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Hot Jazz For A Cold Night

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Jazz  |  Music Solé Scott | February 5th, 2026

Pride Center, Witch Bitch Thrift Step Up In SNAP Crisis

Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  East Rock  |  Food Policy  |  New Haven Pride Center  |  Politics  |  Witch Bitch Thrift Lucy Gellman | November 4th, 2025

"Dracula," With A Stringed Assist, Plays In Spooky Season

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Film & Video  |  Lyric Hall  |  Music  |  Music Haven Nelani Mejias | October 8th, 2025

Allen Lowe & The All-Stars Turn Best Video Into A Jazz Club

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Jazz Nelani Mejias | August 26th, 2025

EFFY Rolls Into Its 17th Year

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Environment  |  Film & Video Adrian Huq | April 9th, 2025

Tina Cordova on screen. Smithwick stands on right.

Best Video Sends Out An Emergency Appeal

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden Lucy Gellman | February 13th, 2025

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.

Lyric Hall Begins Its Bounce Back

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Film & Video  |  Lyric Hall  |  Westville Lucy Gellman | November 26th, 2024

"The Year Of Baldwin" Rolls Into Best Video

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Hamden  |  Kulturally Lit  |  Possible Futures  |  Year of Baldwin Danielle Campbell | April 30th, 2024

Danielle Campbell Photos.

Sweet Treats Pop Up In Hamden

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culinary Arts  |  Food & Drink  |  Hamden Lucy Gellman | March 18th, 2024

Adrienne Kane on a recent Sunday. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Poet Chapman Grapples with History in New Memoir

Arts, Culture & Community  |  Atticus  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Books Kapp Singer | January 23rd, 2024

Danielle Chapman (right) and the Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson at Best Video Film & Cultural Center.

Latinx Art Expo Honors Indigenous Roots

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Music  |  Visual Arts Kamini Purushothaman | August 10th, 2023

Javier Villatoro, who also performs music under the moniker Ene de Nadie. Kamini Purushothaman Photos.

Five N' Change Brings The Bluegrass To Best Video

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Music Kapp Singer | July 10th, 2023

Kapp Singer Photos.

Spring Glen Shines At Second Art Walk

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | May 30th, 2023

Patricia C. Vener, who stepped in to help organize when polymer clay artist Nancy Nearing needed an extra set of hands. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Queer Film Club Wraps Up On A High Note

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Film  |  Hamden  |  LGBTQ  |  Youth Arts Journalism Initiative KeQing Tan | May 3rd, 2023

KeQing Tan Photos.

Best Video Dives Deep On Music With New Film Series

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  CT Humanities  |  Hamden Al Larriva-Latt | April 8th, 2022

Best Video Turns Its Lens On Women Filmmakers

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Film & Video Lucy Gellman | March 9th, 2022

With Zom Rom Com, Secret Cinema Finds A Valentine's Sweet Spot

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Film & Video  |  Movies  |  Valentine's Day Lucy Gellman | February 15th, 2022

Best Video's Hank Hoffman Steps Into Retirement

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Economic Development  |  Film & Video  |  Hamden  |  Neighborhoods Lucy Gellman | January 25th, 2022

Mandingo Ambassadors Make A Shining Return To Best Video

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Hamden  |  Music Daniel Shoemaker | September 22nd, 2021

Jocelyn Pleasant and Mamady Kouyaté at Best Video. Daniel Shoemaker Photos.

Hamden Black Film Series Hits A Home Run

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  COVID-19  |  Film & Video  |  Hamden Lucy Gellman | September 18th, 2020

Hamden Launches Its First Black Film Festival

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Black Lives Matter  |  COVID-19  |  Hamden  |  Hamden Department of Arts & Culture Lucy Gellman | September 9th, 2020

The Nu Haven Kapelye Bring Hanukkah To Hamden

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Hamden  |  Hanukkah  |  Nu Haven Kapelye Ali Oshinskie | December 24th, 2019

Mercy Choir Arrives, Upturned In Everest

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Guilford  |  Music Lucy Gellman | August 20th, 2019

Mandingo Ambassadors Pitch In For One Of Their Own

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Hamden  |  Music  |  Youth Arts Journalism Initiative Caleb Crumlish | May 16th, 2019

Best Video Asks For Help

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Movies  |  Neighborhoods  |  New Haven Lucy Gellman | August 15th, 2017

Photo Courtesy Best Video Film & Cultural Center.