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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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In Dayton, some people with Parkinson’s disease are using boxing lessons to help battle their symptoms. WYSO’s Jason Reynolds went to the gym to find out why pugilism works for so many people in the Parkinson’s community…
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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.
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In a unique twist, artist James Pate opens his own gallery, Black Palette, right next to his mentor, Bing Davis, on West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio.
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The first time you hear the music of jazz composer and bass player Charles Mingus, it can change your life. That happened to two jazz musicians in the Springfield Jazz Orchestra. The band is celebrating the centennial of Mingus’ birth with a concert this week. David Seitz tells us the story of these two musicians and the Mingus effect.
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Musical collaboration was reinvented during the pandemic. A lot of work was done over zoom. Michelle David, a classically trained composer in New York and hip hop artist Tronee Threat in Yellow Springs created a new choral work together.