Arts Section
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In ‘Study War No More,’ World House Choir pleas for peace
Ninety years after Vaughan Williams wrote the cantata, the World House Choir will join the Yellow Springs Community Chorus and Orchestra to perform it as part of “Study War No More,” a program of music that yearns for peace, Friday–Sunday, Nov. 13–15.
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The distance from home in Valerie Bickett’s ‘Karpathos’
In speaking with the News this month, Valerie Bickett said the memoir’s fulcrum is the idea of ambiguous loss — broadly, an unresolved grief, and in this case, a lingering ache tethered to the distance from one’s familial culture, fissures in one’s identity.
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Virginia Hamilton Literary Festival planned for 2027
One of Yellow Springs’ most acclaimed and celebrated writers will have a homecoming of sorts next year: The late children’s author Virginia Hamilton will be honored with a literary festival in her name.
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Submit 10-minute plays for annual fest
The YS Theater Company is currently accepting submissions from Ohio playwrights for its annual Ten-Minute Play Festival.
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‘Are We American?’— Original musical by Yellow Springs resident to debut
“Are We American? The Tipperary Coal Miners Musical,” premieres Oct. 22–25 at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater.
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Viv & Riley stretch out, stay rooted
Viv & Riley will bring a little old-time music, a little indie folk and some songs that wander comfortably between to the Foundry Theater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.
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‘Endangered and Extinct’— The analog, archived
“Endangered and Extinct” lives somewhere within the overlap between what’s disappeared or disappearing and what’s still hanging on. Stephen Rumbaugh, a Yellow Springs-based graphic designer and conceptual artist, has filled the newly named Dr. Bob Brandt Jr. Event Space at WYSO with 28 such “specimens,” on display now through Nov. 30.
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More screenings, more venues— Yellow Springs Film Fest to return
Set for Wednesday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 4, the YS Film Fest’s nearly 30 events, programs and films will take place on stages and screens across the village — at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, Little Art Theatre, briefly on a closed-down Short Street and, new this year, 91.3 WYSO’s Union Schoolhouse.
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The Corndrinkers cheers to 50 years of old-time tunes
There’s no telling the number of do-si-does, promenades and swings the Corndrinkers have seen over the last half-century. To this day, the five-piece string band’s calendar is chock full of square dances and folk festivals, small-town gigs and unplugged jams.
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Yellow Springs resident publishes a ‘Lullaby’
“Lullaby: A Bedtime Story,” recently published by Belle Isle Books and illustrated by Shannon Szczepanski, grew from the only lullaby villager Scott Lindberg said he has written in about 50 years of songwriting.
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