Community

Saturday, October 18, 5:30-8pm, Stonewall Columbus, 1160 N. High St.

PFLAG Columbus is turning 30! Join us for our 30th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting — a night of reflection, connection, and celebration.

This event is free to attend; RSVP today!

This event will include the following.

• Cocktail Hour and Hors d’oeuvres

• Annual Meeting and Anniversary Presentation (6:30-7pm)

• Fundraising fun: “Buy Jaron Out 50/50 Raffle” and “30 for 30 Membership Drive”

• Social Hour and Community Connection

Friday, October 17, 7:30pm, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.

Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Anti-war marches. Student Power. Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Space flights. Political assassinations. The generation gap.

Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960s will be rekindled Friday October 17 at this year’s annual “Spirit of the ‘60s Coffeehouse.”

Friday, October 17, 5:30-8:30pm, the Bluestone [the former First Baptist Church building], 583 E. Broad St.

Equality Ohio is turning 20, and we’re turning “Advocates and Allies 2025” into the biggest birthday bash yet.

Join us for “Advocates and Allies: Celebrating our Past, Reclaiming our Future” on Friday, October 17 in Columbus, Ohio. This special evening will reinvigorate our shared fight for lived and legal equality in 2025 by honoring the twenty years of victories, voices, and values that built this movement.

Wednesday, October 15, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Do you have questions about legally changing your or your child’s name and/or gender designation on various identity documents in Ohio? Join us for a free legal clinic!

Through the partnership of TransOhio and Equitas Health, with support from local community groups, the Ohio Name Change Legal Clinic offers confidential virtual discussions with trained volunteer attorneys to help navigate the process! Come with all of your questions and leave with the paperwork you need.

Wednesday, October 15, 12noon-2pm, Greater Columbus Arts Council, 182 E. Long St.

Have you ever been to the Columbus Arts Festival? Are you interested in exhibiting your artwork, but need more information on what is involved?

October 11 , 9am-12pm  and April 18, 2026

The Point at Otterbein university 

Click here for a short testimonial video and another one here

Below is our list of types of items and volunteer repairers. Names will be added as they commit! 

Seamstress/Menders/Darners: Joyce Wendel, Trista Rappert-McGetrick, Jessica Curtis, Lysa McGetrick

Wednesday, October 15, 12noon-1pm, National Veterans Memorial and Museum, 300 W. Broad St., this event will also be live-streamed on YouTube

Tuesday, October 14, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Rm. 1-A], 96 S. Grant Ave.

Join us for our monthly meeting! Located at the Main Library, Meeting Room 1-A (96 S. Grant Ave.). All are welcome.

Hosted by Transit Columbus.

Monday, October 13, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join our weekly coalition-building meetings on defending democracy and protecting the climate. Hear from special guests focusing on grassroots activism. Please invite your friends!

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Check out our Zoom Room for other collaborative Zooms and events.

Sunday, October 12, 9am-2pm, Linden Tree Nursery, 1142 E. 17th Ave.

This fall, Green Columbus will be hosting its seventh annual tree giveaway in an effort to increase the urban forest of Columbus. We will be hosting three free tree giveaways to distribute hundreds of three-gallon native trees to Columbus residents. Residents may choose from a variety of species — red oak, tulip poplar, red maple, black cherry, and sycamore — all of which are native to Ohio and support native plants and animals. Trees are grown in our tree nursery in Linden, Ohio.