Community

Sunday, May 31, 2-5pm, Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 E. 16th Ave.; and then outside of the temporary overflow shelter at the YMCA, 40 W. Long St.

This is our monthly recurring event that takes place the last Sunday of every month!

Due to physical/social distancing, we are asking folks prepare at home and drop off “potluck” style versus cooking together. Thus, this, too, will be a “cook/bake at home” and then drop off at 82 E. 16th Ave. From there, a small team will do final preparation and assembly before heading to the overflow shelter at 40 W. Long St.

Friday, May 15, 10am-7pm, My Project USA, 3036 Sullivant Ave.

Please join us in making goody bags and purchasing gift cards for our precious children in the Wedgewood community. There are more than 2000 children in this community; your gifts will brighten their Eid Day and will make it a happy Eid for their parents as well.

This year, the COVID-19 Pandemic is shaping our Toys Drive in a different format. For the safety of all children and families, we will be passing Goody Bags and Gift Cards to families.

Saturday, May 9, 10am-1pm; and Saturday, June 27, 10-1pm; this event will be occurring via Zoom

Have you attended an “Introduction to Social Movement Ecology” training? Do you think more people need this training? Are you interested in becoming a trainer yourself? Come to this two-session training and be a Social Movement Ecology trainer!

Learn to facilitate participants with different theories of change to recognize each other’s strengths and weaknesses and to work together to produce large-scale social change.

Thursday, May 7, 4-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join Stacey Abrams and Ari Berman as they discuss voting rights and the current state of democracy in America.

About this Event

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

As a community, we are concerned about you. Please check in and tell us how you are doing and we will talk about how we are handling COUNT [Central Ohio United Non-Theists] events during all of this.

We would love to spend time hanging out and getting to know one another.

Atheists, agnostics, other non-theists, and atheist-friendly people are welcome to join us.

Feel free to have dinner/drinks during this event.

Tuesday, May 12, 8-9:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration 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.

Suggested donation for spoken word and open mic is $5. All proceeds will go to our emergency fund that helps Black LGBTQIA+ during times of crises. We really want to be there for people during COVID19 so please donate if you can!

Saturday, May 9, 2-3:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Our Annual Ramadan Interfaith Gathering and Fundraiser is gonna be online this year.

This will be a special kind of gathering of our Muslim and non-Muslim partners and friends from across the country. We will be sharing our faith experiences in the COVID-19 era and will be raising money to support MY Project USA’s various initiatives uplifting youth and families within underserved communities.

Thursday, May 7, 7:30-8:45pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Keynote speaker: Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr., Executive Director, Ohio Council of Churches

Topic: How does prayer unite us in a divided world?

There will be remarks from interfaith speakers from several faith traditions; there will be time for questions.

Click this link to join this event via Zoom.

Saturday, May 9, 7-9pm, this on-line event requires advance registration via Zoom

Since we can’t get together in person, we can gather for a couple of hours on Saturday night, from 7pm to 9pm, on Zoom.

Register for the Zoom meeting here.

If you have any announcements for the progressive community, please let us know by e-mailing <colsfreepress@gmail.com>.

Friday, May 8, 11-11:30am, this on-line event requires advance registration via Zoom

Learn to make your own reusable bags out of an old T-shirt with Elizabeth from Bexley, the first city in Central Ohio to ban single-use plastic bags!

Registration link: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KufI8Cb4TO2jLIOICXNbAw.

Presented by Green Bexley and Bexley Recreation and Parks.