Community
Monday, February 10, 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, February 9, 5:30-6:30pm, Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden Rd.
A twenty-to-thirty-minute silent meditation will be followed by discussion and refreshments.
The benefits of meditation are innumerable. These include greater mental clarity, a reduction in stress, improved emotional balance, and increased spiritual development. Meditation benefits everyone.
Different meditation practices will be presented, throughout the year, by practitioners of those traditions.
Enter the church via the rear door.
Saturday, February 8, 7pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join us by Zoom to discuss Black World History of Liberation and Struggle: Pan Africanism, collective mutual aid, and immigration realities
Speakers:
• Essam Elkorghli (calling from Libya) on PanAfricanism
• Theresa Hice-Fromille, Ph.D. (OSU Geography professor)
• Julialynen Walker (Bronzeville Growers Market community organizer)
Saturday, February 8, 1-2:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
About this event
Are you ready to take action? Join Indivisible Central Ohio for our 2025 kickoff meeting. We’re ready to orient and engage new members, as well as refresh and re-energize those who have been with us from the beginning. All are welcome!
With Trump back in office, there is much work to be done, at the local, state, and federal levels. Join fellow activists to learn how we can keep working for the world we want to see and pushing back against the nonsense.
Saturday, February 8, 12noon-2pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Parsons Branch], 1113 Parsons Ave. [this event will also be occurring via Zoom]
The Humanist Monthly Program is our longest running event and still a community favorite. In the old days it used to be called “Going to HCCO” and we still like to think of it as our flagship event.
Event Presenter and Topic: Chris Highland, Humanist Chaplain and Syndicated Columnist, “Christian Supremacy vs. Secular Democracy”
Saturday, February 8, 11am-1pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Main Branch], 96 S. Grant Ave.
Use this link to attend this meeting virtually.
Saturday, February 8, 10am-1pm, Stratford Ecological Center, 3083 Liberty Rd., Delaware, Ohio
Friday, February 7, 6pm, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church Annex, 628 E. Long St.
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, 695 E. Long St., will present the “Film Noir Theatre,” a six-week series of African Americans in cinema, beginning Friday, January 24.
Thursday, February 6, 12noon-1:30pm, Kirwan Institute, Conference Room 101, 33 W. 11th Ave. [this event will also be occurring via Zoom]
Wednesday, February 5, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
The Merion Village Association holds monthly public meetings to engage and update our members and neighbors on a variety of topics and interests related to our community. Meetings are held virtually; all are welcome and encouraged to attend and participate! If you’d like to register for this meeting, to learn more about the MVA, or if you’re interested in becoming a member, visit our website at merionvillage.org.