Featured Events in Bowling Green in June 2025 (August Updated)

YANK & YEET 2025 USAW membership is required for the sanctioned sessions only. An Unsanctioned session will be held for non-USAW members. No singlet required! PRIZES: Medals & prizes will be awarded to Best Lifter (male & female) for Youth, Junior, Senior, and Masters divisions CASH Prize awarded to the best male and best female lifter overall! Raffle prizes All age divisions and weight classes welcome The minimum weight for a single lift is 10kg Official USAW rules of play apply Start list will be emailed to athletes on the Monday before the meet NEW: Spectators are welcome with $5 entry fee Early Bird Registration ($55): November 16th - February 28th, 2025 Regular Registration ($70): March 1st - May 16th, 2025 Last Call Registration ($100): May 17th- May 31st, 2025 No refunds unless event must be postponed Email bowlinggreenbarbellclub@gmail.com with questions! Information Source: BG Powerhouse | eventbrite

Welcome to the WCHS Alumni Reunion ! Join us for a night of nostalgia, laughter, and reconnecting with old friends at La Gala . Dust off your old yearbooks and reminisce about the good old days. This event is the perfect opportunity to catch up with classmates and see how everyone has been doing since graduation. Don't miss out on this chance to relive your high school memories and create new ones with your fellow alumni. We can't wait to see you there! Information Source: Edina, Adi & Haylie | eventbrite

How do we tell histories of motherhood and architecture in the UK? How has motherhood affected women’s existence, experience, and representation in architecture? How have motherhood norms and expectations, and the idea of the nuclear family, been shaped by architecture? What are the ways that mothers, as architects or otherwise, have made space for themselves, their families, and communities? How have women given voice to their experiences as makers and maintainers of domestic space? This salon brings together architecture and design practitioners and researchers exploring histories of architecture and motherhood in twentieth century Britain. Combining new research with individual experiences, these speakers will consider the relationship between professional and personal selves. Speakers: Anne Thorne, Cathy Hawley, Marianna Janowicz, Alex Banister, Cat Rossi and Kim Trogal. This event is for all those interested in new research on the relationship between motherhood and the built environment, past and present. This is designed to be an inclusive and informal event: attendees are welcome to bring babies / pre-school children. Venue informationEntry to the building:Access to the site and building is via the black metal gate facing onto the street. If this gate is closed, please use the intercom to the right of the gate and wait for a reply. The door will then open automatically. Accessibility: Our building is step free and wheelchair accessible. There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate. Please contact us in advance if you require the use our step-free alternative entry gate. We have accessible and gender-neutral toilets, baby changing facilities and a breastfeeding-friendly area. Assistance dogs welcome. Filming: Commercial photography, the use of tripods and private filming is not permitted. The organisers will be taking photographs and an audio recording of the event, please inform staff on the day if you do not wish to be included in any photographs or audio or visual recording. Refreshments Doors will open half an hour before the event starts, during which teas and coffees will be served. Attendees are welcome to bring food to the event. Image: © Liz Milne Information Source: Zaha Hadid Foundation | eventbrite

Yale School of Architecture and the Zaha Hadid Foundation will host a talk by award-winning architect Anupama Kundoo. 'Rethinking Materiality: Human Resourcefulness and Natural Resources' Anupama Kundoo discusses how architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics where some of the bigger questions reside. Through extensive material research and experimentation we rethink materiality and critically examine the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design and the industrialized production of building components and instead look at consumption of finite natural resources alongside their impact on human wellbeing and human resourcefulness. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. BiographyAnupama Kundoo graduated from University of Mumbai in 1989 and received her PhD degree from TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice started in 1990 in Auroville has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. Her body of works was recently exhibited as a solo show 'Taking Time' at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues including at Yale University and Columbia University. She is currently Professor of Architecture at T.U. Berlin. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award for her contribution to architectural theory, the 2021 Auguste Perret Prize for architectural technology, the 2021 Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council DGNB, and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022. Her studios are based in Berlin in Germany, and Mumbai and Pondicherry in India. Kundoo’s rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions, construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of industrialization. Rather than focussing on shortage, she sought abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. Venue informationEntry to the building:Access to the site and building is via the black metal gate facing onto the street. If this gate is closed, please use the intercom to the right of the gate and wait for a reply. The door will then open automatically. Accessibility: Our building is step free and wheelchair accessible. There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate. Please contact us in advance if you require the use our step-free alternative entry gate. We have accessible and gender-neutral toilets, and baby changing facilities. Assistance dogs welcome. Filming: Commercial photography, the use of tripods and private filming is not permitted. The organisers will be taking photographs of the event, please inform staff on the day if you do not wish to be included in any photographs. Image: Wall House. © Javier Callejas Information Source: Zaha Hadid Foundation | eventbrite

YANK & YEET 2025 USAW membership is required for the sanctioned sessions only. An Unsanctioned session will be held for non-USAW members. No singlet required! PRIZES: Medals & prizes will be awarded to Best Lifter (male & female) for Youth, Junior, Senior, and Masters divisionsCASH Prize awarded to the best male and best female lifter overall!Raffle prizesAll age divisions and weight classes welcome The minimum weight for a single lift is 10kg Official USAW rules of play apply Start list will be emailed to athletes on the Monday before the meet NEW: Spectators are welcome with $5 entry fee Early Bird Registration ($55): November 16th - February 28th, 2025 Regular Registration ($70): March 1st - May 16th, 2025 Last Call Registration ($100): May 17th- May 31st, 2025 No refunds unless event must be postponed Email bowlinggreenbarbellclub@gmail.com with questions! Information Source: BG Powerhouse | eventbrite

A Yale x ZHF Talk with architect and educator Marina Tabassum. BiographyMarina Tabassum is a Bangladeshi architect and educator. She graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995 and founded Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) in 2005. In her work, Tabassum seeks to establish a language of architecture that is contemporary yet reflectively rooted to place, always against an ecological rubric containing climate, context, culture, history. Her project Bait Ur Rouf Mosque was listed among the top 25 post war buildings of the world by New York Times. She received the coveted Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Among her important works is the Independence Museum and monument of Bangladesh designed in 1997. Tabassum is a Professor at the Technical University Delft, in the Netherlands. She received honorary doctorate from Technical University Munich. As a visiting professor she has taught at Yale University, University of Toronto, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, University of Texas and BRAC University. She held the position of Academic Director of the Bengal Institute from 2015 to 2021. Tabassum served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture from 2017 to 2022. Tabassum Chairs the Executive Board of Prokritee, a fare trade organization that promotes crafts and provides livelihood to more than 5000 women artisans of Bangladesh. She is the founder and chairperson of Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (FACE). Her social engagements focus on marginalisation, climate justice and architecture. Tabassum was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by TIMES magazine. Marina Tabassum’s pursuit for the ‘Architecture of Relevance’ has won her various international accolades such as the Soane Medal from United Kingdom, the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture, Arnold Brunner Prize from American Academy of Arts and Letters. Venue informationEntry to the building:Access to the site and building is via the black metal gate facing onto the street. If this gate is closed, please use the intercom to the right of the gate and wait for a reply. The door will then open automatically. Accessibility: Our building is step free and wheelchair accessible. There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate. Please contact us in advance if you require the use our step-free alternative entry gate. We have accessible and gender-neutral toilets, and baby changing facilities. Assistance dogs welcome. Filming: Commercial photography, the use of tripods and private filming is not permitted. The organisers will be taking photographs of the event, please inform staff on the day if you do not wish to be included in any photographs. Information Source: Zaha Hadid Foundation | eventbrite

Over the last 18 years, The DisOrdinary Architecture Project has brought disabled artists, designers and architects into mainstream architectural education and practice through a wide range of collaborations and commissions. Join us for our 18th Birthday Party during the London Festival of Architecture 2025, as we celebrate the achievements and lessons learnt over the last 18 years; explore what needs to happen next, in order to enable truly accessible and just spaces – not only in our built surroundings, but also in architecture itself as a discipline and as a practice. Following a short welcome, you have the chance to learn more about Disability and Spatial Justice through short readings or workshops, or just relax with others who are in the DisOrdinary Architecture community. Full programme to be send ahead of the event. We look forward to celebrating with you! ----------------- About the venue: The majority of the Zaha Hadid Foundation building is step free, with a mixture of hard and soft flooring. There is a small step up to the quite room.There are accessible and gender-neutral toilets.There is on-site parking, although this is limited, so please let us know if you are planning to use this.There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate, and a small lip on the main entrance. There is a step-free alternative near the on site parking.At the venue, there will be: A quiet room with a selection of chairs and sofas.A relaxed room with video playing and beanbags.An activity room, with a series of workshops and readings.A connecting room, where you can grab a drink, chat, and hear the opening and closing words. This is the central space.Light food and drinkBSL interpretersYou can let us know any access requirements you have by answering the questions when you register. If you have any further questions, you can email disordinaryarchitecture@gmail.com. Information Source: eventbrite

While post-war Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara is celebrated across Japan, the US and continental Europe, he remains little known in the UK. He pioneered the idea that ‘A House is Art’ but artistic responses to his architecture have so far been scarce. His designs for single-family houses reconfigured people’s understanding of domesticity but commentary on his work has excluded the voices and positions of women. In the centenary year of Shinohara’s birth, London-based artist Michaela Nettell is creating a book that brings together fresh interpretations of his 1961 Umbrella House by a group of women working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and Japanese calligraphy. Join the artist and her collaborators to hear more about their research, and pick up a copy of her newly-published pamphlet ‘A totally different world.’ The artist’s 8mm film study of Umbrella House will be screened alongside excerpts from Emily Richardson’s HOUSE WORKS, a trilogy of artist’s films about prototype houses built in East Anglia in the 1960s by architects known to be interested in cultural currents in Japan. Event chaired by architectural writer and curator Yuki Sumner. Attendance is free but booking essential. Venue informationEntry to the building:Access to the site and building is via the black metal gate facing onto the street. If this gate is closed, please use the intercom to the right of the gate and wait for a reply. The door will then open automatically. Accessibility: Our building is step free and wheelchair accessible. There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate. Please contact us in advance if you require the use our step-free alternative entry gate. We have accessible and gender-neutral toilets, and baby changing facilities. Assistance dogs welcome. Filming: Commercial photography, the use of tripods and private filming is not permitted. The organisers will be taking photographs of the event, please inform staff on the day if you do not wish to be included in any photographs. Image: © Michaela Nettell / Emily Richardson Information Source: Zaha Hadid Foundation | eventbrite

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Mark your calendars for the highly-anticipated event, Headliner Tim Sauer Feature Brinn Daniels, taking place at White Squirrel Brewery in Bowling Green. Join us on June 28, 2025, at 302 State Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101, for a night filled with incredible music and entertainment. Tickets are priced at $24.57. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to experience two talented artists in one remarkable venue.

Please join us for a beautiful afternoon, collaborating with nature in a beautiful place. Working in partnership with nature can be a deeply nurturing experience. You will learn about responsible foraging, design principles, and construction techniques. We'll walk around the Grove finding elements to include, and we'll create small individual pieces and a group mandala, as a gift to the Grove. All materials and tools will be supplied, but if you have something special from your garden, or a token you would like to add to our group mandala, you are welcome to. Dress in layers. We'll be working in the meadow; I'll have blankets we can use to sit on the grass, but you may want to bring something sturdier. I look forward to seeing you! Information Source: Audrey deChadenedes | eventbrite

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