2024 Cleveland Humanities Festival "Awe"
The theme of the 2024 Cleveland Humanities Festival is AWE. Wonder. Reverence. Humility. Intensity. Fear. Awe is a complex emotional and cognitive state that can be triggered by a variety of experiences. How have diverse cultures across time harnessed the profound to create art, sculpt beliefs, and shape the course of history? Are there universal truths about awe, or is it deeply personal? What are the ways that feelings of awe have been mobilized for political purposes? Does the intricate dance of biology and ecology in nature inspire the same awe as a timeless masterpiece? How has our understanding of the evolutionary value of awe changed over time? These questions will be addressed by Cleveland area arts, cultural and educational organizations through a series of public events in the spring of 2024.
Author Percival Everett
March 26, 2024
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Parma Snow Branch 2121 Snow Road Parma, OH 44134
Psychedelics in an Age of Freud and Pharmacology: What Happened Before, What is Happening Now, Why it Matters
March 29, 2024
6:30 PM Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Boulevard, Suite 312, Cleveland Heights, OH 44116
Author Hanif Abdurraqib
April 1, 2024
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Parma Snow Branch 2121 Snow Road Parma, OH 44134
PLEASE NOTE: Per the publisher’s requirement, attendees must wear a mask at all times during this event.
Each ticket ($30) includes event admission, a copy of There's Always This Year, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
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G-d Talk: Poems and Conversation with Jessica Jacobs and Philip Metres
April 3rd, 2024
7:00 PM Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center 1 John Carroll Boulevard University Heights, OH 44118
Embrace Life in Your Garden
April 4th, 2024
7:00 PM Rocky River Public Library 1600 Hampton Road Rocky River, OH 44116
Not enough buzz in your garden? The Master Gardeners of Cuyahoga County will share tips and techniques you can use to welcome pollinators and other beneficials to your vegetable garden and landscape.
Register HERE.
CIFF Film Screening: All You Hear is Noise
April 4, 2024
7:25 pm | Connor Palace | 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115
A crowd-pleasing profile of Trent Hampton, Melanie Holmes, and Chris Wines—three intellectually disabled triathletes as they compete for glory and acceptance at the Special Olympics World Games in the United Arab Emirates. From Executive Producer LeBron James.
48th CIFF Film Screening: All You Hear is Noise
April 5, 2024
12:10 pm | Connor Palace | 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115
A crowd-pleasing profile of Trent Hampton, Melanie Holmes, and Chris Wines—three intellectually disabled triathletes as they compete for glory and acceptance at the Special Olympics World Games in the United Arab Emirates. From Executive Producer LeBron James.
The Gift of Darkness
April 6th, 2024
1:00 PM Cleveland Public Library 325 & 525 Superior Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114
Literary Cleveland is organizing a free staged reading titled “The Gift of Darkness” in collaboration with Cleveland Public Library as part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival on Saturday, April 6, 2023 at Cleveland Public Library Main auditorium downtown.
9 to 5: The Story of a Movement
April 8, 2024
6:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Bay Village Branch 27400 Wolf Road, Bay Village, OH 44140
When women entered the workforce in the 1960s, most of the available jobs were secretarial. Instead of being seen by their bosses as a vital part of the office, many secretaries were regarded as glorified servants for the men who did the “real work.”
Was the “Rip Van Winkle” story an Alien Abduction Account?
April 9th, 2024
6:30 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Chagrin Falls Branch 100 East Orange Street Chagrin Falls, OH, 44022
Many UFO researchers have suggested that Washington Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle” was a colonial era alien abduction account based on the “lost time” aspect. Journalist Cheryl Costa decided to conduct her own research and discovered a startling trail of facts.
Costa is an author and newspaper columnist who writes about UFOs and the paranormal. The International UFO Congress awarded her Researcher of the Year in 2018.