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Jul 15, 2024 8:40 am
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Mildly Allergic.
Before getting off stage, Tony Mascolo of Wasteworld gave the crowd an earnest stare. “Does anyone need to use my amp?” he said. Someone from one of the other bands getting ready to play answered strongly in the affirmative. Mascolo nodded and left his amp where it was, helping someone in the next set out. The sharing of equipment — and in time, personnel — was a hallmark of the strong sense of camaraderie among the members of four bands that rocked Three Sheets on Friday, two of which had just a couple years ago started off playing house shows around the area and now were hitting stages.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 12, 2024 9:34 am
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Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma.
New Haven is a pretty easy place to find Italian food and fairs, but what about films? The Institute Library is satisfying that craving this summer with their new film series, “Ciao, Bella!” On Thursday night the second film of the three in the series — 1962’s Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Polo Pasolini — was screened among the stacks of their biography room. Library member John Hatch had the idea for the series and according to operations manager Eva Geertz, it was one she was happy to help come to fruition.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 12, 2024 8:31 am
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Alice Matthews, Jasmine Keegan, and Chris Chew clean a reproduction of Child with Dog.
There’s a lot of work that goes into curating and maintaining an art collection like that of the Yale Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St., and usually, the public only gets to see the finished product. But on Thursday, the gallery offered a glimpse behind the curtain to see some of the conservation work that goes into taking care of its artwork in a Sidewalk Studio workshop.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 11, 2024 9:08 am
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Mamma Mia!
The crowd in Pitkin Plaza.
Several dozen people gathered in Pitkin Plaza on Wednesday night for Movies in the Plaza, a weekly summer movie night organized by the Town Green District.
The night’s screening was the beloved and absurd ABBA-based jukebox musical, Mamma Mia!
A strong wind kept the audience cool and provided the perfect backdrop for dramatic hair-flips and other musical staples as the crowd gathered on fold-up chairs and picnic blankets to answer the age-old question: who’s the father?
Still figuring it out: Drivers side-by-side across double yellow line on newly two-way stretch of York.
As Yale New Haven Hospital staffer Rosalyn Curry walked out of work and down York Street, a car sped past her, barreling down the wrong side of the street. She shouted after the driver: “It’s a two-way now!”
(Updated) West Haven driver Nader Elias Hanania, 63, died early Wednesday morning after his vehicle was struck by a car that blew through a red light at South Frontage Road and College Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 10, 2024 9:23 am
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The untitled piece conveys, first and foremost, a sense of the warm, abiding joy when people come together arm in arm. The strength of the piece begins with how easily this joy is conveyed, through the simplicity of the figures. It’s all in the color and the gesture. The objects at the figures’ feet give context for the feeling. The assortment of weapons on the ground — weapons they have discarded — give a sense of the violence the figures have overcome. They’re symbols of conflict across place and time, from ancient grudges to today’s all-out wars. What would happen if we laid those weapons down? What could the world be like?
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Jul 3, 2024 1:49 pm
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Jimmy Reardon, at work renovating the bus kiosk.
Jimmy Reardon cut a hole in the roof of the decades-old bus kiosk on the Green — to install a vent for a new air conditioner, and to help bring that long-shuttered building back online so that bus riders can buy passes in person again on Chapel Street.
“I feel like failure is a really bad word, but there’s a lot of failure in pottery,” said Megan Smith, the teacher of Centering With Clay: Focusing on Pottery Foundations, a seven-week-long class for adults at Creative Arts Workshop on Audubon Street.
Smith’s goal for the first class on Tuesday wasn’t that her students make the perfect pot; that seemed unlikely, seeing as most of them were beginners. Rather, it was to lay the foundations, and instill in them a fundamental truth of all art: practice makes progress, and failure can be fun.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 3, 2024 9:20 am
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Clothed in Christ.
“Life could be black and white like the old TVs. Instead, God made it like an art gallery.” These are the words of Msgr. Paul Steimel on Aug. 27, 2020, hanging beside his portrait, Clothed in Christ, in the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center’s new exhibit, “Do This In Memory of Me: National Sacred Art Exhibit,”running now through Aug. 25.
The show — its title taken from the words of Jesus during the Last Supper, before he was crucified — demonstrates the ways in which humans represent and interpret that which they hold sacred, showing how people relate to Christianity and how they can share it with others through the medium of art.
Kallou Gindeel knew how to get the crowd moving. As traditional Sudanese music played from the speakers behind him, attendees around the room joined to form a conga line.
Arts & Ideas techies offered those takeaways on Monday as they worked hard to dismantle the festival’s main stage on the Green — and reflected on their work coordinating events, arranging sound production, and providing lighting that illuminates the artists for the people of New Haven to see.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 1, 2024 9:39 am
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Repping "Trinbago" on the Green: "Come out and learn about other people’s culture."
Gammy Moses: "When we play the drums, we are paying tribute to our ancestors."
Michelle Cave, Allison Lewis, Anthea Bartholomew, and Allison DeRoche of the Trinbago American Association of Southern Connecticut showed up to the Green to show off their heritage.
Their table at Saturday’s Caribbean Festival was lined with cultural objects from Trinidad and Tobago, including a steel pan, local drinks like Trinidad rum and Sole Apple J, and sweets like tamarind balls. They also had a large flag with the Trinidad and Tobago coat of arms, featuring a scarlet ibis, two hummingbirds, and a bird called a cocrico above the motto, “together we aspire, together we achieve.”
“This is great because people can come out and learn about other people’s culture,” Lewis said. She expressed that most of the time, we are fully immersed in our own experience, and don’t look outside of ourselves. The festival provided an opportunity to change that. “It’s like traveling without having to go somewhere.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 1, 2024 9:12 am
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At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,” he said. “Salsa is Latin soul. The essence of salsa is ritmo — rhythm — and it started in Africa and the Caribbean with the conga, skin on wood.”
The conga in the Hartt Salsa All-Stars began, laying down a steady percolating groove that, it turned out, did not let up for nearly three hours. For one of the final nights of this year’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the All-Stars and Grammy-winning artist Dobet Gnahoré, from Côte d’Ivoire, luxuriated in the power of African and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to create joy and connection.
The senior living community known as The Towers at Tower Lane will be receiving $20 million to improve conditions and reach broader environmental goals, thanks to HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP).
No one rushing by the commerce-crossroads of Church and Elm Streets could hear the Sean Paul beats coursing through the headphones of a woman commanding the corner as her stage. They could see her hips keeping the beat — and keeping a hula hoop suspended above the sidewalk.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 27, 2024 10:19 am
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Samara Joy.
Samara Joy wowed the crowd at College Street Music Hall Wednesday night with her powerhouse vocal stylings as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. A rising star in the jazz world who has already won three Grammys, including 2023’s Best New Artist, she offered 90 minutes of musical magic, calling to mind the classic jazz vocalists who came before her but wholly commanding the stage with her own range and flair for making the personal universal through songs and stories.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 27, 2024 9:23 am
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CONTRA-TIEMPO's Ruby Morales: "We’re gonna practice ancestral technologies.”
Bennie Morris was not having a good day. Somebody had hacked his bank account, and he was on the way back from the bank to cancel any outgoing checks. Not to mention, it was 88 — and felt like 92 — degrees out, and he had to walk through the New Haven Green under the burning sun, wearing a full suit.
But then Morris passed the Arts and Ideas tent where CONTRA-TIEMPO, an activist dance theater, was holding a dance workshop in anticipation of its show, ¡AZUCAR!, this weekend. As he was about to walk right on by, somebody waved him over and invited him to join. Suddenly, Morris’s day changed drastically for the better.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 26, 2024 11:08 am
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Sherry Pocknett: "We've been here for 12,000 years and we're not going anywhere."
Catching and cleaning eels with relatives. Learning about the migratory patterns of birds and fish. Deciding that snapping turtle soup might be your favorite dish.
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Jabez Choi |
Jun 25, 2024 11:01 am
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Closing up, Tuesday morning: "We built power in our movement."
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A tent encampment on the Green grew overnight — and then disbanded of its own accord Tuesday morning, with the group’s organizers heralding the outing as a success for drawing attention to the plight of homelessness.
Twelve tents popped up on the Green Monday evening — as part of a rescheduled overnight protest against past clearings of homeless encampments, and in support of the rights of the unhoused.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 24, 2024 9:21 am
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The 7 Fingers in "Dual Reality."
The 7 Fingers, an acrobatic and theatrical company, was about to begin its performance of Arts & Ideas’ Duel Reality, a circus-like retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when a fight appeared to break out in the audience.
The ushers had split the crowd down the middle and given half the attendees a red wristband while the other half received blue. The problem: two audience members noticed that a third “audience member” was seated in the wrong section, wearing a blue wristband in the red half. They asked him to move. He resisted. Just as the audience started to get nervous that a real physical altercation was occurring, all would-be combatants ran up onto the stage. The show had already begun.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2024 9:05 am
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Agnete Wisti Lassen and Mohamad Hafez: "I cannot think of a more fulfilling engagement."
Mohamad Hafez
Eternal Cities.
“I don’t like to speak,” artist Mohamad Hafez said to a packed audience at the Peabody Museum on Friday night. Since he became a public artist, he said, “I wanted my art to speak on my behalf,” and “I love it when institutions take the artwork, and they talk.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2024 8:17 am
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Haitian-American band Jo. L. & Friends started their Thursday evening set on the Green with a barrage of drums, tight and pounding beats. An hour and a half later, the Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha announced its presence on the stage by ripping out rhythms on multiple drums.
Both musical gestures had the same effect. They were calls to gather. They set the tone for each band’s set. And they were a promise, that each band would stir the feet and heart, even as the sources of their musical traditions were over 5,000 miles apart.
