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March 22, 2007
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Editorial Arts workshop worth your time This weekend villagers have an opportunity to engage in some of their favorite things: catching up with friends, exploring ideas, dreaming big dreams. Even better, these pleasurable activities aim to the greater good of creating a new arts center in Yellow Springs. This Friday through Sunday, March 23–25, the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering Committee invites everyone to a community workshop. The workshop, which takes place at the First Presbyterian Church, covers all aspects of the arts — literature, dance, music, theater, film and video — in relation to our town’s economic development, tourism, community learning, social, spiritual and community life. On Sunday, the weekend wraps up with a summary talk and a feast. (See “YS Arts Center workshops,” page 1, for schedule information). Arts center committee members have met for a year and, with help from the Morgan Family Foundation, hired two national-level consultants who work with communities to leverage the arts for economic and cultural gain. Talk is good, but talk followed by action works even better. It’s exciting that this group of creative and thoughtful villagers has committed to this large task, and that they clearly mean to get things done. It’s even more exciting that the arts center committee wants our ideas. This weekend, committee members have made the space and time to engage us, to stimulate our creative and collaborative thinking. Taking part in the workshop, we not only help the committee by offering ideas, but we help ourselves by coming together and getting involved in a project that could have a lasting effect on Yellow Springs. Yellow Springs benefits from a rich arts history-, from the Opera House of the 1880s to Antioch’s Chautauquas at the turn of the century to Shakespeare Under the Stars in the 1950s to last week’s dance concert and your child learning to play the violin. By giving us the opportunity to create, perform and explore what it means to be human, the arts have helped shape Yellow Springs as the lively, free-thinking, compassionate town that it is. So let’s walk our talk and show up this weekend. Kudos to the arts center organizers for all of their hard work. And more kudos to them for offering all villagers the opportunity to help envision a new arts center. Sure, we’re all busy, but giving an hour or two to the arts center effort this weekend will help both ourselves and our town.
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