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.
DJ Dooley-O keeps the beat coming. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ife Michelle Gardin and Steve Fontana. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“Lantern Hill” begins with the drone of a guitar, a cello shaking out an eerie melody in its upper register. It’s somehow tense and peaceful at the same time. It then settles into a swinging melody that still doesn’t quite lose the paradox from the song’s opening minute. It feels old as the hills, but still unsettled. It’s there in a well-chosen note, an atmospheric sound hovering in the background. It’s there in the instruments themselves, the guitar and cello in the same range, weaving in and out of each other, making a big sound. And it’s the opening number from Pyrrhotite, the latest release from New Haven’s own Swamp Yankee....continue reading in the New Haven Independent.
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Terrence Riggins as Kenyatta Shakur and Tamika Pettway as Nina in Sunset Baby. The show runs Feb. 22, 23 and 25, March 1-3 and 8-11 at Collective Consciousness Theatre. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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Fatima Rojas' portrait of her daughter on a family hike. "It represents the life, the struggle, the maternity of some of us," she said of the exhibition. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Maafa: Ghosts of the Atlantic II , 48 x 36 in. Acrylic/mixed media on canvas. Photo courtesy WCGMF.
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There is so much I want to tell you about my recent trip to the world of Wakanda ... or rather a special Saturday showing and celebration in New Haven of the highly anticipated new film Black Panther.
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Dancers from the Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute Dragon and Lion Dance Team stunned during the parade. Toward the end, one scaled a pole to "eat" a head of lettuice. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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