March Haps

Happy almost spring!

Sunday 3/17

Friday 3/22

• Heather Redman & The Reputation return! Saddlebags & Snail Satan 8pm, The Union
• Cats Pajamas 5-8pm, 2 S. College St.
• March Wellness Yoga for Every Body 10am, Athens Library
• March 22nd-24th Gather to Grow Forest Farming Conference. Visit Rural Action for more information
• Angora Rabbits Session 1: Join Lisa Moretti of Athens Angoras as she teaches us about one of the softest animals on the plant: Angora rabbits. Participants can meet rabbits and see firsthand how their fur can be spun into fiber. 3:30pm Athens Library

Saturday 3/23

• DJ Barticus Disco vs 90s, The Union
• Cats Pajamas 10-4, 2 S. College St.
• Cora Lilly, Sunday Creek, Lily Seabird, Florry 10pm, Casa
• Meteorology Symposium 9am-4pm, Walter Hall 245
• Thought Leaders: A Women’s History Tour: Take a walk with Dr. Katherine Jellison around Uptown Athens to learn about some of the women who were foundational in the development of unique and colorful Athens, Ohio. 10am, 191 West Union Street
• March 22nd-24th Gather to Grow Forest Farming Conference. Visit Rural Action for more information
• Friends of India Present RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt! – is the story of comrades Raju and Bheem who have embarked on a quest to incite a revolution in the 1920s and bring an end to the colonial British Raj imposed on India. Athena Cinema
• Native Plant Garden Planning Presentation 3pm, Bowen House Logan Ohio
• Mid Summers Night Dream 7pm, Arts West
• Join Rural Action and Grown by Grace Greenhouse for a workshop on seed-starting and plant propagation! 10am
• Appalachian Hell Betties Roller derby, 2pm Ping

Sunday 3/24

• Athens New Band Showcase 6pm, The Union
• Mid Summers Night Dream 2pm, Arts West
• March 22nd-24th Gather to Grow Forest Farming Conference. Visit Rural Action for more information

Monday 3/25

• NMF lineup announcement
• Farmers Respond to Climate Change. Examples from Kenya and Appalachia 6pm, Athens Library

Tuesday 3/26

• March Wellness Yin Yoga 6pm, Athens Library
• Paint and Pour 7pm, Stuart’s Opera House

Wednesday 3/27

• March Wellness Qigong Workshop 6pm, Athens Library
• Mary Beth Tinker, one of the students in the historic U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, will speak about student First Amendment rights. The public is invited to meet one of the people who established, as Justice Abe Fortas wrote in the 7-2 decision, students and teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”  7pm, Galbreath Chapel

Thursday 3/28

• Jillian Kay, Girl Jam, Basket Case Women in the Music Industry Club fundraiser 8pm, The union
• Non Violent Communication Practice Session 6pm, Athens Library
• Author Visit: Wild Fish of the Central Appalachian Waterways 6:30pm, Athens Library

Friday 3/29

• Roman Candle, Montgomery Tree, Plant Clones, Sungaze 8pm, The Union
• Join us for an exclusive preview celebrating art, music, and friends–old and new–at Club Dave, a fundraiser for the historic Stuart’s Opera House. Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the late, multi-disciplinary artist David Hostetler. Light bites and cash bar. Live music from local jazz ensemble Solar Trio. 5:30pm

Saturday 3/30

• Joi, The Drays, Saddlebags, Styestar, Land Project 9pm, Casa
• Any Color 8pm, The Union
• Signs of Spring Bicycle Tour: The Signs of Spring Bicycle Tour explores the emerging spring flora and fauna of the Wayne National Forest along 13.8 miles of the Hockhocking Adena Bikeway guided by local naturalist, Lynn Holtzman. 10am, 3301 Hocking Parkway Nelsonville
• Fix it Fest 11am, Athens Makerspace
• Town Mountain: Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Town Mountain is the sum of all its vast and intricate influences — this bastion of alt-country rebellion and honky-tonk attitude pushed through the hardscrabble Southern Appalachian lens of its origin. Stuart’s Opera House
• Join us at the United Plant Savers Goldenseal Sanctuary on Saturday, March 30 at 9am to learn about Goldenseal, a high-value specialty crop! 9am

Sunday 3/31

• Seed Swap and seed bomb/seed paper workshop 1-6pm, Sunday Creek Sanctuary
• Food not bombs serving 4-6pm, Armory Park

Lit Fest:

The Ohio University English Department will hold the 2024 Spring Literary Festival on the Athens campus. Authors scheduled to attend include Lily Hoàng (8:30 p.m. March 20 reading at Baker Center Theater and 10 a.m. March 21 lecture at Walter Hall Rotunda), Chigozie Obioma (11 a.m. March 21 lecture and 7:30 p.m. March 21 reading at Walter Hall Rotunda), and Mary Szybist (7:30 p.m. March 20 lecture at Baker Center Theater and 8:30 p.m. March 21 at Walter Hall Rotunda).