In light of my Monday plans to see Cloud Cult and Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s at Beachland Ballroom tonight, I’m posting a local shout-out to Arts Collinwood.
Cloud Cult will perform at The Beachland Ballroom on Monday, April 13
Art-rock band Cloud Cult will mix live music with studio art tonight as two artists paint onstage to the rhythm and flow of the live music. After the show, paintings will go to the highest bidder and proceeds will support the regional art organization, Arts Collinwood.
Arts Collinwood & Beachland Ballroom
Arts Collinwood supports local artists
Located in Cleveland, Arts Collinwood and Beachland Ballroom share the same ‘hood. Beachland Ballroom is a hip venue for local and national bands, drawing an audience of young, eclectic musicians and enthusiasts. Arts Collinwood, a growing nonprofit, supports artist communities in the same neighborhood on Waterloo Street.
Arts Collinwood and Beachland Ballroom share the same business objective to make the neighborhood a bit more open to entertainment. The two organizations have teamed up, realizing their power together, in joint neighborhood fundraising and activities.
Music on Waterloo and Food in the Neighborhood are weekly events combining the love for local music, art and food in the community. The objective of these events is to attract audiences, mostly the art enthused, to the neighborhood which hopes to become one of Ohio’s leading art communities.
The Waterloo Arts
Beachland Ballroom is a hip venue for indie bands
In 2000, Cindy Barber remodeled the old Croation-styled home on Waterloo Road to the hoppin’ Beachland Ballroom & Tavern that it is today. With the help of the Waterloo Arts and Entertainment district, as well as Arts Collinwood, the community has taken full swing in 2009 to making Waterloo a full entertainment community.
According to Barber’s press release, neighborhood plans are right on track. The community includes:
- Arts Collinwood, a growing nonprofit
- Music Saves, an indie record store
- Shoparooni, an eccentric novelty store
- Waterloo 7, a fab art galley
- Blue Arrow Records, a used-vinyl store just opened
- Blitz BBQ, owned by Billy Blitz, brother of the Dead Boys’ drummer Johnny, is set to open across from the Beachland this summer
We’re also working on the East 185th LaSalle Theatre renovation and redefining our lakefront area, because we really are the neighborhood where “the city meets the lake.” We hope to restore some of the Euclid Beach atmosphere with a new fishing pier and more.
The neighborhood’s development plans were made possible with the colliding efforts of community nonprofits and forprofits with activities and fundraisers. Judging by the growing crowds on weekends and the increase in media exposure, plans seem to be taking off. The initiative to turn Waterloo into a highly trafficked and cool art scene is a growing success.
You can catch updates on Waterloo’s art community venture at Nan’s Neighborhood News from Arts Collinwood.
