In 2024, Marion Voices is proud to be launching the Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project (CHAMP): a participatory, community effort to map & share our prizes cultural, arts, & heritage resources, to collectively write the blueprint for future culture-sector investments locally, & across the wider region. Join the LGBTQIA+ session at McKinley Park on June 15th! Marion Voices‘ Cultural Heritage … Read More
Marion Voices: CHAMP Community Workshops
In 2024, Marion Voices is proud to be launching the Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project (CHAMP): a participatory, community effort to map & share our prizes cultural, arts, & heritage resources, to collectively write the blueprint for future culture-sector investments locally, & across the wider region. Join the Marion Cities and Suburbs session at McKinley Park on June 15th! Marion … Read More
Cincinnati’s Lost Founders: Opening Event
Come visit the Walnut Hills Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library for the opening event of “Cincinnati’s Lost Founders,” an exhibit created with support from the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Ohio Humanities. Sometimes, important history is easy to find. Large monuments tell us about someone’s brave deeds. A beautifully preserved building shows secrets about the lives of those who … Read More
Lincoln School Screening at the Athena Cinema
Ohio Humanities’ documentary, the Lincoln School Story will be screening at the Athena Cinema! In partnership with the Mount Zion Black Cultural Center, WOUB Public Media is screening the new documentary called THE LINCOLN SCHOOL STORY as part of the kick-off event for Berry Day Week in Athens on May 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Athena. The production, created by Ohio Humanities and distributed … Read More
Lincoln School Documentary Airs on WOSU TV
Ohio Humanities’ documentary film The Lincoln School Story airs on WOSU TV in Columbus! The Lincoln School Story examines the little-known fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, school districts nationwide were mandated to integrate. But when African American mothers in Hillsboro, … Read More
Cincinnati’s Lost Founders
Come visit the Walnut Hills Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library to see “Cincinnati’s Lost Founders,” an exhibit created with support from the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Ohio Humanities. The exhibit will consist of panels that include text and photos of family documents that encompass information on the Fossett family’s roots at Monticello, the activism of Peter and Sarah … Read More
Lincoln School Documentary Airs on WOSU TV
Ohio Humanities’ documentary film The Lincoln School Story airs on WOSU TV in Columbus! The Lincoln School Story examines the little-known fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, school districts nationwide were mandated to integrate. But when African American mothers in Hillsboro, … Read More
Lincoln School Documentary Airs on WOSU TV
Ohio Humanities’ documentary film The Lincoln School Story airs on WOSU TV in Columbus! The Lincoln School Story examines the little-known fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, school districts nationwide were mandated to integrate. But when African American mothers in Hillsboro, … Read More
Lincoln School Story Showing at CDFF’s New Location!
The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival‘s new home is now open! Stop in Wednesday – Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm to check out the latest CDFF merch, history wall, donor appreciation wall, and upcoming monthly programming. As part of May’s programming to celebrate Women’s Health Month, the CDFF is screening The Lincoln School Story! The Lincoln School Story tells the inspiring … Read More
Songs of Sancho’s London: Sancho’s Songbook Airs
Tune in for the sixth episode of SalonEra Season 4: Sancho’s Songbook! A man of letters, merchant, abolitionist, theater lover, and musician, Charles Ignatius Sancho made history as the first British man of African descent to vote in a general election. This episode features insights from countertenor Reginald Mobley, who is on a mission to promote the music of Black … Read More