Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Yes, there will be a parade
Calling all street performers, walkers,
drill teams, and other interested
individuals and groups.
THE YELLOW SPRINGS 4th OF JULY
PARADE IS DRAWING NEAR!!!!!
Date:
July 4th.
Where:
Gather at the Friends Care Center
When:
2:00 lineup - Parade begins 3:00
What to wear: Anything
What to bring: Costumes, old cars, drill teams, whatever............
Who:
Sponsored by the Yellow Springs Odd Fellows
Be there or be square
Senior Center Show at MLS, Saturday afternoon
"Elder Voices Out Loud and Proud"-A
Showcase Of Elder Talent will be presented at Mills Lawn auditorium,
Saturday, June 29, at 3 p.m. It features: Ellen Duell, Shirley Mullins,
Charles Scott, Daniel Taylor, Michael Hitchcock & Daniel Duffee, Jim Felder,
Joanne Augenstein and the Central Chapel AME Church Choir. Admission
is FREE as this is the Yellow Springs Senior Center's gift to the community with
thanks for all your support. Everyone welcome.
Tecumseh Land Trust Events
Looking for something to
do this weekend? Here’s a couple of TLT
happenings:
Saturday June
29 at 5 p.m. on Think TV Channel 16, Executive
Director Krista Magaw will be featured in an Our Ohio segment about the state farmland
preservation program. Footage was also taken at a couple of locally preserved
farms. Tune in. If you can’t catch this airing, we will post a link to the
show on our website as soon as it becomes
available.
Sunday June
30 4pm Nature Mediation Walk, meet at Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center of
Rt343 in Yellow Springs. Whether you are new to meditation, a
meditating pro or are interested in finding out more about this great way to
focus on nature, come join us. Bill Felker will lead this session. Event
happens rain or shine, so please dress appropriately for a 20 minute hike which
is part of the session. The walks will be held every last Sunday of the month
through October.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
YSCF Request for Proposals
RFP for Antioch College Miller Fellows
The Miller Fellowship Program is a program of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation (YSCF), funded by the Nolan J. and Richard D. Miller Endowment Fund. The purpose of this fund is to support fellowships for Antioch College students who engage in service for the benefit of the Yellow Springs community. The basic premise of the endowment is that it is meant to foster mutual respect between Antioch College and the Yellow Springs community.
Yellow Springs Community Foundation will be accepting proposals from Yellow Springs nonprofits that wish to place Miller Fellows in their organization. In accordance with the Antioch College curriculum, for the 2013-2014 academic year, Miller Fellows will be available for up to 10 hours per week during study quarters, and 30-40 hours per week during their work quarter. More details are provided in the RFP.
YSCF will pay, through grants to the successful non-profits, the direct labor costs of the fellowships. The hourly rate for Miller Fellows is $10/hour. Overhead costs will be the responsibility of the non-profit organization. The Foundation anticipates funding between 10 and 18 fellowships during the 2013-2014 academic year, depending on the mix of full study-work programs and study-only programs.
A copy of the Request for Proposals and the Proposal Coversheet is available on the YSCF Website, www.yscf.org or may be had by emailing yscf@yscf.org.
The Miller Fellowship Program is a program of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation (YSCF), funded by the Nolan J. and Richard D. Miller Endowment Fund. The purpose of this fund is to support fellowships for Antioch College students who engage in service for the benefit of the Yellow Springs community. The basic premise of the endowment is that it is meant to foster mutual respect between Antioch College and the Yellow Springs community.
YSCF will pay, through grants to the successful non-profits, the direct labor costs of the fellowships. The hourly rate for Miller Fellows is $10/hour. Overhead costs will be the responsibility of the non-profit organization. The Foundation anticipates funding between 10 and 18 fellowships during the 2013-2014 academic year, depending on the mix of full study-work programs and study-only programs.
A copy of the Request for Proposals and the Proposal Coversheet is available on the YSCF Website, www.yscf.org or may be had by emailing yscf@yscf.org.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Walk for Justice in Beavercreek
Protest Beavercreek’s Ban on RTA Buses - Come walk for Justice this Saturday
This walk is to protest the refusal of Beavercreek City Council to allow bus stops on Pentagon Blvd near the Fairfield Commons mall. The Greater Dayton RTA has been trying to extend the #1 bus route, which runs from Dayton to Wright State University, to the mall area, allowing people without cars to access jobs and medical services at the mall and the new Soin hospital. Now, people without cars have to take the bus to Wright State, then walk across the I 675 overpass to the mall and hospital area. Beavercreek Police told us that it was "too dangerous" for us to march over that bridge/overpass, so we will have police coverage to protect us. Of course, those who walk it daily do not have that protection.
The Greater Dayton RTA has been working to get these bus stops for about 10 years and LEAD (Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton) has been involved for over 3 years. There is no cost to Beavercreek but they have said that they do not want "those people" coming to that area. We have filed a complaint with the US Dept of Transportation, saying that it is discrimination. We are waiting for a determination from the USDOT at any time.
If you need more info, please feel free to contact-
Paula Ewers
902-6508
Here are the details for this "Human Bus Walk" in Beavercreek. We need as many people out as possible. So, please pass this info on to anyone you can. If you have any questions, please contact Paula Ewers at 937-902-6508.
The Walk is on Saturday, June 29th at noon across the I-675 overpass on N. Fairfield Rd. We will meet at 11:30 at the Fairfield Mall near the flags on Fairfiled Mall and Pentagon Blvd. and transport people over to the starting point which will be near the Nutter Center on Colonel Glenn. The march will finish near the mall at the corner of N. Fairfield and Pentagon Blvd. If people don't want to walk, then they can be the supporters at the end of the walk and cheer us on.
We do have police support and protection for the walk across the bridge and to the finish area. Even tho' they told us, " it was too dangerous to walk", they are closing a lane of traffic so we will be safe.
We are expecting the response from the US Dept of Transportation, regarding the complaint that was made by LEAD and our ABLE lawyers, at any time. We hope we will have it before the "Walk".
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Center Stage auditions continue on Saturday
Thanks to all who came out on last Saturday for the first round of Threepenny Auditions! Next round on Saturday, June 29th at 1 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church! See you there!
Monday, June 24, 2013
Glen Helen Atrium Gallery
Nature Soul
Paintings by Claire Reynolds
July 3 - August 28, 2013
Opening reception Sunday, July 7, 2 – 4 pm
Artist talk: Sunday, July 7, 3 pm
Reynolds intends that her paintings testify that nature is lively and speaks to us – if we stop and take a moment to notice. She tries to capture the profoundly special moments that happen when we focus our attention on a spider, a caterpillar, or a jellyfish. She uses an abstracted style to convey meaning and works primarily with watercolors, scratchboard and India ink.
The Gallery is located in the Vernet Ecological Center (formerly the Glen Helen Building) at 405 Corry Street in Yellow Springs. Show hours are 10 am to 4 pm daily. Admission is free.
For more information please contact Alice Robrish, Gallery Coordinator at 937-767-1312 or email alice@alicerobrish.com.
Paintings by Claire Reynolds
July 3 - August 28, 2013
Opening reception Sunday, July 7, 2 – 4 pm
Artist talk: Sunday, July 7, 3 pm
Jellyfish
Reynolds intends that her paintings testify that nature is lively and speaks to us – if we stop and take a moment to notice. She tries to capture the profoundly special moments that happen when we focus our attention on a spider, a caterpillar, or a jellyfish. She uses an abstracted style to convey meaning and works primarily with watercolors, scratchboard and India ink.
The Gallery is located in the Vernet Ecological Center (formerly the Glen Helen Building) at 405 Corry Street in Yellow Springs. Show hours are 10 am to 4 pm daily. Admission is free.
For more information please contact Alice Robrish, Gallery Coordinator at 937-767-1312 or email alice@alicerobrish.com.
Tonight at CSKC
A last minute reminder for this evening, Monday (6/24), 6:30 pm at
the Coretta Scott King Center, Patrick Evans, Interim Executive
director of More Light Presbyterians will be here. He'll lead some brief
worship then engage in some conversation about LGBTQ folks in the
PCUSA, marriage equality, and the work of progressive religious voices
on legislative inititatives in OH. This is an important conversation and
all are welcome. Please come if you can!
More info may be had here:
More info may be had here:
First Presbyterian Church
Yellow Springs, OH
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Herndon exhibit to open tomorrow
The
exhibition opening will take place Thursday, June 20, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Herndon Gallery in South Hall on the Antioch College campus. Aaron Hughes,
artist and Iraq War veteran, will discuss the exhibit and his work during the
opening at 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will continue through August 16, 2013.
Co-curated
by Antioch College alumnae Dennie Eagleson ’71 and Lynn Zimmerman Estomin ’72, Coming Home will include recent work by
veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who work with Warrior Writers and
Combat Paper, two organizations that provide a safe space for veterans to
express their experience in war and returning home through creative writing and
visual art. The process also generates a
much-needed conversation between veterans and civilians regarding our
collective responsibilities and shared understanding of war.
Through Combat Paper papermaking workshops, veterans use
the uniforms they wore in service to create works of art. The uniforms are cut
up, weathered, and formed into sheets of paper. Participants use the
transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniforms as art and
express their experiences with the military.
Warrior Writers fosters artistic exploration and
expression through casual, welcoming workshops and retreats for veterans. Art
making becomes the creative tool through which veterans understand and
transcend experiences of trauma and emotional disruptions that are not easily
identified but constantly felt. Creative works are shared with the public in
the form of books, performances, and exhibitions. Using art as language,
Warrior Writers helps bridge the gap between veterans and civilians.
Coming Home will feature Aaron Hughes, Warrior Writer and Combat
Papermaker, as artist-in-residence, and Ash Kyrie, an Iraq War veteran and
sculptor. Hughes and Kyrie will be creating a site-specific installation
for the gallery that includes Kyrie’s work Palaver, which hopes to start
a dialog about how predator drone technology removes accountability from our
government and American citizens in the context of modern warfare.
Hughes’ work seeks out poetics and moments of
beauty, in order to construct new languages and meanings out of
personal and collective traumas. He uses these to create projects that attempt
to de-construct systems of dehumanization and oppression. Hughes
plans to create a space where visitors will ask questions about their relationship
to the world—a world that’s filled with dehumanization, war, and
destruction; a world that is filled with beauty, love, and humanity.
Veteran artists represented in
the exhibition are: Chantelle Bateman, Drew Cameron, Toby Hartbarger, Amy Herrera, Aaron
Hughes, Kevin
Kilgore, Ash
Kyrie, Iris Madelyn, Robynn Murray, Jennifer Pacanowski, John Turner, and Eli Wright.
Also
represented will be the Veterans Book Project, a project conceived by Monica
Haller to allow veterans to tell their story through writing and visual
art. The resulting artist books are
referred to as “Objects of Deployment.”
The
exhibition will also include three of Estomin’s multimedia collaborations with
veterans. The Warrior Writers website (www.warriorwriters.org) showcases
the creative writing and visual art of 40 veterans; Out of Step, a music/dance/video collaboration, features the voices
of four young female veterans; and a video collage of readings by veteran
writers created for this exhibition.
In
addition to the opening reception for the exhibition, Antioch College and the
Herndon Gallery will host a curatorial talk by Lynn Estomin on Friday, June 14,
at 8:00 p.m. On campus July 26 and 27,
Warrior Writers will offer two days of writing workshops and trainings for
veterans and local allies. There will be
a poetry reading by workshop participants on Saturday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Herndon Gallery that is open and free to the public.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Groby at the Goat
Les Groby will be performing at the Spirited Goat Coffee House, 118
Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, on Saturday June 22, 7:00 pm until 9:30
pm.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
YS Homecoming
Although
the word “homecoming” usually bring to mind football, the Yellow
Springs Homecoming is an invitation to anyone who has attended school
in, resided in or in any other way considered Yellow Springs “home”
to gather together starting at 10:00 am on Friday, July 5, on the
front lawn of the John Bryan Community Center for sharing fun and
memories (including football players).
When
Mary Morgan and her family came to Yellow Springs in 1951, they
adopted the village as their own. Forty years later she led the
creation of the Yellow Springs Homecoming in 1991, a celebration of a
community reunited on the Fourth of July, bringing together Yellow
Springs residents past and present, not to mention events of local
and national significance. Put on by the Yellow Springs Historical
Society, the original Homecoming lasted for three days, featuring
music, food, theater, and dancing, most of it held on Mills Lawn,
where the home of William Mills, who laid out the town as we know it,
once stood.
This
year, on July the 5th, the Historical Society puts the Yellow Springs
Homecoming on again, this time to honor Mary’s outstanding
contributions to and boundless enthusiasm for both the village she
adopted so long ago and the Society, to which she devoted so much
time and energy, conferring upon it a direction and a spirit that
continues to this day.
A
list of scheduled events can be downloaded from the 2013 schedule
page of the Yellow Springs Historical Society website.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Antioch names new VP for Advancement
Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt today announced that Brian Williams has been hired as the vice president for advancement, effective August 1.
Williams will be responsible for organizing, leading, and aligning the fundraising efforts of the College to best utilize the strengths of the institution’s donors, leaders, and staff in furthering its long-term sustainable fundraising operation. He replaces Reid. W. Crawford, who was appointed interim vice president for advancement in January.
“Brian is the right-fit candidate for this position and we were pleased to find him,” Roosevelt said. “He brings both a strong fundraising and administrative background to Antioch, a vital aspect to this institution. He is a skilled professional with eleven years of executive-level experience in higher education and non-profit administration, six years of teaching experience, and three years of experience in the legal world. He will be an asset to our senior leadership team.”
Williams will be joining the Antioch College staff from The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has been the vice president of development since May 2006. During his tenure, he managed the museum’s resource development program and helped to generate an annual average of $8.5 million in contributed revenue.
As vice president for advancement at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, a position he held from 2001 to 2006, Williams served as a member of the president’s senior staff, advising the college’s president, other vice presidents, and deans on strategic initiatives, including the strategies through which the college navigated a difficult financial period marked by a small endowment, a high discount rate, and low faculty salaries.
“I bring both a passion for liberal arts education and all that Antioch is working to achieve, as well as a long tenure of successful fundraising and capital campaign management at two nationally significant institutions,” said Williams. “I was attracted to Antioch for a number of reasons. There is no other place in the country that one can go and work on the project that is underway at Antioch—building a new brand of liberal arts college for the 21st century. I have enjoyed meeting the faculty and staff who are doing that work during my visits to campus and am enthusiastic about working with those individuals.”
Early in his career, Williams worked as an attorney at Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz in Chicago where his focus was labor and employment law. Following that position, he became a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, until 1997, when he moved on to Cornell University Law School, in Ithaca, New York, where he was named director of the Legal Methods Program.
Williams earned an MA in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1994 and graduated cum laude in 1989 with his JD from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. He earned his undergraduate degree in American studies from Knox College in 1986.
“Liberal education is in my DNA,” Williams said, having grown up on the GLCA campus of Wabash College, where his father was professor of religion and then chair of the religion department for nearly 45 years.
Williams will be responsible for organizing, leading, and aligning the fundraising efforts of the College to best utilize the strengths of the institution’s donors, leaders, and staff in furthering its long-term sustainable fundraising operation. He replaces Reid. W. Crawford, who was appointed interim vice president for advancement in January.
“Brian is the right-fit candidate for this position and we were pleased to find him,” Roosevelt said. “He brings both a strong fundraising and administrative background to Antioch, a vital aspect to this institution. He is a skilled professional with eleven years of executive-level experience in higher education and non-profit administration, six years of teaching experience, and three years of experience in the legal world. He will be an asset to our senior leadership team.”
Williams will be joining the Antioch College staff from The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has been the vice president of development since May 2006. During his tenure, he managed the museum’s resource development program and helped to generate an annual average of $8.5 million in contributed revenue.
As vice president for advancement at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, a position he held from 2001 to 2006, Williams served as a member of the president’s senior staff, advising the college’s president, other vice presidents, and deans on strategic initiatives, including the strategies through which the college navigated a difficult financial period marked by a small endowment, a high discount rate, and low faculty salaries.
“I bring both a passion for liberal arts education and all that Antioch is working to achieve, as well as a long tenure of successful fundraising and capital campaign management at two nationally significant institutions,” said Williams. “I was attracted to Antioch for a number of reasons. There is no other place in the country that one can go and work on the project that is underway at Antioch—building a new brand of liberal arts college for the 21st century. I have enjoyed meeting the faculty and staff who are doing that work during my visits to campus and am enthusiastic about working with those individuals.”
Early in his career, Williams worked as an attorney at Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz in Chicago where his focus was labor and employment law. Following that position, he became a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, until 1997, when he moved on to Cornell University Law School, in Ithaca, New York, where he was named director of the Legal Methods Program.
Williams earned an MA in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1994 and graduated cum laude in 1989 with his JD from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. He earned his undergraduate degree in American studies from Knox College in 1986.
“Liberal education is in my DNA,” Williams said, having grown up on the GLCA campus of Wabash College, where his father was professor of religion and then chair of the religion department for nearly 45 years.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Jeanne Ulrich & Devil's Backbone at Peach's Friday
Devil's Backbone (Jeanne Ulrich, Carl Schumacher, Tim Beach, and Jason
McClean) will be playing at Peach's this Friday night- June 14th.
The music starts at 10 pm. There's no cover, so you can spend more on your beverages!
Possible guest appearance by Tucky Bailey and her smokin' hot saxophone.
We hope to see you there!
The music starts at 10 pm. There's no cover, so you can spend more on your beverages!
Possible guest appearance by Tucky Bailey and her smokin' hot saxophone.
We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Springers in Xenia production
The cast includes three Yellow Springers: Olivia Graeco, Susan Hawkey and Jerry Buck.
The director, Olivia Gladman, is a former resident who had a long association with the old Center Stage.
Get Legal, Saturday
INFORMATION
REGARDING FREE LEGAL SERVICES
FOR
SENIORS AVAILABLE THIS SATURDAY
at Y. S. Senior Center 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Legal
Aid of Western Ohio (LAWO) is a nonprofit law firm that provides free
legal services to low-income individuals and seniors (age 60+).
Legal
Aid may be able to provide legal information, advice, and
representation to seniors regarding powers of attorney, advance
directives, financial exploitation, public benefits issues, housing
issues, family law matters, debt issues, domestic violence, elder
abuse, and other legal issues.
Staff
from Legal Aid will be available at the Yellow Springs Senior Center
this Saturday, June 8, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to provide
information about its services and to talk with individuals who may
be interested in applying for free legal assistance.
These
services are made available with support from various funding
sources, including United Way of the Greater Dayton Area.
For
additional information, please call (937) 228-8088.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Come hear the band
Friday night at the First Presbyterian Church Strawberry Festival - music starts at 7 p.m.
More Strawberry Festival information here.
More Strawberry Festival information here.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
WYSO to host Dave Isay in Dayton
StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay to Speak at Schuster Center
WYSO Public Radio will host Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, at a public event on Friday June 21. Isay will speak at 8:00pm at the Mathile Theatre in the Schuster Center for the Performing Arts. His presentation is called The History of StoryCorps and the Power of Listening. The event is a fundraiser for WYSO intended to support its Community Voices training project
StoryCorps is a national oral history collection project in which regular citizens are given the chance to interview each other and record their stories. Segments of these stories air each Friday during NPR’s Morning Edition, which airs on WYSO 91.3 FM Monday-Friday, 5-9am.
WYSO hosted StoryCorps on a month-long visit to Dayton in 2010. About two hundred individuals recorded interviews during that time. Twenty five of them aired on WYSO in 2010-2011 as “Miami Valley StoryCorps.”
Dave Isay is the recipient of numerous broadcasting awards including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, four Peabody Awards, and two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. He’s the author of four books that came out of his experience as a public radio documentary work, including New York Times bestsellers, Listening is an Act of Love and Mom: A Celebration of Mothers From StoryCorps, and All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps.
WYSO General Manager Neenah Ellis says, “Dave Isay is one of the great radio producers of our time. Much like one of his heroes, Studs Terkel, he sees his work as collecting the wisdom of humanity. He’s a committed visionary. I know WYSO listeners will love meeting him and hearing his thoughts about the importance and power of listening.”
Isay founded StoryCorps in 2003. To date, it has collected and archived more than 45,000 interviews from more than 90,000 participants. It is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. In 2007 it was awarded a rare institutional Peabody Award and again for its coverage of the 10th anniversary of September 11th. Most recently StoryCorps won a 2013 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
WYSO Public Radio will host Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, at a public event on Friday June 21. Isay will speak at 8:00pm at the Mathile Theatre in the Schuster Center for the Performing Arts. His presentation is called The History of StoryCorps and the Power of Listening. The event is a fundraiser for WYSO intended to support its Community Voices training project
StoryCorps is a national oral history collection project in which regular citizens are given the chance to interview each other and record their stories. Segments of these stories air each Friday during NPR’s Morning Edition, which airs on WYSO 91.3 FM Monday-Friday, 5-9am.
WYSO hosted StoryCorps on a month-long visit to Dayton in 2010. About two hundred individuals recorded interviews during that time. Twenty five of them aired on WYSO in 2010-2011 as “Miami Valley StoryCorps.”
Dave Isay is the recipient of numerous broadcasting awards including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, four Peabody Awards, and two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. He’s the author of four books that came out of his experience as a public radio documentary work, including New York Times bestsellers, Listening is an Act of Love and Mom: A Celebration of Mothers From StoryCorps, and All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps.
WYSO General Manager Neenah Ellis says, “Dave Isay is one of the great radio producers of our time. Much like one of his heroes, Studs Terkel, he sees his work as collecting the wisdom of humanity. He’s a committed visionary. I know WYSO listeners will love meeting him and hearing his thoughts about the importance and power of listening.”
Isay founded StoryCorps in 2003. To date, it has collected and archived more than 45,000 interviews from more than 90,000 participants. It is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. In 2007 it was awarded a rare institutional Peabody Award and again for its coverage of the 10th anniversary of September 11th. Most recently StoryCorps won a 2013 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Coming Home exhibit at Herndon Gallery
The
exhibition opening will take place Thursday, June 20, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Herndon Gallery in South Hall on the Antioch College campus. Aaron Hughes,
artist and Iraq War veteran, will discuss the exhibit and his work during the
opening at 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will continue through August 16, 2013.
Co-curated
by Antioch College alumnae Dennie Eagleson ’71 and Lynn Zimmerman Estomin ’72, Coming Home will include recent work by
veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who work with Warrior Writers and
Combat Paper, two organizations that provide a safe space for veterans to
express their experience in war and returning home through creative writing and
visual art. The process also generates a
much-needed conversation between veterans and civilians regarding our
collective responsibilities and shared understanding of war.
Through Combat Paper papermaking workshops, veterans use
the uniforms they wore in service to create works of art. The uniforms are cut
up, weathered, and formed into sheets of paper. Participants use the
transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniforms as art and
express their experiences with the military.
Warrior Writers fosters artistic exploration and
expression through casual, welcoming workshops and retreats for veterans. Art
making becomes the creative tool through which veterans understand and
transcend experiences of trauma and emotional disruptions that are not easily
identified but constantly felt. Creative works are shared with the public in
the form of books, performances, and exhibitions. Using art as language,
Warrior Writers helps bridge the gap between veterans and civilians.
Coming Home will feature Aaron Hughes, Warrior Writer and Combat
Papermaker, as artist-in-residence, and Ash Kyrie, an Iraq War veteran and
sculptor. Hughes and Kyrie will be creating a site-specific installation
for the gallery that includes Kyrie’s work Palaver, which hopes to start
a dialog about how predator drone technology removes accountability from our
government and American citizens in the context of modern warfare.
Hughes’ work seeks out poetics and moments of
beauty, in order to construct new languages and meanings out of
personal and collective traumas. He uses these to create projects that attempt
to de-construct systems of dehumanization and oppression. Hughes
plans to create a space where visitors will ask questions about their relationship
to the world—a world that’s filled with dehumanization, war, and
destruction; a world that is filled with beauty, love, and humanity.
Veteran artists represented in
the exhibition are: Chantelle Bateman, Drew Cameron, Toby Hartbarger, Amy Herrera, Aaron
Hughes, Kevin
Kilgore, Ash
Kyrie, Iris Madelyn, Robynn Murray, Jennifer Pacanowski, John Turner, and Eli Wright.
Also
represented will be the Veterans Book Project, a project conceived by Monica
Haller to allow veterans to tell their story through writing and visual
art. The resulting artist books are
referred to as “Objects of Deployment.”
The
exhibition will also include three of Estomin’s multimedia collaborations with
veterans. The Warrior Writers website (www.warriorwriters.org) showcases
the creative writing and visual art of 40 veterans; Out of Step, a music/dance/video collaboration, features the voices
of four young female veterans; and a video collage of readings by veteran
writers created for this exhibition.
In
addition to the opening reception for the exhibition, Antioch College and the
Herndon Gallery will host a curatorial talk by Lynn Estomin on Friday, June 14,
at 8:00 p.m. On campus July 26 and 27,
Warrior Writers will offer two days of writing workshops and trainings for
veterans and local allies. There will be
a poetry reading by workshop participants on Saturday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Herndon Gallery that is open and free to the public.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Call for script submissions - 10-Minute Play Fest
Yellow Springs 10-Minute
Play Festival 2013
Script Submission Guidelines
Submission deadline:
September 1, 2013
Festival Production:
October 25 & 26, 2013
The name Yellow Springs 10-Minute Play Festival is somewhat
of a misnomer employed to distinguish this annual Center Stage production from
the annual one-act play production at Yellow Springs High School. While we like
our plays to come in it at 10 minutes or less, running over by a couple minutes
is not a big deal. Beyond the competitive submission process, this is not a
contest. So, there is no strict rule regarding length. That being said however,
if a play is too long, in fairness to the other submitters; we will not be able
to include it. The shorter the plays, the more we can include. Last year we had
eight plays on the program.
The Yellow Springs 10-Minute Play Festival is a showcase for
local talent, therefore we accept submissions only from playwrights with a
strong YS connection, e.g. current or past residents or those currently employed
in Yellow Springs or Miami Township; and past or current participants in Yellow
Springs Center Stage. The local connection is important for several reasons: we
hope that the playwrights will be actively involved in the production of their
plays, including casting and directing, or will, at least, be available for
consultation; we like our playwrights to introduce their plays to the audience
during the two nights of the festival; and we seek to limit the number of
submissions for review to a manageable number. In the past, and in spite of
this requirement, we have received submissions from playwrights from afar with
no connection to our community, hoping to have their scripts produced with no intention of even showing up to see the production. Some have even had the
nerve to ask us to send a video tape. No, no, no…
Our hope is to do a lot with very little. This is the very essence
of the 10-minute play. As such, playwrights are advised to keep their sets
simple and their casts minimal. In the past, we have received scripts that
looked like they were written for the big screen. Keep in mind that we have
limitations in terms of lighting, sound, and special effects. Additionally, rehearsing
a large cast for a very short play can make scheduling and finding rehearsal
space problematic. If we see production difficulties that we feel cannot be
overcome by creative direction, the play will be rejected in spite of the
quality of the writing.
The deadline for script submissions for the Third Annual
Yellow Springs 10-Minute Play Festival is September 1, 2013. Scripts may be
submitted as email attachments to gunchpress@yahoo.com
or by mail to Center Stage, P.O. Box 544, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Feel free
to address further questions to Virgil Hervey at gunchpress@yahoo.com.
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