Arts Paper
As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.
In front of Elm City Sounds, ethnomusicologist Patrick Rivers was doing his best to make and spread a beat. The sweet aroma of kettle corn, the excited “hellos” of unexpected familiar faces, and the groovy blues of Joe Cocker all filled the air around him.
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Top: The vendor market. Bottom: Rachel Alderman and her 12-year-old son Jonah, who won the duck race last year. This year, he entered four ducks but suffered the crushing agony of defeat.
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Columbus is lifted out of Wooster Square Park in June 2020. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Top: Anne Cubberly's Giant Puppets at the 2024 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which lost $65,000 of NEA grant funding. Bottom: Young cellist Amiel "AJ" Johnson, a sixth grader at Nathan Hale School and a student at Music Haven. Lucy Gellman File Photos.
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Frances "Bitsie" Clark, who turned 93 on Oct. 30 of last year. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Patricia Bellamy-Mathis. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Anthony Akambe, a student soloist with the New Haven Chamber Orchestra. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Student speakers ranged from Rosa, who read poetry, to immigrant rights advocate Ambar Santiago-Rojas. GraceHowe Photos.
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The following photoessay comes from Hannah Ericksen, a junior at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School studying photography with Chris Randall. It takes a look inside Melodies & Mimosas, a celebration of musical community from the New Haven Symphony Orchestra that took place last Sunday at Anthony’s Ocean View in New Haven. The event honored Arts Maven Anne Tyler Calabresi, educational non-profit Music Haven, the Horizons at Foote summer program, the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, and ClimateHaven.
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Melissa Andersen as Georgie and George Kulp as Alex in New Haven Theater Company's production of Simon Stephens' Heisenberg. Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays, May 1-10, at EBM Vintage in downtown New Haven. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Anneliese the Sheep at the 116th annual Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival. Ruby Szekeres Photos.
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John Romano, Jordan Cervantes and Dr. Thierry Thesatus, associate dean of Career and Student Success. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Shayla Streater pictured with friends Hafeeza Turé and Arden Santana in 2022. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Yaira Matyakubova, artistic director of the Haven String Quartet. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Juniors Jonaily Colón and Japhet Gonzalez. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dr. Yusuf Ransome and Josh Bibbey.
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From left to right: Jason Santacroce and Packy Lillis; Mike DePacale, Sarah Finnegan, Paul Pender, and Seamus Lonergan; Sarah Finnegan, Paul Pender, and Katie Santacroce in Brian Friel’s Translations, directed by Karl Ryan and produced by the Connecticut Irish Theater Troupe. Photos © Karl Ryan.
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Nelson at the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. This week, he'll be presenting some of his work at the Trinity International Hip Hop Festival in Hartford. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Heidi Brooks, Professor and Artsy Fund Committee Member at Yale SOM, artist Mario Moore, and Anita Sharif-Hyder, Dean of Students, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Student Life, and Artsy Fund Committee Member at Yale SOM. Mara Lavitt Photos.
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Candles and photos at a vigil for Gayle in 2021, following her death. Contributed Photo.
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Top: Ruba Al Behery (sketch by Amal Abu Hussain), "Palestinian henna party حفلة الحنة الفلسطينية". Bottom: A traditional Palestinian embroidery sampler woven by Nawal Ibrahim Al-Ahmad (on blue background) and a "Hellenistic Rooster" inspired by the Marisa Tomb Paintings and embroidered by Alia Abu-Rabia. Lucy Gellman Photos; all art by refugee artists in the Palestinian History Tapestry Project.
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Crystal Emery can't remember exactly when she began to find the laugh lines in her life. Maybe it was during a hospital stay, when a particularly chatty nurse led to a long and unexpected ordeal with Hamden law enforcement. Or a personal interest in film that led her to too many bad depictions of disabled people. Or a belief that she could change someone’s outlook, one giggle at a time.
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Eight-year-old Amiina Brown, who belongs to a New Britain based Girl Scouts of the USA Troop, works on her puppet, Monster Monster, before the show. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Josefina Banks at a recent rehearsal for Call Forth A Woman. The play, a collection of monologues and vignettes amplifying women from the Bible, returns to the Shubert Theatre on April 26. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Sherill Baldwin Photos.
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Carlos Cruz, who is a member of the bomba collective Proyecto Cimarrón. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lorrice Grant, executive director at Loaves and Fishes (in red) with some of Saturday's volunteers. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Chinna Palmer, Brandon E. Burton, and Elizabeth Stahlmann in a scene from Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector, newly adapted and directed by Yura Kordonsky. Yale Repertory Theatre, March 7-29, 2025. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Tyler Goldchain: "So much of this was staking ourselves in improvisation." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Myles Tripp performing and connecting with his audience. Mike Chaiken Photo, courtesy of Myles Tripp.
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Laurel Coleman, who wants to create a Wikipedia entry for her mom, Dorothy Coleman. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Amy Migliore with Ajibola Tajudeen, now a student at the Berkeley College of Music, at Co-Op graduation in June 2022. On Monday, NHPS Spokesperson Justin Harmon said the transfer would be temporary. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Photos courtesy of the Kallos Chamber Music Series.
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The anxious attachment to cell phones has been swept out from under us. Will it work?
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The moment guests stepped through the doorway, the library transformed. Instead of snugly packed shelves, bright lights danced across the walls in green and purple hues. Party masks and gem-colored beads lingered on the tables. Music sailed through the room, with silky-smooth vocals that got the house on its feet. As they mingled, guests found themselves sharing stories of their New Haven Free Public Library, their voices rising and falling in the normally-hushed space.
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Soto at the Pride Center's former home in the basement of 84 Orange Street. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Zara Baden-Eversman as Alice. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Skylar Dunn and Lucy Gardner in "The Feminist Theatre Project." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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From left: Jeremiah Craggett as Jeremiah Black, Jonah Craggett as Johan Black, Brandon Hutchinson as Alfira, and Gail Staggers as the narrator performing the first episode of the audiodrama “Haus of Black” at NXTHVN. Aster Rhys Photos.
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Marty Tucker as Pastor Paul in The Christians. New Haven Theater Company presents Lucas Hnath’s The Christians at EBM Vintage, 839 Chapel St. in downtown New Haven, from Thursday, Feb. 27 through Saturday March 8. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Raizine (Rai) Bruton and Jules Larson in 2022, at the first screening of BVFCC's “Portrait of a Cinema on Fire: Feminist Filmmakers" series. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Cameron Hoefflinger Photo, courtesy of Aster Rhys.
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Yaira Matyakubova introduces storyteller and artist Toto Kisaku. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Curtis Brown Photography, courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.
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Isabel Dyson, and Matt Simmons in My Children! My Africa! KVON Photo Courtesy of the MAC.
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An assortment of bright t-shirts fanned out across a table, in a rainbow of bright pink, orange, and dark blues. Beside them, two racks of jackets, sweaters, belts, and dresses hung side-by-side, ready for a new home. Another table displayed jewelry and various accessories.
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Adriane Jefferson: "The work we have done together will continue on, and I will always carry this city’s spirit with me. This is not a goodbye—it is a celebration of all we have accomplished and all that is still to come." Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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The cast of Eden, running at the Yale Rep Theatre through Feb. 8. Joan Marcus Photos.
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Halfway through their reading, poet Whitney Graham faltered. They had been weaving a story of blistering injustice, from Palestine to Sudan, but they were unable to remember their next line. As if on cue, audience members started snapping their fingers, clapping, and cheering, encouraging Graham to go on. With a shaky laugh, they got out their phone and completed their poem to thunderous applause.
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Top: Robbins, Maria Clara Laet and Isabella Serricella. Bottom: Robbins and Echols. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Em Conquest of Conquest Studio. Grayce Howe Photos.
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Elaine Peters at last year's Caribbean Heritage Festival on the New Haven Green. For those who knew her, Coconut was forever by her side. He is now in the care of her friend, Marcey Lynn Jones. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Olivia Gaspard, a sixth grader at Bear Path Elementary School. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Photos contributed by New Haven-based filmmaker Josh Stasko and his wife, Bridget.
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Candles and photos at a vigil for Gayle in 2021, following her death. Contributed Photo.
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Sharmont "Influence" Little performs with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Nov. 2024. Photo by Matt Fried, courtesy of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
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Joe and Betty Lou Blumberg with a friend. Grayce Howe Photos.
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Chris "Big Dog" Davis with his "Stetson Star" Award. Abiba Biao Photos.
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Cosmic Pond. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Whitney White (foreground) with Ciara Alyse Harris, Holli’ Conway, and Phoenix Best in a scene from Macbeth in Stride written and performed by Whitney White, directed by Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. Yale Repertory Theatre, December 5-14, 2024. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Jordan Gage of Chronically Queer Co. Grayce Howe Photos.
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Rev. Bonita Grubbs speaking at a vigil for the Diyanet Mosque in 2019, after alleged arson destroyed part of the building during Ramadan. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Fred Brown, Paul Bloom, Millie Grenough and Aaron Goode. Grayce Howe Photos.
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John Allen: “As we know, history belongs to those who write it. And I’m diligently trying to do that.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Photo by Matt Fried, courtesy of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
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CT State Gateway student Terence Okwuosa. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Michael Zief and Ian "Scooby" Rossman. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Screenshot via Long Wharf Theatre.
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A still from the series opener, "70 x 7." HAVENTheSeries Photo.
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Alderman (in cap): “We intend to be a space for this community, telling stories about this community.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Xiomarie LaBeija. Laura Glesby for the New Haven Independent Photo.
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Kendal Driffin and Susan Kulp in The Niceties. The show runs through CCT at Bregamos Community Theater, 491 Blatchley Ave., through Nov. 24.
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Annie Sailer Dance Company members Sandra Kopell, Lynn Cooley and Yoko Kawai Kurimoto. Maxim Schmidt Photo.
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Jocelyn Maribel, Allis Ozornia, and Angel Garcia Lopez. Abiba Biao Photos.
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Senior Carizma Buonome, who is studying theater, after casting her mock vote Monday. “I’m so sad I can’t vote this year,” she said. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Bubbles closes out a drag show on the New Haven Green, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, in June 2021. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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All heads were turned to the front of the restaurant as Diana Ross’s voice escaped the speakers. Over the bright trill of trumpets and a funky bassline, she declared “I’m coming out! I want the world to know/ I got to let it show.” Guests swayed in their seats and tapped their toes, occasionally leaving behind napkins and half-finished drinks to get up and dance.
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CWYC's Alyssa-Marie Cajigas, Addys Castillo, and Ta’LannaMonique “TMo” Lawson-Dickerson. SUBLIME by CLo Photos.
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Maxim Schmidt Photo.
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Angel Dahfay and Kolton Harris. Abiba Biao Photos.
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A scene from falcon girls by Hilary Bettis, directed by May Adrales. Yale Repertory Theatre, October 10–November 2, 2024. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Participate in democracy. Hold your values close when deciding what candidate you vote for. Above all, exercise your right to vote, and be a proud active voter.
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Everything is Political in America runs at the Yale University Art Gallery through Nov. 17. Installation view courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Awilda Sterling-Duprey: Aesthetics of dis-order. Photo by Chris Gardner. Courtesy of NXTHVN.
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Sora Matta (center) as Ponyboy Curtis in The Outsiders. Bob (Joseph Pallo) and Randy (Cristian Ortiz) are on either side of them. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Kari Coyle, Harry Coyle, and Jackie Gaudioso-Levita. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Alicia Brown and Lanaya Pickett. Abiba Biao Photos.
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Susan Climard's rendering of her godsons, Emanuel and Elijah. Nelani Mejias Photos.
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Sweets & Sounds Founder Angel Dahfay at last year's Sweets & Sounds Con, held at NXTHVN in the city's Dixwell neighborhood. This year, Creative U takes place on Oct. 11 and 12 between the Canal Dock Boathouse and the Adanti Student Center at SCSU. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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