Mdou Moctar - Special Solo Show   Saturday, May 16   Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and “rock music“ by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field recordings, drums rhythms, poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of […]

MRTW Theater Camp June 1 - June 12.  Final Performance on June 12 @ 7PM   Mad River Theater Works, with the support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, joyfully invites youth between the ages of 8-17 to participate in a two-week Summer Theater Workshop this June. We will explore theater […]

Defining American in the Heartland: A Conversation Between Jose Antonio Vargas and William Lopez   Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Tony-nominated theatrical producer. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants, he founded the non-profit immigrant storytelling organization Define American, twice named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, and […]

Horse Lords As an instrumental unit, Horse Lords rely on a collective voice and focus to provide the band’s core strength; a process enriched by their disparate musical interests. The quartet, formed in 2010, embraces Renaissance counterpoint, covers composer Julius Eastman, plays instruments specially fretted for microtonality, and organizes its music through polyrhythmic matrices. The […]