• The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus Joins Our Culture Pass Program!

    NEW: Check out FREE tickets to select performances of the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus! It’s part of our Culture Pass program, offering free access to central Ohio cultural destinations. All you need is your library card!

    Hurry: Availability is limited and passes are first come, first served!

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  • Fund Your Business with Kiva!

    Thursday, March 20 | 6 p.m.
    Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave. (Meeting Room 3A)

    Join us to learn more about Kiva’s 0 percent loans. Kiva is a character-based, community-backed lender. Kiva provides funding opportunities for entrepreneurs who do not fit into the box of traditional, conventional financing due to limited collateral, credit challenges, limited investments or being an early-stage business.

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  • See Authors Mary Robinette Kowal & John Scalzi

    Sunday, March 23 | 2 p.m.
    Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.

    Our Authors at the Library continues with Mary Robinette Kowal, author of The Martian Contingency, and John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War.

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  • The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio presents “Fat Ham”

    March 6-23
    Studio One, Riffe Center | 77 S. High St.

    Our friends at the Contemporary present James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning and five-time Tony nominated “Fat Ham,” a witty sendup of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” where the only real death is the patriarchy. 

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