For the 14th consecutive year, Audubon Arts on the Edge offers the public a wealth of free, family oriented performances, programs, and hands-on activities. On Saturday, June 6, from 12-5 pm, Audubon Street in New Haven will once again be a favorite destination for parents with children of all ages as the neighborhood’s arts organizations, galleries, and retailers present an afternoon of music, dance, visual arts, spoken word, crafts, educational activities, and more.

Ensembles from ACES Educational Center for the Arts and Neighborhood Music School, along with the Dudley Farm String Band, highlight some of the musical performances scheduled for the daylong event. Also, Neighborhood Music School’s instrument petting zoo will offer visitors a chance to hold the tools of musicians’ trade.

Dance performances and workshops presented by the Shari Caldwell Dance Center, ACES Educational Center for the Arts, and Elm City Dance Collective will also be showcased.

As is tradition, Audubon Street will morph into a winding chalk mural when visitors use the bustling thoroughfare as a community canvas. Art will be everywhere as caricaturists and face-painters capture and camouflage faces young and older, and children and parents alike create useable art from recycled products.

From the main stage at Leeney Plaza to a second stage in Park of the Arts, behind Creative Arts Workshop and Neighborhood Music School, Audubon Arts on the Edge offers something for everyone, from storytelling and puppet shows to fossils and the like from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, science activities from Schooner Inc., foreign-language lessons from Aux Trois Pommes, and drum-making workshops and performances by audience favorite Baba David Coleman.

During Audubon Arts on the Edge, “Eye All Eight” will offer art lovers of every generation a chance to experience openings at the Susan B. Hilles Gallery at Creative Arts Workshop, Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Studio70 and ArtLab Gallery at ACES Educational Center for the Arts, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven Museum and Historical Society, Hull’s Fine Framing Gallery, and Koffee on Audubon.

Audubon Arts on the Edge is coordinated by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven in partnership with the Audubon Arts and Retail District. This year’s event is supported by funding from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Werth Family Foundation, L. Suzio York Hill Companies, and the Mayor’s Community Arts Grant Program. For more information about Audubon Arts on the Edge, call (203) 772-2788.

For a complete schedule of events, click here.

To view photos from last year's Audubon Arts on the Edge, please Click Here.


We are always looking for volunteers to help out at the Edge. If your available at any time that day (Saturday, June 6) starting at 9 am for set up and any time during the day, we would love to have you join us – it's a fun time for all! Please contact Bobbi Griffith at bgriffith@newhavenarts.org or call 772-2788 if you are interested in volunteering.

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