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Artists
Next Door
Rashmi Talpade
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Photos Chronicle City’s History
Museum is Home to
Bronson Archive
Music
AC Sounds Off on...
Struggle as Impediment and
Inspiration
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in Schools
Yale Program Transcends
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Letter from the Editor
Putting together this issue of The Arts
Paper was special for a few reasons, one
of which is that it afforded me the opportunity
to follow-up on a story (“A Pianist,
Dancing with Fate”) we published in the
January-March issue about pianist Nick
van Bloss, who performed Beethoven Piano
Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) with
the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in
late February. I interviewed van Bloss back
in November about his struggle with Tourette
syndrome, and Lucile Bruce talked
with Dr. Christopher Pittenger to get a clinical
perspective on the syndrome. Meeting
Nick after his sublime performance of the
“Emperor” Concerto, I was immediately
struck, though not at all surprisingly, by
the fact that he’s so much like the friends
I made at the Peabody Conservatory and
The Juilliard School. Nick is delightfully
self-deprecating and generously warm.
And he’s a remarkable musician. The morning
after his performance at Woolsey Hall,
Nick participated in a symposium called
“Music and Medicine: Tourette Syndrome”
that was organized by the NHSO and the
Yale School of Medicine. As much as I’d
attended the symposium out of genuine
curiosity and as a reporter, I felt more like
one friend learning more about another and
what his life is like. When the symposium
was over, Nick headed to New York en
route to Miami, where he was scheduled
to perform. Among these pages is an essay
about spending time with and around Nick,
hearing him play, and learning more about
who he is. Beyond these pages is a friendship
I look forward to fostering.
A few weeks before the NHSO’s February
concert, I spent a Saturday morning at
Wilbur Cross High School, observing the
Yale School of Music’s Music in Schools
Initiative in action. For obvious reasons, I
chose to hang out in a second-floor classroom
where teaching artist Kramer Milan
coached a group of middle-school-age
percussionists on their technique. Kramer,
like me, did his undergraduate work at
Peabody. “I graduated in 1992,” I told him,
as one does, to which he replied, laughing,
“I was born in 1993.” As much fun as it
was to compare notes, it was equally satisfying
to watch him encourage members
of a younger generation of percussionists.
The time I spent at Wilbur Cross that day
was part of my reporting on just what the
Music in Schools Initiative means to the
community—specifically to the youngsters
who attend the New Haven Public Schools.
My conversations with the program’s lead
teacher, Rubén Rodríguez, were inspiring
in large part because his passion for what
music can do is infectious. Perhaps what I
find most hopeful is that the young musicians
I met and observed at Wilbur Cross,
and their peers, fully understand how fortunate
they are to receive such a rich musical
education, thanks to their public-school
music teachers and the teaching artists
who support them.
This issue of The Arts Paper also introduces
us to hip-hop poet, playwright, and
actor Aaron Jafferis’ latest work, Smooth
Criminal; to an extensive photo archive at
the New Haven Museum that documents
life during turn-of-the century New Haven;
and to the recent creative pursuits of collage
artist Rashmi Talpade. In addition to
those stories, we’re thrilled to bring you
news of grant funding facilitated by both
the Arts Council and the City of New
Haven.
I hope you enjoy the stories presented
herein as much as I enjoyed bringing them
to you, and that you’ll remember to recycle
this print publication once you’ve finished
reading it.
Sincerely,
David Brensilver, editor
The Arts Paper
The editor at work. Photo by Debbie Hesse.
On the Cover
Beachgoers at Lighthouse Point Park, in June 1932.
Photo by T.S. Bronson, courtesy of the New Haven
Museum. See Story about Bronson’s photo collection
on pages 6 & 7.
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before sculptures were returned to the space. Photo
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Rome), 1750. Etching. Yale University Art Gallery, The Arthur Ross Collection
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Cut, Paste, Converse
“The more I plan, I find the crest of creativity
ebbing and I don’t want that to happen,”
said Talpade. “If it doesn’t work, it gets covered
over.”
To the extent that planning does go into
the collages, it involves the pre-sorting of
imagery by subject—sky, metallic objects,
architecture photographs, sidewalk, and
ground. While her compositional approach is
instinctive, it’s not random. For Talpade, considerations
of perspective, color harmony,
and line are paramount.
Particularly line. “Line is the basis of all art,
even photography and dance. A powerful
line is where art starts,” Talpade declared.
Along with her photo-collages, Talpade creates
collages from her pen-and-ink drawings
of everyday objects. “With drawing, I just like
a smooth, flowing line. It could be geometric
objects or something organic—just the
pleasure of running a pen on paper,” she said.
“And then I will draw what I feel like.”
In recent years, she has developed sculptural
works based on her drawings. “When I
draw, I do add a lot of perspective and make
them look three-dimensional,” she said,
explaining that the natural next step was to
“give them depth … give them a body and a
physical dimension.”
Talpade looks at the world, she said,
“through a photographer’s eye.” She was
surprised to realize that others don’t see the
world as she does.
“Light and shade mean a lot to me. I notice
it when I’m going around my daily routine,”
she explained. “I see things in fragments. I
see the patterns of light and shade. I look at
the world as a collection of shapes exactly as
my collages are.”
Having a smartphone is a huge converashmi
talpade’s photo collages spark dialogue, build community
hank hoffman
Did you know there was a “house of ill
repute” in Wallingford? This was something
I found out when I dropped in on a Sunday
session for the Wallingford Townscape Community
Art Project at the Wallingford Public
Library. The ostensible goal of the project—
initiated by artist Rashmi Talpade—is to
involve community members in creating a
museum-quality photo collage of the town.
But while the collage is the focus, community-building
and storytelling are as important
as creating a work of art.
Between five and 20 people have been attending
the public sessions, which continue
into early April on Wednesday nights and
Sunday afternoons. Attendees cut up printed
archival photos and participate in placing
them in the composition and gluing them
down.
“At the same time, the conversation going
on is fabulous,” Talpade said in an interview.
“They exchange memories and stories of the
town.”
Talpade is not surprised. The Wallingford
Townscape—a project funded by a state
Regional Initiative Grant (REGI) and done
in collaboration with the library—is inspired
by Talpade’s own photo-collages, which
she has been creating for more than two
decades. Talpade, who immigrated to the
United States from India in 1991 when her
husband was transferred for work, grew up
in Mumbai. (She still refers to it as “Bombay,”
though the city’s name was changed officially
in 1995.) Her landscapes—assembled
from fragments of images she shot in India—
evoke the claustrophobic yet invigorating
chaos of the modern urban world.
An untitled work in progress by Rashmi Talpade. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Rashmi Talpade with 3D drawings Still Life 2 (left), Paper Dome (center), and Still Life 1. Photo by Debbie Hesse.
“The Bombay pieces open up such a dialogue.
I feel it has to be done with the community,
at least one of these pieces,” Talpade
said. “The Wallingford Townscape is based
on my own experience of people responding
to the Bombay pieces.”
An arts educator as well as a working
artist, Talpade had overseen a similar project
with third graders in the Southington school
system in early 2015. Collage is approachable
for community participants because
“cutting and pasting don’t require major art
training,” Talpade noted.
In India, Talpade was trained as a professional
artist in all the academic styles,
specializing in painting and portraiture. She
continues to paint and draw to the present
day. But she always loved photography, cultivating
her skills in that medium along with
her fine-art education. While still in India,
she did a lot of collage work. At the time,
she used glossy color magazine cuttings
because photography wasn’t as accessible
or inexpensive. But when she came to the
United States in the 1990s, good quality photographic
printing became more accessible.
“It happened organically,” Talpade said of
her photo-collage work. “I like to do photo
collages because they are my own photos,
totally mine.”
Talpade spoke glowingly of her love for
Mumbai. “I like old grungy buildings and
apartment buildings, even most ugly concrete
piles—if you see them in the big picture.
In my eyes, the city is a very beautiful
place,” she said.
She has created numerous cityscape
collages of Mumbai, cutting up hundreds
of her photos of skies, architecture, street
scenes, trees, and vacant lots. Not all of her
collages are landscapes, however. She also
creates abstract photo collages, great swirls
of tightly packed information that read as if
they are a unified object rather than a multitudinous
collection of fragments.
Her approach to collage making is intuitive.
She has no specific rules as to where to
start within the frame. “I’m not a conceptual
artist,” she said. “I just start and work as my
instinct takes me.
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nience. Whereas she
used to carry her camera
everywhere, now
she can just pull out her
smartphone to capture
an image for potential
collage use. Image quality
is sufficient for her
purposes. No individual
image is enlarged beyond
5”x7” and each will
be cut into fragments.
In a sense, the collage
becomes a dialog
between its constituent
parts, which makes it
perfect for a community
art project. Talpade told
me that the Mumbai
in which she grew up
was very westernized.
When she relocated to
Wallingford, the biggest
lifestyle change was
moving from a city to
a small town. She felt
an absence of the type
of community she had
experienced growing up
in India.
“I had to get used to the
isolation,” Talpade noted.
“Maybe that’s why I’m drawing out the
community to come together. Maybe I’m
compensating for lost community. In India,
everybody knows everybody.
“Every time people come together in
that room and are cutting and pasting and
talking, I feel so much happier,” enthused
Talpade. •
A detail of the Wallingford Townscape Community Art Project.
Photo by Rashmi Talpade.
Rashmi Talpade's Wallingford Townscape
Community Art Project is funded through a
Regional Initiative Grant (REGI) from the
State Department of Economic and Community
Development's Office of the Arts. The
REGI program is administered in the region by
the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
Rashmi Talpade, right, works with a member of the local community on the Wallingford Townscape Community Art
Project. Photo by Hank Hoffman.
City Awards $65,000 in
Cultural Vitality Funds
pilot initiative extends
mayor’s community
arts grant program
arts council staff
In February, the City of New Haven’s
Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism
awarded $65,000 in Neighborhood Cultural
Vitality Grant funding to 16 community-service-focused
arts projects that will be
completed and documented by June 15, the
end of the current fiscal year. The cultural
vitality grants represent an extension of the
Mayor’s Community Arts Grant Program,
which awards $25,000 in funding, with a
$1,500 limit to each recipient.
Andrew Wolf, the director of the Department
of Arts, Culture and Tourism, and
Community Services Administrator Martha
Okafor identified $75,000 in the Community
Services Administration budget that
could support “arts and culture within New
Haven’s underserved populations,” according
to the grant-application guidelines.
Of the $75,000 identified in Okafor’s
budget, $10,000 was set aside for Wolf’s
department to focus on grant-application
training for local nonprofit organizations.
A total of $215,000 was requested in 26
Neighborhood Cultural Vitality Grant applications.
“The demand,” Wolf said, “was really,
really exciting.”
Wolf had hoped the initiative could be
implemented over three years—having pursued
that approach, to maximize success
for funding recipients, when he worked at
the CBS Foundation in New York—but
said it was impossible to do so in this
context without being able to forecast
future city budgets.
Grant applications were reviewed by a
committee whose members included cultural
affairs commissioners and staff and
community leaders.
Recipients of 2015 Mayor’s Arts Grants
were ineligible to apply.
The Neighborhood Cultural Vitality
Grant Program is “an innovation in promoting
what I call a multiplier effect,”
Wolf said.
“This was a declaration that (the) arts
are a cornerstone of the New Haven community,”
he said, adding, “spiritual uplift
through the arts” is important to Mayor
Toni Harp’s administration.
“It’s a bigger story than just giving
money,” Wolf said. “It’s strategic.”
Through the frame of the cultural vitality
grant initiative, he views the city as
an investor in a culture of improving lives
through the arts.
The nonprofit cultural community is “a
big part of what makes America great,”
he said, “and the vitality grants promote
that. It’s very structural.”
The focus of the cultural vitality grants,
in Cultural Affairs Commission chair
Robert Parker’s words, was “to make sure
we were reaching out into various communities
in New Haven” that otherwise
wouldn’t likely have the resources to
conceive and undertake community-service-based
arts projects.
Music Haven was among the organizations
that received funding through
the Neighborhood Cultural Vitality Grant
initiative. With $5,000 in funding from
the city, Music Haven will organize workshops
and performances for children
enrolled in an after-school program at the
Fair Haven School run by Integrated Refugee
and Immigrant Services.
The project, Music Haven/
Haven String Quartet violinist Yaira
Matyakubova said, was the students’
idea and came out of a conversation
about different cultures and immigrant
experiences.
“Can we go play for them?”
Matyakubova said the students asked.
A project in which Music Haven students
would introduce themselves and
the music they study to refugee children
was conceived and being planned before
the organization applied for a Neighborhood
Cultural Vitality Grant. That funding
will now allow the Phat Orangez Quartet,
an ensemble of Music Haven students,
to do a workshop with children in IRIS’
after-school program, and also for the
Haven String Quartet to do a concert and
workshop for those youngsters.
Matyakubova said she hopes the project
will develop into a strong relationship
between Music Haven and IRIS.
“We’re constantly looking for sources
of funding,” Music Haven Executive Director
Mandi Jackson said. “It was a coincidence
that this one popped up. It was a
perfect fit.”
“We’re happy and proud to lend our
name to their grant proposal,” Will
Kneerim, IRIS’ director of employment
and education services said.
The goal of IRIS’ after-school program,
Kneerim said, “is to help kids acclimate
to the educational system here.” He described
the children Music Haven will
work with as being “mostly recently
arrived refugees” who come from Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“It’s this kind of thing that refugee resettlement
is all about,” Kneerim said.
Parker, talking about the Neighborhood
Cultural Vitality Grant Program and the
beneficial impact it is designed to have on
underserved residents and, by extension,
New Haven’s population at large, said, “It’s
about the quality of life for the whole city.” •
To see a complete list of Neighborhood
Cultural Vitality Grant recipients, visit
cityofnewhaven.com/ArtsCultureTourism.
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Photo Trove Chronicles Turn-of-the-Century New Haven
museum archive
is the yield of an
obsessive collector
steve scarpa
When New Haven native T.S. Bronson
graduated from the Yale School of Medicine
in 1889, he took a position as an
intern in New York City. His internship
was interrupted though when his father,
a noted lawyer and jurist, called him
home to take care of his grandfather, a
distinguished doctor. After his grandfather
passed away in 1893, Bronson never
practiced medicine again.
“I don’t know why I quit, unless it was
because at the time the family had too
much. I don’t have very much money
now,” Bronson told the New Haven Register
in 1948.
Instead of working, Bronson played
violin and viola as a founding member of
the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. He
also embraced photography in a way not
available to the general public. Thanks to
his family’s wealth, he had the financial
wherewithal to own more than 40 cameras
and all the necessary developing
solutions and equipment—a significant
outlay of capital.
The resulting output, an amazing
25,000 photographs, now makes up an
important albeit largely hidden piece of
the New Haven’s Museum’s archives.
When Jason Bischoff-Wurstle, the museum’s
director of photographic collection,
is working on a project these days, Bronson’s
archive is one of the first places he
looks.
“For us, it is integral. It blends into everything
we do,” he said.
Bischoff-Wurstle said that while Bronson’s
background is rarified—he was,
after all, an old-school New England
Yalie—his interests, in terms of photography
subjects, were very democratic.
Bronson, who lived from 1864 to 1955,
photographed everything. He took pictures
of men working, whether building
a Yale structure or shoveling snow at
the intersection of Church and Chapel
streets. He loved waterfalls and landscapes,
capturing East Rock before it
became a grad-school enclave. He took
pictures of himself in his studio and
holding his beloved violin. He photographed
people playing at the beaches
at Momauguin in East Haven and Lighthouse
Point in New Haven.
Bronson created a visual record of a
city on the rise.
“The city was shifting. We were not a
sleepy semi-industrial town anymore,”
Bischoff-Wurstle said.
Bronson photographed Yale events
and occasionally freelanced for the
Register. He once captured photos of a
North Haven trolley wreck that claimed
seven lives. His images were syndicated
in newspapers across the country. For a
West Rock, January 1, 1909. Photo by T.S. Bronson, courtesy of the New Haven Museum.
Trolley-track maintenance at Chapel and Church streets, in 1913. Photo by T.S. Bronson, courtesy of the New Haven Museum.
time, he ran a photo-finishing center on
Chapel Street. But he never was, in the
most traditional sense, a professional
photographer.
“He was a dabbler. He doesn’t seem as
if he is a businessman. He didn’t inherit
a fortune and continue the business. He
was a benefactor of the arts,” said Bischoff-Wurstle.
“He didn’t make money. It
just wasn’t his thing.”
It doesn’t appear that Bronson’s passion
was motivated by a desire to document
his city or because of an intense
artistic need. It was simply what he did.
“There is a sense that this is a moment
and that I can do this,” Bischoff-Wurstle
said. “It was not about the result. It was
about the doing.”
Bronson himself couldn’t articulate
why he was compelled to be such an
obsessive photographer beyond the fact
that he felt he was good at it. Perhaps
the answer to the question comes from a
different angle. Bronson, known around
New Haven as Dr. Tom, was an inveterate
collector.
At one point over the course of his
long life, Bronson owned more than 100
violins and violas. He had bookcases
filled with thousands of pieces of sheet
music. His collections of coins and
stamps were so complete that he sold
them, not because he needed the money,
but because he was bored by them. He
loved mystery novels and cataloged
them obsessively. In an interview given
later in his life, Bronson expressed pride
in his photos and music.
He claimed that he didn’t marry because
his hobbies took up too much of
his time. He lived with his sister Marion
on Dwight Street in what could be considered
genteel poverty, surrounded by
the collections and trappings of a longlost
family fortune.
When Bronson died in 1955, his photographs
became a bit of a concern for his
family. Marion offered the collection to
the New Haven Colony Historical Society
(now the New Haven Museum), but she
died before the transfer could be made.
It was her executor who finalized the donation
four years later.
Bronson’s collection became a bit of
an albatross for the museum, as well.
Sorting 25,000 photographs is a chore
under the best circumstances. A wealthy
patron and a devoted staff finally made a
dent in organizing the collection by 1968.
“I do not believe that anyone realized
the magnitude of the gift at the time. For
some time it was little more than a heap
of negatives,” wrote Carroll G.A. Means
in 1968, a historical society member who
knew Bronson.
Over time though, Bronson’s photography,
that hobby, became an invaluable
piece of the museum’s collection.
Whether intentionally or not—and it
isn’t clear what his intentions were for
his work—Bronson chronicled the life of
a city and its region in striking terms. He
caught people in the courses of their everyday
lives. He documented New Haven
as it changed and evolved. Bronson, the
reluctant doctor and obsessive collector
of coins, stamps, violins, and all manner
of ephemera, created a civic good as
profound as his father the judge or his
grandfather the doctor. •
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Locals skate on a frozen Lake Whitney in Hamden on January 19, 1900. Photo by T.S. Bronson, courtesy of the New Haven Museum.
T.S. Bronson with violin. Photo courtesy of the New Haven Museum.
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Arts Build Community Grant Recipients Announced
The Arts Council of Greater New
Haven is pleased to announce the recipients
of its Arts Build Community
grants for community-based arts projects.
Funded projects will be facilitated
throughout the area during the spring,
early summer, and fall.
“The Arts Council believes in the
power of art to connect people. These
creative projects, initiated by artists,
provide access to the arts and opportunities
for community members to enjoy
making and experiencing art together,”
Arts Council Executive Director Cynthia
Clair said.
The grant program was designed as a
community-engagement initiative that
would support efforts in the community
to experience art that reflects and is relevant
to residents’ lives. The Arts Council
believes that participatory art-making
experiences can have a profound impact
on our community. They can enrich the
quality of community life, enhance the
lives of individuals, and build connections
between people. The Arts Council
invited artists, artist collectives, and organizations
to submit project proposals
for engaging the community through art.
The Arts Council selected five creative
projects to fund with small stipends
ranging from $1,000 to $2,000.
The 2016 grant recipients are:
Tere Luna—Experiencing Mexican
Culture and Creativity Project: Through
a variety of creative arts activities to
include a dance, craft, and vocalization
workshops, parents and their children
will build stronger family connections
through hands-on Mexican-culture-themed
expression. The workshops
will end with a showcase on September
15 in celebration of Mexican Independence
Day.
Douglas Bethea—Nation Drill Squad
and Drum Corp: This flashmob project
in Dixwell will provide the drill squad an
opportunity to collaborate with other
established organizations and show
the students the power of strength that
comes from working together and creating
art. The students of the Nation
Drill Team represent almost all of the
neighborhoods of New Haven. The event
hopes to bring together the Drill Squad
students plus the string players of Music
Haven resulting in an event that symbolizes
unity in New Haven.
Ifeanyi Awachie—Literary Happy
Hour: This event creates a space for the
talented working and emerging-writer
communities of New Haven to bond
through the experience of powerful literature
while stimulating New Haven’s artistic
life by establishing a strong, diverse
literary social and “high art” environment.
Participants will have access to a hip, free
venue with a warm, relaxed atmosphere,
to allow for interactions that transcend
our city’s social, racial, and class divides.
Elm City Dance Collective Arts—
People in Motion: The collective plans to
invite people to experience the power of
dance through the practice and performance
of making dance in the moment,
also known as dance improvisation or
compositional improvisation. ECDC is
looking to help people remember what
their bodies are capable of and how
great it feels to connect with other
human beings through the art of dance
and dance making.
Community Action Collective (CAC)
of Artspace New Haven—Bus Stop:
This project will help build community
and encourage public engagement with
art throughout the Greater New Haven
area by displaying art on city buses, bus
stops, and Yale University shuttles. This
will encourage conversation on subjects
and themes usually limited to the confines
of academic institutions. •
WHY CHUCK AND ZOE SELECTED EVERGREEN WOODS
“We looked at the other communities in the area but felt like they
were very stuffy. Evergreen Woods is friendly and comfortable.
The residents are so enthusiastic, and the associates are great.”
“We wanted a place where we could enjoy ourselves and continue
to contribute. If something were to happen to our health, we
appreciate having taken care of it rather than having our kids faced
with an emergency.”
The 88-acre campus is beautiful – gardens, walking trails, nature
areas, manicured landscaping, recreational areas, patios … but, best
of all, the people are outstanding.
Please call to set up a convenient time to visit.
203-488-8000
88 Notch Hill Road • N. Branford, CT 06471
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april 2016
the arts council sounds off on...
Struggle as Impediment and Inspiration
david brensilver
I’d looked forward to hearing Nick van
Bloss play Beethoven Piano Concerto No.
5, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) since interviewing
him in November for the January-February
issue of The Arts Paper. And his performance
of the piece with the New Haven
Symphony Orchestra in late February was
absolutely sublime. I noted at the time
that there is something entirely authentic
about van Bloss’ playing, as if the musical
dialogue taking place is between composer
and performers, with no interference from
audience or outside world. With van Bloss,
there is no need for the showmanship
or contrived emoting that some soloists
employ. What was going on, during van
Bloss’ performance with the NHSO, was
between him, the piano, the music, and the
orchestra. He connected the audience to
Beethoven’s magic and to the composer’s
struggle. And van Bloss’ own struggle, with
Tourette syndrome, the subject of the January-February
Arts Paper story “A Pianist,
Dancing with Fate,” is inexorably tied to his
extraordinary gift.
The day after the concert at Woolsey
Hall, the NHSO and the Yale School of
Medicine presented a symposium called
“Music Meets Medicine: Tourette Syndrome,”
at which Dr. Christopher Pittenger,
an associate professor at the Yale Department
of Psychiatry and in the Child
Study Center, and the director of Yale OCD
Research Clinic, and Dr. Robert King, a
professor at the Yale Child Study Center
and the medical director of the center’s Tourette’s/OCD
Clinic, talked about the syndrome
in clinical terms, and van Bloss and
operatic baritone Jason Duika discussed
their personal experiences with Tourette’s.
During his remarks, Dr. King quoted a
passage from a 2001 monograph titled
Insight and Hindsight into Tourette Syndrome
by neuroscientist and Purdue University
professor Peter Hollenbeck, himself a
Tourette’s sufferer. The passage reads: “I
finally apprehend the magnitude of the background
noise that I have been experiencing
for decades … the people around me do not
share my tics because they do not hear the
drumbeat.”
Pittenger speculated that how one’s
brain processes information may be reflected
in creative activities—that creativity
comes from seeing things that aren’t
obvious, that there’s more stuff to be creatively
grasped onto.
Tourette syndrome, in other words, can
be viewed as both an impediment and an
inspiration.
“I’m ticing all the time,” van Bloss told
symposium attendees. At this point in his
life, he’s able, much of the time, to redirect
the tics from the area of his head to places
like his lower legs. Not all the time, though.
His neck has always been his problem
area. During his performance of the “Emperor”
Concerto, in fact, he experienced a
tic in his neck. I didn’t notice it during the
concert, nor would it have registered, had I
noticed it, as anything more than a part of
who van Bloss is.
“Tourette’s has not only broken my life,
but has also made my life,” van Bloss said.
Not a second goes by without him being
aware that “my body hurts itself.”
“It’s very exhausting, because I can’t
switch it off,” he explained.
When he’s at the piano, though, he’s
able to channel that energy.
“I’m convinced that playing the piano is
almost an extension of the Tourette’s,” he
said. “It carries on, albeit in the fingers.”
Sitting down to a piano a Davenport College,
van Bloss described J.S. Bach as “the
king of order.”
“The order and the pure genius, somehow
the focus of the music, gives me an
incredible buzz,” he said before playing
the Sinfonia from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C
minor, BWV 826.
His reading of the Bach was exquisite,
despite the fact that it was morning, several
hours before he would normally dare
to sit down at the instrument.
One young Tourettic in attendance asked
van Bloss and Duika if either had ever contemplated
giving up and ending it all.
Duika said he had in the past but today
considers his opera career a “tremendous
gift.”
Duika shared his gift that morning by
way of performances, with accompanist
William Braun, of “Ò vin, dissipe la tristesse”
from Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 opera
Hamlet and Henri Duparc’s “Chanson
triste,” which was composed the same
year.
Van Bloss said he’d never contemplated
giving up on life. Tourette’s wouldn’t kill
him, he pointed out.
In fact, the syndrome is an important
part of who he is and plays an important
role in his extraordinary ability to connect
us with the magic of geniuses like Bach
and Beethoven.
I’ve been luxuriating in van Bloss’ recordings
for weeks. Perhaps it’s because
I’ve gotten to understand some of his specialness
that I’m drawn to him as a person
and as a musician. When I’m listening to
his performances, though, that’s what I’m
doing: listening—being connected to the
magic of geniuses like Bach and Beethoven
by someone who has an incredible gift, one
that can’t be disconnected from who he is.
Nick van Bloss performs the Sinfonia from Bach’s Partita
No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826. Photo by Christopher Gardner.
Beethoven’s struggle gave us incomparable
musical beauty. And so, too, has van
Bloss’.
Each of us is special, unique, in some
way. Nick van Bloss’ gift is to connect us
to magic. And for that—and for him—I’m
incredibly grateful. •
I encourage you to read “A Pianist, Dancing
with Fate” in the January-February 2016 issue of
The Arts Paper, which you’ll find at
issuu.com/artscouncil9. I encourage you
to visit nickvanbloss.com and to purchase his
remarkable recordings. I also encourage you to
visit Jason Duika’s website,
jasonduikabaritone.com.
Nick van Bloss talks about his experiences with Tourette syndrome. Photo
by Christopher Gardner.
Left to right: Dr. Christopher Pittenger, Dr. Robert King, Nick van Bloss, and Jason Duika take questions during the “Music and Medicine: Tourette Syndrome” symposium
presented in February by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and the Yale School of Medicine. Photo by Christopher Gardner.
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Music in Schools Initiative Transcends Arts Education
yale program supports local teachers, changes lives
Teaching artist Daniel Fears, left, with student Joseph Fountain during a private lesson at Morse Summer Music Academy
in 2015. Photo by Matthew Fried.
Teaching artist Andrew Robson, left, works with student Nicole Hernandez during a private lesson at Morse Summer Music
Academy in 2015. Photo by Matthew Fried.
Student Jose Ayala warms up before a concert at Morse Summer Music Academy. Photo by Matthew Fried.
david brensilver
I
n a second-floor classroom at Wilbur
Cross High School, Kramer Milan
led a group of middle-school-age
percussion students through several basic
snare-drum rudiments, coaching them on
their technique and their cohesiveness as
an ensemble. It was a sectional rehearsal on
a Saturday morning in early February, and
Milan was one of numerous teaching artists
from the Yale School of Music’s Music in
Schools Initiative working with public-school
students who participate in the program’s
All-City Honors Ensembles.
“I actually like when you drop your sticks,
because it’s a sign that you’re relaxed,”
Milan told a student who’d lost his grip on
a drum stick. “We learn by failing, so it’s all
good.”
“I need to practice my flams,” Juan
“Manny” Boone, who attends Ross Woodward
Classical Studies School, said, scrutinizing
his technique.
“Your flams are fine,” Milan told him encouragingly.
“Your flams are good.”
A Michigan native, Milan earned an undergraduate
degree in percussion from the
Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins
University and is in his second year of the
master’s degree program at the Yale School
of Music. He started working as a teaching
artist in Yale’s Music in Schools Initiative
last year, working with young musicians at
Hooker Middle School during the week and
at Yale’s Morse Summer Music Academy
during the month of July. This school year,
Milan has worked mostly at Wilbur Cross
High School, on Saturdays.
“They come in here being grateful.” Milan
said of the students. “They feel that this is
something that is worthy of their attention.”
Jorge Herrera, a sixth grader at Columbus
Family Academy, agreed.
“It’s a privilege,” he said. “I love being
here.”
It’s better than being at home, doing nothing,
he explained.
“I love to drum,” Herrera said. “Kramer’s a
great teacher and he makes everything fun.
He makes the boring things fun.”
No doubt he was talking about the rudiments
he and his peers were practicing.
Talking about Milan while walking the
halls at Wilbur Cross High School that
morning, Rubén Rodríguez, the lead teacher
for the Music in Schools Initiative, said,
“He’s an amazing musician,” and, “He has a
very, very tender heart for teaching. He can
relate with the kids in a very special (way)”
with his calm, friendly attitude.
A few minutes later, Rodríguez popped his
head into another classroom.
“Play something beautiful,” he told a
group of saxophonists, who enthusiastically
complied.
Passing by another classroom, Rodríguez
heard a teaching artist instructing a young
musician named Diego, whose mother, Rodríguez
said, had referred to her son, when
he was in elementary school, as a “monster.”
She’d tried everything she could to get him
to curb his wild, disruptive, and mischievous
behavior. He’d been out of control.
“When he began to study music,” Rodríguez
explained, “he became a different
person.”
The Music in Schools Initiative was established
in 2007 through an endowment
from the Yale College Class of 1957, which
sought to form a partnership between the
Yale School of Music and the New Haven
Public Schools, to establish a biennial symposium
on music education, and to create
a visiting professorship. Sebastian Ruth, a
2010 MacArthur Fellow and the founder and
artistic director of Community MusicWorks
in Providence, Rhode Island—which was a
model of sorts for Music Haven, here in New
Haven—is currently serving as a visiting
faculty member at the Yale School of Music
in the area of community engagement.
The aim of the biennial symposium is to
extend the dialogue about music education
beyond Yale and the New Haven area.
Other programs under the Music in Schools
Initiative umbrella include the month-long
Morse Summer Music Academy, which
was established through an endowment
from Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse; week-long
festivals during spring and winter breaks
that each serve about 150 students (mostly
beginners) and are funded through an endowment
from the Alfred and Jane Ross
Foundation; and an annual solo showcase
concert that features student performers
nominated by their public-school music
teaches.
At the heart of the Music in Schools Initiative
is the Yale School of Music’s partnership
with the New Haven Public Schools, through
which teaching artists like Milan assist and
support the district’s certified music teachers,
having been selected and trained by
Rodríguez and Yale alumnus Matthew Fried,
who teaches music at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet
Middle School.
The most important job each teaching
artist has, Rodríguez said, is to treat every
student with “respect and consideration.”
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Currently, 43 teaching artists are paid to
help public-school music educators work
with about 340 students during the week
and another 240 on Saturdays, when young
musicians who play in the All-City Honors
Ensembles—eight auditioned groups, including
three concert bands, two string orchestras,
and three choirs—rehearse.
“We are assisting,” Rodríguez is quick to
point out. “We are not developing an independent
activity.”
The public-school music educators design
how the teaching artists will help in the
schools.
Ellen Maust, who supervises the performing
and visual arts programs in the New
Haven Public Schools and is in her 36th year
as a public-school music educator in the
city (including 29 years as a music teacher
at the Nathan Hale School), explained that
the partnership isn’t about doing what the
schools can’t.
The beauty of the program, she said, is
that it’s not replacing something that’s missing.
“It’s strategically enhancing” what the
public schools offer in terms of music education.
On one level, the initiative has helped
increase the number of students who’re
going on to participate in music in college.
On another level, Maust said, “It’s really
turned into a social-justice program” that
provides young people with not just a musical
voice but a confidence they can carry
through their everyday lives.
“At base,” Yale School of Music Associate
Dean Michael Yaffe said, “this is all to provide
New Haven kids with the kind of musical
activities that more affluent suburban
kids can afford.” It’s “an attempt at equalizing
city and suburb.”
Of Rodríguez, Yaffe said, “He loves the impact
that music can have on any individual.”
“Music is powerful,” Rodríguez said. He’s
seen it change “thousands of lives.”
Rodríguez was born and raised in Colombia
and attended college there. He studied
in France after college, and then returned
to Colombia to teach in Bogota for three
years before enrolling at the Yale School of
Music to study trombone in the master’s
degree program. He worked as a Music in
Schools teaching artist for two years before
being named its lead teacher in 2011. Music
literally saved the lives of
students he taught in Colombia,
where drug-related
violence takes the lives of
people young and older.
Talking about the social
issues that challenge
students and families in
New Haven’s urban neighborhoods,
Rodríguez said,
“We cannot answer to all
those things, but the kids
are finding in music a value
that helps them find their
way to be part of the community
they’re living in.”
Music, he said, is “like a
force moving in the opposite
direction” of the negative
forces that unfairly
plague urban populations.
“Through music,” he said,
“they’re finding dignity
and value.” The program
“is about music changing
lives for the best.” Do the
students understand that?
“Yes, no doubt.” Music gives them tools they
can apply in all aspects of their lives.
Rodríguez told the story of a special-needs
student for whom music has
provided a unique space in which he can
socialize, relax, smile, and learn. Another
student, who was experiencing “a deep and
serious depression” that led to him to stop
participating in the All-City Honors Ensembles,
was coaxed by Rodríguez to give the
Morse Summer Music Academy a shot this
“The kids
are finding in
music a value
that helps
them find
their way to
be part of the
community
they’re
living in.”
—Rubén Rodríguez
past July. And while the student showed up
late, during the second week of the program,
and didn’t really begin to participate until
the third week, he eventually found comfort
in playing music and socializing with his
peers.
“What medicine didn’t fix,” Rodríguez
said, “a caring music community did for
him.”
The benefits of the
Music in Schools Initiative
extend beyond the classroom.
“Right from the beginning,”
Maust said, “we
could see parents networking
that would never have
crossed paths before.” That
was “a plus that we didn’t
plan for.”
“We’re creating a culture
of arts appreciators
through this program,”
she said, and creating arts
leaders in the schools.
The teaching artists and
public-school music teachers,
too, gain a lot through
working with one another
and with their students.
The opportunity for public-school
music educators
to work with graduate students
from the Yale School
of Music has “given them
some prominence in the community and in
the school district,” Maust said. And “their
own musicianship has grown.”
It works both ways.
Most of the teaching artists “haven’t had
the kind of experiences we’re offering,” Rodríguez
said.
Milan, Yaffe said, is “the poster child” for
how the experience working with young
urban kids can have a significant impact on
the way an ascendant musician thinks about
his or her career.
Milan is planning to pursue an artist diploma
when he’s done with the master’s degree
program and said that “I’ll probably get
a doctorate” after that. And while “there is
no (music education) degree at Yale,” Milan
said, explaining that he and his grad-school
peers in the Music in Schools Initiative are
“sort of specialty teaching artists,” he’s
effectively been immersed in the world of
music education.
Yaffe reiterated that Rodríguez and the
teaching artists ask the public-school music
educators what they need. If there’s a stereotype
in the field that public-school teachers
are nervous about receiving outside help,
Yaffe believes the Music in Schools Initiative
has dispelled any such myths.
“We can only do the work that our grad
students do because music is in every
school in New Haven,” Yaffe said. That is
to say that the level of music education
public-school students in New Haven are
receiving wouldn’t be possible without the
public-school programs.
On Friday, May 6, the Music in Schools
Initiative will present a concert at Woolsey
Hall in conjunction with Music Haven,
Neighborhood Music School, and the New
Haven Symphony Orchestra. The idea, Yaffe
said, is to showcase young musicians from
the New Haven Public Schools in ensembles
organized by the four nonprofit organizations.
Joint performances will also part of
the program, which Yaffe pointed out will
help emphasize that there probably “isn’t
another urban school district in America
that has as much music as New Haven.”
“This is a way to connect, to play music
with each other,” to be a community,
Rodríguez said. •
Visit
music.yale.edu/community/music-in-schools
to learn more about the Yale School of Music’s
Music in Schools Initiative.
Student percussionist Juan Boone plays crash cymbals at Morse
Summer Music Academy in 2015. Photo by Chris Randall.
Jorge Herrera, a student at Columbus Family Academy, practices snare-drum rudiments on a pad. Photo by David Brensilver.
Rubén Rodríguez conducts a wind ensemble at Morse
Summer Music Academy in 2015. Photo by Chris Randall.
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Smooth, But Hard to Swallow
jafferis packs a punch
with new work
lucy gellman
Just moments into a recent performance
of Smooth Criminal at Collective Consciousness
Theatre, hip-hop poet, playwright, and
actor Aaron Jafferis was in full form, sweat
dripping off flyaway strands of hair as he
pulled a packed house into his narrative.
With actors Brittany Wilson and Gracy
Brown-Keirstead flanking him, he would
assume the role of Aaron past and present,
whose lifelong superpower was fighting institutional
racism. Wilson and Brown would
help him get there, filling in the roles of
mother, father, narrator, facilitator, and factchecker
where Jafferis had deemed it necessary,
and jolting audience members back
to reality just when they were starting to
think the play was drifting a little too much.
If this is sounding ambitious, it was, and
continues to be—but never overly so. A
work in progress titled to recall the Michael-Jackson-fêting
era in which Jafferis
came of age, and to take a very close look
at the notion of criminality today, Smooth
Criminal is candid, intimate, and even funny,
charging at systemic racism with a very
sharp and incisive sword and coming out
victorious, but not without lots of pointed
questions, and enough baggage to shoulder
all of them.
Here’s the quick and dirty of Smooth
Criminal, a witty hip-hop odyssey that
Jafferis expects to change and expand before
its next community presentation later
this year. Our protagonist Aaron, otherwise
known throughout the play as “undoing
racism boy” and a Key-and-Peele-esque
“A-Aron,” jumps willingly through his
memories to the present, and back into his
memories again, pulling the audience with
him each time. Audience members witness
his childhood and coming of age in vivid,
dramatized vignettes: new friendships are
forged on the playgrounds of his youth, he
grows into boyhood with a tight and diverse
group of friends, then watches racial fissure
and prejudice unfold before his eyes,
all while trying to figure out that lily-white
elephant in the middle of downtown New
Haven, otherwise known as Yale University.
Whatever the challenge, he’s willing to rise
to it, using verse and audience participation
to scrutinize the problem at hand.
Take, for instance, the issue of Yale, to
which Jafferis finds a number of uncomfortable
but spot-on parallels with the city’s
correctional facilities. “When I say a phrase,
I want you to shout out ‘Yale’ or ‘jail,’” he
told the audience in a performance at the
end of February, going on to list things like
legacy, skin color, high-walls and gated
community, and a certain inescapability
that applied, inevitably, to both.
Or questions that Jafferis and director
Will MacAdams ask directly of the audience,
urging them to confront uncomfortable
realities in their own community while
interfacing with its members in real time.
Like—how do you speak to a 5-year-old
about race? What ways has your racial and
socioeconomic upbringing manifested itself
in your adult life? How did you see family
members act about race and class, and
why?
It’s this sense of curiosity and experiment
in Jafferis the actor and Jafferis the person,
often met with unflinching honesty and
self-discovery, that takes the work from an
interesting think piece on wealth- and racebased
systems of oppression to something
urgent, something that New Haven (and
many cities around the country) arguably
needs right now. Jafferis isn’t just painting
pictures for his audience, he’s urging it to
start talking about something messy and
difficult, and using himself as a sort of
patient zero. An unexpected and refreshing
partner piece to Josh Wilder’s Salt
Pepper Ketchup, the first act of which was
presented at the Yale Cabaret earlier this
Left to right: Brittany Wilson, Aaron Jafferis, and Gracy Brown-Keirstead present a reading of Jafferis’ new work, Smooth Criminal. Photo by Lucy Gellman.
year, Smooth Criminal presents the wicked,
ungainly, complicated, and very real sides
to things like gentrification, racial cleavage,
and the forms that the new Jim Crow takes
in this city.
In part, that’s because Jafferis has been
thinking about some version of Smooth
Criminal for his entire life, and working
on it in earnest since he participated in
an “undoing racism” workshop with the
Brooklyn-based Urban Bush Women five
years ago. Responding to the organization’s
mission to “galvanize communities through
performance,” he started committing his
experiences to the page during and after
the workshop, working through them in
free-flowing and expansive verse during a
fall writing residency at the Millay Colony
for the Arts, in Austerlitz, New York.
“I had never really thought as deeply
about class, and in this workshop I started
asking that question about New Haven,
which feels like a kind of crucible of race
and class disparity, and a place where the
links between those are really tight,” Jafferis
told The Arts Paper after four performances
of Smooth Criminal in late February. “I
started to think of racism as the glue that
holds class structure together—and in New
Haven, that glue is just mad strong.”
He was honest with himself throughout
the process, too. “I started thinking about
my own story in relation to class,” he added.
“How money manifests in my own life and
lives of my blood family … my cousins, my
parents, my wider family—and then people
who I consider my family who are not
blood, my close friends in New Haven. I
started to look at the ways money and class
in addition to race show up in all of those
lives.”
The result, he said, is something that is
far from finished, but has a clear starting
point in the script that he presented for audiences
at Erector Square, guided by Mac-
Adams and Collective Conscious Theater
Director Dexter Singleton. “I think that the
way forward for me as a human being, in
terms of being my full self and bringing my
full self into all of my relationships, is to be
as honest as possible,” he said. “For whatever
reason, it’s sometimes easier for me in
my writing.”
MacAdams, who has known Jafferis for
the better part of 17 years and lived in New
Haven for 15 of them, feels very much the
same way.
“I think that one of the wonderful things
about being able to do this show in this
moment, in this place, is that you can’t distinguish
those things without saying them
first. That was what was so invaluable. It
was for family in the broadest sense of the
word. I think with people in that room, there
were all sorts of relationships. It’s definitely
not the end,” MacAdams said. •
Hip-hop poet, playwright, and actor Aaron Jafferis, during a reading in February of his new work, Smooth Criminal. Photos by Lucy Gellman.
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Hamden. 347-306-7660. anniesailer.com.
Modern/Contemporary Dance Classes Classes
taught by Annie Sailer. Ongoing adult, intermediate-level
dance classes Mondays (YCYC, 6-7:30
p.m.) and Wednesdays (Trinity Lutheran Church,
292 Orange St. at Wall Street, 5:30-7 p.m.) in
large, studios with wooden floors. Classes include
floor warm-up and big, spatial-movement sequences.
Contact Annie before coming as times
and locations may change. anniesaier@gmail.com.
Classes ongoing through June 29. $15 per class
(cash only).
Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators Yale
Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney
Ave., New Haven. 203-695-1215. ctnsi.com.
Winter/Spring Art Classes. Come take an exciting
art class at the Yale Peabody Museum in New
Haven. We are offering Basic Drawing, Scientific
Light on Form, Drawing and Painting Birds and
Bird Models, Basic Watercolor, Basic Colored
Pencil, and Drawing Flowers and Butterflies. To
register, visit website, email ctnsi.info@gmail.com,
or call 203-695-1215. Ongoing through May. Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Elm City Dance Collective 860-451-9421.
elmcitydance.org/classes.
Club Fusion. A high energy, follow-along style
dance class designed to make you sweat and
dance to some sweet beats! This class is for movers
and non-movers alike. Shoes required. Meets
once a month on Wednesdays through April 27.
6-7 p.m. $15 per class (cash only). Lyric Hall, 827
Whalley Ave., New Haven.
People in Motion. An adult dance class for movers
and non-movers alike. This class is designed to
help non-dancers experience the joy of movement
as well as challenge trained dancers. Adults of
any age and any ability are welcome. Ongoing
through May 15. This class meets once a month
on Sundays, 10-11:30 a.m. $15 per class (cash
only). Connecticut Capoeira and Dance Center,
1175 State St., Suite 207, New Haven.
Southern Connecticut State University 501
Crescent St, New Haven. 203-874-0801.
elmshakespeare.org.
Teen Troupe Spring Classes. Immerse yourself in
great theater. Become the Shakespearean actor
you can be! This 10-week class combines training
and rehearsal to build an acting ensemble and
creates a fully realized performance of a Shakespeare
play! Teens only! Ages 13-18. Saturdays,
April 2, April 9, April 16, April 30, May 7, May 14,
May 21, and May 22 with performances on the
final two afternoons. See elmshakespeare.org for
details. 12-4 p.m.
Suzanne Siegel Studio 2351 Boston Post Road,
Bldg. 2, Suite 210, Guilford. 203-215-1468.
suzannesiegel.net.
Painting Workshops. Contemporary Approaches
with Watercolor, Abstraction with Oil and Cold
Wax, Watercolor workshop with guest artist,
Elizabeth O’Reilly of Brooklyn, and more. Classes
ongoing through June 30. See workshops page
on website. $250-$350.
Watercolor Workshop Contemporary Approaches
with Watercolor. Play and experimentation with
water-based mediums are our priority in this
workshop. Through guided exercises, slide presentations,
individualized instruction, and group
critiques, you will come away with new toolbox
of ideas to use! Ongoing though June 30. Visit
website for full description and registration information
for this workshop and others. $250. 9:30
a.m.-4 p.m.
Workshop: Oil and Cold Wax, Abstraction—Composing
with Structure. A lively and instructive
workshop exploring ways to use cold wax with oil
paint, powders, and other media. We will experiment
with tools and marks, balancing intuitive
and intentional approaches with the elements of
design, as we compose abstract paintings with
structure. Slide presentation and discussions
with attention to each person’s journey. Saturday
and Sunday, April 23 and April 24 . Visit website
for full description and registration information
for this workshop and others. $250. 9:30 a.m.-4
p.m.
The Company of Writers The Grove 760 Chapel
St., New Haven. 203-676-7133.
companyofwriters.net/writingtoberead.
Writing Workshops. All ages and levels of experience.
We offer prose and poetry workshops,
in-person and online services, a summer writers’
conference for teens, and a manuscript consultancy
for book-length material. We all have
a story to tell. What’s yours? Course ongoing
through April 30. Course descriptions and times
available online.
Private Art Instruction For adults and children.
Learn in a working artist’s studio. Ideal for artists,
home-schooled youngsters, and those with special
needs. Portfolio preparation offered. Draw,
paint, print, and make collage in a spacious lightfilled
studio at Erector Square in New Haven.
Relaxed and professional. I can also come to you.
Lessons created to suit individual. References
available. Email lizpagano@snet.net.
Dance
March 31-April 2
Thursday-Saturday
Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert Senior choreographers
present a collection of new works as
the culminating project of the dance major. 8 p.m.
’92 Patricelli Theater, Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, 213 High St., Middletown. 860-685-
3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
April 15-16 Friday-Saturday
Spring Faculty Dance Concert—“Storied Places”
This collaborative project, inspired by African
American histories of migration and arrival, is
rooted in a multi-faceted conception of renaissance,
and explores states of past and present, of
vitality and decay, and of presence and absence. 8
p.m. CFA Theater, Wesleyan University Center for
the Arts, 271 Washington Terrace, Middletown.
860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
April 28-30 Thursday-Saturday
Spring Dance Concert Student choreographers
present works created after a full year of dance
composition studies. 8 p.m. Patricelli ‘92 Theater,
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 213 High
St., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Exhibitions
City Gallery 994 State St., New Haven. 203-782-
2489.city-gallery.org.
Nancy Eisenfeld. City Gallery in New Haven presents
new work by Nancy Eisenfeld. In the Clouds
features paintings/sculptures that express the
movement and shapes of the clouds. Weather
changes in the clouds are interpreted from stormy
and violent to placid and playful. Nancy imagines
what toxic waste and communication systems
might look like in cloud interior. On view through
April 3. Open Thursday-Sunday, 12-4 p.m., or by
appointment. Free and open to the public.
College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield
Freeman Center Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown.
860-685-2330. wesleyan.edu/ceas/exhibitions
Light of the East—The Beauty of Movement in Silence.
Prominent Korean digital artists Youngho Kim and
Jisong Lee examine the “beauty of movement in silence”
through photography and video in their first
exhibition outside Korea. On view through May 22.
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Free.
Davison Art Center Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, 301 High St., Middletown.
860-685-2500. wesleyan.edu/dac/exhibitions.
Philip Trager: “Photographing Ina.” Following a retrospective
exhibition in 2006 of his internationally
renowned images of architecture and of contemporary
dancers, Philip Trager ‘56 created the
book Photographing Ina. This exhibition reveals Mr.
Trager’s first series in color photography-an unexpected
and tender meditation on photographing,
on perception, color, and light. On view through
May 22. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Free.
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, 283 Washington Terrace,
Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries
Senior Thesis Exhibitions. Works by Rebecca Brand,
Rachel Fox, Miriam Kudler-Flam, Addison McDowell,
Elissa Palmer, Milo Farley, Molly Grund, Nathan
Harris, Caroline MacNeille, Evan Ortiz, Sophie
Becker, Casey Herrick, Samantha Ho, Gla M, and
Zach Scheinfeld. On view through April 10. Open
Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Free.
Senior Thesis Exhibition Reception—Week Three.
View the talents of seniors Sophie Becker, Casey
Herrick, Samantha Ho, Gla M, and Zach Scheinfeld
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in the art-studio program of Wesleyan University’s
Department of Art and Art History. On display
through Sunday, April 10. Reception: Wednesday,
April 6, 4-6 p.m. Free.
Thesis Art Exhibition. Zilkha Gallery showcases the
work of the Class of 2016’s thesis students in the
Department of Art and Art History’s art-studio
program. Each student is invited to select a single
work from his/her senior thesis exhibition for this
year-end showcase of drawing, painting, printmaking,
photography, sculpture, mixed media,
and architecture. On view April 26-May 21. Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Free.
Good News Cafe 694 Main St. South, Woodbury.
203-266-4663.
¡Salud! A solo exhibition of monotypes by Oi Fortin.
Several of the prints in this exhibition are from
my recent series titled Catalan, an homage to the
Spanish masters, in particular Antoni Gaudí. “In
these prints, I am trying to capture the sensuality
of Barcelona and its environs, and the light that
suffuses its citizens as they work and recreate.” On
view through May 3.
Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford.
203-453-5947. galleryoneCT.com.
The Artists of Gallery One and Friends at Guilford
Art Center. Work by a diverse group of mid-career
artists who utilize current modes of expression
in a variety of contemporary media. The hanging
intentionally emphasizes connections between
representational and abstract work. On view April
22-May 15. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10
a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 12-4 p.m.
Opening Reception. The Artists of Gallery One’s
member artists include David Brown, Ashby Carlisle,
Catherine Christiano, Bette Ellsworth, Gray
Jacobik, Rick Lacey, Judith Barbour Osborne, T.
Willie Raney, Diana Rogers, Rick Silberberg, and Jill
Vaughn. Deborah Hornbake of East Haddam and
Steve Lloyd of W. Brattleboro, Vermont (formerly
of Chester, Connecticut), will be joining them.
April 22. 5-7 p.m.
Hamden Art League at Miller Library Senior
Center 2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden.
203-494-2316. hamdenartleague.com.
Goldenbells Art Exhibition and Sale. The 61st annual
non-juried show features work by both members
and non-members. Works of original, two-dimensional
art by professional, amateur and emerging
artists will be available for purchase. Includes
works in oil, pastel, acrylic, pencil, charcoal, watercolor,
printmaking, and mixed media. Receiving
April 5, 4-6 p.m., two pieces per artist, maximum.
On view April 6-April 28. Hours: Monday-Friday,
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Reception, awards presentation,
and painting raffle on April 12, 7-9 p.m. Free
and open to the public.
Kehler Liddell Gallery 873 Whalley Ave., New
Haven. 203-389-9555. kehlerliddellgallery.com.
Solo Shows by Laura Barr and Penrhyn E. Cook. To kick
off spring, two new shows grace the walls of New
Haven’s Kehler Liddell Gallery: Paintings and Drawings
by Laura Barr, and Wishful Thinking by photographer
Penrhyn E. Cook. The exhibits share gallery
space through April 24. Opening reception: April 3,
3-6 p.m., featuring music by classical guitarist Neal
Fitzpatrick. Gallery hours available on website. Free.
Keyes Gallery Willoughby Wallace Memorial
Library 146 Thimble Islands Road, Stony Creek.
203-488-8702.
Explorations. Photographs by Roslyn Meyer. On
view April 3-April 27. Artist reception: Sunday,
April 3, 4-6 p.m.
New Haven Museum 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven.
203-562-4183. newhavenmuseum.org.
Fun, Fascinating, and Made in the Elm City. From Clocks
to Lollipops: Made in New Haven, highlights an astonishing
variety of goods that were, and some that still
are, produced in the Elm City. The exhibition runs
through September 3 and features more than 100
objects, advertisements, trade cards, photographs,
and more, with a wide-ranging products made in
New Haven. Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.;
Saturday, 12–5 p.m. Free 1-4 p.m. the first Sunday of
each month.
Susan Powell Fine Art 679 Boston Post Road, Madison.
203-318-0616. susanpowellfineart.com.
Spring Into Art. Group show: 21 award-wining artists,
with 65 paintings on view including landscapes, seascapes,
still lifes, and figurative and abstract works.
Artists include Kathy Anderson, Del-Bourree Bach,
Peter Bergeron, Dan Brown, Grace DeVito, David
Dunlop, James Magner, Deborah Quinn-Munson,
Cora Ogden, Polly Seip, Dennis Sheehan, and George
Van Hook. On view through April 2. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday,
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.
Annual Still-Life Invitational. For the past 10 years,
Susan Powell Fine Art has brought together some of
the best artists working today for its Annual Still Life
Invitational. “From Realism and Trompe L’oeil to the
whimsical, 20 award-winning artists create visual
narratives that will make you smile and marvel. It’s
so exciting to have so many accomplished artists at
one time.” April 8-May 7. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11
a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception: Friday, April 8,
5 -8 p.m. Free.
Whitney Center 200 Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden, CT.
203-772-2788. www.newhavenarts.org/
traduzindo-cor-at-perspectives-the-gallery-at-w
Traduzindo Cor at Perspectives…The Gallery at Whitney
Center. Traduzindo Cor (color) is a multimedia exhibition
presented by the Arts Council of Greater New
Haven that brings together artists from New England
and Cape Verde Islands who use color to communicate
ideas about personal and cultural identity and
nature in a cross cultural conversation that examines
the universality of color as a powerful, expressive
language of its own. On view through April 29. Artist
talks: Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m.; Saturdays,
1-4 p.m. Free.
Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall St., New Haven.
203-432-0670. whc.yale.edu/gallery-whitney.
Painting in Time: Discovery, Analysis, and Interpretation
of a Roman Shield. The current exhibit presents a
multi-disciplinary study of one of the site’s most
unique artifacts and one of archaeology’s rarest
finds—a wooden Roman shield painted with scenes
from the Trojan War. On view through June 15. During
fall and spring term the Gallery at the Whitney is open
to the public Monday and Wednesday, 3-5 p.m., or by
appointment by calling (203) 432-0670. Free.
surprises and even a chance for audience participation.
There will be plenty of food and drink,
a silent auction, and Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of
Clairvoyant Claptraps. This event is something the
whole family will enjoy. Come and support NHOC.
Sunday afternoon. 1253 Whitney Ave., Hamden.
860-339-6462. nhoratorio.org.
30 Saturday
Artspace Gala & Auction: Back to the Future
In celebration of our 30th anniversary, we’re
spending the night in 1986. With a live auction
of artworks orchestrated by Christie’s devilishly
charming auctioneer, Guy Bennet, a Delorean-inspired
photo booth, and our specialty Mad Scientist
Cocktail. All proceeds will support our Three
Decades of Change anniversary programs and
campaign. Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven.
203-772-2709. artspacenh.org.
Kids & Families
Shubert Theatre
Peter Rabbit Tales. This production is based on
three of Beatrix Potter’s “rabbit tales”—The Tale
of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, and the
Tale of Mr. Tod. Saturday, April 23, 1:30 p.m. and
4:30 p.m. $19-$29.
Music
1 Friday
German Romantics Terrence B. Fay, tenor and
trombone; Alexis Zingale, piano. Works by
Schubert and Weber, featuring songs from
Schumann’s Liederkreis. 7 p.m. Neighborhood
Music School, 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-
624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
Music Haven Presents The Haven String Quartet
presents the music of Josquin des Prez, J.S. Bach,
and Igor Stravinsky. 7:30 p.m. Admission: $20;
$10 students, seniors, and Initarian Society of
New Haven members. Tickets available at musichavenct.org/concerts.
Unitarian Society of New
Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. 203-745-
9030. musichavenct.org.
Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet—“A Night in
Ancient and New China” The Shanghai Quartet—
violinists Weigang Li and Yi-Wen Jiang, violist
Honggang Li, and cellist Nicholas Tzavaras—returns
to Wesleyan University for its Connecticut
debut with pipa (Chinese lute) virtuosa Wu Man.
Featuring the Connecticut premiere of the new
quintet Red Lantern by eminent Chinese film composer
Zhao Jiping (Raise the Red Lantern). 8 p.m.
$22 general public; $20 senior citizens, Wesleyan
faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $6
Wesleyan students. Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave.,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music 409 Prospect St.,
New Haven. 203-432-3220. ism.yale.edu/calendar.
Between Clock and Bed. Exhibition curated by Jon
seals (MAR ‘15). Works by Laura Mosquera, Natalija
Mijatovic, Kirsten Moran, Stephen Knudsen, Kenny
Jensen, and Ronnie Rysz. On view through June 2.
Hours: weekdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free and open to the
general public.
Galas & Fundraisers
2 Saturday
Senior Recital—Justin Friedman Ranging in influences
from Bill Evans, Chet Atkins, John Coltrane,
Hank Jones, and Count Basie to D’Angelo, James
Blake, Travis Scott, Flying Lotus, and Kanye West,
this recital by Justin Friedman will take the audience
through a musical journey connecting styles
from the 20th and 21st centuries through various
mediums—mostly the guitar. 7 p.m. Free! Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, New York
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (former CFA
Hall), 287 Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-
685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cf
17 Sunday
New Haven Oratorio Choir Cabaret Join us for a
fun-filled afternoon! Members and friends of the
choir will perform in a variety show, with some
Senior Recital—Morgan Scribner A journey
through history, Morgan Scribner’s senior music
recital will showcase how the black body has been
used through song and spoken word. While some
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of the repertoire is original, others have been derived
from the voices of predecessors in the form of
Negro spirituals and slave tunes. 9 p.m. Free! Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, The Russell
House, 350 High St., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
3 Sunday
Senior Recital—Carina Devairakkam-Brown A
senior music recital by Carina Devairakkam-Brown,
“Film Sound as a Narrative Device,” is an exploration
of the narrative and expressive capabilities of film
scores and sound. 3 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, Ring Family Performing Arts
Hall (former CFA Hall), 287 Washington Terrace,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Senior Recital—Monique Siaw A senior music
recital by Monique Siaw, this performance demonstrates
black female narratives on a wide spectrum.
With original compositions and arrangements,
“AA as Resistance and Healing” shows the power
of black art and gives voice to the black female. 7
p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts,
Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave., Middletown.
860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
5 Tuesday
Graduate Recital—Cecilia Lopez A graduate music
thesis concert by Cecilia Lopez. 9 p.m. Free! Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, World Music
Hall, 40 Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
8 Friday
Four is the Magic Number Part of Neighborhood
Music School’s Spring Faculty Concert Series.
Gretchen Frazier, violin; Bethany Wilder, viola; Yun-
Yang Lin, cello; Ingeborg Schimmer, piano. Piano
Quartet KV 493 in E-flat, by W. A. Mozart and Bagatelles,
Op. 47, by Antonin Dvorak. 7 p.m. Free and
open to the public. Neighborhood Music School,
100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189.
neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
Senior Recital—Angus Macdonald A night of original
compositions and arrangements by Angus Macdonald.
7 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave.,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
9 Saturday
Mahler Symphony No. 9 Mahler’s 1909 last completed
symphony, at once a memory of his youth
and a foreboding of his all-too-soon death in 1911.
Maestro James Sinclair leads a modern re-orchestration
that may rival Orchestra New England’s
much-heralded performances of Mahler’s Symphony
No. 4 (performed in 2011) and Das Lied von
der Erde (performed in 2012). 7:30 p.m. $20 general
admission; $35 reserved seats; $5 student rush tickets
at the door. Tickets are available online and at
the box office one hour before performance. Doors
open 30 minutes before the concert. United Church
on the Green, 270 Temple St., New Haven. 203-777-
4690. orchestranewengland.org.
Senior Recital—Harim Jung Whether it is in the
drone of the tambura in South Indian music, or in
the “drops” of club beats, the bass is essential. In
this senior music recital by Harim Jung, “Back to the
Bass-ics,” the capacity and limits of the double bass
will be explored in fun and family -friendly classical
double-bass solos and chamber music works. 7 p.m.
Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Memorial
Chapel, 221 High St., Middletown. 860-685-
3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
10 Sunday
St Luke’s Steel Band: The Joyous Sounds of Steel
Drums The high-energy, national award-winning
band, with members of all ages, is hailed as one of
the most unique and exciting performing ensembles
in the state. Its repertoire includes calypso, reggae,
classical, popular, and island folk music. 2 p.m.
Admission is $7 general admission; $5 for senior
citizens, students, and children 12 and younger.
Hamden Arts Commission, Thornton Wilder Hall,
2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden. 203-287-2546.
hamdenartscommission.org.
Senior Recital—Nicole Roman-Johnston A senior
music recital by Nicole Roman-Johnston, “Experimental
Music” is a “sonification” of several levels
of what comes out of the Chernoff lab, exploring
environmental sounds from what is considered the
“natural environment” of the Connecticut River
drainage basin, and from the lab environment itself.
True experimental music. 2 p.m. Free! Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40
Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Senior Recital—Matt Chilton “Fieldwork” is an exploration
of site, sound, and collective experiences
through the acoustic environments of Wesleyan
University’s Center for the Arts. Drawing from the
insights of experimental music and anthropology,
“Fieldwork” aims to challenge the preconceived
relations and hierarchies of composer, performer,
and audience. 5:30 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys
Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
15 Friday
Senior Recital—Lindsay Starr A senior music
recital by Lindsay Starr, featuring original contemporary
country songs written over the course of the
past four years. 7 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys
Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
16 Saturday
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage The “new queen of
bluegrass” brings her hard driving band back to
town. 7:30 p.m. $45 general admission; $55 reserved,
$25 Unitarians. GuitartownCT Productions,
Unitarian Society Hall, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden.
203-430-6020. guitartownct.com.
“Ideas on the Move”—A Conference in Honor
of Mark Slobin A conference in honor of the retirement
of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music
Mark Slobin. 8:30 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. Free! Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, Seminar Room, Mansfield
Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, 343
Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
“Ideas on the Move” Concert A concert in honor
of the retirement of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of
Music Mark Slobin, featuring Irish music by Stan
Scott ‘97, Dora Hast ‘94, and Jim Cowdery ‘85;
Yiddish music by Hankus Netsky ‘04 and Matthew
Stein ‘16; performances by Matthew Allen
‘92, David Fossum ‘10, Aaron Paige ‘03, and Paul
Austerlitz ‘93; and more! 8-11 p.m. Free. Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40
Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
17 Sunday
The Second Movement Ensemble presents:
Phantasie Created shortly after the concert series,
the Second Movement Ensemble is composed of
musicians who have strong ties to New Haven, both
as performers and teachers. This ensemble is committed
to enhancing the art form’s approachability
in our society. This afternoon, we will be presenting
a program of Britten, Bowen, and Martinu! April 17.
This is part of The Second Movement Concert Series,
which is based in New Haven. Be sure to check
out our website for the rest of our events! 3:00 PM
Suggested Donation: $15/5 - Adult/Student. The
Second Movement, Artspace New Haven, 50 Orange
Street, New Haven, CT. 307-760-0457.
www.secondmovementseries.org
Senior Recital—Enobong Etteh A senior music
recital by international artist Enobong Etteh, “Let
There Be Voice!” features arias; art songs; folk and popular
music from Italian, French, Chinese, and American
traditions; and original multi-lingual pop compositions.
3 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts,
The Russell House, 350 High St., Middletown. 860-
685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Senior Recital—Jasmine Mack A senior music recital
by Jasmine Mack. 4 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys Ave.,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
23 Saturday
The 1816 Concert Celebrating the 200th anniversary
of the dedication of Trinity Church on the Green’s
church house with Orchestra New England and the
Trinity Choirs, James Sinclair and Walden Moore conducting.
8 p.m. Orchestra New England and the Trinity
Church Choirs, Trinity Church on the Green, 230 Temple
St., New Haven. 203-624-3101.
trinitynewhaven.org.
Wesleyan Concert Choir The Wesleyan Concert
Choir presents an afternoon of choral masterworks in
exciting collaborations under the direction of adjunct
assistant professor of music Nadya Potemkina. 7 p.m.
Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Crowell
Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-
3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
24 Sunday
O Fortuna! The New Haven Chorale welcomes the
Hartt School choruses, The Connecticut Children’s
Chorus, the acclaimed Hartt Percussion Ensemble, and
brilliant pianists Éric Trudel and Miguel Campinho for
a spectacular performance of Carl Orff’s raucous Carmina
Burana in its exciting piano/percussion version,
under the baton of Edward Bolkovac. For all ages! 4:30
p.m. Adults $20; seniors $15; children and students
with ID admitted free. New Haven Chorale, Woolsey
Hall, College and Grove streets, New Haven. 203-776-
SONG. newhavenchorale.org.
World Guitar Ensemble Wesleyan University students
perform guitar-ensemble music from around
the world under the direction of private-lessons
teacher Cem Duruöz. 3 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys
Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
28 Thursday
American Voices The Worcester Chorus and the
New Haven Symphohy Orchestra perform Leonard
Bernstein’s choral masterpiece Chichester Psalms,
Lambert’s Rio Grande, and spirituals that originated
during the Underground Railroad movement, plus
works by Joan Tower and Vaughan Williams. Symphony
at the Shubert Series sponsored by Marcum,
LLC. KidTix and Blue Star Tickets are sponsored by
Frontier. 7:30 p.m. $15-$74. KidTix and Blue Star
Tickets available. $10 student tickets with ID. Shubert
Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. 203-865-
0831. NewHavenSymphony.org.
Beginners Javanese Gamelan Experience the
culture of Java with beginning students of the Wesleyan
Gamelan Ensemble. The concert will include
a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble.
7 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the
Arts, World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys Ave., Middletown.
860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Collegium Musicum Collegium Musicum presents
a program of music from the Medieval, Renaissance,
and Baroque periods of European music
history. 6 p.m. Free. Wesleyan University Center for
the Arts, Memorial Chapel, 221 High St., Middletown.
860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
29 Friday
Wesleyan Cello Ensemble Wesleyan cellists perform
under the direction of private-lessons teacher
Julie Ribchinsky. 6 p.m. Free. Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, Memorial Chapel, 221 High St.,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble
The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra, directed
by adjunct professor of music and African American
studies Jay Hoggard, and Jazz Ensembles directed
by Noah Baerman and visiting assistant professor
of music and private-lessons teacher Pheeroan
akLaff, present an exciting evening of classic and
contemporary jazz repertoire. 8 p.m. Free. Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall,
50 Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
30 Saturday
Jay Hoggard Harlem Hieroglyphs Ensemble
Vibraphonist, composer, and adjunct professor of
music and African American studies Jay Hoggard
‘76 presents music from his new recording Harlem
Hieroglyphs in celebration of 40 years since his
Wesleyan senior recital in Crowell Concert Hall,
almost to the day. This concert is the conclusion of
the 15th annual Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend.
8 p.m. $15 general public; $12 senior citizens, Wesleyan
faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students;
$6 Wesleyan students. Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave.,
Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Special Events
2 Saturday
Tour of New York City Photograph Galleries Join
the Friends of the Davison Art Center on an exciting
tour of New York City’s photograph galleries. Led
by noted collector and Wesleyan University’s Jane
A. Seney Professor of Greek, Professor and Chair
of Classical Studies, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, the
tour meets in New York and visits galleries on 57th
Street and in Chelsea. 11 a.m. $65 general public,
$60 for the Friends of the Davison Art Center. 57th
Street, New York. 860-685-2500. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
16 Saturday
The Big Draw—Middletown This fifth annual community
event invites everyone to celebrate drawing
in all its forms with workshops for all skill levels,
from beginners to accomplished artists. The event
is organized to encourage creativity, exploration,
invention, and fun with activities that celebrate the
visual arts. Organized by the Friends of the Davison
Art Center. 1-4 p.m. Free. 301 High St., Middletown.
860-685-2500. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Talks & Tours
6 Wednesday
Artful Lunch Series—Melissa Katz Join the
Friends of the Davison Art Center for a presentations
by visiting assistant professor of art
history Melissa Katz about her favorite work in
the Davison Art Center collection. Bring your bag
lunch and enjoy conversation following the talk.
12:10 p.m. Free. Wesleyan University Center for
the Arts, Davison Art Center, Alsop House Dining
Room, 301 High St., Middletown. 860-685-2500.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
7 Thursday
Artist Talk with Jisong Lee and Youngho Kim
Prominent Korean digital artists Youngho Kim and
Jisong Lee examine the “beauty of movement in
silence” through photography and video in their
first exhibition outside Korea. Both artists build on
their long careers in fashion and commercial work
to create works that examine the core principals
hiding behind what we see. 4:30 p.m. Free. Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts, College of
East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman
Center, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown.
860-685-2330. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
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GuitartownCT Productions presents Rhonda Vincent & The
Rage at the Unitarian Society Hall, in Hamden, on April 16.
Photo courtesy of Chris Wuerth.
14 Thursday
Neighborhood Spotlight A master class: The Jesse
Hameen II Experience. Neighborhood Spotlight is a
talk series that feature local experts and members of
the Neighborhood Music School faculty in the field
of music, dance, and theater. 6-7:30 p.m. Free and
open to the public. Neighborhood Music School, 100
Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189.
neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
21 Thursday
Senior Talks in the History of Art Seniors in the
art-history program of Wesleyan University’s Department
of Art and Art History will present their
talks—Louise de Verteuil, Flora Donovan, and Bryan
Schiavone. In addition, archeology and history double
major Samuel Ingbar, German studies major Nicholas
Selden, and English major Penny Snyder will also
be presenting. 4:30 p.m. Free. Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts, 41 Wyllys Ave., Room 112, Middletown.
860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
30 Saturday
David McCullough, Jr. Talk David McCullough, Jr. will
give a talk, “The Overburdened Child: The 88 Pound
Backpack.” This engaging talk followed by a lively discussion,
desserts, and coffee will benefit the Financial
Aid Fund for the Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program,
Inc. 7:30 p.m. Contact amy@ebjchildcare.org. $25
donation. The Foote School, 50 Loomis Place, New
Haven. 203-764-9416. ebjchildcare.org.
Theater
Annie The world’s best-loved musical returns in
time-honored form. Directed by original lyricist and
director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza
Gennaro, this production of Annie will be a brand
new incarnation of the iconic original. Featuring book
and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan,
Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin. March 29-
April 3. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 7 p.m.;
Friday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30
p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Price varies by
seat location. Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New
Haven. 203-562-5666. shubert.com.
Capstone Theater Production—They Alone Know
They Alone Know is a study in small-ensemble comedy
inspired by the styles of melodrama, vaudeville,
cabaret, and Grand Guignol theater. Using texts from
the early 20th century, an ensemble of four performers
take on a wide variety of roles in this night
of sketches, short plays, and other (overly) dramatic
pieces. Capstone of Daniel Maseda ‘16. April 7-April
10. 8 p.m. Free. 213 High St., Middletown. 860-685-
3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Wes Out-Loud: Stories of Place A site-specific auditory
piece conceived and created for the Wesleyan
University campus through a collaboration between
theater students and assistant professor of theater
Marcela Oteiza. Wes Out-Loud invites the audience
to experience Wesleyan as a scenographic space by
inserting new narratives into everyday sites. April
28-May 1. 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. $8 general public;
$5 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni,
non-Wesleyan students; $4 Wesleyan students. 283
Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-685-3355.
wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Call For
Artist Members Kehler Liddell Gallery in New
Haven is seeking applications from new prospective
members. Visit kehlerliddell.com/
membership for more information.
Artists The nonprofit Friends of the Ives is
launching “Art at Ives,” a juried fine art and crafts
show, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday, June 11 and 12, at Ives Concert Park on
the Western Connecticut State University Westside
campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury.
This two-day event will feature a wide variety of
high-quality original works and a diverse scope of
art forms representing every major category. Food
and live music, along with art classes, demonstrations,
and children’s events also will be included.
The event will be held rain or shine. Jurors will
view artist applicant’s work. Artists are invited to
submit applications via zapplication.org/
event-info.php?ID=4739. The deadline for submissions
is Thursday, April 1, and the application
cost is $25. A program directory and the Ives
website will showcase each artist’s work and provide
artist contact information.
Artists The Hamden Art League is seeking artists
to enter the non-juried show, Goldenbells Art
Exhibition & Sale, which takes place April 6-April
28. Two-dimensional work only, no nudes or
photography. League may refuse inappropriate
work. Receiving: April 5, 4-6 p.m., Senior Center
at Miller Memorial Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave.
Hamden. Two entries per artist, maximum. $10
per work for members, $20 per work for nonmembers.
Artists Guilford Art Center’s Bowls exhibit will
explore what continues to be new and vital about
this simplest, most ancient, and most elemental
of forms, and submitted work is encouraged to
explore its many aspects. Entry deadline: April
22. Digital images and entry fee must be received.
Exhibit dates: June 17-July 31. Juror Julia Galloway
is a utilitarian potter, director of the School of
Art and professor at the University of Montana,
Missoula. Eligibility: This exhibition is open to
bowls in any media, including mixed media. All
submitted work must be three dimensional. Open
to U.S. residents. Awards: $500 in prize money to
be awarded by juror. Entry fee: $30, includes up to
three submissions. For more information, and for
complete prospectus, please visit
guilfordartcenter.org/gac-opportunities/
call-to-artists/ or contact Guilford Art Center at
203-453-5947.
Artists The Madison Art Society is hosting its
41st annual juried show May 2-May 27. The
exhibition will be held at the Scranton Memorial
Library, 801 Boston Post Road, Madison. The
show is open to all Connecticut artists who have
graduated high school or are 18 years or older.
The prospectus can be viewed at
madisonartsociety.blogspot.com. This year’s juror
is James Magner, plein air painter from Connecticut
and Chatham, Massachusetts. Receiving is April
30, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. The opening reception will
be held May 12, 5-7 p.m. Two special events will be
held in conjunction with the show. On May 15, at
1:30 p.m., artist Bill Colrus will provide an acrylic
painting demonstration. On May 26 at 6:30 p.m.,
the Guilford Poet’s Guild will host a reading of
poems inspired by the art on view in the exhibit.
Pick-up of all artwork is May 28, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Artists Smithtown Township Arts Council seeks
entries for juried fine art exhibition Of a Botanical
Nature at the Mills Pond Gallery. A call for
original artwork that reflects the beauty and
uniqueness of flora (realistic or representational
style). Plants and all aspects of plant development
such as seed pods, leaves, fruits, and flowers
are appropriate. All media considered except
photography and computer-generated art. Entry
deadline: May 12. Exhibit dates: June 18–July 20.
Juror: Wendy Hollender. Open to local and national
artists. Prospectus at stacarts.org/exhibits
or by sending email to gallery@stacarts.org. 660
Route 25A, St. James, NY, 11780. (631) 862-6575.
gallery@stacarts.org $45 for three entries. Cash
awards for first and second place.
Artists Smithtown Township Arts Council invites
submissions for its upcoming juried fine art exhibition
Animals in Art—Our Partners on the Planet
at the Mills Pond Gallery. Juror/judge Tim Newton.
Artists are encouraged to share their artistic
vision of animals, both domestic and wild. Artwork
may include any animals that live on land, in
the sea, or in the air and can range from realism
to surrealism to abstraction. Open to American
artists age 18 or older. All media considered except
photography and computer-generated art.
Entry fee $45 for up to three images. Awards:
$1,000 Best of Show, $500 Second Place, $250
Third Place. Prospectus at stacarts.org/exhibits/
show/96 or by sending email to gallery@stacarts.
org. Entry deadline: June 3. Exhibit dates: July
30-August 24. 660 Route 25A, St. James, NY,
11780. 631-862-6575. gallery@stacarts.org.
Artists Jaden Events is accepting applications
for the Thames River Art and Craft Show. It is a
two-day, juried show held on the beautiful coastal
campus of Mitchell College in New London on
June 25 and June 26, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. both days.
We have a special Referral Refund promotion to
help with booth costs. This is an outdoor show,
rain or shine, and 10 x 10 white (or light tan) canopies
are required. Please visit our Facebook page
or website for more information: facebook.com/
ThamesRiverArtAndCraftShow or jadenevents.
com. Accepting applications until June 10.
Artists For Arts Center Killingworth’s 2015–2016
Spectrum Gallery exhibits, including the Gallery
Show. Seeking fine artists and artisans in all
media. For artist submission, visit
spectrumartgallery.org or email
barbara@spectrumartgallery.org. Spectrum Gallery
and Store, 61 Main St., Centerbrook.
Artists The Gallery Review Committee of The
New Alliance Gallery at Gateway Community
College is looking for artists to submit their resumes
and images for possible exhibition in 2016.
Please send your resume and cover letter along
with a DVD of not less than 20 and no more than
25 images to Gallery Review Committee, Gateway
Community College, 20 Church St., Room
S329, New Haven, CT, 06510.
Artists The Tiny Gallery: a very big opportunity
for very small art. The Tiny Gallery is a premiere
space for “micro” exhibitions in the historic
Audubon Arts District, located within the lighted
display “totem” outside Creative Arts Workshop,
at 80 Audubon St., in New Haven. The Tiny Gallery
is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, 365 days a year. Submissions will be
considered on a rolling basis and should include a
written proposal, artist statement, and images of
artwork. Call (203) 562-4927 x. 14, email
gallery@creativeartsworkshop.org, or visit
creativeartsworkshop.org/tiny.
Artists Fourth national monotype/monoprint juried
exhibition. Location: Attleboro Arts Museum.
Juror: Andrew Stevens, curator of prints, Chazen
Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Cash prizes totaling $1,800. For prospectus,
membership information, and easy, online entry,
visit mgne.org. April 6-May 7. Opening reception:
April 7, 7-9 p.m. Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. $30 members, $45 non-members.
Monotype Guild of New England, 86 Park
St., Attleboro, Massachusetts. 508-222-2644.
Artists Selection by jury for 2016 and 2017 exhibitions,
at the Keyes Gallery, Willoughby Wallace
Memorial Library, 146 Thimble Islands Road,
Stony Creek. Sponsored by Friends of WWML.
Receiving Friday, April 29, 4-7 p.m. Pick-Up:
Sunday, May 1, 1-4 p.m. Artists should bring
three pieces representative of work. All media
accepted. $25 entry fee. Bring SASE. 203-488-
8702.
Policies and Rates
The Arts Paper Bulletin Board
Listings Policies and Rates,
effective with the December
2015 issue.
Call for Artists and Volunteer
listings are FREE and must be
art related.
Services and Space Listings
must be arts related.
Listings are limited to 350
characters (this includes
spaces). All listings must be
paid in advance for publication.
Classes & Workshops listings
should be posted to our online
calendar page and is a
membership privilege.
RATES
Organizations/Businesses
Member organizations and businesses are
entitled to three complimentary classified
listings in The Arts Paper per year. Listings
are also posted on the Arts Council’s
website, newhavenarts.org.
Rates: $15 per listing, three
listings for $30. Listings must be paid for in
advance.
Artists
Individual artist members are entitled to one
complimentary classified listing per year.
Rates: $10 per listing, three listings for $25.
Listings must be paid for in advance.
Non-members
Rates: $20 per listing, three listings for
$50. Listings must be paid for in advance.
Please note that the size limitation of listings
is 350 characters with spaces. The Arts
Council reserves the right to edit your listing
for length or content. The Arts Council
provides these listings as a service to the
community and is not responsible for the
content or deadlines. Call for Artists/Volunteers
are free and open to all arts organizations,
educational institutions, and creative
businesses.
To submit a Bulletin Board listing
please email your listing to:
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Filmmakers The New England Underground Film
Festival is seeking entries for its sixth annual
edition, to be held October 8 at the Best Video
Film and Cultural Center in Hamden. The festival
welcomes narrative, nonfiction, and experimental
works, either feature-length or short subjects.
The early bird deadline for entries is April 20 and
the final deadline for submission is August 20.
More information can be found on the festival
website, newenglanduff.webs.com.
per season (December and May). Our 2015–16
season will include works by Tavener, Gardiner,
and Brahms. An audition consists of meeting
with Mr. Shaw, doing some general vocalizing,
and performing a one-to-two-minute unaccompanied
selection chosen by the singer. An
audition may be scheduled at that time, or go to
our website, nhoratorio.org, to learn more about
NHOC, and follow the link there to schedule an
audition.
Instructors Are you a maker who loves to share
your knowledge? If yes, MakeHaven has been
looking for you. We are hiring instructors to teach
fabrication, woodworking, 3D printing, sewing,
mechanics, brewing, Arduino, electronics, cooking,
and other maker activities. What could you
teach us? makehaven.org.
Musicians The New Haven Chamber Orchestra
has openings in the violin, viola, and bass sections
for the 2015–2016 season. The orchestra
rehearses on Tuesday evenings at the Fair Haven
School, 164 Grand Ave. Rehearsals begin after
Labor Day. To sit in on a rehearsal or to audition,
contact the orchestra via email at
info@newhavenchamberorchestra.org.
Musicians and Actors Alika Hope and The Ray
of Hope Project will be holding auditions in three
cities for the following: 1) Guitar players (male,
any age), 2) percussion (male, African American,
any age), 3) actress, (Caucasian, age 25-45, 5’6”
plus), 4) actor (must be fluent in Hebrew, any
age). Boston, March 30, 4-7 p.m.; New York, April
6, 6-9 p.m.; Washington, D.C., April 30. All positions
paid. Equity and nonunion welcome. Music
and sides will be sent to those selected to audition.
To submit please send your resume to Troy
Valjean Rucker at musicactor@hotmail.com.
Volunteers, Artists, and Board Members Secession
Cabal, a New Haven-based group of outsider
artists working in theatre, film, visual art, and
other mediums seeks people for our board, sponsors,
volunteers with fundraising experience, and
artists in all mediums who agree with our mission
and create radical, brave work. Volunteers/board
members/sponsors: Please send a brief introduction.
Artists, please email a letter of interest/
introduction with examples of your bravest work.
More information at art-secession.org.
Photographers Are you a fan of photography?
A program of the Arts Council of Greater New
Haven, the Photo Arts Collective aims to cultivate
and support a community of individuals who
share an interest in photography through workshops,
lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews,
group critiques, and special events. The Photo
Arts Collective meets the first Thursday of each
month at 7 p.m. at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873
Whalley Ave., New Haven.
Singers The award winning Silk’n Sounds Chorus
is looking for new members from the area. We
invite women to join us at any of our rehearsals
to learn more. We enjoy four part a cappella
harmony in the barbershop style, lively performances,
and wonderful friendships. Rehearsals
are held every Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.–9 p.m., at the
Spring Glen United Church of Christ, 1825 Whitney
Ave., Hamden. Contact Lynn at (203) 623-
1276 for more information or visit silknsounds.org.
Singers New Haven Oratorio Choir invites auditions
by choral singers (all parts). We are a
chamber ensemble rehearsing weekly (Wednesday
nights) at Church of the Redeemer, New
Haven, under the leadership of Artistic Director
Daniel Shaw. We perform a varied repertoire of
sacred and secular classical music, including contemporary
composers, with two main concerts
Volunteers Volunteers are a vital part of
Artspace’s operation. Volunteering with
Artspace is a great way to support the organization,
meet new people, and develop new
skills. Our volunteers provide a service that
is invaluable to making Artspace function
smoothly. We simply couldn’t operate without
the tremendous support of our volunteers. To
find out more about volunteer opportunities,
please contact Shelli Stevens at
shelli@artspacenh.org.
Creative Services
Art Installation Specialists, LLC An art-handling
company serving homeowners, art professionals,
offices, galleries, and museums. We
offer packing, long-distance or local shipping,
and installation of paintings, mirrors, plaques,
signage, tapestries, and sculpture, as well as
framing, pedestals, exhibit design, and conservation.
Contact Paul Cofrancesco at (203)
752-8260, Gabriel Da Silva at (203) 982-3050,
e-mail: artinstallationspecialistsllc@gmail.com,
or visit artinstallationspecialistsllc.com.
Art Mentoring The goal of art mentoring is to
give artists individual feedback on their artwork
and help them to focus and develop a cohesive
body of work. More information at suzannesiegel.
net. “I’ve taken many classes and workshops
with Suzanne over several years. I totally enjoy
her style of teaching. I’m about to use several
adjectives to describe Suzanne, and I’m selecting
them with great thought,” said Anne Coffey. “She
is calm, creative, prepared, a problem-solver, and
very encouraging. Suzanne has helped me greatly
to progress in my art.”
Chair Repair We can fix your worn-out chair
seats if they are cane, rush, Danish cord, Shaker
tape, or other woven types. Celebrating our 25th
year! Work is done by artisans at The Association
of Artisans to Cane, a project of Marrakech, Inc.,
a private nonprofit organization that provides
services for people with disabilities. Open Monday-Thursday,
8 a.m.–4 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
(203) 776-6310.
Creative Events/Crafting Parties Our beautiful
light-filled space in East Rock is the perfect spot
to host an intimate creative gathering or party.
We’ll work with you to provide the programming,
snacks, drinks, and decorations that will make
your event memorable. Rent our space for up to
three hours. thehvncollective.com.
Creative Services Video recording with Sony,
photography and pictures for sale, personalized/
custom greeting cards, paper banners “done by
hand,” mutant portraits, slideshows, host of Oasis
D’Neon Video Magazine, New Haven history
(artists, musicians), proofreader, writer, teacher,
raconteur, driver/transporter, logo/poster/sign
design, model, interior/exterior painting. For more
information, email oasisdneon@gmail.com.
Historic Home Restoration Contractor Period
appropriate additions, baths, kitchens, and
remodeling. Sagging porches, straightened/leveled,
wood windows restored, plaster restored,
historic, molding and hardware, Vinyl/aluminum
siding removed, wood siding repaired/replaced.
Connecticut and New Haven Preservation
Trusts. RJ Aley Building Contractor (203) 226-
9933. jaley@rjaley.com.
Web Design & Art Consulting Services Startup
business solutions. Creative, sleek Web design
by art curator and editor for artist, design, architecture,
and small-business sites. Will create
and maintain any kind of website. Hosting provided.
Also low-cost in-depth artwork analysis,
writing, editing services. 203.387.4933.
azothgallery@comcast.net.
Space
Artist Studio West Cove Studio and Gallery
offers work space with two large Charles Brand
intaglio etching presses, lithography press, and
stainless-steel work station. Workshops and
technical support available. Ample display area
for shows. Membership: $75 per month. 30 Elm
St., West Haven. Individual Studio space also
available. Call (609) 638-8501 or visit
westcovestudio.org.
Studio Space Spacious three-car garage with
open floor plan. Has its own heat and electricity
and would make a really nice art studio. Great
location in the Mt. Carmel/Hamden Center area
(just off Whitney Avenue, near Eli’s Restaurant.)
$495/month, plus utilities. Call Charlie at
(203) 415-3393.
Jobs
Please visit newhavenarts.org for up-to-date local
employment opportunities in the arts.
The Arts Paper
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and calendar
deadlines:
The deadline for advertisements
and calendar listings for the
May 2016 edition of
The Arts Paper is:
Monday, March 28, at 5 p.m.
Future deadlines are as follows:
June 2016:
Monday, April 25, 5 p.m.
July/August 2016:
Tuesday, May 31, 5 p.m.
Calendar listings are for Arts
Council members only and should be
submitted online at newhavenarts.org.
Arts Council members can request a
username and password by sending
an e-mail to
communications@newhavenarts.org.
The Arts Council’s online calendar
includes listings for programs
and events taking place within 12
months of the current date.
Listings submitted by the calendar
deadline are included on a
monthly basis in The Arts Paper.
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yale institute of sacred music presents
colm toibin:
creating the
modern mary
Yale Literature
& Spirituality Series
thursday, april 7
5:30 pm
Sterling Library Auditorium
53 Wall St.
Book-signing follows
monteverdi:
vespers (1610)
Yale Schola Cantorum
Davd Hill, conductor
friday, april 15
7:30 pm
St. Joseph Church
129 Edwards St.
Preconcert talk at 6:30 pm
teesri dhun
(the third tune)
Live documentary transgender
drama from Pakistan
saturday, april 23
7:30 pm
Marquand Chapel
409 Prospect St.
All events free; no tickets required. ism.yale.edu
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call the Arts Council at 203.772.2788.
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member organizations & partners
Arts & Cultural
Organizations
ACES Educational Center for the Arts
aces.k12.ct.us
Alyla Suzuki Early
Childhood Music Education
alylasuzuki.com
203-239-6026
American Guild of Organists
sacredmusicct.org
Another Octave -
CT Women’s Chorus
anotheroctave.org
Arts Center Killingworth
artscenterkillingworth.org
860-663-5593
Arts for Learning Connecticut
www.aflct.org
Artspace
artspacenh.org
203-772-2709
Artsplace: Cheshire
Performing & Fine Art
cpfa-artsplace.org
203-272-2787
Ball & Socket Arts
ballandsocket.org
Bethesda Music Series
bethesdanewhaven.org
203-787-2346
Blackfriars Repertory Theatre
blackfriarsrep.com
Branford Art Center
branfordartscenter.com
Branford Folk Music Society
branfordfolk.org
Center for Independent Study
cistudy.homestead.com
Chestnut Hill Concerts
chestnuthillconcerts.org
203-245-5736
The Choirs of Trinity Church
on the Green
trinitynewhaven.org
City Gallery
city-gallery.org
203-782-2489
Civic Orchestra of New Haven
civicorchestraofnewhaven.org
Classical Contemporary Ballet
Theatre
ccbtballettheatre.org
Connecticut Dance Alliance
ctdanceall.com
Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus
ctgmc.org
1-800-644-cgmc
Connecticut Natural
Science Illustrators
ctnsi.com
203-934-0878
Creative Concerts
203-795-3365
CT Folk
ctfolk.com
DaSilva Gallery
dasilva-gallery.com
203-387-2539
East Street Arts
eaststreetartsnh.org
203-776-6310
EcoWorks CT
ecoworksct.org
Elm City Dance Collective
elmcitydance.org
Elm Shakespeare Company
elmshakespeare.org
203-874-0801
Firehouse 12
firehouse12.com
203-785-0468
Gallery One CT
galleryonect.com
Greater New Haven
Community Chorus
gnhcc.org
203-624-1979
Guilford Art Center
guilfordartcenter.org
203-453-5947
Guitartown CT Productions
guitartownct.com
203-430-6020
Hamden Art League
hamdenartleague.com
203-494-2316
Hamden Arts Commission
hamdenartscommission.org
Hillhouse Opera Company
hillhouseoperacompany.org
203-464-2683
Hopkins School
hopkins.edu
Hugo Kauder Society
hugokauder.org
The Institute Library
institutelibrary.org
International Festival
of Arts & Ideas
artidea.org
International Silat Federation of
America & Indonesia
isfnewhaven.org
Jazz Haven
jazzhaven.org
Kehler Liddell Gallery
203-389-9555
kehlerliddell.com
Knights of Columbus Museum
kofcmuseum.org
Legacy Theatre
legacytheatrect.org
Long Wharf Theatre
longwharf.org
203-787-4282
Lyman Center at SCSU
www.lyman.southernct.edu
Madison Art Society
madisonartsociety.blogspot.com
860-399-6116
Make Haven
makehaven.org
Mattatuck Museum
mattatuckmuseum.org
Meet the Artists and Artisans
meettheartistsandartisans.com
203-874-5672
Melinda Marquez Flamenco Dance
Center
melindamarquezfdc.org
203-361-1210
Milford Fine Arts Council
milfordarts.org
203-878-6647
Music Haven
musichavenct.org
203-215-4574
Musical Folk
musicalfolk.com
Neighborhood Music School
neighborhoodmusicschool.org
203-624-5189
New Haven Ballet
newhavenballet.org
203-782-9038
New Haven Free Public Library
nhfpl.org
New Haven Oratorio Choir
nhoratorio.org
New Haven Museum
newhavenmuseum.org
203-562-4183
New Haven Paint and Clay Club
newhavenpaintandclayclub.org
203-288-6590
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
newhavensymphony.org
203-865-0831
New Haven Theater Company
newhaventheatercompany.com
One True Palette
onetruepalette.com
Orchestra New England
orchestranewengland.org
203-777-4690
Pantochino Productions
pantochino.com
Paul Mellon Arts Center
choate.edu/artscenter
Performing Arts Academy of CT
artsinct.org
Play with Grace
playwithgrace.com
Reynolds Fine Art
reynoldsfineart.com
Royal Scottish Country Dance
Society, New Haven Branch
nhrscds.org
Shoreline Arts Alliance
shorelinearts.org
203-453-3890
Shubert Theater
shubert.com
203-562-5666
Silk n’ Sounds
silknsounds.org
Silk Road Art Gallery
silkroadartnewhaven.com
Susan Powell Fine Art
susanpowellfineart.com
203-318-0616
The Bird Nest Gallery
thebirdnestsalon.com
The Company of Writers
companyofwriters.net
203-676-7133
The Second Movement
secondmovementseries.org
Theater Department at SCSU/
Crescent Players
southernct.edu/theater
University Glee Club of New Haven
universitygleeclub.org
Vintanthromodern
vintanthromodernvintage.com
Wesleyan University
Center for the Arts
wesleyan.edu/cfa
West Cove Studio & Gallery
westcovestudio.com
609-638-8501
Whitney Arts Center
203-773-3033
Whitney Humanities Center
yale.edu/whc
Whitneyville Cultural Commons
1253whitney.com
Yale Cabaret
yalecabaret.org
203-432-1566
Yale Center for British Art
yale.edu/ycba
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
yale.edu.ism
203-432-5180
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural
History
peabody.yale.edu
Yale Repertory Theatre
yalerep.org
203-432-1234
Yale School of Music
music.yale.edu
203-432-1965
Yale University Art Gallery
www.artgallery.yale.edu
Yale University Bands
yale.edu/yaleband
203-432-4111
Creative Businesses
Access Audio-Visual Systems
accessaudiovisual.com
203-287-1907
Foundry Music Company
www.foundrymusicco.com
Hull’s Art Supply and Framing
hullsnewhaven.com
203-865-4855
Toad’s Place
toadsplace.com
Community Partners
Department of Arts Culture
& Tourism, City of New Haven
cityofnewhaven.com
203-946-8378
DECD/CT Office of the Arts
cultureandtourism.org
860-256-2800
Fractured Atlas
fracturedatlas.org
JCC of Greater New Haven
jccnh.org
New Haven Preservation Trust
nhpt.org
The Amistad Committee
ctfreedomtrail.org
Town Green Special
Services District
infonewhaven.com
Visit New Haven
visitnewhaven.com
Westville Village Renaissance
Alliance
westvillect.org
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arts council programs
Starlight Starbright by Annie Sailer. Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr.
Gallery. Family Reunion: Psyche, Spirit, and Humanness.
Green Smushes Blue by Noe Jimenez.
Perspectives... The Gallery at Whitney Center. Traduzindo Cor.
Rug, made of yarn, inspired by the Social Fiber project created by the
artisans of UArts Chapel Haven.
Perspectives... The Gallery at Whitney Center. Knack.
Perspectives …
The Gallery at Whitney Center
Location: 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden
Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., and Saturdays,
1-4 p.m.
Traduzindo Cor
Curated by Debbie Hesse and José Monteiro
Artists from Cape Verde and New Haven present work that, using colors,
patterns, and textures, represents a universal language.
Dates: On view through April 29
Knack
Curated by Debbie Hesse
Dates: May 13-September 6
Opening reception: Saturday, May 21, 3-5 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery
Location: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven,
70 Audubon St., 2nd Floor, New Haven
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Family Reunion:
Psyche, Spirit, and Humanness
Curated by Matt Reiniger and Debbie Hesse
Bringing artwork together that examines our
individual and collective memories of human ancestry imprinted and visually
represented as faces of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands,
and wives—a recollection of the wondrously strange and familiar. Family
Reunion is a homecoming, a celebration of identity as understood beyond
language and reason.
Family Tree
A companion show to Family Reunion, Family Tree features of paintings by
Mrs. Bennett’s Hamden Hall Country Day School students.
Dates: : Family Reunion and Family Tree are on view through April 29.
Katalina’s Bakery
Location: Katalina’s Bakery, 74 Whitney Ave., New Haven
Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. 6 p.m.; Saturday: 11 a.m. 6 p.m.
Mother(ing) and Child
Curated by Nichole René
This “family show,” an extension of the Family Reunion show at the
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. gallery, explores one of the oldest subjects
in the history of art: the relationship between mother and child. But what
does “motherhood” in today’s society look like?
Dates: April 25-May 31
Opening reception: Thursday, April 28, 4-6 p.m. (in partial celebration of
“take your child to work” day). Free and open to the public. Cupcakes will
be served, of course!
Advice from the AC
Need help finding exhibition space/opportunities,
performance/rehearsal space or developing new ways to promote your
work or creative event? Schedule a free one-on-one consultation with
Debbie Hesse, the organization’s director of artist services and programs
by calling (203) 772-2788.
Dates: April Art Advice sessions will take place at the James Blackstone
Memorial Library, 758 Main St., Branford, Thursdays, April 7 and April 14,
1-4 p.m.
Arts On AIR
Listen to the Arts Council’s Arts On Air broadcast on Monday, April 18,
during WPKN’s Community Programming Hour, 12-1 p.m. Hosted by the
Arts Council’s communications manager, Arts On Air features conversations
with local artists and representatives from local arts-organizations.
Listen live and online at wpkn.org.
Writers Circle
Join us for our April Writers Circle: “Sit Down and Write!”
In this weekend session, writer and Arts Council board member Daisy
Abreu will facilitate an open “writing studio” in which writers can work
without interruption. Bring a project you’ve been meaning to work on,
a piece you’re in the middle of editing and rewriting, or a plan to start
something totally new! We’ll provide a place to work, plenty of coffee and
tea, water, snacks, places to plug in, and a community of writers working
alongside one another!
RSVP required: aprilwriterscircle2016.eventbrite.com
For more information, please visit newhavenarts.org and the Arts Council’s
social-media pages for information about Writers Circle events. To be
added to the Writers Circle email list, please email
Communications@NewHavenArts.org.
Date: Saturday, April 2, 1-4 p.m.
Location: The Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven
Photo Arts Collective
The Photo Arts Collective is an Arts Council program that aims to cultivate
and support a community of individuals who share an interest in photography,
through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, group
critiques, and events. The Photo Arts Collective meets the first Thursday of
the month at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whitney Ave., New Haven, at
7 p.m. To learn more, send email to photoartscollective@gmail.com.
Save the Date
The Great Give: May 3 & 4
For more information on these events and more visit newhavenarts.org or
check out our mobile events calendar using the Arts, Nightlife, Dining & Information
(ANDI) app for smartphones.
Happy Drive 2016 (detail) by Insook Hwang.
Perspectives... The Gallery at Whiteny Center. Traduzindo Cor.
Joey Loos. Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery.
Family Reunion: Psyche, Spirit, and Humanness.
Mixed-media painting by Fethi Meghelli. Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery. Family Reunion: Psyche, Spirit, and Humanness.