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2025

Arts Section

  • YS Film Festival Mini-Fest to return

    The YS Film Festival will hold its second annual Mini-Fest this month; the Mini-Fest debuted last year as a prelude to the second annual full festival event.

  • Foundry Theater— Ukrainian band Yagódy’s epic sound 

    Ukrainian band Yagódy comes to the Foundry Theater Thursday, April 3, as part of their first North American tour. Blending folk, pop, rock and electronic sounds, the band’s unique oeuvre can only be described as epic.

  • Felker retires ‘Poor Will’s Almanack’ on WYSO

    Local almanac writer Bill Felker recently published a new book, “Home Is the Prime Meridian,” a collection of nature essays drawn from his News columns and elsewhere. Pictured here in his greenhouse with a bound version of his daybook, Felker recalled how his wife’s gift of a barometer in 1972 got him started on observing weather patterns and other natural phenomena. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    WYSO announced this month that the final episode of “Poor Will’s Almanack,” a weekly program hosted by local resident and writer Bill Felker, will air Tuesday, April 1.

  • Local artists ‘hold space’ at the Winds Cafe

    Locally based artists Rachel Meyer and Shauna Schramke teamed up this past month to present “Holding Space,” a joint art installation on display at The Winds Cafe until March 2.

  • Annual dance and performance concert slated

    The annual Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition will be presented Friday and Saturday, March 28 and 29, beginning at 7:30 p.m. each evening, at the Foundry Theater.

  • Emporium to host 2 of Clubs House Party

    The Emporium will host the 2 of Clubs House Party on Friday, March 28, during the weekly wine tasting; the event is brought to the village by producer, singer and rapper Michael Breslin, of 2 of Clubs, who has held a number of similar events in the Dayton area.

  • Little Art to host intergenerational songwriters’ round

    Sharon Lane, Kyleen Downes, Dawn Cooksey and Rhue Buddendeck will perform an intergenerational musical showcase at the Little Art Theatre on Wednesday, March 26 — just a few days before the end of Women’s History Month.

  • Yellow Springs Porchfest to return this September

    According to a press release received by the News this week, Porchfest has found a new home under the care of the YS Arts Council, supported by a grant from the YS Community Foundation.

  • Chamber Music in Yellow Springs season continues with Akropolis Reed Quintet

    On Sunday, March 23, Chamber Music in Yellow Springs will present the 2025 Grammy-Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet at First Presbyterian Church.

  • Mad River Theater Works mixes it up

    Mad River is leaning into bringing these and other varieties of performances to the village in the future — including two events set for this month.

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