Poet Sierra Leone, whose artistic collaborations include Dayton Metro Library, Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, Human Race Theatre Company, Levitt Pavilion and University of Dayton, has been commissioned to write a poem to celebrate and inaugurate WYSO’s new headquarters in Yellow Springs. Read more.
Four Dayton artists have been chosen to create a memorial in tribute to the victims of the Oregon District tragedy that occurred on Aug. 4, 2019. Read more.
Levitt Pavilion concert features Grammy-nominated go-go group E.U. Read more.
Dayton Native Returns to Shine on Dayton Philharmonic Season Opener
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Among the hundreds of recordings in WYSO Archive, there’s an interview between the American poet Maya Angelou and an interviewer named Lin Harris from radio station WBAI in New York made in 1975. Somehow a copy of that reel-to reel-recording ended up in the WYSO collection, and ten years ago it was digitized. Read more.
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In Sierra Leone's TEDxDayton talk, she discusses and performs her fictionalized monologue of Katrina survivor, Angela Chaffee. Inspired by real-life incidences, this work weaves the struggles of humanity into each line and addresses the far-reaching effects of devastation and oppression. It is a journey not taken lightly by listeners. See more.
