Front Street Art Hop
2024-06-07 17:00 - 21:00 (America/Detroit) | Front Street Galleries, 1001 E. Second St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Explore studios, galleries, shops and boutiques right in the heart of Dayton’s Arts District! Visit with more than 250+ artists, creatives and curators. This month the Front Street Gallery is proud to feature the work of David Brand.
Grab a bite to eat from Kool Beanz Cafe or one of our visiting food trucks while enjoying live music from Nasty Bingo in the courtyard.
Front Street is a family and pet friendly community! Arthops at Front Street are free to attend. Our campus offers free, lit parking. Visit frontstreet.art for more information.

JUKO Artist Reception
2024-06-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Edward A. Dixon Gallery, 222 N. St. Clair St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Artist Reception

’90s Night featuring The Wet Bandits
2024-06-07 18:00 - 21:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of RiverScape Summer Music series
90’s Night featuring The Wet Bandits
6:00pm – 9:00pm
AGE: All ages | FREE
“You Oughta Know” that RiverScape will be having an exciting ’90s Night on June 7th from 6 to 9 PM, featuring Columbus band, The Wet Bandits! It will be a fun night of nostalgic hits, dancing and more. Beer, wine, cocktails and snacks will be available for purchase from the Cafe. McNasty’s food truck will also be onsite, offering delicious burgers and more. Admission is FREE! Special thanks to the Jack W. & Sally D. Eichelberger Foundation and Enterprise Roofing for their support of the RiverScape Summer Music Series this season. Weather Dependent.

Artist Talk: Tess Cortés
2024-06-07 18:30 - 20:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Using digitized family movies, photographs, and computer-generated 3D models of heirloom objects, Cortés invites viewers to contemplate the intersection of memory, perception, and the passage of time. Both recollection and imagination, Vanishing Point’s never-ending scroll along the screen symbolizes the convergence of past and present.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist has also produced a limited edition video print available for purchase in The CoSHOP Pop-up Print Shop.
Tess Cortés is an award-winning Dayton-based digital media artist and Instructor of Motion Design at the Modern College of Design, Kettering.
Work on display through August 10, 2024.

Jordy Searcy
2024-06-07 19:00 | Levitt Pavilion Dayton, 134 S. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Jordy Searcy is a Louisiana born, Nashville sharpened singer/songwriter, known across the country for jaw-dropping lyrics, stunning vocals, and intricate guitar work – all packaged in intimate authenticity and approachable hooks & production. With over 700 shows under his belt, over 1,000 songs written including cuts & co-writes with arena-sized artists, an appearance on The Voice, and over 51 million streams on his own music, Jordy has made quite the mark for an artist with only two album releases.
In February 2020, one month before the world shut down, Jordy released “Love? Songs” – his debut full-length album packed with the lyrical and emotional depth of Randy Newman and the pop mastery and ingenuity of Olivia Rodrigo. Shows in major markets were selling out, and a promising album cycle was about to bloom.
Then, as we know, the entertainment and touring industry came to a halt. Jordy responded in the only way he knew how, by converting his touring van into his home, and driving down the California coast from Oregon to San Diego to surf and write a new album.
Three hundred and eighty-seven songs later, the resulting record “Daylight” is his most exciting, mature, and adventurous work to date-with influences like Paul Simon, Pinegrove, Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” album, and Phoebe Bridgers. The album maintains a theme of gleaming goodness from hard situations. “This is the hardest I’ve ever worked on an album. I think this really is the record I’ve been trying to make since l first started writing songs, and I believe in these songs so much.”
With the Tik Tok-viral lead single “Molly” earning over 100k streams and major Spotify playlist support in its first week, the upcoming album promises excitement with each new song. It’s not all internet hype though. Jordy played 40+ shows on his Fall 2021 tour, complete with pin-drop VIP experience acoustic sets and high energy light shows.

Cab Grass Concert Series: Slippery Creek
2024-06-07 19:00 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Cab Grass is proud to present Slippery Creek on June 7th as part of our 2024 Roots and Heritage concert series happening on the First Friday of every month at the Yellow Cab Tavern!
Getting things warmed up, join us for The Shady Pine Jam featuring special guests and featured artists to make for a whole evening of live Bluegrass, Folk, and Americana music!
Cover starts at 7pm, music starts at 8pm and tickets are $9 in advance and $12 at the doors.
*All ages welcome with a guardian.
Presale tickets available at https://ten-high-productions.square.site/**Discounted presale tickets end at Midnight on June 6th.
Yellow Cab’s resident truck, The Pizza Bandit, will be set up and serving through 11pm.

Dayton Dragons vs. Lansing Lugnuts
2024-06-07 19:05, 2024-06-08 19:05 | Day Air Ballpark, 220 North Patterson Blvd., Dayton, OH, 45402
Catch one of the hottest tickets in sports – see the Dayton Dragons play baseball at Day Air Ballpark! For tickets and more information, visit www.daytondragons.com or call 228-2287.

New World Symphony
2024-06-07 19:30, 2024-06-08 19:30 | The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
DPAA honors Black Music Month by celebrating African American musical traditions. Florence Price, the first Black woman to receive national attention as a symphonic composer, blends Joplin-esque ballroom and ragtime idioms into her Dances. Dvořák’s New World Symphony embraces Black folk music, fusing it with the composer’s Bohemian heritage. On the second half of the program, a community choir joins the orchestra to recognize and recount the African American experience in song.

Superior Donuts
2024-06-07 20:00, 2024-06-08 20:00 | Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45410, USA
Arthur Przybyszewski, a former 1960s radical, owns a rundown donut shop in Chicago’s Uptown. His only employee, an energetic but troubled young African American assistant, Franco, wants to update the establishment with lively music and healthy menu options. The writing is on the wall that things are going to change – maybe even for the better. Superior Donuts explores the challenges of embracing the past, and the redemptive power of friendship.

Exhibit: What’s New?
2024-06-08 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
As part of Dayton Metro Library’s celebration of Juneteenth, the Library welcomes a traveling exhibit, What’s New?, from the African American Visual Artists Guild (AAVAG), that will be on display in the 2nd Floor Gallery of the Main Library through Thursday, June 30.
What’s New? is the fourth project for the AAVAG under their Exposition Through Art Program (ETAP), which celebrates the ideas, places, personalities, and facts of the AAVAG community. What’s New? specifically focuses on both a visual and written view of its artists – representing “what is new” in their lives, the community they live in, their world of art, and/or any new viewpoints the artists may have developed regarding social, political, and religious ideals.
Additionally, DML will host Artists Talk at Bassani Theater on Thursday, June 13, from 6-8:30 pm at the Main Library, in the Bassani Theater Off Third, 3rd Floor. AAVAG artists Andrea Cummings, Nathan Connor, Clarice Moore, and Cedric McGhee will discuss the various themes found in their artwork that is included in the AAVAG’s traveling exhibit. Moderated by DML’s Karen D. Brame from Special Collections, this program is for all ages.
For more information, visit DaytonMetroLibrary.org or call the Library’s Ask Me Line at 937.463.2665.

South Park Historic District Yard Sale Day
2024-06-08 09:00 - 15:00 | Historic South Park
The Historic South Park Neighborhood will be hosting their community yard sale day on June 8th from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. We invite you to wander the streets searching for treasures among the nearly 50 homes and businesses registered to participate. Maps and descriptions will be provided throughout the community and will be posted on the Facebook Event Page.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1005687034531478/

Zumba in the Park
2024-06-08 10:00 - 11:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Part of Fitness in the Park series
Zumba in the Park
10:00am – 11:00am
AGE: All ages | FREE
Enjoy fun, effective and FREE outdoor workouts under the pavilion! Come out for a Zumba workout with Meghan Millat using dance moves to upbeat music. All skill levels welcome! Remember to bring your own water bottle and towels. Weather Dependent.

Second Saturday Drop-in Studio
2024-06-08 10:00 - 16:00 | The Mosaic Institute of Greater Dayton, 260 Oak St., Dayton, OH, 45410
Join us in our studio every Second Saturday of the month from 10a-4p. No need to sign up or call–just drop in!! You can take this opportunity to volunteer for the OD8-4 Memorial “The Seed of Life” OR purchase a cut out and gorgeous stained glass colors to create a mosaic for yourself! Stop by– we’d love to see you!

Family Summer Film Festival
2024-06-08 11:00 | THE NEON, United States

Second Look Saturday
2024-06-08 11:00 - 16:00 | Front Street Galleries, 1001 E. Second St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Second Look Saturday is your opportunity to check out the shows, studios, and shops across campus that you weren’t able to explore at the Art Hop the night before! Creatives are open across campus and Kool Beanz Cafe is open to serve you.
Front Street is a family and pet friendly community. Our campus offers free parking. Visit frontstreet.art for more information.

Exhibit: Katherine Kadish & David Leach: Crossroads
2024-06-08 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
The Contemporary Dayton is proud to present new and recent work by two of the area’s most esteemed artists, each and together exploring recent “crossroads” in their lives. The exhibition will feature Kadish’s evocative monotype and painted colorscapes paired with Leach’s abstracted landscape, architecture, and interior drawings and prints; as well as two new monotypes the artists created collaboratively for the exhibition.
Both artists have exhibited widely and are featured in prominent public and private collections all over the world. Kadish is based in Yellow Springs and often collaborates with Lisa Mackie, Master Prints, NY. Leach is based in Dayton, is Emeritus Professor, Wright State University, and an active member of the Dayton Printmakers Co-op.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a selection of monotypes and prints by the artists will be available for purchase in The CoSHOP Pop-up Print Shop.

Exhibit: Andy Snow: Time Mends, Space Blends
2024-06-08 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
The Contemporary Dayton presents a series of blended photographs from the Flood of 1913 and present day Dayton, Ohio by Dayton-based artist, Andy Snow.
Exhibit on display through August 10.

Exhibit: Tess Cortés: Vanishing Point
2024-06-08 11:00 - 18:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States

JAM Foodie Tour
2024-06-08 15:00 - 18:00 | Sueno, 607 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402
JAM Foodie Tours are currently walking, talking, and eating on select Fridays and Saturdays in June and July @3:00p starting at Sueño. Every tour varies slightly, but aims to be wrapping up around 5:30-6:00p. Tickets are $100 per person.

JAM Foodie Tours strives to create a unique, communal culinary experience that feeds your mind and belly. Experience our local community while sharing food, exploring culture, and discovering history. Our goal is to create a business that supports and grows the fantastic food and culinary operations in Dayton, as well as enhance the economic development of the streets where we will walk and eat.

What’s Included

Tour guide
Scenic walking route
6-ish samples of food and/or drinks at various establishments in and around the Oregon District.
Education and history about the places we eat at and some of the places we walk by.

For Dayton By Dayton
2024-06-08 16:00 - 21:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
For Dayton By Dayton
4:00pm – 9:00pm
AGE: All ages | FREE
The fifth annual “For Dayton By Dayton” festival is all about bringing Dayton together. It involves everything and everyone local; local food, local businesses, and local artists. From Hip Hop to rock, this festival has it all. Consider it a house party for the entire city, because this city is home. Weather Dependent.

2024 Art Ball
2024-06-08 19:00 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) has announced details for its 2024 Art Ball fundraiser, taking place Saturday, June 8. Presented by The SharpGroup – Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Professional Realty & UnlistedHomes.com, the black-tie gala, a Dayton tradition since 1957, returns to celebrate its 67th anniversary.

“We are excited to welcome guests to the 67th anniversary of Art Ball,” said DAI Director & President Michael R. Roediger. “As one of the museum’s largest annual fundraisers, this Dayton classic is vital to supporting the DAI’s operating budget. We are especially pleased to announce The SharpGroup – Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Professional Realty & UnlistedHomes.com as our new Presenting Sponsors. They have been generous and consistent partners to the DAI for several years, and we are proud to feature their companies in a prominent way for this significant event.

This year’s Art Ball continues the long-standing tradition of being inspired by an artwork from the DAI’s permanent collection. Art Ball Chairs Julie Forman and Marty Gehres have selected It’s Raining Colored Dots, a silkscreen on paper, as the artistic feature for this year’s event. Created by Oakwood High School graduate Petah Coyne around 1977, the brightly colored work is a recent gift to the collection from longtime friend of the DAI, Linda Lombard.

“Our goal was to choose a work that captured the vibrancy and spirit of the Disco Era,” says DAI Associate Board members Julie Forman and Marty Gehres. “Our guests will see the artwork’s influence throughout the event, from beautiful décor and exquisite food to the music and atmosphere. We can’t wait to follow the call of the disco ball at Dayton’s best black-tie event of the year.”

Art Ball begins at 7 p.m. with cocktails, specialty martinis and hors d’oeuvres, followed by an elegant, seated dinner in the museum’s Harry A. Shaw Gothic Cloister and the Great Hall. Following dinner, guests may enjoy live music by Tommi Lea’s Groovy Get Down, a Silent Disco experience, open bars, select bourbons and much more. For an additional ticket price, guests may attend a VIP cocktail hour with high-end wines and hors d’oeuvres, which will offer early entry to Art Ball for a private reception at 6:00 p.m.

Art Ball traces its roots back to Dayton’s Holiday Ball, which began in 1957. Organized by the Junior League of Dayton, the event was held at the DAI, with proceeds benefitting the museum. The event moved to the spring in 1963 and was rechristened as “Art Ball.” In 1965, the DAI’s newly formed Associate Board took over planning and organizing the gala. More information about Art Ball, its history and this year’s featured artwork can be found online at www.daytonartinstitute.org/artball.

Reservations are required for Art Ball, and attendance is limited. Tickets may be purchased online beginning April 3 for DAI members and April 6 for non-members. For more information about reservations and to request an invitation, contact External Affairs Director Mike Griest at mgriest@daytonart.org.

Art Ball is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsors The SharpGroup – Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Professional Realty & UnlistedHomes.com; Benefactor Sponsor Trane; Patron Sponsors Bladecutters Inc., The E.W. Scripps Company, James Investment, Messer Construction, Pickrel Schaeffer & Ebeling, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, Dr. Roz Total Health and Wellness, Taft/, Wells Fargo and Wilmer Hale; and Supporting Sponsors James Free Jewelers, Lexus of Dayton, and LWC Incorporated.

Art Ball also includes the Grand Draw Raffle in its fundraising efforts. Only 600 tickets will be sold for $100 each, with the chance to win prize packages valued at $2500 -$25,000, including a week’s stay for up to 14 people in the Turks and Caicos Islands and beautiful jewelry provided by James Free Jewelers. Ticket holders need not be present at Art Ball to win. Those purchasing three or more raffle tickets receive one free Oktoberfest Preview Party ticket (valued at $95). Grand Draw Raffle tickets may be purchased online beginning March 22. For more information about the Grand Draw Raffle and to purchase tickets online, go to www.artballraffle.com.

For more information about planning a visit, including current museum hours and updates, go to www.daytonartinstitute.org/visit or call 937-223-4ART (4278). Connect with the Dayton Art Institute on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest for additional information, behind-the-scenes photos and videos and exclusive offers.

Pom Pom Squad w/ Gem Series Opener Kyleen Downes
2024-06-08 19:00 | Levitt Pavilion Dayton, 134 S. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Celebrate Pride Month with us at the Levitt Pavilion Dayton!
When Pom Pom Squad’s Mia Berrin was 21 years old, she fell in love. Sure, she’d been in love before, but this time, something was different: “It just felt like a switch had flipped inside my head,” she says. “I realized I had been living a life that was not my own, watching myself from the outside.” As a kid who bounced from town to town growing up, and as a person of color in predominantly white spaces, Berrin had become accustomed to maintaining a constant awareness of how others perceived her—a “split-brain mentality” that she adopted as a necessary means of survival. But now, tumbling through her first queer romance—and her first queer heartbreak—some of that self-separateness began to mend: “Suddenly,” she says, “I was in a body that was mine.”
Of course, displacement can start to feel like a life sentence when even the pop culture you’re trying to escape into doesn’t feel like home. “As a teenager, I was always looking to see myself represented,” Berrin says, “but I never really saw a path drawn out for someone who looked like me.” So she held tight to the glimpses of herself she could catch—from Death Cab For Cutie to Sade; from the camp and synth-pop of Heathers to the pastels and gloomy mellotron of The Virgin Suicides; from John Waters’s take on suburbia to David Lynch’s. “I absorbed everything I could and tried to make a collage that could incorporate every piece of me,” she says—and in the process, she gained a particular appreciation for the heady mix of music and visuals, how a great song could become even greater when woven into an artist’s overall aesthetic. But it wasn’t until Berrin got into punk and grunge—artists like Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna, who were both unapologetically outspoken and unapologetically femme—that she knew she had to start a band.
Enter Pom Pom Squad. Berrin first played under the moniker in 2015 after moving to New York to study acting at NYU—though she soon transferred to the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music—and it was at those early gigs that she linked up with Shelby Keller (drums), Mari Alé Figeman (bass), and Alex Mercuri (guitar). The group cut their teeth playing packed Brooklyn apartments, but they quickly graduated to packed Brooklyn venues alongside artists like Soccer Mommy, Adult Mom, and Pronoun. Following the release of their sophomore EP Ow, Pom Pom Squad was looking at a packed 2020, with shows at SXSW and opening for The Front Bottoms—but of course, plans changed.
Lost in the free-fall of isolation, Berrin found herself returning to classic, familiar sounds: jazz vocalists like Billie Holiday, the warm tones of MoTown. “It was comforting, listening to music that’s so evocative and cinematic,” she says. “It takes you out of the world for a minute.” At the same time, though, she was confronted daily with the world’s stark reality as protests erupted against police brutality and anti-black racism following the murder of George Floyd. “[The protests] brought to the surface these feelings I’d been stewing on for a long time,” she says, “thinking about the history of American popular music, the way that black artists are constantly erased from the music they pioneered. How rock was invented by a black queer woman—Sister Rosetta Tharpe—but I grew up feeling like I was odd for loving guitar-based music.”
The result of this stymying, galvanizing period—of escaping to come back—is Death of a Cheerleader. Produced Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties and co-produced by Berrin, the album moves through moods like a camera panning across an expertly collaged bedroom wall: a Ronettes drum beat here (“Head Cheerleader”), a Doris Day nod there (“This Couldn’t Happen”), the impossible romance of swelling strings (“Crying”) collapsing into guitar thrash (“Drunk Voicemail”). Here, too, are all the overlapping, contradictory tenets of 21st-century young womanhood—the carnality and the vulnerability, the sugar and the defiance. On “Head Cheerleader,” antsy and anthemic, Berrin promises us that “my worst decisions are the ones I like the best” before she heads under the bleachers, even as she acknowledges moments later that “my feelings always make a fucking fool of me”; on the breathless, punky “Lux” (named for the Virgin Suicides heroine, of course), she boasts feeling “naked without taking off any of my clothes,” and it’s as much a come-on as it is an admission of terrifying exposure, couched in Berrin’s dare-laden drawl.
This tension—between baring oneself and crafting delicious, tongue-in-cheek art—is what drives so much of the foundational queer media to which Death of a Cheerleader pays homage (not in the least its film namesake, But I’m a Cheerleader). On “Second That,” a tumbling acoustic waltz built around a Smokey Robinson quote, Berrin steps out for a moment from behind the elaborate curtain of references she’s constructed with an admission—“I’m sad, I’m just fucking sad,” her voice on the edge of breaking—but then, moments later, she’s back in the anti-bourgeoisie upswing of “Cake,” playfully demanding her fair share. It’s a reminder of the self-affirming power of artifice, of glam, lipstick drawn on in blood. With Death of a Cheerleader, Pom Pom Squad offer a fresh and decidedly queer take on picking up the pieces—from heartbreak, from injustice—and creating yourself anew.
Projects Unlimited Gem Series Opener: Kyleen Downes
Kyleen Downes, a Dayton-based guitarist and songwriter, creates sonically approachable music reminiscent of a road trip radio scan. Her high-energy stage presence and infectious optimism leave audiences feeling uplifted. With influences from the Dayton music scene, Kyleen blends acoustic and electric guitars, along with a looper pedal, to craft upbeat sounds. Her debut album ‘Come On Sit Down’ released in 2020 showcases her passion for music, while offstage she fulfills her childhood dream of teaching guitar lessons in the Miami Valley.

Pete Price Album Release
2024-06-08 19:00 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Join us for Pete Price’s album release at Yellow Cab Tavern!
Enjoy music from Pete from his new album Pictures in Time, as well as music from The Price Brothers Band, and The Fairview Stringers!
Cover Starts at 7pm with Music starting at 8.
Tickets in advance are $8 or $10 at the door.Ticket with CD in advance $15 or $17 at the door.
Pete Price is a veteran singer and songwriter who released his first solo album; Department of the Interior in 2022. His music combines Americana, rock, and blues genres. His album was named as one of the top releases from the Dayton, Ohio music scene for 2022 by the Dayton Daily News.Pete’s career spans multiple decades, having appeared as lead guitarist for The Fries Band on the same bills with The Guess Who, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Kansas, Martina McBride, Foghat, and many other national acts.You can learn more about Pete at www.petepricemusic.com

Second Saturday Poetry Salon
2024-06-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Rabbit Hole Books, 27 W. First St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Come read your own work or someone else’s in a cozy, supportive environment.

Matt Mart Vol. 2
2024-06-08 19:00 - 23:00 | The Barrel House, 417 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Our very own Matt Ross is at it again with a new batch of used records to spin and sling on Saturday, June 8th from 7-11pm! Pop in a browse the shelves of Matt Mart!
