"Arts For All" Event Tries To Open Up Theater To Kids With Autism
When you go to the theater, there are rules: sit still, don’t make noise, and clap at the end. If you get up to leave, you're often not let back in until intermission.
View ArticleWe Care Arts Serves As Studio, Safe Space For Disabled Artists
Vincent Van Gogh said that brushstrokes are like speech. And if an artist is disabled and cannot make art, they are silenced. Anyone who knows about We Care Arts in Kettering knows that they burst...
View ArticleJacob Goes To Camp: How Project Jericho Helped One Young Man Discover Poetry
This summer Project Jericho, a non-profit housed at Clark State in Springfield, hosted a free arts camp for local youth. They hired professional artists from around the country to teach.
View ArticleWorld House Choir To Perform Mass for Mother Earth
What happens when a choir director and 100 singers focus on climate change? This weekend, the World House Choir will present Missa Gaia: A Celebration of Mother Earth by Paul Winter. The music is both...
View ArticleDayton Metro Library Operations Center Gives New Life To Hauer Music Building
A new Dayton Public Library Operations Center is about to open in the former Hauer Music Building. In 2012, the passage of the $187 million Libraries for a Smarter Future levy began an enormous...
View ArticleWest Dayton Theater Group Brings Black Experience To Broader Audiences
Theater at its best can address universal themes for the audience and the actors: the struggle for human dignity, relationships, conflict.
View ArticleGoing Behind the Scenes At Dayton Ballet's Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker is a magical ballet. With dozens of parts for children (mice, gingerbread men, sugarplum-fairy-attendants!), it’s an endearing work. But if you’re the choreographer—the person...
View ArticleResearch And Jazz Keep A Dayton Pianist In Perpetual Motion
Keigo Hirakawa is an Ivy League-educated researcher and professor at the University of Dayton. He is also a gifted jazz pianist—and he’s trying to be at the top of his game in both worlds. Hirakawa...
View ArticleMadison Men's Choir Makes Music Through Prison Walls
UBUNTU choir is a group of men who are prisoners at the Madison Correctional Institution in London, a few minutes outside Columbus.
View ArticleAt 150, Victoria Theatre Looks Back At Its History
This year, Victoria Theatre celebrates 150 years in downtown Dayton. For WYSO’s Culture Couch, I took a tour with a longtime Victoria Theater employee who shared some memories from backstage.
View ArticleItinerant Studio: A Big Gem in a Small City
Husband and wife team Tom Heaphey and Vicki Rulli own Itinerant Studio. A production art company based out of a former dry goods warehouse in downtown Springfield Ohio just down the road from the...
View ArticleMiami Valley Teachers Find New Ways To Get Students Into Shakespeare
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and today more than ever, high schools are grappling with how to teach him, since he is required reading in the Common Core...
View ArticleLatino Art Of The Midwest Shines A Light On Complex Identities
“Latino Art of the Midwest: Into the 21st century” is a special exhibit
View Article“Syria In Our Eyes” Brings Syrian Youth Perspective To Dayton
A 2014 UNICEF report calls Syria one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. Since the start of the war in Syria in 2011, thousands of children have lost their families and friends and...
View ArticleDecorate Your Walls With A Trip To The Library
Libraries have always had books, but these days, they provide more services than just literature, including art rental.
View ArticleWright State University To Explore Baseball, Jazz in Sultans of Swing Conference
When you hear the word swing, do you think of baseball or jazz? This week Wright State University will host the first national conference to explore the connections: “The Sultans of Swing: 100 Years...
View ArticleLarry C. Price: Bringing Child Labor and Global Pollution into the Light
Dayton-based photojournalist Larry C. Price has won two Pulitzer Prizes and an Emmy, and some of his most powerful work is just being processed now. He’s been traveling the globe, capturing images of...
View ArticleFilling The Gaps Between Logs The Traditional Way
Renee Wilde has been fascinated by a log cabin being rebuilt near her house. She did some research and discovered an old tradition of using some pretty creative materials to fill the gaps between the...
View ArticleKeeping The Neon Movies and The Little Art Theatre Relevant In An Era Crammed...
The kind of storytelling once only found in movie theatres is everywhere now —streamable at Amazon and Netflix, available at ITunes, and on television, too. Community Voices producer Dave Barber...
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