bookstore with that lost independent feel -- a relaxed, inviting environment conducive to discovery, where quality takes precedence over quantity, where the books marginalized by commercial concerns have a home. If you come in looking for something specific, we will have it or we will find it for you. If you come in looking for nothing in particular, you can lose yourself in a world of new ideas.
Visible Voice Presents los lobos at the masonic auditorium on november 4 @ 7pm
June 8th 2010
Visible Voice is pleased to present three-time Grammy award winner Los Lobos with Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member Jorma Kaukonen at The Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland,Ohio 44115 on Thursday November 4th. Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:30pm. All tickets are general admission at a cost of $35.00 and can be purchased at www.ticketweb.com or 866-468-3401.
This is the third concert performance that has been presented by Visible Voice Books. The previous three include: Assembly of Dust, The Reverend Horton Heat and Cracker. The Masonic Auditorium is a one hundred year old former opera house and location of Cleveland Orchestra recording and practice sessions. The chance to see and hear Los Lobos and Jorma Kaukonen in such a wonderful setting will truly be a uniquely Cleveland experience.
Garden Courtyard Music Series :: September Schedule
June 7th 2010
The Garden Courtyard Music Series offers an array of music on the weekends throughout the summer months. Sunday afternoons will be devoted to classical and jazz, while Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings will include anything from folk to bossa nova and everything in between. Come take in the the hip urban feel of our outdoor space while sipping on a fabulous glass of wine from our wine bar. All performances are FREE and open to the public.
*Evening performances are from 7:30-9:30pm, Sunday performances are from 3:00-5:00pm
Saturday, September 4
Luca Mundaca, Brazilian Bossa Nova
Saturday, September 18 (Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival Features)
Corissa Bragg, Folk : 12-2pm
Anthony Covatta, Singer/Songwriter : 2-3pm
Dan Morris Back Porch Band, Classic Country and Gospel : 7:30-9:30pm
Sunday, September 19 (Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival Feature)
Maura Rogers, Singer/Songwriter: 3-5pm
Saturday, September 25
Jessican Maughan, Folk/Rock
Project learn anniversary fundraiser and celebration :: beer and wine tasting – Sept.1 and Sept 3 – 6-8pm
May 13th 2010
Project LEARN Celebrates 36 Years postcard
Join Project: LEARN as they celebrate their 36 year anniversary with two fundraising events!
Project: LEARN is Greater Cleveland’s premier adult literacy center. Founded in 1974, Project: LEARN has acquired a national reputation for its leadership in advancing literacy. Project: LEARN’s mission is “Literacy for Every Adult.” Its purpose is to teach basic skills to adults so that they may reach their own particular learning goals. We believe that reading is freedom, meaning that when students acquire basic reading, writing, speaking and listening skills they can solve the problems of daily living, take full advantage of citizenship and participate fully in the affairs of the community.
Beer Tasting
Wednesday, September 1st from 6-8 PM
Hosted by Nicole Hunter Fraser and Mystery Novelist Les Roberts
Reading ‘great drinking moments in literature’.
Wine Tasting
Friday, September 3rd, 6-8 PM
Hosted by local author, Regina Brett
Reading and book signing
“God Never Blinks”
$30.00 each night
Proceeds and book sales benefit Project: LEARN
Buy tickets online here!
For more on Project: LEARN visit www.projectlearn.org
Ohio City Farm Wine Tasting Benefit : Thursday, September 9 – 7-9pm
May 11th 2010
The Ohio City Fresh Food Collaborative will play host to a wine tasting to benefit the newOhio City Farm Project in Ohio City. The cost of the event is $30 and tickets can be purchased at the door. Please call the store for reservations at 216.961.0084.
The Ohio City Farm is a six acre urban farm located behind the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Riverview Towers on West 25th Street downtown. Ohio City Farm is collaborating with Great Lakes, Ohio City Pasta, and other neighborhood restaurateurs to compost their waste and buy their output. The restaurants will be able to help choose what’s grown and slash harvest-to-table time to 
virtually nothing. The farm’s output will also be available to the public at the West Side Market, just a block away. “My understanding is that it’s going to be one of the largest contiguous urban farms in the country,” said Eric Wobser, executive director of Ohio City Near West Development Corp. and creators of the project.
ArtWalk, Friday, September 10 :: Derek Hess and Kent Smith Book Signing + Photos by Willow Rosen – 6-10pm
May 10th 2010
Derek Hess and Kent Smith, local artist and politician extraordinaire, will be in store to sign copies of their book Please God Save Us from 7-9pm. Also, up and coming artist, Willow Rosen, will have photography on display.
What Is Please God Save Us?
A book of art and words that address a variety of modern day topics including: the Republican Party, the Christian right, America’s foreign policy, the environment, the Iraq War, stem cell research, evolution, rock and roll, the Fox News Channel, SpongeBob and Santa Claus. The book is intended to educate and inspire its readers whether or not they agree with either the art or the words. The book is not, however, meant to be an attack on Christianity but rather an interpretation of how religion is perverted to fit the needs of its followers, whomever they may be.
Who Is Derek Hess?
Internationally-known artist Derek Hess has spent the past fifteen years creating rock poster art that has not only made him a household name, but has also caught the attention of both the Louvre and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where his work is featured in both institutions permanent collections. After years of creating posters and flyers for well-known bands such as Deftones, Thursday, Every Time I Die and Taking Back Sunday, as well as popular fine art, Hess diverged into creating witty and thought-provoking art that pushes the envelope of societal ideals.
Who Is Kent Smith?
Kent Smith is an award-winning Cleveland-area elected official who has been friends with Derek Hess for years. Smith has written for the Cleveland Free Times and is currently a PhD candidate in the Economic Development program at Cleveland State University. Before running for office, Smith worked as a community organizer for Democratic campaigns in seven states.
Fresh : going local in an urban environment – Saturday, September 11, 12-9pm
May 9th 2010
We are pleased to present Fresh : going local in an urban environment, to take place on Saturday, September, 11 from noon-9. The event will include three screenings of the new documentary, Fresh, along with several presentations throughout the day by local foods activists and educators. In addition, there will be several in store promotions, samples from local farms, local wines will be featured in our wine bar and various nonprofits will have booths in our Garden Courtyard. $5 suggested donation (proceeds to benefit City Fresh).
The schedule for the day (subject to change):
Presentations (to be held in the Garden Courtyard, weather permitting)
12:30 – Lynn Rodemann of Devil’s Backbone Market and Educational Herb Farm
3:30 – Ohio City Near West on the new Ohio City Farm Project
6:00 – Tim Smith of the Cleveland Greenhouse Project
6:30 – Jody Lathwell of the Tremont Farmers Market and Josh Klein of Gordon Square Farmer’s Market and City Fresh
7:00 – Jonathan Hull from Green Triangle
Q and A
Fresh, The Movie Screenings (to be held in our meeting/performance space)
Film times are 1:00 pm, 4:30 pm (indoors) and 7:30 pm (outdoors weather permitting). Times subject to change.
All screenings are 25 people maximum. Reservations are required (please call the store).
jack Ricchuitto and Anna Marie Jones Poetry Reading : Friday, September 17 – 7-9pm
May 9th 2010
As a writer, Jack Ricchuitto is author of 9 books on topics ranging from innovation, leadership, personal development, community building, and the power of storytelling. He is also writer and researcher on his 8 year old daily blog, JackZen.com, and co-blogger with global social network thought leaders June Holly and Valdis Krebs, NetworkWeaving.com.
For over 30 years, Jack has been designing how groups work in organizations, communities, and networks. His nationally acclaimed work has spanned 30 industries and markets. He has designed leadership teams for multiple-billion dollar technology corporations, civic engagement groups across multi-state regions, and new funding collaborations in emerging innovation networks.
Jack will be reading excerpts from his 9th book, Jack’s 9th book, a poetry collection of original work,The Enchantment of Casual Origins along with fellow poet and writer, Anna Marie Jones. Anna will read from her book, Mountains, Tunnels and Footsteps. Event is free and open to the public.
Megan Snyder-Camp Book signing + Reading: Thursday, September 23 – 7-9pm
May 8th 2010
Megan Snyder-Camp grew up in Baltimore and received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Washington. She has worked as a New York City Parks Inspector, a secretary for a surgical robotics lab as well as for Teach For America-Los Angeles, an EMT, a Quaker meetinghouse caretaker, and a freelance writer. Her first collection, The Forest of Sure Things, winner of the 2008 Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award, was also a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Alice James Beatrice Hawley Award, and the Nightboat Books Prize.
Megan Snyder-Camp’s poems, like mosaics, are built of curious and gem-like pieces: stand close and they’re entrancing; take a few steps back and they reveal a sweeping, vaster movement of mind. With a quiet magical realism and audible adoration of language, Snyder-Camp builds an intensely personal yet clearly narrative frame. With a documentarian’s eye (and a wonderfully inventive, graceful sense of form), she gazes at our deepest fears and embraces the insistent beauty of the new.
- Lia Purpura, author of On Looking and King Baby
The Forest of Sure Things is a layered sequence of poems set in a remote, historic village at the tip of a peninsula on the Northwest Coast, near where Lewis and Clark encountered the Pacific. A pair of newlywed drifters has arrived and settled there, starting the town’s first new family in a hundred years. When their second child is stillborn, the bereft family unravels and un-roots themselves. Megan Snyder-Camp’s poems reveal — like the shoreline exposed by a neap tide — an emotional landscape pressed upon and buckling under the complications of grief and the difficulties of language.
With hypnotic, incantatory phrasing and imagery and an innovative approach to chronology, Snyder-Camp tells the story of the grieving couple, then dramatizes the impact of this enigmatic story on her imagination, her artistic practice, and her own new beginnings in married life and parenthood.
Based in part upon a brief, true story she was told, Snyder-Camp’s mysterious yet uncommonly compelling poetic sequence will draw the reader as if along a current pulling through the book. Acknowledging the importance of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Snyder-Camp has spoken of her fascination with where language frays, as we try and use “story” to create what we remember and see where we are. What happens in a place, or a family, or a body, when time catches, or stops?
Visible Voice Wine Tasting : Friday, September 24 – 7-9pm
May 7th 2010
Come join us as we host our monthly wine tasting in the store from 7-9pm. Peruse our book selection, enjoy some appetizers all while sipping on our fabulous wine! If the weather is nice, be sure to enjoy one of the last few evening outdoors in our garden courtyard. Event is $10 and open to the public.
Starving Artist Project all female Poetry Slam : Saturday, September 25 – 7-9pm
May 6th 2010
Support your local young female slam poets and this wonderful new endeavor, Starving Artist Project. Event is $3 and open to the public. All proceeds to benefit the series!