Exciting news! We were featured in this month’s Gather Well Cleveland Heights Podcast!
Our Board Secretary, Brady Dindia, sat down with Julie and Eric to reflect on the incredible events we hosted at the end of 2024, including Halloween P.E.A.C.E. Pops and the Lantern Festival. She also shared important updates about the future of our organizations as we prepare to vacate the P.E.A.C.E. Building by January 31st.
Give it a listen and help us keep the conversation going!
We have queued this link to begin at Brady’s interview (around the 35:00 minute mark), but the hosts provide wonderful community gathering information leading up to the interview.
We’d like to convey our gratitude to the Gather Well Cleveland Heights team for inviting us to participate in their first podcast of 2025. This grassroots effort is a wonderful resource for our community.
Our Time at the P.E.A.C.E. Building Is Coming to an End.
In October, the Cleveland Heights – University Heights Library, owner of the P.E.A.C.E. Building, announced plans to close and mothball the facility. This decision forces most nonprofit tenants to vacate by January 31, 2025. While some tenants have secured new spaces and begun moving, others are still searching for a new home, and some are transitioning to remote operations.
The costs of rent, relocation, and moving are a significant burden on these organizations. Your donation can help offset these expenses, allowing the nonprofits to continue funding the vital programs and services they provide to our community. You can donate directly through each nonprofit’s website or visit our Donation Page to find links to those accepting online contributions.
If you haven’t already, please join our email list to stay informed about important updates and developments as we navigate this transition together. Your support and engagement mean so much to all of us.
Lantern Festival 2024.
A magical evening of light, art, and community!
Held in conjunction with the Coventry Village business district, last month’s Lantern Festival was a day-long celebration featuring festivities up and down Coventry Rd. Community members of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds enjoyed free lantern-making workshops at the Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Building, leading up to the beloved Lantern Procession. The parade, led by Robin VanLear’s Art Acts Performers, dazzled with dancing, giant puppets, enchanting costumes, and live drummers setting a rhythmic heartbeat for the night. The video captures the joy of the day, including performances by the Heights High acapella choir and the Singers’ Club of Cleveland.
Create. Show. Learn. Grow.
The nonprofit collaborative at Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus has brought immense value to the community over the years, fostering joy and connection.
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What is Coventry PEACE Campus?
When the school district sought to divest itself from the former Coventry Elementary School building in 2017, leaving its future uncertain, the leaders of all the tenant organizations and a broad base of community supporters came together in a grassroots movement to propose ways to preserve and grow the thriving arts, culture and education hub that had organically taken root there. From this effort, the Coventry PEACE Campus came into being. The Coventry P.E.A.C.E. building currently houses a dozen local and regional nonprofits. It is our goal to provide an accessible, sustainable, more efficient, and affordable home for these nonprofits, and to attract new organizations to the building.
