Press Releases - Arts and Entertainment

The Toledo Symphony concert season beings this weekend. The season starts with the annual concert at Put-in-Bay on Saturday, and the first Chamber Series concert on Sunday at the Toledo Club followed by the Classics opener at the end of the month. ...

A new wave of critically acclaimed long form comic books, called graphic novels (a mostly grown-up version of the comic book), is the subject of a exhibition opening Oct. 2 at the Toledo Museum of Art. Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in ...

Hello there, Matt Donahue here, (musician, artist, filmmaker, writer and pop culture educator) I hope that all is well for you and your world. I wanted to drop you a line and let you know that my band MAD 45 is playing a free show at the Black ...

“In my classroom, I make my students press their pencils down hard when they write so as to make an impression on things that they were not intending to impress. In my classroom, I make my students ask the biggest question of all: why. And ...

The University of Toledo will host a series of events exploring the role of light and mass in works of art. There will be a series of lectures and a faculty exhibit. The faculty exhibit runs now through October 4, 2009 in the gallery of the UT ...

Jazz legend and University of Toledo Distinguished Professor of Jazz Studies, Jon Hendricks, will be celebrating his 88th birthday with a Birthday Bash, Monday, September 14 at Murphy’s Place for Jazz, located at 151 Water Street in downtown ...

The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film will present a documentary film series this fall, which focuses on abuses of authority and power in our society. Each of the films will be held in the UT Center for Performing Arts Lab Theatre ...

First Friday Friday, September 4 Toledo School for the Arts will be celebrating the summer Takin' Care of Business Program at 8:30 am in the school’s first floor gallery with an Art Sale. This will feature works created by TSA Students who ...

Drum Classes: “Soul Djembe Drumming” with Yaya Kabo 4 Consecutive Sundays, Sept 27th thru Oct 18th, 2009 @ 12:30pm Toledo Location ALMA Artistic Director and Senegalese Master Drummer Yaya Kabo will provide a 4-week series of classes ...

On Thursday, September 10, Lourdes College will host Mike Sullivan in concert. The band performs at 8 p.m. in the Ebeid Student Center in the lower level of Delp Hall. Lourdes students, faculty and staff receive two free tickets with a valid ID and ...

ALL METAL FRAMES ON SALE THROUGH MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH. * WE WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY IN OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY. THANK YOU! - WE HOPE YOU'LL STOP INTO OUR SHOWROOM IN MAUMEE'S ARROWHEAD PARK SOON! - LISA ZOOK (SHOWROOM SALES REPRESENTATIVE) ...

On Labor Day, September 7th, Northwest Ohio will join over 250 communities across the United States will gather for public potlucks to take part in the Time for Lunch National Eat-In. This event will take place from 1-4pm at the Ward Pavillion at ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lakeside, Ohio –Artists of the Ohio Plein Air Society (OPAS) will congregate in Lakeside, Ohio, for the Sixth Annual Ohio Plein Air Society Competition, September 11-13, 2009. Artists are encouraged to paint throughout ...

Auditions will be held at The Village Players, 2740 Upton Avenue at 7:00 pm on Monday, September 14th and Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 with call backs on Saturday, September 19th at 2:00pm for Murder Among Friends. Take an aging, exceedingly vain ...

Hundreds of Ohio arts organizations now have access to new technology to strengthen their management capacity and evaluate impact in communities, thanks to the Ohio Cultural Data Project, a new online statewide system that launches today. The ...

We would like to invite all to join us at the Sophia Quintero Art and Cultural Center for an evening of dancing. Its an evening of dancing and meeting new people in a beautiful and friendly enviorment. $5 entry fee includes a Salsa dance lesson at ...

Title: Line By Line, Three Women Working in Colored Pencil Artists: Bonnie Auten, Lynda Schumacher, Dianna Wallace Soisson Open House: Saturday, September 12, 5 - 7pm Dates: September 1 - 26, 2009 Location: Hudson Gallery, 5645 N. Main Street, ...

There is a new, exciting informational website www.WhatDoTheyStandFor.org, that allows voters to quickly and easily access questions-and-answers from political candidates, and various viewpoints on other political issues. This website, new to our ...

Artists will bring 1-12 handmade cards, 2.5" x 3.5", any medium, to trade with other artists. The theme is "Hopes & Dreams". Artists will leave with as many cards as they brought. This is a fun way to acquire small works of art with no outlay of ...

"To watch him is to throw out all the rules of physics. Time and space are malleable in Nu's deft hands." - Eric Brace, The Washington Post On September 12, utensils will bend and minds will open at Lourdes College as mentalist Alain Nu takes the ...

The Lourdes College Drama Society is sponsoring a one-act playwriting competition. Cash awards of $250 for first place, $100 for second place and $50 for third place will be presented, and the winning plays will be considered for production at ...

Toledo, OH – The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo announces that a dedication ceremony for the “Art Tatum Celebration Column”, a memorial to the Toledo native and jazz icon. The Dedication Ceremony will be held on Friday ...

Chorus Auditions for Toledo Opera 2009-2010 Season will be held Thursday, September 3, 2009, from 5:30 – 8:00 PM. To schedule an audition, please call Renay Conlin at 419-255-7464, Ext. 2. It is not necessary to bring a prepared selection. ...

Hero's The Party Experience is proud to sponsor Andrew Martin's magic classes for children, beginning September 10, October 8, November 12, and December 10. Each unique class will teach magic with everyday items, helping the kids internalize the ...

Come join the Village Players Theatre as we being our 53rd season with Squabbles, which is written by Marshall Karp and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. This hilarious play pits a father-in-law against a mother in a comedic ...

The Sylvania Area Chamber of Commerce annual Arts & Crafts Festival will be held on September 13, 2009 at Lourdes College, 6832 Convent Blvd. Sylvania, Ohio. The festival, one of the largest one-day events in the country will be held from 9:30 AM ...

Toledo, OH—Summer may be coming to an end, but there’s still a lot of fun to be had at The Toledo Zoo through September and beyond—including Nature’s Neighborhood, which will be open for discovery all year round! Visit the ...

Monica Wilson-Roach, originally a Toledo native, will be performing a music and science concert, called "The Black Book Project". The show is a multimedia production that reaches from the farthest limits of outer space by including images from the ...

Calling All Michael Jackson Fans The Event You don't want to Miss! Michael Jackson Tribute Cabaret on his Birthday Saturday August 29th 2009 Doors open at 8:00 @ J-PALACE 1032 SYLVANIA AVE Parking in Rear 21 and UP Featuring Toledo's Own Glass City ...

Toledo, Ohio—Relationships. While some come and go over the years, others remain as strong as… glass (well, at least tempered glass). Case in point: the September opening of Chihuly Toledo! at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). From ...