Downtown Dayton Partnership

Swan Lake
2024-02-17 19:30, 2024-02-18 14:30 (America/Detroit) | The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Set to Tchaikovsky’s romantic score (performed live by the Philharmonic), Septime Webre’s Swan Lake is a perennial favorite, featuring gorgeous sets, beautiful costumes, and dramatic choreography that includes one of the most famous scenes in ballet. Swan Lake tells the doomed love story of Prince Siegfried and Princess Odette, a captivating tale of magic, deception, and heartbreak.

In Modern Moves
2024-02-17 19:30, 2024-02-18 16:00 | Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
IN MODERN MOVES showcases DCDC’s remarkable 55-year journey. Black (aka American) history month features two works by Talley Beatty bridging Reconstruction to the culmination of the Great Migration. Former Artistic Director, Kevin Ward’s “And Each Day,” created for DCDC’s 50th anniversary, explores the power of “we the people.” A season highlight will be the DCDC premiere of “Esplanade” by legendary choreographer Paul Taylor performed to live music by the Springfield Symphony under the direction of Peter Stafford Wilson. “Esplanade” has been called “a masterpiece of physical joy” and will be the first time this work will be performed by a majority African American dance company.

Swan Lake
2024-02-17 19:30 - 22:30, 2024-02-18 14:30 - 17:30 | The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Set to Tchaikovsky’s romantic score (performed live by the Philharmonic), Septime Webre’s Swan Lake is a perennial favorite, featuring gorgeous sets, beautiful costumes, and dramatic choreography that includes one of the most famous scenes in ballet. Swan Lake tells the doomed love story of Prince Siegfried and Princess Odette, a captivating tale of magic, deception, and heartbreak.
General ticket sale begins August 10, 2023

Zac Pitts, Too Pretty, & Knavery
2024-02-17 20:00 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
We’re excited to welcome Zac Pitts and his band back to the Yellow Cab Tavern on Feb 17th with special guests Too Pretty and Knavery for a full evening of Rock n’ Roll!
Cover starts at 8:00pm on Feb 17th with performance starting around 9:00pm!
Tickets are $9 in advance and $12 at the doors.
Tickets are available at https://www.yellowcabtavern.com/event-tickets
*All ages welcome with a guardian.
**Discounted presale tickets end at Midnight on Feb 16th
Yellow Cab’s resident truck, The Pizza Bandit, will be set up and serving through 11pm.

Exhibit: The Artistic Life of Aka Pereyma
2024-02-18, 2024-02-21, 2024-02-22, 2024-02-23 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
Aka Pereyma’s art, unconventional and visionary, demonstrates a highly personal means of expression. Weaving folk-art traditions with modern artistic styles, Pereyma produced art that expressed her strong ties to her Ukrainian heritage. “I think it is my duty to introduce to the world my Ukrainian culture,” she stated. This exhibition brings together works from throughout her career, from the early 1960s into the 21st century. Not tied to a single medium, Pereyma made paintings, drawings, wood and metal sculptures, needlework, woodblock prints, ceramics and exquisitely intricate designs on pysanky eggs. Recurring themes include Ukrainian folk songs, depictions of birds to represent her love of nature, Adam and Eve (along with leaves and eggs) to symbolize men and women. The works tell stories, often through surreal, densely filled ornamentation. “More is more,” was a favorite saying. A celebration of a local artistic legend, this exhibition will highlight Pereyma’s love of color and bold design.
February 17–May 12, 2024

Sweetheart Skate Special
2024-02-18 13:00 - 17:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Sweetheart Skate Special
4:00pm – 10:00pm
AGE: All ages | $20.00
Bring your sweetie to the MetroParks Ice Rink and skate to love songs! You can purchase the Sweetheart Skate Special and get two rink admissions with skate rental, two cups of hot cocoa, and a box of Winans Chocolates for only $20.00. The Sweetheart Skate Deal will be offered Friday, February 16 from 4PM-10PM, Saturday, February 17 from 11AM-10PM, and Sunday, February 18 from 1PM-5PM, while supplies last. Weather Dependent.

Grease – Dayton Dinner Theater
2024-02-18 18:00 - 21:00 | The Brightside, 905 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Our special date night Valentine’s week tribute to Olivia Newton John and all fans of the good old days!
Join us for Grease with Dayton Dinner Theater on Feb 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Brightside, 905 E 3rd St, Dayton, OH 45402, USA
Doors open at 5:45, Food and live music is available from 6:05-6:45pm, Movie starts at 6:50pm, a short intermission for dessert and trivia by Dr. Stupid will start at 8pm, movie ends around 9 pm.
Themed Food: Sit down and relax with our fun TV Dinner that includes not too “Greasy” Burgers, “Bite the Weenie” Dogs, Cheesy “Stud” Spuds, Tuscan Veggies, along with Nachos, Pretzels, Salad, and a 50’s style dessert
Themed Cocktails: Pink Lady- Vodka, Malibu, and pink lemonade with a cherry garnish, Grease Lightening – Tequila, triple sec, and white cranberry juice, Sandra Dee (Virgin)- Fountain coke with grenadine and a cherry
Themed Attire: T-bird leather jacket, poodle skirts, cardigans or letterman sweater, rolled up jeans, pink silk jacket
https://cli.re/56916-grease—dayton-dinner-theater
$35

President’s Day Skate
2024-02-19 11:00 - 17:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
President’s Day Skate
11:00am – 5:00pm
AGE: All ages | $10.00
Spend the holiday at the MetroParks Ice Rink! The rink will be open from 11AM to 5PM. Admission is $7 and skate rental is $3, and children under 3 are free with a paying adult. To check the status of the rink during inclement weather, please call 937-275-7275 or check metroparks.org/alerts. Weather Dependent.

To Register Call (937) 275-7275

Artist in Training Afterschool Classes
2024-02-19 15:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-20 15:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-21 15:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-22 15:00 - 18:00 | K12 Gallery & TEJAS, 341 S. Jefferson St., Dayton, OH, 45402
The AIT program is an after-school art club for students in grades 6-12. Students will have the opportunity to explore a variety of media while working at their own pace. By learning some of the techniques used by artists, they will train to become better at their own art making. These classes are perfect for both beginners and students who already make lots of art! The collaborative environment in our studio allows students to forge friendships, build self-confidence, and experience new perspectives while making art. Students can opt to attend one day per week, two days, or all sessions. Students are welcome to join at any point in the year. Classes are $15 for members or $30 non-members. 5 class and 10 class passes available.
Scholarship information available at https://k12tejasgallery.org/artist-in-training-afterschool-art-classes/

Taylor Swift Trivia
2024-02-19 19:00 | Toxic Brew Company, 431 E 5th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Get a team of your fellow Swifties together and join special guest hosts Tara & Trinity along w/ Dayton BBQ Co for a trivia night of all things T-Swizzle at 7:00 on Mon Feb 19. Tara & Trinity will be taking you through 3 rounds of trivia questions, awarding prizes to the winning team of each round, with a grand prize for the overall winning team with the most total points.
Keep in mind we are an ages 21+ bar, please try to keep your teams to around 6 (you can roll in with 10-12 people, we just may ask you to break off into two teams). Dayton BBQ Co will be slinging their delicious foods starting at 6:00, and we’ll have Monday drink specials all night!

Area Agency on Aging Caregiver Software
2024-02-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Tuesday, February 20, 1-2 pm, Main Library, Tech Lab A
Learn about the Agency’s free online resource for caregivers, available on the Trutata Platform. Such resources help area caregivers and families manage care at home. Gain educational information, access planning tools, and receive tips on how be a better caregiver.

Open Coworking Day
2024-02-21 08:00 - 18:00 | The Hub powered by PNC Bank, 31 S. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Need to get out of your home office for a day? Want to meet people face to face rather than through a screen? Are there other distractions keeping you from getting work done?Try The Hub! We will have FREE (normally $15) open coworking day. Network with other professionals and enjoy all of the amenities of The Hub! Get some work done, then stay for some social networking during our happy hour from 4-6! The Hub is located at 31 S Main Street.
Open Office Hours 9am-11am
Digital Production Creation 101 12:00pm-1:00pm
Hub Tour 2:00pm-3:00pm
Happy Hour 4:00pm-6:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-coworking-day-tickets-825884571987?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Killah Priest Meet & Greet
2024-02-21 18:00 | The Barrel House, 417 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
We’re absolutely thrilled to host Wu-Tang’s Killah Priest for a meet and greet on Wednesday, February 21st from 6-7pm! He’ll be kicking it, signing shit, and pregaming before his show at Blind Bob’s that evening. Come meet the man behind the bars
AND it’s DJ Ike B’s birthday – this isn’t a Wu-Tang Wednesday you wanna miss.

Dayton Battle of the Bands – Week 6 – Funk / Jam / Progressive / Jazz
2024-02-22 19:30 - 22:00 | The Brightside, 905 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Dayton Battle of the Bands 2024 ends the playoff rounds with our Funk / Jam / Progressive / Jazz bands, featuring:
EverybodyEats
Freakquency
Intergalactic Spaceforce
KindHost
Not familiar with any of the bands participating? That’s the fun! This is a cool way to check out new, local, original music! Each ticket buyer gets one vote (in person).
The winner of this round earns a spot at the Dayton Battle of the Bands Finale, among other prizes!
Week 6 is held on Thursday, February 22, 2024 The Brightside (905 E 3rd St, Dayton). Doors open at 7pm (NOTE: due to equipment load in, we cannot let patrons in earlier than 7pm). Show 7:30-10pm Please be prompt to see all the bands performing!
Tickets are $10 advance / $15 at the door. Advance tickets are recommended. Note – Ticket sales are used to cover production costs and prizes. Thanks for contributing! Ticket link – https://www.venuepilot.co/events/94653/orders/new

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
2024-02-22 20:00, 2024-02-23 20:00 | The Human Race Theatre Company, 126 N. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Join the theatrical quest of deep seas and high comedy! The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left 19th-century England spellbound. Dare to be whisked away in a story of the high seas and all corners of the globe, populated by flying wombats, giant sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. Shipwrecked examines how far we’re willing to blur the line between fact and fiction to leave our mark on the world.
Recommended if you liked Around the World in 80 Days, The 39 Steps, Peter & the Starcatcher.

A Season for Nonviolence
2024-02-23 10:00 - 17:00 | The International Peace Museum, 10 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH, 45402
A Season for Nonviolence is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that non-violence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. The purpose of this event is to promote and spread the principles of nonviolence to create a more inclusive, understanding, and compassionate society, ultimately helping to bridge the social divide in communities across America.
In January 2024 , representatives from the King, Gandhi, Scott and Mandela families are set to visit the International Peace Museum for a special series of events. This juncture holds the potential for a transformative moment—one that embodies strength, introspection, and a call to action in the pursuit of love, nonviolence, and peace. The coming together of these influential families to inaugurate the 2024 Season of Nonviolence carries profound symbolism. It sends a resounding message to our nation that peace is indispensable for the well-being of all, and its significance can endure for generations to come.

Swiftie Skate
2024-02-23 19:00 - 22:00 | RiverScape MetroPark, 237 E Monument Ave, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Swiftie Skate
7:00pm – 10:00pm
AGE: All ages | $10.00
We’re just gonna shake shake, shake it off at the MetroParks Ice Rink during our Swiftie Skate! Grab your BFF’s and skate and sing along to some of Taylor Swift’s best hits from all eras. Be one of the first fifty guests and enjoy a free surprise giveaway! Guests can purchase treats, hot cocoa and other refreshments from the RiverScape Cafe and relax in our cozy comfort tent while the rink is open. Adult beverages are also available for purchase for those 21 and over. Skate admission is $7 and skate rental is $3. Thanks to our Access to Nature Program, residents who receive SNAP/EBT can simply show their card to the rental attendant to receive 50% off admission and skate rental. Weather Dependent.

Indigo Girls
2024-02-23 19:30 | Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Released in 1989, INDIGO GIRLS’ eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned INDIGO GIRLS into one of the most successful folk duos in history. Over a 35-year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, the multi-Grammy-winning duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray has recorded 16 studio albums, sold over 15 million records, and built a dedicated, enduring following across the globe. Rolling Stone describes them as the “ideal duet partners.” Committed and uncompromising activists, they work on issues like immigration reform (El Refugio), LGBTQ advocacy, education (Imagination Library), death penalty reform, and Native American rights. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions.
Their latest record, Look Long, is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. “We joke about being old, but what is old when it comes to music? We’re still a bar band at heart,” says Saliers. “While our lyrics and writing approach may change, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25-years-old.”
“As time has gone on, our audience has become more expansive and diverse, giving me a sense of joy,” she adds. To hear those collective voices raise into one, singing along and overpowering the band itself, one realizes the importance INDIGO GIRLS’ music has in this moment. In our often-terrifying present, we are all in search of a daily refuge, a stolen hour or two, to engage with something that brings us joy, perspective, or maybe just calm. As one bar band once put it, “We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains…we go to the Bible, we go through the work out.” For millions, they go to the INDIGO GIRLS. On Look Long they’ll find a creative partnership certain of its bearings, forging a way forward.
$1 per ticket sold will benefit First People’s Fund, a charity selected by the INDIGO GIRLS.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARI HEST
Ari is a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter who began his career as an independent artist in 2001. He built a loyal following touring the college circuit extensively between 2000 and 2003, after which he released two albums on Columbia Records, Someone To Tell (2004) and The Break-In (2007), all the while touring both in the U.S. and abroad with artists such as Martin Sexton, Suzanne Vega, and Ani DiFranco. In 2008, Ari wrote, recorded and released a new song every Monday in his 52 project, and released Twelve Mondays in 2009, a collection of re-mixed fan favorites from 52. From 2010-2016, Ari continued to tour relentlessly and released four other LP’s: Sunset Over Hope Street (2011), The Fire Plays (2012), Shouts And Whispers (2015), and the Grammy-nominated Silver Skies Blue (2017), a duets album with Judy Collins. To mark 20 years of making music, Ari released a retrospective album entitled I Remember When in December of 2021.
Co-presented by Dayton Live and True Endeavors.

Gem City R&B Kickback II
2024-02-23 19:30 | The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Featuring Ashanti, 112, Changing Faces and Adina Howard!
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American singer and actress. She was first discovered as a teenager and later signed to Murder Inc. Records in 2002. That year, she was featured on Fat Joe’s “What’s Luv?” and Ja Rule’s “Always on Time,” both of which became two of the biggest hit songs of 2002. She became the first female artist to occupy the top two positions on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously with “Foolish” and “What’s Luv?” at numbers one and two, respectively.
112 (pronounced “one-twelve”) is an American R&B group from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success from the late 1990s into the early 2000s with hits such as “Only You” (featuring The Notorious B.I.G.), “Anywhere” and the Grammy Award–nominated single “Peaches & Cream.” The group most notably won a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for featuring on the single by label boss Puff Daddy, “I’ll Be Missing You” (alongside Faith Evans).

Broadway Rave: Love & Heartache Edition
2024-02-23 20:00 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Broadway Rave: A Musical Theatre Dance Party
LOVE & HEARTACHE EDITION!!! Extra tunes about Love, Friendships, Break-Ups, and other matters of the heart.
Get ready to unleash your inner Broadway star and dance the night away at our electrifying Broadway Rave: A Musical Theater Dance Party!
Join us at Yellow Cab Tavern on February 23rd for a night filled with the magic and excitement of musical theater. Whether you’re a seasoned performer or just love to sing and dance along to your favorite show tunes, this event is for you!
What to Expect:
Non-stop hits from your favorite musicals (you WILL be able to request songs!)
Themed cocktails and drink specials all night long
A chance to meet fellow theater enthusiasts and make new friends
Singing and dancing all night long!
NO cover charge!
Come dressed as your favorite Broadway Couple, Friends, or Enemies, or simply wear your most glamorous attire. Whether you’re channeling the teenage love of Sandy and Danny or celebrating the sisterhood of Elphaba and Galinda, let your imagination run wild!
Spread the word and invite your theatre-loving friends to this amazing event! Let’s come together to celebrate the magic of Broadway. See you on the dance floor!
