About the 2025 Festival
The theme of the 2025 Cleveland Humanities Festival is APPETITE. Feast. Famine, Ambition. Desire. Craving. Appetite is both a bodily state and an emotive force. As we celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the CHF, we will explore the multifaceted ways that humanistic inquiry has engaged this theme. What do we hunger for in our personal and civic lives? How does longing shape the human psyche? How have artists and makers explored the role of appetite in creative production? What metaphors of appetite resonate across diverse time periods and cultural milieus? How will AI and new technologies impact our collective appetites for knowledge? These questions and more will be addressed by Cleveland area arts, cultural and educational organizations through a series of public events in the spring of 2025.
Ravenous Remediation: Documentary to AI Practices in Visual Storytelling from Eurasia
March 27, 2025
6:30 pm | Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Thirst for Knowledge: The Florist of Millionaire's Row
March 27, 2025
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Chagrin Falls Branch 100 East Orange Street Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
The Analytic Museum: Freud’s Curatorial Phantasm
March 28, 2025
6:30 PM 2460 Fairmount Boulevard #312 Cleveland, OH 44106
Feasting the Imagination: Writing Inspired by Art
March 29, 2025
1:30 – 3:00 PM The Darl Center of the Arts 5437 Broadway Ave, Cleveland, OH 44127
Film Screening: Seeds
March 31, 2025
7:20 PM Playhouse Square 1501 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115
Filmmaker/cinematographer Brittany Shyne vividly and patiently captures 100 years in the life of a Black farming family in Thomas County, Georgia from social challenges to financial straights to their dedication to one another. Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance 2025.
This film screening is part of the 49th Cleveland International Film Festival and is a ticketed event.
Purchase tickets HERE.
Transforming Sophia: Mycotecture
March 31, 2025
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
7:00 PM Clark Hall Room 400 11130 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44141
This workshop will explore shaping the built environment using fungi. You will use the byproducts of mushroom cultivation to shape building blocks, scuptures, or other artifacts from living materials. You will also learn clean handling of microorganisms, form buildinng, and cultivation of objects from fungi. The instructor will discuss real world application of biofabrication.
Film Screening: Seeds
April 2, 2025
2:25 PM Playhouse Square 1501 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115
Filmmaker/cinematographer Brittany Shyne vividly and patiently captures 100 years in the life of a Black farming family in Thomas County, Georgia from social challenges to financial straights to their dedication to one another. Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance 2025.
This film screening is part of the 49th Cleveland International Film Festival and is a ticketed event.
Purchase tickets HERE.
Thirst for Knowledge: The Florist of Millionaire's Row
April 2, 2025
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Independence Branch 6361 Selig Drive Independence, OH 44131
Put Spring in your Step, Cleveland!
April 3, 2025
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Chagrin Falls Branch 100 East Orange Street Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
Discover Northeast Ohio's best urban and rural trails with hiking expert Diane Stresing! Explore scenic spots, historical trails, and hidden gems within 60 miles of Cleveland. Perfect for hikers of all levels.
Book sales and signing to follow.
This event is sponsored by Cuyahoga County Public Library and is free and open to the public.
Books at the Market
April 5, 2025
10:00 AM West Side Market 1979 West 25th Street Cleveland, OH 44113
The Rust Belt Humanities Lab, Cleveland Public Library and Literary Cleveland along with local partners are hosting Books at the Market with pop up vendors at the West Side Market vending books and other fresh fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics and more alongside favorite butchers, bakers and fishmongers. At 1pm, National Book Award winner, Andrew Aydin (co-author of March with John Lewis) will be signing books at the market.