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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.

Leah Andelsmith

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Connecticut’s LGBTQ Film Festival Gets To The Heart: We Are Not Alone

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Women’s 20th Century Club Shines A Light Into The Future

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Ely Center Artists Wake the World

Detail, Caroline Harman’s painting Principles of Uncertainty. Both Solos and #WIP run at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art through Nov. 14. Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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Pride Center Goes “Beyond The Binary”

Thursday's panel. Screenshot via Facebook Live.

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Tap On Whitney Calls And Responds

Luiza Karnas and Alexis Robbins. Leah Andelsmith Photos and Video.

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Queer And Christian: Children Of God Find The Light

Leah Andelsmith Photo.

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Connecticut Storytellers Offer Glimmers of Hope, Spoons of Power

Cynthia Rojas. Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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Adam Matlock Navigates by the Light of Your Star

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With “Place, Nations,” YUAG Centers Indigenous Voices

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Synth, Streetlights And The Sargasso Sea

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Elle Sera Holds Our Hand Through the Dark

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Marlinworks Artists Show and Tell

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The Future is Fully Human, Not Fully Realized

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“Songs and Stories” Traces A Pathway To The Heart

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"Cities & Memory" Drips With Ghosts

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Guns, Goddesses, and Galaxies Mix in "Redoubt"

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City Gallery Exhibits the Elements

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One Year In, Local Lit Gathers Around Story

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Learning Our HERstory

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Bomba Reveals A Story Of Slavery

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Freewheeling and Feminist: A Broken Umbrella Birthday

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New Haven Trees Yield Liquid Gold

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Blackness, Whiteness, and the Legacy of “Passing”

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Sanctuary Kitchen Breaks Bread at Yale

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Joy and Justice in New Haven Gardens

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State House Sparkles From "Day To Night" In Cabaret

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New Haven Makes Makers

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"We Helped Put This Country Together" Becomes A Call To Action

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UARTS Sets Up Shop In Westville

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A Country Thread Through Folk and Blues

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A Poet’s Love Letter to Her Voice

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Diamonds And Amber Honor Dr. King

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A Zoonotic Night At Cafe Nine

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Lit Cypher Activates Poet-Citizens

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An “Umbrella Of Wellness” Evolves On Crown Street

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Land Trust Grows Skills, Graduates Entrepreneurs

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Grit and Honey At The The Kate

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Love Fed Kwanzaa Kindles Community

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Whitneyville Cultural Commons Looks Ahead

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Puppets Get Weird and Wonderful By Dark

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Gay Men's Chorus Discos from Pole to Pole

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Teen Troupe Takes On Shakespeare’s Fairy Tale

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Fools, Fossils, And Form At The Ely Center

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For A Chilly Second Saturday, Westville Goes All Out

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Low Temps, High Spirits At New Haven’s First Night Market

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Nu Haven Kapelye Brings Hanukkah Home

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In Plain Sight, Artspace Lays History Bare

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Fan Grrls Rock SqueeCon

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Queer Heroes Swoop In On Lyric Hall

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Cafe Nine Passes Strange, And Catapults Into Wonder

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A Dance Locomotive Turns Ten, Gets Tiny

Daniel Eugene Photos. Wells is at the center in the striped red button down.

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Institute Library “Tellabrates” The Power of Story

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Barbeque And Beer Land At District

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"Rocky Horror" Turns A Bar Into A Blackbox

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New Haven Goes Mad, Gets Haunted

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The World of Westville’s PODS

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Yale Art Gallery Reckons with “The Incident”

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Saving the Planet? Start With Your Corner.

Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley had the Whitneyville Cultural Commons at a hush. He launched into “All Eyes on We,” a song he wrote in 2013 with middle school students in North Carolina, during an outdoor education program in a southern forest.

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Nine Squares. 400 Years of Queer History

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Summer At Massaro Farm

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Local Farm, Cosmic Scope

Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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Twisted History From An Inferior Planet

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New Haveners “Eat Wild” At Long Wharf

Justin Freiberg raises a spring of glasswort, which he and his friends grew up calling a "pickle plant" for its salty taste. Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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Elegant Primates Layer Cafe Nine In Sound

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On Connecticut’s (Mostly Free) Shakespeare Trail

Ian Eaton as Bottom, Saluda Camp as Titania and Fairies in Connecticut Free Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream five years ago . Judith Barbosa Photo.

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Festival Peers Into “Positive Proximity”

Dar Williams on her book tour. “I grew up with a downtown and a lot of people grew up with a downtown, and there are all sorts of economic arguments for why it’s so important to have that collection of stores who sponsor little leagues, have apprentices," she said in her talk last Sunday. Photo Courtesy of the artist and her website .

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Out On The Big Screen

“I always consider the establishment of the Connecticut LGBT Film Festival at Cinestudio to be one of the most important moments in the long history of the theater,” said studio founder James Hanley. All Photos Courtesy of the 31st annual LGBT Film Festival.

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Sara Hope Hill, All Strings Attached

Sara Hope Hill: “When a couple of eggs break, you lay some new ones and you really put your heart into it.” Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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A Family Farm at Four Mile River

Leah Andelsmith Photos.

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STARS Light The Way For Young Artists

Stephanie Anestis Photos.

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Labor To Love, Through A Lens

Zane in the NICU at Yale-New Haven Hospital. JoAnn Marrero Photo.

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Food For The Soil, And The Soul

Leah Andelsmith Photo.

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