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The Springfield Arts Council
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The Clark County Historical Society
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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. |
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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
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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For
more information about CREATIVE CONNECTIONS,
contact the Springfield Arts Council at 866-324-2712
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