The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum hosts a range of social, cultural and educational events all year long. See below, or email events@thecarnegiecenter.org to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
Join our email newsletter list!
Just send your email address by text message:
Text
CARNEGIEEVENTS
to 22828
Thanks to our Programming Sponsors!
FALL 2024 Columbia Tusculum Community Party
2024 Fall Community Party
The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum will be hosting a community party on October 27, 2024, from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. The FREE event aims to bring people of all ages from the Columbia Tusculum area together to connect with neighbors and enjoy potluck food, games, crafts, food, beer, entertainment, and more. Bring a dish to share. Guest can enter the pumpkin decorating, Halloween costumes, and chili contests for prizes! Pre-registration for contests is not required.
Produce Pop-Ups
All pop-ups start at NOON, unless otherwise noted:
9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 12/10
Produce Pop Ups are provided by the Freestore Foodbank for people in the community. Free produce is offered on a first-come, first-served basis once monthly. Please bring your own bags and ONLY take enough food for your immediate household. Generally, this is the second Tuesday of the month. To participate in the program, visitors are required to fill out Ohio eligibility form for free food. That is provided at the site and only needs to be completed once per calendar year. Please be mindful that this is surplus food being offered for free to the community. Nobody is entitled to the food, it is is an opportunity to share what might otherwise go to waste. Please be respectful and only show up at the stated opening times, as visitors will not be allowed to pick up food early. Hauling boxes of food is not allowed.
Community Open Chess
Chess Earth hosts
Community Open Play and Optional Tournament
July 7th
August 18th
September 8th
October 20th
December 1st​
Stop in to relax and play casual chess and experience/witness a real chess tournament (optional.) ALL ages and levels of experience are welcome! Hosted by chess instructor, Robert Chenault.
​
​
Originary Arts
Braiding Communities Series
Co-sponsors -
Originary Arts Initiative
Place Keepers
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition
​
Peacekeepers presents: Appalachian Flow Homecoming
Sunday, October 6, 2024
12:30-8:30 pm festival-style event
FREE
​
Celebrate Cincinnati's unique Appalachian heritage!
​
Music, storytelling, literary performances, dancing, folk art, Appalachian food tasting, best pie contest, & more for people of all generations and heritages. Place Keepers Presents Appalachian Flow Homecoming: A Free and Festive Cultural Celebration for all generations at The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum on 10/6/24 from 12:30-8:30pm. Creative sharing by Kentucky Poet Laureate, Crystal Wilkinson and other artists. Live Music by The Bings, Green Willow, Carter Bridge, Raison D'Etre, Farmer and The Crow, and Tangled Root. Activities all day including square dancing, cat table, jam sessions, pie contest, story gathering, and an evening showcase at 6:30pm.
​
Primary sponsor: Urban Appalachian Community Coalition; Originary Arts Initiative
​
Creative Streams: Poetry Writing Workshop
Friday, April 5th, 2024
6:30-8:30 pm
$35, refreshments included
​
Celebrate National Poetry Month by exploring unique ways to enrich voice, flow, sensory details, and tension in your poetic craft. We’ll ponder diverse writing themes inspired by creeks, streams, and rivers, and learn about submission calls and contests running through the Appalachian watershed. All are welcome in this supportive, productive circle! Sponsored by Originary Arts Initiative.
​
The "I Remember" Story Exchange
Friday, May 24th, 2024
6:30-8 pm
FREE, donations accepted
​
Embrace the power of remembrance. What special recollections of people, places, work, and service do you carry with you? Celebrate Memorial Day weekend by sharing and listening to powerful, creative expressions of writing, music, art, and storytelling in this open mic style event.
​
Spirit of Song- Lyric Writing Workshop & Community Song Circle
Friday June 28th, 2024
5:45- 7:15 Songwriting Workshop
7:30-9 pm Concert
Pricing: $35 for workshop and concert, $9 concert only (18 and under free)
refreshments included
​
Explore unique ways to enrich voice, flow, sensory details, and tension in your creative writing pieces. Borrowing from the thematic landscape of creeks, streams, and rivers, we will hone our craft to specific calls from publishers. All are welcome in this supportive, productive circle!
​
Program Sponsors: Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, Originary Arts Initiative (OAI)
​
Living Story: Creative Renewal Retreat
A Dedicated Day for Creative Renewal & Project Development
Sunday, August 11, 2024
12:30-5:30 pm
Registration: $69.00; https://buy.stripe.com/28o28l7x42NqeOs28b
​
Embrace your time, renew your energy and move forward in your creative project through Living Story, a guided retreat-style experience hosted at The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum.
Living Story offers dedicated time to focus on creative projects, book manuscripts, art-making, educational or public program development, and unique business concepts. Your vision will gain surprising, new texture if you set aside one day in the company of other creative women to create new material or modify existing ideas. The Carnegie’s beautiful space and surrounding historical neighborhood will lend inspiration to your creative process.
Experience optional guided creative prompts, feedback circles, or energy-boosting one-on-one mentorship sessions. Or feel free to tuck away to do your thing. We’ll provide each person with a table in the Carnegie’s beautiful ballroom, including Internet access, delicious snacks, and water/tea/coffee on all-day flow. Creative breaks may include a visit to Daylily Deli right across the street and a “story stroll” around charming Columbia Tusculum. At the day’s end, we’ll hold a special interchange where we share creative progress, project content, and helpful resources with each other.
Living Story is a dynamic, adaptive interpretation of life in action, where what we make and do is primarily shaped by our value for cultivating inspiring relationships with people, practicing cultural curiosity, and experiencing peace and insight in nature. The art of Living Story rises from a willingness to risk creative empathy and movement beyond existing (and often limiting) designs.
Collaboratively led by Dr. Sherry Cook Stanforth, author, professor emeritus, and founder of Originary Arts Initiative, and Stacy Smith Rogers, freelance journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of Stronger Girl.
Community Presentations
History of Columbia Tusculum
11/18, 6pm
New to the area? Interested in history? Did you know Columbia is the second permanent white settlement in the Northwest Territory? Learn more fascinating facts and details at this FREE community presentation! An overview of Columbia Tusculum's community history will be presented on 11/18 at 6pm!
FREE
Myammia Tribe: History of Columbia Natives
11/24, 1pm
Southwest Ohio's human history dates to at least 200 years ago when peaceful mound builders were he sole inhabitants of the area. In the 1700s, a variety of indigenous tribes in North America were forces to relocate into lands eventually known as the Northwest Territory. The Miami (Myaamia) Tribe was one of the dominant tribes in what is now Southwest Ohio. Learn about the history of the Myaamia from the tribe itself and its history in what is now known as Columbia Tusculum.
FREE
Oasis Bike Trail Community Forum
10/21, 6:30pm
Guest Presenter: Wade Johnston, AICP, Executive Director, Tri-State Trails
The Columbia Tusculum Community Council and Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum jointly welcome Great Parks, Tri-State Trails and SORTA to update our community on the Oasis Bike Trail plans. Presentat, Q&A and networking.
​
FREE
​​
