Downtown Dayton Partnership

Exhibit: What’s New?
2024-06-22, 2024-06-23, 2024-06-24 | 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.

The Quiet World of Edward Hopper
2024-06-22, 2024-06-23 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
June 15–September 8, 2024

Few artists have been able to convey a distinct vision of the world as directly as Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967). With great clarity, Hopper expressed a deeply personal response to modern life with his enigmatic depictions of urban and rural environments. The everyday, even mundane slices of life and ordinary subjects regularly indicate a psychological state of mind, most often suggesting a sense of isolation or loneliness. He rejected the influences of European modernism to work in a realistic, representational style, and create a uniquely American point of view that expresses his response to living in the twentieth century.
The Quiet World of Edward Hopper, an exclusive exhibition to the DAI, will feature the holdings from the DAI collection, which include a drawing, etchings, watercolor figure studies from his early years as an illustrator visiting Europe, along with the celebrated painting High Noon, 1949. The exhibition will also have key loans from other museums and private collections.

Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection
2024-06-22, 2024-06-23 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
June 22–September 8, 2024

Riveting presents extraordinary art by contemporary women artists drawn from the major, private collection of Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell. This bold exhibition expresses the collector’s personal interest in finding emergent artistic voices and powerful artistic statements that speak to prominent social issues of the day, including those relating to LGBTQ+ communities and reproductive rights. All major media are included: paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and textiles, and themes range from humorous and irreverent to thought-provoking.
Internationally recognized artists include Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Ana Mendieta and many others, featured alongside under-recognized and local artists. One of the highlights will be Carolee Shneemann’s Interior Scroll (1974/75), a groundbreaking achievement of feminist art that remains relevant and controversial to this day.

Family Summer Film Festival
2024-06-22 11:00 (America/Detroit) | THE NEON, United States

Masthead Summer Break
2024-06-22 11:00 | The Barrel House, 417 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Summer is officially here and we’re celebrating with crazy good beer from our pals at Masthead! Featured taps include:
Oni Giri – Rice LagerB&D – IPAHazy Headlines – Hazy IPAOld Timey – BarleywineSingle Origin – Coffee StoutLizard People, Dear Reader – NEIIPASpring – SaisonWhere’s My Wedding Cake!? – BA Pastry Stout
The homie Dave from Masthead will be here to talk shop and cheers beers with

World Refugee Day
2024-06-22 11:00 - 14:00 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Welcome Dayton, in collaboration with community partners, will host a World Refugee Day celebration on Saturday, June 22. World Refugee Day is an annual event designated by the United Nations to honor the courage, strength, and determination of refugees. The community is invited to celebrate and welcome Dayton’s refugee community at the Dayton Metro Library (215 E. Third St.) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Eichelberger Forum, main floor). Admission is free. Dayton’s World Refugee Day event will include performances, music, interactive activities, educational displays, a panel discussion, and light refreshments. Children’s activities will also be offered. Refugees now living in the Dayton area have arrived from locations including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley will accept donations of the following items for the Refugee Resettlement Program: bath towels, ethnic shampoo/conditioner, deodorant, hand soap, body wash, new twin bed sheets, blankets and pillows. Welcome Dayton is presenting World Refugee Day in collaboration with the Dayton Metro Library, Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley, Brunner Literacy Center, Miami Valley Career Technology Center’s Aspire Program, Ebenezer Healthcare Access, No Longer Strangers, Ukrainian Society of Greater Dayton, Latinos Unidos en Dayton, and the Montgomery County Educational Services Center, For more information, please contact Welcome Dayton Coordinator Jeannette Horowitz at 937-333-3679 or welcomedayton@daytonohio.gov

World Refugee Day Celebration
2024-06-22 11:00 - 14:00 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Dayton Metro Library partners with Welcome Dayton to host a World Refugee Day Celebration on Saturday, June 22, 11 am-2 pm, in the Main Library’s Eichelberger Forum.

Patrons can honor and learn about Dayton’s refugee population (those who have fled war and atrocities in their home countries) with a panel and cultural displays. Music, dancing, and refreshments will also be provided.

Registration is not required. All ages are welcome. The Main Library is located at 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, 45402. Ample free parking is provided in the parking garage adjacent to the Library, accessible off St. Clair, as well as on the street. For more information, visit DaytonMetroLibrary.org or call the Library’s Ask Me Line at 937.463.2665.

Additionally, in support of the Dayton area’s New Americans, Welcome Dayton’s Community, Culture and Arts subcommittee will host an art exhibit that will feature works from Dayton’s New American Community. The exhibit will be on display at the Main Library, Friday, November 1-Tuesday, December 31.

Artists from immigrant/refugee communities in Dayton who would like to have their works considered for the exhibit can apply via a submission form found at daytonohio.gov/1195/New-Americans-Art-Exhibit beginning Monday, July 1. Additional information about the exhibit and application process can also be found there.

Exhibit: Katherine Kadish & David Leach: Crossroads
2024-06-22 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
2024-06-22 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
2024-06-22 11:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Gem City Expo Flea Market
2024-06-22 12:00 - 17:00 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
A marketplace celebrating entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and community in Dayton! Featuring vintage items, home decor, art, and more. Plus a live DJ!
Participating Vendors:Peace, love, and vintageMarkoffs Closet L.L.CMsLovexoArt420VintageRetrotextilesJars by Jas (food)Sack RunnaDroopys vintageFem Fighter Collective (FFC) (non-profit)KEWthrift96 VintBinThereWoreThat.vtgNomadic Glass Creationsoldboyblue vintageAerion’s Closet
Saturday June 22nd 2024 (12pm-5pm) at Yellow Cab Tavern

Experience the Exhibition: Riveting Metal Works
2024-06-22 13:00 - 16:00 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
Featured Gallery / Exhibition: Special Exhibition: Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection
Make a metal sculpture that is absolutely riveting! Learn the process of hand riveting metal sheets together to create colorful expressions in anodized aluminum and metal wire working. Cut, bend and form your way to fun!
Ages: 18 and up
Cost: $35 members, $45 non-members
https://eventvesta.com/events/73556/t/tickets

Rock n’ Roll Paint Fest for Pride
2024-06-22 14:00 - 19:00 | Rabbit Hole Books, 27 W. First St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Come on down to Rabbit Hole Books to paint some rocks, listen to old tunes, and enjoy ice cream outside on the patio. We really want to help Have a Gay Day fill the rock garden at their headquarters with groovy rocks. We’ll provide smooth rocks, paint and music.

JAM Foodie Tour
2024-06-22 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.

Superior Donuts
2024-06-22 17:00, 2024-06-23 15:00 | 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.

2024 Shine Dayton Celebration
2024-06-22 18:00 - 22:00 | America’s Packard Museum, 420 S. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Shine Dayton was founded in 2016 by a group of young professionals who wanted to engage more of their generation in supporting Catholic Social Services, and the Shine Dayton Celebration became an annual fundraiser for our refugee resettlement program. Join us for a fun night that includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, music, and an interactive cultural experience. https://cssmv.org/events

Artist Talk with Katherine Kadish & David Leach
2024-06-22 18:30 - 20:00 | The Contemporary Dayton, 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Artists Katherine Kadish & David Leach discuss their work, Crossroads, on display at The Contemporary Dayton. Exhibit runs through August 10, 2024.
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.

Reverend Horton Heat w/ Gem Series Opener Kyle Eldridge & the Kentucky Cowhands
2024-06-22 19:00 | Levitt Pavilion Dayton, 134 S. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psycho billier” for getting to tag along. Seeing Reverend Horton Heat live is a transformative experience. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Listening to the Reverend Horton Heat is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hotrod engine of your heart. And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat.

Projects Unlimited Gem Series Opener: Kyle Eldridge & the Kentucky Cowhands
Kyle Eldridge, a Country & Western singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky, is celebrated for his Maphis/Travis picking and Western Jazz style. Teaming up with Upright Bassist Dakota Collins in Nashville, they hit the Honky Tonks on Broadway. Kyle recorded his debut EP in Los Angeles and has shared stages with artists like Jim Heath and Shaun Young. Known as the “Heir Apparent,” Kyle is making his mark in the Country & Western scene, performing worldwide.

David Payne Album Release
2024-06-22 19:30 | Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
David Payne is releasing his new honky tonk album, Last Call At The Yellow Horse Saloon, on Magnaphone Records.
Join David and his band, The Midwest Business Machines, as they celebrate the release on June 22nd at Dayton’s Yellow Cab Tavern with special guests Mo Reen and Age Nowhere.
Doors at 7:30Music at 8:30
$9 pre-sale$12 at the door

Soundtrack Magic: John Williams And Friends
2024-06-22 19:30 | The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Grab your popcorn for an evening of beloved musical works from the silver screen! Featuring familiar songs from movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, and The Lord Of The Rings, this concert shines the spotlight on blockbuster film scores.

Church of Funk
2024-06-23 11:00 - 14:00 | Oregon Express, 336 E. 5th Street, Dayton, OH, 45402, USA
Cooley the Curator, *Aka Pastor Cooley,* will be presiding over the wheels of steel between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Entry is free! He’ll be offering up the finest Funk, Soul, & Reggae during our Sunday lunch service! Join us for the Funk but stick around for special themed drinks and food specials.

Juneteenth: A Freedom Celebration
2024-06-23 15:30 - 17:30 | Sinclair College, 444 W. Third St., Dayton, OH

Monday Summer Reading Club
2024-06-24 | Rabbit Hole Books, 27 W. First St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Every Monday from Memorial Day to Labor Day, every person 18 and under can stop in and choose any book of their choice for free. Kids are welcome (and encouraged) to come every week.
