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Publishers’ Letter 4 Arts/Culture 6 Choral conductors pass the baton | By David Lyman 6 Organ concert honors Music Hall’s Black heritage 8

The Regional’s Lorena Molina | By Shauna Steigerwald 10 The A/C List: Music, theater, visual art and more 12

Favorite things 18 M&M notables share a few of their local favorites

The Datebook 21 Circus students to display skills at fundraiser 21 Heart Ball to support health equity 22 SCPA gala celebrates ‘Future of the Arts’ 23

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While 2020 lasted an eternity, these past 11 months have been a blur. Confused, herky-jerky, exasperating, but still, a blur indeed.

After begging for post-event photos every month since whenever, we find ourselves awash in images from – count ’em – 36 recent nonprofit events. Find out who you know among those wonderful folks who have been contributing.

The Contemporary Arts Center’s upcoming exhibit, “The Regional,” is intended to shine a light on art created in the Midwest. Artist and UC professor Lorena Molina is the lone, local representative. Lorena is originally from El Salvador, but her experience of living in the Midwest has reshaped her indentity and her art. Tina Gutierrez photographed her friend and fellow artist and Shauna Steigerwald helps Lorena tells us her story. See page 10.

So here we are at the brink of

Christmas, one of only two times per year that choral music is actually cool. And the Cincinnati region has experienced a huge turnover of choral leadership during the past few years, thanks to retirements, departures and shifting responsibilities. David Lyman provides a primer to who’s playing and at what position – just in time for carol singing. See page 6.

We all have our go-to list of local favorites, but maybe we are missing something special? We asked some of the movers and makers featured in our magazine this past year to share their favorite things about our city, our region and the holiday season.

Find out who trims their tree with “Santa Bands,” who’s family drives around looking at Christmas lights to Luther Vandross, who makes Gluhwein and Christkindl at home, and who likes pumpkin-flavored beer and FCC (the favorite “beverage” and “experience to gift” of not one, but two respondents). Awesome.

Check it out on page 18.

If you are among those who consider charitable giving during this season of thanksgiving and

end-of-year tax planning, Polly Campbell has some thoughts on the subject. (See page 50.) By the way, Polly has a relatively new book out – “Cincinnati Food: A History of Queen City Cuisine”. Could make a stellar gift for the foodies on your list. Check out her ad in this issue for details.

As we close out this secondstrangest year ever, we want to express our supreme gratitude for our colleagues at Inspiring Service/ Cincinnati Cares: founder Craig Young, CEO Doug Bolton, along with Carol Rountree and Katie Fiorelli. We are grateful for their acceptance and enthusiasm, and might not still be here but for their vision and confidence in us.

But none of this would be possible without the partnership and support of Cincinnati nonprofits, and the investment of our regular advertisers.

Merry Christmas to All and to All a better 2022. Please stay with us.

The coming year is going to be very exciting.

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By David Lyman

New conductors step up to podium in Cincinnati’s changing choral scene Reader version for devices

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horal directors come and choral directors go. It’s the natural course of things.

But over the past three years, it seems that there have been more than the usual number of notable leadership changes among Greater Cincinnati choral groups. Some shifts were driven by retirements. Others came about as directors departed for new positions. And some were propelled by the uncertainty that has upended nearly every aspect of life during the past two years.

But change, especially in high-profile choral conducting positions, has been extensive.

• Neal Hamlin retired last year after 27 years as director of music at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church. Ben Owen now holds the position of director of music and choirmaster, and also leads Cincinnati Camerata.

• Earl Rivers retired as director of choral studies at CCM in 2020 after five decades at that institution, and was succeeded by CCM grad Joe Miller, former conductor of the Westminster Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which serve the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra.

• Anthony DiCello retired as music director at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains in the summer of 2020. Matthew Geerlings, who spent two decades as music director at the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City, Iowa, stepped into the position.

• Christopher Eanes left the Cincinnati Boychoir and the Collegium Cincinnati in July 2019 to become the executive director of the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Jason Alexander Holmes became the Boychoir’s artistic director the same month, and Christ Church Cathedral’s Stephan Casurella now conducts Collegium Cincinnati.

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at St. Rose Church in Cincinnati’s East End, joined forces with soprano Alexandra Schoeny to rebrand the church’s professional choir as The Union and install it as the chorus-inresidence for the church’s music series.

• KellyAnn Nelson stepped down as founding artistic director of the Young Professionals Choral Collective in April 2021 and became the manager of the annual fund and corporate engagement at Chorus America in Washington, D.C. She was replaced at YPCC by Danielle Cozart Steele, who came from Indiana University East in Richmond, Ind., and also leads choral music at Mount St. Joseph University.

• Juanjo Mena led his first performances as principal conductor of the May Festival in 2018, following James Conlon’s nearly four-decade tenure.

These appointments are sure to change the face of choral music in Greater Cincinnati. It’s unlikely to happen quickly.

And it may not be particularly radical. But each of these distinctive musical leaders will reshape the musical offerings they share with audiences.

During the past two years, though, it has been difficult to remain optimistic.

During Miller’s time as director of choral activities at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, he was involved with Chorus America studies that chronicled the “amazing trajectory” in choral activity in the U.S. and Canada.

“But all of a sudden COVID hit and we had to question what was going to happen to that momentum we had been experiencing,” Miller said.

The pandemic made choral life more complicated, more stressful and more risky.

Singers became designated as “super-spreaders” of the virus.

“Overnight, we found ourselves working in the most dangerous, illegal profession there was – gathering in groups and spraying hazardous aerosol particles into the air,” Nelson said. “My farewell gala was scheduled for March 14, 2020. But you know how that

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Nor did her singers. Or other choral musicians throughout the region. Nearly every aspect of choral music – anything involving face-to-face encounters – came to a halt.

Remarkably, things are gradually starting to resume. It’s far too early to use the word “normal.” There usually are masks involved.

And sometimes, audiences have to be limited in size. But in-person music is happening again.

After Miller recounts some of the difficulties his students have faced, he talks of spending the previous weekend auditioning singers in New York City for CCM. “Honestly, I’m as enthusiastic as ever,” says Miller. “We’ve adapted. We’ve made changes.

We’ve learned to sing with masks. But I think these changes in the world and in digital technology have hyper-charged the need for human contact.”

Perhaps he is right. Despite all logic, the past two years have seen the founding of several new choral groups. In addition to The Union, conductor Tony Burdette founded Viva Voices, with ensembles ranging from children to professionals.

“You wouldn’t think that would be a time to start something new,” says the Boychoir’s Holmes. “But I totally understand it. You’ve

seen it in a lot of industries. People have a lot of time to sit at home and think about their lives. Once they got beyond baking bread, they started dreaming up new ideas, new ensembles. I mean, when you’re sitting at home and not actually doing music, it’s hard to think about anything else.”

Everything had already come to a halt when Steele assumed her new position as YPCC artistic director in July 2020. Rehearsals were virtual. She didn’t meet her board of directors face-to-face until September 2021. But Steele is as innovative as she is ambitious.

When the weather turned warm, the chorus rehearsed outdoors in the parking lot of the Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre in East Price Hill. They performed on the Purple People Bridge and presented a spring concert at Eden Park’s Seasongood Pavilion.

“It rained, but we still had 150 or so people stick around,” says Steele.

They even hosted a “Car-aoke Caroling Drive-in” in the parking lots at Karrikin Spirits Co. using a low-wattage FM broadcast so people could “sing together” in the comfort of their own cars. They’ll do it again this year on Dec. 21.

“When you want it bad enough, you can always find a way to sing together,” says Steele. 

Fresh Voices this Christmas Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains Nov. 28, 3 p.m. Advent Lessons and Carols www.stpeterinchainscathedral.org College-Conservatory of Music Dec. 4-5, various times. “Feast of Carols,” Corbett Auditorium. www.ccm.uc.edu Cincinnati Boychoir Dec. 19-26 (virtual) - December Showcase: “Rhythm of Celebration.” www.cincinnatiboychoir.org The Union Dec. 16-17 & Dec. 19, various times. “Let Love Be Heard”: The St. Rose Church Christmas Concert www.strosecincinnati.org Young Professionals Choral Collective Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. “The Merriest Hour,” Below Zero Lounge Dec. 11, 4 p.m. Fa’s & La’s: YPCC family concert, Christ Church Cathedral Dec. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Car-Aoke, Karrikin Spirits Co.  www.ypccsing.org May Festival Chorus Dec. 3-5 & 10-12, various times. “Holiday Pops,” with the Cincinnati Pops, Music Hall. www.mayfestival.com

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Mighty Wurlitzer will honor Music Hall’s Black heritage Friday, Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., Music Hall Ballroom “Happy Holiday with the Mighty Wurlitzer” pays tribute this year to Music Hall’s Black and African American heritage and will reveal “Sisters of Legacy,” a commissioned mixed-media artwork by artist Annie Ruth.

The concert, sponsored by Friends of Music Hall, will be hosted once again by Evans Mirageas, Cincinnati Opera’s artistic director.

In addition, Cincinnati Ballet Academy dancers will perform original choreography arranged to Duke Ellington’s interpretations of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” accompanied by Jelani Eddington, playing on the historic Albee Theatre organ.

This year’s concert will feature opera singers Victoria Okafor and Avery Bargasse with Kenny Smith’s Peace & Serenity Choir.

Tickets for “Happy Holiday with the Mighty Wurlitzer” can be purchased online. General admission is $32; seniors, students, military and groups $27.  www.cincinnatiarts.org

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No Promises Vocal Band revives its Christmas concert tour No Promises Vocal Band resumes its “Christmas With No Promises” tour this December. The show will be presented four times.

The family-friendly fare includes holiday classics from Alicia Keys, Andy Williams, Joni Mitchell and Dan Fogelberg as well as selections from No Promises’ recent “Boy Band Diaries” show.

In 2020, when the group could do no live show, No Promises recorded an on-demand concert at Memorial Hall.

This year’s show marks a return to live performance.

No Promises is a Cincinnati-based a cappella ensemble. The group has released three recordings.

Concerts are: • Thursday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Community of the Good Shepherd • Saturday, Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m., The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center • Tuesday, Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m., St. Columban Parish • Wednesday, Dec. 22, 7:30 p.m., Warsaw Federal Incline Theater  www.nopromisesvocalband.com

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Renovations bring new look to Cincinnati Art Museum Opening Saturday, Dec. 18, Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park The Cincinnati Art Museum’s updated 2,800-square-foot ancient Middle East gallery is set to open. The new space will showcase works from across the ancient Middle East, including the most significant collection of Nabataean art in the United States.

The galleries will also feature a new work by the artist Shahzia Sikander, titled “Caesura.” Commissioned by the museum and inspired by the objects on view, the

monumental painted-glass work will occupy the high windows across both sides of the gallery.

The new galleries will incorporate contemporary reflections, encouraging visitors to rethink the way a 21stcentury museum interprets ancient art. The museum’s ancient Middle East collections number more than 1,000 objects.

Architectural changes include new visitor pathways, LED lighting and new custom-built casework. New windows allow for more natural light and provide a view of the front-facing grounds and interior Alice Bimel Courtyard.  www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Photo by Mikki Schaffner

Opera extends artistic director Mirageas’ contract for five years Cincinnati Opera has announced a five-year contract extension for Evans Mirageas, the company’s Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director.

Mirageas joined the opera as artistic adviser in January 2005 and was named artistic director in July of that year.

The extension means Mirageas will continue as artistic director through the 2027 season.

“Through his collaborative leadership and outstanding reputation within our industry, Evans has helped to elevate Cincinnati Opera’s profile on the international cultural stage,” said Liz Kathman Grubow, opera board president. Evans Mirageas Since his appointment, Mirageas has advocated for new and rarely produced operas and has engaged renowned singers and creative artists.

Mirageas has deepened the company’s connection to the community through partnerships with cultural, civic, religious and educational organizations. He has also overseen the releases of two commercial recordings of Cincinnati Opera world premiere productions, “Fellow Travelers” (2017) and “Blind Injustice” (2021).  www.cincinnatiopera.org

Knox Music Series presents

Christmas Miniatures four short masterworks performed by the Knox Chamber Choir and Knox soloists

Sunday•December 19th•5pm Vivaldi Finzi Charpentier Vaughan Williams

Magnificat In terra pax Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Christmas Midnight Mass) Fantasia of Christmas Carols

Knox Presbyterian Church 3400 Michigan Avenue, 45208

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Lorena Molina

Photo by Tina Gutierrez for Movers & Makers

By Shauna Steigerwald

Life, Changing Art Leads To Life-Changing Art Reader version for devices

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orena Molina may not be from the Midwest, but the Midwest has had a profound impact on her art.

Fitting, then, that the University of Cincinnati assistant professor of art is one of 23 artists whose work will be on display in “The Regional,” billed as “the first major multimuseum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest.” Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, it will be on display at CAC from Dec. 10 to March 20.

“The exhibition is kind of a snapshot of artists living and working in the Midwest,” said Amara Antilla, senior curator at the CAC and a Minnesota native. She co-curated the exhibition with Jade Powers at the Kemper, focusing on emerging artists.

The featured artists have distinctive practices and diverse voices, Antilla said.

“It’s not making any claims about what art in the Midwest necessarily is from a comprehensive perspective,” she said of the exhibition.

Molina, whose work uses photography, video, performance and installation, is one of those voices. “Reconciliation Garden,” her immersive installation in “The Regional,” will be her second piece at the CAC. Her first, “Tu nombre entre nuestras lenguas,” was a performance, video and installation about a massacre in El Salvador.

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“Home” for Molina is complicated. She spent her childhood in El Salvador and found her passion for art in California. But a difficult graduate school experience in the Midwest shaped her into the artist she is today.

Move to the Midwest feeds a passion Molina was 14 when she and her mother moved to Long Beach, Calif. Most of her family had already moved to the U.S. during El Salvador’s civil war.

At 22, she took a photography class at her Southern California community college.

“This class was life-changing,” she said. “I became obsessed … I don’t think I had experienced anything like that before. It was a little scary.”

Molina went on to earn degrees in fine arts – a bachelor’s at Cal State Fullerton in 2012, then a master’s at the University of Minnesota in 2015. She came to Cincinnati in 2018 as a visiting assistant professor at UC’s DAAP and was later hired as an assistant professor.

“To me, it feels kind of wild that I’m a college professor, thinking how … not even high school counselors thought they needed to talk to me about college,” she said.

Molina felt welcomed by Cincinnati’s art community. “It feels like the least elitist art space or art community I’ve been a part of,” she said. “A lot of artists here in Cincinnati are my friends; we’re constantly supporting each other.”

Her first experience living in the Midwest, for graduate school in Minnesota, was different.

Before that, her art was “really tender and gentle,” dealing with subjects like community.

“Minnesota was the first place I really felt aware of my body, and specifically, my brown body … being the only person of color in these spaces a lot of the time,” she said.

Molina was in graduate school when Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri.

In classrooms, “We talked a lot about oppression ... but it just felt so academic,” she said. “It made me really upset to talk about these experiences in this way, like something that needed to be theorized, when a lot of the experiences were happening to the people I love and myself.”

The experience radicalized her art: She channeled the sense that she didn’t belong into creating violent performances.

“The work was asking (viewers) to really question their roles as accomplice in the suffering of others,” she said.

Following a year-long hiatus from making art after graduate school, Molina started creating pieces about making a home in the margins.

She also started experimenting with different techniques, connecting photography, video and objects in her work rather than seeing them as separate.

When the CAC approached Molina about “The Regional,” she had a grant from ArtsWave and was already working on “Reconciliation Garden.” (It was on display at Wave Pool’s The Welcome Project from July 10 to Oct. 30. An iteration will move to “The Regional.”)

It asks viewers to tap into their memories of

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An attendee experiencing “Reconciliation Garden” at Wave Pool

coffee and explores how those personal memories are tied to coffee’s global history. At the height of coffee production in El Salvador, Molina said, 95 percent of the country’s income was tied to the crop, but a few families owned the land. Protests over the inequality were suppressed, sometimes through deadly force.

War in the neighborhood “(That) led civilians to form a guerrilla, which led to the civil war,” she said. The civil war lasted from 1979 to 1992.

In “Reconciliation Garden,” Molina said, coffee becomes a symbol for imperialism, a way to talk about issues including genocide and exploitation.

“Part of the exhibition is to get (viewers) to think about how daily actions, like a coffee, are loaded with very problematic and violent histories, but also to educate them and get them to understand the history of the U.S. and El Salvador,” she said.

Molina experienced the civil war firsthand as a child. A recent piece, “Questions on Safety and Freedom,” explored a memory of when the fighting came out of the forests and mountains and into her neighborhood in San Salvador.

“My mom put the two beds together, and we hid under the bed for a whole day,” she recalled.

“I make a lot of work that is about really difficult subjects,” Molina said. “I really see it as my role as an artist to do that.

“I see these spaces for really creating a dialog and sometimes a confrontation with the viewer,” she added. “I don’t want the viewer to be passive in these spaces. By asking them to respond to a prompt

Curator Antilla is excited that “The Regional” will continue after it closes in March. It’s set to open at the Kemper in June 2022, and they’re working on other possible placements, she said.

Further ahead, she sees the possibility of a recurring platform spotlighting Midwestern artists every few years.

“The show has really emphasized for me the plurality in perspectives and approaches to artmaking that we have here,” she added. “It’s impossible to categorize something as Midwestern art.”

Molina expressed a similar view.

“I don’t think there’s a Midwest aesthetic,” she said. “We are all influenced by the art we look at, the things we see, the causes that we care about.” 

or to listen to something or to look at a video, I am asking them to be active in the spaces and to really question their role in society.”

With “Reconciliation Garden,” viewers can take immediate action by contributing to the Reconciliation Coffee Fund, which supports activities such as coffee plantation recovery, restoring trees and improvements to the drinking water supply in El Salvador. Attendees can also buy coffee at a fair price. (www.wavepoolgallery.org/reconciliation-garden) ‘The Regional’ at CAC Changing the spaces she belongs to is one of Molina’s biggest priorities. That extends to her teachFriday, Dec. 10 through Sunday, March 20. ing. “(I want) to make sure my BIPOC students have Opening public reception: Dec. 10, 8 p.m. a better experience than I had,” she said.  www.contemporaryartscenter.org/ “I love working with students,” she added. “I get exhibitions/2021/12/the-regional really excited to help them develop their ideas and their work.”

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Cultural Exhibits/Tours American Legacy Tours | 859-9518560. www.americanlegacytours.com Historic tours in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky American Sign Museum | Camp Washington. 513-541-6366. www.americansignmuseum.org Thru Jan. 9. “It’s a Wonderful Light” holiday display Behringer-Crawford Museum | Devou Park, Covington. 859-491-4003. www.bcmuseum.org Thru Jan. 9. Holiday Toy Trains Cincinnati Fire Museum | Downtown.

513-621-5553. www.cincyfiremuseum.com Permanent collection Cincinnati Food Tours | Over-the-Rhine & Downtown. 513-6025602. www.cincinnatifoodtours.com Tours exploring the Queen City’s food heritage Cincinnati Museum Center | Union Terminal, Queensgate. 513-287-7000. www.cincymuseum.org Current exhibits: “A Year on the Edge” • “An Unfinished Revolution: Women and the Vote” • “Inspired by Nature: The Art and Activism of Charley Harper” Thru Jan. 3. Holiday Junction, featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains Thru April 24. “The Science Behind Pixar” Cincinnati Nature Center | Milford.

513-831-1711. www.cincynature.org Dec. 1-Jan. 2, 5-9 p.m. “Light in the Forest,” holiday lights walking tour Cincinnati Zoo | Avondale.

513-281-4700. www.cincinnatizoo.org Thru Jan. 9. PNC Festival of Lights Dec. 31. Happy Zoo Year Jan. 24. Fiona’s 5th birthday party Friends of Music Hall | Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. 513-621-2787. www.friendsofmusichall.org Indoor tours of Cincinnati landmark Greater Cincinnati Police Museum | Downtown. 513-300-3664. www.police-museum.org Permanent collection 12

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Walnut Hills. 513-751-0651. www.stowehousecincy.org Current exhibits: “Our Neighborhood Story: A Tour of This Walnut Hills Block” • “The Cause Dearer to Me Than Any Other in the World”: Isabella Beecher Hooker and Suffrage • “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” Heritage Village Museum | Sharonville. 513-563-9484. www.heritagevillagecincinnati.org Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Christmas 1900: An Edwardian Christmas Dec. 1-4 & 8-10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 19th Century Holiday Guided Tour Dec. 11-12, noon-4 p.m. Holly Days Dec. 15-17 & 22-23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Train Days Holocaust & Humanity Center | Union Terminal, Queensgate. 513-4873055. www.holocaustandhumanity.org Permanent exhibit: Media, artifacts, art, and exhibitions regarding the Holocaust Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati | West Chester. www.icgc.us First Saturday, 11 a.m. “Know Your Neighbors” (KYN) Krohn Conservatory | Eden Park. 513421-4086. www.cincinnatiparks.com/krohn Thru Jan. 9. “Trains and Traditions, A Cincinnati Holiday”

Thru Jan. 2. “Journey BOREALIS,” holiday light show Skirball Museum | Hebrew Union College, Clifton. 513-221-1875. https://csm.huc.edu Thru Dec. 30. “Opening the Ark: Bringing a Lost Jewish Synagogue to Life”

Dance Cincinnati Arts Association | Aronoff Center. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatiarts.org Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. “A Magical Cirque Christmas”

www.contemporaryartscenter.org Dec. 4, 6-10 p.m. Market Bleu Winter Quarter, handcrafted products, fine arts Findlay Market | Over-the-Rhine. www.findlaymarket.org/events Dec. 4-5. Holiday Market King’s Island | Mason. 513-754-5700. www.visitkingsisland.com Thru Dec. 31. WinterFest (City of) Montgomery | Montgomery. www.montgomeryohio.org Dec. 4, 5-7:30 p.m. Holiday in the Village

Cincinnati Ballet | Music Hall.

513-621-5219. www.cballet.org Dec. 16-26. “The Nutcracker”

Northside Farmers Market | North Church, Northside. www.northsidefm.org Wednesdays, 4-7 p.m. Regional food and beverage market

College-Conservatory of Music | Corbett Theater. 513-556-4183. www.ccm.uc.edu Dec. 2-5. “Dance Works”

Renaissance Covington | Covington.

859-261-7111. www.rcov.org Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Covington Farmers Market

De la Dance Center | Kennedy Heights.

513-871-0914. www.deladancecenter.com Thru Dec. 5. “The Nutcracker Jazzed Up!” Miami Valley Ballet Theatre | Fairfield Community Arts Center. www.mvbtdance.org Dec. 3-5 & 10-12. “The Nutcracker”

Lloyd Library and Museum | Downtown.

513-721-3707. www.lloydlibrary.org Permanent exhibit. George Rieveschl Jr.: History of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Mutual Dance Theatre | Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center.

513-494-6526. www.mutualdance.org Jan. 21-22. Contemporary Dance Theater Series: Philadanco

Milford Historical Society | Milford.

513-248-0324. www.milfordhistory.net Permanent exhibit: Historical displays of art, artifacts and more

Northern Kentucky University | Behringer-Crawford Museum.

859-572-5464. www.nku.edu/sota Dec. 5, 2 p.m. Dance Troupe

National Underground Freedom Center | The Banks, Downtown.

513-333-7500. www.freedomcenter.org Permanent exhibit: Explores issues of freedom, past and present

Revolution Dance Theatre | Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center. www.revodance.com Dec. 10, 8 p.m. “Hot Chocolate” Dec. 11, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. “Hot Chocolate”

Fairs/Festivals/Markets

National VOA Museum of Broadcasting | West Chester.

513-777-0027. www.voamuseum.org Permanent exhibit: History of VOA broadcasts

City Flea | Washington Park. www.thecityflea.com Dec. 11, 4-9 p.m. Holiday Market

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park | Hamilton. www.pyramidhill.org

Contemporary Arts Center | Downtown. 513-345-8400.

Film Cincinnati Museum Center | Union Terminal, Queensgate. 513-287-7000. www.cincymuseum.org/omnimax Now showing: “Great Bear Rainforest” • “Asteroid Hunters” Mayerson JCC | Various. 513-761-7500. www.mayersonjcc.org Jan. 23-Feb. 18. Jewish and Israeli Film Festival

Literary/Lectures Joseph-Beth Booksellers | Rookwood Commons, Norwood.

513-396-8960. www.josephbeth.com Book signings and discussions Fitton Center | Hamilton.

513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org Jan. 12, 11:30 a.m. Saad Ghosn, founder of Save Our Souls Art

Music Bach Ensemble of St. Thomas | St. Thomas Episcopal, Terrace Park.

513-831-2052. www.bachensemble.org Dec. 12, 5 p.m. Bach Vespers: featuring Seven Hills Baroque Jan. 30, 5 p.m. Bach Vespers: BWV 156

ARTS/CULTURE | The List Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony | Summit City Church, Montgomery.

513-549-2197. www.bamso.org Dec. 5, 7 p.m. “Ringing in the Holidays” with Cincinnati Choral Society

Cincinnati Arts Association | Aronoff Center. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatiarts.org Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith Christmas

Butler Philharmonic | Parrish Auditorium, Miami Hamilton.

513-844-5151. www.butlerphil.org Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. Holiday Pops Concert

Cincinnati Boychoir | Virtual.

513-396-7664. www.cincinnatiboychoir.org Dec. 19-26. December Showcase: Rhythm of Celebration

Caffe Vivace | Walnut Hills.

513-601-9897. www.caffevivace.com Most evenings, live jazz performances

Cincinnati Community Orchestra | Church of the Savior United Methodist.

513-317-0300. www.cincinnaticommunityorchestra.org Dec. 4. “Celebrating American Music” Michelle Conda, piano

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption | Covington. 859-431-2060. www.cathedralconcertseries.org Dec. 5, 3 p.m. Basilica Bishop’s Choir: “Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols” Jan. 10, 3 p.m. Seven Hills Brass Choir: “An Epiphany Epilogue” Chamber Music Cincinnati | 513-342-6870. www.cincychamber.org Dec. 5, 4 p.m. Awadagin Pratt and Zuill Bailey (at Word of Deliverance Ministries) Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. Encore of previous (at Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine) Jan. 16, 4 p.m. Antony McGill w/ Gloria Chien (at New Prospect Baptist Church) Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. Encore of previous (at Memorial Hall) Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m. Danish String Quartet (at Memorial Hall) Christ Church Cathedral | Downtown.

513-621-1817. www.cincinnaticathedral.com Tuesdays, 12:10 p.m. Music Live@Lunch Dec. 18, 7 p.m. Lessons and Carols Concert Dec. 19, 4:30 p.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Jan. 1-2. The 82nd Annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival Jan. 9, 4:30 p.m. An Epiphany Procession Jan. 16, 3 p.m. A Cosmopolitan Extravaganza: Baroque Music from Italy, Spain, and Germany Christ Church Glendale | Glendale.

513-771-1544. www.christchurchglendale.org Dec. 19, 5 p.m. A Festival of Lessons & Carols Music Live at Christ Church: Dec. 12, 3 p.m. Canterbury Brass Jan. 12, 12:05 p.m. Dr. Michelle Conda and Bob Conda, pianists Church of Our Saviour | Mt. Auburn. 513-241-1870. www.churchofoursaviourcincinnati.org Dec. 4, 4 p.m. CSO Nouveau Artists Dec. 11, 4 p.m. CSO/CCM Diversity Fellows

Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra | 513-280-8181. www.cincinnatijazz.org Dec. 5, 2 p.m. Jazz@First Series: Christmas Hymnprovisation with Robert Lomax, (at First Unitarian Church, Avondale) Dec. 9, 7 p.m. Big Band Series: Jingle Jazz (at The Redmoor, Mt. Lookout) Cincinnati Men’s Chorus | Finneytown High School. 513-542-2626. www.cincinnatimenschorus.org Dec. 11, 8 p.m. Holiday Concert: Haul Out the Holly Dec. 12, 2 p.m. Encore of previous Cincinnati Song Initiative | www.cincinnatisonginitiative.org Dec. 5, 4 p.m. The Belletrists: Heinrich Heine (at Calvary Episcopal Church, Clifton) Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Winter Song Festival: The Andrée Expedition (at ARCO, Price Hill) Jan. 23, 7 p.m. Winter Song Festival: Cincinnati songSLAM (at Liberty Exhibition Hall, Northside) Cincinnati Sound Chorus | The Carnegie, Covington. 513-554-2648. www.cincinnatisound.org Dec. 11, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. “Yuletide Celebration” Cincinnati Symphony & Pops | Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. 513-381-3300. www.cincinnatisymphony.org Dec. 3-5 & 10-12. (Pops) “Holiday Pops” Aubrey Logan & Michael Preacely, vocalists Dec. 29-30. (Pops) Film with Live Orchestra: “Return of the Jedi” Dec. 31, 8 p.m. (Pops) “New Years Eve at Music Hall: Shaken Not Stirred,” Capathia Jenkins & Ron Bohmer, vocalists

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Jan. 8-9. (CSO) “Dawson, Beethoven & Bernstein: A Shared Humanity” James Conlon, conductor Jan. 14-15. (CSO) “La Valse + Simpson Premiere” Nicola Benedetti, piano Jan. 21-23. (Pops) “Cirque Goes Broadway” Cirque de la Symphonie Jan. 28-29, 7:30 p.m. (CSO) “Pintscher Premiere + Rachmaninoff” Matthias Pintscher, conductor; Leila Josefowicz, violin Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra | Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. www.cincinnatisymphony.org/csyo Dec. 8, 7 p.m. (Philharmonic Orchestra) “Voix Pathetiques” Dec. 12, 7 p.m. (Concert Orchestra) “Horizons” Cincinnati Youth Choir | Corbett Auditorium, CCM. 513-556-4183. www.cincinnatichoir.org Dec. 11, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. “Illuminate the Soul” College-Conservatory of Music | Corbett Auditorium, CCM. 513-556-4183. www.ccm.uc.edu Dec. 4-5, 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Feast of Carols

Dec. 6, 7 p.m. Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble and CYWE Symphony Band Dec. 7, 7 p.m. Jr. Youth Wind Ensemble and CYWE Flute Choir Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. UC Symphony Orchestra Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. UC Bearcat Bands Dec. 12, 2 p.m. Cincinnati Junior Strings Collegium Cincinnati | Christ Church Cathedral, Downtown. www.collegiumcincinnati.org Dec. 5, 3 p.m. Handel: Messiah, Stephan Casurella, conductor concert:nova | Woodward Theater, Over-the-Rhine. www.concertnova.com Jan. 30. Timo Andres: world premiere Fairfield Community Arts Center | 513-867-5348. www.fairfield-city.org Jan. 8, 8 p.m. The HillBenders present Who Grass Jan. 22, 8 p.m. 7 Bridges: The Ultimate EAGLES Experience Fitton Center for Creative Arts | Hamilton. 513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: “A Swingin’ Christmas”

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Friends of Music Hall | Music Hall Ballroom, Over-the-Rhine. 513-621-2787. www.friendsofmusichall.org/events Dec. 10. Happy Holidays with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ Ghost Baby | Over-the-Rhine. www.ghost-baby.com Most evenings, live performances Hard Rock Casino | Downtown. www.hardrockcasinocincinnati.com Dec. 17, 9 p.m. 98 Degrees Dec. 18, 8 p.m. Phil Vassar and Sister Hazel Heritage Bank Center | Downtown. www.heritagebankcenter.com Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Christmas Eve & Other Stories Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. Evanescence and Halestorm Icon Music Center | The Banks, Downtown. www.iconmusiccenter.com Dec. 3. Dream Theater, Arch Echo Dec. 10 & 11, 8 p.m. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Dec. 18, 8 p.m. Brent Smith and Zach Myers, J.R. Moore, Zack Mack Dec. 29, 8 p.m. Rick Springfield Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m. Clutch, Stoner, Native Howl Jan. 8, 8 p.m. Dillon Francis, Yung Gravy, KITTENS Jan. 15, 6:50 p.m. Falling In Reverse, Wage War, Hawthorne Heights, Jeris Johnson Jan. 28, 8 p.m. Alice Cooper Jan. 29, 8 p.m. Erasure, Bag Raiders Kentucky Symphony Orchestra | Greaves Hall, NKU. 859-431-6216. www.kyso.org Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. “A Parting Opus,” Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Knox Church | Hyde Park.

513-321-2573. knox.org/music Dec. 19, 5 p.m. Christmas Miniatures, music by Vivaldi, Charpentier, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. Earl Rivers, conductor

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Linton Chamber Music | First Unitarian Church, Avondale. 513-381-6868. www.lintonmusic.org Jan. 9, 4 p.m. Bonus Program TBA Jan. 30, 4 p.m. Poetic Piano Quintets: Anna Polonsky, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Sharon Robinson, cello; Owen Lee, bass

Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. Encore of previous (at Congregation Beth Adam, Loveland) Linton Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions | 513-381-6868. www.lintonmusic.org/pbj “Winter Winds” – Dec. 9, 10 a.m. (at Scheben Branch Library) Jan. 22, 10 a.m. (at Lakeside Presbyterian Church) Madison Theater | Covington.

859-491-2444. www.madisontheater.com Dec. 1, 9 p.m. Champagne Trip Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m. Litz Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. Homegrown Concert: Tyler Moore Band, Derek Alan Band, Hoopty, John Morgen Band, DJ Tater Dec. 7, 7 p.m. Ice Nine Kills Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. Jonathan Wells Benefit Show feat. Sea of Treachery Dec. 19, 6 p.m. Kumite II Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Arlo McKinley Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Julia Jacklin Matinee Musicale | Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine. www.matineemusicalecincinnati.org Jan. 30, 3 p.m. Nicole Cabell, soprano Memorial Hall | Over-the-Rhine.

513-977-8838. www.memorialhallotr.com Dec. 6, 8 p.m. Nefesh Mountain Dec. 9, 8 p.m. Jim Brickman The Gift of Christmas Dec. 29, 8 p.m. Majesty - A Tribute to Queen Jan. 8, 8 p.m. Classic Albums Live Performs Led Zeppelin II Montgomery Arts Commission: Live at the Uni | Sycamore High School. www.montgomeryohio.org/events Dec. 6, 7 p.m. Mandy Gaines, vocals Musica Sacra | St. Catharine of Siena Church, Westwood. 513-385-5583. www.musica-sacra.org Dec. 12, 3 p.m. Christmas Concert No Promises Vocal Band | www.nopromisesvocalband.com “Christmas with No Promises” – Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. (at Community of the Good Shepherd) Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m. Feat. The Nancy James Trio (at The Carnegie) Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m. (at St. Columban Parish) Dec. 22, 7:30 p.m. Feat. The Pamela Mallory Trio (at Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre)

ARTS/CULTURE | The List Northern Kentucky University | Greaves Concert Hall. 859-572-5464. www.nku.edu/sota Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Jazz Ensemble and Vocal Jazz Dec. 2, 7 p.m. Woodwind & Brass Chamber Music Recital Dec. 5, 5 p.m. Winter Choral Concert (at St. Thomas Church, Ft. Thomas) Dec. 6, 7 p.m. Steel Band Dec. 8, 7 p.m. Dvorak: Symphony No. 8, Philharmonic Orchestra side-by-side with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Dec. 9, 7 p.m. Commercial Music Ensemble and Latin Jazz PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation | Newport. www.promowestlive.com Dec. 5, 7 p.m. CHVRCHES, Donna Missal Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m. Jordan Davis, Seaforth, MacKenzie Porter Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Umphrey’s McGee The Redmoor | Mt. Lookout Square. www.theredmoor.com Dec. 3, 6 p.m. Dead Centric Dec. 11, 6 p.m. Retrovention - Tribute to The Doors Dec. 16, 7 p.m. Island Christmas Holiday Dec. 18, 6 p.m. Scarlet Fire

Smiley, plus works ranging from Heinrich Schütz to Caroline Shaw. Craig Hella Johnson, conductor Woodward Theater | Over-the-Rhine.

513-345-7981. www.woodwardtheater.com Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. Devotchka and Milquetoast & Co Dec. 10, 9 p.m. Dance Yrself Clean Young Professionals Choral Collective | 513-601-8699. www.ypccsing.org Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. “The Merriest Hour,” holiday sing-along (at Below Zero Lounge) Dec. 11, 4 p.m. “Fa’s & La’s,” YPCC family concert, kids activities, 3 p.m. (at Christ Church)

Opera Northern Kentucky University | Greaves Hall. 859-572-5464. www.nku.edu/sota Dec. 3, 7 p.m. Opera Workshop Cabaret

Theater Alibi Players | Liberty Exhibition Hall, Northside.

513-371-1600. www.alibiplayers.com Jan. 7-16. “That Championship Season” Broadway Across America | Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center. 513-721-3344. https://cincinnati.broadway.com Thru Dec. 5. “Wicked” Jan. 4-9. “Hairspray” The Carnegie | Covington.

859-491-2030. www.thecarnegie.com Jan. 29-Feb. 13. “The Sound of Music” Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati | Taft Theatre, Downtown. 513-569-8080. www.thechildrenstheatre.com Dec. 4-12. “Elf the Musical Jr.” Cincinnati Arts Association | Procter & Gamble, Aronoff Center. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatiarts.org Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood “The Scared Scriptless Tour” Cincinnati Landmark Productions | Covedale Center. 513-241-6550. www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com Dec. 2-26. “Elf the Musical” Jan. 27-Feb. 20. “Beehive - The Musical”

Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative | Fifth Third Bank Theater, Aronoff Center.

513-621-ARTS. www.cincyplaywrights.org Dec. 7. “A Witness,” by Jordan Henry Jan. 11. “The Circle,” by Michael DiFrancesco Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | Washington Park. 513-381-2273. www.cincyshakes.com Thru Dec. 26. “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!)”

Jan. 21-Feb. 12. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Clifton Cultural Arts Center | Corryville. 513-497-2860. www.cliftonculturalarts.org Jan. 29, 11 a.m. “The Story Quest” Jan. 29, 1 p.m. “The Story Quest” College-Conservatory of Music | University of Cincinnati. 513-556-4183. www.ccm.uc.edu Dec. 2-5. “Julius Caesar” (at Cohen Family Studio Theatre)

Schwartz’s Point | Five Points, Over-the-Rhine. www.thepoint.club Most Thursdays, every Friday & Saturday. Live jazz Sundays. Blues, boogie woogie, jazz mashups Southgate House | Newport.

859-431-2201. www.southgatehouse.com Nightly rock, alternative blues, etc.

Sycamore Community Singers | Sycamore Presbyterian Church. www.sycamorecommunitysingers.com Dec. 16-17. “All Roads Lead Home” Taft Theatre | Downtown. www.tafttheatre.org Dec. 9, 8 p.m. Tommy Emmanuel Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m. LeAnn Rimes Dec. 17, 8 p.m. Morgan James Dec. 23, 8 p.m. Straight No Chaser The Union Vocal Ensemble | St. Rose Church, East End. www.breathcollective.org Dec. 16-17, 7:30 p.m. Christmas Concert Dec. 19, 3 p.m. Encore of previous Vocal Arts Ensemble | Wilks Studio, Music Hall.

513-381-3300. www.vaecinci.com Jan. 8-9. “The Song Among Us,” a reunion gathering. World premiere by Moira

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ARTS/CULTURE | The List Drama Workshop | Glenmore Playhouse, Cheviot. 513-598-8303. www.thedramaworkshop.org Dec. 3-19. “Making God Laugh” Jan. 14-16. “Home Brew 5” Ensemble Theatre | Over-the-Rhine. 513-421-3555. www.ensemblecincinnati.org Dec. 1-30. “Cinderella” Jan. 26-Feb. 26. “Queen” Fairfield Community Arts Center | 513-867-5348. www.fairfield-city.org Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Mister C: Full STEAM Ahead LIVE! Air is Everywhere Falcon Theatre | Monmouth Theatre, Newport. 513-479-6783. www.falcontheatre.net Thru Dec. 4. “Well” Jan. 28-Feb. 12. “Red Speedo” Fitton Center for Creative Arts | Hamilton. 513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati: “Nutcracker Rocks” Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m. Professor Rocket’s Space Adventure Show

Playhouse in the Park | Mt. Adams.

513-421-3888. www.cincyplay.com Thru Dec. 12. “Need Your Love” (at Shelterhouse Theatre) Thru Dec. 30. “A Christmas Carol” (at Marx Theatre) Jan. 29-Feb. 27. “Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help” (at Marx Theatre) Jan. 22-Feb. 27. “Hare and Tortoise” (Off the Hill touring play) Queen City Vaudevillians | Monmouth Theatre, Newport. www.queencityvaudevillians.com Dec. 18, 7 p.m. Holiday Hijinks Show Jan. 15, 7 p.m. New Year New Show The Story Collective | All Church, Blue Ash. www.thestorycollective.org Dec. 12. “Christmas at the Barn” Sunset Players | West Price Hill.

513-588-4988. www.sunsetplayers.org Dec. 3-12. “Alice in Wonderland”

Footlighters | Stained Glass Theatre, Newport. 859-291-7464. www.footlighters.org Jan. 20-Feb. 6. “Bonnie & Clyde”

Taft Theatre | Downtown. www.tafttheatre.org Dec. 14, 8 p.m. Trailer Park Boys 20th Anniversary Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Sal Vulcano and Chris Distefano, comedians Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Nate Bargatze, comedian Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. Dancing with the Stars: Live!

Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre | Hamilton. 513-737-PLAY. www.ghctplay.com Dec. 2-5. “The Sound of Music”

Village Players | Ft. Thomas.

859-392-0500. www.villageplayers.org Dec. 3-11. “Dashing Through the Snow”

Icon Music Center | Downtown. www.iconmusiccenter.com Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m. Impractical Jokers “The Scoopski Potatoes Tour” Know Theatre | Over-the-Rhine.

513-300-5669. www.knowtheatre.com Thru Dec. 12. “Glassheart” Loveland Stage Company | Loveland. 513-443-4572. www.lovelandstagecompany.org Dec. 3-5. “Christmas with Anton” Madcap Puppets | 513-921-5965. www.madcappuppets.com Jan. 22-23, 1 & 3 p.m. “The Story Quest” (at Cincinnati Art Museum) Jan. 29, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. “The Story Quest” (at Clifton Cultural Arts Center) Mariemont Players | Walton Creek Theater, Mariemont. 513-684-1236. www.mariemontplayers.com Jan. 7-23. “Intimate Apparel” 16

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Visual Art 1628 Ltd. | Downtown. 513-320-2596. www.1628ltd.com Thru Feb. 25. “Queen City Visual Narrative: An Exploration of Cincinnati’s Iconography” Reception: Dec. 4, noon-3 p.m.

The Annex Gallery | Downtown. www.facebook.com, search The Annex Gallery Dec. 3-Jan. 15. Mary Anne Donovan and Cynthia Kukla: Concurrent Exhibitions. “Concord and Discord: Examining Ancient Stories” Reception: Dec. 3, 5-8 p.m.

Art Design Consultants East | O’Bryonville. 513-723-1222. www.adcfineart.com Thru Dec. 10. Melissa Mason ArtWorks | Walnut Hills. 513-333-0388. www.artworkscincinnati.org

Two veteran Tristate artists/educators, Mary Anne Donovan and Cynthia Kukla, have drawn on the rich cultures and mythologies of the ancient Mediterranean to create “Concord and Discord: Examining Ancient Stories.” This joint exhibit of large-scale paintings and mixed-media wall reliefs, works on paper and mixed-media sculptures runs from Dec. 3-Jan. 15 at The Annex Gallery.

Thru Dec. 18. “Cut the Bias,” youth artists create painted hammered-tin wall hangings, inspired by traditional Mexican folk art materials and techniques, with contemporary messages.

The Barn | Mariemont. 513-272-3700. www.artatthebarn.org Thru Dec. 1. Virginia Martinez: “Glimpses of Nature” Dec. 4-5. Showcase of Arts: Artisan Made Delights for Special Gift Giving Dec. 7-22. Ivanka’s Art Treasures: Ivanka Lempitskiy Exhibition Behringer-Crawford Museum | Covington. 859-491-4003. www.bcmuseum.org Ongoing. Harlan Hubbard: Artist, Author, Adventurer Carl Solway Gallery | West End. 513-621-0069. www.solwaygallery.com Thru Dec. 17. “Action & Structures” Caza Sikes | Oakley. 513-290-3127. www.cazasikes.com Thru Jan. 8. Cheryl Chapman and Rodney Hatfield Cincinnati Art Museum | Eden Park. 513-721-2787. www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Thru Feb. 6. “Simply Brilliant: ArtistJewelers of the 1960s and 1970s” Thru Jan. 16. Kara Walker: “Cut to the Quick”

Dec. 18. Opening of reimagined Ancient Middle East Gallery Cincinnati Museum Center | Union Terminal, Queensgate. 513-287-7000. www.cincymuseum.org Thru Feb. 21. “Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art” Clay Alliance | Kennedy Heights Arts Center. www.clayalliance.org Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Holiday Pottery Fair (at Lindner Annex) Clifton Cultural Arts Center | Short Vine, Corryville. 513-497-2860. www.cliftonculturalarts.org Thru Dec. 4. “Golden Ticket” Contemporary Arts Center | Downtown. 513-345-8400. www.contemporaryartscenter.org Thru Dec. 19. Sandra Cinto: Contemplation Room & Library of Love Thru Feb. 6. Sreshta Rit Premnath: “Grave/Grove” • Marwa Arsanios: “Who Is Afraid of Ideology?”

Dec. 10-March 20. The Regional. Reception: Dec. 10, 5:30-8 p.m.

DAAP Galleries | University of Cincinnati.

513-556-2839. www.daap.uc.edu On display. NCECA: National Juried Student Exhibition 2021 (at Reed Gallery) • NCECA: Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition 2021 (ay Meyers Gallery)

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ARTS/CULTURE | The List Dearborn Highlands Arts Council | Lawrenceburg. 812-539-4251. www.dearbornhighlandsarts.org Thru Dec. 22. “Arts Alive!” Art Fair & Gift Bazaar Eva G. Farris Gallery | Thomas More University, Crestview Hills. 859-344-3300. www.thomasmore.edu Thru Dec. 3. TMU Juried High School Art Show

Miller Gallery | Hyde Park Square.

513-871-4420. www.millergallery.com Thru Dec. 18. Tyler Shields: “Top of the World” National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | Downtown.

513-333-7500. www.freedomcenter.org Thru March 22. Luba Lukova: “Designing Justice”

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum | Hamilton. 513-868-1234. www.pyramidhill.org Thru September. “Leverage,” large scale sculpture by Brett Price

Visionaries & Voices | Northside. 513-861-4333. www.visionariesandvoices.com Dec. 3-Jan. 14. “Holly Dazed” Reception: Dec. 3, 5-8 p.m.

Ruth’s Parkside Café | Northside.

513-542-7884. www.ruthscafe.com Current artists: Jeffery van Sluys and Ruthie Deutscher

Warren County Historical Museum | Lebanon. www.wchsmuseum.org Thru Dec. 3. “REFLECTIONS”: The Art and Life of Gary Simendinger Dec. 10-Jan. 21. Tim Ryan

Fitton Center | Hamilton.

513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org Dec. 4-March 11. Saad Ghosn: “Human Rights: Derechos Humanos” Reception: Jan. 12, 11:30 a.m.

Dec. 4-Jan. 21. “Mirrors and Veils”

Northern Kentucky University | Highland Heights. 859-572-5148. www.nku.edu/gallery Thru Dec. 10. BFA Senior Exhibitions Jan. 17-Feb. 18. FE22: Full and Parttime Faculty Exhibition • Featured Faculty: Candice van Loveren Geis

Iris BookCafe and Gallery | Downtown.

513-260-8434. www.irisbookcafeotr.com Current exhibition: Andrew Borowiec: “From the Heartland”

Off Ludlow Gallery | Clifton.

513-201-7153. www.facebook.com/ offludlowgallery Thru Dec. 23. Gallery Gifts III

Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery | Mount St. Joseph Univ., Delhi. www.msj.edu Thru Dec. 17. Selections 2021: biennial exhibit of area high school student artists Jan. 10-Feb. 13. MSJ Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

Kennedy Heights Arts Center | Kennedy Heights. 513-631-4278. www.kennedyarts.org Thru Dec. 31. Annual Kennedy Collective Members Exhibition (at Kennedy Gallery) • Local Talent Community Art Exhibition (at Lindner Gallery) Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Holiday Pottery Fair (at Lindner Annex)

Pendleton Art Center | Downtown. 513-421-4339. www.pendeltonartcenter.com Final Fridays, 6-10 p.m., open studios

University of Cincinnati Clermont College | Batavia. 513-558-2787. www.ucclermont.edu Thru Dec. 10. Urban Sketchers Cincinnati

Manifest Gallery | Woodburn.

513-861-3638. www.manifestgallery.com Thru Dec. 3. “Signals” Symbols, Signs, Icons, Numerals, etc. • “Misfits” Works that Don’t Conform, or are Out of Place • “Epiphanies” Alternative Process and Mixed Media based Works • Micheal McCaffrey, paintings/drawings Dec. 10-Jan. 7. “12th Annual Tapped” Artists and Their Current or Former Professors • “Perceptual” Works Made from Direct Observation • “Tondo” Round or Circle-Featuring Works • “One 12” The Manifest Prize Jan. 21-Feb. 18. Five Themes Project: “Wilderness” • “Rural” • “Suburban” • “Urban” • “Post-Urban”

Skirball Museum | Hebrew Union College, Clifton. https://csm.huc.edu Thru Jan. 30. “A Portrait of Jewish Cincinnati: A Bicentennial Celebration”

Wave Pool Gallery and The Welcome Project | Camp Washington. www.wavepoolgallery.org Thru Dec. 18. Melendez and Whittle: “Composing and Collapsing” Weston Art Gallery | Aronoff Center.

513-977-4165. www.cincinnatiarts.org Thru Jan. 16. Bruce Bennett: “Love II” • Kandice Odister: “The Barbie is Her/ Me: A Reflection of Black Women during Quarantine” • Gee Horton: “Coming of Age Chapter I – In Search of Self…

Identity” Jan. 28-March 13. Summerfair Select 

Open through March 22

Miami University Art Museum | Oxford. 513-529-2232. www.miamioh.edu/cca/art-museum Thru Dec. 11. Faculty and Alumni Exhibition Jan. 25-June 11. “From the Ground Up” • Art History Capstone Exhibition (Early 20th century) • Collections Highlights: Recent Acquisitions • “Time is of the Essence: A Student Response”

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FAVORITE THINGS

A few of their favorite things …

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he year 2021 has been one of mixed blessings – greater freedoms and safety tempered by fits and starts and continued uncertainty. Still, there were things to relish and things to be grateful for, and we asked some of those featured recently in M&M to share their “favorite things” about Our Fair City from the past year. Reader version for devices

Outdoor Space: Saturday morning walks through Eden Park is one of my favorite things to do.

Small Business: Alligator Purse. I enjoy shopping at small boutiques.

Laura Mitchell, president & CEO, Beech Acres Parenting Center

Takeout: Baba Indian Restaurant Gifting Local: Tickets to the Aronoff.

It creates memories.

Day Trip: Clifton Gorge Nature Preserve

John Morris Russell, conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Holiday Traditions: Baking cookies and Zoo Festival of Lights – we take our granddaughter every year.

Live Performance: July 4th with the Pops – it was the first time we were all unmasked and performing shoulder to shoulder on stage at Riverbend. I was choked up all night; it was so incredibly moving.

Small Business: Essen Kitchen.

Our daughter went vegan this year and this place is awesome!

Local Beverage: New Riff Select Bourbon – just spectacular.

Gifting Local: Anything handcrafted with an image of Music Hall on it and Friends of Music Hall tours. And, of course, Aglamesis caramels and Graeter’s ice cream.

Holiday Tradition: Festooning our tree with our collection of “Santa Bands”

Brett Stover, strategic consultant and Movers & Makers board member

Visual/Cultural Experience: Climbing the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Art Climb and then spinning the cube at the top of the steps. The entire staircase is a great piece of interactive sculpture.

Outdoor Performance: Cincinnati Ballet outdoors at Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park. Watching the dancers nourished my soul on a sunny afternoon during the pandemic.

Outdoor Reataurant: 50 West Brewing Company. I spent many meals with my pandemic bubble buddies around the fire pits with beverages in hand.

Fundraiser: Drinking wine in gym shorts at home on Zoom celebrating Barbara Kellar being honored as a “Senior Who Rocks” by Pro Seniors.

Day Trip: Route 50 to Chillicothe on gorgeous two-lane roads through the rolling hills of Southern Ohio.

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Live Performance: No doubt – Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 (in October) – Joyous and extra special as the first CSO subscription series performance since March 2020!

Outdoor Space: Hyde Park Square Local Beverage: Esoteric Brewing Kallima, the coffee beer. We need both, right?

Takeout: Lemon Grass, Hyde Park.

So delicious and the owner, William, helps people in need.

Outdoor Dining: E+O Kitchen porch is awesome.

Holiday Traditions: We take my out-of-town family to Jungle Jim’s for fun and create a menu celebrating food and cultures from around the world.

Gifting Local: Rookwood Pottery, plus Cincinnati restaurant gift cards – businesses have been hit so hard by COVID-19 and need all the help we can give.

Tom Fernandez, co-founder & board chair, Last Mile Food Rescue

FAVORITE THINGS Visual/Cultural Exhibition: Black & Brown Faces by Paloozanoire Fundraiser: Foundation Fighting Blindness’ VisionWalk – Go Team Tim!

Small Business: Mom ’n ’Em – I love that it’s a family business and they support so many pop-up chefs. I’m in their wine club and get my CSA subscription there.

Kyle Inskeep, anchor, Local 12 News

Day Trip: Augusta, Ky. (Do yourself a favor and enjoy a meal at sunset at the Beehive!)

Local Beverage: 2019 Black Sheep Blanc from Revel OTR Urban Winery

Outdoor Dining: Pata Roja Tacos – best food and vibe hands down.

Takeout: Pepperoni & Hot Honey Pizza (Detroit style) from Taglio

Experience to Gift: Cooking classes led by Radha Chandrashekaran in her home in East Walnut Hills. A once in a lifetime experience!

Holiday Tradition: Krohn Conservatory. It is magical with the illuminated handmade replicas of local architecture created by local artisans, the trains and of course the wonderful diversity of plants.

Outdoor Dining: Frida 602!

Colleen Houston, CEO & artistic director, ArtWorks

Visual/Cultural Event: Gee Horton, Court Street Plaza Mural unveiling Fundraiser: YWCA Men on a Mission at Samuel Adams Brewery Outdoor Space: Washington Park (walk, work or play)

Yvette Simpson, CEO, Democracy for America

Gifting Local: Everyone I love gets a “Product of Public Schools” T-shirt from one of my favorite Black-owned Cincinnati businesses – Originalitees.

Day Trip: Tour of Walnut Hills/East Walnut Hills business district Takeout: Pho Lang Thang Local Beverage: Northern Row “Preacher” Gifting Local: Molly Wellmann’s Japp’s Made-at-Home Cocktail Kits and A-List Candle Co. Holiday Traditions: Trimming the tree, with a fresh tree from Findlay Market; making hot chocolate, Gluhwein (German mulled wine) and Christkindl (Christmas ale) at home

Holiday Tradition: My family LOVES Luther Vandross! So it’s not Christmas until my mom and I drive around looking at Christmas lights in my hometown with Luther’s Christmas album playing in the car!

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incinnati’s cuisine is full of quirks and beloved regional brands.

Polly Campbell, former food writer at The Cincinnati Enquirer, digs into the history of our food and how it lives on in our current active food scene.

BUY FROM — www.historypress.com or contact pcampbellbook@gmail.com Polly Campbell available for talks and signings at pcampbellbook@gmail.com

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FAVORITE THINGS

Rico Grant, founder, Paloozanoire & owner, Gallery At Gumbo Live Performance: Juneteenth Block Party (selfishly) Fundraiser: ArtsWave – Circle of African American Leaders Outdoor Market: Findlay (my first job at the age of 14 years old) Small Business: Brown Bear Bakery Local Beverage: Madtree Pumpcan Spiced Ale Outdoor Dining: Pepp & Dolores during the tent season Takeout: Zundo OTR Gifting Local: Domo (I am addicted) and FC Cincinnati tickets

Sue Baggott, president, Power Within Consulting Visual/Cultural Event: One of my dear friends, Jenny Berg, gathered friends for an outdoor Artswave Mural tour to celebrate her 60th birthday.

It was a great way to re-connect (in a healthy way), while sharing stories about the beautiful murals around our city.

Fundraiser: Women Helping Women did a fantastic ZooDo Gala with a Roaring ’20s theme. It was a great way to raise funding for WHW survivor support services (which spiked during the pandemic), as well as their educational services focused on prevention.

Holiday Traditions: Volunteering to unload Chirstmas trees for Findlay Market Fundraiser, and Festival of Lights (my second job at 15 years old)

Polly Campbell, monthly columnist, Movers & Makers Live Performance: Suits That Rock Cultural Exhibition: The Science of Pixar at Cincinnati Museum Center Fundraiser: Freedom Center Conductor Awards Outdoor Space: Washington Park Day Trip: Red River Gorge Outdoor Market: Findlay (by a long mile) Small Business: Net Zero (OTR) Local Beverage: Sam Adams Pumpkin Ale Takeout: Fireside Pizza (East Walnut Hills) Outdoor Dining: Branch (East Walnut Hills) Holiday Traditions: Events at kids’ schools and Zooming with relatives in California Gifting Local: Graeters, Blue Oven Bakery, FCC swag and FCC tickets

Pete Blackshaw, CEO, Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund & Startup Incubator

Live Performance: Fountain Square, where Salsa Night was in full swing. A band playing infectious, celebratory salsa, people dancing at levels from stumbling to cool perfection, flirting, laughing and just milling about made me feel like we’d come back from the end of the world.

Day Trip: Renaissance Festival. I hadn’t been in 20 years, and it has grown, but it still maintains a kind of improvised, homemade feel. We had much fun watching people using skills that would be irrelevant anywhere else in the world, lots of bawdy humor and a wonderful show of creativity in costuming by both the performers and the crowd.

Outdoor Market: Farm Beach Bethel – stand and buy bags and bags of beautiful, fragile, life-affirming lettuce, and greens that I could tell just by looking were going to keep me healthy and happy during that crappy season.

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With a Spotlight on the Movers and Makers behind Greater Cincinnati’s Fundraisers, Friend-Raisers and Community Events

One of the light displays from 2020’s Light in the Forest

Holiday lights illuminate walk in Nature Center’s Rowe Woods Dec. 1-Jan. 2, 5-9 p.m., Cincinnati Nature Center.

Cincinnati Nature Center is hosting Light in the Forest, the second annual holiday lights walk in the woods. Brave Berlin, the creative team behind Cincinnati’s BLINK, has curated artistic installations that work in harmony with the forest. Light in the Forest also will feature live music, shopping, a decorated historic home and more.

“We are beyond excited to produce original works of moving art using the natural environment as our canvas,” said Dan Reynolds, co-owner of Brave Berlin.

Member price is $10 for adults and $5 per child. Nonmember pricing is $12 for adults and $7 per child. Registration required.  www.cincynature.org

Circus students to display skills at My Nose Turns Red’s fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 11, 12-2:30 p.m., Fairview-Clifton German Language School My Nose Turns Red’s annual friend- and fundraising event is back in person. The free event allows circus students (ages 6-18) to pick a skill, set a goal and aim to master it for the event, while seeking pledges. The event also features a unicycle, gym (German) wheel demonstrations and a clown wrestling feature.

Circ-A-Thon includes food, a raffle and an online auction.

It is a family event and allows attendees to learn more about youth circus.  mynoseturnsred.org Henry Volck on the gym (German) wheel

SAVE THE DATE DEC. 5, SUNDAY Cincinnati Preservation Association, Annual Meeting and Preservation Awards | 4 p.m.

Glendale-Lyceum. DETAILS: Annual meeting and presentation of 2021 Preservation Awards. Attendees may visit Eckstein School. Tickets free, reservations requested. ¼www.eventbrite.com,

search “Cincinnati Preservation Association” DEC. 9, THURSDAY Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Knife Fork Spoon at Peterloon | 6-9 p.m. Peterloon Estate. DETAILS: Dinner catered by Jeff Thomas Catering.

Open beer, wine and signature cocktail bar and live entertainment by a musician from the CCO. Cocktail attire suggested. ¼www.ccocincinnati.org/events-main/

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Horizon Community Funds, Give Where You Live NKY | 6-7 p.m.

Molly Malone’s. DETAILS: Fun, casual way to give back to nonprofits that serve Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties. Participating members nominate a nonprofit, and three names are randomly selected and briefly discussed. Members vote on favorites, and each member contributes $100 for the grant to the winning organization. ¼www.horizonfunds.org

DEC. 11, SATURDAY

Saturday, March 26, 2022 Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati

My Nose Turns Red, Circ-A-Thon | noon-2:30 p.m. Fairview-Clifton German Language School, 3689 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati.  STORY, this page.J JAN. 14, FRIDAY School for Creative & Performing Arts, Future of the Arts Gala | Music Hall Ballroom.  STORY, page 23.

Visit www.pwchomerepairs.org/ToolBeltBall to learn how you can get involved and support ToolBelt Ball to assist our low-income neighbors living with disabilities.

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Heart Ball to support health equity Saturday, Feb 26, 6:30-10 p.m., after party 10 p.m.-1 a.m., Duke Energy Convention Center, Downtown The American Heart Association announces the return of its annual Heart Ball to Cincinnati in its signature format.

The event includes a reception, live and silent auctions, and mission appeal and is followed by a Young Professional After Party.

“We could not be more thrilled to be back in person,” said Tricia Sunders, Heart Ball senior director. “We are incredibly grateful to

all our sponsors, volunteers and donors who supported us through last year’s challenges.”

This year’s Heart Ball honoree is Pete Strange, chairman emeritus of Messer Construction and longtime advocate for diversity, inclusion and equitable change.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is the presenting sponsor of the event, chaired by Mel Gravely, CEO of TriVersity Construction.

Gravely is also the chair of the Heart of Greater Cincinnati Campaign, a yearlong campaign with the goal of raising

Greater Cincinnati AHA board chairman John Mongelluzzo and Kerry Mongelluzzo at the 2019 Heart Ball

$1,500,000 to support the lifesaving work of the organization. The campaign is focused on driving equitable health for every member of our community, with a special focus on women’s health.

The dollars raised by the Heart Ball campaign will fund the American Heart Association’s mission to be a force for longer, healthier lives while supporting local priority issues.  http://cincinnatiheartball. heart.org

JAN. 21, FRIDAY College-Conservatory of Music, Moveable Feast 2022: A Bridge to the Stars | 6-11 p.m. CCM Village or virtual. DETAILS: Re-imagined evening with ample time to eat, socialize and explore behind the scenes. Or follow the action from home. Honoree: recently retired Distinguished Alumnus and Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies Dr. Earl Rivers. Sponsorship info: Libby Coletta, 513-556-2100 or olivia.coletta@uc.edu. ¼https://foundation.uc.edu/

MoveableFeast22 FEB, 5, SATURDAY Good Samaritan Foundation, Annual Gala: Dancing Through the Decades | 6-11:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency.  STORY, page 23.

FEB. 12, SATURDAY Dragonfly, Grand Gala 2022 | 5:30-11 p.m. Music Hall. DETAILS: Formal, black-tie optional. Plated dinner, musical performances, entertainment, open bar, silent auction and grand raffle.

Tickets: $175. ¼https://dragonfly.org/gala

FEB. 26, SATURDAY American Heart Association, Heart Ball | 6:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Duke Energy Convention Center.  STORY, this page.

MOVEABLE FEAST Moveable Feast is back on January 21, 2022!

CCMpower is thrilled to announce our first ever hybrid event with options for every comfort level, offering an exciting artistic journey with a return to our beloved CCM Village or from the comfort of your home. Regardless of how you choose to join us, we have planned a joyful evening of artistry, food and togetherness.

Moveable Feast 2022 will honor a true Bridge to the Stars, Distinguished Alumnus and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Earl Rivers. During his nearly 50 years at CCM, Dr. Rivers built one of the most prestigious choral conducting programs in the United States. Join us as we pay tribute to this exemplary alumnus, teacher and artist.

TO REGISTER call 513-556-2100 or visit ccm.uc.edu/moveablefeast

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MARCH 5, SATURDAY Chatfield College, Chatfield of Dreams Celebration | 1544 Central Pkwy. DETAILS: Food, music, drinks, silent and live auctions. ¼https://chatfieldofdreams.maxgiving.

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Premier Senior Living in Hyde Park  John F. Barrett

Evans Mirageas

SCPA gala celebrates and supports ‘Future of the Arts’ Friday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m., Music Hall, 1241 Elm St. Cincinnati’s finest performers and School for Creative & Performing Arts students will come together for the third annual Future of the Arts gala.

The event features collaborative performances by SCPA students and the Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati May Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra, Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.

The 2022 gala pays special tribute to John F. Barrett of Western & Southern Financial Group for his leadership and longtime dedication to SCPA. The emcee will be Evans Mirageas, Cincinnati Opera artistic director.

This event’s goal is to raise much-needed funds for SCPA students, 53% of whom are living below the poverty level. Tables for the gala are $2,000 each, and include cocktails, dinner for 10, performances and complimentary valet parking.  https://scpa.cps-k12.org/ donate/benefit-gala

Elizabeth Lilly, resident since 2012 Anne Lilly Cone grateful daughter

Dancing Through The Decades Saturday, Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency, Downtown After a pandemic postponement, the Good Samaritan Foundation will host Dancing Through The Decades, its 37th Annual Gala at the Hyatt Regency downtown. The event benefits

Good Samaritan’s TriHealth Cancer Institute and the Free Health Center and Medical Education Research Fund.

The gala chair is Renita Homan, with co-chairs Tessie Hayden and Lisa Martin.  www.gshfoundation.com/gala

2022 Good Samaritan Foundation Gala Co-Chair Tessie Hayden, Chair Renita Homan and Co-Chair Lisa Martin

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In the News

Chef Jean-Robert de Cavel Laura Mitchell, president and CEO of Beech Acres

Louise Bruemmer, Markku Koistila, Scott Lindsten and Phil Lipschutz plant trees in Mitchell Memorial Forest.

Local Girl Scouts give back by spreading kindness

Free childcare program for Learning Grove employees

Greater Cincinnati Foundation revamps workplace equity

Beech Acres Parenting Center and Girl Scouts of Western Ohio introduced a new kindness patch to teach Girl Scouts how acts of intentional kindness can improve the world for everyone.

“Random acts of kindness are great, but intentional acts of kindness can dramatically shape and improve Girl Scouts’ world view for the better,” said Laura Mitchell, president and CEO, Beech Acres Parenting Center.

Girl Scouts will complete several tasks to earn the Signed to be Kind patch, all involving acts of kindness to themselves, their family, their community and the world. Beech Acres has offered many suggestions to act kindly.  www.beechacres.org/signed-to-be-kind

Learning Grove is working to fix childcare inequality by offering free child care to teachers employed by the organization.

Most of Learning Grove’s workforce are early education teachers and before- and after-school employees. The nonprofit organization hopes this move will let it recruit and retain the best teachers in the region.

“Our three-year strategic plan calls for focusing on initiatives that elevate the early care and education field. Ensuring that the children of our dedicated and hardworking teachers have access to our high-quality early learning programs is just one way that we can say thank you to our staff,” said Shannon Starkey-Taylor, CEO.  www.learning-grove.org

Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the region’s leading community foundation, has undergone a multiyear examination of gender and racial equity in its operations with Queen City Certified. This process has earned GCF the honor of being the first organization in Greater Cincinnati to be certified as a Gold Leader in Workplace Equity.

Queen City Certified, an employer certification and leadership program for workplace equity, helps leaders design inclusive workplaces through evidence-based solutions that disrupt bias in operational systems.

“GCF has implemented policies and practices that promote intersectional workplace equity,” said Nicole Armstrong, founder and CEO of Queen City Certified. “GCF is raising the bar for employers in our region."  www.gcfdn.org

Downtown street renamed to honor local chef

Fifth Third, GCF team up on fund to boost charitable assets

The City of Cincinnati has renamed Seventh Street, at the corner of Seventh and Vine streets, as Jean-Robert de Cavel Way to honor his 60th birthday and acknowledge his impact on Cincinnati. The spot is the former location of his restaurant Table.

Chef de Cavel has held an iconic place in Cincinnati for nearly 30 years as a civic leader, cultural advocate and culinary luminary.

Jean-Robert was chef de cuisine at the Plaza Athénée in New York before moving to Cincinnati and taking over the Maisonette, which he left to open Pigall’s.

He then moved on to other endeavors including his most personal restaurant, Table, a top restaurant in Cincinnati for many years.

Fifth Third Private Bank has launched Giving with Purpose, a co-branded fund offering with the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, to help clients maximize their charitable efforts for the community.

The aim is to help clients build charitable assets to benefit area lives. “We are excited to leverage this unique agreement to provide additional philanthropic solutions to our clients,” said Fifth Third Greater Cincinnati Region President Tim Elsbrock.

According to the bank, Giving with Purpose will bring clients flexibility to streamline philanthropic planning, gain immediate tax income benefits, target grant recommendations and more.

“We are excited to work together to connect charitable people with local impactful giving opportunities,” said GCF President and CEO Ellen Katz.  www.gcfdn.org, www.53.com

Native vegetation takes over Mitchell Memorial Forest Great Parks of Hamilton County and volunteers planted 140 native trees and shrubs at Mitchell Memorial Forest in October, starting the process of a years-long transformation of a former pasture into a renewed native forest habitat. It is part of an ongoing project to plant native trees, restore native vegetation, improve wildlife habitat and remove invasive species in a 68-acre section of the park. The plantings were made possible with a grant from the Clean Ohio Fund.

“These trees and shrubs will link a small sliver of forest with a larger patch nearby, allowing us to decrease habitat fragmentation and provide better habitat for wildlife that lives in the woods,” said Daniel Kovar, conservation biologist, Great Parks. “We are thankful for help from dozens of volunteers in carrying out this important step of an exciting ecological restoration.”  www.greatparks.org 24

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NAMES IN THE NEWS

Brad Huberman

Mike Moroski

Jocelyn Moses-Mputu

Katie Blackburn

Brian Griffin

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Cincinnati International Wine Festival welcomed Brad Huberman as its new executive director. Huberman has more than 20 years of leadership experience in nonprofit, corporate, start-up and arts organizations such as the American Sign Museum, Cincinnati Ballet and University of Louisville.

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The Cincinnati Youth Choir, May Festival and Vocal Arts Ensemble announced Jocelyn Moses-Mputu as the new CYC Choral Academy Director. She taught elementary school music for more than 15 years, and served as a choir and drama director and co-chair of performing arts with Mason City Schools. Moses-Mputu has music degrees from Ohio University and Miami University.

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Interact for Health hired Kate Schroder as its new president and CEO. Now with the Health Collaborative, she will start her new role on Jan. 1. A native of Cincinnati, Schroder has experience leading health initiatives locally and internationally. Since 2016, Schroder has served on the Cincinnati Board of Health, and was a candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 1st District in 2020.

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The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati named Danielle V. Minson as its new CEO. Minson has been with the federation system for 24 years, including 19 in Cincinnati. She was named president and interim CEO in July. Prior to that, she was chief development officer and managing director.

She helped transform the federation’s financial model from a sole focus on the annual campaign to multiple streams of revenue.

Kate Schroder

Danielle V. Minson

Rob Herman

Dennis Kramer-Wine

Siri Imani

Mark Mallory

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La Soupe Inc., a nonprofit food-rescue organization in Walnut Hills, hired Dennis Kramer-Wine as its first chief operating officer. Kramer-Wine was one of the founders of Rhinegeist Brewery, helping to grow the company from five employees to over 300 and expand its operations to become the nation’s largest self-distributing brewery. A native of Dayton, he began with Rhinegeist as director of distribution in 2013, becoming director of culture in 2017.

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Jewish Family Service made Leah Marcus its first director of youth mental health Services. Marcus, who has a master’s in social work from the University of Cincinnati, has long worked in community health.

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Artist-designer Christine Carli became the Art Academy of Cincinnati’s board president. An academy graduate, she is an independent communications specialist and former director of communications for ArtWorks. She holds degrees from the Art Academy and from the University of Arizona.

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The Human Services Chamber board and selection committee chose Mike Moroski as the organization’s executive director. An elected Cincinnati Public School Board member, Moroski has worked on policy advocacy and leadership in several positions, including Cradle Cincinnati, Community Matters and UpSpring. He began his career as a teacher and administrator.

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United Way of Greater Cincinnati has added seven new members from diverse backgrounds to its board of directors. Appointed were Katie Blackburn of the Cincinnati Bengals, Brian Griffin of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO, Rob

Christine Carli

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Kristen Wevers

Herman of Gries Financial Partners, artistmusician Siri Imani, former Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory of Mark Mallory & Associates, Pastor KZ Smith of Corinthian Baptist Church and Kristen Wevers of UC Health.

PWC reveals new Emerging Leaders Board People Working Cooperatively (PWC) has announced its new Emerging Leaders Board.

The organization of young professionals and emerging community leaders supports PWC’s mission by promoting awareness and encouraging involvement through community action.

This includes volunteer service, fundraising and other advancement initiatives.

“The efforts of our emerging leaders will showcase why they have earned that name and then some as they work to provide resources for their neighbors who otherwise might go without the services they need,” said PWC President Jock Pitts.

The board members: Ryan McLane, Board President, DBL Law; Lacey Luxon, Board Vice President, Sage Therapeutics; Sarah Tenhundfeld, Treasurer, The Asset Advisory Group; Keisha Easley, Secretary, Community Action Agency; Julie Bogusz, KPMG LLP; Carli Carpenter, Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati; Jeffrey Denny, U.S. Logistics; Mallory Dodd, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Danielle Dougherty, TriHealth; Jay Hingsbergen, Losantiville Country Club; Gwendelyn Keihl, Johnson Investment Council; Caleb Kingsley, Michelman Inc. Bryon Martin, New Riff Distilling; JT Torbeck, Learfield; Taylor Trout, KMK Law.  www.pwchomerepairs.org

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The team from Kolar Design: Emily Terlau, Catherine Finney, Sydney Ginley, Kelly Kolar, Audrey Eyman, Brian McDaniel, Tiffany Hagaman and Mary Dietrich

Liam Castellanos, center, presents a check representing his donation from his shirt sales to the Dragonfly Foundation and the children served by it.

Kolar Design employees donate family lounge to Children’s

Nature center gets grants for youth programs, equipment

Jewish Home donates funds to aid Holocaust survivors

Cincinnati-based Kolar Design employees and their families have furnished Cincinnati Children’s with a new family lounge for the parents and loved ones of babies in its Newborn Intensive Care Unit to relax, eat and work.

The new lounge, on the fourth floor of the new 632,500-square-foot Critical Care Building, is equipped with a kitchen, tables and comfortable furniture so that parents and family members can take much-needed breaks and pursue self-care.

“Through working with Cincinnati Children’s for over two decades, our team has observed how parents and family members of these infants don’t want to venture far from the NICU,” said Kolar Design founder Kelly Kolar. “Our team and their families deeply empathize with these parents and are honored to be able to provide some support during such a stressful time.”  www.cincinnatichildrens.org

Cincinnati Nature Center has received a $20,000 grant from The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust to support its youth education programs serving children ages 6-18. The grant will help the center offer immersive, hands-on nature education to more than 6,500 children. It also has received $25,000 from The John Hauck Foundation for conservation and facilities equipment, supporting the center’s groundlevel work throughout its 1,700 acres of forests, fields, streams, ponds and trails.  www.cincynature.org

Jewish Home of Cincinnati donated all of its remaining portion of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s COVID-19 Relief Fund to Jewish Family Service’s Center for Holocaust Survivors. This donation will help JFS keep pace with the rising costs for home care services. Almost $70,000 went toward this effort to support Holocaust survivors.

“For survivors who rely on personalized home care services, this is a safety issue; it’s necessary,” said JHC Board Chair Patti Heldman.  www.jfscinti.org, www.jhcseniors.org

PWC gets $5,000 grant to help with home repairs People Working Cooperatively has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the First Financial Foundation for home repair and modifications for area homeowners in need.

“We are incredibly grateful for the support of organizations like First Financial Foundation that believe in our mission,” said Chris Owens, vice president of development for PWC. This grant will allow PWC to continue performing critical home repairs and modifications for low-income, elderly and disabled homeowners, helping them remain in their homes.  www.pwchomerepairs.org

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Castellanos’ baseball shirt sales boost Dragonfly Foundation A shirt created by Liam Castellanos, 7-year-old son of Cincinnati Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos, is helping children served by the Dragonfly Foundation. Liam designed the shirt for his father’s birthday, depicting his bearded dad in uniform.

Word of the shirt spread and it was put on sale by Cincy Shirts. Liam then donated a portion of the proceeds to Dragonfly.

At a September Reds game, he presented the foundation a check for $18,475, which his family matched, bringing the total to nearly $37,000.

Papa John’s Pizza is also helping Dragonfly support pediatric cancer patients and their families by donating a portion of sales from a local large pizza offer when customers use promo code Dragonfly12 through Dec. 26.  www.dragonfly.org

Duke provides conservation funding to 14 organizations The Duke Energy Foundation recently awarded $170,000 in grants to 14 organizations in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky to fund local wildlife conservation, healthy habitats, environmental projects and environmental programs to help communities protect their natural resources and mitigate the effects of climate change.

The recipients include: The Boone Conservancy, Thomas More University Biology Field Station, Cardinal Land Conservancy, Cincinnati Reds Community Fund, Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, Dan Beard Council-Boy Scouts, Gorman Heritage Farm Foundation, Great Parks Forever, Green Umbrella, Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District, MetroParks of Butler County, Mill Creek Alliance, Taking Root and University of Cincinnati Foundation.

“We are committed to investing resources with our community partners to ensure future generations enjoy the benefits of nature and its beauty around us,” said Amy Spiller, president, Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky.

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New scholarship fund honors long-time Purcell Marian educator

By Candice Jones Peelman Cincinnati’s Catholic education community lost a giant in August with the sudden death of Dennis “DJ” Johnson, who left an indelible mark on decades of students at Purcell and Purcell Marian High School.

While a student at the University of Dayton, DJ decided to enter the Society of Mary (Marianists), a family of Catholic religious and lay people, as a Brother. Through the Marianists, Bro. Dennis Johnson found his vocation, serving Catholic schools as a teacher, counselor, athletic director, principal and administrator.

DJ was proud to lead all-male Purcell High School beginning in 1977, and even prouder when the school merged with all-female Marian High School in 1981.

He became the first principal of co-ed Purcell Marian High School (PMHS).

He continued in that role until 1993, then spent another decade at PMHS as director of alumni and development. He maintained a presence and remained committed to the school to his final days – volunteering, connecting with alumni and telling anyone who would listen the epic tales of “The Castle,” as the school in East Walnut Hills is known.

After two decades as a Marianist, DJ chose a new vocation as husband to Roberta (Berta) Leon. He left the order to begin a new chapter with her. Berta became the love of his life and a treasured friend to his Marianist brothers. Over the years, the former brother with no children became a father, father-in-law, grandpa

and great-grandpa. He did more than adapt to his new lifestyle, he thrived in these roles and became the heart and soul of his family.

As in life, DJ continues to give in death, through donating his body to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and through the establishment of the Dennis Johnson Scholarship Fund at the Dayton Foundation. In fall 2022, the scholarship will be awarded to a first-year student who has the desire to attend PMHS but who does not have the financial means to do so.

To make a gift, contact the Dayton Foundation, (937) 2220410, www.daytonfoundation.org  www.purcellmarian.org Candice Jones Peelman is director of development at Purcell Marian High School.

Dennis “DJ” Johnson

Wine Festival presents donations, tops $6.5M fundraising over 30 years The Cincinnati International Wine Festival recently presented donations totaling $261,000 to 32 Greater Cincinnati organizations from the festival’s fundraising over the past year.

During the presentation at the Kenwood Country Club, the festival announced that it has surpassed $6.5 million raised for local nonprofits since its founding 30 years ago.

“We are humbled by the support we have received from wine lovers near and far for helping us reach this significant milestone,” said Connie Wiles, festival board president.

The festival is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to celebrate the wine industry and raise funds for charities focused on the arts, education, health and human services. The 31st annual festival is set for March 3-5.  www.winefestival.com

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The Pink Ribbon rocks out at the ICON Music Center The Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund hosted the 20th anniversary of The Pink Ribbon, an annual fundraiser supporting their Pink Ribbon Centers and programs.

Held at the new Andrew J. Brady ICON Music Center, the evening included a live auction hosted by Cris and Holly Collinsworth, followed by a concert featuring the legendary Kool & The Gang.

Along with presenting sponsors The Albach, Wells and Dauer Group at Morgan Stanley and The Harold C. Schott Foundation, there were 40 corporate sponsors and 1,000 attendees.

Guests enjoyed a fireworks display with several buildings in the Cincinnati skyline lit pink, including Great American Tower, Paul Brown Stadium and Duke Energy Convention Center.

All funds raised through this annual event support the CCPF breast cancer initiatives.  www.ccpf.org

Ashley Collinsworth, Spencer Bankemper, Megan Bankemper, John Bankemper, Charlene Bankemper, Sean Lemmons and Peyton Lemmons Evan Andrews, Terry Andrews and friends

Dr. Stephen Pomeranz, Dr. Gerald Powers, Penny Pomeranz, Kris Hiltz, Francie Hiltz, Rob Heidt and Paul Hiltz

Libby Styles, Alison Dreisbach, Emily Jones and Cari Holm Kool & the Gang perform.

Officer T. Chiappone, Cris Collinsworth, Officer C. Sulton The scene outside the new Andrew J. Brady ICON Music Center

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The crown of Great American Tower is lit pink for the occasion.

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Freedom Center presents Conductor Awards to modern heroes in Clooney-studded gala More than 900 guests joined in celebration of modern freedom heroes during the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s International Freedom Conductor Awards Gala.

The award was presented to Amal and George Clooney, Bryan Stevenson and the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis for their lifetimes of work dedicated to the cause of freedom.

The four honorees join an illustrious list of past recipients, including Rosa Parks, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Judge Nathaniel Jones and more.  www.freedomcenter.org

Amal and George Clooney accept the International Freedom Conductor Award from National Underground Railroad Freedom Center President & COO Woodrow Keown, Jr. (left) and board chair Beverly Grant (right).

The Honorable Jeffery P. Hopkins and Michelle Hopkins

Freedom Center board member Homa Yavar, board chair Beverly Grant and gala co-chair Carole Rigaud.

Amal, George, Adelia, Nina and Nick Clooney

African American Chamber President & CEO Eric Kearney and Cincinnati City Councilmember JanMichele Lemon Kearney.

Among the evening’s performers were the Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet, including violinist Melissa White.

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‘Trailblazers’ raise funds for Great Parks at Root Ball The Root Ball, a rustic gala held at Rhinegeist, raised over $27,000 for Great Parks Forever.

Attendees demonstrated their passion for parks through contributions to the Great Parks Trails Fund, which supports 1.5 million annual visits to 78 miles of trails. Investing in land acquisition, design, construction and maintenance of the trails owned, leased and managed by Great Parks of Hamilton County, the fund works to preserve the health of our trails and the communities that use them.

Great Parks Forever also honored the winners of its Seasongood Conservation Champion Award, which was named for the Cincinnati mayor who spurred the creation of Great Parks of Hamilton County in 1930.

This year, the award was given to GE volunteers for more than 30 years of service to the cause.  www.greatparksforever.org

Brandon Helm and Great Parks Forever board member Kari Wethington Kaylia Carper and Emily Chamberlain

GE volunteers Rolf Hetico, Lori Gerring, Carlos Flores, Maria Ortiz, Vasanth Kothnur and Saritha Kothnur

Park Commissioner Caren Laverty, Great Parks CEO Todd Palmeter and Park Commissioner Bill Burwinkel

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Speakers make connections at TEDxCincinnatiWomen event Photos by Nicholas Viltrakis Photography

The third annual TEDxCincinnatiWomen Main Stage Event took place at the Cincinnati Masonic Center in October. The evening featured three performances and nine speakers on topics that included human connection, wellbeing, education, entertainment, technology and community.

After being held virtually last year, the event welcomed 550 people in person.

“TEDxCincinnati is an experience,” said Director Jami Lah. “It’s not just about the speakers. It’s about connection and innovation, too. We truly want guests to feel a connection to the things they are hearing and seeing at the show, and not just be observers.”  www.TEDxCincinnati.com

LOOK WHO’S FUTURE FORWARD Danielle Jones Lewis, TEDxCincinnati’s emcee for the night

Riece Drew and Claire Roche, part of the core TEDx team

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Kimberly Belew shares her story as a victim of human trafficking, telling the audience how to spot it and what to do.

Mixologist Molly Wellmann outlines the history of a cocktail.

Back: Rachel DesRochers, Kyla Woods, Wise Wellness Guild founder Stevi Carr and TEDxCincinnati Executive Director Jami Lah; front: Chelsea Richardson

Anaya Belly Dance Group closes the program with a performance.

Aimee Gardner, director of digital experience technologies at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, talks about how virtual reality in pediatric medicine saves lives.

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Tender Mercies Halloween Bash raises $185K to help the homeless

Celebrity hosts Bridget from 96 ROCK and Christian Gill of Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey Board member Jim Whalen with ‘Cousin Itt’

At the Tender Mercies Halloween Bash on Oct. 28, more than 300 costumed guests helped raise nearly $185,000 to assist people struggling with mental illness and homelessness rebuild their lives.

During the evening at the Woodward Theatre, guests enjoyed a wine pull, silent and live auctions, a virtual reality experience and music by DJ Savy. Bridget from 96 ROCK and chef/Food Network star Christian Gill hosted the occasion.  www.tendermerciesinc.org

Tender Mercies Associate Board members as PacMan Jim Tanner

Board member Rebecca Guerin and emeritus board member Marcia Spaeth

(Far left) board member Mark Roberts

Michelle Jones with ‘Mystery Monster’

‘Cheers to 30 Years’ for Interfaith Hospitality Network

Annie Bolling, Mo Li, Joe Rigotti, Phil Kiley and Wendy Kiley Christ Church Cathedral won the Support Congregation of the Year award, accepted by Judith Robinson and Scott Malone.

The “Cheers to 30 Years” gala honored both Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati for 30 years of service and IHNGC’s 2021 Volunteer Award recipients.

The gala featured music by DJ NewNu and shopping from High St.’s home goods, as well as food from Southern Grace Cincy Catering and Ché restaurant.

IHNGC also announced updates on its next project, the construction of Melrose Place, which will create 26 permanent supportive housing units in Walnut Hills. Proceeds from the event support IHNGC’s ongoing efforts to provide for homeless families.  www.ihncincinnati.org

Carol Brown, board member Michael Davis and Sharon Ward Stacey Burge, IHNGC president and CEO, with Josh Spring from Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, Coordinator of the Year winner

Garrett Parsons, IHNGC pet support coordinator, with Pet Support Volunteer of the Year winner Janet Jansen Photos by Robert White Photography

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Physician shares smart cooking for a healthy brain

Dr. Annie Fenn, physician, chef and culinary instructor Elizabeth Pierce, Jeralyn Barrett, Mary Lynn Sunderman, Kelly Lyle and Kathryn Harsh

Dr. Annie Fenn, a physician, chef and culinary instructor, recently shared her Healthy Food, Healthy Minds presentation to 250 virtual guests. Hosted by the UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, the event raised funds to support underserved patients with access to integrative care and community outreach.

Dr. Fenn teaches people to cook delicious, nutritious meals with brain-healthy foods to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

A to-go dinner was created by Eat Well Celebrations and Feasts for participants to enjoy during the virtual presentation. Renee Schuler of Eat Well, the event committee and Dr. Fenn created a collection of recipes for viewers to cook brain-healthy dishes at Christina Neyra assembles baskets. home.

Event sponsors included Kroger and 80 Acres Farms, who proJeralyn Barrett hosted a watch party at her home. In attendance: vided an assortment of fresh vegetables for participants.

Tina Walter, Meg Callahan, Julie Kammer, Jane Gerhardt and Amy Keirle  www.med.uc.edu/integrative

Renee Schuler, owner-chef of Eat Well Celebrations and Feasts Laura Jane Hinkel, Mary Lynn Sunderman, Joyce Simendinger and Katie Blank

‘Walk Ahead’ raises over $215K for brain tumor research The 12th annual Walk Ahead for a Brain Tumor Cure walk/ run raised more than $215,000 for the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute.

Nearly 1,700 people participated in the event, co-chaired by Kristen Crawford and Rick June.

Since Walk Ahead started 12 years ago, more than $2 million has been raised for brain tumor research and education. The 2022 event is set for Oct. 16.  med.uc.edu/institutes/uc-neuroscience-institute Soma Sengupta, M.D., Mario Zuccarello, M.D., Gabriella Zuccarello, presenting sponsor EggStrong Foundation board member Jeff Rieder and David Plas, M.D.; Sengupta, Mario Zuccarello and Plas are with the UC Brain Tumor Center.

From “Mary Berry Country House as Christmas” to “Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” celebrate the season with your local PBS station.

https://www.CETconnect.org/holiday-programming/

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Dr. Bill Barrett honored for contributions to community Dr. William (Bill) Barrett received the 2021 AJC National Human Relations Award for his leadership and contributions to the community. Dr. Barrett is co-director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Radiation Oncology department at the UC College of Medicine and medical director of the UC Health Barrett Cancer Center.

More than 150 attendees celebrated in person with Dr. Barrett at an award dinner, with more logging on to a livestream.  www.ajc.org

AJC Cincinnati President Noah Stern presenting award to Dr. Bill Barrett

Dr. Andrew and Patricia Filak, dinner co-chairs; John Barrett, co-chair; Jeralyn Barrett and Dr. Bill Barrett, honoree; Eileen Barrett, co-chair; Francie and Tom Hiltz

Tim Heldman with AJC Cincinnati Regional Director Cathy Heldman

Jimmy Miller and Lauren Miller

XU Day of Service also celebrates new president’s installation

Xavier President Colleen Hanycz poses with her predecessor, Michael Graham, S.J., during Hanycz’s installation ceremony.

Peter Hanycz picks up litter along Dana Avenue.

More than 200 members of the Xavier University community participated in a National Day of Service and Solidarity, working with local agencies to help people in their community.

The event kicked off Xavier’s Presidential Inauguration Week, leading to the installation of Colleen M. Hanycz as XU’s 35th president.

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and family members did yard work and gardening, litter removal, cleanup projects and participated in social programs with agencies such as United Way, the Irish Heritage Center and the Queen City Kitchen.

XU groups also worked in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Tampa Bay, Washington, D.C., and Western Michigan.  www.xavier.edu/presidential-inauguration Xavier President Colleen Hanycz gives her inaugural address.

Xavier President Colleen Hanycz and Xavier junior Isaac Blaney remove litter along Dana Avenue.

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Thank you Guiding Light Mentoring board member Timothy Lane, CEO Latisha Owens, scholarship recipient Mariauna Samples-Boyd, and Kristen, Joshua and Terrence Porter, family of former board member Tasha Porter

to our generous sponsors of Dining in the Dark...Wonderland!

Mentoring organization celebrates with awards, scholarship at gala Guiding Light Mentoring hosted its Fourth Annual Igniting Future Leaders Gala at The Phoenix downtown. The event was attended by over 100 guests and raised over $20,000. Partnership awards, community investment awards, and mentee and mentor of year awards were given out.

This organization was able to give out its first scholarship, The Tasha Jones Porter Scholarship, in honor of former board member Tasha Porter who unexpectedly passed away earlier this year. This scholarship fund initiative is being continued by Tasha’s husband, Jerry Porter.  www.guidinglightmentoring.org

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DePaul Cristo Rey celebrates 10th anniversary, dedicates new buildings DePaul Cristo Rey celebrated its 10th anniversary with a party and blessing of its updated campus. “Celebrating a Decade of Faith, Education and Vision,” included students, school leaders and staff, as well as friends that made the new construction possible.

The school opened in June 2011. A two-year construction project was completed in 2020, updating the Clifton campus by adding a gymnasium, cafeteria and three-story academic building. The construction was funded through the “Building Futures Together For a Greater Cincinnati” campaign.

Dr. Manuel Iris read the poem, “A Seed and A Tree,” which he wrote for the occasion.

Speakers included S. Barbara Hagedorn, SC, past president of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati; Sister Jeanne Bessette, OSF, founding president of DPCR; and current DPCR President Siobhan Taylor.  www.depaulcristorey.org

Dr. Manuel Iris, DPCR teacher and Cincinnati poet laureate emeritus, reads the poem he wrote for the anniversary, “A Seed and A Tree.”

Gayle and Don Oeters (center) with students Kylah, Class of '24 (left) and Antonio, Class of '23 (right)

Artist Holly Schapker in front of the tapestry she created in honor of the school’s anniversary Marina and Peter Schmid, former DPCR board chair Pat Robertson, Jayla, Class of ’22, and Sister Rita Sturwold.

Kart races raise $65K for Boy Scouts A weekend of kart racing raised more than $65,000 for The Dan Beard Council of Boy Scouts of America. The money supports activities like summer camp and the National Youth Leadership Training Program.

Fourteen police departments competed in the Southwest Ohio Pursuit Law Enforcement Kart Race, with Oxford Police Department taking first place.

Eleven corporate teams participated in the Dan Beard 100 Kart Race. The Interlink Cloud Advisors team won the Amateur Division while Team Zacharias took first place in the Pro Division race.

Major sponsors included Interlink Cloud Advisors, Formica, Outdoor Environments, Porsche of the Village (Beechmont Auto) and Schumacher Dugan Construction.  www.danbeard.org Racers at the Southwest Ohio Pursuit Kart Race raised funds for local scouting 36

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The top three Law Enforcement Professional kart racing teams – 1)Oxford Police Department: Geoff Robinson, Ryan Sikora, Adam Price and Josh Jenkins; 2)Indian Hill Rangers: Ray Manning, Ryan Burkert, Lonny Allison and Bob Walters (not pictured); 3)West Chester Police Department: Brent Lovell, Mike McCalla, Kevin Burger and John Scrimizzi

Racers come around a curve at the Motorsports Country Club in Batavia.

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JDRF staffers Becky Gaible, Hadley George, Melanie Schmid and Melissa Newman

Bourbon bash raises nearly $260K to fight type 1 diabetes JDRF hosted its eighth annual Bourbon & BowTie Bash at the Newport Car Barn. The in-person return was sold out and the 600 participants raised nearly $260,000. All proceeds go toward funding research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Kathryn Robinson from Channel 12 served as event emcee and Catherine Manabat, local spirits expert, provided guests with a guided tasting of nine bourbons. Hadley George, JDRF development coordinator, led the planning, along with the rest of the staff and fundraising support from “BowTie Barons and Baronesses,” a group of young professionals who helped with corporate connections.  www.jdrf.org Katone Roberts and Morgan Eberle

Normarys Perez-Linn and Brent Linn Emcee Kathryn Robinson

An aerialist performed as part of the gala.

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NEW Cincinnati hears presentation by ‘Shark Tank’ star NEW (Network of Executive Women) Cincinnati hosted its Fall Premier Event at Hard Rock Casino with keynote speaker Daymond John, star of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” CEO of The Shark Group and founder/CEO of FUBU. Over 700 attendees in person and virtually heard John’s presentation, “Innovate like an Entrepreneur.” His marketing strategies and ability to build successful brands have made him an influential consultant and motivational speaker. His marketing firm, The Shark Group, offers advice on how to communicate brands with everything from endorsements to product extensions.

John is also the author of four best-selling books.

NEW Cincinnati celebrated its 13th year as a professional community committed to advancing women in the workplace and transforming the face of business. The chapter welcomed Mindy Rector of the Kroger Co. as executive co-chair with Amy Alt of P&G, and extended its appreciation to Jill McIntosh for her contributions to NEW Cincinnati over the past eight years.  www.newonline.org/region/cincinnati

Photos by Brooke Bucher Photography

Keynote speaker Daymond John from “Shark Tank” converses with Jill McIntosh and Amy Alt.

(Group photo) The NEW regional leadership team and committee chairs: Back row – Jason Resch, Jeff Orschell, Christina Lockett and Sue Marie Breden; fifth row – Ellen Hillenmeyer, Mary Furrie, Regina Mayzum, Melissa Askren, Kate Clark and Jamie Wallace; fourth row – Ginny Corsini, Jenni Skiba, Rebecca Campbell, Mariel Dehn and Rebecca Klingenberg; third row – Stephanie Getz, Jodi Truckor, Amanda Vasaris, Donna Thompson, Christina Davis, Catie Bretz and Trina McCool; second row - Debra Harris, Kate Meyer, Amy Eskoff Garrett, Laurie Greer, Leslie Hayes, Sue Brady, Julia Cooke, Tammy Walterman, Mallory Isaack and Sharon Haynes; front row – Julie Basile, Valerie Jabbar, Sarah Alter, Amy Alt, Jill McIntosh, Mindy Rector, Rene Robers, Lisa Vannis and Dawn Shirley.

Nonprofits, future leaders connect at Bourbon & Boards The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce recently held its fourth annual Bourbon & Boards event, hosted by Northern Kentucky Young Professionals (NKYP).

The event connects nonprofit executives with the region’s future leaders to recruit for board opportunities.

Bourbon & Boards provided young professionals with the opportunity to learn about available leadership positions, expectations, philanthropy, and how board-level engagement can support personal and professional growth.  www.nkychamber.com

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Representing event sponsor VonLehman: Glen Selby, Mike Ballenger, Courtney Vernard and Ross Walker

Foreground: Ed Adlard, Healthy Visions; John Wood, Rudler; Maryanne Scheuble, Healthy Visions; Jon Geist, Gallagher; and Tori Roberts, Gallagher Brent Cooper, NKY Chamber president and CEO; John Enzweiler of First Financial Bank, 2021-22 Northern Kentucky Young Professionals chair; Amanda Johannemann, director of talent strategies, NKYP; Nancy Grayson, president of Horizon Community Funds

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Program Chair Eliza Gantt, Cincinnati Ballet Artistic Director Victoria Morgan, MacDowell Society President Maryanne McGowan and Lorrence T. Kellar

Ballet’s new space dazzles MacDowell Society Members of the Cincinnati MacDowell Society, a group of artists and arts supporters, were treated to a tour of the new Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills and heard remarks from Artistic Director Victoria Morgan, in her 25th year with the Cincinnati Ballet.

The MacDowell Society recognized the Lorrence T. and Barbara W. Kellar Studio for a capital campaign of $31 million for the building.

The Sheakley Family Premier Studio has seating for 150 people, and floor space equivalent to the Aronoff Center and Music Hall. The studio also has digital screens that let choreographers from around the world work remotely with dancers.  www.macdowellsociety.com Barbara Kellar, Polina BespalkoEllerhorst and Victoria Morgan Society members and guests in the ballet center’s parent waiting area

Warrior Run helps fund mental health education 1N5 raised over $130,000 for mental health education in Greater Cincinnati with its annual Warrior Run: The Race for Life. More than 1,500 runners, walkers and volunteers participated in the event, which included a 5K race, an untimed 1-mile walk, a Kids’ Fun Run, and a post-race party. The event benefited Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Adapt for Life, a mental health and wellbeing program for grades K-12.

1N5 is a non-profit working to prevent suicide by erasing the stigma of mental illness and promoting optimal mental wellness. The name reflects that one in five teens and adults suffer mental illness.  www.1n5.org The 1N5 Warrior Rund drew more than 1,500 runners, walkers and volunteers.

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Literacy leaders launch Queen City Book Bank for students Blue Manatee Literacy Project and Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati launched the Queen City Book Bank, a community resource hub that will guarantee book access to the estimated 35,000 Greater Cincinnati K-6 students who lack consistent access and supportive literacy programming. Their mission is to distribute 10 books per year to each student.

The Scripps Howard Foundation and WCPO Channel 9, and the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation have been early startup champions of the bank, funding a total of $470,000.

“Our region’s students need this type of sustained access to quality books to call their own, to share with their families and to anchor a lifelong value for reading,” said Leslie Maloney, senior SCPA sophomore and vice president and education program muralist Rowan Miller manager of the Haile Foundation. cuts the ribbon to open  www.queencitybookbank.org the Book Bank.

Community leaders and literacy advocates joined the staff to celebrate the opening of the Book Bank. Scripps Howard Foundation President and CEO Liz Carter, Scripps Howard Foundation Director of Development Meredith Delaney, Scripps National Spelling Bee Senior Manager-Editorial Molly Becker and Scripps National Spelling Bee Marketing Communications Manager Tyler Hyde

Book Bank CEO Michelle Otten Guenther, Scripps Howard Foundation Community Giving Manager Casey Ruschman, the Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation’s Senior Vice President and Program Manager Leslie Maloney and Book Bank board chair Kevin Kushman

Cincinnati showcased at national Rotary Club conference The Rotary Club of Cincinnati hosted the annual conference for large Rotary Clubs from across the country at Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel in October. Kirk Lippold, commander of the USS Cole when it came under attack in Yemen in 2000, was the keynote speaker. Event chair was Susan Wilkinson of Anderson Township.

According to Linda Muth, executive director of Rotary Club of Rotary Club of Cincinnati members toast conference guests at the Sam Cincinnati, hosting the conference boosted the local economy at a Adams Tap Room: event chair Susan Wilkinson, club Executive Director Linda critical time in the pandemic. The local club showcased Cincinnati, Muth, club President Melinda Kelly and administrative assistant Kristy Suszek. and the 115 participants from across the country are expected to Presidents and past presidents at the national conference included local representatives: current create long-term ripples through word-of-mouth and return visits.

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Cincinnati past presidents Dave Carlin, last row third from left, Owen Wrassman, last row fourth from left, Brett Lebhar, last row third from right, and Susan Wilkinson, fourth row, second from left.

Keynote speaker Kirk Lippold, former commander of the USS Cole, speaks on leadership and managing in crisis.

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Sporting Clays tourney raises $114,000 for Stepping Stones Stepping Stones raised more than $114,000 at its fifth annual Sporting Clays Tournament.

“We were able to fundraise 47% more than last year – making this year’s event our most successful tournament to date,” said event co-chairs Peter Borchers and Brian Folke.

Mark Greene, Mark Hill, Matthew Hill, Ryan Moeller and Joe Zappasodi won the team competition, and Moeller also was the winning individual shooter.

The event’s sponsors included Austin E. Knowlton Foundation, PLK Communities, Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. and Wyler Family Foundation.

Stepping Stones is a United Way partner agency that serves more than 1,100 people with disabilities.  www.steppingstonesohio.org

Matthew Hill, Ryan Moeller, Mark Hill, Mark Greene and Joe Zappasodi win first place. Ryan Moeller shows off his bourbon prize as the first place individual shooter.

Kerry Mongelluzzo, Kathy Schmitt, Ellen Grossi and Anne Shanahan team up as a foursome.

Guests dance the night away at Ales to Zinfandels fundraiser Bethany House Services’ 18th annual wine and beer tasting fundraiser, Ales to Zinfandels, raised funds to support the organization. Bethany House Services is the area’s largest provider of services to homeless families. The event attracted more than 200 guests to the Newport Syndicate for wine, beer and dancing.

It also featured a live auction, more than 80 silent auction items, a “wall of wine” and music by The Ultra Sonics, who had the attendees singing along and dancing all evening.

Presenting sponsor for the event was the Heidt Family Foundation. Silver sponsors were Encore Technologies, Fifth Third Bank, FocusCFO, Rohs Family Fund and TriVersity.  www.bethanyhouseservices.org BHS board member Robie Suggs and Alena Speed

Co-chairs Peter Borcher and Brian Folke host the fifth annual Sporting Clays Tournament fundraiser benefiting Cincinnati-area individuals with disabilities.

Karen Dews, BHS board chair Carolyn Washburn and Tamara Behrens BHS board treasurer Sue Dyer and her husband Terry Dyer

BHS CEO Susan Schiller, KeyBank CEO Mike McCuen and BHS board member Megan McCuen, Ales to Zinfandels Sponsor Chair Maia, a former client of Bethany House Services, tells how BHS made a huge difference in her life and the lives of her children.

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Suits That Rock back on stage to tune of $150K The Carnegie’s annual Suits That Rock concert raised more than $150,000 for arts education programs. The fundraiser resumed in person at the Covington Plaza Outdoor Amphitheater.

To date, Suits That Rock has raised more than $1,250,000.

The event showcases local executives leaving the boardroom in favor of the stage.

“The Suits are proud to be able to provide event attendees a great and safe outdoor experience, but most of all we are so happy to have raised a record amount in support of The Carnegie,” said John Domaschko, Suits That Rock co-founder and executive committee member. “Arts education at an early age helps children to develop in so many ways. Whether you’re a lawyer, doctor or corporate executive, the arts teach many valuable lessons that often translate into professional life.”  www.thecarnegie.com

John Caulfield, John Vitucci, Ed Hughes, Ken Poleyeff, Jan Diehl and Mickey Foellger

Kevin Canafax performs

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Golfers hit the green to support fight against pediatric cancer

Brad Lauch, Molly Weissman, Matt Weissman and Spencer Dunning

The 11th Annual Dragonfly Golf Classic, presented by Titan Siding and Roofing, raised nearly $82,000 to support children with cancer and their families. Dragonfly Marley and her family gave a special message to the 120 golfers at the Heritage Club in Mason before they teed off.

Ryan McCurley of Peoples First Savings Bank won the hole-in-one competition, sponsored by Richter & Phillips.

There was also a silent auction, delicious food by Tony’s and music by Chandler Carter. WLW’s Scott Sloan was emcee.  www.dragonfly.org Dragonfly Marley and her family spoke to the 120 golfers before the start of the Dragonfly Golf Classic.

Dragonfly staff and volunteers for the event. Back row: Ron Saresky, Paul Glass and Bruce Lindemuth; middle row: Anne Petersen, Amy Hafner, Mary Tignor and Donna Noll; front row: Caroline DeGroft, Julie Shaffer and Greg Vehr

Light The Night Walk raises funds for blood cancer cures LLS Cincinnati held its Light The Night walk to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society research to find blood cancer cures and provide access to lifesaving treatments.

Local teams of walkers joined over 1 million participants in 140 walks across North America, honoring those affected by cancer with colored lanterns – white for survivors, red for supporters and gold in memory of loved ones lost to cancer.

The annual walk has raised over $800,000 to date for LLS’s mission. Since its founding in 1949, LLS has invested more than $1.3 billion in blood cancer research worldwide, and has helped advance more than 85 percent of blood cancer treatments approved by the FDA since 2017.  www.lls.org Auden Nichols and Jack Pomeroy, two young survivors, holding their lanterns The First Financial Bank team: Ann Davis, Danni Gorrasi, Ian Spence, Greg Elmore, Kelly Barnard holding daughter Letty, Mary Meyer, Landon Barnard holding daughter Rosalee, Laura Meyer and David Jennings 44 DEC ’21/JAN ’22

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The event’s honored hero, Jaidon (second from left), and his family: his father Naaman, his mother Heather, his twin brother Tristen and his older brother Naaman

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People Working Cooperatively honors volunteers and supporters People Working Cooperatively (PWC), a nonprofit that performs repairs and services for low-income homeowners, hosted its Annual Recognition Celebration to honor supporters of their mission to save homes and restore pride.

The award recipients include Christian Florea (Chairman’s Award), Gorilla Glue Company (Friends of PWC Award), Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (Friends of PWC Award), Chris Bell (Volunteer of the Year Award) and Randi Kamp (Employee of the Year Award).  www.pwchomerepairs.org PWC President Jock Pitts with Kathleen Woods of Gorilla Glue, Ron Henlein of PWC and Nick Ragland of Gorilla Glue. Gorilla Glue received the Friends of PWC Award. Jock Pitts with Stacey Gomes of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training and Aaron Grant of PWC. The center received the Friends of PWC Award.

Jock Pitts and Christian Florea, recipient of the Chairman’s Award

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Grant Us Hope hosts Butterfly Bash to support suicide prevention

Grant Us Hope Executive Director Keith Kline, Lakota East Principal Rob Burnside and Grant Us Hope Program Director Suzanna Davis

Grant Us Hope, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit focused on youth suicide prevention, mental wellness, trauma support and school safety programs in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana schools, hosted a live-streamed event for supporters.

Butterfly Bash 2021 aimed to raise awareness and funds for peer-to-peer suicide prevention programming in schools, and marked the launch of parent programming to help caregivers better support youth encountering mental health struggles.  www.grantushope.org

Nancy Petersen, Chris Dolan, Dan Petersen and Kelly Dolan present raffle winner Barb Blalock with her prize during their Butterfly Bash party in Hyde Park.

Diane Egbers, founder/board chair of Grant Us Hope and president of Leadership Excelleration, spoke at Butterfly Bash.

Coffee Festival raises over $50K for Ohio River Foundation The 2021 Cincinnati Coffee Festival drew thousands of visitors to Music Hall during its three-day run. Offering visitors coffee, tea, chocolate, baked goods, ceramics and more, the fundraiser brought in more than $50,000 for the Ohio River Foundation – and brought fun to its guests.

The foundation is a nonprofit that aims to protect and improve the Ohio River and its watershed’s water quality and ecology through conservation and education. Used for drinking water, recreation, commerce and habitat for wildlife, the watershed affects the health of the 25 million people who live in it.

“Without great water,” said ORF executive director Rich Cogen, “you can’t have great coffee.”  www.ohioriverfdn.org, www.cincinnaticoffeefestival.com

Gala raises over $300K for center’s Better Life program Life Learning Center’s annual gala at PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation in Newport raised a record $303,610. The money raised will benefit their 12-week Foundations for a Better Life program, which provides at-risk people tools and support to sustain living-wage careers.

The gala was emceed by Big Dave Chandler of WUBE and included a “Songwriter’s Roundtable” with Kelley Lovelace and Tim Nichols. Life Learning Center is a nonprofit organization established in 2004 to provide education and care for “at-risk” people in Northern Kentucky.  www.lifelearningcenter.us 46

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Cindy Liang does her first pour with Latte Art in Action booth instructor DJ Pritchard. Brian Bisher and Rachel Bisher

Coffee Emporium owner Tony Tausch talks coffee with Jessica Tegge, Ohio River Foundation restoration program manager.

Life Learning Center president Alecia Webb Edgington and Big Dave Chandler Bill Butler, Jessi Lay, James Lay, James Lay Jr. and Kaycee Lay

Terry Foster, Bob Hoffer and Shawn Carroll

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La Soupe revs up over $280K La Soupe’s fundraiser “All La Souped Up” generated more than $280,000 with help from 300 guests and sponsors SugarCreek and Joseph Auto Group. A raffle saw two guests win restored vehicles donated by SugarCreek, along with John and Julie Richardson. The evening was emceed by Kristyn Hartman of WCPO Channel 9.

The event planning committee included: Suzy DeYoung, Suzy Dorward, Mimi Mosher Dyer, Mary Gerken, Melissa Kadish, Julie Richardson, Cathy Swartz and Petra Vester.  www.lasoupe.org Photo credits: R andy Shepherd

A raffle to win a car from the collection – donated

by SugarCreek and John and Julie Richardson – made for an exciting evening, emceed by Kristyn Hartman of WCPO Channel 9. Rescued ingredients go into everything La Soupe serves. Dessert was served in the bed of a vintage truck in the SugarCreek collection.

Annual Angel Dash assists Rachel’s Gift The Family Birthing Center team at Mercy Health-West Hospital held its annual Angel Dash run/walk to raise funds for Rachel’s Gift.

Rachel’s Gift is a non-profit providing education, resources and support for caregivers and families enduring loss of pregnancy or infant death. Since 2008, the organization has served more than 5,600 moms and families, partnering with hospitals to provide specialized care.

Angel Dash is held in October, which is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.  www.rachelsgift.org

Shannon Freimuth, birthing center nurse and Rachel’s Gift bereavement coordinator

Walkers on the event course

Mayerson JCC celebrates art with Under One Roof The Mayerson JCC celebrated the Jewish festival of Sukkot with its annual Under One Roof celebration. An art reception kicked off the exhibit which was displayed for 10 days in the Sukkah, a temporary hut constructed for use during Sukkot.

Individual artists and groups created works of art centered on the theme of resilience and renewal. Community members were encouraged to visit the display and take part in a paint night in the Sukkah.  mayersonjcc.org

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Zak Lempert, Yonah Sienna, Tzvia Rubens, and Jackie Levine at the art reception Adoria Maxberry of Most OutGROWing art education

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Drive4Hope raises funds for single moms

Former Bengals running back Eric Ball, CEO of Calvary Industries John Morelock, former Bengals linebacker Vincent Rey and MomsHope Executive Director Kim Anthony

MomsHope recently held its first Drive4Hope event, a Topgolf evening of fun, to raise funds to help single moms move from dependency to self-sufficiency.

Attendees of the event enjoyed great food, raffles and friendly competition.

Calvary Industries was the title sponsor and King’s Electric Services was the presenting sponsor.  www.momshope.org

Rob McBreen, Gina Marek, Maria Sullivan, Bill Jones and Angela Jones

University of Cincinnati women’s basketball Assistant Coach Carlos Knox with his wife, Michelle, and family

‘Imagine’ gala advances a safer world for children Northern Kentucky Children’s Advocacy Center (NKYCAC) held its annual Advocates Grand Gala, “Imagine 2021.” The event raised more than $230,000 to help children who have been abused or trafficked or have witnessed violent crimes.

The keynote speaker was Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted in 2002 at age 14, and was rescued nine months later. She has dedicated her life to raising awareness and helping children recover from abuse.

“When you feel support, you can believe there is love,” said Lori Watson, executive director of Applied Behavioral Services. “It is an honor to support the amazing work of NKYCAC.”  www.nkycac.org

C The Advocates: (back row) Keri Nichols, Melissa Cronenweth, Belinda Nitschke, VJ, Tammy Hanlin, Christine Duggins, Alicia Collins and Katie Irwin; (third row) Kimberly Carlisle, Kristi Nelson and Ashlea Pullen; (second row) Morgan Whitlow, Kendall Reynolds, Sarah Melrose and Tasha Klaber-Flood; (front row) Candyse Jeffries, Amberly Dehner, Diane Kidd, Lori Watson and Shezyra Siskowic

Soul, blues, bluegrass, jazz highlight series season The Longworth-Anderson Series returned to Memorial Hall with performances by soul singer-songwriter and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, Taj Mahal of the Blues Hall of Fame, the bluegrass collaborative Watkins Family Hour and Grammy-winning jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.

Pre-concert receptions included food and beverage samples from local restaurants and distributors, as well as live music from Siri Imani, Ben Levin, The Missy Werner Band and the Brandon Coleman Trio.

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Melvin Grier and Kimberly Starbuck

Joe and Ashley Morton

Carlin and Cheryl Coy Stamm

Concert sponsors Josh Gerth, Gary Greenberg, Linda Greenberg, Jeff McClorey, Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society and Longworth-Anderson Series Executive Director Cori Wolff and Pete Robinson

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Cincinnati Design Awards celebrate 25 years The Cincinnati Design Awards marked their 25th anniversary recognizing the best designs by local firms. The event at Memorial Hall promoted the social and economic value of design in Cincinnati.

Its jury of thought leaders and practitioners, from firms in Cincinnati, Louisville, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York, honored 19 designs in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning and experiential graphic design. A scholarship was presented to the Camp Washington Community Board for a Hopple Street entryway redesign.

Honored firms included Terry Boling Architect, drawing dept, GBBN, Guilfoil and Wulfson, Kleingers Group, Luminaut, MSA Design, New Republic Architecture, PLATTE Architecture + Design, REZTARK and Team B Architecture + Design.  www.cincinnatidesignawards.com

Co-chair Michelle VonderBrink kicks off the event.

Mike Slagle accepts an award for The Kleingers Group. Photos by RVP Photography

GBBN architects Steve Karoly, Marcie Kinney, Aaron Fritch, Cassidy Staver and Angela Mazzi celebrate their wins.

Emcee Dan Hurley and Kelly Kolar

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Rob Busch and Ron Novak of Drawing Dept The CDA jurors: Joey N. Shimoda, Jake Hodesh, Anna Crider, Roberto De Leon and Allison Harvey

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THE LAST WORD | By Polly Campbell

Why we should share our good fortune

I

was probably 7 or 8 years old, it was Christmastime and I was shopping with my mother.

Outside a busy store, Mom spotted a loose bill on the sidewalk and picked it up. It seemed like a lot of money to me, a ten or a twenty.

Oh, lucky us! I thought. All that money, just lying there, and now it’s ours! My mother took just a moment to look at it, remarked on how it was too bad someone had lost it, and then she walked over to a Salvation Army bell ringer and put it in the bucket.

I couldn’t believe it. What about finders keepers!? We needed that money. My parents were always telling me and my siblings they couldn’t afford lots of the things we wanted. And she was just giving this windfall away?

I’d always been a little confused

about this: My father, who’d grown up with almost nothing, was a fanatic about not wasting money, timing showers and phone calls and how long the refrigerator door was open. There were eight of us; money truly was tight. But when I once said something about being poor, he said, oh, no, we’re better off than 90% of people in the world. That took some processing in my young mind.

And now Mom was saying we should give this money to people who needed it more than we did.

People who didn’t have enough food or a place to live. Besides, it wasn’t really our money, we just lucked into it, so this was the right thing to do.

More processing for my brain.

But the idea of charitable giving,

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which was new to me, became perfectly clear at that moment.

That’s why I remember the incident so well. And the way children understand things is often exactly the right way, before we add any adult arguments and contingencies to it. I have money because I’m lucky, and other people don’t have money because they didn’t have my luck, and I can give some of mine to them.

That basic idea still works for me.

I mean, my husband and I both worked hard for our money, I guess. We got up every morning and went to our jobs and did the best we could and saved money.

Good for us. My job could be stressful, but I ate in restaurants for a living, for heaven’s sake! We didn’t work hard, not really hard, like nurses or teachers or roofers or customer service reps.

The older I get, the more I realize how my good life is built on the hard, often badly compensated labor of other people. I can afford to buy the food I want because farmers don’t make enough money, because field laborers break their backs for my strawberries. I wear what I want because people bend over sewing machines for hours a day for little pay.

How am I in my cozy position instead of theirs? Because I’m as lucky as someone who finds money on the sidewalk. I’m white and I’m American. I was born on the right side of the growing wealth gap. My parents had good values. College was cheap. My husband and I have never had to deal with the things that can send someone spiraling downward, like major health problems, divorce, layoffs or accidents.

Our children weren’t handicapped or sickly, and their grandparents

helped send them to college, and now they’re self-supporting.

What surprises me now is not that someone would give found money away. It’s that people don’t give more of it. Americans are known as generous, and our government subsidy of charity through the tax deduction is huge.

We donate 2 percent of the GDP. The biggest category of giving is religion. Education and healthcare are big.

But of all the money that individual people give to nonprofits, less than a third goes to help poor people at all, including in the education and religion categories, and only about 7 percent goes to help meet poor people’s basic needs. For millionaires, it’s only 4 percent. (I learned this from an eye-opening book called “Just Giving” by Rob Reich, a Stanford economist. The statistics are from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.)

Personally, I think we should make that higher. You can hand out money on the street if you want, but it’s probably better to be deliberate about it, so find a charity you believe in. Give at Christmas, when we all think about it and make it part of the good feelings of the season. Better though to set up an automatic payment plan so you give a little money all year. Do it because it’s right, or because it feels good. But you don’t have to wait to hear someone ringing a bell.  Polly Campbell covered restaurants and food for The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1996 until 2020. She lives in Pleasant Ridge with her husband and since retiring does a lot of reading, cooking and gardening, if that’s what you call pulling up weeds.

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