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• 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?

• Gala for downtown’s ‘heart’

  By Megan BachmanJune 17, 2010

  

  The Little Art Theatre, which recently turned non-profit, now asks for the community’s support with its first fundraising event, an auction gala on Friday, June 25, at 5:30 p.m. at Antioch University McGregor, which also commemorates the theater’s 80-year anniversary.

• Short films debut at Little Art

  By Stephanie BeasleyJanuary 14, 2010

  

  Filmmaker and villager Vanessa Query, left, has organized a festival of original short films that will be shown at the Little Art Theatre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. She is shown with Little Art -Executive Director Jenny Cowperthwaite, who is enthusiastic about providing a venue for independent filmmakers.

• A nonprofit, Little Art lives on

  By Web AdminOctober 22, 2009

  Zack McGhee loves the Little Art Theatre. He first started coming here for the indie circuit as a teenager from Fairborn and then in 2006 became a projectionist to get paid for one of his favorite pastimes. He is proud to have brought his Republican parents here to see films such as Michael Moore’s Bowling […]

• Kid flicks, red carpet at Little Art

  By Susan GartnerFebruary 26, 2009

  

  Lora Boarman, Laura Carlson, Elaine Chappelle, Chasilee Crawford and Stacey Wirrig have a refreshing — and infectious — approach to the typical departmental meeting. For starters, their weekly meetings take place at the Emporium or Yellow Springs Arts Council Art Space.