A Reading of the Play, Free Man of Color, by Charles Smith

Templeton Blackburn Memorial Alumni Auditorium 33 University Terrace, Athens, OH, United States

Free Man of Color, by OHIO Distinguished Professor of Playwriting Emeritus Charles Smith, is the story of John Newton Templeton, a formerly enslaved African American who graduated from Ohio University fifty years before the end of slavery. In the process, Templeton unexpectedly taught the president of the university the true meaning of education. Emancipated after... Read More

Recurring

Family Support Group

Appalachian Behavioral Health Care 100 Hospital Drive, Athens, OH, United States

In-Person Support group for family members and loved ones of those experiencing mental health conditions.

Free

Heroes In Color: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Michelle Yeoh stars as “Evelyn Quan Wang” in this genre-blendingly wild cinematic ride written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. One minute, Evelyn is a normal Chinese-American immigrant eking out an underwhelming existence running a laundromat with her husband; the next minute, she’s zipping thru parallel dimensions trying to save the multiverse and... Read More

$7.50

2024 FuseFest: Firing Up the Foothills

Tryon Arts & Crafts School 373 Harmon Field Rd., Tryon, NC, United States

Join Tryon Arts & Crafts School for an immersive fused glass workshop series! Students will begin the weekend with a kick-off social, followed by workshops led by Brad Walker of Warm Glass Studios (Clemmons, NC), Liz Haas of Rayzist Photomask (Vista, CA), and Tony Glander of Fitzpatrick Glass Studios (Gaithersburg, MD), with breakfast and lunch... Read More

We Love Broadway Cabaret

Stuart's Opera House 52 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH, United States

Join the thespians from the Nelsonville-York Drama Club, on Friday, February 16th, where they will bring a taste of Broadway to the Opera House as they raise money to go to the real Broadway in March. “Be Our Guest” and enjoy a delicious meal while you are being served and entertained by our talented thespians.... Read More

$10

Local Author Kid’s Book Reading

65 s court st athens ohio 45701 65 S Court St, Athens, OH, United States

Come join us at Little Professor Book Center from 11-1 and listen to local author Mariel Jungkunz read her new children's book, Dreams of Green! The event will be complete with Mexican pastries from Vainilla & Chocolate Bakery in Columbus, as well as some arts and crafts to help round out the reading! Don't miss this... Read More

Free

Sustainability Series: CHASING ICE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

In 2007, photojournalist James Balog and a team of researchers, climate scientists, engineers, and mountaineers, founded the EIS (Extreme Ice Survey) to study and document the climatic phenomenon of melting ice in the Earth’s seas and glaciers. Balog figured (correctly) that there was no better way to alert people to the effects of global warming... Read More

Free

Heroes In Color: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales, is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and... Read More

$7.50

Classics & Cocktails: JACKIE BROWN

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Our Classics & Cocktails series wraps up with the 1997 Quentin Tarantino classic JACKIE BROWN on February 23rd at 7pm. We’ll be pairing the film with a fun specialty cocktail called the Jackie’s Rum Punch in honor of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. Made with Pineapple Rum, orange, lime, ginger, sugar, tiki bitters, allspice dram, Skadi’s... Read More

$8

Heroes In Color: THE LAST DRAGON

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Leroy “Bruce Leeroy” Green embarks on a quest through the gritty streets of New York to complete his training and gain the level of martial arts mastery that will make him a true black belt like his hero Bruce Lee. When Sho’nuff, the self-proclaimed “Shogun of Harlem”, catches wind of Leroy’s abilities, he challenges the... Read More

$7.50