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.
The portrait installed in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Ian Christmann Photo.
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Daniel Eugene Photos. Wells is at the center in the striped red button down.
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Monte Frank has a routine when he gets into work, or hops on his bike and fastens his helmet for a long ride. He flips through his playlists—there are several—chooses one, and hits shuffle. A little Miles Davis coasts over his headphones. Then some Muddy Waters, B.B. King. The list shuffles forward to the Grateful Dead, then spits out country, Americana, and a little old-school rock.
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A week out from Connecticut’s Nov. 6 election, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ned Lamont is reaching into the fond recesses of his memory—not for data or talking points on the state's pension crisis and solutions for statewide debt, but for several well-loved songs that help him relax on the campaign trail.
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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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Lucy Gellman Photos. A long, dark band of bodies reached around Elm Street, faces visible as it grew longer. Black t-shirts. Raincoats and denim jackets. A few baseball caps. Its members linked hands, rearranged, relinked and walked on. “Keep Nelson home! Keep Nelson home!” they chanted as they fell into formation, lining up by a series of numbers taped to their shirts. 1. 12. 33. 54. 78. 123. 195. 208. 281. Friday afternoon, over 300 sanctuary city advocates, members of Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), faith leaders and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) and Yale University students gathered at First and Summerfield United Methodist Church to rally and march for Nelson Pinos, an immigrant who has been seeking sanctuary there since November 30 of last year. Friday marked day 281, or month nine, of his stay inside the church.
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Photo courtesy Xiomarie LaBeija. This is the first installment in 2018’s “Queen Of The Week” series, which we will be running each Friday during Connecticut’s PRIDE celebrations this September. Last year’s installments, in order, profiled #NHVDrag, Robin Banks, Malaya Love Nations, and Tiana Maxim Rose. Xiomarie LaBeija cocked her hips just slightly and put one leg in front of the other. Creamy white leotard. Crinkly gold cape. A corset to keep everything in just so. Brown curls cascaded past her shoulders, caramel at the tips. She had the room on the edge of its seats, and she was just getting started.
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George Corsillo, one half of the Design Monsters team, with the brewery's new tap handles. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A strip from Hubert's comic. Lucy Gellman Photos. A meteor has hit the New Haven Green. Rocks and grass are flying through the air; flames lick the space’s central fountain and flagpole. Smoke is everywhere. And any humans on site—stopping with their skateboards, running for their buses—are transforming into aliens by the second. They’ve got black, glassy eyes, green skin, and slimy tentacles erupting from their sides. Only one New Havener, a woman named Genesis, doesn’t seem to be affected. That’s not the latest news on the Green, but Kaleo Hubert’s vision for “Star Storm,” a new comic strip that puts New Haven front and center, and tells its story through a Black woman’s eyes. With 10 other high school students, Hubert is one of this year’s Public Art Fellows (PAF) with Site Projects, Inc., a nonprofit that supports and funds public art in New Haven. After working for six weeks weeks with graphic artists Rob Greenberg, Matt Stevens and Amie Ziner, all 11 fellows will have a final exhibition and reception this Sunday at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Festivities run from 2 to 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public. More information is available here.
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Dr. Eddie Henderson was flying through “Surrey With The Fringe On Top.” No sooner had Andrew Kosiba laid the foundation than he was answering with the short, ringing staccato of his trumpet, then longer, full-lunged notes that coasted over the audience. An upright bass, half cloaked in shadow, hummed to life. The most polite of percussion rose to meet it. Somewhere, Miles Davis and Rogers and Hammerstein were clinking cocktail glasses and tapping their toes.
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Mariame Kazadi, Divine Mahoundi, Deyana Al-Mashhadani, Gladys Mwilelo, and Kendall Brent contributed reporting.
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The artist during a recent interview. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Warren Byrd leaned into the microphone, piano and upright bass slowing to a march around him. Horn and woodwind sounded somewhere in the near distance. A universe away, Impressionist Camille Pissarro was alive and losing his mind on the streets of Paris, vigilant as he trotted through the city’s grimy fifth arrondissement.
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Sculptures by Antonak comprising silk, corn husk, and plastic flowers. Erin Lee Antonak Photo. Healing hats that must be worn to events before they are finished. Installations that have the size and look of movie sets, with no rolling reel of film in site. “Glitch art,” with a spray of colors across the screen like a Nintendo has been kicked until it screams.
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<br /> Ned Lamont has already spoken about the role of arts and culture on eco nomic development. But could he also be the governor who sings? The Democratic hopeful and party-endorsed candidate raised that question inadvertently Wednesday, as he received endorsements from Yale unions UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35 in New Haven’s Scantlebury Park. A
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Screenshot from Facebook. This is the third piece on the role of arts—rhetoric, photography, film, and media—on the gubernatorial campaign trail. For the previous pieces, click here, here and here. Joe Ganim is standing on a table or stage—you can't quite tell which—in the dusky yellow light of an old building. The ceiling above him is tile, studded with low lights. He’s looking up and out into a crowd, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. Symphonic strings build under him.
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Karima El-Hamraoui and Abir. Lucy Gellman Photos. Abir was performing alchemy in The Hill. Her hands fluttered over a pile of red and white onion, fine salt and flaked sumac coating the slices. She spoke in quiet tones as she worked, recounting bits of information about her children. A family of sunflowers bobbed deferentially in the background.
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Lucy Gellman Photos. More state funding to their nonprofit organizations. Assurances that creative school programs won’t be cut. Better partnerships between organizations who do community-oriented work. A commitment to changing the line item funding formula so money gets spread a little more evenly.
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Isabella Maddelena, Charlotte Martinez, and Myra Gupta get ready for the movie. Ariel Shearer Photos. A gaggle of children bounced and swayed on stage at Hamden Town Center Park while a crew hurried to inflate a giant outdoor movie screen before sunset. Top 40 tunes rang out over the field as more families arrived, hauling wagons filled with colorful blankets and coolers, nudging their children to join those on stage for the chance to dance and win prizes.
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Image Courtesy Daniel Eugene/Lunch Money Print. At first, you think it’s just another portrait of a building. Green paint on white stucco. Wood against red brick. Howard Avenue stretches out under high-hanging blue sky, grey-fringed clouds. But there he is, in the lower righthand corner: a kid, no more than 12 or 13, popping a wheelie as his bike gleams beneath him. Handlebars up. earbuds in. Mouth open, tongue on its way to sticking out. The sunlight soaks his skin. This is summer, exactly as it’s meant to be.
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Steffon Sampson as Usnavi in Arts In CT's production of In The Heights . The show runs this Friday and Saturday at Wilbur Cross High School.
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The cast of Hamlet , performances for which run on the Guilford Green through Sunday. Judith L. Barbosa Photo.
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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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Ned Lamont and David Stemerman at Tuesday's forum. Tim Herbst is pictured in the background. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lamont at ConnCAT: Sometimes it's ok to be a black sheep. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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More public concerts on city greens. New arts funding in urban school districts. A cut to state line item funding to benefit smaller museums that really need the money.
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Amie Mulungula. His hero, Jay Kemp, is pictured behind him. Karen Marks Photo.
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Sisters Valerie and Beck Doty. Karen Marks Photos.
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"One of those silent heroes." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Kevin Zhen sets the table for Homecooked. Karen Marks Photos.
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"We can actually have a roof reconstruction without looking for a hole,” said museum director Sandra Malmquist Wednesday.
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One of Sonique Paige's portraits meant to challenge the media norm. “To the people who are looking from the outside in, I would ask them: Are you ever in a place where you don’t see yourself represented?" she said during the interview. Sonique Paige Photos.
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Reynolds in his office. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Trish Clark at the 48 Hour Film Project kickoff. Thomas Breen File Photo for the New Haven Independent.
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A detail of the of the illustrations. Karen Marks Photos.
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Sylvia and Jason Sobocinski in the cheese shop. “Lots of people loved what was going on here, but I’m, like, so excited that we’re going to do something new and that I get to bring on partners and still keep the same staff,” Sobocinski said earlier this week. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Alasdair Neale photographed downtown in February, when he was visiting New Haven for his audition concert. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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A detail from Heidi Geist's Lost City . Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Katie Heinlein: “Each piece had a place...gun control should be more like that." Karen Marks Photos.
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Shane Baber: “I didn’t see straight men stand up and say ‘this happened to me.’” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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10-year-old twins Ayana and Maquas Baldwin. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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For Troubledclef, the blank walls, untagged skateparks and underpasses didn’t call out immediately. Nor the cans of spray paint, waiting to be opened as they beckoned from convenience store aisles. Nor the sense of brethren-by-graffiti, a motley crew of artists and mischief-makers who would come out in the wee hours of the morning, and finish their work by 4 a.m.
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The billboard's next stop? Exit 42 on I-95. Karen Marks Photos.
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State Rep. Robyn Porter was one in a packed lineup of speakers to speak at a #SaveSCOTUS rally Tuesday evening. She challenged those at the rally not just to call their legislators, but to reach out to family members and friends in other states and urge them to call their legislators as well. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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Chris Murphy: “We have a big fight ahead of us." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Misha Semenov and Kassandra Leiva in the finished parklet. Lesley Roy Photo.
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John Martin: "Transportation is a fight that I'm proud to be a part of." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Prints of Fredrick Douglass' address at the Beinecke. Karen Marks Photo.
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Remaining performances of Cabaret run July 6-8 and 13-15 at Lyric Hall, 827 Whalley Ave. in New Haven's Westville neighborhood. For tickets and more information, click here .Karen Marks Photo.
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Last summer in the Sunken Garden. Photos Courtesy Hill-Stead Museum.
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URI's Kelechi Eleanya with the median-turned-garden. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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ConnCAT's Steve Driffin flowing from emcee to poet back to emcee. Karen Marks Photos.
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Bill Kraus in the factory earlier this month. He called his long relationship with the building "A labor of love, sometimes unrequited." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“It’s an open conversation between us and the kids,” said Easy Breezy Director Alex Fargeorge. “We still do all the activities other camps do...it’s tailored to their needs.” Karen Marks Photos.
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Ash Cruz, who is a published poet, works through what he would depict if he'd been at Stonewall in 1969. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Actor Kelley Knight: . Karen Marks Photos
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Gladys Mwilelo: “Tearing families apart is like switching off a light on someone who is looking for direction at night." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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New Haven based artist Thabisa at a Central Avenue jam spot. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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Artist Kwadwo Adae: “If our mothers, sisters, daughters are oppressed, how are any of us free?” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Mrs. Jeffie Frazier: "We are so powerful—we’re just not together. Please come together. That’s a blessing for me if you would.”
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“You don’t know how strong you are until you have no choice to be strong,” Bri Lachappelle tells the audience at the beginning of the show. Karen Marks Photos.
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Moses Ingram as Ellei the Butterfly, a character in Allison Miranda's Lost Siblings . Lucy Gellman Photo.
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After years of planning, renovation, and funding from the Elm City Innovation Collaborative and City of New Haven, Ives Squared will open at the New Haven Free Public Library on June 27. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“I grew up around a generation of people who I, wrongly, thought of as permanent,” Ain Gordon said during an audience talkback Tuesday night. “I just thought they were always going to be there. Many of them also had been … had been seminal in some way, or seemed to be a big deal. And then slowly they were not a big deal. And then slowly, they were no deal.” Paula Court Photo Courtesy International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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“This has gotten us as an organization to thinking—well, obviously it’s not who we want to be, and what do we have to do to change that?” Thomas Breen Photo.
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Joy Meikle: “Everyone leads, and you have to build from a diverse population.” Karen Marks Photos.
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"In Africa, we dance for nothing!" Joseph Kazadi exclaimed at one point in the show, ushering in dancing to Shakira's "Waka Waka." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Nelson Pinos and Hector Paul Flores Sunday night. “It’s part of who we are, and part of our ethos," said Flores at the event. "We’re not activists, we’re not organizers. We’re musicians, so we want to amplify the work of those at the grassroots when we can.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“We are all soldiers trying to get our brands out there,” Armada Brewing Co.'s John Kraszewski said earlier this week. “It’s a building that’s housing soldiers. The beeracks. The beer soldiers.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Maybe the first thing that catches you is the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, standing tall on East Rock in the light of a white crescent moon. Or the guitarist beneath its base, her brown hair cascading past her shoulders as she strums, and a flurry of notes fly from the instrument.
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“You couldn’t get more Fair Haven if you paid for it,” Cruz said to a few chuckles from staff. “Which we did." Lucy Gellman Photo.
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While both National Trails Day and its smaller Connecticut arm have taken place since 1993, this is the first year for the Newhallville Learning Corridor to participate in CT Trails Day. The event was sponsored by New Haven Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Kiki Lucia looked out onto a sea of young faces. 60 pairs of wide eyes looked back. Red leotard. White gogo boots. Big earrings that caught in the light. A rainbow flag turned superhero cape smoothed out around her arms and shoulders.
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Sarah Fritchey: “Normally, these things are happening during the day, when we’re all at work. These aren’t violent crimes. These are really seeing people urinate in public, sell drugs on the street. We’re seeing this relating to a public health crisis that doesn’t really have an easy solution.” Pictured is Joe Bun Keo's 5 Orange St. installation. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lucian Addario, Jr. “If you really want to tap into the heart of the neighborhood, I believe their should be some men. Men and women work together to make America better.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Stephannie Salters was one of the first to experience this year's new "Yoga In Our Cities" Initiative, a collaboration between 108 Monkeys and Breathing Room Yoga Center. In the background is 108 Monkeys Founder Peg Oliveira. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“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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NHPT Preservation Services Officer John Herzan: “Another developer might have decided to tear it down, because it really was a wreck.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The result of a site visit: the Office of the Arts is allocating state dollars to New Haven's Westville neighborhood to pilot a new Media Arts Workforce Initiative." Of the project, state culture czar Kristina Newman-Scott said “It’s gotta be replicable, it’s gotta feed into some kind of workforce pipeline, there’s gotta be membership in there, and it’s for the community." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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“I love everyone in this room, even if I don’t know you, because this is a room full of love,” Ben Mikula of the Alpaca Gnomes told the crowd right before the last song of the set he was playing with two other members of his band at Pacific Standard Tavern on Sunday afternoon. “I’m so glad to see people helping each other.”
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Circling Lev runs at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art through May 24. It features the work of William Bailey, Gideon Bok, Turner Brooks, Paul Clabby, Steve DiGiovanni, Denzil Hurley, Clint Jukkala, Joshua Marsh, David Pease, Katy Schneider, Gina Ruggeri, Joel Werring and Pawel Wojtasik. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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After opening last weekend, Neil Simon's Rumors runs this Thursday through Saturday at EBM Vintage downtown. More information on the New Haven Theater Company's website . Photo Courtesy New Haven Theater Company (NHTC).
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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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32 immigrants and refugees will arrive on the New Haven Green this week, and remain there through August. You won’t be able to ask them their stories though—that will require a literal closer look. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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" I started off in theater as a lot of people do, as an actor. I went to undergrad initially on an acting scholarship. And then I realized that I was the type of actor who was always in my head, always thinking and focusing on the background story of the character. " Above, members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018. Prince recently worked on the show.
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Students at Music Haven, one of the grant recipients, practice on their box violins in fall 2017. The organization received $25,000 for programming for the next fiscal year. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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The cast of Crowns. In an interview with the Arts Paper and the Inner City News earlier this year, playwright Regina Taylor said of the work: "I do find this piece defiant. I do find this piece political. You have an African-American woman at the center of it, and she is being questioned. I see myself as being questioned from the moment that I took my first breath. Sometimes just being is a statement of defiance. Being in this mind and being in this body. Where you stand ... it is a defiant act to breathe, to be, to have your own mind. It is political. " T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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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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Tiffany Jones: “To realize that I could experience other people’s cultures through their food … I love experiencing what other people feel to be nostalgic. Doing that through food is doing that in such a fun and gratifying way.” Tagan Engel Photo.
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Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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Neville Wisdom pictured outside of his soon-to-be new digs at 1090 Chapel Street. “I want to test the waters of foot traffic," he said in an interview earlier this week. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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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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“I think I’m with Virginia Woolf,” Paul said as the show opened last month. “I think women do have a different sensibility, and I think they need to be aware of that in their work.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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“I went from never showing my work to just … putting it out here,” said UNH student Naomi Gashaw. “If Cleveland hadn’t given me the opportunity, I wouldn’t have done it. It let me cross over into being an artist.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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This Thursday, Claire’s is one of the 28 restaurants participating in the 12th annual Dining Out For Life Connecticut , the largest annual fundraiser for AIDS Project New Haven (APNH). Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Candice is one of the Leeway artists exhibiting at the Clark Memorial Library through next Friday. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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America Has Magic, April 27, Lyman Center. This new show stars four of the funniest and most amazing magic acts from America's Got Talent & Penn & Teller’s “Fool Us.” America Has Magic is a blend of comedy, magic and mindreading that will make you laugh and blow your mind! Featuring Derek Hughes, The Evasons (world famous mentalist duo Jeff & Tessa Evason), Zabrecky, and Mac King. Tickets: $25 general admission.
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Mark Firla: “We want to make sure that people understand that there’s no stigma, that this is something that we’re happy to do and we want to make use of. That we care about each other, and we want to make sure—not only that the kid’s not hungry, but that parents have less to worry about.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Atticus Bookstore and Cafe's new baker Josh Kanter: baker by day, whole grain ninja by night? Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The Poetry Lounge, April 19, 6:30-8 p.m., Ives Library.
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We’re on a sunlit stretch of a city block. From the architecture it could be any city center south of the United States, or someplace in Europe. That the building in the foreground is worn down helps narrow it down. But not as much as the subjects. There’s a policeman on the corner, looking vigilant. To his left, a group of musicians, guitars, shakers, an upright.
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Read about the winners in the New Haven Independent and here in The Arts Paper.
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LEAP Staffer Rachel Kline Brown submitted the following Friday, after LEAP students attended a screening of the film Marshall with the film’s screenwriter, local attorney Michael Koskoff.
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New Sphinx , 2016. All photos courtesy Kyle Kearson.
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A software engineer in Illinois, who called her parents weeping as Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. A college student in New Hampshire who wanted to hear from the other side of the political aisle. A smiling, hatted Vermin Supreme, who didn’t believe despair was the answer.
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On diversity in symphony orchestras, David Amado said “It’s incredibly important. I think that the orchestra should be of the community. I’m not suggesting that every statistic needs to be represented precisely by the orchestra membership, but I do think it has to be represented somehow.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Ophelia pushes Hamlet into a lake, and a fish springs up from between the rows of chairs in a school auditorium. King Hamlet explores purgatory on the sprawling, matte floor of a gymnasium, with basketball hoops in the background. Polonius storms locker-lined hallways with a fizzy intercom spewing words above him. Through it all, a troupe of half-muzzled dancers leads the way, transforming school staircases into Elsinore Castle.
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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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“This is really a true example of what Kevin and I had hoped to build in this storytelling community,” Kevin Walton's wife, Karen DuBois-Walton, had said as the event got underway Monday night. After each story, Walton would return to the front of the room to add questions and moderate for a few minutes. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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"I’d want women to know that they’re not alone," said panelist Keesa Figgs Desilva in an interview before the panel. During the panel, she added: "Let's bring these women home." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Louisa de Cossy collects testimonials on Thursday April 5. She and other members of the Nasty Women Testimonials Project will continue collection this Saturday afternoon at the Ely Center. More information here . Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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Two beef patties, oxtails, rice and peas and cabbage. That’s my standard order when I walk up to the counter at a Jamaican spot. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A winding, narrow road in snowy Pennsylvania, with a curious inn alongside it. A psychiatric hospital in the sticky New York City Summer of 1965. A small family in Poland or Russia, scrambling to finish cooked oil-flecked, gristly angel meat before midnight.
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When Eric Desatnik founded the Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY) ten years ago, environmental documentary filmmakers still had to lay the groundwork for why the general public should care about broad issues like climate change and food sustainability.
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Is it too soon to think of the weekend yet? 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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In addition to a signature maple chocolate-chip and a now-beloved oatmeal raisin walnut, Cynthia Rae has grown her repertoire to include 84 flavors, including vegan and nonvegan options. The cookies are named after the popular "moon rocks" of the 1970s and 80s. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A few months ago, The Arts Paper held its first (and possibly only?) bad cartoon contest. We got some great entries, including a winner that's now available in an April 2018 issue on newsstands and in cafes around New Haven. That image comes from Vyanah Bennett, a student in graphic design and photography at Gateway Community College.
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Clockwise, from top: Connecticut State Librarian Kendall F. Wiggin, David Green of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, NEMA Director of Engagement Meg Winikates, and Connecticut League of History Organizations Executive Director Laurie P Lamarre. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Actor and writer Kelley Knight at Thursday's The Commons. At the inaugural event last month, she said that she practices her craft because "I’ve found that if I don’t, it will kill me. It’ll kill my soul, it’ll kill my spirit. " Lucy Gellman Photos.
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An Historic was shredding, accordion style. In the front of the room, Brian Slattery produced a scream from his fiddle, bending at the waist as An Historic threw his shoulders and head into the music. Behind them, Chris Cretella lowered his face so close to his guitar that it looked as though he might pull at the strings with his teeth. The band was not even two minutes in, and everyone was sweating.
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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? What about the end of the week? 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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Young dancers from Ice The Beef Youth at a march for jobs last year. Thomas Breen File Photo for the New Haven Independent.
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Artist Linda Lindroth is advocating for bringing in new public art to calm traffic at Livingston and Cold Spring Street, where there is a dangerous four-way stop. Camille Ansley wants to see grassroots neighborhood beautification in Cedar Hill. The Neighborhood Public Improvement Funds (NPIP) budget may only be able to cover one. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Students came out from all corners of the state for the march. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Netta: “So what I notice, especially in the music scene, sometimes everybody leaves Connecticut. And it shouldn’t be like that. I want to bring pride back to being from here. We did this here. This is just for you and I. This is for us.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Today’s show is a conversation about Passover, privilege, social justice and so much more. I’m joined on this joint episode by Lucy Gellman of The Kitchen Sync podcast and the Arts Paper of Greater New Haven. We’re two Jews of European descent talking about our complicated relationship to Judaism and the importance of telling the passover liberation story. We also dig into white privilege, the Jewish art of questioning everything, our commitment to transformational social justice and of course, food.
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On Thursday evening, finalist Miller took the stage to conduct an all-russian program at Woolsey Hall, starting with Alexander Borodin (In The Steppes Of Central Asia) and working through Shostakovich up to an epic, bombastic Tsaikovsky. In the audience sat music haven students robert oakley, cris zunis, noel mitchell and Jordan Brown, all ready for a different aspect of the program.
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"I’ve taken our privileges, our freedoms, for granted. So I want to hear the voices of immigrants express their drive and their desire with the hope that Americans can learn from that." Rendering courtesy of the artist.
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Rebecca Miller: "If I were going to book something for today , my program would look much different." Lucy Gellman Photo.
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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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"When you suddenly realize the trees have names and they have characters the way that you walk around New Haven is very different. You’re like: “Oh, that’s an elm tree!” “That’s a sycamore!” “That’s a sweetgum!” You realize they have personalities." Misha Semenov Photo.
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Between January and May of 1999, New Havener Arnold Gorlick renovated the Madison Art Cinemas, making adjustments to the seats, sound quality and appearance that he hoped would bring visitors in in droves. Arnold Gorlick Photo.
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Willie Gary, Meridaliz Delima, and Mykell Rivera pitch New Haven Leaders before judges. Stephen Urchick 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 (there's a bonus this time around!), 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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Adae's rendering. Photo courtesy Kwadwo Adae.
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On Sunday at 1:30 p.m., on the corner of College and Chapel, before New Haven’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade arrived, a small crowd of people were banging on the outside of a port-a-john and screaming while someone else was in there...continue reading in the New Haven Independent.
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Moon earlier this year at the MLK Day Poetry Slam at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy Moon.
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Alisa Bowens-Mercado and her husband, John D. Mercado. David Sepulveda for the New Haven Independent.
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A detail from Violence No More , which will be sold in pieces at the end of the show. Proceeds from the piece, and the entire exhibition, will go toward Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“When I seroconverted I had a rush of emotions, and the best way to process it for me ended up being painting,” said Jonathan Joseph Ganjian at the opening. Detail of Inside pictured above. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lori Martin: "It troubles me every day that there is being food thrown away and we have people that could use food. That match we all can make together." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A fungus floats on a flat black background. Below it are a ball and an infinite loop of yarn. How are they connected?
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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 (there's a bonus this time around!), 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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Melissa Gonzales: “I didn’t want to be quiet about it.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Chef Nadine Nelson, founder and director of GlobalLocal Gourmet, at the event. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lopez: ServSafe, Sofrito, more school. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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On Feb. 27, Durbin and other museum advocates from across the country stormed the Hill to talk to legislators about museum funding. Here's why. Photos courtesy Amy Durbin.
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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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The 28 pairs of eyes don’t have a starting point.Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Susan Ernst works to intubate her "patient" before it's too late. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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At first glance, maybe it’s an island on a clear day, reflected in still water. But then you see that no water is that still. The line between the halves is a little too sharp. Then you see that the bottom half isn’t the same as the top half. They’re not halves at all. It’s a land mass floating in midair.
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Neale: This is not what I do. It's who I am. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Westvillian Travis Carbonella, or King of Mardi Gras 2018? 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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The transformation, in process. From Daniel Eugene's 2017 NHV Drag .
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New Haven artist Katro Storm, a master mark-maker, has turned a large gallery space into a temporary studio where visitors can witness his monumental painting challenge in progress — creating 21 (sizable) portraits in 21 days — at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street. Read more from David Sepulveda at the New Haven Independent.
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On July 11, 1799 the 350-ton merchantman Neptune pulled into Long Wharf with a cargo of Chinese teas, silks, lacquerware, and export porcelain valued at over $280,000. No other sailing vessel of the period would make as much money on a single trip as did this one, constructed at the old Olive Street shipyards and captained by Water Street resident Daniel Greene.
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Still from Madeline Anderson's 1970 documentary I AM SOMEBODY.
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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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Lovestruck runs through March 1 at mActivity. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Nour Alzouabi gets ready to hit the pavement. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lana Lesley in FIELD GUIDE created by Rude Mechs. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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Remsen Welsh: “It’s a thing where I get transported. There’s a part of her I think I can breathe new life into.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The first "Stir The Pot" also included a discussion of Mikki Halpin’s “Practical Activism: If You Want To Do Something, Don’t Do Everything.” The essay is in Julia Turshen’s Feed The Resistance . Thomas Breen Photo.
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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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Earlier this week, we watched as a once-heralded artistic director was accused of sexual misconduct and swiftly fired from his organization. We watched as a champion of gender equity and fact-finding missions took charge, calculating the organization’s next steps and guiding it through an opening night performance and continued community programming.
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Carlton Highsmith, with Margot Copeland, Erik Clemons and members of the KeyBank team. Jeff Hubbard is standing in the suit and purple tie. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Bree Newsome at Yale. Markeshia Ricks for the New Haven Independent.
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It began with allegations, made over several years, of sexual misconduct in the workplace. It ended with the swift firing of a once-celebrated artistic director. Now Long Wharf Theatre is asking: What does the next chapter look like? What are the institution’s collective steps forward? And how great or small will they be?
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Live music for all ages is returning to Space and Outer Space, after a brief intermission.
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Tracy Carter: “I’m here because women rock, I’m here for women’s rights.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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State Rep. Robyn Porter had to pray on whether or not to speak at the second annual Women’s March. The offer piqued her interested, but she’d also heard from many of her Black and Hispanic constituents about why she should turn it down.
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JJ McGlone and Ciara McMillian as P.K. Whylde and Glory “Z” Zico. Yale Cabaret Photos.
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Artist Ana Henriques, with members Shirley Louise-May, Catherine Bailey, and Ann Wiley in the background. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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DeMeo: “It will always be my artistic home, no matter where in Connecticut I live.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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One of the installations at the event. Stephen Urchick Photo.
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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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Joy Donaldson: “What were my people given? A form of Christianity—not true Christianity as we know it today." New Haven Museum Photo.
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Pamela Monk Kelley: "We need to learn more about our history.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Hewad Hemat, an Afghani who came to the U.S. with his family in 2014, on a Special Immigrant Visa. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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It started with a Tweet. It ended with a semi-Hamiltonian battle. But in the middle there was the question: who actually lays claim to Connecticut's capital? And who should?
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Trish Clark presents at the kick-off event for last year's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven. (Thomas Breen photo)
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