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Arts Section :: Page 58

  • Art and performance converge at YSKP’s “Off the Wall”

    By YS News StaffJuly 26, 2016

    YSKP's second summer project, "Off the Wall," will be held July 30 and 31 at the Springfield Museum of Art.

    For its second project of the summer, the YS Kids Playhouse will present “Off the Wall,” in partnership with the Springfield Museum of Art.

  • Community Band to wrap up summer season

    By YS News StaffJuly 25, 2016

    The YS Community Band will present the final concert of the summer season on Saturday, July 30, noon, in Kings Yard.

  • Music for music’s sake: Piano Fest to continue

    By YS News StaffJuly 21, 2016

    Pianist Karen Gardner and cellist Polly Case-Lohrer, shown above, will perform, along with pianist Sam Reich at the second concert in the Yellow Springs Piano Fest series. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    The second concert of the Yellow Springs Piano Fest will be held Sunday, July 24, 7 p.m., in the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College.

  • The Bard, back under the stars at Antioch College

    By Audrey Hackett

    Miriam Eckenrode Saari and Garrett Young danced to a sprightly fiddle tune (courtesy of the Corndrinkers, in background) during a rehearsal of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” last week. Performances are free, and will be held outside Antioch Hall (Main Building) on Fridays and Saturdays, July 15–16 and 22–23. Curtain is at 8 p.m. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Yellow Springs and Antioch College were once known around the world for a precedent-setting outdoor Shakespeare festival. This month, that tradition is being revived — in a small way, but with the hope of bigger things to come.

  • JBCP launches Kickstarter campaign

    By YS News StaffJuly 16, 2016

    John Bryan Community Pottery is currently running a Kickstarter campaign in order to help fund the replacement of their gas reduction kiln.

    The John Bryan Community Pottery, or JBCP, recently launched a campaign through the online, time-sensitive fundraising platform Kickstarter, in order to raise money for a new gas reduction kiln.

  • Shakespeare returns to Antioch College Friday and Saturday

    By Diane ChiddisterJuly 15, 2016

    The Yellow Springs Theater Company presents “Much Ado About Nothing” this weekend and next outdoors on the Antioch College campus.

  • Singing in the Springs

    By Diane ChiddisterJuly 14, 2016

    `The first annual Springsfest featured daylong music last Saturday on the lawn in front of the Bryan Center. Bands from the Dayton, Columbus, Yellow Springs and Indianapolis areas performed, including the Motel Beds of Columbus, shown above. (Photo by Diane Chiddsiter)

    About 600 paid customers attended the first annual Springsfest, a music festival that featured daylong music last Saturday on the lawn in front of the Bryan Center.

  • Herndon Gallery exhibit urges encounters with nature

    By Diane ChiddisterJuly 7, 2016

    Antioch College is welcoming international environmental artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto to campus this summer as an artist-in-residence who will play a major role in a collaborative, interdisciplinary exploration of our relationship with and in nature.

  • Goal of concerts is to restore Antioch College grand piano

    By Carol Simmons

    Pianist Sam Reich stands in front of the Antioch College’s Foundry ­Theater, which houses the college’s Steinway concert grand piano. Reich hopes to fund the restoration of the piano to peak form through the proceeds of the Yellow Springs Piano Fest, a series of performances he envisons over the next year. Reich will kick off the series with a performance of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Sunday, July 24, at 7 p.m. at the Herndon Gallery. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Locally based pianist Sam Reich had an idea, and now he’s seeing where it leads. The idea: Raise enough money to rehabilitate the grand piano at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater.

  • Antioch Writers Workshop to offer free readings

    By YS News StaffJuly 6, 2016

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

    The annual Antioch Writers Workshop returns July 9–14, when more than 100 writers will visit the village and partake in writing workshops and events at Antioch University Midwest. As part of the week of events, free readings will be offered to the general public each evening.

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