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Immigrants Land On The Green

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.

IRIS Starts Mother’s Day Early

Harmony Fellows Rock Wilbur Cross

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New Haven Scores NEA Dough

Arts & Culture | Legislative Agenda | National Endowment for the Arts | New Haven Lucy Gellman | May 9th, 2018

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.

Take Her To Church

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.

CTiffEat Digs In

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.

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

Neville Wisdom Heads To Chapel Street

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.

Celia Paul And The Art Of Emotional Labor

“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.

Edgewood Gets A New Artistic Heart & 'Sol'

“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.