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  • Watch Chaplin, hear live music

    By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 15, 2015

    The Little Art Theatre kicks off a week of special film events this weekend. On Sunday, Jan. 11, a free screening of “Microbirth” will take place at 1 p.m. At 7 p.m. that evening, “Nanook of the North” will launch a four-part documentary series, with Antioch College media arts professor Charles Fairbanks introducing the film and leading a discussion afterwards. On Thursday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. the New River Ensemble, comprised of Lisa Liske-Doorandish, Brendan Cooney and village native Martha Hyde will perform Cooney’s original score to classic silent films. (Submitted photos)

    Yellow Springs native Martha Hyde returns to the Little Art as one of three musicians of the New River Ensemble, who will perform original music set to the silent classics of Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

  • “Microbirth” turns microscope on birth practices

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 6, 2015

    A free film and panel discussion at the Little Art Theatre will discuss the impact of various birth practices on the newborn’s bacterial microbiome.

  • Miyazaki discusses representations of power in film

    By Lauren HeatonJanuary 30, 2014

    Political scientist Kurt Miyazaki opens the Little Art Theatre’s series “Let’s Talk Film” this Saturday.

  • Little Art celebrates grand re-opening in Yellow Springs

    By Megan BachmanSeptember 26, 2013

    Little Art Theatre Executive Director Jenny Cowperthwaite welcomes theatergoers into the new lobby of the renovated theater, which will be open to the community during an open house from 3 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28. During the first complete renovation in the Little Art’s 84-year history, the theater was closed for the last five months and upgraded with a digital projector and surround-sound system, new cushioned seats, handicapped-accessible bathrooms and a spacious lobby, among other changes. After the open house, the theater begins a 12-day “Back to the Movies” film festival. Regular programming resumes on Friday, Oct. 11. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    To showcase its half-million dollar, five-month makeover, the Little Art will hold an open house and grand reopening from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, with free films, live music and dancing, free popcorn and more.

  • Little Art celebrates last reel

    By Megan BachmanMay 2, 2013

    It’s the end of the reel for the Little Art Theatre. The 84-year-old theater will play its last 35-millimeter film print before dismantling its ancient projector during a special film festival beginning this weekend, after which the theater will close for three months to undergo a half-million-dollar renovation and digital upgrade.

  • Little Art Theatre goes national

    By YS News StaffMay 1, 2013

    The Little Art Theatre’s closing for renovation Tuesday prompted a visit from National Public Radio.

  • Little Art Theatre to screen final 35mm films

    By Megan BachmanApril 24, 2013

    This weekend the Little Art Theatre will put on the “Last Reel Film Festival” featuring 35mm films before closing for three months for a complete renovation.

  • Little Art to screen local film

    By Lauren ShowsApril 26, 2011

    The Little Art Theatre will screen “North Dixie Drive” on Sunday, May 1, 3:30 p.m.

  • Film chronicles small town’s first integrated prom

    By Lauren ShowsOctober 27, 2010

    The Little Art Theatre will offer a second free screening of Prom Night in Mississippi on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. The documentary, shot in 2008, follows a group of high school seniors preparing for their first racially-integrated prom.

  • Film tracks exotic pet industry

    By Lauren HeatonSeptember 30, 2010

    Throughout the 1980s on the east side of Hilltop Road at Fairground Road there stood a modest, old house with a conspicuously large metal cage in the back yard. On nice days, passersby who happened to focus beyond the fencing would likely have seen what appeared to be a lion. Was it a pet? Did it live there permanently? Could it escape?