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• Mad River Theater Works to debut March on Washington play

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 11, 2024

  

  A new play by Mad River Theater Works, or MRTW, “Keep Marching: The Road to the March on Washington,” aims to delve deeper into the grassroots history of the historic event.

• Senior Center buys land from Antioch College, new building planned

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 15, 2023

  

  On Monday, Dec. 11, the last of the paperwork was signed to purchase a half-acre parcel of land from Antioch College, where the center aims to build and open a new facility.

• Antioch College awarded $100,000 grant

  By YS News StaffDecember 7, 2023

  

  To address what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called “the defining public health crisis of our time,” 13 small liberal arts colleges, including Antioch, have each been awarded $100,000 this year and $75,000 next year to address campus wellness — particularly mental health.

• Experimental sounds coming to the Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 15, 2023

  

  The performance will feature duo Zoh Amba and Chris Corsano and local resident and musician Evan Miller in an evening of music that defies traditional musical boundaries and — due to the musicians’ improvisational styles — precludes expectation.

• Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs focus of upcoming talk

  By Reilly DixonNovember 3, 2023

  

  The genealogy of Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs will be the focus of a community workshop presented by Antioch College and hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom on two consecutive Saturdays in December.

• Fest in show

  By YS News StaffNovember 2, 2023

  

  The festival, which ran Oct. 6–8, featured a number of screenings and Q&A discussions, including with filmmakers Steven Bognar, Stephen Michael Simon and Steve Zahn and actor and comedian Fred Armisen.

• Antioch College | Exhibition honors grunge legend Mia Zapata

  By Guest Contributor

  

  The exhibition is the first-ever retrospective centering Zapata’s visual art and the first time many of these pieces have been shown publicly since their creation in the late 1980s. Zapata is best known for being the lead singer and frontwoman of The Gits.

• Antioch College hosts Fireside Chat on intergenerational feminism

  By YS News StaffOctober 12, 2023

  

  The panel, moderated by Xavier Portis, included Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D., an American anthropologist, educator, the first woman to serve as president of historically Black institution Spelman College, and former president of Bennett College.

• Antioch College ranked in ‘Top 100 Liberal Arts Schools’

  By YS News StaffOctober 6, 2023

  

  Antioch College announced last week that for the first time since its reopening in 2011, the college has been listed in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 National Liberal Arts Schools ranking.

• Lights up at the Antioch College Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 13, 2023

  

  This fall, the Foundry will again be the home to not just one group of artists-in-residence, but three. At the same time, the Foundry is gearing up to launch a full season of programming.