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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/buried-words-seeds-of-hope/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Buried
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Benefit for Ukraine</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">December 15, 2023
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is partnering with the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Benefit for Ukraine to present
a special event called <i>Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</i> on Friday, December 15, 2023. Your ticket to the event includes entry into a pre-show photo exhibit featuring work by Ukrainian artists, followed by an evening of short plays, music and poetry by Ukrainian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">”More than anything, I want the audience to hear these stories from Ukraine and not forget about the people there who are continuing forward day by day - sowing
seeds, making theatre, writing poems, singing songs, and giving their lives for their freedom and the sovereignty of their nation.”
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">About the Event</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none"> is a benefit for Ukraine which will feature readings of short plays, poetry and
songs that bring forth experiences of playwrights and artists from Ukraine since the war began.
<i>The plays will be read in English.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Ticket and Show Information<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">At 7:00pm—</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">walk through a photo exhibit and meet some of our
partnering Ukrainian organizations. At <b>7:30pm¯</b> Performance of <i>Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</i>: play readings by Ukrainian playwrights.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre is located at 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102, in the heart of the Gordon Square Arts District.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Every Ticket is
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-expanded-choose-what-you-pay-ticketing-practice/">Choose What You Pay</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">
with no handling fee, and may be purchased online at <a href="http://www.cptonline.org">
<span style="color:#0563C1">www.cptonline.org</span></a>, or over the phone through the Box Office at 216.631.2727 ext 501.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Proceeds go to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://refugees.org/uscri-cleveland/"><span style="color:#FF4F4F;background:white">U.S.
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Cleveland (USCRI)</span></a><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> to resettle refugees in Northeast Ohio and the </span><a href="https://www.clevelandmaidan.info/"><span style="color:#777777;background:white">Cleveland
Maidan Association</span></a><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The Gordon Square Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a ramped entrance and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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