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Shared Storytelling Series
May 16
Shared Storytelling Series

Explore Indigenous wisdom and learn theatre techniques to build YOUR personal story. You will have the chance to share your story with the larger community with a June showcase. All are invited and encouraged to pre-register. Lead artists guiding you will be @amrcnlgcythtr Exec Artistic Director @mattgellin and Community Engagement Lead @invisibo1. Workshops two and three inspired by #food and #community #BreaktheWalls #indigenousart #storytelling #cincinnati #theatre #accessforall

Free Climbing
May 22
Free Climbing

Urban Native Collective’s Climbing and Fitness Program aims to promote physical health, cultural connection, and leadership empowerment within the Indigenous community. By combining the physical challenges of climbing with tailored fitness activities, this program offers a unique opportunity for Indigenous individuals to improve their overall well-being.

Free Climbing
Jun 19
Free Climbing

Urban Native Collective’s Climbing and Fitness Program aims to promote physical health, cultural connection, and leadership empowerment within the Indigenous community. By combining the physical challenges of climbing with tailored fitness activities, this program offers a unique opportunity for Indigenous individuals to improve their overall well-being.

Summer Solstice
Jun 20
Summer Solstice
Free Climbing
Jul 17
Free Climbing

Urban Native Collective’s Climbing and Fitness Program aims to promote physical health, cultural connection, and leadership empowerment within the Indigenous community. By combining the physical challenges of climbing with tailored fitness activities, this program offers a unique opportunity for Indigenous individuals to improve their overall well-being.

Our next podcast episode is live! 🎙️ In this episode we discuss Indigenous injustice within the prison system and the nearly 50 year imprisonment of Native activist, Leonard Peltier. Be sure to listen, subscribe, share, and take action! Link ➡️ bi
Hello Relatives, In March, our friend Guy was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer. He now faces a significant challenge and the costs of cancer treatments and medical expenses are steep, so we are rallying together to help alleviate the financial
As part of our vision to build United Indigenous Communities through racial solidarity across the Ohio region, we celebrate the opportunity to uplift our Asian American, Native Hawaiian, CHamoru, and Pacific Islander relatives. This #AANHPIHeritage
May 5th is #MMIWR National Day of Awareness and Action. Today we remember and honor the lives of our relatives who have experienced violence, and were taken from our communities. This crisis refers to the high rate in which Native women and relative
@cincylibrary To raise awareness of the growing number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives, CHPL is presenting the “REDress Display,” in partnership with @urbannativecollective, which will be displayed at select locatio
April 29-May 5th is #MMIWR National Week of Awareness and Action. Throughout the week we will be highlighting important statistics and information, as well as ways our organization is activating to raise awareness. Follow to learn more: @projectna
🌱Our Urban Garden project restores the urban Native community of Cincinnati to physical well-being and a spiritual relationship to the Earth. Food Sovereignty is the right of Native Indigenous people to reclaim our own food and agricultural system
New program alert! A week from today we launch our new climbing and fitness program! On April 24th we invite the Indigenous community to join us at @climbcincy right next door to our Native Sovereignty Center in Northside! We’ll be climbing and
Thank you to all of the 1300+ individuals who joined us Friday evening for Art After Dark | Native Visions presented in partnership with the Cincinnati Art Museum. Huge thank you to @leonardharmonfineart for his amazing work of art, DJ @creepingbear
Some of Urban Native Collective’s best got together at @thegormanheritagefarm to work on our Urban Garden Project. Excited to see our community get together, get dirty and flex their green thumbs💪🏾 🌱Stay tuned for more updates on our susta
This Friday! Come celebrate contemporary Native American and Indigenous Pacific-Rim artists and traditions with music from DJ @Creepingbear, a live painting performance with artist, @LeonardHarmonfineart food for purchase from Indigenous Chef food tr
Yesterday we stood in solidarity with our Michigan relatives in opposition to the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline. Enbridge is responsible for the largest inland oil spill in US history and Line 5 has been threatening our water, climate, Sacred Lands, and u
Join us on March 25th at 7pm at the Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park for our conversation on Indigenous injustice within the United States prison system. We will discuss the nearly 50 year imprisonment of Native activist, Leonard Peltier. Joining us