Event Calendar

Events for Saturday, December 3, 2016

Ranger Basketball & Cheerleading Deadline Tuesday, December 6, 2016
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Ranger Basketball & Cheerleading Deadline
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Current Physical Required for Registration
Location:
Lakewood Community Recreation & Education Department
1456 Warren Rd.
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
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Friends Holiday Bag of Books Sale
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friends of Lakewood Public Library host the Friends Holiday Bag of Books Sale on Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Lakewood Public Library, 15425 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107. Members-only preview sale on Thursday, December 1, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Memberships may be purchased at the door. The preview sale is NOT a bag sale.
Location:
Lakewood Public Library
15425 Detroit Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107
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The Gathering Place Warehouse Home Furnishings Sale
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Gathering Place Warehouse is having a Home Furnishings Sale on Saturday, December 3rd from 9am-1pm and Sunday, December 4th from 11am-1pm at 4911 Commerce Parkway in Warrensville Heights. We have lots of holiday items, collectibles, and furniture. Several items are 50% off. Proceeds from warehouse sales help support the free programs and services The Gathering Place provides to those touched by cancer.
Location:
4911 Commerce Parkway
Warrensville Heights, OH 44128
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Reiki Level 1 Class ~'~ Loving Hands Reiki
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Learn how to give a Reiki treatment to yourself, other people and your pets. You will become “attuned” to the Universal healing energy and learn hand positions for providing treatments. This class is beneficial for people who have chronic health challenges, have pets with chronic health challenges, or want to help provide healing to others.

We will also discuss intuitive and shamanic healing methods, and how to incorporate pendulums, crystals and aromatherapy into your treatments. This class is taught in the traditional Usui method. Please bring a brown bag lunch.

(Classes also available by appointment)

Cost: $125 per person ($50 deposit due one week prior to class to reserve your space)

Level 1 Refresher Course
If you have been trained and attuned by another Reiki Master in the past and would like to take a refresher course, you are welcome to sit in on a class and receive the handout materials. If you wish to be re-attuned, the cost would be the same as the regular class.

Cost: $75 per person (no re-attunement), $50 deposit due one week prior to reserve your space

Please call 216-408-5578 or visit http://lovinghandsyoga.com/reiki/reiki-classes/ for more information.

Location:
Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki
2959 Hampshire Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
216-408-5578
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WINTERTIDE at Gordon Square
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Explore the Gordon Square Arts District at WINTERTIDE. Visitors to the district’s specialty shops, storefronts, bars and restaurants will enjoy an immersive, art-infused experience of holiday shopping, with pop-up music and theatre performances taking place in neighborhood venues, as well as Cleveland Public Theatre, the Near West Theatre plaza and inside the Gordon Square Arcade. Enjoy shopping and food specials, free horse & carriage rides and free performances by local artists, including neo-vaudevillians Pinch & Squeal's WIZBANG! Variety show, CPT's "The Loush Sisters," cabaret performances by Near West Theatre and dozens of others. FREE
Location:
Gordon Square Arts District, various neighborhood locaions
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Disney’s The Little Mermaid
2:30 PM
Based on the classic fairy tale and film, The Little Mermaid begins under the sea where Princess Ariel is fascinated by the forbidden land above. After saving Eric from stormy waters, she begins to discover her love for the human prince. In an effort to be with him, Ariel makes a deal with a sea witch and trades her voice for temporary life on land. Only when Ariel achieves true love will her voice return and her transformation be completed. This dangerous sacrifice ultimately leads to an epic battle of good and evil that only love can remedy.

Tickets: $15-$31 | Group, Senior, and Student ticket discounts available. Please call customer service at 216.521.2540 x10 for full details.

Location:
Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107

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Light Up Lakewood
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
It’s a most joyous of Lakewood traditions and it’s back for another year. The spirit of the season will come to life with holiday cheer when Light Up Lakewood 2016 takes place on Saturday, Dec. 3, within the city’s seasonally-illuminated downtown district.

Presented by LakewoodAlive in conjunction with many generous businesses and organizations, Light Up Lakewood celebrates the season and the richness of the city’s vibrancy. This free, family-friendly event in Downtown Lakewood features a holiday parade, lighting ceremony, winter fireworks, live music, ice carvings, hot chocolate, food trucks, children’s games and much more.

Attendees are invited to stroll Lakewood's downtown district and visit local stores and restaurants while taking in the sights and sounds of one of Northeast Ohio's largest holiday celebrations. Light Up Lakewood serves as a marquee event for the entire region, having drawn an estimated 25,000 guests last year.

Light Up Lakewood represents a day-long celebration that starts with Lunch with Santa at Dewey's Pizza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and doesn't end until the music stops playing at 8 p.m. Guests' sensory perceptions will be delighted by the twinkle of holiday lights, the cheerful sounds of carolers and the warmth exuded by the festive, friendly atmosphere.

Highlights include Vendor Village inside the historic Masonic Hall, the ever-popular Holiday Parade, which commences at Manor Park at 5 p.m. and ends in front of the Lakewood Public Library, live entertainment provided by bands, choirs and dancers, the Lighting Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. at the newly-located Main Stage at City Center Park and a can't-miss fireworks show at 6:45 p.m. over the rooftops of Downtown Lakewood.

Schedule of Events for Light Up Lakewood 2016:
• 11 am – 1 pm – Lunch with Santa at Dewey’s Pizza
• 11 am – 4:30 pm – Ongoing performances at Barton Center with a surprise visitor
• 3 pm – King and Queen Ceremony at Plantation Home
• 4 pm – Festival Kickoff with Vendor Village and Food Court opening
• 5 pm – Start of Parade at Manor Park and Detroit Avenue, headed westbound on Detroit
• 5 – 8:30 pm – Santa visits Lakewood Public Library
• 5:30 – 8 pm – Ongoing performances at Lakewood Public Library
• 6:30 pm – Lighting Ceremony at Main Stage at City Center Park (in front of the Marc’s Plaza)
• 6:45 pm – Fireworks Show

For more information and continued updates, please visit LightUpLakewood.com.
Location:
Downtown Lakewood
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