American Heart Association
Broccoli Rocks!
Visit the American Heart Association and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to plant your own healthy veggies. Kids can learn about becoming part of the healthiest generation yet. Plant a veggie, take it home, watch it grow, and eat it.
The Children’s Museum of Cleveland, Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio, Invest in Children
Moving with the Muse
Come Move with the Muse at the CMC/YANEO booth. We’ll be wiggling & giggling, moving & grooving, and singing & laughing once again. Plus, we’ll create our own music using boomwhackers, drums, and other “instruments.”
cleveland.com
Write Your Way to Fame!
Grab your materials, set off on the circle and write your story … for a chance to be published online!
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Nature Paintings
Discover how gardens can be an inspiration to your inner artist. Use natural materials to create your own painting masterpiece.
Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center
Building on a Dream
Young builders and architects are invited to help us build and design the CHSC headquarters of the future.
Cleveland Institute of Art
Mighty Marvelous Masks
Let the sights and sounds of the Parade be the muse that inspires little ones to create marvelous masks bejeweled with feathers, glitter, and shiny sparkles.
Cleveland Institute of Music, Lake View Cemetery, The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
The Music of Rain…the Spirit of Nature
Rain makes music on our windows and roofs and helps things grow in our gardens and parks. For centuries, indigenous cultures have used rainsticks to capture the energy of the ancestral spirits and bring rain. Create your own rainstick as the Cleveland Institute of Music, Lake View Cemetery, and The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes join forces to show our respect for the natural world we’ve inherited.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Mud-ieval Maneuvers
Help create a giant clay castle filled with armor and action.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Toad-ily Frogs
Hop to it and celebrate the “Year of the Frog” at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Circle Village tent. Hands-on activities about frogs, toads, and other amphibians, a frog-related craft, and more will help you learn about frogs and amphibians and what you can do to help these threatened creatures.
The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Music School Settlement
Instrument Discovery
Discover your inner musician under the Instrument Discovery tent. Stop by to try out a variety of instruments and learn about the educational programs of The Cleveland Orchestra and The Cleveland Music School Settlement. We’ll have violins of all sizes, brass, winds, and percussion demonstrated by friendly, experienced volunteers.
The Cleveland Play House
Make a Puppet of Your Favorite Characters
Come make puppets of your favorite characters from the Cleveland Play House’s upcoming Children’s Series. Children will be instructed how to make, decorate, and bring puppets to life. Let your creativity soar as you use all kinds of craft materials to make lovable puppet characters to take home and play with.
Cleveland Public Library, MLK Jr. Branch
Storyweavers Fantasy
Get tangled in a web of Anansi stories. Enjoy string stories, face painting, puppet shows, and the bookmobile.
Cleveland Sight Center
See What's Possible
Close your eyes and imagine doing everyday activities without using your sight-- simple things like pouring water into a cup or squeezing toothpaste onto a toothbrush. Experience what it is like to live without sight as you learn how people who are blind or visually impaired perform everyday tasks. You can even write your name in Braille. The Cleveland Sight Center mobile screening van will also be at Circle Village to test for glaucoma.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association
Nature Leaves Its Mark
Participants will engage in hands-on arts & science activities that explore wildlife and plants of northeast Ohio. Activities include prints, rubbings of objects from nature such as plants and animal tracks, and displays of animal skulls, pelts, and tracks to learn more about wildlife anatomy, behavior, and habitat.
Dunham Tavern Museum
Sign of the Times
Design an eye-catching sign to attract guests to your stagecoach stop.
Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church
The Mad Hatter’s Workshop
Join in the Circle Village activities wearing your own hat creation. Using hat forms, children will fashion their own broad-brimmed hats from extra large sheets of construction paper. Their colorful, pre-shaped hats will then be banded, and young ones can add their own decorations to be able to parade around Circle Village and watch the Parade in style.
Famicos Foundation
Building Community: One Helping Hand at a Time
This fun, interactive activity encourages little ones to participate in the creation of public art. Participants can permanently display their “hand print” on canvas to show their support for neighborhoods and civic engagement. This public art piece will be displayed at Famicos Foundation offices and throughout the Greater University Circle neighborhood.
Hawken School
Go Green
Children will have fun doing a science activity, which promotes the environment and sustainability.
The Junior League of Cleveland, Inc.
Healthy Food Bingo
In keeping with its Be Fit, Be Fine signature initiative which addresses the issues of nutrition, fitness, and body image, The Junior League of Cleveland, Inc., is playing “Healthy Food Bingo.” Join us at our tent to spin the color wheel and find out the correct healthy food in that color on your bingo sheet.
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Discover Your Inner Superhero
Design your own superhero emblem-- what would your special power be? Kids can paint, color, and sticker their own breastplate logo showing off their favorite superhero powers. Bring a cape to complete the look.
Medical Mutual
A description is coming soon!
MOCA Cleveland
Time Reinvented
MOCA’s make-and-take art project is inspired from the 2008 Wendy L. Moore exhibition, The Curve of Time: The Sculpture of Jamie Davis, which features three-dimensional artworks exploring the perception of time and human experience. At the MOCA tent, you will work with unlikely art materials as you create a unique time-keeping device.
Montessori High School at University Circle
Work Is Play with Montessori
Children can create personalized maps and geometric art with Montessori High School students.
Park Lane Villa
Magic & Fun with Creative Blocks
Magician Richard McClendon will delight the very young and the young-at-heart with his sleight-of-hand and up-close magic. The tricks he has up his sleeve will amaze you. Children will also enjoy their own magic with large colorful blocks. Stop by for fun and get a balloon.
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Safe Ride for All Kids
Join the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Street Team for a fun demonstration on child passenger safety and decorate and personalize a cool back-seat car seat organizer you can take home with you for the ride home. All children will get a prescription for child passenger safety and learn why riding in the back seat is the coolest and safest place to ride as part of the Kohl’s and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Safe Ride for All Kids campaign.
Rainey Institute
Dance & Drumming
Enjoy hourly demonstration classes for children in various forms of dance and drumming. Dance demonstration classes include modern dance, hip hop dance, and capoeira. Drumming demonstration classes will provide opportunities for children to learn basic drumming techniques on a variety of drums.
Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland
Face Painting
Make your cheeks as colorful as the Parade.
St. Clair Superior Development Corp.
Year of the Rat
Enjoy Chinese brush painting taught by Chinese artists, while learning about the Year of the Rat.
Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Armor Tattoos
Herald the reopening of CMA’s armor court with your own temporary tattoo.
Western Reserve Historical Society
Try Your Skill!
Come one, come all! Activities from the past beckon and challenge you to try your skill at walking on stilts, landing the ball in the cup, and keeping a hula hoop spinning. Brain teasers test your skill in the Cleveland History Trivia Quiz.
Entertainment
Kulas Main Stage
11:00 a.m. - Passport Project
1:30 p.m. - Cats on Holiday
2:45 p.m. - Joia Escola de Samba
3:00 p.m. - Berco do Samba de Sao Mateus
Community Stage on Wade Oval
11:00-11:40 a.m. - Crooked River Ensemble (Hathaway Brown School)
11:45 a.m. - Early College Jazz Band (John Hay High School) TENTATIVE
2:00 p.m. Cleveland Music School Settlement Percussion Ensemble
Dance Stage
11:00 a.m. - Urban Dance Collective (Cleveland School of the Arts)
1:45 p.m. - African Soul
3:00 p.m. - Praise Dance Academy
Food Vendors
Bailey Boardwalk Fries
Original Greek Gyros
Sue's Pierogis
Simply Elegant
Titi Mika Latin Food
European Gourmet Almonds
Qdoba
Crepe Expectations
Special Events & Spectacular Parties
Quiznos
Pearl of the Orient
Uptowne Grill
Rascal House Pizza
Teahouse Noodles
Hot Sauce Williams
Monica's Hungarian & Caribbean RestaurantC
Celebrations by Aunt Elaine
Blue Chip Foods
With the price of gas being so high, why not ride your bike to Parade the Circle and Circle Village? Ohio City Bicycle Co-op will provide a free, secure bicycle corral located near the corner of East Boulevard and Bellflower Road.
A parking map is coming soon.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Circle Village is held in conjunction with Parade the Circle, presented by The Cleveland Museum of Art. Parade the Circle is a vibrant community art parade that features giant puppets, stilt dancers, colorful costumes, one-of-a-kind performance ensembles, and extraordinary floats. To learn more about the Parade, visit 
