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Each year during July and August the Dayton Art Institute presents a series of Twilight Concerts featuring performances by local artists.
This year’s schedule, now in progress, continues with its weekly Thursday performances and will feature this week on Thursday, Aug. 30 - The Women of Musica - vocal solos, duos, and trios.
All Twilight Concerts are free and begin at 7 p.m. For more information call the Dayton Art Institute, 223-5277.
The Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for its 2007-08 season on Thursday, Sept. 6.
The orchestra is looking primarily for trumpet, trombone and string players, but will audition any interested parties on that date. If a musician is interested, please contact Felicia Bauman at: 937-476-5043.
Ever want a chance to speak with a famous Broadway composer? How about a chance to have him evaluate your singing?
That opportunity is coming to Dayton Sept. 20, thanks to The Human Race Theatre and Stephen Schwartz.
Schwartz, the composer of such noted shows as Wicked, Godspell, Pippin, and Children of Eden, is coming to Dayton for the opening of his brand new musical, Snapshots, which will be presented by The Human Race at The Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton from Sept. 20 to Oct. 7. Schwartz has offered to conduct a musical theatre Master Class on Sept. 20.
The Master Class, to be held in The Loft Theatre at 126 North Main from 3 to 5:30 p.m., will give all participants a chance to ask questions and speak with Schwartz, who, in addition to his Broadway musicals, has won three Oscars for his film music. In addition, names of those who would like to sing for Schwartz will be put in a hat, and those whose names are pulled will get to perform.
Thanks to support from the Producers’ Circle, this Master Class has only a $20 registration fee. Those interested should call Human Race Theatre Executive Director Kevin Moore at 461-3823, ext. 3115.
By Jacquelyn N. Buck
Town and Country Fine Art Center celebrates September with visiting artist Terry K Hitt, a retired University of Dayton art professor who paints in his Kennard Studio / Gallery in Beavercreek and continues to teach graduate students as well.
Terry has exhibited in Chicago, Westerville, Cincinnati, Dayton and the Springfield Museum of Art as well as Germany, Hawaii, Washington, DC, Steamboat Springs, Colorado and Columbus, Ohio. His works are currently in many public and private collections.
When asked about his art, Terry says “I respond to nature and the interdependence of humans with our natural environment. Like the Druids and American Indians I feel a kinship with all that lives and render attention to the temporality and paradox of the human condition. In my view “art” records life transitions and our cultural history. Flowers are a metaphor of the temporal moment we have to send something of ourselves into the care of the future. Nothing lasts forever, everything gets recycled.”
His work will be exhibited from September 1 – September 30. An artist open house will be held on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 5-8 pm at the Town and Country Fine Art Center at 300 East Stroop Rd. in Kettering.
Oakwood resident George Liston has announced that there is a current exhibit of artwork by clients of We Care Arts are on display on the second floor at the Epiphany Gallery at South Park United Methodist Church, located at Brown and Stonemill in Dayton.
The exhibit will be at the gallery until Sept. 1. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A luncheon will be held at The Mandalay Banquet Center at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, where the new inductees, Warner Simpson and the late Ralph Furguson, as well as previous recipients of the award, will be honored. The public is invited to attend the luncheon (cost is $15.00).
To make reservations for the luncheon, please call or email Sandy at the Board Office at 297-5332 or maresh.sandy@oakwood.k12.oh.us by Friday, Aug. 31.
Friday evening, Sept. 14, at 6:45 p.m. recipients will be available to meet with well-wishers in the Alumni Terrace on the southwest corner of Mack Hummon Stadium.
The Noble Circle Project for Women Surviving Cancer, a wellness program which benefits women in Dayton and the surrounding areas who have been diagnosed with cancer, will launch its fall program in September, 2007.
Eight Dayton area women, who initiated the project in 2003, had a desire to encourage other women with cancer to take an active role in improving their health and recovery. The goal of the program is to provide cancer survivors with the tools necessary to achieve significant gains in their health using a simple, natural approach.
Women may join the program at any point in their journey with the disease.
As a program of the Wellness Connection of the Dayton Region, the project focuses on complementary healing methods that can be used in conjunction with traditional medical treatment. Participants will engage in whole foods nutrition classes including cooking demonstrations, address the emotional issues related to cancer through a network of support, and experience the stress-reducing effects of practicing a form of gentle exercise and healing movement called qigong.
The fall program of The Noble Circle Project will kick-off with a weekend retreat Sept. 14-16 followed by 10 weeks of Thursday evening classes which will be held at One Lincoln Park in Kettering.
The program is open to women diagnosed with any type of cancer. The program is free to participants and enrollment is limited. Registrations will be accepted until Aug. 29.
For more information, call 937-885-4477, 937-434-9382, or go to www.noblecircle.org.
The Oakwood Schools Education Foundation will host its third annual golf outing fundraiser Sept. 24 at the Dayton Country Club. Kevin Payne is serving as this year’s honorary chair. In its first two years the outing has raised over $39,000.
The Foundation annually provides significant support for quality initiatives beyond the scope of publicly funded education, including teacher and administrative grants, scholarships, and special wish list initiatives.
If anyone is interested in being a part if this great event, contact the Foundation office at 297-5332.
Come walk the labyrinth on Tuesday, Sept. 4 anytime between 12 and 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church on First Street between Wilinson and Perry. The 36’ canvas labyrinth is patterned after the one on the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France and will be set up in Fellowship Hall - enter through the doors on Wilkinson Street and follow the signs. Discover a spiritual tool that has been used by humans of various spiritual traditions and culture for over 5000 years.
The Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 155 E. Thruston Blvd., in Oakwood, will kickoff a multi-year ministry project on Sunday, Sept. 9. “God’s Peace Flowing Through Us” is a ministry initiative designed to assist people in experiencing God’s peace in their lives, something which includes, but goes far beyond, political peace, encompassing economic, relational, emotional and physical health, and spiritual realms as well.
The kickoff event on Sept. 9 will begin with an intergenerational Sunday School event, which will involve a visit by the Dayton Peace Museum “Peace Mobile”.
Worship at 10:30 a.m. will feature guest speaker Steve Fryburg, director of the Dayton Peace Museum, and a “planting” of a Peace Pole on the church property. The eight-sided Peace Pole will feature the phrase “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in English and 15 other languages representing cultures in the Miami Valley. A cookout lunch featuring a “Fair Trade Fair” will conclude the day. The public is invited. Prior to the kickoff event on Sunday, the members of the congregation will participate in a 24-hour prayer vigil in the chapel, beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, the goal of which is to seek God’s Shalom for all people.
“God’s Peace Flowing Through Us” began as an idea in the mind of Ginger Minneman, the congregation’s Director of Music - a response to the pain of a divided nation at war, and the wildly hectic pace with which life is lived for so many people, wherein God’s peace is not experienced. With a planning group assembled, the idea blossomed into a major ministry focus for the congregation, the goal of which is to provide opportunities for people throughout the Miami Valley to experience and work together for God’s peace in their lives, in the community, nation, and around the world.
Imagine a Hebrew reading program where the children don’t want to miss a day. Where they enter with a smile and leave humming a Hebrew song.
This excitement for reading Hebrew happens each Monday from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Weprin Family Center for Jewish Life and Learning, 2001 Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood, for children in grades Kindergarten through fifth grades beginning Sept. 10, 2007.
Chabad of Greater Dayton has revolutionized Hebrew reading with the nationally acclaimed Aleph Champion Program. Based on the martial arts motivational philosophy of color coded levels and testing, Aleph Champ
provides motivation and inspiration for Chabad’s Hebrew students.
To take advantage of this opportunity of teaching your child to read Hebrew, register your child or for more information about this program call Rabbi Levi Simon at 643-0770 or e-mail rabbilevi@ChabadDayton.com.
Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted (R- Kettering) today announced he plans to hold open office hours for constituents of the 37th Ohio House District. The meeting will provide an opportunity for the public to discuss their views and opinions with Speaker Husted on state government issues. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
The office hours will be held on Thursday, Aug. 30 from 9 – 11 a.m. at the Oakwood Community Center at 105 Patterson Road Dayton, OH 45419.
Oakwood Community Center is sponsoring an eight-hour driver safety class taught by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on two Saturdays, Sept. 15 and 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 105 Patterson Rd., Oakwood.
To register, call 298-0775. The eight hour class costs $10 per person. Some insurance companies give a discount to those who have taken this defensive driving course.
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