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Get Ready For The Freddy

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | June 2nd, 2026

Students from the Hamden Academy of Dance & Music at the Historic Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade last year. Lucy Gellman File Photo.

Listen: ConnCORP's Annual Toy Giveaway

ConnCORP  |  Culture & Community  |  Newhallville  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | December 12th, 2025

Daniel Hunt and Elaine Roper at ConnCORP's annual backpack giveaway earlier this year. Gio Roper File Photo.

Listen: Breaking Bread, Sharing Stories

Arts & Culture  |  Culinary Arts  |  Culture & Community  |  Food & Drink  |  Storytelling  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | April 23rd, 2025

Shayla Streater pictured with friends Hafeeza Turé and Arden Santana in 2022. Lucy Gellman File Photo.

Listen: Eastbound Theatre At The MAC

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Milford  |  Milford Arts Council  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | February 7th, 2025

Isabel Dyson, and Matt Simmons in My Children! My Africa! KVON Photo Courtesy of the MAC.

Listen: A Hairstory Blooms Into Being

Arts & Culture  |  Hamden  |  WNHH Staff | January 31st, 2025

"Like A Big Collage In Time:" Annie Sailer Prepares To Debut New Work

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Dance  |  Hamden  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | October 28th, 2024

Maxim Schmidt Photo.

Orchestra New England Plays Into Its 50th Year

Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Orchestra New England  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | January 3rd, 2024

Photo courtesy of Orchestra New England.

At ConnCORP Juneteenth, It's All In The Family

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Black-owned businesses  |  ConnCORP  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  Juneteenth  |  WNHH  |  Youth Arts Journalism Initiative Jayla Anderson | June 21st, 2023

ConnCORP's Juneteenth & 5 Year Anniversary Committee. Jayla Anderson Photos.

A Filmmaker-Photographer Looks Back To Focus Forward

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Film & Video  |  Photography  |  WNHH Lucy Gellman | March 20th, 2023

Photographer and filmmaker Lydia Douglas (at left, in the purple) at an opening reception for Seven Lenses at SCSU last month. Lucy Gellman File Photo.