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Karen Ponzio |
May 15, 2020 8:48 am
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Michael Moore and Gorman Bechard at Modern during last year’s festival
Last year at this time New Haven Documentary Film Festival, or NHDocs, was getting ready to fill screens for 10 days — from May 30 to June 9 — with over 100 films from all over the world, including New Haven. This year the festival’s organizers find themselves moving their seventh festival to the end of the summer, adapting and offering more viewing options as the world and their city deal with the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions.
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Brian Slattery |
May 14, 2020 10:12 am
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The cover for Evelyn Gray’s latest EP, Give Yrself What U Need, shows Gray in a location and disposition that seems almost jarring given our current situation on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. She’s outside, in a radiant desert, close to the photographer. The expression on her face conveys a sense of deep satisfaction.
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Brian Slattery |
May 13, 2020 10:01 am
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Rosenthal.
“We’re whole and broken at the same time,” said artist Judy Sirota Rosenthal, in delving into a concept that has fueled her art for decades.
She invoked the Japanese practice of kintsugi, whereby pottery is repaired by filling the breaks with gold, drawing attention to the break and making it part of the object’s history. She found resonance between that Asian practice and a lyric from Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, who drew from Jewish, Buddhist, and other belief systems in the lyrics to his songs: “There’s a crack, a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” She described a life in which working on art, on oneself, and on the world around us were part of the same thing.
“Making for me has been the work of my soul,” she said.
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Brian Slattery |
May 12, 2020 9:36 am
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A grandfather who left his homeland, vowing never to return, and a grandson who visited that place to reconnect.
On Monday night, Saul Fussiner told his story as part of Storytellers New Haven, hosted by Karen DuBois-Walton.
The series usually runs out of ConnCAT on Winchester Avenue. With the help of Baobab Tree Studios on Orange Street, the series drew dozens to its YouTube streaming, keeping the connections that stories can create healthy and strong during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Social worker Amy Joy Myers also told a story; please watch the video above to hear it in its entirety.)
Havenly Treats’ Passoni and Nieda outside Sweet Mary’s, where they plan to start serving free food this week.
When Caterina Passoni and Nieda Abbas heard that downtown bakery Sweet Mary’s was temporarily suspending business during the Covid-19 pandemic, they saw an opportunity to support two bakeries at once.
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Brian Slattery |
May 11, 2020 9:33 am
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Flanked by two women who were alternatively adoring and accusatory, Stout began her show with Nina Simone’s “My Name Is.” There was nothing behind them but a blank white space, an empty canvas. Stout moved to a small electronic rig just within arm’s reach, pressed a button, and started off a drum beat to slip into “See-Line Woman.” Then she added a coda that layered her own voice to create a lusher soundscape.
Voices intertwined. The drums dropped out. A sound emerged like a UFO landing.
“Queen Nina. That’s what you are. Even though you left us, your legacy still resides,” Stout said.
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Thomas Breen |
May 8, 2020 2:01 pm
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Kaylib, DJ Rob Nice, and DJ Skorp riding up Blatchley Avenue during Friday’s Census party on wheels.
Behind a face mask, DJ Rob Nice stood on the back of a flatbed truck driving up Blatchley Avenue and shouted through the mic: “2020 Census, baby! Wash your hands! Wash your hands!”
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Karen Ponzio |
May 8, 2020 10:14 am
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Stephen Gritz King.
“Are you with me?” said New Haven musician Stephen Gritz King. “No time like the present.”
The present was Thursday night, and Thursday night was the first musical performance from At Home In New Haven, a new virtual stage that began operations on Monday, May 4.
King was the first of three acts to play on this night, the other two being Frederic Anthony and Patrick Dalton. Each act played from their own space and was broadcast via Zoom.
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Brian Slattery |
May 7, 2020 10:15 am
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Adam Matlock, a.k.a. An Historic, starts off “Nicer In This World” with a flourish from an electric piano before settling into a mellow groove like stripped-down Afropop. Then comes his voice, unfurling a set of lyrics shot through humor, sarcasm, and sincerity, all at once: “You’re starting to like all the time you spend out there in nature / digging a crater for all your friends and their intentions / Oh, did I mention? I’m starting to see you for what you are / I admire your clarity of vision / I get too distracted by something that isn’t a reasonable action / Pulled off the course but I made my way home by the light of your star.”
Tuesday was the first of two nights that the Harlem deejay would be spinning tunes via Facebook and Instagram Live to celebrate the Class of 2020 and to help raise money as part of the program’s annual Great Give fundraiser to support their College Access program.
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Brian Slattery |
May 6, 2020 9:25 am
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Revelation.
Generalova Kate’s Revelation is part political cartoon, part street manifesto, simple and provocative. It has an effect even without Kate’s explanation, conveying the raw immediacy of today’s headlines and a sardonic, intriguing distance from them.
“It became a “revelation” for me when the news began to report that doctors are subjected to aggressive behavior by the urban population,” Kate, who lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, writes in an accompanying statement. “This is due to the fact that people panic and are afraid of being infected by doctors.” Revelation, she explained, was made in solidarity with health workers, who help protect so many from the virus but are vulnerable themselves.
