Ten Days to Get the Experience In Yellow Springs

Yellow Springs opens its arts and cultural doors with a launch party to kick off the Yellow Springs Experience from 4 to 6:30 PM Friday, July 9. The Experience is a 10-day immersion of workshops and performances in Yellow Springs, July 9-18. The launch party, sponsored by the Yellow Springs Arts Council and its partners, celebrates the Arts Council’s move to 309 Xenia Avenue, a unique new location, with live bands, art exhibits, dance improvisation, a kids’ performance, refreshments and more. Details about the launch party and the Experience are at www.yellow-springs-experience.org.

More than 80 events are planned for the Experience, which brings together the Yellow Springs Arts Council and dozens of other partners, including area colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, artists and cultural presenters, to welcome one and all to sample, stay and play for the week as a part of the community. Wellness classes, arts workshops, readings, women’s retreat, sustainable building and farm tour, street carnival, skate music concert, youth and adult theater and dance are just some of the diverse tastes to enjoy.

The Yellow Springs Experience is the village’s most expansive invitation to the region and beyond with activities for all ages. The Experience is designed to support local artists and cultural practitioners of every stripe and represents thirteen areas including visual arts, literature, theater, dance, music, environment, culinary, media, 3-dimensional, wellness, crafts, innovation and design. Popular summertime events such as the Antioch Writer’s Workshop, YS Kids Playhouse performances and Glen Helen EcoCamps are included in the Yellow Springs Experience schedule.

Events will be held at locations throughout the village, including artist studios, educational sites and community centers. Tickets will be available for purchase online until July 18.

The Yellow Springs area historically has been the center of events like the Experience. Chautauquas were held at Antioch College at the turn of the next-to-last century. The Experience developed from efforts over the past five years by the Arts Council, Chamber of Commerce and YS Kids Playhouse to gather the village's many summer events into a shared time frame.

The partners in the Yellow Springs Experience are the Yellow Springs Arts Council, Antioch College, Antioch University Midwest, Antioch Writer's Workshop, Center for the Arts Steering Committee, Glen Helen, Little Art Theatre, Nonstop Institute, Tecumseh Land Trust, Village of Yellow Springs, WYSO, Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce and YS Kids Playhouse.