Yellow Springs Chamber Calendar

Ten days to… Interact with artists. Immerse yourself in learning. Join in the dance. Connect with the land. Play at the Carnivale. Delight your senses. Pursue a passion. Explore. Savor. Grow.

The Yellow Springs Experience, an Immersion in Arts & Culture embodying learning, nature, wellness, and the arts will run from July 9 through 18. Visitors can hone their acting skills, learn to throw pots, walk in Glen Helen, invigorate their bodies and get feedback on their fiction during the Experience.

Kirtan (call & response chant) comes to us from India and is one of the oldest sacred music traditions of the world. The chanting is usually done in the ancient language of Sanskrit in the form of mantra (mantra; “that which shows the way out of the mind”). Kirtan creates a joyful mood and is considered in India to be one of the surest paths to enlightenment, and one of the most fun.

All are welcome. $15 advance/$20 door

Yoga Springs Studio www.yogasprings.com 767-9300

Join a trailside volunteer for an interactive program with their box turtle and Black Rat Snake. All ages welcome!

Dave Jansen leads this walk through the woods looking at the many uses of plants. Families are welcome.

Glen supporter Julie Karlson will give a slide presentation on the birds of Peru as observed on her recent trip.

Enjoy a festive evening of fusion tapas, wine and conversation with members of the Nonstop Institute as well as artists-in-residence for the summer Local Stories Artist Residencies. This evening will feature dance, music and theater performances. Food will be tasty and nourishing late night fare and organized by Migiwa Orimo (artist). There will be a cash wine bar.

Dancer/choreographer Jill Becker, with Tricia Gelmini & Terry Hempfling, will present a lively dance improvisation with original music by YSKP guest musicians Neal Kirkwood and Harry Mann.

Theater artist Louise Smith’s performance is based on her studies of inland waters and related bodily humors in this work-in-progress that crisscrosses continents and those deep waters that can only be reached with special instruments of locomotion.

Rani Crowe will present Julia Child’s Midwest Chef: Adapting her world famous cuisine for the Midwest palate. Also be sure to see Rani’s lecture/performance and talk-back based on the texts of feminist writers in the 1920’s, titled The New Woman Gets a Room of Her Own on July 10, which is also part of the YS Experience.

Dennie Eagleson, photographer and NS Local Stories summer residency artist will also present work from recent documentary projects. Ryan Agnew, also a NS residency artist from Columbus, will perform.