How A T-Shirt Contest Centered Community

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Design  |  East Rock  |  New Haven Free Public Library Lucy Gellman | May 8th, 2025

NEA Cuts Hit New Haven Hard

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Arts For Learning CT  |  Culture & Community  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music Haven  |  Yale Rep Theatre  |  Yale University  |  Yale University Art Gallery Lucy Gellman | May 7th, 2025

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.

W.E.B. Launches Inaugural Neighborhood Festival

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Community Gardens  |  Culture & Community  |  Goffe Street Armory  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Lucy Gellman | May 6th, 2025

Patricia Bellamy-Mathis. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Fair Haven Day Shines On In Third Year

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Fair Haven  |  Fair Haven School  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas Lucy Gellman | May 5th, 2025

Chamber Orchestra Puts Student Soloists In The Spotlight

Arts & Culture  |  Co-Op High School  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  Fair Haven School  |  Mauro Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School  |  Music  |  New Haven Chamber Orchestra Lucy Gellman | May 5th, 2025

Anthony Akambe, a student soloist with the New Haven Chamber Orchestra. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Rock to Rock Braves The Rain

Culture & Community  |  East Rock  |  Environment  |  Rock to Rock Adrian Huq | May 3rd, 2025

From Schools To Student Solidarity, May Day Roars Into Downtown New Haven

Arts & Culture  |  Citywide Youth Coalition  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  May Day  |  New Haven Public Schools Grayce Howe | May 2nd, 2025

Student speakers ranged from Rosa, who read poetry, to immigrant rights advocate Ambar Santiago-Rojas. Grayce Howe Photos.

Seeing Sounds Brings The Jam To NMS

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Audubon Arts  |  Culture & Community  |  Music  |  Neighborhood Cultural Vitality Grant Program Nelani Mejias | April 30th, 2025

Nelani Mejias Photos.

At NXTHVN, DiasporaCON Swoops Into Its Fourth Year

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  Kulturally Lit  |  NXTHVN Abiba Biao | April 30th, 2025