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• Yellow Springs filmmaker gets MoMa retrospective

  By YS News StaffMay 31, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs filmmaker Julia Reichert is being honored with a retrospective salute at the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in New York City, now through June 8.

• ‘DOROTHY LANE: a travelogue’— Smith’s artistic alchemy transforms

  By Lauren ShowsMay 23, 2019

  

  Louise Smith, a veteran writer and actor, therapist and Antioch College performance professor, will debut her new piece, “DOROTHY LANE:  a travelogue,” on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. in the Foundry Theater’s Experimental Theater.

• Blackwell-Truitt dance concert returns

  By YS News StaffMay 2, 2019

  

  The Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Dance and Performing Arts Concert returns on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.

• Big story fuels ‘Little Village’

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Imagine a village that looks a lot like this one, but it’s entirely self-sustaining, with its own independent infrastructure, economy, governance — and a whole lot of secrets.

• First Lines — The hide and seek of happiness

  By Audrey HackettMay 1, 2019

  

  “There’s just no accounting for happiness,” begins a poem I love by Jane Kenyon. Happiness in this poem is a gift, a grace, as it seems to be in this month’s poem from musician Carl Schumacher.

• Animated documentary at the Little Art—The tragic history of nuclear testing

  By Megan BachmanApril 25, 2019

  

  On the morning of March 1, 1954, on an island in the central Pacific, the United States detonated the most powerful atomic bomb it would ever test. In less than a second, the 15-megaton blast irradiated the island chain, as well as 23 Japanese fishermen on a fishing boat.

• Antioch College’s Earth Week—All are invited to ‘wade in’

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A series of Earth Day-related events on the Antioch College campus next week  invites the entire community to “Wade In” on environmental justice, particularly in relationship to water.

• Film on nuclear weapons testing to screen

  By Megan BachmanApril 23, 2019

  

  During Earth Week in Yellow Springs, a new documentary film will screen on the infamous Castle Bravo nuclear test and the history and legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.

• Kyleen Downes sings — A popular musical ‘Friend’

  By Gary McBrideApril 11, 2019

  

  Kyleen Downes is my friend.” More than just a T-shirt slogan, it’s an inevitable vibe that results from meeting the ebullient singer-songwriter or hearing her perform.But yes, you can get the T-shirt, too.

• Village Artisans to host pollinator-themed community art show

  By YS News StaffApril 6, 2019

  

  In honor of National Pollinator Week in June, Village Artisans Gallery in Yellow Springs has announced a call for entries for a special exhibition called “Birds & Bees: Pollinator Awareness — A Community Art Show.”