Live and Learn
2023 Fifth Third Community Days
Sept. 10*
Oct. 8*
Oct. 29
Nov.19
Dec. 3*
Dec. 31
*Dates adjusted due to Bengals home game.
Admission is FREE. Fifth Third Community Days are made possible through the generous support of the Fifth Third Foundation.
More at freedomcenter.org/53-community-days.
As a center for learning and inclusion, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center helps both shape and reflect our community. Its exhibitions and programs are designed to challenge and inspire audiences.
“Our Fifth Third Community Days can be transformative for our community,” says Woody Keown, Jr. president and CEO of the Freedom Center. “Museums have the power to shape and reflect their communities, making organizations like the Freedom Center community anchors and conveners of dialogue. The Freedom Center creates a collective heritage, a more complete history that unites our local and national community, and access to it equips a new generation of freedom seekers and advocates with the education and resources needed to make positive personal and collective impact. Our goal is to create more advocates for equity and bring about meaningful social justice change by inspiring future generations of freedom seekers.”
As part of this Sunday’s Community Day, ArtWorks is bringing their New Monuments Initiative to the Freedom Center. Through the Civic Arts Studio, guests are invited to share the ideas, values, or individuals that should be honored and remembered, through several creative activities and public dialogue.
The New Monuments initiative aims to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces that celebrate and affirm the historical contributions of the many diverse communities that make up the United States. Through this work, ArtWorks plans to host public dialogue and reflection and recenter voices, stories, and narratives to include those who have often been denied historical recognition to inform the creation of new monuments in Cincinnati.
Schedule
Artist Brent Billingsley
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. | Grand Hall, 2nd floor
Stop by and flex your creativity with local artist Brent Billingsley.
The Chicago Footwork Experience: Liberation Through Dance
1–3 p.m. | Harriet Tubman Theater
Dr. ShaDawn “Boobie” Battle of Xavier University and dancers Prince Jron and Christopher “MadDog” Thomas offer interactive demonstrations that share the history and liberatory potential of Chicago Footwork – specifically its relationship to housing injustice and the carceral state.
Note: Guests should enter at the Rosa Parks Street Entrance.
Information Table: College and Career Coaching, LLC
12–4 p.m. | 3rd floor
Meet Bernard “Coach B” Caldwell, owner of College and Career Coaching, LLC. Learn more about the tools and resources available for students to achieve their college or career goals.
Information Table: Epilepsy Alliance Ohio
12–4 p.m. | 3rd floor
Learn about Epilepsy Alliance Ohio, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting those impacted by epilepsy and providing direct services to optimize each person’s understanding of epilepsy.
ArtWorks' Civic Studio
12–4 p.m. | 3rd floor
ArtWorks' Civic Studio invites guests to engage with The New Monuments Initiative, through several creative activities.
They will be joined by Cincinnati Girls Rock Summer Camp, focused on focused on using creative arts as a vehicle for social change, and opportunities to build skills in instrumental music, vocals, songwriting, and visual arts for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 12-18.
Artist Brent Billingsley
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. | Grand Hall, 2nd floor
Stop by and flex your creativity with local artist Brent Billingsley.
Launched last year, Fifth Third Community Days are held on the fifth and third Sunday of each month, along with MLK Day and Juneteenth. By providing free access to their galleries, the Freedom Center is empowering a new generation of freedom seekers and advocates with the education and resources needed to make positive personal and collective impact.
Fifth Third Community Days are made possible through the generous support of the Fifth Third Foundation.