and
how their inclusion provides a glimpse of popular culture of the day. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>2:00pm, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Chagrin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Falls</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Library, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">100 East Orange Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Young Readers Program in
the Chautauqua tradition (FREE)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-style:italic'>Ashanti</span></font></i></st1:country-region></st1:place><i><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic'> to Zulu: African
Traditions</span></font></i><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>, with
special interactive drum performance by Rhythm Culture<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>All ages will enjoy
bringing this popular book to life through the use of fun rhythms.
Percussion instruments will be provided for audience members.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>3:00pm, Federated Church,
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">76 Bell Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>The Honorable William
Purcell, former Mayor of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Nashville</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic'>A 21<sup>st</sup>
Century City that Works<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>This lecture draws upon
Purcell’s great success as Mayor of Nashville during a time of
unprecedented economic expansion and residential renaissance to discuss the
many components of vibrant cities of the future.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>4:30pm, Township Hall, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">83 North Main Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Reception with Speakers
(for preferred ticket holders ONLY)<i><span style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-style:italic'>To Purchase Tickets<br>
</span></font></i><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>
Tickets for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Chautauqua Saturday </span></i>may
be purchased through the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre box office at
440-247-8955; online at <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/">www.cvlt.org</a>; or in
person, Monday through Saturday from 1-6 p.m., at <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">40 River Street</st1:address></st1:Street>. Plan ahead and
save: purchase six or more tickets for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Chautauqua
Saturday </span></i>or any other programs offered through the “Chagrin
Arts” series, in any combination, and save 10%. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-style:italic'>To Obtain Additional Information<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>
For more information regarding <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Chautauqua
Saturday </span></i>or to schedule an interview with the speakers, call the
Chagrin Foundation for Arts & Culture at 440-247-9700.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-style:italic'>Other “Chagrin Arts” Programming<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>On
Tuesday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m., “Chagrin Arts” presents
“Artists from Oberlin: Darrett Adkins and Friends”<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>at the United Methodist Church of Chagrin
Falls. The program includes works by Schubert, Beethoven and others and
features Oberlin faculty musicians Darrett Adkins and Amir Eldan on cello,
David Bowlin and Marilyn McDonald on violin, Karen Ritscher on viola, and Peter
Takacs on piano. Tickets are $18/adults and $10/students. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%'>The
series finale on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the newly-opened Performing
Arts Center of Chagrin Falls High School features a performance by GroundWorks
Dancetheater. Hailed as one of “25 to watch” nationally by <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Dance Magazine</span></i>, GroundWorks performs
“Latitude” by Artistic Director David Shimotakahara with live music
accompaniment by Hal Walker, the virtual one man band from Kent Ohio; a new
work by Artistic Associate Amy Miller; and the ever-popular
“Always” by New York guest artist Gina Gibney, set to the music of
vocal legend Patsy Cline. Tickets are $18/adults and $10/students.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;
font-weight:bold'>###<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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