Arts picks: ArtWalk, jazz on Innerbelt, Babs satire at Beck, Havana Nights at Barder House
Akron ArtWalk
Summit Artspace will host the free Akron ArtWalk from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday at 140 E. Market St. featuring the theme “Only One Earth: Arts and the Environment.” Galleries and artist studios will be open, and Summit Artspace will have food, music and pop-up vendors.
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Wick Poetry Center, Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Summit Metro Parks will have information tables. Guests are invited to create chalk art in sidewalk squares and to paint "Art in Motion" walls outside with environmental themes.
Artist Joe Ott, 2022 Arts 2022 Arts Alive honoree, will create a wood-burning piece onsite. For more information, see www.summitartspace.org.
As part of the ArtWalk, the Akron Art Museum will host a Family Day of seven short films from the New York International Children's Film Festival, to be shown in the Bud & Susie Rogers Garden at about 8:30. The family event runs from 6 to 9:30 p.m., with art-making activities, refreshments and entertainment.
Other ArtWalk venues will be the Akron Summit County Public Library, where guests can participate in a community mural and do sidewalk art from 4 to 8 p.m., and a free outdoor screening of the Don Cheadle-directed film "Miles Ahead," featuring Akron musician Theron Brown at 8 p.m. 110 N. Main St. in the Northside District. Brown will give an introduction to the film, which explores the life and music of Miles Davis.
For information on other ArtWalk venues, including Curated Storefront exhibits and galleries and the City of Rubber Worker Statue, see www.summitartspace.org.
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Chanticleer Awards
Weathervane Playhouse will host the 69th annual Chanticleer Awards at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the theater, 1301 Weathervane Lane, Akron.
The awards, Weathervane's version of the Tony Awards, are chosen by a people's choice vote for best production, performer and designers. Top volunteers also will be honored for the 2021-2022 season.
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For tickets, which cost $15, see www.weathervaneplayhouse.com. Tickets include a pre-show buffet of heavy hors d'oeuvres at 6:30 p.m. and the ceremony at 7:30 p.m.
Jazz and blues on Innerbelt
As part of the Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival this weekend, Ronell Regis Group and the James Gaiters Soul Revival will perform on the decommissioned portion of the Akron Innerbelt in an event running from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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A panel discussion about the history of music in the area where the Innerbelt now sits will be held between musical sets, including Alberta Blanton-Williams, goddaughter of Matthews Hotel owner George Mathews; and jazz saxophonist Fred Davis.
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Guests will have access to the Innerbelt via shuttles from the parking lot at 154 Wills Ave. For more information on the Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival, which runs Thursday through Saturday, see www.opentonemusic.org.
Havana Nights
Havana-born guitarist Justo Saborit and the Havana Nights will close out Tuesday Musical's Music al Fresco series with concerts at 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday on the lawn at the Barder House, 1041 W. Market St. The Cleveland-based artists will perform Cuban soul and Latin rhythms.
Cost is $20; free for students. For more information, see www.tuesdaymusical.org or call 330-761-3460.
‘Buyer & Cellar’
Imagine a whole play about Barbra's tchotchkes. Barbra Streisand, that is.
The satire "Buyer & Cellar," which The New York Times described as "absurdist whimsy," is based on a wacky real-life premise — an avenue of quaint "storefronts" that Streisand actually created in the basement of a barn on her Malibu estate to display her collectibles.
That underground "mall," so to speak, is the setting for Jonathan Tollins' one-man, 90-minute comedy "Buyer & Cellar," the Off-Broadway hit that will open Friday at Beck Center for the Arts' Studio Theater in Lakewood and run through Oct. 9.
Local actor Scott Esposito will play out-of-work actor Alex, who is the sole employee of the "mall," as well as five other colorful characters, including Streisand.
Cost is $10-$38. See www.beckcenter.org or call 216-521-2540.
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Do Akron ArtWalk, jazz on Innerbelt, Cuban music, Streisand satire
