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• Emergent Verse | LIVE at the Epic!

  By Ed DavisOctober 12, 2022

  

  What if you could sit outside on a fall evening, close your eyes and savor poetry and poetic prose composed and performed by talented pairs of (mostly) villagers? Well, thanks to the ambitious vision of Gail Lichtenfels, owner/operator of Epic Book Shop, 232 Xenia Ave., you can.

• ‘Louverture Exchange’ — Black legacy through music

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 9, 2022

  

  History, generational struggle and legacy will be the unifying themes of “Louverture Exchange: A Musical Dialogue,” a performance featuring the World House Choir, hip-hop artist and local resident Tronee Threat and headlined by international performer Napoleon Maddox on Thursday, Oct. 13.

• Unique art finds home in village

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 30, 2022

  

  With galleries and arts-centric programming aplenty, Yellow Springs is known not only for drawing in art-lovers, but also artists of all stripes themselves — including Lindsey Williams, a Centerville-based digital artist whose unique work has found a home at the local store Urban Handmade.

• Commentary | The songs and sounds of my village

  By Ben GuentherSeptember 28, 2022

  

  One really could not have asked for a better setting for this year’s PorchFest. The sky was dotted with clouds; the sun shone brightly yet not too hot, and the air was light and breezy with moderate humidity.

• Paul Laurence Dunbar documentary debuts at festival

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 23, 2022

  

  “Paul Laurence Dunbar: An American Poet,” produced by the Xenia-based Caesar’s Ford Theatre and directed by the theater’s project manager and playwright, Kane Stratton, will debut at the Dayton Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Neon theater between 7 and 9 p.m.

• Racial justice, one book at a time

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 11, 2022

  

  A new Little Free Library is on track to be installed at Gaunt Park this month, and the library will be filled with books themed around social and racial justice.

• Unsolicited Opinions | Why we still need Toni Morrison

  By Jessica ThomasSeptember 8, 2022

  

  “Almost three years and one month after the death of Morrison, her novels, including “Beloved,” have reentered the public discourse as we see pundits and public figures decry her work as being a part of a critical race theory plot.”

• ‘Dance on the drum’ classes set

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 3, 2022

  

  For the past 10 years, Manieri has studied a traditional southern Italian form of community drumming and dance called Tammurriata, or “Dance on the Drum,” and will be offering classes for five weeks through the Wellness Center at Antioch College on Tuesdays, from 6–7:30 p.m., beginning Aug. 30.

• Theorizing Gloria Anzaldúa in ‘Shapeshifting Subjects’

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 27, 2022

  

  Kelli Zaytoun, a villager who teaches literature courses and heads the English language graduate studies department at Wright State University, recently published a new book, “Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte.”

• Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse to take final bow

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 26, 2022

  

  After 27 years, the curtains are closing on one of the village’s longest-running and most beloved theater companies. Earlier this month, the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse announced that the youth theater company is dissolving.