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“A Little Bit Of Death” Captures A Lot Of Life

by Brian Slattery | Dec 10, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (0)

Zulynette stood on a stage blank enough that it felt like a void. ​“This show is a spell,” she said. ​“If you have lived a life, you have a story to tell.”

She was introducing A Little Bit of Death — now available on Long Wharf Theater’s website through Dec. 11 — an evening of storytelling she put together that is part of Long Wharf’s new One City, Many Stages program.

In teaming up with Zulynette, the Long Wharf’s artistic leadership is making good on its promise to ground the theater further in the community around it, even as it wrestles with the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

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2020 Arts Awards Lift Every Voice

by Brian Slattery | Dec 3, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (2)

Host Babz Rawls-Ivy beamed from the offices of the Arts Council at the over 100 people gathered virtually Wednesday evening to celebrate the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 40th annual arts awards. She noted that it was an historic occasion — but not because pandemic restrictions had prevented the audience from gathering in person at the New Haven Lawn Club, as they have in years past.

“Forty years,” she said, ​“and all the awardees are Black. I love to see it.”

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Bitsie Fund Names 2020 Awardee

by Brian Slattery | Nov 2, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (1)

Arts maven Bitsie Clark welcomed her virtual audience to her 89th birthday party on Friday evening with a cheeky rendition of Cole Porter’s ​“Let’s Do It.” But there was a serious intent behind the festivities: to check in with the 2019 recipients of the Bitsie Clark Fund’s annual $5,000 grants, and to award another $5,000 grant to a new artist for 2020.

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Puma Simone Digs Deep On “Black and Blue” Sequel

by Brian Slattery | Sep 22, 2020 10:34 am | Comments (1)

Puma Simone locked eyes with the camera Monday night, and by extension, the audience of two dozen looking back at them through Zoom. ​“I’ve always been on my own timeline,” said the New Haven-based artist. They were ​“trying to remember that there’s a greater plan to this journey,” and that things might ​“take longer than I want.”

But ​“I’m here,” they said.

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Black Art Matters Brings Arts Back To The Street

by Brian Slattery | Aug 31, 2020 8:08 am | Comments (2)

Love’N Co set up fast at the end of the block on Orange and Crown Streets and brought joyous songs to Black Art Matters, an art, music, and craft fair held on Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. that — masks and social distancing and all — brought the arts back to New Haven’s summer streets, with a message.

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