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.
Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, King Kong (1933)
April 12th, 2024
9:20 PM Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
Art and an Alaskan Adventure, April
April 13th, 2024
11:00 AM Cuyahoga County Public Library Olmstead Falls Branch 8100 Maplewway Drive Olmstead Falls, OH 44138
An Evening with Poet and Theologian Padraig O Tuama
April 15th, 2024
6:00 PM Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center 1 John Carroll Boulevard University Heights, OH 44118
What Makes You Go "Wow!" - A Conversation Exploring the Development of Awe in Children and Youth
April 17, 2024
4:00 PM TVUC Ballroom C 11038 Bellflower Road
Experiencing awe and wonder adds meaning and joy to life. How do we develop the capacity to feel awe, and how do we help children and adolescents experience this wonderful event in daily life? This panel will highlight ways to develop this capacity through reading, music, nature, and creative endeavors such as pretend play. Join us as we discuss the benefit of adding more “awe” into our lives.
Author Mary Quade
April 17, 2024
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library South Euclid-Lyndhurst 1876 S Green Rd South Euclid, OH 44121
Mary Quade is the author of the poetry collections Guide to Native Beasts and Local Extinctions. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Hiram College.
Rejecting the Pill: A History of the Science of Natural Family Planning
April 18th, 2024
4:30 PM Allen Memorial Medical Library 11000 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH, 44106
Was the “Rip Van Winkle” story an Alien Abduction Account?
April 18th, 2024
7:00 PM Cuyahoga County Public Library Bedford Branch 70 Columbus Road Berea Commons Bedford, OH 44146
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.
Adult Rocky River Readers Book Group
April 18th, 2024
7:00 PM Rocky River Public Library 1600 Hampton Road Rocky River, OH 44116
We’ll discuss this awe-inspiring, bestselling epic that tells the story about a daredevil aviator determined to circumnavigate the globe in the 1940s, and the actress who is cast to play her in a blockbusting film in Hollywood, 80 years later. This unforgettable novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Register HERE.
Cleveland Institute of Art's 2024 Spring Show
April 23rd, 2024
6:00 PM Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
Celebrate with us as CIA unveils some of the best work created by students of all levels working across our majors. At the 2024 Spring Show, visitors can meet CIA students—the next generation of artists and designers—and see their awe-inspiring work throughout campus.
Word Magic, Inspiration, and Awe: Readings and Conversation with Kwame Alexander
April 23rd, 2024
6:00 PM Linsalata Alumni Center 11310 Juniper Road Cleveland, OH 44106