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In partnership with Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA), City of Columbus – Office of the Mayor, City of Columbus – City Council, US Together, Welcoming City, Bell Tree Productions and Zen Genius.

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Since its founding in 1969, CAPA has achieved international recognition for presenting diverse arts and educational programming, excellence in facility management, and positive contributions to the quality of life in our community. CAPA has over 50 years of experience serving as the steward of multiple arts venues throughout Columbus and central Ohio, including Downtown Columbus’ historic Ohio, Palace, and Southern Theatres; the landmark Lincoln Theatre in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood; the State of Ohio’s Riffe Center Theatre Complex; the Drexel Theatre (Bexley, OH), the McCoy Center for the Arts (New Albany, OH); and the Shubert Theatre (New Haven, CT). We offer hundreds of programs and events in our central Ohio and throughout the community venues each year, serving over 500,000 people annually. Our presentations include the CAPA Summer Movie Series, the longest-running classic film series in the nation, as well as Festival Latino – Ohio’s largest free Latin/Latino festival – and the Broadway in Columbus Series. CAPA also provides back-office services for a variety of arts and cultural organizations.

• To coordinate, organize, and initiate services to refugees and immigrants through education, advocacy, support services, information, referrals, and networking opportunities in order to strengthen the community that we live in and to promote international understanding through intercultural exchange. US Together, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) mutual assistance agency founded in 2003 as a response to the needs of refugees and immigrants in central Ohio.

We welcome refugees from all over the world who are forced to seek refuge in another country due to the inability to stay in their native country. Services are provided in our Columbus, Cleveland, and Toledo offices. We serve people who came from many countries where their rights and very lives are in danger. They are starting their lives anew in the United States.