Arts Section :: Page 98

• Wright State professor Opolot Okia— Reexaming slavery

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 4, 2012

  

  In certain eras, it has perhaps been easier to say that slavery and forced labor are wrong than to live that principle.

• When teaching is as fun as jamming

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Oliver Simons and Zac Fenton were 11 years old when they started their first rock band. The experience was seminal, and since then music has been their life. Now they are passing on their skills, and their passion,

• Canadians are coming to sing with their strings

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 20, 2012

  

  Chamber Music Yellow Springs opens its 2012–13 concert season with the young Canadian Afiara Quartet.

• An eye on arts, crafts at Cyclops

  By Megan Bachman

  Organizers of Cyclops Fest, returning this weekend for its second year, like to compare their handmade fair to a farmers’ market. At both, patrons buy high quality goods that are locally and lovingly hand-produced directly from those who labored to make them — only instead of heirloom tomatoes, Cyclops patrons can purchase jewelry, apparel, handbags, paper goods, bath products and more.

• YS music lovers, hop on the bus

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 14, 2012

  

  YSYOA representative Jeff Huntington gives the low-down on how to get to both the Dayton Philharmonic and Springfield Symphony on a budget.

• YS Kids Playhouse starts fall classes this week

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 13, 2012

  

  Youth and adults can learn to express themselves in all different ways this fall with Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse.

• Handmade festival ‘Cyclops’ returns

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 11, 2012

  

  Cyclops Fest, a celebration of handmade goods, returns to Yellow Springs this Saturday, Sept. 15, with over 80 vendors, live music and craft demos.

• Local officer designs 9/11 monument

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 7, 2012

  

  Yellow Springs police officer Brian Carlson designed a monument in Fairborn to honor the victims of the 9/11 attack.

• Coming soon to the movie theater nearest you, hopefully

  By Megan BachmanAugust 31, 2012

  

  Small movie theaters around the country will soon be shuttered if they can’t find the money to upgrade to digital projection equipment. But in Yellow Springs the show will go on.

• Reichert honored for lifetime achievement in film

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 30, 2012

  

  FilmDayton honors local filmmaker Julia Reichert.