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• Mark Lomax Trio brings expansive jazz to the Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 30, 2023

  

  The Mark Lomax Trio will headline the Foundry Theater at Antioch College Saturday, Dec. 2, as the theater continues its inaugural season of programming.

• Little Art Theatre receives $100,000 grant

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 28, 2023

  

  Just before the lights went down for a screening of “The Wizard of Oz” last Thursday, Nov. 16, Little Art Theatre Development and Community Impact Director Katherine Eckstrand walked into the auditorium to cheers from a full house crowd.

• Fiber artists to unveil newest installation in Glen Helen

  By Reilly DixonNovember 18, 2023

  

  On Sunday, Nov. 19, local multimedia artists Kathi Seidl and Beth Holyoke will unveil their newest installation: a kaleidoscopic fairy ring of felted and crocheted mushrooms clustered up and around the central pillar in the atrium of the Vernet Ecological Center.

• 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.

• Barbara Fleming’s ‘African American Mothers’ nudges policymakers

  By Guest ContributorNovember 7, 2023

  

  Local resident Barbara Fleming, Ph.D., recently released her new book, “African American Mothers: Their Children and Their Poverty in America in the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century.”

• ‘Restrained roots’ coming to the Foundry Theater at Antioch College

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 4, 2023

  

  The Foundry Theater at Antioch College will continue its first season of programming with a performance from musicians Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert on Wednesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 7 p.m.

• 2023 Village Inspiration and Design Award celebration set

  By YS News StaffNovember 3, 2023

  

  The YS Public Arts & Culture Commission will honor its 2023 VIDA recipients in a celebration Friday, Nov. 3, 6–8 p.m., at Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

• Antioch College | Exhibition honors grunge legend Mia Zapata

  By Guest ContributorNovember 2, 2023

  

  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.

• Kay Reimers writes Yellow Springs history in ‘How It Happened’

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 12, 2023

  

  In order to understand the identity and character of Yellow Springs, it helps to know something about its history. That’s the guiding principle of local author Kay Reimers’ recently released historical book, “How It Happened: The Creation of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

• Basim Blunt named Eichelberger Center executive director

  By YS News StaffSeptember 30, 2023

  

  Basim Blunt — the host of WYSO’s weekly funk program “Behind the Groove” and a longtime radio producer at the station — was recently named the new executive director of the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.