Arts Section :: Page 2
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Yellow Springs Porchfest returns — now with more porches
The free, villagewide music festival returns Saturday, Sept. 19, with 79 acts scheduled to perform on 50 porches, patios, yards and other outdoor spaces.
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Cult Movie Campout takes horror outdoors
The inaugural Cult Movie Campout, featuring four horror flicks that involve “camp” in every sense of the word, will debut Saturday, Sept. 12, at Butter Flower Farm. The night will feature live music, vendors and screenings of cult films “Sleepaway Camp,” “Cannibal Campout,” “Camp Blood Christmas” and “Don’t F–k In the Woods.”
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New novel a paean to Quakers, Yellow Springs
“Peace Corner” — which follows Chiddister’s debut novel, “One More Day,” published in 2021 — explores the lives of four central characters who move through Yellow Springs carrying different ideas about what it means to be useful, be active and belong.
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Area thespians stage ‘Tempest’ in Bryan Center amphitheater
Next weekend, Springfield-based Star Crossed Productions will stage “The Tempest” in the old abandoned amphitheater tucked behind John Bryan Community Center — a dramatic, albeit fleeting renaissance for one of Yellow Springs’ forgotten spaces.
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Foundry Theater at Antioch College readies fourth season
The Foundry Theater at Antioch College is preparing to kick off its fourth season of programming next month, with a lineup that — as has been the theater’s bread and butter the last three years — spans a range of cultural traditions and artistic forms.
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Book review— Davis’ ‘Here Where We Stand’
“This work is not strictly a roman à clef — “a novel with a key” that uses real people and places to explore themes in fictionalized ways.”
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Clifton Music and Arts Festival returns this weekend
The Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival returns Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28–29, bringing more than 50 artisan vendors, about a dozen food vendors and a full slate of live music and dance demonstrations to the village.
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Community fitness at BLYS
Local resident Guy “Tron” Banks recently started Beyond Limits Yellow Springs — his new community fitness venture. A grand opening will be held Sunday, Aug. 23, 2–6 p.m.
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Villagers debut ‘Minimum Security’ web series
“Minimum Security,” is a new, four-episode web series from MLQ Productions — the independent local film collaborative formed by Kian Barker and Miles Gilchrist in 2020 and peopled over the years by a growing cast and crew of friends.
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Filmmaker Amy Taylor to screen a short and series, talk ‘zom-rom-com’
Virginia-based filmmaker Amy Taylor is coming back to Yellow Springs this month with a short film made right here in the village — and, she hopes, the beginnings of another local production.











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