Marion Sheriff’s Office Hosting Self-Defense Classes for Women in April

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is offering a free R.A.D. course next month, designed to empower women and girls with self-defense skills. This 12-hour program, split into four 3-hour sessions, will take place at the MCSO Training Building, 692 NW 30th Avenue, Ocala, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The sessions are scheduled for April 11, 16, 18, and 23.
Starting with awareness and risk reduction strategies, the course will progress to hands-on defense training. The program ensures confidentiality for participants, creating a secure space for learning defense techniques against various threats. It's open to individuals aged 13 and above, and attendees are advised to wear comfortable clothing suitable for physical activity.
For registration, interested parties can contact MCSO Corporal Shelby Kinsey at skinsey@marionso.com.

I’d like to take a moment to tell you ladies out there that my teenage daughter and I took this class and it was the absolute best self-defense class that I have ever been to. There were teenagers and ladies in their late 60’s in this class and we all learned a lot!

To have these volunteers give their time and to have a sheriff who cares enough about us to provide this program and location to us is amazing. In most places, you have to pay for this program and rightly so because it is just that good. The fact that we have it available to us for free and at a central easily accessible location is amazing. Please ladies, I beg of you, please take this class. Not only that, but bring your daughters, your sisters, your mothers, your aunts, and your female friends. 

To save your seat, email: skinsey@marionso.com.

Don’t Miss The Stage Kiss At Noma Black Box in April!

She’s an actress who hasn’t worked in a while. He’s an actor she hasn’t seen in years. And they’re paired during the revival of a forgotten 1932 melodrama. It was an overwrought flop – and so were they, years ago. But during rehearsals, as they play reunited lovers in a doomed romance, they’re drawn back together. And as they fall under the spell of the romance they’re acting out onstage, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story follows them offstage. Is it art imitating life – or life imitating art – in this play within a play? Saucy and a little surreal, STAGE KISS is a wickedly witty romantic comedy.
There will be 10 public performances, Thursdays through Sundays, April 11-21 at the Reilly Arts Center in the NOMA Black Box.