Community

Wednesday, August 11, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us for our monthly huddle for all Fair Districts volunteers: Speakers Bureau Speakers, Community Mapping Facilitators, Sign Distributors, and everyone else! Catch up on Fair Districts news, current actions, what’s next for census data, our mapping competition, and more. Bring your questions!

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Tuesday, August 10, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us as we examine examples of community maps: how to look at them, how to evaluate them, and how to use them.

This event will be presented by Trevor Martin, Common Cause Ohio, with the help of local mapmakers.

Background

What are community maps?

Tuesday, August 10, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Intersect is the Ohio Council of Churches’ webinar series that explores the intersectionality between faith, policy, and racism.

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Hosted by Ohio Council of Churches.

Monday, August 9, 12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O’Connor will join “Lunching With The League” on Monday, August 9, at 12noon

Chief Justice O’Connor will share notes from her illustrious career and offer her thoughts on issues of democracy and important public policy. Join us for a lunch that you don’t want to miss!

Sunday, August 8, 7pm, University Baptist Church, 50 W. Lane Ave.

Columbus Campaign for Arms Control will be hosting a concert that features original pieces by local composers to mark the 76th year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. Military.

This event has been supported by Puffin Foundation West.

Contact: Mark D. Stansbery, 614-252-9255 or <walk@igc.org>.

Saturday, August 7, 1:30-3:30pm, Patrick Kaufman Memorial Franklinton Community Learning Garden, 154 Hawkes Ave.

Every Saturday, we will have fresh harvested produce, grown right here in Franklinton, for sale for our neighbors!

Any neighbor who needs it gets 50% off. Anyone on food assistance (SNAP/EBT) gets 75% off. We have delicious seasonal veggies, herbs, and flowers.

Come on by and take a look at the Patrick Kaufman Memorial Learning Garden. Our education coordinator will be running Open Garden Hours from 1pm to 4pm.

Saturday, August 7, 1-4pm, Patrick Kaufman Memorial Franklinton Community Learning Garden, 154 Hawkes Ave.

We invite all ages to come to our Learning Garden and to garden with us. We will be watering, weeding, planting, singing, reading, playing, and eating. Come visit us.

Hosted by Franklinton Farms.

Saturday, August 7, 10am-5pm, Poindexter Village Museum and Cultural Center, 290 N. Champion Ave.

Join us as we celebrate Poindexter Village being an official State of Ohio Historic Site. The James Preston Poindexter Foundation, in partnership with Ohio History Connection, will re-engage community members by inviting them together around the Poindexter Legacy Tree at historic Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio.

Thursday, August 5, 3-4:15pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Living Positively is an open group offering support, encouragement, and dialogue for those living with HIV/AIDS, including people who are newly diagnosed, living undetectable, and long-term survivors.

This group meets every first and third Thursday and serves people living anywhere in Ohio.

For an access code and the link to the meetings, or for general questions, please email one of the co-facilitators.

Sunday, August 1, 6-8pm, Tuttle Park, 240 W. Oakland Ave.

Join the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists as we discuss and apply revolutionary ideas.

This week, we will be meeting at Tuttle Park, 6-8pm, where we will be presenting and discussing the history of settler-colonialism and Indigenous resistance in Ohio.