Arts Section

• Friends Music Camp to return

  By YS News StaffFebruary 16, 2026

  

  Long before it became a summer destination for young musicians from across the country, Friends Music Camp was established as a music program grounded in community life, shaped by Quaker values and designed to support young people both musically and socially.

• 2025 In Review | Art

  By YS News StaffFebruary 12, 2026

  

  2025 in Review: Art

• Yellow Springs 10-Minute Play Festival returns this weekend

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 11, 2026

  

  Have a laugh: The annual 10-Minute Play Festival, produced by YS Theater Company, returns Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m.

• Ohio Arts Council award funds new work for Casselli

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2026

  

  “Landline” is taking shape to live up to similar descriptions. The core image of the in-progress work is simple: glowing forms hovering in a line outdoors, sized and spaced uniformly so that they reveal the rising and falling shape of the land they cross.

• ‘Retrospective’ to be on display at The Winds

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 6, 2026

  

  Katherine Kadish’s “Retrospective” — an exhibition of her work from 1960 to 2025 — is now on display at The Winds Café. The show includes etchings, wood block prints, oil paintings, pastels and monotypes.

• Young thespians stage ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 15, 2026

  

  “The Diary of Anne Frank” is set to run its final two performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, after an opening performance Thursday, Jan. 15.

• Little Art launches new documentary series

  By YS News StaffJanuary 7, 2026

  

  Little Art Theatre has announced a new artist-in-residence initiative, debuting this month with Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Steven Bognar and artist-filmmaker Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.

• Concert to offer warmth in ‘midwinter’

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 5, 2026

  

  “In the Bleak Midwinter” with Marna Street, violin, and Barbara Leeds, piano, will be performed Saturday, Jan. 10, beginning at 3 p.m., in Herndon Gallery at Antioch College. Admission is free.

• Duke Ellington’s ‘Nutcracker Suite,’ string-style, at the Foundry

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 11, 2025

  

  String super-group Mr Sun will bring their reimagined version of the suite to the Foundry Theater on Thursday, Dec. 11: A string-band take on the suite based, in part, on Tchaikovsky’s original, but mostly on the 1960 big-band-inflected reworking by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.

• 25 years of Ms. Demure

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 9, 2025

  

  This month, Ms. Demure will host a live holiday program on DATV featuring a number of guests — including Yellow Springs’ own Mayor Pam Conine — in celebration of the season, Ms. Demure’s 60th birthday, and 25 years on DATV’s airwaves.