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A short film collection featuring reflections, stories, and creative musings on our criminal justice system and its faults is premiering at The Neon in Dayton. Brie Hope, Dionte Allen, Leroy Bean, and Mariah Johnson, four artists from the Artist Power Hive - Midwest collective, are presenting their new collaborative work Healing Through Freedom, Freedom Through Healing on Sunday July 18th at 7:30 and 9 PM in collaboration with The Neon. The quartet spoke to Excursions host Evan Miller at WYSO about their coming together, the project s mixed-media contents, and what they hope viewers will learn and absorb from the films.
Piqua student wins annual poetry competition
Lexi Gastelu, of Piqua, performs poems by George Marion McClellan and Carolyn Wells at the 2021 Poetry Out Loud competition, held at Edison State Community College.
PIQUA Piqua Arts Council hosted the West Central Regional Final of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud Competition on Thursday, Feb. 11 at Edison State Community College.
As part of the competition students from four of the region’s high schools participated in reading poems. Competing were Daniel Nauseef from Chaminade Julienne High School, Hibachi Loukssi from Xenia High School, Lexi Gastelu from Piqua High School and Abigail Lay from Springfield Clark Career and Technical College. The students competed in two rounds of poetry recitation with the judges for the evening also presenting.