by | Aug 14, 2011 7:47 pm | Comments (0)
For the second consecutive year, CT Folk is sponsoring a songwriting competition as part of the organization’s Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo.
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by | Aug 11, 2011 10:10 am | Comments (0)
Next Thursday, the Poetry Institute will welcome poet Walter E. Butts to the Institute Library as part of a monthly reading series. In 2009, Butts was named poet laureate of New Hampshire, an honorific he’ll hold until 2014.
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by | Aug 3, 2011 11:37 am | Comments (0)
Left to right: Hamid Micheal Mutawadd’i, Croilot Carlos Adames, and Tareshi Schuler
Verbal Slap, a New Haven-based five-person poetry team, will compete next week at the National Poetry Slam in Boston. The team is hoping to raise $2,000 to help defray the cost of the trip — specifically the cost of lodging.
by | Jul 29, 2011 2:21 pm | Comments (3)
Local filmmakers who can create a movie from a few totally unrelated storyline elements will have an opportunity next weekend to grab the brass ring: a screening of their work at the Cannes International Film Festival. Before entering the New Haven 48 Hour Film Project, though, they’d be wise to get some serious sleep.
by | Jul 28, 2011 1:44 pm | Comments (1)
While 24-hour cable-news talking heads are calling the debt-ceiling-debate play-by-play at full volume, arts organizations are trying to get a word in about funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
by | Jul 22, 2011 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
Garth Neustadter, a composition student at the Yale School of Music, has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World.
by | Jul 19, 2011 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
While state employee unions work on a new concessions package, local arts organizations are likely seeing red over Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget-balancing plan. Malloy’s proposal would reduce state funding for numerous arts and cultural organizations including the Shubert theater and International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
by | Jul 15, 2011 10:20 am | Comments (0)
In April, New Haven resident Joshua Foer, the best-selling author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, organized a tour of The Cushing Center at Yale University’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. This month, the Cushing Center is being introduced to a wider audience by way of Architectural Record and The Architect’s Newspaper.
by | Jul 12, 2011 4:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Department of Cultural Affairs Director Barbara Lamb, Public Art Coordinator Margaret Bodell, and Kim Futrell
In May, Project Storefronts, a creative-entrepreneurism-focused initiative administered by the City of New Haven’s Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven, was recognized with a Creative Economy Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. Today, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Project Storefronts an “Our Town” grant.
by | Jul 6, 2011 11:25 am | Comments (1)
Photo Courtesy of Bonnie Koba
Next week, local educators and those from around Connecticut and the United States will work to “deepen their understanding of the HOT approach to teaching and learning” during a week-long professional-development program.
by | Jul 4, 2011 8:29 am | Comments (0)
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed is on view at YCBA
The Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Art Gallery are among a dozen museums Departures magazine recommends visiting. In the publication’s August 2011 issue, Center for Curatorial Leadership Director Elizabeth Easton singled out 12 places that offer an “intimate look at some of the world’s great pieces” of art.
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by | Jul 1, 2011 12:52 pm | Comments (0)
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman
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In a research report issued this week, the National Endowment for the Arts suggests that the number of career opportunities for artists will grow, over the next seven years, at essentially the same rate as the American workforce. The NEA bases its findings on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2010-11 Edition.
by | Jun 22, 2011 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Donald Windham, second from left, with Tanaquil Le Clercq, Buffie Johnson, Tennessee Williams, and Gore Vidal.
Thanks to a bequest from the late American literary figure Donald Windham, Yale University will, on an annual basis, award more than half a dozen writers enough money to take a year off to pursue their craft.
by | Jun 21, 2011 3:07 pm | Comments (0)
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The New Haven Chorale has announced plans to perform in Europe next month.
by | Jun 20, 2011 4:06 pm | Comments (1)
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William Boughton
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has been recognized by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the League of American Orchestras for its dedication to new music.
by | Jun 15, 2011 11:23 am | Comments (0)
Next month, three familiar media personalities will join The Second City Touring Company onstage at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Geoff Fox, Chris Velardi, and Vinnie Penn will each walk — if only for a night — in the footsteps of such comic giants as Dan Ayckroyd, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner.
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by | Jun 13, 2011 11:58 am | Comments (0)
Photo Courtesy of Hugo Kauder Society
David Pershall
The New Haven-based Hugo Kauder Society—whose mission, according to the organization’s website, is “to foster awareness and appreciation of the composer Hugo Kauder and to provide opportunities to emerging musicians to perform or even premiere his works” — held its Seventh Annual Hugo Kauder International Music Competition for Voice at Neighborhood Music School on Friday. Baritone David Pershall, soprano Claire DiVizio, and soprano Jamilyn Manning-White took first, second, and third prize, respectively.
by | Jun 9, 2011 6:15 am | Comments (0)
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J.D. McClatchy
Last month, nine individuals from the fields of art, literature, and music were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Five of the inductees have strong ties to Yale University.
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by | Jun 7, 2011 4:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Education writer John Merrow
Carmalyn Buleje Cook, who, for more than 20 years, has taught music at the John C. Daniels School of International Communication, is one of 50 recipients from 30 states of the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award.
by | Jun 2, 2011 12:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Youth Rights Media participants view film footage
As New Haven residents and public officials grapple with a rash of gun violence that saw seven shootings take place in a 48-hour period, several of the city’s youth are set to premiere a documentary film on the subject.
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by | May 31, 2011 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Mary Lou Aleskie.
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is included in the “Traveler 20,” a list of “travel-worthy events and happenings” published in the May/June 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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by | May 26, 2011 1:59 pm | Comments (0)
“Zebra,” a painting in oil on canvas by artist George Stubbs dated 1763, is one of the many images that will be accessible to the public through the Yale Center for British Art’s new online catalog.
Beginning May 20, the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom, is sharing its extraordinary holdings with the world through a new online catalog.
by | May 24, 2011 8:29 am | Comments (1)
Elaine Carroll
Monday, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra announced that Elaine Carroll will serve as the organization’s interim executive director, beginning June 1. Carroll will take over for Natalie Forbes — who served as the orchestra’s executive director for six years before announcing her departure in February — until the organization hires a permanent replacement.
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by | May 23, 2011 2:42 pm | Comments (1)
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NEFA board member Sandra Burton, NEFA Executive Director Rebecca Blunk, Margaret Bodell, Barbara Lamb, and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman
Project Storefronts, an initiative conceived and managed by the City of New Haven’s Department of Cultural Affairs and supported by the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven, was one of two organizations to receive a Creative Economy Award on Friday from the New England Foundation for the Arts. The Vermont-based Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, which is directed by Robert McBride, also received an award. Each organization received $3,500 during an event at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
by | May 17, 2011 3:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Bill T. Jones’s “Serenade,” coming to the Festival of Arts and Ideas this summer with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts has just released information about the latest round of grants for not-for-profit arts organizations nationwide, with Connecticut receiving $1,279,000 in dedicated funding. Within Connecticut, 7 of the 16 arts grants awarded will serve to support New Haven organizations in the categories of Learning in the Arts and Artistic Excellence. Grants are being made to Artspace, Elm Shakespeare Company, Neighborhood Music School, New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Yale University Art Gallery and Yale-New Haven Hospital.