Activist Cleveland

Rainey Institute is dedicated to social change for Cleveland’s economically disadvantaged youth through education and participation in the performing and visual arts. One hundred years ago, the Rainey Institute was founded by a pioneering social worker, Anna Edwards, and a philanthropist, Eleanor B. Rainey. Mrs. Rainey, deeply impressed by the work being accomplished, financed Miss Edwards’ program, and paid for the construction of a building to house its operations.

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Heights Arts (HA) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 community arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Founded in 2000, Heights Arts enriches the quality of life in the Heights by cultivating a strong, diverse, and collaborative arts community. HA's goals are to inspire all Heights citizens to participate in the arts, support the arts in K-12 education, expand exhibition and performance opportunities, and foster public appreciation for the arts.

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Intimate, edgy, sometimes heart-filled, Dobama is a small professional theater dedicated to premiering outstanding plays written by today's established and emerging playwrights. Through its educational programming, Dobama Theatre nurtures the development of theatre artists and builds new audiences for the arts while provoking an examination of our contemporary world.

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Cleveland Public Theatre's mission is to raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground breaking performances and life changing educational programs. Cleveland Public Theatre is an alternative performance company with a commitment to help develop original theatre artists from our area -- particularly those whose work is experimental in form and/or challenging in content. We are known as one of the nation's leading experimental & political performance venues, sponsoring much dance, music, poetry, and performance art as well as theatre.

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Hear the sound of 1,000 drums. Listen to live jazz, hip-hop, folk, rock, techno, classical, and more. See opera, theater, ballet, step dancing, breakdancing, contemporary dance, and more. Enjoy visual exhibits, concerts, poetry slams, stilt walkers, jugglers, parades, food, flowers, and activities for kids, all transformed by technology. Experience it all at Playhouse Square, home to some of the region's most beautiful and historic performance venues.

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This free community arts parade is presented annually by the Cleveland Museum of Art. International and national guest artists join Greater Cleveland artists, families, schools and community groups in a spectacular display of bright costumes, giant puppets, stilt-dancers, handmade masks and colorful floats. Circle Village, which includes the activities, entertainment, and food, is presented by University Circle Inc.

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The Hessler Street Fair is a spring music and arts tradition in Cleveland and is the primary fund-raiser for the Hessler Neighborhood Association (HNA). The HNA, in turn, uses these funds to help preserve and maintain the Hessler Road neighborhood. The Hessler Street Fair to promotes a spirit of togetherness and care-free fun in a home-grown atmosphere of family-friendly entertainment.

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Tiferet Village is a unique spiritual community: vibrant, post-denominational, pluralistic, attuned to the pulse of contemporary life, but grounded firmly on the traditional foundations of Torah, Avodah, and Gemilut Hasadim. The Tiferet community emphasizes and integrates: (1) engaging study of Jewish spirituality, (2) spiritual culture of creative expression, and (3) commitment to social and environmental activism - local, national, and global.

A community center for interaction, social programs + political action. Do you have an idea to improve your neighborhood, Cleveland, or the world? Are you good at something you'd like to teach others? Are there issues you would like to talk over with other Clevelanders? Did you always want to put on a performance, event or class but did not have anywhere to do it?

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