Youngstown Events | November 1-7, 2022 | Find things to do in Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. Festivals, concerts, Mill Creek Park, YSU football, and more. Find something to do this weekend. Office: 330-259-0435.
Tuesday 1
Yoga in the Gardens. Radius Room, Fellows Riverside Gardens, Mill Creek MetroParks, 123 McKinley Ave., Youngstown 44509. 330-740-7116, ext. 230. www.mil…. Marina Perdos leads a blend of energizing yoga styles. All levels are welcome. Bring a mat and a small blanket. Register/pay online or call. Walk-ins welcome. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nov. 1-29, 9:15-11 a.m. $15/class.
Advanced Research for Nonprofits. Main Library, 305 Wick Ave., Youngstown 44503. 330-744-8636. www.libraryvisit.org…. This class will cover search strategies for the Foundation Directory Online. 6-7:30 p.m.
Pups & Pages. Howland Library, 9095 E. Market St., Howland 44484. 330-856-2011. Children in grades K-6 may sign up for 15-minute sessions to read aloud to a registered therapy dog from PAWS Therapy Team. Registration is required. 6-7:30 p.m.
Peppa Pig. W.D. Packard Music Hall, 1704 Mahoning Ave., N.W., Warren 44483. 800-745-3000. www.packardmusichall.com…. 6 p.m. $49.50,$39.50, $29.50.
Wednesday 2
T’ai Chi Step One in the Gardens. Radius Room, Fellows Riverside Gardens, Mill Creek MetroParks, 123 McKinley Ave., Youngstown 44509. 330-740-7116, ext. 230. www.mil…. Join Marie Lew in warm-ups, breathing exercises, instruction of selected movements and narrated practice of a classic Chen T’ai Chi form. Register online or call. Walk-ins welcome. $12/class. Noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays, Nov. 2-30.
Music at Noon: Clarinet Studio Recital. Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown 44502. 330-941-3636. 12:15 p.m.
Basic Microsoft Excel. Warren Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren 44483. To register, call 330-399-8807, ext. 139. Classes at Warren will be held in the classroom on the second floor. Learn the basics of Excel by creating a budget spreadsheet. Familiarity with a mouse, keyboard and computer required. Registration is required. 6-8 p.m.
Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Reader Series. Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St., Youngstown. Lit Youngstown will present Kent poet and fiction writer Kelly Hambly and Youngstown poet Jimmy Sutman as part of its First Wednesday Reader Series. The event, which will be co-hosted by Denise Sculli, is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured readers. Hambly writes poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction as a way of connecting her past, present, and future to help heal generational trauma. Sutman is the director of ISLE Inc. and Purple Cat, Valley-based organizations which provide services for adults with autism, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury. He is the founder of goldenstringradio.org…, a radio station run by adults with disabilities. He curates and DJs “Oranges Pop Music and Poetry,” a show in which he reads poetry and ties in popular music. The Dec. 7 reading will feature Julie Cancio Harper and Eric Harper of Youngstown. 7 p.m.
Thursday 3
Baby Story Time. Canfield Library, 43 W. Main St. 44406. 330-744-8636. www.libraryvisit.org…. For babies up to 18 months with a caregiver. 10-11 a.m.
Toddler Story Time. Poland Library, 311 S. Main St. 44514. 330-744-8636. www.libraryvisit.org…. For ages 18 months to 3 years with a caregiver. 10-10:30 a.m.
Interactive Nutrition Education Program. Culinary Literacy Center, Main Library, 305 Wick Ave., Youngstown 44503. 330-744-8636. www.libraryvisit.org…. Families with children (birth to 18), families who are pregnant, caregivers or young adults (18 to 26 without children) can join this nine-week series on nutrition education, physical activity and food. 10-11:30 a.m.
Friday 4
Evil Dead: The Musical. Salem Community Theatre. 490 E. State St., Salem 44460; 330-332-9688. www.salemcommunitytheatre.com…. Takes the elements of classic cult films and combines them in a crazy theatrical experience. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Oct. 28-29, Nov. 4-5. 7 p.m. $12.
Vijay Iyer Trio. Chestnut Room, Kilcawley Center, YSU, One University Plaza at Elm Street, Youngstown 44555. www.ysu.tix.com…. This new jazz piano trio comes to Youngstown as part of the Pipino Performing Arts Series. Vijay has been named “Pianist of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Iyer will be performing with Matt Brewer (bass) and Jeremy Dutton (drums). (The Vijay Iyer Trio performed key sets at Newport Jazz and Detroit Jazz Festivals over the summer.) Iyer’s 2021 release of “Uneasy” was one of the best-reviewed albums of last year: Pitchfork (Best New Music), the New Yorker, NPR Music, and Jazz Times. In addition to playing music from “Uneasy,” Iyer – a MacArthur fellow and Harvard professor – will be performing new music as well. Iyer was recently featured in Pitchfork’s recurring Music That Made Me series and premiered a newly commissioned work entitled “Ghosts Everywhere I Go” last April at Chicago’s Logan Center For The Arts. Iyer just returned to Harvard for a new semester, where he’s been a professor since 2014. He is currently instructing a Ph.D. program that he founded called Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry. 7:30 p.m.
Inlaws, Outlaws and Other People (That Should Be Shot). Trumbull New Theater, 5883 Youngstown Warren Road, Niles 44446. 330-652-1103. trumbullnewtheatre.com…. Comedy by Steve Fanco. Directed by T. Gilbert. 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday. 2 p.m. on Sunday. Nov. 4-5, 11-13, 18-20. 7:30 p.m. $17, adults; $15, students.
A Trip to the City: A Visit to the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Ward Beecher Planetarium, YSU campus, One University Plaza, Youngstown 44555. 330-941-1370. The Virgo Cluster is the nearest galaxy cluster to Earth, making it one of the most useful laboratories we have in understanding how galaxies form and evolve. Within such dense (city-like) galactic environments, galaxies interact frequently, and the debris from these events allows us to trace the history of galaxy clusters. This program will give a brief tour of the Virgo cluster, which includes results from a new and ongoing deep, wide-field imaging study (the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey) of the entire cluster. Program host Dr. Patrick Durrell will describe searches for stars dwarf galaxies, and globular clusters that live in the spaces between the larger galaxies in the cluster. This program is part of the Warren C. Young Lecture Series. 8 p.m.
The Sixties Show. Robins Theatre, 160 E. Market St., Warren 44481. 234-437-6246,
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. 8 p.m.
Music & Nightspots
- The Dash Inn. Groove Time. 7:30 p.m.
- Robins Theatre. The Sixties Show. 7 p.m.
- Up a Creek Tavern. No Funk, No Justice. 8 p.m.
Saturday 5
Ribbon Festival. Rooms 3136, 3137, 3139, Bliss Hall, YSU, Wick Avenue at Spring Street, Youngstown 44555. 7:30 a.m.-noon.
Houseplant Swap. Warren Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren 44483.330-399-8807, extension 200. Exchange cuttings and houseplants with other attendees. You may also take home a cutting provided by the library. Attendance is limited; register by calling or emailing
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. Occurs in the Grant Meeting Room on the library’s first floor. 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Online and In-Person: The Last Great Train Robbery in Garrettsville, Ohio. Warren Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren 44483.330-399-8807, extension 200. Follow along as Alvin “Creepy” Karpis pulls off his last great train heist on Nov. 7, 1935, in Garrettsville and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his G-Men search for Karpis and his gang. Following her reenactment video of the robbery, historian and author Julie Thompson will take questions via Zoom about the Depression-era figure. She is the author of “The Hunt for the Last Public Enemy in Northeastern Ohio: Alvin ‘Creepy’ Karpis and His Road to Alcatraz.” This event will be hybrid (in-person and virtual). Occurs held in the Harding Meeting Room on the library’s first floor. To join virtually via Zoom, call or email
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to receive an invitation link to the Zoom session. 2 p.m.
One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure. Ward Beecher Planetarium, YSU campus, One University Plaza, Youngstown 44555. 330-941-1370. Big Bird’s Adventure begins on Sesame Street when Elmo’s friend Hu Hu Zhu visits from China. The program takes young viewers on an exciting discovery of the sun, moon, and stars. Learn about the Big Dipper and the North Star and take an imaginary trip to the Moon. For children and families. 2 p.m.
Evil Dead: The Musical. Salem Community Theatre. 490 E. State St., Salem 44460; 330-332-9688. www.salemcommunitytheatre.com…. Takes the elements of classic cult films and combines them in a crazy theatrical experience. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Oct. 28-29, Nov. 4-5. 7 p.m. $12.
The Music of Billy Joel and Elton John. Westminster Celebrity Series, Orr Auditorium, Westminster College, 319 S. Market St., New Wilmington, Pa. 16172. 724-946-7354. www.westminster.edu… Starring Michael Cavanaugh. 7:30 p.m., $52, $47, $43, $39.
Inlaws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should Be Shot). Trumbull New Theater, 5883 Youngstown Warren Road, Niles 44446. 330-652-1103. trumbullnewtheatre.com…. Comedy by Steve Fanco. Directed by T. Gilbert. 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday. 2 p.m. on Sunday. Nov. 4-5, 11-13, 18-20. 7:30 p.m. $17, adults; $15, students.
Big Astronomy: People, Places & Discoveries. Ward Beecher Planetarium, YSU campus, One University Plaza, Youngstown 44555. 330-941-1370. Discover the impressive observatories in Chile, the people who run them, and the exciting discoveries uncovered by these world-class telescopes. This program will include a presentation of the night sky as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. Other dates and times: 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11; 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12; 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 19. 8 p.m.
Haunted Mill? in the Dark of the Night. Lanterman’s Mill, Mill Creek MetroParks, 980 Canfield Road, Youngstown 44511. 330-740-7116. www.mil…. Is Lanterman’s Mill haunted? Join local paranormal groups to investigate the mill in the dark of night and decide for yourself. Lanterns will guide your path during the one-hour visit. For adults 18 and older. Space limited. Registration required. Register/pay by Nov. 3, online or call. 9-10 p.m. $10 (residents), $12 (non-residents).
Music & Nightspots
- Cedars. Baroque Monody, Gatlin, Hobo Phantasm.
- Columbiana Cultural Collective. The Fleetwood Mac Experience. 7 p.m.
- Double Bogeys. No Funk, No Justice. 9 p.m.
- JR’z Pub. Cin City and the Saints. 8 p.m.
- Los Gallos. RDNA. 8 p.m.
- New Manhattan. Blue Siren. 9 p.m.
- Red Maple Barn. County tribute. 6 p.m.
- Utopia. Total Package Band. 8 p.m.
Sunday 6
Monday 7
Read to SomeBunny. 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren 44483.330-399-8807. Children in grades K-6 can sign up to read aloud to registered and certified Bunnies in Baskets (therapy rabbits) for 15-minute sessions. Rabbits are provided by F5RS (Frisky Ferrets, Fuzzies, and Feather Friends Rescue and Sanctuary.) Registration is required. 6-7:30 p.m.
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