May 18 Saturday
Charles E. Boyk Law Offices are proud to offer our 16th annual Bikes for Kids Giveaway. To promote bicycle safety and recognize deserving children in the community, we are giving away 10 bikes to local children for the summer! To learn more and make a nomination visit our Bikes for Kids Giveaway page.
No matter if you are learning to ID birds, or want to learn how they nest or how they migrate, one way to learn more is to observe a bird banding session. Bird banding is the practice of safely applying a band or tag to part of the bird, usually the leg, for data collection and individual identification. Banding birds allows researchers to learn the migration patterns, life span, breeding territory, and feeding areas of different bird species. Identifying these patterns and behaviors within bird populations plays a critical role in designing and implementing conservation programs for different species of birds.
But not just anyone can place bands on birds; you must have the required permits and approvals. Banding offers an intimate glimpse into the behavior of birds. Join us for this interactive outdoor program for a chance to watch bander Adam McCosham in action, while getting a chance to see various bird species up close and personal. You will learn how to identify birds in the hand as well as see how bird banders age, weigh and sex the birds as well as how they affix the band.
Adam is currently a Conservation and Parks Manager with the Great Parks of Hamilton County. With a degree in Natural Resource Management, Adam has spent the last four years training to band birds and loves passing on his knowledge of natural history to others. Free, RSVP required.
Creative Asian Society will have its annual exhibition to celebrate AAPI month at the Elevar Design Group gallery in downtown Cincinnati. The exhibition is titled Dragon, Etc., The eleven artists in the exhibition each interpret the images and concept of dragons differently.
The art will be available for viewing on Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm, starting May 4th and continuing to May 25th. The art is also available for viewing during Elevar’s normal business hours, 9am-4pm, from April 22nd to May 31st.
More details about the artists and the exhibit can be found at https://www.casohio.org .
Elevar Design Group gallery is just on the west side of the I75 at 555 Carr St., just off the Ohio River. It’s 1.9 miles (6 minutes) from Fountain Square.
Volunteer projects are so much fun and one of the easiest ways you can give back to the Western Wildlife Corridor! If you’ve never attended a volunteer event with us before, we encourage you to join us this Spring. We need help cutting invasive species, installing new trail signs, and repairing trails. We provide the tools and no special skills are required. Join us for a fun volunteer event to help restore the Buckeye Trace Preserve. Help remove invasive species like honeysuckle, garlic mustard, and winter creeper so that native plants and animals can prosper. We will meet light rain or shine. Please be prepared for the weather and wear clothes that can get dirty and closed-toed shoes. We will provide the tools and equipment but you are welcome to bring your own. Please RSVP to let us know that you are coming.
Nature can provide inspiration for beautiful objects or set the mood in a painting. Anything from flowers to a sunset can spark an artist’s creativity. For this exhibition from the Taft collection, our curators have selected small nature-inspired works of art from storage.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/NatureInspires.
African Modernism in America features nearly 80 dynamic and vivid works of art created in Africa during the 1950s and ‘60s. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries, the exhibition explores the relationships formed between African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War. Many of the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in the show were drawn from Fisk’s remarkable collection of gifts from the Harmon Foundation. Following World War II, this foundation, along with other institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Fisk University, and other historically Black colleges and universities, supported and exhibited the work of Black artists, including the important modern African artists Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). Showing African art in the United States rooted it in the present and encouraged American audiences to engage with African artists as contemporaries. The inventive nature of the works in this exhibition challenges the assumptions of the time about African art being isolated to a “primitive past.” Some pieces took inspiration from early Christian art, West African sculpture, and Nigerian literature, while others reflect the influences of American jazz and modern European art.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/AfricanModernism.
Please join us on March 8th from 6-9 PM for the public opening reception of our next exhibition, Delicate Ecologies, Painting Selections From: Kelley Booze, Katherine Colborn, and Samantha Haring.
The exhibition will be on view in the gallery and our website from March 8th-August 10th, 2024. Please visit indianhillgallery.com for more information and hours of operation.
Barre and Brews 🍻🧘♀️
Join us May 18th at 11:00 AM for a pop-up Pure Barre Class at Dead Low Brewing!
Sign up for this free class now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barre-brews-tickets-871358756497
Be sure to bring water and a yoga mat
The brewery will be closed during this class. Brewery opens at 12!
Early Literacy Play Date returns this May for another fun-filled afternoon of enriching activities and games.
Along with activities and games for young ones that promote early literacy, adults can also check out local and relevant resources and services. Plus, there will be a drawing for an early literacy prize pack.
Don’t forget to pick out a free book via the Book Bus, which will be parked outside of the branch. No registration is required.
FTHCMC is so excited to host a Free Community Health Fair with over 20 vendors ready to participate and serve the community. To name a few of our special friends: Hoxworth Blood Drive from 9am-3pm, Healthy Moms and Babes, Bethesda North Hospital Trauma Service with Stop the Bleed exhibit and hands on participation, Greater Cincinnati Stroke Consortium(GCSC) providing free blood pressure screenings and stroke education with a huge inflatable brain, Drs. Siegle and Henson from Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute, Dedicated Senior Medical Centers, Amerihealth Caritas Ohio, Chris Collinsworth Proscan Foundation, Hamilton County Health Department, Cancer Support Community, Alzheimer’s Association, Queen City Hospice and Star 93.3! There will be giveaways & free food from 12-2pm.Four speakers starting at 11:30Erika Jones, Registered Dietitian, Anthereca Edmerson, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kent Robinson, MD Primary Care, Internal Medicine and Wm. Eric Washington, BA Cincinnati Health Department Men’s Health.
To kick off the event we will host UC Mobile Mammography on Friday May 17th 12:30-3pm. Call 513-584-PINK(7465) to schedule your mammogram!
Hope to see you HERE!
In His Service!