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Artists in Yellow Springs embrace creative connection through a year-long collaborative project.
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WYSO's Peter Day visits Dayton's premier silent disco to learn about a burgeoning nightlife activity.
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History makes you strong: The story of one painting and a Black family’s legacy in Springfield, OhioArtist Lelia Byron makes public murals and installations nationally and around the world. Before she begins each project, she interviews people in the community. Byron talked to people in Springfield, Ohio about the many meanings of home. Culture Couch producer David Seitz tells us the story of one painting and one family’s history in Black Springfield.
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Striving for the ideal body has always troubled ballet dancers. It can be even harder for Black dancers. However, this is changing. The new Artistic Director of the Dayton Ballet, Brandon Ragland, has been part of this shift. For Culture Couch, David Seitz went to a rehearsal and has this story.
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The Ohio Renaissance Festival is open now and runs till the end of October. WYSO traveled just south of Dayton to find out why thousands of people spend late summer and early fall traveling back to the 1500s.
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David Seitz visits Allie Martin’s sound work, This is a Black Neighborhood.
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Benjamin Montague takes photos of microplastics — little pieces of plastic, less than five millimeters in length. He’s photographed microplastics found in rivers and oceans around the globe, and he makes big prints of these small subjects...
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Dayton Metro library is celebrating a century of bookmobile service this year. Early Dayton Library Director, Electra C. Doren, wanted to get books into the hands of people. She bought a Ford Truck and added shelves and created the first “bookmobile” to serve the state. We asked Jim Kahle to take a ride for Culture Couch.
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The Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus is giving back with a free concert celebrating their 20th anniversary.
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Artist and musician Michael Bashaw has created a new sound sculpture that now stands by the Great Miami river in Dayton, Ohio. Community Voices producer David Seitz visited Bashaw’s studio to learn the evolution of this new work.