Community

Friday, May 28, 4-6pm, Community Grounds: Coffee and Meeting House, 1134 Parsons Ave.

Join BQIC [Black Queer and Intersectional Collective] for our community outreach program, Free Resource Fridays!

Free Resource Friday is a donation-based initiative to provide free resources like food, clothes, and hygiene items to folks living in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods. Volunteers distribute items, share information, and provide support for local communities in need.

All are welcome, but QTPOC take priority within the space.

Thursday, May 27, 7-9pm, this Zoom event requires advance registration via Meetup

Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth in the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]

Thursday, May 27, 7pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join Anthony as he discusses designing, building, blessing, and caring for your magical work space. This class will explore altars and shrines, how to build them, where to put them and of course how to bless and maintain the space.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by The Magical Druid.

Thursday, May 27, 7-8:15pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Ohio Legislature is holding hearings right now on bills that would impede our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and protest if they pass. Taken together, they will create a major block to public witness for any reason by any kind of non-profit or organization: from churches to unions to environmental groups to the Movement 4 Black Lives.

Thursday, May 27, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

This spring, Columbus’s beautiful Kossuth Garden lost its bid to continue bringing together the urban community, growing food and flowers, providing fresh produce for locals, and enjoining kids to learn about and experience nature. A city ruling prioritizing private property over people, the environment, and community forced the closing of and eventual paving over of Kossuth Garden. Its last day was May 1, 2021.

Thursday, May 27, 6pm-7:30pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”

As a collective, Black people are amid multiple public health emergencies, from being killed by the police, on and off-camera, to the increasing rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, to the systemic inequities within our healthcare system.

Tragically, these and other factors result in people with serious mental illness dying anywhere from 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population.

Thursday, May 27, 11am-12:15pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Come join us as published Racial Battle Fatigue [RBF] scholar and staff psychologist, Dr. Catherine C. Ragland Woods, presents on the topic of Racial Battle Fatigue. Centering the experiences of Blacks and African Americans, Dr. Ragland Woods will help learners to define and identify RBF across various contexts and settings. Additionally, she will offer suggestions for how to cope with, hold space for, and heal from RBF.

Wednesday, May 26, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Brush up on your voter outreach skills in time for the summer voter registration season!We’ll go over the various voting forms, the three ways to cast a ballot, tips for outreach to under-served communities, and answer any questions that you may have about volunteering at a voter registration event. This training is open to everyone, so invite a friend!

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Wednesday, May 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Ohio is ready to make history! S.B. 103 and H.B. 183 would abolish Ohio’s death penalty — which is great news, since 11 innocent people have been sentenced to death.

Wednesday, May 26, 4pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] International Committee, with co-sponsorship from the DSA Palestine Solidarity Working Group, will present a panel discussion on the ongoing struggle against colonialism in the Middle East and Africa, from Palestine to the Western Sahara.