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Arts Section :: Page 30

  • Celebrating dance and community

    By Carol SimmonsMarch 9, 2017

    The annual Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance Concert will take place next Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Antioch College Foundry Theater. (Submitted photo)

    Locally based dancer Valerie Blackwell-Truitt might have become a professional singer. But dance is what called her.

  • A hometown writer tells own story

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Chris Tebbetts, a Yellow Springs native and author of a few successful book series for young readers, will be speaking at the Little Art Theatre as part of their “Homecoming” series, in which people with interesting careers speak about their history and their craft. Tebbetts made a name for himself as co-author of the “Middle School” books, a series in which the protagonist “copes with the awkwardness of adolescence.” (Submitted Photo)

    Chris Tebbetts, a Yellow Springs native and author of a few successful book series for young readers, will be speaking at the Little Art Theatre as part of their “Homecoming” series, in which people with interesting careers speak about their history and their craft.

  • ‘Ripples’ celebrates village’s elders

    By Diane Chiddister

    The YS Senior Center received a grant to support its publication of Ripples, the center's annual elder literary journal. Shown looking at past issues of Ripples are, from left, Suzanne Patterson, Karen Wolford, Jane Baker, Fran LaSalle, Marianne Whelchel and Lee Huntington. Not pictured is committee member Sandy Love. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    A diversity of both form and content is the goal of “Ripples,” an annual journal that is “a celebration of elders” in the Village.

  • Community Dance Concert coming up

    By Audrey HackettMarch 3, 2017

    The annual Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance Concert will take place next Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Antioch College Foundry Theater. (Submitted photo)

    The Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance Concert, featuring over 40 dancers, is happening next Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at the Foundry Theater.

  • YSYOA seeks to enrich local music

    By Diane ChiddisterMarch 2, 2017

    The board of the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association is launching a new membership drive. Shown above are board members, from left, Carolyn Ray, Shirley Mullins, Liz Blakelock and Cammy Dell Grote at the piano. Not shown are Jeff Huntington, Scott Kellogg and Dennis Farmer. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    The Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association hopes to rejuvenate its membership and generate interest in music across a broad range of villagers, both young and old.

  • Fine poems for a ‘towering’ figure

    By Audrey Hackett

    About a dozen area poets affiliated with the Tower Poets group led by Conrad Balliet, pictured above, will read from their new anthology, “From the Tower,” at the Emporium this Saturday, Feb. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. (Submitted photo by Bill Lackey, Springfield News-Sun)

    About a dozen Tower Poets will gather at the Emporium on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m., to read from their new anthology, “From the Tower: Poems in Honor of Conrad Balliet.”

  • Ousmane Sembéne’s “Black Girl” to screen at Little Art

    By YS News StaffFebruary 25, 2017

    A film still from the 1966 film "Black Girl."

    On Saturday, March 4, Antioch College professor Charles Fairbanks will present “Black Girl (La Noire de…),” the 1966 French-language film by director Ousmane Sembéne, at 1 p.m. at the Little Art Theatre.

  • Seventh big win for News

    By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 23, 2017

    For the seventh year in a row, the Yellow Springs News won the top prize among weekly newspapers of its size at the Ohio Newspaper Association’s annual convention. The paper also came home with 14 individual awards, in categories ranging from editorials to advertising design. Pictured here is the award-winning team of (back row, from left) Matt Minde, Diane Chiddister, Audrey Hackett, Kathryn Hitchcock and Dylan Taylor-Lehman, as well as (front row, from left) Robert Hasek, Suzanne Szempruch and Lauren “Chuck” Shows. (Photo by Matt Minde, Suzanne Szempruch and the timer)

    For the seventh year in a row, the Yellow Springs News came home with the top prize in the weekly newspaper contest at the Ohio Newspaper Association’s annual convention.

  • Antioch Writers’ Workshop moves to UD

    By Lauren ShowsFebruary 13, 2017

    Announcing a new monthly poetry column, "First Lines," curated by Audrey Hackett.

    The Antioch Writers’ Worship announced via press release that it would move its base of operations to the University of Dayton campus in March.

  • Busting out

    By Web AdminFebruary 2, 2017

    Sculptor Brian Maughan watched as Gallery Coordinator Nancy Mellon unveiled his new work, a bust of Gaunt. The sculpture was added to the YS Arts Council’s permanent collection. (Submitted photo)

    The YS Arts Council and the YS Historical Society presented “Beyond Flour and Sugar: The Wheeling Gaunt Legacy and Yellow Springs In the Civil War Era” on Friday, Jan. 20, at Antioch University Midwest.