Community

Monday, December 21, 6-7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Please join us for our annual memorial service [hosted by Columbus Coalition for the Homeless] to honor homeless friends and family who passed away this year.

Presenters:

• Marcus Salter, Coalition Board Member and Housing Stability Specialist with Community Mediation Services

• Jim Rose, Coalition Board Member and Chaplain with Southeast Healthcare

• Lama Kathy Wesley, Lama with Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling [KTC] Buddhist Center

Sunday, December 20, 7:00-8:30 p.m., this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join us for our Yule/Solstice celebration.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by The Magical Druid.

Join a virtual gathering to shine a light on justice.

Jewish Voice for Peace is a national Jewish organization that provides a voice for Jews and allies who believe that peace in the Middle East will be achieved through justice and full equality for both Palestinians and Israelis.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.

Thursday, December 17, 5-6:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Ohio needs community organizing now, more than ever. Come learn, or get refreshed, on some basics of community organizing.

Do you consider yourself as someone who is fighting for social change? Do you call yourself an activist, an organizer, or an advocate? A community member who wants to understand how to bring about political and economic change?

Well, Ohio Voice wants to support you in doing your work better!

Wednesday, December 16, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join Tadd Pinkston (Pinkston Law), Rev. Joan Van Becelaere (UUJO), and expert guests to talk about the bills and actions in the Ohio Legislature.

This month, we will welcome Kevin Werner, the primary staff member at the Ohio Justice and Policy Center who is responsible for policy advocacy and lobbying initiatives. We will talk about some lame duck actions and look at what to expect in the next session.

Wednesday, December 16, 6:30-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

In partnership with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Union County, Kaleidoscope Youth Center is proud to facilitate Union County’s Parents and Family of LGBTQIA+ Community Group. If you have a young person in your life who is LGBTQIA+, join us to learn about topics ranging from Coming Out to Pronouns to Legal Issues/Support.

Currently, the group meets virtually through Zoom every other Wednesday, alternating with the LGBTQIA+ Youth Community Group.

Wednesday, December 9, 4:30-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

In partnership with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Union County, Kaleidoscope Youth Center is proud to facilitate Union County’s LGBTQIA+ youth program for young people ages 12-20. This is a space where you chat and learn about topics that interest you most, plus meet and share in experience with other LGBTQIA+ young folks.

Currently, the group meets virtually through Zoom every other Wednesday, alternating with the Parents and Family of LGBTQIA+ Community Group.

Wednesday, December 9, 3pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us for the first in a new webinar series titled “Black Studies Matter.” Our first webinar will be hosted by interim chair of the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University and Distinguished Humanities Professor Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́.

Thursday, December 8, 8-10pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join us for BQIC’s monthly fundraiser, “BQIC speak up! Spoken Word and Open Mic.” Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates, etc., on the digital mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority.

Tuesday, December 8 [and the second and fourth Tuesday of each month until Tuesday, April 27], 11am-12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration

This is a virtual support group, hosted by Equitas Health, for members of the LGBTQ+ community who have experienced intimate partner violence.

For meeting login information, email <SarahTouvell@equitashealth.com>.

Hosted by Equitas Health.