Come visit the McKinley Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Brad Lepper about the Newark Earthworks! The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1- 400, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles, using more than ... Read More
Inspired by this year's History Center Exhibit titled From Architecture to Beauty, The Dawes Arboretum will be hosting a four-part virtual series featuring Ohio historic landscapes and gardens, their designers, American landscape movements and historic land restorations. In addition to The Dawes Arboretum, this series will feature presentations from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Adena Mansion & Gardens, and Kingwood ... Read More
Come visit the Prevention Action Alliance in Columbus for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Daniel Skinner! While the opioid crisis has swept across the entire United States, leaving no community untouched, it has hit Ohio particularly hard. But why Ohio, in particular? Drawing on his experience in compiling a collection of more than 50 perspectives from across Ohio, ... Read More
Freedom a la Carte is excited to share they are partnering with friends at We Amplify Voices (WAV) for this year’s Open Mic Nights! The next Open Mic Night will be on July 19 at WAV’s building: 1327 Sullivant Ave. Doors open at 5:30pm and the event starts at 6pm and should conclude around 7:30pm. Come share your voice through poetry, song, ... Read More
Invisible Ground will host a full tour of all eight of their Ground Immersive Historic Markers on Saturday, August 17th. Athens-based multimedia project Invisible Ground utilizes audio, augmented reality, visual elements, and place-based storytelling to engage people in the history of their communities. The project does this through its series of Immersive Historic Markers around Athens County, a documentary public ... Read More
Come visit Elizabeth's Bookshop and Writing Centre for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with LuSter Singleton! LuSter will discuss the intersections and departures of both the gay and Civil Rights Movement. In the early 2000s, LuSter disclosed their long-time struggle with finding a place of belonging within the so-called “gay movement” and the civil rights movement. With both having ... Read More
Come visit the Heritage Golf Club with the Friends of Nursing History for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Mindy McGinnis! She will share the research behind her Edgar Award-Winning Gothic historical thriller, A MADNESS SO DISCREET. Learn about how doctors treated brain injuries in the 1890’s and the different aspects of care for the mentally ill – for ... Read More
Come visit the Roger Glass Center for the Arts at the University of Dayton for a public humanities event featuring a public talk and round table on the Ku Klux Klan in 1920’s Dayton and the state of the fight against hate in Ohio today. The keynote address will be given by University of Dayton (UD) historian and Religious Studies ... Read More
Inspired by this year's History Center Exhibit titled From Architecture to Beauty, The Dawes Arboretum will be hosting a four-part virtual series featuring Ohio historic landscapes and gardens, their designers, American landscape movements and historic land restorations. In addition to The Dawes Arboretum, this series will feature presentations from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Adena Mansion & Gardens, and Kingwood ... Read More
Come learn about Ohio in the Civil War at the Dover Public Library with Mark Holbrook!
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Dan Sinykin! Sinykin will speak about his blockbuster book Big Fiction, examining how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author. The Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational ... Read More
Freedom a la Carte is excited to share they are partnering with friends at We Amplify Voices (WAV) for this year’s Open Mic Nights! The next Open Mic Night will be on July 19 at WAV’s building: 1327 Sullivant Ave. Doors open at 5:30pm and the event starts at 6pm and should conclude around 7:30pm. Come share your voice through poetry, song, ... Read More
