Arts Section :: Page 89

• Thespians present a Haitian story of starred crossed love

  By Lauren HeatonApril 10, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs High School thespians open their spring musical, Once on this Island,  this weekend on Friday, April 12, at 8 p.m. Set in the Caribbean and drawing on the history of Haiti, the story concerns two lovers divided by questions of race and class. After Haiti’s revolution in 1791, the French colonizers were thrown […]

• Wilberforce to host literary festival

  By Lauren HeatonApril 9, 2013

  

  Wilberforce University will host a literary fest for authors and publishers all day Thursday.

• Expect anything at dance concert

  By Anisa KlineApril 4, 2013

  Produced this year by Melissa Heston, Marybeth Wolf and Ali Thomas, the Yellow Springs Community Dance Concert will be performed on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. in Antioch College’s South Gym. “Expect anything” was Heston’s advice for the audience in a recent interview, as she reflected on the variety and […]

• Local filmmakers win MacArthur grant

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 3, 2013

  

  Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar were recently awarded an $80,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation for Reinvention Stories, a joint project with WYSO public radio.

• Boxing day, every day

  By Matt MindeApril 1, 2013

  

  For an arts village that prides itself on thinking outside the box, a recent newcomer is living the dream thinking entirely within the box. The packaging box, that is.

• Community dance concert this weekend

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 29, 2013

  

  The community dance concert is at Antioch this weekend.

• Allen McCullough— Village a musical wellspring

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 28, 2013

  

  From the level at which Allen McCullough listens, the average ear is way behind the times. In fact, he said, the lag time for modern music listeners isn’t a matter of a few years, but more like a century or two. And while Beethoven and Brahms created some of the most beautiful music in the world, McCullough believes it’s time for people to get a new sound. And by that he doesn’t mean Pink and Flo Rida.

• Yellow Springs Experience: Bronze Symposium— Casting for artistic collaboration

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 21, 2013

  As with many Yellow Springs initiatives, the upcoming Yellow Springs Experience: National Bronze Sculpture Symposium, to take place in October 2013, grew from a series of local conversations, of villagers talking to each other.

• Our big appetite for consumption

  By Lauren Heaton

  We humans hunger for many things, from food to knowledge to comfort. As Americans, by virtue of economics, we have been feeding those hungers since the post-war era. What effect that sustained and frenzied consumption has had on cultures across the globe is the subject of the new art exhibit, Appetite: An American Pastime, going up at Herndon Gallery this week.

• Mills Lawn School’s Project Peace— Kids learn to make art, not war

  By Anisa Kline

  At the beginning of the school year, Mills Lawn principal Matt Housh and school counselor John Gudgel got together to discuss their school-wide goals for the year. Number one on Gudgel’s list was addressing the issue of bullying, which he defines as “ongoing, intentional behavior to cause physical or emotional harm.”