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The Springfield Arts Council
in partnership with The Clark County Historical Society
presents


Take a creative new look around you!

Make a contemporary connection to a world of rich history
and heritage through the eyes of an artist.

The 2011-12 Creative Connections connects unique
performing artists and programs with events of cultural and historic significance.


All Creative Connections programs are presented admission-free at the Heritage Center of Clark County, 117 South Fountain Avenue in downtown Springfield. Following each free performance, meet the artists in the Heritage Center lobby!

Read a welcome message from Ardath Dellapina, Education and Program Director of the Heritage Center of Clark County
 

 
 

The Living Newspaper
Thursday, October 6, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Heritage Center of Clark County; Discovery Hall
FREE Admission (Seating first-come, first served)
Produced by Mad River Theater Works


Visit a generation where life’s basic necessities were not taken for granted, when luxuries were valued and precious, and it became the responsibility of everyday folks to catch hold and make it right. The Living Newspaper, a play with music, is a glimpse into a world when people learned to make a better life for themselves.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans

 
 
 

Silk Road - Songs Along the Road and Time

Thursday, November 17, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Heritage Center of Clark County, Discovery Hall
FREE Admission (Seating first-come, first served)
DVD screening


The Vienna Boys Choir, one of the most famous choirs in the world, is featured in this multi-layered film which takes us on a journey around the globe and back into time. Experience the boys’ nomadic lifestyle through their very own eyes, including the choir’s project involving music from the Silk Road.
 
 

The Gift of the Magi
Thursday, December 8, 2011 • 7:30 PM
Heritage Center of Clark County
FREE Admission
(Seating first-come, first served)
Produced by Cincinnati ArtReach


Can a memorable Christmas be made with a dollar and eighty-seven cents? Della and Jim begin to lose sight of the true joy of gift giving and friendship. In The Gift of the Magi, based on the short story by O. Henry, we follow the young couple on their journey to make each other's holiday dreams come true.
 
 

Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry of
Herbert Woodward Martin

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 • 7:30 PM
Heritage Center of Clark County
FREE Admission
(Seating first-come, first served)
DVD screening

This fascinating film includes interviews with Herbert Woodward Martin (Professor of English and Poet-In- Residence at University of Dayton,) Sue Martin, Dayton artist Bing Davis, and poet/publisher Naomi Long Madgett, as well as brilliant examples of the dialect poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
 
 

Osebo's Drum
Thursday, April 19, 2012 • 7:30 PM
Heritage Center of Clark County
FREE Admission
(Seating first-come, first served)

Sing and clap along as award-winning storyteller and trained Lincoln Center for Aesthetic Education Teaching Artist Robbi Kumalo unfolds Osebo's Drum - an amusing and spirited traditional tale of the turtle that outwits the fierce leopard and is rewarded with a shell.
 

 
This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

 


For more information about CREATIVE CONNECTIONS,
contact the Springfield Arts Council at 866-324-2712
 

 

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937-324-2712   •   FAX 937-324-3170

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth,
educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.