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  • Forest City Singers — Good Tidings – St. Stephen’s Church

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, November 17, 2019; Good Tidings, St. Stephen’s Church, 1930 W. 54th Street: Members of the Forest City Singers sing the compositions of Franz Schubert, David Dickau, J.S. Bach as well as a variety of arrangements of Christmas music. Forest City Singers is a 15- member choral group which…

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  • St. Stephen Parish celebrates 150th Anniversary

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, November 17, 2019; St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church, 1930 W. 54th Street: The main altar at St. Stephen’s church. The altars and statues at St. Stephens were carved from oak and most were imported from Munich, Germany. The parish, which was founded in April of 1869, celebrates its…

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  • Apparition of the Eternal Church, St. Ignatius of Antioch Church

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Sunday, October 27, 2019; Apparition of the Eternal Church, St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, West Boulevard at Lorain Avenue: Organist Buck McDaniel, the 2018-19 Kulas Composer Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre, plays some of his own compositions as well as works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messiaen, Florence Price, Nadia Boulanger, and…

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  • Día de Muertos Parade of Skulls & Skeletons

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, November 2, 2019; Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Parade of Skulls & Skeletons, W. 65th & Detroit Avenue: The Día de Muertos celebration was presented by Cleveland Public Theatre / Teatro Público de Cleveland in partnership with Héctor Castellanos Lara and Día de Muertos Ohio.PHOTO BY…

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  • St. Malachi Parish to celebrate tenth anniversary of merger with Community of St. Malachi

      PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, September 20, 2019; St. Malachi Church, 2459 Washington Avenue: This sculpture, a Pietá – the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, — was exhibited at the Chicago World Fair in 1893. Carved out of one block of wood, the sculpture was saved and restored after a fire…

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  • Convención Hispana 2019

      PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, October 5, 2019; Convención Hispana 2019 presented by the Hispanic Roundtable, Max Hayes High School, 2011 W. 65thStreet: legendary Puerto Rican singer, musician and composer José Feliciano is welcomed to Cleveland by Cleveland attorney and Hispanic Roundtable Chairman José Feliciano. The two José Felicianos dialogued on stage before a…

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  • St. Rocco Italian Festival

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  • St. John Cantius Polish Festival

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  • United Latino Film Festival

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, August 9, 2019; United Latino Film Festival, Holiday Inn, Mentor, Ohio: Tony Mata, executive producer and director of the documentary film Theatre of Rice and Beans, a retrospective look at New York Latino Theatre which features the founders of three Latino Theaters — Miriam Colon, Rene Buch and Max…

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  • Puerto Rican Parade

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, August 4, 2019; Puerto Rican Parade, 2955 W. 38thStreet: The Arroyo Family celebrates while watching the parade go past their house.

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