Arts & Culture

Hudson Gallery opens its doors

Athena Cocoves

Downtown Sylvania’s Hudson Gallery is again open to visitors and exhibiting a new solo show from Carmen Chaparro, a Chicago-based painter. Chaparro’s I Love...

Take to the Black Kite stage again

Jeff McGinnis

After a long layoff, forced by the quarantine orders, Black Kite Coffee on Collingwood recently restarted an Open Mic Night. Held on a bi-weekly...

Write On: Three authors shed light on what it takes to get published

Erin Holden

If you’ve ever felt absolutely certain that the first draft of that novel you stowed away in a filing cabinet might just be the...

Gathered Says Hello Neighbor in a Gallery Window Exhibit

Erin Holden

With gallery displays of local artists’ work painfully absent during the COVID-19 crisis, Gathered Glassblowing Studio decided to embrace the challenge of bringing the...

The Best Toledo-Made Podcasts To Listen To While Social Distancing

Jeff McGinnis

There are tons of podcasts to be found by area creators on an amazing variety of topics, from religion to comic books, from movies to dieting and more.

The Mix: Bringing Brightness and Dancing into Your Home

Joni Johnson

Video games, puzzles, and maybe even your Zoom karaoke sessions, might now be feeling lackluster, whether it’s your fourth, fifth, or sixth quarantined Friday...

2020 Ode to the ZIP Code

TCP Staff

Your ZIP code is more than just your address— it’s part of your identity. The Toledo City Paper has made an effort to express that point...

Arts Commission plans to add murals to downtown tunnels

Jeff McGinnis

As part of its Art in Public Places Program, the Arts Commission is currently accepting proposals from artists to paint murals in selected locations.

The Arts Commission just announced a $10,000 emergency grant program for artists

Athena Cocoves

Artists thrive on events. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of local performances, exhibitions, festivals, and other revenue-generating opportunities for artists have been canceled. For most...

Virtual Experience: Intense Adornment online with 20 North

Jeff McGinnis

See the 20 North Gallery’s current exhibit, Intense Adornment: The Jewelry of Sue Szabo, without leaving your home. The downtown gallery has posted an ongoing...

The Village Players Present “Bedroom Farce”

Jeff McGinnis

Four different married couples of varying ages, three different bedrooms that the characters meet up in and two days of events in the story...

Join Sylvania Franciscan Village for Dinner and a Yousef Bashir book

Jeff McGinnis

Join the Sylvania Franciscan Village for this month’s Dinner and a Book event, featuring a discussion of Yousef Bashir’s memoir The Words of My...

Toledo Voices series kicks-off with “Peanuts and Crackerjacks”

Jeff McGinnis

The Toledo Rep once again shines a spotlight on area playwrights’ unproduced works with its Toledo Voices series. These performances present a new play...

[title of show] to be performed by Cutting Edge

Jeff McGinnis

A new production of the unique and off-center staging will debut at Nederhouser Community Hall on March 12, courtesy of Toledo’s theatrical risk...

Learn to wrap a gele at MSNC

Jeff McGinnis

The Monroe Street Neighborhood Center will host a workshop on how to properly wrap a “gele”.

TPS to screen powerful documentary “Pushout”

Jeff McGinnis

Centered on the disadvantages faced by black girls in society in education

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