Celebrating the Soul of Cleveland

Celebrating the Soul of Cleveland summarizes a life in Cleveland a city whose very identity provides sustenance and support to all who welcome it into their heart. The project started with a simple discussion. The premise of this book and for the projects described in it is: Evolution.Community Arts Leader and Cleveland Arts Prize winner Nina Gibans loves our collective aha moments when we get it and roll along - excited - together. Using images stories poems interviews reflections and reminiscences Nina weaves together a new gestalt a whole that is often present long before the pieces are put into place. A lifetime of experiences encounters discussions are the parts of this a multi-tasking of the mind combined until they find the parts make sense and there is a city - a community.Here is to all of the men women and children who have stuck with me through my life of joyous adventures and to the support of a loving caring husband and friendly critic whose bloodstream ran in the same direction as mine. - Nina Gibans