Local
Friday, September 6, 4-1opm
Saturday, September 7, 11am-10pm
Sunday, September 8, 11am-8pm
NEW LOCATION 2024 only: North Hamilton Park between E. Long St. and E. Broad St.
The Hot Times Festival is a community driven, multi-arts event and has been a project of the Arts Foundation of Olde Towne for over 40 years.
The festival has moved four times and now in 2024 the Festival makes a temporary while construction happens on the traditional site.
The Hot Times Art Cars will host two new vehicles traveling from Texas along with a host of regional and local cars and will be honoring co-founder Ramona Moon. There will be children's activities, food, drinks, music, arts and crafts and community booths.
LONG STREET STAGE
FRIDAY:
5:00. African Cultural Arts Institute
6:00. Mendelsonics
7:00. Austin & Syd Experience
8:00. Shaun Booker Dammit Band
9:00. Willie Phoenix
SATURDAY:
12:00. Wahru’s Drummers
1:00. Charles Grace Band
2:00. Billy Zenn & The Beatdowns
3:00. Gregg Swan & The Late Crew
SoulCall Global invites you to our fun Mystic Cafe Variety Show and Open Mic Friday October 18, 2024.
Help SoulCall Global raise money to feed and house the needy and enjoy an old fashioned variety show with everything from great music and comedy acts to who knows what. Performers are encouraged to sign up.
A keyboard accompanist is available.
Doors open at 6:00 pm
Performances 7:00-9:00 pm
Donation $15 (or more! 100% of profits go to our charitable programs)
Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Ave., Columbus OH 43214
Information at https://www.soulcallglobal.org
To secure a performance time slot, contact Bob Lipetz for a registration
form at bob@debchi.com, 614-906-4350.
Businesses interested in showcasing their services by becoming a
sponsor, contact Lisa Ferraro at Soulcallone@gmail.com
Thursday, September 5, 2024, September 19, October 3, and October 17 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Shepard branch, 850 N Nelson Rd, Columbus, OH 43219
Also, on Zoom (link will be emailed to you after sign-up).
Description
A two month series of gatherings which teach new members about the basics of socialism, the details of the DSA organization with a focus on the local Columbus chapter. During these meetings, they will meet and mingle with leaders of the chapter as well as current membership.
The following are the topics of each of the gatherings we'll have:
Week 1 (Sep 5): Socialism Basics
Week 2 (Sep 19): National DSA Organization
Week 3 (Oct 3): Columbus DSA Chapter
Week 4 (Oct 17): Social - Hybrid, in-person location to be determined
For generations, teach-ins have combined with direct action to propel movements for peace and social justice.
From the era of the Vietnam War...
To the 1980s struggle to end apartheid in South Africa...
To protests against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Teach-In Network — to provide resources for activism on and off campuses — to educate and build movements for challenging what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madnes of militarism.”
If you’re interested in participating, click here to sign up for updates about online toolboxes and other resources.
“Let’s Talk Transit: A Happy Hour Discussion on the Future of Mobility in Columbus,” hosted by Transit Columbus
Tuesday, September 3, 5:30-7pm, The Den at Parsons North, 689 Parsons Ave.
Transit Columbus is hosting a series of happy hour panel discussions with city and COTA leadership to dig deeper into upcoming transit and mobility initiatives and what they mean for residents of central Ohio.
On September 3, we’re partnering with NLC [New Leaders Club] Columbus, Columbus Urban League Young Professionals, and Ohio Environmental Council Emerging Leaders to learn more about LinkUS, BikePlus, and the future of mobility in our region.
Please RSVP and submit your questions to the panel here.
Agenda:
Sunday, September 1, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Come listen to Bill Cohen as he sings songs made famous by a wide variety of folks: Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, Dolly Parton, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Alabama, Leadbelly, etc. Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus 43214.
$15 suggested donation, but everyone is welcome! Half of the proceeds will go to Central Ohio Workers Center.
Phil Donahue, whom we lost last week, put honest, antiwar, anticorporate, antiracist, pro-feminist voices on millions of U.S. television screens for decades. Then he was banished by a corporate cartel that had monopolized the airwaves.
Social media provides an illusion of diversity, while establishing new monopolistic gatekeepers. Google was ruled an illegal monopoly in federal court earlier this month.
Media is only one area where corporate monopolization has taken over. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is the strongest U.S. government official against this trend that we've seen in a very long time.
But Big Tech billionaire and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in recent years, and he wants Khan fired.
Using words such as “stolen” or “hijacked,” members of the Tuttle Park Community Recreation Council (CRC) say the City of Columbus took over their Ohio State game day parking fundraiser which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Tuttle Park just north of the off-campus area.
“I was unofficially informed by an upper management Columbus Recreation and Parks Department [CRPD] employee that the CRPD and Columbus Parks and Recreation Foundation [CPRF] decided that due to the profitability of our fundraiser that they were taking it away from us after 29 years,” stated former mayoral candidate Joe Motil in a recent Facebook post.
Motil of Clintonville has been president of the Tuttle Park Community Recreation Council since 1992.
“Those making this decision did not even have the common decency to personally inform us of this takeover. We were informed that the CRPF had hired a private vendor to take over the football parking fundraiser,” stated Motil in his post.
With high temperatures forecasted to be above 90 degrees this week, Columbus Recreation and Parks will open cooling centers at five regional community centers to give residents a place to cool off during this week’s extreme heat. The following centers will be open daily from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28 through Friday, Aug. 30: