Literary/Lectures

NOTE: Due to COVID-19, please check with presenting organizations in case of postponements, cancellations or other changes.

The Mercantile Library

21c Museum Hotel | 609 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202.  513-578-6600

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AIA Cincinnati | 1114 Race St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-421-4661

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The Angelico Project | 6616 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45230

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Athenaeum of Ohio | Bartlett Center,  6616 Beechmont Ave. Cincinnati, 45230

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The Barn | 6980 Cambridge Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45227. 513-272-3700

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Behringer-Crawford Museum | 1600 Montague Rd., Covington, KY 41011. 859-491-4003

NKY History Hour, 6:30 p.m. (via Zoom)

  • March 3. “King Cholera in Covington, KY 1832-1873”
  • March 10. TBA
  • March 17. TBA
  • March  24. TBA
  • March 31. TBA
  • April 7. TBA
  • April 14. TBA
  • April 21. TBA

The Betts House | 416 Clark St., Cincinnati, OH 45203. thebettshouse.org

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The Black Agenda Cincinnati |

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Books by the Banks | Duke Energy Center

  • October

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio | 7162 Reading Rd., Suite 600, Cincinnati, OH 45237. 513-672-3702

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Christ Church Cathedral | 318 E. 4th St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-621-1817

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Cincinnati Art Museum | 953 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-721-2787

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Cincinnati Museum Center | 1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203. 513-287-7000

  • 2nd & 4th Tuesdays. Live Virtual Speakers Bureau Presentations (Zoom)

Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition, Annual Music & Medicine Conference |Five virtual one-hour presentations; free registration required. 

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Cincinnati Opera | Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-241-2742

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Cincinnati Poetry Slam | 5021 Whetsel Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45227

  • March 11, 8 p.m. Season Four Kickoff/Virtual Open Mic Night

Cincinnati Preservation Association | 430 Reading Rd., Ste 300, Cincinnati, OH 45202

  • March 2, 6 p.m. Preservation at Home: “Gina Ruffin Moore on Black History in Cincinnati”

Cincinnati Storytelling Festival | Madcap Education Center, 3064 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45211 

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Cincinnati Zoo | 3400 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45220. 513-281-4700

Barrows Conservation Lectures:

  • April 21. Patricia Wright “Saving Madagascar: Nature’s Lost Paradise”
  • June 2. Olivia Carril “To Bee or Not To Bee: Documenting bee declines in dynamic landscapes”

Cincy Stories | Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

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City of Montgomery | 10101 Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242 513-891-2424

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Clifton Cultural Arts Center | 3711 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220. 513-497-2860

Sunset Salons:

  • March 17, 6 p.m. “Inside the Artist Studio” Cedric Michael Cox, Cynthia Lockhart, Drew Steinbrecher, Jan Brown Checco. Panel facilitated by Barbara Sferra
  • May 12, 6 p.m. “Craft Cocktails”

Covington Writers Group | 

  • 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Twice-monthly workshop ((virtual)

Decorative Arts Society of Cincinnati | Cincinnati Art Museum

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Dos Madres Press | Arnold’s Bar & Grill, downtown

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EquaSion | (formerly Bridges of Faith Trialogue)

  • March 3, 6 p.m. “Eliminating Racial Inequities in the Criminal Legal System” (Virtual)

Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council | 

Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m. Unstoppable Women Series (Virtual)

  • March 2. Gina Goings, Sr. VP, communications & development, Urban League of Greater SW Ohio

Grail in the US | 931 O’Bannonville Rd., Loveland OH 45140

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Greater Cincinnati Writers League | Hermitage Room – The Regency, 2444 Madison Rd., 1st Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45208. gcwlemail@gmail.com

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House | 2950 Gilbert Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45206. 513-751-0651

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Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion | 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220. 513-221-1875

  • March 1, 1 p.m. “Kashruth (Jewish Dietary Laws), Community, and Control: Shehitah (Ritual Slaughter) Manuals and Their Afterlives in Early Modern Europe”
  • March 2, 5:30 p.m. “Language and Racism in the United States Today”
  • March 4, 5:30 p.m. “Race and Identity Today”
  • March 9, 6 p.m. “Infertility in the Ancient World” Kristine Henriksen Garroway
  • March 16, 1 p.m. “A Spark of King David: Rabbi Israel Najara’s Poetry and Music”
  • March 23, 6 p.m. “‘Let My People Go:’ Personal Reflections on Freedom and Injustice”
  • March 25, 1 p.m. “Children and the Right to Vote”
  • April 22, 1 p.m. “If Flame Falls on Cedars, Women Leaders Will Put Out the Fire: The Biblical Deborah Reimagined” Wendy Zierler, Sigmund Falk
  • May 11, 6 p.m. “Jews of Color”
  • May 13, 3 p.m. “Intersectional Jewish Identities”
  • June 10, 7 p.m. “Not the Same as White: Latinx Students Talk About Jewish Schooling”
  • June 22, 1:30 p.m. “Jews, Whiteness, Power and Privilege”

Holocaust & Humanity Center  | Cincinnati Museum Center, Union Terminal. 513-487-3055

  • Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Speaker Series: online

Irish Heritage Center | 3905 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45226. 513-533-0100

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Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati | 8487 Ridge Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236

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Joseph-Beth Booksellers | 2692 Madison Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45208. 513-396-8960

  • March 4, 7 p.m. Discussion: Don Bentley w/ Mark Greaney “The Outside Man” (Zoom)
  • March 4, 7 p.m. Discussion: Anne Lamott “Dusk Night Dawn” (stream)

Kenton County Public Library | 401 Kenton Lands, Erlanger, KY 41018. 859-962-9000

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Knox Presbyterian Church | 3400 Michigan Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208

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Lloyd Library and Museum | 917 Plum St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-721-3707

  • March 18, 7 p.m. Elissa Yancey “Natural Wonders: Pioneering Female Scientists of Cincinnati”
  • April 28, 7 p.m. Dr. Gene Kritsky “Emerging Cicadas at the Lloyd”

Mayerson JCC • 8485 Ridge Ave., Amberley. 513-761-7500

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Mercantile Library | 414 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-621-0717

  • Nov. 6. Niehoff Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson

MORTAR | 1329 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 

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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-333-7500

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Network of Executive Women Cincinnati | 

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Northern Kentucky University | 1 Nunn Dr., Highland Heights, KY 41099

Six@Six Series 6 p.m. Virtual

  • March 16. Jonathan S Cullick & Cheli Reutter
  • April 20. Danielle McDonald & David Singleton
  • May 11. Robert K. Wallace
  • May 18. Brandon K. Winford

Over-the-Rhine Museum | facebook.com

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Oxford Community Arts Center | 10 S. College Ave., Oxford, OH 45056. 513-524-8506

  • 2nd Wednesday, 7 p.m. “Oxford Tale Spinners: True Stories Told Live”

Public Library | 800 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-369-6900

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RefugeeConnect | 

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Roebling Point Books & Coffee | 306 Greenup St., Covington, KY 41011.

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Skirball Museum / Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

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Taft Museum of Art | 316 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-241-0343

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TEDxCincinnati | Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Thomas More University | 333 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017. 859-341-5800

  • Monday’s, 12:15-1:05 p.m. Fall Writer’s Table (Zoom)

Urban Appalachian Literary Salon Series | 329 Ludlow Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

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Wash Park Art | 1215 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. 513-291-3626

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Wave Pool Gallery | 2940 Colerain Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45225

  • March 6, 3 p.m. Virtual reading/book release “Where Are We From?”

Women Writing for a Change | 6906 Plainfield Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236. 513-272-1171

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Woman’s Art Club | The Barn, 6980 Cambridge Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45227. 513-272-3700

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Word of Mouth Cincinnati | MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

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