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CAPA Announces Schedule for ¡Viva Festival Latino! August 3-9

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CAPA today announced the schedule for ¡Viva Festival Latino!, a week-long, online experience that will stand in for the popular, annual Festival Latino canceled for 2020. ¡Viva Festival Latino! will offer a series of online cultural events and activities that highlight some of the favorite features of Festival Latino, including offerings in Latin music, food, dance, visual artists, children’s activities, fashion, and community and health and wellness resources.

Produced by CAPA, ¡Viva Festival Latino! is presented by HONDA. Additional support has been provided by Nationwide, AEP Foundation, L Brands Foundation, City of Columbus Department of Recreation and Parks, and Abbott.

Calling All Seekers: Mindfulness, Awareness, Presence -- the MAP to inner peace and well- being

Gail and words Calling All Seekers

Let’s talk about Mindfulness. Mindfulness is one of the main components of yoga and one of its biggest benefits. Mindfulness is PRESENCE. What Ram Dass talked about in his 1974 book Be Here Now. Eckhart Tolle expounds about presence in The Power of Now. Really, when you think about it, there is ONLY NOW, the present moment.

You’ve heard the saying “The past is history, the future a mystery and the present is a gift.” You cannot breathe in the past or future moment, only this one and the next and the next until your body dies. The breath is a constant that only exists in the now.

The “Columbus Way” Needs a Reboot: Grassroots Movements Key to Change

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The Columbus Way is what our city leaders call the public/private partnerships that have been used to dress up and showcase the 14th largest city in the U.S.

Former Mayor Mike Coleman’s approach, and continuing under Mayor Ginther, has been successful in developing dozens of projects – the Arena District and Huntington Park, Columbus Commons and Bicentennial Park, the Scioto Mile, the Veterans Memorial, and the Crew Stadium, to name a few.

Here’s an apt description from Smart Columbus, another project that exemplifies the partnership approach:

“The concept of ‘The Columbus Way’ describes the unique community collaborations between the city, the businesses headquartered and located in the region, and nonprofit and academic institutions that make up the Columbus community. A 2015 Harvard Business School case study coined the phrase, capturing a decades-long spirit of collaboration that has been repeatedly tapped to tackle big challenges in central Ohio and transform the region into a world-class destination.”

Can 150 years be fixed in two months of protest?

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The United States of America has spent much of its modern history ignoring the most important problems it must solve to be able to move forward as a contemporary democracy. A country that attempted to correct the horror of slavery after the Civil War and experienced a strong Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, stopped short of  eradicating racism. While some Western European countries kept trying to consolidate an environment with more equity in politics and economic rights with an understanding of the role of regional alliances, the US insisted on a political and economical model that increased the breach between the rich and poor. US society in general didn’t address the structural failures of a system that embraces several levels and kinds of segregation among the components of society.

It seems that a storm arrived in the context of an inoperant fascist government and it just became bigger with the pandemic and the explosion of civil rebellion towards a problem that has been ignored and even denied for too long -- racism and inequity.

Fund Healthcare Not Warfare Webinar Series

Nurses

Sunday, July 26, 2020, 7:00 - 8:00 PM.
During the pandemic, the lack of investment in public health infrastructure, including health care for all, has had deadly consequences for tens of thousands of people. The $22.42 billion the U.S. will be spending this year to upgrade its first-strike nuclear arsenal could pay for 624 million corona virus tests, 747, 633 covid-19 hospital stays, or 6.6 BILLION N95 masks. This has to change. Our lives and security depend on it.  More information and registration here. 

Power To The Students

Details about event

Saturday, July 25, 1pm
Topiary Park, 480 E. Town St.
Please join us this Saturday at 1PM at Topiary Park for a Teach-In collaboration with CPD out of CCS!
We will be providing education on the school to prison pipeline, accounts from individual speakers, and a vision for a future without police. These systems have been waging a war on our youth and now is the time to learn more.
Visual ASL interpretation will be provided. Send a direct message on either Instagram or Facebook if you need a ride. Please share widely!
Accessibility Information: Topiary Park is downtown to the east of the main library. It is wide, paved paths and benches through out. There are entrances on all sides but currently Washington Ave and Library Park are blocked off to cars by construction. There are two entrances to the park off Town Street. There is also metered parking on Town St right next to the park, and free street parking further east down the block. COTA line 11 stops right by the park. This event is outside and there is no air conditioning or bathrooms. 

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