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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.

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“Who Brought Us Here?”

Toto Kisaku. Rays Kisaku Photo.

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Festival Peers Into “Positive Proximity”

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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"Empowered" Crew Gets To Work

Artist Kwadwo Adae: “If our mothers, sisters, daughters are oppressed, how are any of us free?” Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Sketch N’ Chill Swings Into Summer

Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Mrs. Frazier Gets Her Due

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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Dragapalooza Hits Its Stride

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Dwight/Edgewood Project Takes Flight

Moses Ingram as Ellei the Butterfly, a character in Allison Miranda's Lost Siblings . Lucy Gellman Photo.

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Welcome To "Ives Squared"

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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Say Their Names

“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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Long Wharf Theatre "Goes Fresh"

“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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