Downtown Dayton Partnership

Karaoke
2025-03-27 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-10 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-17 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-30 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-27 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-06 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-20 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Detroit) and 9 more dates | OH
Join us for Karaoke Thursdays at The Dayton Beer Company, hosted by Limelight Entertainment from 6:30 p.m.-9:30p.m. Cheers!

Peace Builders’ Reading Circle – When Time Stopped
2025-05-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The International Peace Museum, 10 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH, 45402
This month, we’ll discuss When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann (2021 Nonfiction Winner, Memoir, 321 pages). This gripping memoir details Neumann’s journey to uncover her father’s secret escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.

Music Bingo Thursdays
2025-03-20 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Trolley Stop, 530 E. Fifth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, USA
We have music bingo every Thursday! It’s free to play, lots of fun, hosted by KG, and there are prizes galore. Come check it out!

Exhibit: Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
2025-03-15 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
March 15–June 8, 2025
A distinguished figure in contemporary art, Jamie Wyeth is recognized for his fiercely independent, realistic approach to art. This exhibition follows Wyeth’s entire career and looks at a specifically darker thread within his oeuvre of troubling and unnerving imagery. Unsettled is divided into three distinct sections: “Strangers and Specters;” “Natural and Supernatural Worlds;” and “Haunted Places and Disturbing Spaces.” Drawn from museums and private collections from across the country, the DAI is the exclusive Ohio venue and the final stop for this major traveling exhibition. Organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art.

Reni Gower and Kate Santucci Exhibit
2025-05-19 | Galleries at Sinclair College, 444 W. Third St., Bldg. 13, Dayton, OH, 45402
The Sinclair Community College Art Department is pleased to present “GEOmatrix: a Perfect Proof” by Reni Gower in the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery and “Waxing On” by Kate Santucci in the Works on Paper Gallery. Gower’s “GEOmatrix: a Perfect Proof” recognizes geometric perfection as the matrix of humanity and the blueprint of the cosmos. Large hand-cut papercuts, stencil-masked pulp paintings, and machine cut vinyl decals are imbued with repetitive, geometric pattens. These tessellations, similar to decoration across many cultures, offer a calming, luminous, and contemplative respite from these unprecedented times. Working with colored beeswax and resin layered with pigments and oil paint, Santucci reveals and obscures symbols and images formed through drawing, mark making and hand-cut stencils. The multi-layered encaustic works exhibited in “Waxing On” explore themes such as communication, time, place, and the perception of the way things change, both in the short and long term. There will be a virtual artist talk via Zoom on Friday, May 23, 2025, at 12pm. Visit www.sinclair.edu/artgalleries for details. The exhibitions will be on display from May 19–June 23, 2025. Galleries are located on the fourth floor of building 13 (located at West Fifth and Perry Streets). The galleries are free and open to the public from 8am–6pm Monday–Friday and 9am–12pm Saturdays.

Exhibit: Enduring the Seige of Sarajevo – Snapshots of Survival
2025-05-01 | The International Peace Museum, 10 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH, 45402

Exhibit: SELFie: The Power Within
2025-05-01 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
The museum’s pop-up exhibit, SELFie: The Power Within, will be in the Main Library’s Opportunity Space @ St. Clair in May. Patrons can let their selfies tell stories of strength, growth, and self-love. The photos that are taken will celebrate the real, unfiltered moments of mental health, with hopes of breaking the stigma surrounding it, thus allowing patrons to explore the power of being their authentic selves.
A reception opening the exhibit will be held on Thursday, May 1, from 6:30-8 pm, in the Main Library’s Atrium. Local advocates and mental health professionals will be present. All ages are welcome to attend the exhibit throughout the month, including the reception.

NATO Summit – The Dayton Dialogue: Conversations about Peace & Security in the Balkans
2025-05-22 | Roger Glass Center for the Performing Arts, 29 E. Creative Way, Dayton, OH, 45469
NATO Summit – The Dayton Dialogue: Conversations about Peace & Security in the Balkans

May 22-25; Concert Hall, Roger Glass Center for the Arts
Schedule of Events
Registration will open on May 1, 2025.
The introduction of a public forum alongside the official NATO PA event marks a unique addition to this year’s Spring Session, providing and opportunity for the entire Dayton community to come together and highlight the City’s role as a dynamic, world-class hub on a global stage.
The programming will feature thought-based discussions with high-level elected officials, security and policy experts, and local leaders across the NATO countries. The conversations will be anchored by the historic Dayton Peace Accords and focus on the current tenuous situation in the Balkins, highlighting the need for the transatlantic alliance to work together towards a lasting peace.
