Here is the latest Dayton video making the rounds on the Internets – imitating the Where the Hell is Matt videos with a UD twist. (though Tim’s is oddly missing)
Weekend Warrior, Dreamer, or Adventure Racer – all will be inspired at GearFest
When: October 2nd and 3rd
Where: Eastwood MetroParks, 1385 Harshman Road, Dayton, Ohio 45431
Why: Because “Outdoor Recreation” is the future of Dayton and its sexy! Yes, the Outdoor Evangelist said it. Many communities across the country are trying to create what we already have right here in our back yard, amazing access to quality recreation opportunities within 15 minutes of anyone who lives in Montgomery. GearFest is simply an event that brings it all together with a misson to grow the community as a whole.
When you think of outdoor towns the cities that come to mind are Asheville, Boulder, Chattanooga, Portland or even Minneapolis. What is it that makes up an outdoor town? Is it rivers? Lots of Trails, on and off road? Is it mountains? Maybe beer and music?
Believe it or not Dayton Ohio has every aspect of a vibrant, exciting, outdoor town, obviously minus the mountains. One key aspect of an outdoor community is the culture. Outdoor Culture is bike racks on cars, outdoor events and festivals and bottom line – people outside participating in active healthy endeavors.
GearFest is THE celebration of outdoor culture in the Midwest. As a matter of fact, it is right here in the Outdoor Adventure Capitol of the Midwest, Dayton Ohio. This dynamic event brings together all aspects of outdoor recreation together to inspire, educate and connect the community to all the amazing clubs, retailers and outdoor opportunities right here in the Miami Valley.
Add camping, live music, competitions, exciting outdoor athlete demos, a youth adventure zone and visitors of all ages can have an enjoyable weekend at GearFest for FREE.
Whether you are a weekend warrior, adventure racer or dreamer wanting to try something new, you will make a connection at GearFest. I have been at this event since the beginning at 2nd St. Market downtown and each year Five Rivers MetroParks brings new, innovative and exciting additions that keeps me coming back. This year they are bringing in a Mountain Board Team from Colorado. The MBS Big Air Demo Team brings the excitement of Mountainboarding out of the mountains and into Dayton, Ohio. Their half hour choreographed stunt show is filled with speed, jumps, humor and a positive message. Catch the riders spinning, flipping and rail sliding throughout this high-energy show. Ya, I said Flipping. A mountain board is basically a snowboard with wheels.
For you music aficionados, WYSO is bringing an excellent line up from all genres. The GearFest music lineup include local and regional bands such as the Skeptical Cats, Ohio Corn Daddys, Jesse Remnant and the Trainwrecks, and BJSR.
One final note, an outdoor festival isn’t complete without fine regional microbrews and it seems there is no sign of fine malty beverages this year. Yes, there was beer at past GearFest events but there hasn’t been in 2 years. I vote for BEER next year. Make it happen! If you Brew it, they will come!
Generation Dayton’s 4th Friday Lunch
Dayton’s young professionals are encouraged to attend Generation Dayton’s 4th Friday Lunch at Meadowlark’s Restaurant on Sept. 25 for an evening of social networking.
The cost is free; lunch is at your own expense.
The time is from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m at Meadowlark Restaurant located at 2094 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd, Dayton OH 45459, near the Dayton Mall.
Generation Dayton is a program for talented, young professionals in the Dayton area to network, learn valuable business skills and meet with prominent area business leaders.
For more information about Generation Dayton, or to RSVP for the event, contact Andy Hickey at ahickey@technologyfirst.org or LaDonna Wulfeck at lwulfeck@dacc.org or 937.226-8264.
Acclaim Hospice of Dayton volunteers needed
Acclaim Hospice of Dayton is looking for individuals who have their heart and their time to give to those in need.
Acclaim holds volunteer orientation sessions several times a month. Volunteers are needed to provide support, comfort and friendship to patients their families.
They offer comprehensive hospice training and volunteers are eligible to receive background and health screenings free of charge.
To volunteer or to recieve additional information, contact Gina Newton at 937-276-9248.
Dayton Aviation Heritage volunteer opportunities
Volunteer opportunities are available at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Park.
The park is looking for:
- Education Program Assistant – The volunteer will conduct guided tours of the visitor centers while presenting educational instruction. Training will be provided to the volunteer on educational program standard operating procedures.
- Gardener – DAHNP is seeking volunteers to assist in planting and maintaining flower beds around the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center. The volunteer(s) would be responsible for preparing seedbeds, planting native seeds and plants, maintaining the flowers, watering, removing/clearing weeds, and disposing of trash/plant debris.
- Interpretive Assistant – The park is looking for volunteers to assist with interpretive functions at both of our visitor centers, Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center on WPAFB and Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center located just outside of downtown Dayton.
- Parking Attendant – DAHNHP needs volunteers to assist with 104th Anniversary of Practical Flight celebration at Huffman Prairie Flying Field on Oct. 5, 2009. Must be available from 6:30 a.m. to noon on October 5, 2009. Training will be provided the Saturday or Sunday prior to the event. YOU MUST ATTEND THIS TRAINING TO WORK THE EVENT.
For additional information, contact Mandy Murray at 937-225-7705.
Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley
Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley has a variety of volunteer opportunities available in Montgomery and Greene counties.
Retirees, high school students, college students and anyone interested in volunteering is encouraged to attend CSSMV’s volunteer orientation on Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. The orientation will be held at the CSSMV Center for Families at 1046 Brown Street.
The following constitute a partial listing of the volunteer positions available at CSSMV’s various offices:
- Personal Shopper
- Stocker
- Hospitality
- Records Archivist
- Respite Care Volunteer
- Spanish Instructor
- Administration
- Bookkeeping
- Tutor
For additional information, contact : Cathy Guerrant at 937-223-7217 ext. 1146 or Lynn Adams at 937-223-7217 ext. 1104.
Peopleperson//The Kids Are All Done For
…from our friends over at Fictionband Mechanics, it is our distinct pleasure to announce the first official release from our favorite home recordist, Peopleperson. As announced this morning, The Kids Are All Done For is now available as the first physical release from the label. Tapping through everything from twangy surf rock to Kraut minimalism to swirling shoegaze/psychedelia to unrepentant…
Kuan//E
…in case you missed out last week, Kuan opened their September Residency at The Buddha Den NTRO/XPO with a sonic assault that needs to be witnessed. We’d easily put them up against anyone currently running in the Gem City, as their dynamics and inventive compositions fueled by avant experimentation keep this instrumental quartet close to the edge throughout. The band will be issuing a double EP…
Amendment 2370/2371 – Speak up for Trails, Walking and Biking Now
(from the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy website)
On Tuesday, September 15, Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) issued two amendments to the FY10 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. If passed, these amendments would eliminate the majority of available federal funds for trails, walking and bicycling.
Amendment 2370 would prohibit the use of federal funds for pedestrian or bicycle facilities, efforts to reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife, or other specified Transportation Enhancement (TE) projects if the Highway Trust Fund cannot cover unfunded highway authorizations.
Amendment 2371 is even trickier; while it claims to allow states to opt out of spending on TE projects, the actual amendment text in fact notes that “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement” TE projects.
Providing opportunities for Americans to walk, bike and take transit to get where they’re going improves our communities’ health and livability, reduces emissions, creates jobs and save money.
If you know who your senators are, their phone numbers are listed here (in the format 202-224-xxxx). To look up your senators by state and find their phone numbers, go here.
Next, please call your senators with the following message:
I am calling from (city, state) to urge that Senator ______ vote against Amendments 2370 and 2371 to H.R. 3288. These amendments would jeopardize essential Transportation Enhancements projects such as trails and other walking and bicycling infrastructure. These projects are highly valued in my community, and we need more safe and convenient opportunities to walk and bike. How does Senator _____ plan to vote on these amendments?
It is best to use your own words. If you personalize your comments, please be sure to end your call by asking how the senator plans to vote. This is critical information for us to have, and puts the office on notice that they will be accountable.
Once you have made your calls, please tell us how they went so we can track progress and plan next steps. Thank you.
UPDATE:
The amendments did not pass, with both of Ohio’s senators voting against them! Thanks to all that phoned in their opposition!
Shakespeare in South Park Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fairies and Athenians are enjoying the late summer weather in South Park Green, a cozy hillside park with an impressive vista of the Dayton skyline at dusk. These Shakespearean characters are diligently rehearsing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening Friday, September 18 at 8PM. The play is sponsored by Historic South Park. Last year they staged Much Ado About Nothing.
The delightful romantic comedy of mismatched lovers, enchanted forests and Puck, the famously mischievous sprite, will play out against the natural background of lush trees strung with twinkling lights at sunset, a perfect stage for the magic-comic misadventures of the king and queen of the fairies, human lovers and bumbling rustic folk.
First-time play producers Phyllis Tonne and Galen Wilson cannot believe their good fortune in director, cast and crew. And of the 22 players, 11 are from their own neighborhood of South Park. Director Daniel Wilson, a resident of Riverside, is an experienced director and founder of Wichita’s Shakespeare in the Park program. His wife Jennifer Wilson, a military professional working at Wright Patterson Airforce Base, is also an actress and costume designer of long experience. Two alums of Dayton’s renowned Muse Machine, Michael Wadam and Natalie Houliston bring talent and leadership to the troupe, which is a healthy mix of accomplished and neophyte actors.
The University of Dayton contributed some of its alumni to the cast, including Paul Browning, now working at the Airforce Base and Alexandra Robinson of The Kettering Foundation. Chris Rowley, ex-military currently at Woolpert, takes the stage for the first time since seventh grade.
Shakespeare requires men and in the need to cast more of them, the producers walked through the neighborhood in search of good-looking fellows of a certain age, just like talent scouts of old. They found Nick Moye, who’s turning out to be something of a natural. The South Park neighborhood offered up another crucial talent, the all-important stage manager, in the form of Elizabeth Blackwell, a Wright State theatre graduate. Alex Pitcairn joined the cast having recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati theatre program.
Rounding out the stage with young people are Kaitlyn Paeg, 15, of Trotwood and Lydia Diabate-Tonne, a fifth grader at Valley Forge in Huber Heights. The director is highly pleased with his actors. Even after many years of professional directing and the founding of other theater companies, Daniel Wilson gently mocked himself saying, “I have a better cast than I deserve.”
The troupe is in high spirits and rising to the play’s challenge, which bodes well for a lively engaging performance. “Dream” includes a lot of physicality, fighting, chases and dances as well as delicate moments and broad humor, even a song or two. It promises to be great family fare. Audiences are asked to bring a blanket or lawn chairs. The Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances are free but donations will be accepted to defray the play’s production costs.
“There is a surprisingly strong affinity for the work of William Shakespeare that has drawn us together again this year, and has us looking forward to the next,” says Tonne. Indeed, the Bard of Avon seems to have found a home in South Park.
Corpus Christi @ The Dayton Playhouse
The most controversial and talked about play of 1998 begins: “We are going to tell you an old and familiar story.” It parallels the New Testament. Its subject; the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. But McNally’s Christ is the character Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Joshua is homosexual and grows up in isolation and torment, an object of scorn. He flees Corpus Christi in search of a more accepting environment, gathering a group of disciples who are bound to him by his message of love and tolerance. Will his plea, that we look upon all souls as equal, fall unattended?
Casting Call for-
Joshua
John-a writer, younger brother to James
James- a high school teacher
Peter- a young man who sells fish
Andrew- a masseur
Philip-a hustler (early 30’s)
Bartholomew- a doctor and James’ lover
Judas Iscariot- a restauranteur
Matthew- a lawyer ( 30’s)
Thomas- an actor (25)
James The Less- an architect
Simon- a singer* preferably actually can sing
Thaddeus- a hairdresser
*one actor who plays the violin or fiddle is called for.
We are looking for 13 Men around the ages of 18-35
Auditions have been set for the last week of September Monday the 28th and Tuesday the 29th, with times TBA.
The show runs November 13-22 and is through the Dayton Playhouse.
Director -Michael Boyd
Assistant Director- Nicklaus Moberg
Feel free to contact either Michael or Nicklaus for more information.
Michael Boyd- mike@michaeljboyd.com
Nicklaus Moberg- nickyboy45504@yahoo.com
or see The Dayton Playhouse page at http://www.daytonplayhouse.org/shows09-10/03Cor.html
Feel free to invite others and we hope to see you come out and audition!
Stylish student living coming to downtown Dayton
Student apartments are coming to downtown Dayton courtesy of Schwind Tower Student Apartments.
90 single and double units will be available in the fall of 2010. Aimed primarily at Sinclair Community College students, the lofts will be affordably priced, yet furnished with sleek amenities sure to please any college student.
Amenities include:
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Leather Couch
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Flat-Panel Television
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Desk
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Loft Bed
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Refrigerator
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Microwave
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Granite Countertop
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Glass Enclosed Shower
Schwind Tower Apartments is located on 29 South Ludlow Street, within walking distance of Sinclair’s campus and a short driving span from the University of Dayton.
For additional information, visit http://www.schwindtower.com.
Local group offers downtown walking tours.
Gem City Circle Walking Tours announced their upcoming 2009 walking tour schedule for downtown Dayton.
Ghost Walks of downtown Dayton:
- Sept. 18, and 25.
- Oct. 17, 23, 24 and 30.
Main Street Walks:
- Sept. 25.
- Oct. 24 and 30.
Oregon Historic Arts District Walks:
- Sept. 27.
- Oct. 23 and 31.
Miami & Erie Canal Walks:
- Sept. 25.
- Oct. 31.
Ghost Walks are $10 per person. All other walks are $8.00. Times for the walks vary.
For additional information call tour guide Leon Bey or email grantsguru501c3@yahoo.com.
The Teenage Prayers/Brother George-Tonight @ Canal Street Tavern
…if yr looking to start yr weekend off a little early this week, we recommend you head over to Canal Street Tavern tonight for what looks like a great night of music. On tour from NYC, The Teenage Prayers and Brother George [from Chicago] serve up quality doses of blue-eyed soul that we can only speculate deliver the type of live rock n’ roll catharsis that we so dearly love around here. The Teenage Prayers are out in support of their latest disc, Everyone Thinks You’re the Best, which you can hear a taste of below…
MP3: The Teenage Prayers “I Like It”
MP3: The Teenage Prayers “Don’t Call”
Announced: Poster-Tastic 2 @ Dayton Music Fest 09
…as if having so many great local and regional bands on tap for Dayton Music Fest 2009 wasn’t enough to get you excited about the d8n music scene, local promoter and general woman-about-town Shelly ‘Glad Girl’ Hulce announced that her Poster-Tastic showcase returns again this year as an adjunct to DMF. Just like last year, Derailed Hair Salon [run by Austin & Mindy in the Oregon District] graciously agreed to host this stellar display of the visual representations of Dayton music on the night of DMF [which is Saturday, October 3]. Here’s how to get yr posters shown:
If you are a gig or rock poster artist please contact Shelly @ shellyh@donet.com.
Also please pass the word to other poster artists and give them my contact info.You will need to hang your stuff by Oct. 1st. at the salon.
The exhibit will hang the whole month of Rocktober.
…and there’s more for you poster designer types…
AND NOW FOR THE REALLY BIG NEWS….
Taking submissions for the Poster-Tastic poster!!! If you are interested in designing the promotional poster for Poster-Tastic 2 please contact me asap!Last year’s design by the amazing FNHarsh raised the bar but I know you are up to the challenge!! Do not delay in contacting Shelly @ shellyh@donet.com if you are interested!
…can’t wait to see some great posters on display from the past year…
Urban Nights in Downtown Dayton
It is that time again when thousands of people decend on Downtown Dayton and enjoy the sites, sounds and tastes of our twice-a-year downtown party – Urban Nights! Here are some highlights:
– The Urban Nights Main Stage on Courthouse Square will be the location for ArtsFest, featuring previews of the upcoming performing arts seasons from the Zoot Theater Company, The Dayton Playhouse, SMAG, Muse Machine and the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (among others).. Plus, don’t miss a special concert from 9-11 p.m. when Beatles tribute band Ticket to Ride takes the Main Stage!
– Taste of the Miami Valley at Riverscape
– Very cool art at Summer Space (Excelsior Building in the OD)
– Courteous Mass, the grassroots urban bicycle advocacy group, starts at Fifth Third Field Plaza and rides throughout downtown
– The Dayton Arcade will again be open for tours, and this time hope for this downtown gem will turn to rejoice as its new owners are about to start revitalizing the entire amazing structure!
– Preview the Greater Downtown Dayton Plan – an unprecedented effort involving dozens of organizations and hundreds of volunteers to transform our downtown into a place the entire region can be proud of…
– And much more – just come down and be ready to walk around and imagine Downtown Dayton being like this EVERY weekend! (yes, we can do this)
