Featured Events in Montgomery in July, 2025 (June Updated)

Join us for our second life drawing event. This is a self-directed class so very chill! All abilities welcome. We will provide paper, drawing boards and the model. Plz bring drinks/cake/drawing materials. Information Source: Kweer Sheffield | eventbrite

Main Point Books is delighted to welcome back best-selling author Lisa Scottoline for the first stop on her tour for The Unraveling of Julia. Join us in the beautiful Rotwitt Theater on the Rosemont College Campus on Monday, July 14 at 7:00 pm. This is a ticketed event. Purchase of a bundled book/ticket is required for entrance to the event and to the signing line. Information Source: Main Point Books | eventbrite

Arts Equity Collective’s 4th Annual Survivor’s Ball, Awards, and Workshops, “SOS: Save Our Selves” is on Friday, July 18, 2025 to Saturday, July 19, 2025 at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center Lindner Annex, 6620 Montgomery Rd, Unit 2, Cincinnati, Ohio 45213. It is only $5 per day for registration. This 2-day event includes: a hands-on Bucket Drumming session , led by Ronald Sanders of Jazz Renaissance, feature performances from all workshop presenters : Obbie West (Las Vegas, NV), Tonyela Masterpiece' Arphul (Dallas, TX), Tracy T-spirt Stanton (St. Louis, MO), and Ed Mabrey (Los Angeles, CA), “Some Things Must be Heard” Open Mic, five workshops, awards ceremony, and free food both days. This event will be held at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center Lindner Annex, 6620 Montgomery Road, Unit #2, Cincinnati, OH 45213 . This event was created to support those who are impacted by mental, physical, and emotional trauma. It is to celebrate and unify the survivor community, provide empowerment, and educational support services necessary for their healing journey. Our community of survivors learn to combat their own negative thinking, and to regulate their emotions. They build artistic weaponry and experiment with various modes to reduce stress through writing, dance, art, music, and song. They utilize somatic modalities of mediation, mindfulness, gratefulness, practicing self-care, and utilizing relaxation techniques to help support mental health with trauma-informed & trained artists, and mental health advocates. Arts Equity Collective is a 501c3, nonprofit, funded by private donations and sponsorships from the Mayerson Foundation, Women Helping Women, Hamilton County Recovery Center, Women Writing for a Change. However, we need your commitment to helping us as we continue to grow and serve the community. Our attendance doubles year to year. Please send your tax-deductible gifts via Paypal to mopoetry@artsequitycollective.org, or mail to Arts Equity Collective, P O Box 317746, Cincinnati, OH 45231. To nominate a survivor within the community for an award, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jDciRez-gr4RAvpOkG9JIq-xvgA_lpneNn1-k0IPJaU/edit . To share your survivor story and become part of our documentary, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CD1hmFidFSKJiAdHPy1oRcs7OEjMwC8QK6RnNaeO814/edit . If you have any questions, would like to be a corporate sponsor, or if you are a mental health agency or a company specializing in health & wellness services who would like to purchase a vendor table for the event, please call MoPoetry Phillips at 513-344-0870. Cost $100 includes both days. Information Source: Arts Equity Collective | eventbrite

Free. Registration Requested. At this event author & playwright Betty Shamieh will discuss the body of her work and work in progress with New York Stage & Film's Artistic Director, Ian Belknap. Betty Shamieh is the author of sixteen plays. Malvolio, an irreverent comedy and sequel to Twelfth Night, had its world premiere at the Classical Theatre of Harlem as part of their annual Uptown Shakespeare in the Park at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheatre in July 2023 (co-directed by Ian Belknap and Ty Jones). Malvolio was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick and nominated for ten AUDELCO Awards, including Best Play. Her other off-Broadway premieres include The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop, Director: Sam Gold) and Roar (The New Group, Director: Marion McClinton). Roar was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick and is currently being taught at universities throughout the United States. Shamieh was named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art. Her European productions in translation are Again and Against (Playhouse Theater, Sweden), The Black Eyed (Fournos Theatre, Greece), and Territories (European Union Capital of Culture Festival). Shamieh wrote and co-starred in her play of monologues, Chocolate in Heat (Director: Sam Gold), in two sold-out off-off-Broadway runs and over twenty university theatres. As Soon As Impossible was developed with Jamie Farr and commissioned by Second Stage through the Time Warner Commissioning Program. The Machine (Director: Marisa Tomei) was produced by Naked Angels at the Duke Theatre in 2007. She began performing in work-in-progress presentations of The Alter-Ego of an Arab-American Assimilationist (a performance art-lecture) at colleges in 2014. Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies presented the world premiere of a suite of arias from Territories, an opera based on her play. Fit for a Queen had world premiere at the Classical Theatre of Harlem in October 2016 (Director: Tamilla Woodard). In 2017, the New York premiere of her immersive murder mystery The Strangest (Director: May Adrales) was selected as one of the season’s “most promising live events” in the New York Times Spring Arts Preview article, “32 Reasons to Get Out & Get Off the Couch.” Shamieh’s theatre work has been the subject of features in the New York Times, Time Out, American Theatre magazine, Theater Bay Area, the Brooklyn Rail, San Francisco Chronicle, Svenska Dagbladet, Teaterstockholm, der Standard, Aramco Magazine, Kathimeiri, and the International Herald Tribune among others. A cartoon of Roar appeared in the New Yorker’s “Goings on about Town” section. Her debut novel, Too Soon, was published this January by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A February 2025 Indie Next List pick, Too Soon has been named People Magazine's Book of the Week, the must-read book of 2025 by the San Francisco Chronicle and a great book to start of a great year in Oprah Daily. Too Soon was also featured as NPR's Book of the Day and on All Things Considered. Ian Belknap is a former Artistic Director of Tony Award-winning theatre The Acting Company (TAC). Described by The New York Times as producing with curatorial inspiration,” Belknap has directed, produced, or commissioned a wide range of dramatic literature from new plays by Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, Nambi E. Kelley, Lisa Peterson, and Betty Shamieh to reinterpretations of William Shakespeare (15 productions), Sean O’Casey, and John Steinbeck. Belknap’s directorial and producing work has been seen from coast to coast in 800 US cities and 48 states, extensively off-Broadway and at leading resident theatres nationwide, including 59E59 Theaters, Arizona Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Everyman Theatre, The Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, New York Theatre Workshop, New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre, New Victory, Pearl Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Resident Ensemble Players, and Theatre for a New Audience, among others. In recent years, he has also worked in television and film, developing content for major studios and networks. In addition, Ian has extensive experience building partnerships with academic communities, working with 28 universities and colleges in 17 states. Ian has directed at The Juilliard School and has an ongoing relationship with Grad Acting at New York University. Raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ian lives in New York City with his wife, Lauren, and their daughter, Thea. Oblong Books in Rhinebeck is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on-site van accessible parking. Microphones and speakers will be used at this event. Our chairs are stackable and have arms. If you have specific questions about the space or how an event can be made more accessible to you, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@oblongbooks.com. Information Source: Oblong Books | eventbrite