William Cleveland, director of the Minneapolis Center for the Study of Art & Community, will speak on "Arts and Community: New Partnerships in Human Services," followed by a panel discussion, beginning at 5 p.m. April 19 in Robert Werner Recital Hall at University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.

The free event is part of the Joan Cochran Rieveschl Series on Visionaries in the Arts.

The local panel includes: Keith Banner, Visionaries and Voices; Willie Carden, Cincinnati Park Board; Pauletta Hansel, Arts in Prison; Darlene Kamine, Cincinnati Public Schools; and Joan Kaup, Arts & Culture Task Team, City of Cincinnati.

Registration and light refreshments begin at 4 p.m. There is limited seating and reservations are required. Contact the Fine Arts Fund at 871-2787, Ext. 28, or e-mail hhallenberg@fineartsfund.org .

Martha Mitchell story

Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative holds a staged reading of Melanie Garner's The Martha Problem at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Aronoff's Fifth Third Bank Theater.

The Martha Problem is a one-woman play about the wife of John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's attorney general. The play charts the parallel disintegrations of the Nixon administration and the Mitchell marriage, culminating in the Watergate trials.

Garner says Martha is her "first attempt at an actual play," although she was the grand prize winner of In Theater magazine's Bad Musical Contest for her treatment (with songs) of The Night They Raided Lewinsky's.

For more information, call Chuck Wente at (859) 291-6996.

Student plays

Miami University-Hamilton theater presents an evening of original works by Miami students and local playwrights Thursday through Saturday.

Miami Writes: New Play Festival features 10 works, as well as choreography by Diane Germaine and a short performance by African American Theatre Company.

Performances are in Parrish Auditorium on the Miami University-Hamilton campus. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information call (513) 785-3184.

Renegades' casting call

Renegade Garage Players, which brings people with and without disabilities together for performing arts, community service and continuing education, is looking for new participants with and without acting experience to be involved in summer productions.

Productions will include: Tear Along the Dotted Line; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; Animal Farm: The Musical; an evening of one-acts; and No Exit.

For more information and a rehearsal schedule, call 328-6300.

Renegade schedules its third annual Game Night fund-raiser on April 24. Last year's event included a scavenger hunt, Pictionary and card games. The evening culminates with a rousing Go Fish tournament.

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