by | Oct 4, 2023 8:29 am | Comments (13)
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City Economic Development Officer Dean Mack: "We're moving away from the municipal option. We are right now focusing on more of a market-driven option."
New Haven is still trying to bridge the digital divide, and has turned to the private market to do the heavy lifting.
by | Oct 2, 2023 3:40 pm | Comments (8)
Books newly acquired by the NHFPL in September.
A new biography of the world’s richest man. A family drama about an arranged-marriage divorce. A true story of disguise, escape, slavery, and freedom. A chemistry-to-cooking comedy that captures “the Catch-22 of early feminism.”
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by | Sep 18, 2023 4:22 pm | Comments (13)
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Pride Center Executive Director Juancarlos Soto (center): "Come party with us!"
Drag performances, banned books, rainbow flags and more will be on display across New Haven this week — as the city kicks off its annual pride festival.
by | Aug 10, 2023 3:34 pm | Comments (5)
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Fair Haven Library Branch Manager Kirk Morrison with weekly table of local bounty.
All books must be returned after three weeks; DVDs, after one; but the farm-fresh vegetables absolutely never need to be returned. In fact they can’t ever even be borrowed.
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by | Aug 8, 2023 9:09 am | Comments (2)
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Mindi Englart traces Jamine Ackert at library-hosted workshop.
Jamine Ackert, a single mother and the friend of Mindi Englart, the organizer of an art workshop for single moms and their kids, lay on her back on top of a large sheet of paper on the floor of Ives Main Library on Elm Street. Englart painstakingly traced her outline with marker, so that Ackert could fill it in with a representation of herself.
“I feel like you can fill your real self in,” said Englart. “When you trace yourself there’s a real connection, and I’m trying to encourage people to make that connection.”
by | Aug 7, 2023 8:27 am | Comments (0)
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The Art School, flooded, as shown in Unfinished Spaces.
The Cuban Revolution ended in the year 1959, leaving Fidel Castro as the country’s prime minister and Cuba itself poised for a time of questioning the old ways, and opening up new avenues of living.
In the spirit of change and innovation, Castro commissioned three architects — Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti — to build an art school on the location of an old golf course.
Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray’s 2011 documentary, Unfinished Spaces, tells the story of that art school: its triumphs, its failures, and the ways in which it represents the triumphs and failures of Castro’s regime.
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by | Aug 3, 2023 9:09 am | Comments (2)
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Jakki Cousins and Azora Lindsay at the keyboard at Wilson library.
Hanhe Choi and Azora Lindsay ran around the Music Room at Wilson Branch Library like kids in a candy store.
But instead of tooth-rotting sweets, the 23-month-old and 2‑year-old kiddos were focused on a range of keyboards, drums, and shakers, as pleasing to the ears as candy would be to the tongue.
The toddlers rushed from instrument to instrument, touching everything they could and figuring out how to create the loudest sound. Before long, the room filled up with a cacophony of joy.
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by | Aug 2, 2023 1:01 pm | Comments (4)
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Earl Durham: "I need a job, and a source of income."
Earl Durham took a break from studying to become a railroad engineer to try to get back on the job at a nearby Amazon warehouse, which is in the middle of its latest local hiring push.
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by | Jul 28, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (3)
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Tennille Murphy shows off her spin on a classic summer treat.
Twenty pairs of eyes widened in awe as Kidz Kook founder Tennille Murphy revealed that the Mitchell Library’s very own mini-chefs would be making ice cream — with a nutritious twist.
by | Jul 17, 2023 3:11 pm | Comments (5)
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Eric Cajamarca and Diana Pérez perusing the nonfiction shelves.
Eric Cajamarca and Diana Pérez took a break from exploring downtown on a hot and rainy day to engage in a bit of friendly competition in the public library stacks.
by | Jul 5, 2023 8:47 am | Comments (4)
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New top city librarian Maria Bernhey, with see-through backpacks ...
... at Monday's Ives Branch "Stay and Play."
During her first day on the job, new City Librarian Maria Bernhey made a bee line to the new Early Literacy Corner, a cozy spot on the second floor of the Ives Main Branch on Elm Street, where a dozen of the new diaphanous see-through-backpack kits — a way to expand literacy beyond the library — sat invitingly on the shelves, their first day available.
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