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The Lorain Public Library System will partner with the Lorain Historical Society, Oberlin Public Library, Oberlin Heritage Center, Community Foundation of Lorain County, local schools, civic organizations, and businesses to offer diverse programming for audiences of all ages inspired by "Beloved" by Toni Morrison from Tuesday, September 3, 2024, through Monday, June 30, 2025.

Museums and libraries celebrate the exchange of ideas and self-expression--Where We Live: In Curiosity, is a community collaboration by the Clark County Public Library and the Springfield Museum of Art, inspired by book artist Amanda Love's exhibition Tigris and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. This Big Read provides public exchange of ideas, creative outlets and lifelong learning opportunities.

The Fitz Center for Leadership in Community at the University of Dayton, in collaboration with Dayton Metro Library, Daybreak Dayton, the African American Visual Artists Guild, and the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, will offer assorted public programming in conjunction with a community-wide reading of Yaa Gyasi’s book, “Homegoing,” from September 18, 2024, through May 18, 2025.

PLMVKC celebrates Charles Yu’s Interior: Chinatown with book discussions and on our “What Are You Reading?” podcast; a Teen Makerspace craft series; prose, poetry, and screenwriting workshops with Ira Sukrungruang, Cindy Ok, Jon Tazewell and Hao Zhou; dance, foodways and martial arts demos and more! PLMVKC will host an author visit at Woodward Opera House, with Lion Dancers and a community meal.

In April 2025, as part of the 2024-2025 Main Stage Season, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will present six educational matinee performances of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest” for 1,400 seventh – twelfth grade students from across the Greater Cincinnati region. Alongside performances, students will receive pre- and post-show discussions, backstage tours, workshops, and in-school residencies.

The Buckeye Flame will profile rural Ohio artists and organizations within the LGBTQ+ community through interviews, articles, podcasts, and video reporting. They will focus on the counties in Ohio that they have not yet had the capacity to cover. They will also produce the “This News is So Gay: An LGBTQ+ Reporters Roundtable" podcast, creating a forum for LGBTQ+ journalists to gather for panel discussions.

In the spring and fall, WIR offers weekly creative writing workshops. There are 3 workshop categories. “Creative Spark” workshops are free to the detention centers and include 5 sessions/season. “Wise...

Lake Erie Ink’s (LEI) kids’ Comic Con is a three day event, featuring in person workshops, virtual panels with famous authors, virtual Q&A sessions, all hosted at our building in...

Legacy Arts will present two events entitled, Legacy Sounds LIVE, live streamed concert featuring performances from local and regional artists, from the Legacy Sounds Recording Studio. At both events, hosts...

The McConnell Arts Center will feature local artist April Sunami in the exhibition "I Am Because You Are" January 11–March 13, 2024. Sunami’s mixed-media artwork features women of color as...