Arts Section :: Page 54

• Celebrating dance and community

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 9, 2017

  

  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.

• ‘Ripples’ celebrates village’s elders

  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 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 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 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

  

  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 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

  

  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

  

  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.