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• Local funny guys at it again in ‘Smaller and Worse: A Nonsense Show’

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2025

  

  “Smaller and Worse: A Nonsense Show” runs at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College Thursday–Saturday, Aug. 14–16. Tickets can be purchased at the door or beforehand at http://www.bit.ly/45cBguU.

• Peace Mask Project comes to Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffAugust 11, 2025

  

  Peace Mask Project co-founder Myong Hee Kim of Kyoto Japan — who’s in town with her son-in-law, Pierre Nagley — aims to make 50 masks of village residents Aug.13–17. An exhibition of the masks will be open Aug. 18–23.

• Yellow Springs Porchfest to be powered by solar

  By YS News Staff

  

  Yellow Springs Porchfest is partnering with the nationwide SunDay event to power the music on village porches with clean solar energy for this year’s Porchfest on Saturday, Sept. 20.

• Art on the Lawn returns Aug. 9

  By YS News StaffAugust 8, 2025

  

  Village Artisans will present the 41st annual Art on the Lawn Saturday, Aug. 9, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., at the corner of Livermore and East North College streets. The event will be held rain or shine.

• Yellow Springs Film Festival gears up for third year

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2025

  

  The YS Film Festival is gearing up for its third year this fall, Oct. 2–5, and organizers have announced some of the major events on this year’s schedule, with tickets also on sale.

• Celebrating Helen Birch Bartlett and a shared history

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 5, 2025

  

  This year marks the 100th anniversary of Helen Birch Bartlett’s death — the namesake of Glen Helen. In her lifetime, she was a writer, musician, collector and tastemaker.

• Muse Machine at ‘home’ in the Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 30, 2025

  

  For the first time, Muse Machine’s Summer Institute for Educators was held in Yellow Springs, inside the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.

• World House Choir open to new singers

  By YS News StaffJuly 20, 2025

  

  World House Choir is open to new choir members as it begins rehearsals for a new season Monday, July 21. Rehearsals typically take place each Monday, from 7–8:30 p.m., at the Foundry Theater.

• Villager publishes new novel — a blend of fiction, memoir and baseball history

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 17, 2025

  

  If you could go back in time and change just one thing, what would it be? For the protagonist of villager Philip King’s debut novel/memoir, the answer is simple: He’d go back and make sure the Cleveland baseball team could clinch the 1950 World Series.

• WYSO, Neenah Ellis receive public media awards

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 9, 2025

  

  The WYSO news team recently returned from Kansas City, Missouri, where the team received one first-place and three second-place awards from the Public Media Journalists Association, or PMJA.