Welcome to Cleveland
It is no secret to a Native Clevelander, or anyone who spends more than ten minutes in the city that Cleveland has a thriving arts scene. It is also an all too common tale that anyone who tells friends and family from outside of Cleveland of this fact is laughed at. How then do you change people’s perceptions? Easy, you bring them to Cleveland so that they can see for themselves!
Enter the Welcome to Cleveland Weekend. An event co-hosted by Northeast Shores Development Corporation and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC). The event is aimed specifically at out-of-town artists, inviting them to visit Cleveland for a weekend, see the opportunities that are potentially available that might not be in a New York or Chicago and to consider relocating to Cleveland.
Seth Beattie, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CPAC explains, “This is a really exciting and unique event for Cleveland. This opportunity is giving artists from out of town the ability to experience the city from all angles and to understand what being an artist here is really all about.”
Visitors will stay in the Hyatt Arcade Hotel downtown, have guided tours of Cleveland’s premiere artist neighborhoods and institutions, and experience the world class culinary scene. Clevelanders know that the city has arrived as a thriving arts center, now the Welcome to Cleveland Weekend gives out-of-town artists the chance to understand that as well and potentially relocate here and join in.
For more info about the Welcome to Cleveland Weekend happening August 1st through August 4th check out our web site!