Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Topics: Arts, Politics
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For many, the election of Barack Obama as America's 44th President is the culmination of a long hard struggle for equal rights, led by activists like W.E.B. Dubois, Rosa Parks, Dr. King, and Malcolm X, who paved the way for the election of the first African-American President. Two other pioneers that Barack Obama acknowledges for his landmark victory grew up right here in our own backyard - former Mayor of Cleveland Carl Stokes and Congressman Louis Stokes. The story of these two trailblazers is chronicled in a new documentary, Stokes: An American Dream, produced by WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Joining us is one of the participants in that film, Susan Hall, Director of Community Relations at the Western Reserve Historical Society, and Producer David C. Barnett. You can catch the film on WVIZ/PBS on Monday, February 9th at 9:00 PM, and to learn more about the Stokes brothers be sure to check out the exhibit: Carl and Louis Stokes, From the Projects to Politics, on view at the Western Reserve Historical Society.

While brothers Carl and Lou Stokes found success navigating treacherous political waters, some local thrill-seekers are having success hanging ten on the Great Lakes... no matter what the weather. Their adventures are part of an upcoming film called Out of Place: A Portrait of Surfing the Great Lakes, and Producer Scott Ditzenberger joins us.

The staging of an Opera Cleveland production sometimes entails needing everything from cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudel to sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles... and the place where they find all of these favorite things is in their own backyard, at the Opera Cleveland warehouse.

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