LINC Inclusion Community

Allentown Art Museum's annual MLK Day Celebration
2025-01-20 11:00 - 17:00 UTC
Join us at the Museum for our annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, January 20, 2025, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. This family friendly event features art making, live musical performances, poetry, and more! Admission and parking in our lot are FREE.

MLK Day Luncheon
2025-01-20 12:00 - 14:00
Join the Moravian University Center for Inclusive Excellence for our annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lunch featuring Lindsay Watson, Co-Founder of FIA NOW Employment Solutions and Founder of Joy Fluent.

Webinar – Remote Control: Empowering Employees to Effectively Navigate Return to Work
2025-01-22 12:00 - 13:00
Register Here!
Navigating the post-Covid return to work can be a challenging transition, especially for employees with disabilities. Explore strategies for managing hybrid and in-office environments, ensuring accessibility, and advocating for accommodations. This webinar will equip participants with practical tools and resources to empower employees to adapt to evolving workplace dynamics.

Performance: Song of the North
2025-01-29 19:30 - 21:00
A large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia. This epic love story employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers, all of which come together to create a spectacular experience that advances the themes of unity, collaboration, and experimentation through performance and story. Song of the North, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), challenges the Eurocentric worldview of art and storytelling through a contemporary multimedia experience of this classic Persian tale.

Roundtable: From Conflict to Connection: Approaching and Bridging Difficult Conversations
2025-01-31 08:00 - 09:00
January 31st, 2025 from 8:00 am-9:00 am (virtual / Zoom)
From Conflict to Connection: Approaching and Bridging Difficult Conversations

A moderated panel discussion followed by a live Q&A. Come to learn & engage!
Description:
In this engaging panel discussion, panelists will explore how to transform challenging conversations into opportunities for connection and growth. Learn strategies to identify underlying tensions, interrupt unproductive dialogue, and build bridges across differences. Whether you’re navigating conflict in the workplace or in your community, this session will provide practical tools for fostering more meaningful and productive conversations.
Moderator: Guillermo Lopez, Executive Director, The Guillermo Lopez DEI Institute
Panelists:

Kristin Leayman, Senior HR Partner, Air Products
Tyrone Russell, CEO & Principal Consultant, Faces International
Robyn Weaver, Program Officer, Capacity Building, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation

1/31/2025 – Roundtable: From Conflict to Connection: Approaching and Bridging Difficult Convers

Disability, Urban Living, and Wellness: Community Mapping Workshops
2025-02-01 08:00 - 17:00
The mapping project is meant to improve disability experience and urban living in South Bethlehem. Participation includes cash gratitude, a meal, and an opportunity to connect with others. Interested community members can participate by signing up through the QR code on the flyer. This event is led by Christina Zhang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design at Lehigh University.

My Brother's Keeper Presents: 2025 NBHAAD Webinar - Breaking Barriers, Building Health
2025-02-06 14:00 - 15:00
Hosted in collaboration with CDC’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together,” this webinar will highlight strategies and solutions to address challenges in HIV prevention and care within Black communities. The webinar will also examine the critical role of access, education, and resources in improving health outcomes. Webinar Speakers: Dr. Robyn Neblett Fanfair MD, MPH | CDC Harold Phillips, MRP | NMAC Jesse Milan Jr., JD | AIDS United Rev. Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey | Human Rights Campaign Register today to be part of this crucial conversation.

Museum and a Movie: L.A. Rebellions - A Cinematic Experience
2025-02-09 13:00 - 16:30 | Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton Street, Easton, 18042, United States
NCHGS’s Museum and a Movie series showcases independent, international, and historical short films relevant to our museum exhibits and the communities we serve.
February 2025’s feature is “L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement,” a 2023 film produced by PBS as part of their Artbound culture series.
“L.A. Rebellion” captures the oral histories of members of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television, which enacted affirmative action policies in the wake of the Watts Uprising of 1965. By encouraging students of color to enroll in its film program, the “ethno-communications” initiative uplifted and supported stories from marginalized ethnicities and opened doorways for these students to document their own histories. By making films for (and by) their own communities, students brought authentic voices and a shared drive for solidarity and community support to a medium that had historically excluded them.
“L.A. Rebellion” is approximately one hour in length and will be shown at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 PM in the John R. Austen Auditorium of the Sigal Museum.
This program is free to the public.

Access Culture Discussion Group
2025-02-10 13:00 - 14:00
Lehigh University Art Galleries’ monthly Access Culture Discussion Group virtual meeting.
As part of the Access Culture Initiative at Lehigh University Art Galleries, they are hosting a monthly accessibility discussion group for arts and cultural administrators, artists, students, educators, etc. to meet, discuss, and share resources. This group is free and open to all who are interested; this group will always meet virtually.
Suggestions or thoughts for meeting topics or resource sharing are always welcome. As always, please feel free to share this with other co-workers and colleagues who may be interested in this work. Sign up to lead a meeting discussion or view the plan/readings for the next meeting by clicking here!
Please contact Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu to receive the Zoom link and for accessibility needs or accommodations in advance

Young at Art 2025
2025-02-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Penn State Lehigh Valley, 2809 Saucon Valley Rd, Center Valley, 18034
Young at Art is all about experiencing the arts first hand. Children of all ages can try out instruments, participate in interactive arts activities, and experience performances by their peers in every artistic discipline. Parents, you will witness how the arts spark your child’s imagination and have the opportunity to gather valuable information about lessons, classes, summer camps, and other educational offerings by local cultural organizations.

Growing Up Black in Easton Through the Decades
2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton Street, Easton, 18042, United States
Join prominent members of Easton’s Black community for an afternoon of insight, story-sharing, and inter-generational conversation!
Panelists will speak about their experiences growing up in Easton, from the 1960s to the present, and the changes they saw in their neighborhoods, their educational experiences, and their social lives. All members of the community will have the opportunity to share their own experiences following the panel discussion.
Speakers will include:

Dr. Karen Britt, Professor of Business/Economics at Northampton Community College, an Adjunct Faculty member at Muhlenberg College, and the founder of Juneteenth Lehigh Valley
Lillian June Robinson, founder of the oral history project African-American Migration from Cuthbert, GA to Easton, PA.
Bill Houston, former Easton Area School District Administrator and fellow contributor to the oral history project
Josh Robinson, President of the NAACP, Easton Branch #2260
H. Michael Swint, semi-retired partner in Swint Hauling & Disposal Services, LLC, and former finance director for Greater Shiloh Church.

This program is part of a larger series of preparing for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, as we continue to grapple with the meanings of democracy, freedom, and equality. Join us as we explore our commonalities and celebrate how our differences make us a fuller, more vibrant community.
In the words of Dr. Karen Britt, “Somewhere in the red, white, and blue is you.”
Free for NCHGS members; $10.00 for non-members.
This program is being funded in whole or in part with funding from the Hotel Tax Grant Program through the County of Northampton Department of Community & Economic Development.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life: Finding Balance in Every Space
2025-02-18 11:00 - 13:00
Join the Women’s Business Council’s Annual Women’s Wellness Expo, focusing on mental health and practical strategies for personal and professional growth. This year’s event will dive into decluttering your mind, developing healthy habits, and setting boundaries—empowering you to live with balance and clarity. Hear from physicians from our local health networks on practical strategies to help you thrive at work and at home.

The Power of Racial Healing Community Panel
2025-02-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Cedar Crest College
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YPC Leadership Summit
2025-02-21 07:30 - 12:00 | DeSales University Center, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA, 18034, United States
The Chamber’s Young Professionals Council presents the YPC Leadership Summit on Friday, February 21st, 2025, at DeSales University from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. to inspire and give advice to our young professionals. Join us for a half-day focused on building your business and personal brand. Your ticket grants you access to a delicious breakfast, valuable networking opportunities, and a vendor marketplace packed with resources to boost your professional growth. Plus, you’ll gain insights from a dynamic keynote presentation, engaging breakout sessions, and an inspiring leadership panel.

Film Screening: Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones.
2025-02-25 17:00 - 21:00 | Steel Stacks, 101 Founders Way,, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, United States
Join Blue Zone Project Lehigh Valley for a free screening of Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones.

Economic Empowerment Series Part V
2025-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Muhlenberg College, 2400 W Chew St, Allentown, PA, 18104
Part five of the Economic Empowerment series, presented by the African American Business Council

A Community Conversation: Immigration Close To Home
2025-02-27 18:00 - 19:00 | PBS39 Studios, 839 Sesame St., Bethlehem, 18015
“Community Conversation: Immigration Close to Home” focuses on what immigration looks like in the Lehigh Valley. Guests include immigration experts, advocates, local law makers and members of the immigrant community. Viewers will learn more about how immigration and deportation affect our neighbors, cities, state and nation from culture to the economy.
Join the live audience and have your voice be heard as we sort this, often-emotional, issue in a civil, balanced, and fact-based broadcast Thursday, February 27th at 6 PM with Community Conversation host Brittany Sweeney.

The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth argues that residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. It contends that housing insecurity and its attendant health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order.

It explains how these dire racist injustices are effects of practices that might appear initially to be race neutral, such as decisions about zoning and construction of municipal and school district boundaries. Health and housing injustices cannot be remedied by any single law, public policy, medical practice, or technological fix. They require the creation of an active and engaged multi-sphere public mobilization that recruits people to invent and implement new democratic practices in many different arenas. The Danger Zone is Everywhere calls attention to the profound wisdom and powerful achievements of grass roots fair housing groups, health and healing arts collectives, environmental justice initiatives, community land trusts, autonomous learning circles, and community co-operative ventures.

International Women's Day Annual Luncheon
2025-03-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Cactus Blue Mexican Restaurant, 4030 Chestnut Street, Emmaus, PA, PA, 18049, United States
This event is hosted by the Women’s Business Council of the greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Party with a Purpose
2025-03-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Da Vinci Science Center at PPL Pavillion, 815 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA, 18101, United States
Join the Junior League of the Lehigh Valley for an evening of fun, food, and philanthropy at Party with a Purpose! This signature event will take place at the Da Vinci Science Center—a cherished community hub that the Junior League proudly helped bring to life.

Enjoy delicious food, refreshing drinks, and the excitement of a silent auction featuring unique and exclusive items. Whether you’re a long-time supporter or a new friend, this is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the League’s legacy of service while contributing to the impact we continue to make in the Lehigh Valley.

Proceeds from the event will support the Junior League’s mission to advance women’s leadership and drive impactful community programs. Don’t miss this chance to party with a purpose!

Your ticket includes the following:
-A selection of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres to enjoy throughout the event
-Access to the My Body exhibit at the center
-Entry to the silent auction, featuring exciting items and experiences
-Premium cash bar
Tickets are $65. Dress Code: Semi-Formal. RSVP by 3/8.

How We Can Block, Bridge, and Build Our Democratic Future Together
2025-03-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the Democracy & Belonging Forum on March 17 at 5pm CET, 11am ET, 8am PT for a special learning session hosted by Julia Roig and Jarvis Williams of the Horizons Project.
This session is in response to the current moment in history that requires us to develop new organizing modalities where dialogue is complementary to other approaches. Civic actors have to come together to block the threats we are facing to our democratic values, we need to bridge across differences to foster broad-based movements with the widest participation, and we have to build together the future we want to live in our communities and our nation. As we seek to work towards belonging for all, protect democracy, and combat authoritarian trends, civic actors have to be and do several things at once: in this session, we will explore together the many paradoxes of being both in resistance mode while also being restorative. How do we stay future-oriented and hopeful while acknowledging and redressing past and current harms? In conversation together, we will interrogate these seeming tensions and investigate how we can wrestle in practice with these paradoxes, allowing us to move forward together with the broadest participation possible along many lines of difference.

PBS39's Be My Neighbor Day with Daniel Tiger
2025-03-29 09:00 - 13:00 | Univest Public Media Center, 839 Sesame Street, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, United States
Be My Neighbor Day is a free, family-friendly event. You can meet Daniel Tiger, listen to stories, dance and sing with Lolly Hopwood, make a mosaic artwork using found materials, learn about caring for plants in our neighborhoods – and more! Check the agenda for the full listing of activities.
Important Note: Photo sessions with Daniel Tiger require timed registration, one per family. You can select your time in check-out as an ‘add-on.’ If you have any questions, reach out to dejaf@wlvt.org.

World Autism Day
2025-04-02

Laylat al-Qadr
2025-04-05

Bethlehem Cherry Blossom Festival
2025-04-05 12:00 - 16:00 | Garden of Serenity, N New St, Bethlehem, PA, 18018, United States
The 2025 Bethlehem Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on April 5th from 12–4 PM at the Garden of Serenity. This year, the festival is expanding to accommodate larger crowds, and a timed entry system will be introduced for the popular tea ceremony. Attendees can enjoy taiko drumming, mochi-making, calligraphy, origami, Japanese festival food, and more. Cash is preferred for purchases. Even if unable to attend, visitors can still enjoy the cherry blossoms in early to mid-April. More details will be shared in local papers and online.

Navrati ends
2025-04-07

Eid-al-Fitr/End of Ramadan
2025-04-09

Mahavir Jayanti
2025-04-10

National Day of Silence (LGBTQ+)
2025-04-11

Passover begins
2025-04-12
