The Arts Paper - July/August 2014

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Artists Next Door Hank Hoffman talks with author Sandi Kahn Shelton

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board of directors

Cynthia Clair executive director

Robert B. Dannies, Jr. president

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Julie Trachtenberg director of development & marketing Debbie Hesse director of artistic services & programs Bobbi Griffith director of membership & advertising Stephen Grant communications manager Winter Marshall executive administrative assistant David Brensilver editor, the arts paper Amanda May Aruani design consultant

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Kids Build Svigals + Partners include students in the design process

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“Lincoln Oak” Exhibit explores history beneath fallen tree

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Elm Shakespeare Company Andreassi sets Pericles in the Caribbean

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Letter from the editor In this edition of The Arts Paper, we introduce you to the culture at Svigals + Partners, a New Haven-based architecture firm whose Kids Build program includes students in the building-design process and gives them a glimpse into the worlds of architecture and engineering. The firm also collaborates with adult members of school communities in the design of new facilities. Svigals + Partners is currently designing the new Engineering and Science University Magnet School in West Haven and the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In each case, members of the school community have contributed a great deal to the project, reflecting the culture inside Svigals + Partners’ Orange Street offices.

We also give readers a glimpse into Elm Shakespeare Company Artistic Director James Andreassi’s creative

process. Andreassi spent much of May on his power boat – the company’s “nautical office” – making his way from Fort Pierce, Florida, to the Connecticut shoreline, and, on the way, sharpening his Caribbean vision for the company’s production of Pericles, which will be staged in Edgerton Park in August.

For his Artists Next Door feature, Hank Hoffman sat down with local author Sandi Kahn Shelton to discuss her latest novel, The Opposite of Maybe, and the way she develops – and gets to know – the characters who tell her stories.

Steve Scarpa has contributed an article about the New Haven Museum exhibit Nothing is Set in Stone: The Lincoln Oak and The New Haven Green, which focuses on the history that was literally unearthed when the “Lincoln Oak” fell on the New Haven Green during Superstorm Sandy.

Also included in this edition of The Arts Paper is a story

by Elizabeth Weinberg about the Yale University Art Gallery’s new free membership program, a Q&A-style interview by Stephen Chupaska with Gathering of the Vibes founder Ken Hays, and a column by Arts Council commu-

Sincerely,

David Brensilver, editor The Arts Paper

On the Cover

In the next issue …

The September edition of The Arts Paper will include a preview of some of the compelling programming that’ll be presented in the area this coming fall, including the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which will be directed by James Bundy (pictured).

Photo by Joan Marcus.

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nications manager Stephen Grant welcoming new faces to the local arts community and bidding a fond farewell to Larry Zukof, who’s retiring after nearly two decades at the helm of Neighborhood Music School.

And speaking of columns by Stephen Grant, I encourage you to find and read my colleague’s thoughtful Huffington Post piece, “Why I Decided Not to Have a Big Gay Wedding.” All of us at the Arts Council congratulate Stephen on the publication of his commentary.

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Engineering and Science University Magnet School students design a cantilever using popsicle sticks.

Local architectural firm Svigals + Partners is designing the new ESUMS building that is projected to open in 2016. See story on page 5.

Photo courtesy of Svigals + Partners.

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Character witness Novelist Sandi Kahn Shelton’s protagonists bare their lives hank hoffman

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osie Kelley woke Sandi Kahn Shelton in the middle of the night. Get up, Rosie insisted. Write down what I have to say.

No, it couldn’t wait until morning. This is the kind of behavior Shelton has come to expect, and not just from Rosie.

Rosie is the protagonist in The Opposite of Maybe, Shelton’s latest novel, written under the name Maddie Dawson and published in April.

A 44-year-old woman, Rosie finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after separating from her long-term partner and moving back home with the cantankerous grandmother who raised her.

The Opposite of Maybe is Shelton’s fifth novel; the first three were written under her own name. Shelton, a Guilford resident, has also authored several nonfiction humor books about her experiences as a working mother. She was a longtime columnist and reporter for the New Haven Register as well as a columnist for Working Mother magazine.

Like most of Shelton’s characters, Rosie Kelley came on a schedule convenient to her if not to her author.

“They’re very disagreeable that way,” Shelton says, laughing.

“The characters and plots arrive simultaneously — the plot is the character,” Shelton tells me in an interview at her home.

Once she has an idea, Shelton starts writing, typing about 20 pages “to see where it leads, who the character is.” At that point, Shelton plans out the rest of her story — settling on a premise, how she wants her protagonist to interact with the other characters, “who’s against her and what she really wants.”

Rosie Kelley’s story poses the question of what happens when something occurs that not only changes your life but also the story you have been telling yourself about who you are and what you do.

“I feel we all narrate our lives as we go along: ‘I’m this sort of person and I do this and this and can’t do this,’” Shelton says. “What if that gets turned around completely and you have to invent a new life for yourself? Once I had that premise I thought it could be a pregnancy long after you’ve thought you’re not the type to raise a family.”

Shelton likens developing a character to getting to know a new friend.

“It’s a process of discovery,” she says. “I’ll be riding down the road in my car and feel a whole chunk of knowledge drop into my head. I have had to pull over and write it down.

“They do feel real in a kind of weird way,” Shelton says. “You start to see your own life through their eyes. A song on the radio — you hear it the way that character would hear it and respond to it.

“They live alongside you and are telling you this story all the time,” Shelton says. “When you’re really done, it’s like you can’t find them anymore. They’ve packed up and gone.”

Shelton adopted the Dawson pseudonym for her fourth novel, The Stuff That Never Happened,

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at the suggestion of her publishers, who realized they had mistakenly allowed her to get pigeonholed in the “chick-lit” genre. Her first three novels featured young female protagonists. But with her fourth book, Shelton told the decidedly not chick-lit story of Annabelle McKay, a middle-aged woman re-examining her commitment to her marriage and pondering whether to rekindle an affair that had ended 25 years earlier.

“It’s amazing how many people had this secret in their past,” Shelton says. More than any of her other books, readers tell her that they lived Annabelle’s story. “Little old ladies that you’d never think of will come and say, ‘I had this secret affair, my husband knew and we had to rebuild.’ And I’ll think, ‘Really?’”

Shelton allows that she writes “dysfunctional family fiction.” Her novels are laced with humor, romance, and drama. She is drawn to stories of women who appear to be comfortably living their lives until they realize they face a reckoning, “that they have been deluding themselves or keeping themselves trapped.”

“I never want them to be one-dimensional,” Shelton says of her characters. “I always want them to have real flaws.

“These risk-taking characters in my books probably all have to do with these crazy Southerners I come from,” says Shelton.

She grew up in Florida around depression, schizophrenia, and outrageous, impulsive behavior. But Shelton herself – even as a child – was the “resident adult,” developing the writerly habit of observation.

“Luckily I was not touched by that myself,” she says.

But it is material that she finds herself working out in her fiction.

“How do you separate from your first family and go your own way? How do you make a life out of the tools you were given?” she asks.

What do you discard from your upbringing and what do you embrace? Shelton has embraced the southern penchant for storytelling and her family’s regional sense of humor (even though she admits to quelling it somewhat in her novels in deference to more staid Northern sensibilities).

Her first novel, What Comes After Crazy, was published in 2005 after 17 years in gestation.

The writing of a novel “had to exist on the edges” of a life where being a fulltime reporter, a wife and a mother — not necessarily in that order — came first. The others have not taken nearly that long, although “not because once you do it, you know how to do it,” Shelton says.

“Each one has its own problems and lessons that you have to learn.”

Creating characters like Rosie Kelley is a way to live different lives.

“It’s one of the most exciting things about this work and keeps me wanting to do it,” Shelton says. “You don’t do it because you want to make a lot of money. You do it because you want to explain life to yourself.” n

Sandi Kahn Shelton. Photo courtesy of the artist.

“You don’t do it because you want to make a lot of money.

You do it because you want to explain life to yourself.”

– Sandi Kahn Shelton

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Commonality and collaboration architects involve students, adults in design process

ESUMS students design a cantilever using Popsicle sticks, tape, string, and a brick.

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early 20 years ago, when Svigals + Partners was chosen to design a renovation and addition for the Edgewood School, a local magnet school that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, principals from the New Haven-based architecture firm started by asking students to draw pictures of the school they’d like to attend.

“The most interesting ones were the ones from the youngest kids,” Barry Svigals, the firm’s managing partner, said.

“We realized,” Svigals said, “that there was a tremendous opportunity of including the kids in the process of making the architecture.”

Today, Svigals and his partners are in the process of designing the Engineering and Science University Magnet School,

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located adjacent to the University of New Haven, in West Haven. The firm’s Kids Build program, which includes students in the design process and gives them insight into the worlds of architecture and engineering, has been an important part of – as Svigals says – “making the architecture.”

ESUMS, which is scheduled to open in 2016, will serve middle- and high-school students who’ve been taking classes in different locations.

During their first meeting with students, principals from Svigals + Partners had the youngsters design cantilevers using Popsicle sticks, tape, string, and bricks, to understand how one of the school’s critical design element works.

“The collaborative nature of the school came out in a way that I’d never experienced,” Svigals said, referring to the school’s curricular focus.

Katelyn Chapin, a designer at Svigals + Partners, said students who otherwise

wouldn’t work together by virtue of being in different grades collaborated enthusiastically and that mentorships between the students developed.

“The nature of collaboration is talking and listening,” Svigals pointed out.

As he has in past conversations, Svigals cited a 2006 TED Talk in which Sir Ken Robinson made the argument that “all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. … creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

“It fits in with the belief that each of us (has) a … creative potential,” Svigals said, lamenting the fact that “it is a resource that, as (Robinson) says, we rather ruthlessly squander.”

Chapin said she and her colleagues want the Kids Build program to reflect the way they work in their Orange Street office space. Collaboration, Svigals pointed out, is taught in large part by modeling.

“It’s us learning from each other,” working together and being together, Svigals explained, saying, the “most important education imperative we have is to have people feel their commonality.”

Svigals said, “Companies that I think are doing some of the most creative problem solving are by definition highly collaborative with their clients and among themselves.”

They understand that “the world is an ecology.”

“It’s about everyone aspiring to a similar place,” he said, explaining that “our architecture is a result of who we are.”

The approach Sviglas and his colleagues take to various projects isn’t limited to students. The firm is designing a new Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut – the site of a horrific December 2012 shooting that claimed the lives of 20 students and six Continued on page 8

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YUAG reimagines membership model free program yields increase in participation elizabeth weinberg Art museum admission can be expensive.

With admission fees frequently ranging upwards of $15, often a potential visitor is left with a dilemma: either pay the fee and feel obligated to spend hours in front of so many paintings or sculptures that she can no longer appreciate the details she’s seeing, or decide she can’t afford to go in the first place. And membership is an even more expensive proposition: at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for example, an individual membership will cost you $60, and at MoMA it will put you back $85.

These fees are important, of course. They make it possible for museums to survive, to build their collections, and to provide compelling programming and new installations, even in a time when public funding for the arts is increasingly scarce. But they can also have the effect of drawing a line in the sand, separating those who can afford to experience the arts from those who can’t.

The National Endowment for the Arts’ 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts indicates that 37.2 percent of American college graduates and 49.3 percent of those who had attained a graduate degree visited an art museum or gallery in 2012, compared to just 9.9 percent of adults who had only com-

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pleted high school. While there are likely a number of factors contributing to such a gap in attendance, it is logical to assume that a difference in earnings — and, by extension, in expendable income for things like visiting art museums and galleries — plays a role.

In part to combat such disparities, admission to the Yale University Art Gallery has been free for decades. This takes some of the pressure off of viewers: you can walk in on your lunch break or a Saturday morning, check out one of the exhibitions in the gallery for half an hour, then leave. Visiting the gallery doesn’t have to represent a full day’s commitment, nor a significant chunk of the viewer’s wages.

And this summer, inspired by a new program at the Dallas Museum of Art, YUAG took accessibility to the gallery one step further, by scrapping the institution’s former paid membership program in favor of a free membership that is open to everyone.

The free membership program, explains YUAG Deputy Director for Advancement Jill Westgard, is modeled in part on libraries and public radio. In a library, she explains, patrons receive a free membership card, and might be called upon a few times a year to make a donation; similarly, anyone can listen to public radio, and listeners have the option to donate when the fund drive rolls around.

This makes membership feel less transactional. Rather than weighing the price of membership against the benefits received, a patron can donate as much or little as he or she is able while still enjoying what the gallery has to offer.

Westgard explains, “Our philosophy is so much about giving to the community and engaging the public and art lovers in what we’re doing. The basic benefits of our membership are actually things that we would like to do for anyone coming through our door.”

And so, this free membership involves the same perks as the paid program. Members get invitations to gallery exhibitions and openings, a subscription to the gallery’s magazine, a 20 percent discount on books and merchandise in the gallery’s bookstore, and reduced-rate parking. The free membership also automatically enrolls members into the College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program, which offers free admission to more than 40 museums across the country.

While the original paid program combined membership to YUAG with membership to the Yale Center for British Art, this free membership represents a split. This way, patrons can sign up to be a member of either institution or both, allowing them

to specifically engage with the art they find compelling.

Although the free membership program was launched on July 1, 2013, it was launched quietly — to give YUAG’s staff and administration time to refine the new system — and the gallery has only recently begun widely promoting it. Even so, the response has been dramatic. Last year, YUAG and the Yale Center for British Art had a combined 1,224 paid members at the end of the fiscal year; those memberships will be honored through the end of this year.

With the new program, as of May 23, 2014, YUAG had gained 3,889 new members, for a total of 5,113 members. Roughly two thirds of the new members are Connecticut residents, with the majority of those living in New Haven County — suggesting that the local community beyond Yale University is getting involved.

So far, YUAG is one of the only museums in the country offering a free membership, though Westgard says many of her colleagues at other museums are intrigued. For now, you can join the vanguard and sign up for your free membership at the gallery’s information desk or online at http://artgallery. yale.edu/join-and-support/freemembership. n

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Changing faces in the arts community stephen grant They say the only thing constant in the world is change, and the arts community is undergoing quite a few changes. To begin we would like to publicly welcome the Silk Road Art Gallery to the Audubon Arts District.

Located at 83 Audubon St., the gallery opened in March and will present contemporary Chinese art.

ACES Educational Center for the Arts’ Little Theatre on Lincoln Street made a return after a long hiatus and reopened this past June. Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan, ECA’s public relations and marketing manager, told the New Haven Independent, “We really were very careful to not disturb the building, to keep the integrity, to accomplish the whole inside while not disturbing the outside took great care.”

The Little Theatre will serve as a place for ECA student programs as well as community programs in the future.

In addition, we welcome two new faces to the arts community: Lisa Sanborn, the New Haven Ballet’s new artistic director, and Natalie Elicker, The Institute Library’s new executive director. Last winter, Sanborn made her debut as the company’s interim artistic director and produced a fantastic production of The Nutcracker at the Shubert Theater. Most recently she helped introduce DanceAIR, a six-week ballet training program for underprivileged children in the community.

For the directors of The Institute Library, Elicker was the perfect candidate.

In a press release issued by the organization, Board President Greg Pepe was quoted as saying, “Our search presented us with many candidates from right here in New Haven, as well as from states all over the country. …

Natalie stood out as having the qualities we are seeking to continue the work the current team started, as well as the talents to successfully pursue new initiatives and opportunities for growth.”

As we say hello to the above-mentioned folks, we bid a fond farewell to Neighborhood Music School’s executive director, Larry Zukof. After 18 years of service at the organization, Zukof is retiring. During his time as director he has been a valuable part of the New Haven arts community and has provided great artistic leadership.

Zukof’s colleagues at NMS have praised his work, stating, “He has tapped the energies and strengths of the faculty, helping faculty members feel secure in a period of rapid growth, inspiring their creativity, and encouraging best practices in teaching.”

In 2013 the Arts Council of Greater New Haven presented Zukof with an Arts Award for his outstanding leadership and contributions to the local arts scene.

Thank you all for making the New Haven arts community a great place to participate in the arts. n

Stephen Grant is the Arts Council’s communications manager.

Larry Zukof. Photo by Harold Shapiro.

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Commonality & Collaboration Continued from page 5

An architectural rendering depicts how the new ESUMS building will fit into the University of New Haven Campus.

adults – and is involving adults from the local community in the process.

When Svigals and his colleagues interviewed for the Sandy Hook project, Allison Gapski, the firm’s marketing manager, said, “We didn’t have a solution going in.”

They needed to hear from the local community first.

“It needed to emerge from them,” Svigals explained.

Chapin described Newtown as a tightknit community and the school as one that many local adults had attended and send their children to. For that and other more-than obvious reasons, the school rebuilding project is “really personal to everyone.”

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During recent meetings with members of the school community in Newtown, Chapin said she and her colleagues asked those in attendance to recount their most memorable experiences in the outdoors and to identify the most influential teachers in their lives, among other icebreaking questions.

The collaboration that has resulted from the firm’s approach “happened because of the fact that they … were all connected on another level,” Svigals said – a level beyond the connections they have as a result of their day-to-day professional relationships.

The connections that have been made, and the collaboration that has resulted,

has “fundamentally altered the outcome” of the project, Svigals said, appreciating the “extraordinary contribution that this community has made to the design of this school.”

Ultimately, these meetings are about connecting people to one another and to themselves, to set aside that which typically separates us.

At a recent meeting of members of the ESUMS community and the design team, Illona Prosol, a senior project manager at the Bloomfield, Connecticut-based engineering firm BVH Integrated Services, told those in attendance that a history teacher in her native Poland encouraged her to become a mechanical engineer.

In another instance, Jamaica native Garfield Pilliner described how as children he and his brother conceived a way to use bicycle parts to carry water from its source to where it was needed. Today, Pilliner teaches engineering at ESUMS and was recently named teacher of the year in the New Haven Public Schools system.

“These exercises,” Svigals said, “open people up to who they are and what their potential is.”

As much as we need individuality, he said, we need commonality – especially when working toward a shared goal.

“Collaboration only happens if we care for each other,” Svigals said. “There is no work alone.” n

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“Our architecture is a result of who we are.”

– Barry Svigals

Aspiring engineers at work.

An architectural rendering depicts a street-level view of the new ESUMS building.

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“Lincoln Oak” exhibit explores the past fallen tree reveals history beneath new haven green steve scarpa photos by jessica smolinski ate October 2012. Gusts of winds coursed through the region during Superstorm Sandy, toppling trees, flooding the shoreline, and raising general panic. In the aftermath of the storm, one particular tree, an old oak, crashed to the ground on the New Haven Green. Among its twisted roots, the remains of a skull were visible to the naked eye.

Police were summoned, and the Proprietors of the New Haven Green, the land’s ruling body, were notified. Bioarcheologists sought to make sense of what was tangled in the root ball of the tree.

“We have human beings handling and tangled up with other human beings. They are accorded with respect,” said Nicholas Bellantoni, the Connecticut state archeologist.

The demise of this single tree, planted in 1909 to honor the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the fragments found within,

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have prompted scientists, historians, and artists to take a look at how life was lived in New Haven in the 1700s, 1860s, 1900s, and the 2010s. In many ways, because of this examination, the tree is a kind of time machine.

“Mayor (John) DeStefano encouraged the museum to get a whole group of individuals together to talk,” said Margaret Anne Tokarshewsky, executive director of the New Haven Museum. “I want to see this museum connect the present to the past. We are becoming very outward looking, very interested in our neighborhoods and people’s stories.”

The result of those conversations was a convergence of art and science in an interesting and innovative way. The New Haven Museum is hosting an exhibit called Nothing is Set in Stone: The Lincoln Oak and The New Haven Green. This mix of art made from the fallen tree and inspired by President Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, and the archaeological findings, runs through November 2.

Vigor Code by Jeff Slomba, 2014.

Susan Clinard’s A Nation Split.

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Backbone by Erich Davis, 2014 ( detail).

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The artists included in the exhibition are Lani Asuncion, Hamden sculptor Susan Clinard, Erich Davis, Michael Quirk, Jeff Slomba, Rachael A. VatersCarr, and Alison Walsh.

In early January, the museum sought proposals from artists, with a deadline of March to complete the work. The wood from the fallen tree was given to artists for inspiration.

“The idea was to continue the life of the tree and to allow a new interpretation,” said Jason Bischoff-Wurstle, the museum’s exhibits coordinator.

The battered visage of Lincoln, carefully rendered images of freed slaves, and other more figurative works of art were crafted from the wood. Clinard, in her statement about her sculpture A Nation Split, said simply handling the damaged wood was moving.

“Images of Lincoln, his face and bony elongated stature, haunted my thoughts, as it has for years,” Clinard said. “I saw Lincoln himself atop of it all, the person trying to hold the split nation from dividing further.”

The art asks us to look at the Civil War and the demise of slavery, that seminal event in American history, and to think about what meaning it has today.

“The pieces are very moving. We are delighted with the quality of the work,” Tokarshewsky said. “Each piece is certainly unique and deals with a different aspect of our history.”

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There is a second crucial component to the exhibit. Researchers from Quinnipiac University, the University of Connecticut, and Yale University have been cataloging and analyzing the bone fragments found at the site. The most complete specimen is what is believed to be a man between the ages of 25 and 30. The tree also unearthed fragments of three children between the ages of 3 and 9, and a 22-year-old person. All of the bodies were buried sometime in the mid-18th century.

“We do one thing and artists do another,” Bellantoni said. “But when you bring it together it is pretty special.”

Bellantoni said it wasn’t surprising that so many fragments were found. The New Haven Green functioned as a burial ground from 1639 through 1812. Because of landscaping done over the years, he believes it is likely one would find graves as little as three feet below the surface of the Green.

The scientific analysis will yield quite a bit of information about the time period, the way people lived, the kind of work they did, their nutrition and general health, even which hand they used.

“Your skeleton is living tissue. It modifies to your lifestyle. We can determine a whole host of information. It makes it more personal. They aren’t just skeletal remains. They become people,” Bellantoni said.

Which brings us back to the day in

question, the reason the tree was planted in the first place. In 1909, the Grand Army of the Republic, a veteran’s fraternal organization, assembled on the Green to recognize both Arbor Day and Lincoln’s birthday. It was just a moment of the time period, a small ceremony with a children’s concert and speeches by local dignitaries. They placed the tree on the Green near the former site of the Connecticut State House, buried a time capsule, and left a plaque.

“It was an event that brought people together,” Bischoff-Wurstle said. “In essence it is not very different from an event today. History is super relatable.

It is a series of things people do.”

The New Haven Green can means many things to many people. It can be a place one simply passes through on the way to somewhere more important.

It can be for recreation, protest, or celebration. It can be at once threatening and peaceful. It is for the community and still not owned by it. It’s a stage.

It’s a park. It’s a graveyard.

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For more information about the exhibit, which runs through October, visit newhavenmuseum.org.

Michael Quirk’s Under the Oak Tree.

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Spring-Summer Art Programs. Adult weekend programs: Drawing, Introduction to Sewing, Polymer Clay Design, Digital and Light Photography, Encaustics, Facial Makeup Artistry, Chinese Calligraphy, Origami; adult weekday classes: Drawing, Watercolor and Acrylic Painting; Just4Kids: Sculpting, Drawing, Mixed Media, Preschool Art, Summer Fashion and Nature Camps. Classes continue through August 1. Visit website for individual program information and details.

Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center, 230 West Campus Drive, Orange. 203-934-0878. ctnsi.com.

Summer Art Classes. Jazz up your summer by taking classes in drawing from nature. We offer a wide variety of courses such as Field Sketching in Stony Creek, The Science of Color, Botanical Watercolor, Drawing Flowers Through the Microscope, Drawing and Painting Birds, and Sketching at the Beardsley Zoo. For more information visit website, call 203934-0878, or send email to ctnsi.info@gmail.com.

Classes continue through August 27. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-562-4927. creativeartsworkshop.org.

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Summer Classes and Workshops. Explore your creative side with visual arts classes and workshops for adults and young people in book arts, design, drawing and painting, fiber, fashion, jewelry, photography, pottery, printmaking, and sculpture. Summer session runs through August 8. See the course brochure or visit the website for dates, times, and fees. Online registration available.

Adventures in Art! Give your child an adventure in art!

CAW offers eight weeklong programs in drawing, painting, pottery, mixed media, and more. CAW’s faculty of professional artists will help your child develop his or her creativity in a fun and supportive environment. Register for as many weeks as you choose – from a single week to the full eight. Classes continue through August 8. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. for ages 4-6; optional extended day until 3 p.m.

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. for grades 2-5 and 6-8; optional extended day until 5:30 p.m.

Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford. 203453-5947. guilfordartcenter.org.

Summer Youth Program. Designed for ages 3 to 12, GAC’s program offers all sorts of art experiences, from painting and drawing to ceramics and mixed media, and on topics ranging from animals to architecture, princesses, and computer animation.

Weeklong classes run mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or afternoons, beginning 1 p.m.; may be combined for a full-day program. Financial aid available. Classes continue through August 22. Fees vary per class.

Financial aid available. Members receive 10 percent discount. Visit website for details.

Jenai West Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange St., New Haven. 917-753-1297. jenaimwest.wix.com/jenai.

Tap-Dance Classes. Open and ongoing beginning and intermediate tap technique for teens and adults. Classes continue through August 26. Every Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Neighborhood Music School 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org.

Summer Rocks! For instrumentalists and vocalists, ages 10 and older with at least two years’ experience on an instrument. Program finishes with a full rock concert at 7 p.m. on Friday night where students will amaze everyone with what they’ve learned, created, and accomplished. August 11-August 15. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For details, contact Pete Digennaro, program director, at pdigennaro@ neighborhoodmusicschool.org.

Summer Jazz. Ages 13 through adult. A five-day intensive that offers small ensembles, a big band, theory, master classes, and jam sessions with NMS faculty and guest clinicians. The week culminates with a student concert. Minimum of two years’ experience. August 4-August 8. Monday- Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For information, send email to Jesse Hameen II at jhameen@neighborhoodmusicschool. org or call 203-624-5189 x 52.

Flute Boot. Does your embouchure sometimes get rusty over the summer? Daily sessions will include semiprivate lessons, master classes, group technique, and ensemble, with rotating electives includ-

ing instrument construction, instrument repair, yoga, beat-boxing or other offerings. August 18-August 21.

Advanced beginner/intermediate level: 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Advanced (all-state level high school/college/ advanced adults): 1-5 p.m. Contact Naomi Senzer at nsenzer@neighborhoodmusicschool.org or call 203-624-5189.

Jr. Chamber Winds. Intermediate or advanced high school, college, and adult players will enjoy this opportunity to play and learn in a collaborative setting with other experienced musicians. Includes master classes and a final performance (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn). July 7-July 11. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. For more information contact director Sue Zoellner Cross, or call 203-624-5189 x 51.

Summer KinderArts. For ages 4-5 years. This threehour program combines music, dance, and art in a fun, relaxed environment. Children will be exposed to a variety of instruments and explore their creativity with sculpting, drawing, and painting. Dancing to music will improve coordination and social skills, and basic yoga will help children be active and relieve stress. August 11-August 15. Contact Dorota Xeller at dxeller@neighborhoodmusicschool.org or call 203-624-5189 x 18. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Program offered at the First Congregational Church of Madison, 26 Meetinghouse Lane, Madison.

New Haven Oratorio Choir Church of the Redeemer, 185 Cold Spring St., New Haven. 203248-4416. nhoratorio.org.

Choral Skills Workshop. Summer is a perfect time to try something new in choral singing.

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Jazz Haven presents Mario Pavone’ s Street Songs: The Accordion Project at Café Nine on July 16. Photo by Enid Farber.

The New Haven Oratorio Choir is offering workshops led by Artistic Director Daniel Shaw.

We will study the development of choral skills through exercises and repertoire: reading, tuning, counting, diction, and listening. Learn and take the skills back to your favorite choir.

July 9-August 6. Wednesday evenings for five weeks. For more information and to sign up, send email to nhctchoir@gmail.com. $45 fee will cover materials and administrative expenses for all five weeks. Fee due at the first workshop. 7-8:15 p.m.

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society New Haven Friends Meeting House, 223 East Grand Ave., New Haven. 203-281-6591. rscdsnewhaven.org.

Scottish Country Dancing. Enjoy dancing the social dances of Scotland. Come alone or with a friend. All dances taught. Wear soft-soled non-street shoes. Classes continue on Tuesday evenings through August 26. $5 per evening.

First night free. 7:30-10 p.m.

Anthony Guyther: Redux. Forty-five years of Symbolist collage created by self-taught Martha’s Vineyard artist Anthony Guyther. His works were enlarged and used as backdrops in the fashion windows of Bonwit Teller in New York City in the 1960s. A book by the same name is also available and many vintage collages from that book will be offered for sale. Call for an appointment. One view through July 24. Open by appointment, Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.

Creative Arts Workshop Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-5624927. creativeartsworkshop.org.

Student Show. An exhibition of new work by CAW students of all ages and experience levels.

On view through July 23. Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

August Installation. The Hilles Gallery at Creative Arts Workshop is transformed for the annual August Installation. August 1-August 29. Visit birdabode2014.org for details.

used to conform metal into items from the organic to the angular, from jewelry to sculpture, functional art, and more. Juried by Robert Dancik. Organized by GAC instructor Lanette Barber. On view through July 27. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Free.

Fred.Giampietro Gallery 315 Peck Street, New Haven. 203-777-7760. giampietrogallery.com.

Cathleen Mooses: New Work and Self-Absorbed.

The Fred.Giampietro Gallery is pleased to present Cathleen Mooses: New Work and Self-Absorbed, a group self-portrait exhibition featuring work by local New Haven artists Jonathan Waters, Willard Lustenader, Peter Ramon, Karen Dow, Lucy Mink, Susan Carr, Oriane Stender, Mary Jo McGonagle, Shane Smith, Laura Marsh, Phil Lique, Hooper Turner, Farrell Brickhouse, and Aspasia Anos. On view through July 26. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Kehler Liddell Gallery 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-389-9555. kehlerliddell.com.

New Haven’s Own Winfred Rembert. Featuring stories of African American lives in the Deep South during the era of segregation, boldly told on hand-tooled, dyed leather. Also see the documentary All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, and meet Winfred Rembert and director Vivian Ducat on August 16 and August 21 at 7 p.m. Free and open to all. On view July 31-August 31. Opening reception: August 3, 3-6 p.m. See website for gallery hours.

Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery 130 Elm St./ Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-4942316. thefunkymonkeycafe.com.

Ellen Pliskin. Silk aquatint monoprints. These new works explore the diverse and imaginative use of the process of silk aquatint to portray China’s Forbidden City and the colonial City of Colonia, Uruguay. August 1-August 30. Artist reception: Friday, August 8, 7-9 p.m. Cafe hours: Monday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Knights of Columbus Museum 1 State St., New Haven. 203-865-0400. kofcmuseum.org.

Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible. This exhibition showcases a handwritten and illuminated Bible, commissioned by the Benedictine monks of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. It is monumental in both size and scope, with nearly 1,150 pages (24 x 16 inches) comprised in seven volumes. The project required 15 years and 23 professional artists and scribes to complete. On view through November 2. Open daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission and parking.

Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford.

203-453-5947. guilfordartcenter.org.

Soulcology in Metal: Juried Exhibit. National, juried exhibit presenting a broad spectrum of the many works that can be made of metal.

Work expressively display the many techniques

New Haven Free Public Library 133 Elm Street, New Haven. 203-376-8688. siteprojects.org.

Whispering Galleries. Site Projects with the New Haven Free Public Library, as part of Connecticut at Work – a Connecticut Humanities initiative – presents Whispering Galleries, an interactive digital

West Cove Studio 30 Elm Street, West Haven.

203-787-0072. katyavetrov.com.

Printmaking Workshops. Workshops will cover linocut relief printing and mono-printing. The objective is to learn basic techniques of carving linoleum, applying ink, hand printing, and using the printing press. Classes continue through August 23. Other dates available upon request. $95 plus $15 materials fee. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Exhibitions Beverly Kaye Gallery 15 Lorraine Drive, Woodbridge. 203-387-5700. artbbrut.com, BeverlyKayeGallery.blogspot.com.

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Film All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert See screenings of this documentary film with Winfred Rembert and director Vivian Ducat on August 16 and August 21 at 7 p.m. Free. Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-389-9555. kehlerliddell.com.

Kids & Families

Long Wharf Theatre, with Miracle or 2 Productions, presents The Bikinis, which the theater describes as “a celebration of great songs from the 1960s through today,” July 9 through July 27. Photo courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.

artwork by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse. A one-on-one experience, visitors will engage with the diaries of a New Haven shopkeeper from 1858 in the 3D space of a computer monitor. On view through August 30. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

New Haven Lawn Club 193 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-777-3494.

Paintings by William Meddick. This exhibition includes landscapes, still lifes, and interiors. All work is done from local painter William Meddick’s direct observation of the subject matter for firsthand experience. On view through July 5, seven days a week, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

New Haven Museum 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-562-4183. newhavenmuseum.org.

Interpreting Old Bones: Art and Science Give New Meaning to Remains Found on New Haven Green and Nothing is Set in Stone: The Lincoln Oak and the New Haven Green. An exhibition pairing powerful interpretive art created by seven well-known Connecticut artists with scientific analysis by noted bioarchaeologists – an informative and revelatory tribute to the historic Lincoln Oak, which was felled by Hurricane Sandy, revealing human skeletal remains. On view through November 1. See website for times. Adults $4, seniors $3, students $2, those younger than 12 admitted free.

Every first Sunday of the month admission is free of charge.

Spectrum Gallery and Store Arts Center Killingworth, 61 Main St., Centerbrook. 860-767-0742. spectrumartgallery.org.

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All Natural. An exhibit of fine artists and artisans who are integrating natural materials into their artwork. Visit our website for events during the exhibit. July 1-August 10. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

Out of the Box. An exhibit of art that breaks the parameters of the canvas from fine artists and artisans. Visit our website for all events during the exhibit. August 22-September 28. Opening reception: Friday, August, 6:30-9 p.m. On view Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

West Cove Studio A-Space Gallery at West Cove, 30 Elm St., West Haven. 203-500-0268. westcovestudio.org.

A Beautiful Thingling and Coats. Two Installations.

In the A-Space Gallery: Jim Felice: A Beautiful Thingling (from The Alien Circus Project). In the Outer Gallery: Susan McCaslin: Coats. On view through July 19. Open by chance or by appointment. Free.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-432-5050. peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/tiny-titans.

Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. With hands-on displays, life-like models, stunning artwork, and more than 150 dinosaur eggs on display, Tiny Titans offers a rare and exciting look at the lives of dinosaurs, as well as their living descendants — birds! On view through August 30.

Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m. $5-$9.

Musical Folk First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-691-9759.

MusicalFolk.com.

Music Together Classes. Musical Folk offers a fun music and movement program for kids (ages 0-5) and the ones who love them. Try a class for free!

Come sing, dance, and play instruments in a creative and informal setting. Call to arrange a free class.

Classes continue through August 31. Classes are offered every day; morning, afternoon, and weekend classes available at various locations in New Haven, Woodbridge, Hamden, East Haven and Cheshire.

Four semesters per year. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Eleven week semester is $230 and includes CD and songbook. Each semester features a new collection of music. Four semesters per year.

Music July 9 Wednesday Grill-‘N’-Chill: Dave Quick Summer music series featuring Dave Quick and delicious Kosher barbecue. Contact DeDe Jacobs-Komisar at 203-

387-2522 or dedek@jccnh.org. 5-8 p.m. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven, JCC Terrace, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jccnh.org.

12 Saturday Summer Chamber Music Three hundred and seventy-five years ago, settlers from England, Scotland, and Ireland began arriving in the New World, bringing their musical traditions and shaping the cultural life of the colonies. Please join the Nash Baroque Ensemble, a period instrument group, for a concert of 17th and 18th century music from this rich period of history – featuring works by Purcell, Handel, and Arne. 7:30 p.m. $15 at Breakwater Books or at the door. Nash Baroque Ensemble, Christ Episcopal Church, 11 Park St., Hamden.

203-453-2279.

13 Sunday Silk’n Sounds Celebrates St. Michael’s Church Join Silk’n Sounds as we help St. Michael’s Church celebrate its 125th year anniversary milestone.

Enjoy the four-part a cappella harmonies by this dynamic group of women. Refreshments will be provided following the concert which is free and open to the public. Bring the whole family to enjoy a summer afternoon of wonderful music. 4 p.m.

Free and open to the public. St. Michaels’ Church, 29 Wooster Place, New Haven. silknsounds.org.

Summer Chamber Music Three Hundred and Seventy-Five years ago, settlers from England, Scotland, and Ireland began arriving in the New World, bringing their musical traditions and shaping the cultural life of the colonies. Please join the Nash Baroque Ensemble, a period instrument group, for a concert of 17th and 18th century music from this rich period of history – featuring music of Purcell,

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Handel, and Arne. 4-5:30 p.m. $15, $10 students and seniors at the door. Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. 203288-1807.

22 Tuesday Twilight Tuesdays Concerts: Sultans of String Energetic and exciting world music with no boundaries. 6:30 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. concert. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Subscriptions to the entire series $60. *Dinner not included in ticket price. For tickets, call 203.624.5189 x. 17 or visit neighborhoodmusicschool.org. Neighborhood Music School Recital Hall, 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189.

29 Tuesday Twilight Tuesdays Concerts: Vance Gilbert Vance Gilbert is an American folk singer-songwriter “with the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar playing of a god” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Come and enjoy the second show in this concert series to benefit the Neighborhood Music School faculty fund.

6:30 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. concert. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Subscriptions to the entire series $60. *Dinner not included in ticket price. For tickets, call 203.624.5189 x. 17 or visit neighborhoodmusicschool.org. Neighborhood Music School Recital Hall, 100 Audubon St., New Haven.

203-624-5189.

at the door. Subscriptions to the entire series $60. *Dinner not included in ticket price. Neighborhood Music School Recital Hall/Park of the Arts, 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org.

6 Wednesday Grill-‘N’-Chill: Toss Kramer Kramer bares his acoustic soul. Summer music series featuring great talent and delicious Kosher barbecue. Activities for children.

5-8 p.m. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org/local_includes/ downloads/68179.pdf.

12 Tuesday 23 Wednesday Grill-‘N’-Chill: Rickie Miller and Tony Dioguardi Jazz, and R&B with special guest Jay Rowe.

Summer music series featuring great talent and delicious Kosher barbecue. 5-8 p.m. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven, JCC Terrace, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jccnh.org.

August 5 Tuesday Twilight Tuesdays Concerts: Neighborhood Music School Jazz All-Stars A night of amazing live jazz featuring Christian Sands, Mike Assetta, Bill Fluker, Jesse Hameen II, and Kris Jensen. Join us for this exciting concert series to benefit the NMS faculty fund.

6:30 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. concert. $20 in advance, $25

Twilight Tuesdays Concerts: Roosevelt Dime Inspired in equal parts by Appalachian string bands, Memphis and New Orleans soul, West coast alt-country, and the musical melting pot of their hometown of Brooklyn, the band has forged a sound they’ve come to call “Steamboat Soul.” Final concert in the series which benefits the Neighborhood Music School faculty fund. 6:30 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. concert. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Subscriptions to the

entire series $60. *Dinner not included in ticket price.

For tickets, call 203.624.5189 x. 17 or visit neighborhoodmusicschool.org. Neighborhood Music School Recital Hall/Park of the Arts, 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189.

Special Events August 1 Friday Join us for the opening reception of the annual August Installation at Creative Arts Workshop! 5-6:30 p.m. Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-562-4927. birdabode2014.org.

3 Sunday Opening Reception for New Haven’s Own Winfred Rembert, which features stories of African American lives in the Deep South during the era of segregation, boldly told on hand-tooled, dyed leather. Also don’t miss the documentary All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, which will

summer series Hamden Arts Commission Free Summer Concert Series

New Haven Jazz Festival

Chestnut Hill Concerts

The Hamden Arts Commission presents five free concerts in Town Center Park on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden (or at Hamden High School, in the case of inclement weather). Opening acts take the stage at 7:30 p.m., with headliners following at 8:15 p.m. For more information, visit hamdenartscommission.org.

Jazz Haven presents the New Haven Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 16, from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the New Haven Green. The event is free and open to the public. The performance schedule is as follows:

Chamber music performances at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook. Performances take place on Fridays in August at 8 p.m. For more information, visit chestnuthillconcerts.org or call 203-245-5736. For tickets, call The Kate’s box office at 860-5100453, or visit thekate.org.

Friday, July 11: The 5th Dimension with Florence LaRue This Grammy Award-winning group became popular in the ’60s and ’70s with such hits as “Up and Away,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Aquarius/ Let the Sun Shine In,” “One Less Bell to Answer,” “Go Where You Wanna Go,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” and “I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All.” They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002.

Friday, July 18: The Platters The original Herb Reed Platters are continuing Mr. Reed’s legacy this year with a 60th anniversary world tour. The group has sold more than 80 million records and recorded such hits as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Only You,” “My Prayer,” “The Great Pretender,” “Twilight Time,” and “The Magic Touch.”

Friday, July 25: Fran Cosmo, former lead singer of Boston Fran Cosmo will join his guitarist son Anton, also formerly of Boston, to play the group’s hits, including “More Than a Feeling,” “Peace of Mind,” “Foreplay/Long Time,” and “Don’t Look Back.” Boston’s eponymous first album was the best-selling debut album in U.S. history. The group went on to sell more than 31 million records in the United States.

Friday, August 1: Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam Tour A 2004 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mason played and recorded with such musical icons as Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and Michael Jackson. On this current tour, which celebrates the music of the band Traffic, which he cofounded, Mason performs such audience favorites as “Feelin’ Alright,” “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” “We Just Disagree,” “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,” “Only You Know and I Know,” “Medicated Goo,” and others.

4:30 p.m.

High School in the Community Jazz Band, directed by Nate Trier 5:30 p.m.

Mike DiRubbo Quintet Mike DiRubbo, alto sax; Josh Evans, trumpet; Brian Charette, piano; Ugonna Okegwo, bass; Kush Abadey, drums.

6:45 p.m.

Alí Bello and The Sweet Wire Band Alì Bello, electro-acoustic violin; Javier Olivencia, alto and tenor sax; Juancho Herrera, guitar; Alvaro Benavides, bass; Pablo Bencid, drums; Neil Ochoa, percussion.

8 p.m.

Nat Reeves Quartet Featuring Harold Mabern Nat Reeves, bass; Harold Mabern, piano; Joe Farnsworth, drums; Steve Davis, trombone.

Jazz Haven will also present more than two dozen performances in bars, restaurants, and other New Haven venues between August 15 and August 24. Visit jazzhaven.org for more information.

August 1: “Brahms’ Great Piano Quintet” Mozart: Violin Sonata in G major, K. 379 Shostakovich: Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Jessica Lee and Jesse Mills, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello; Rieko Aizawa, piano.

August 8: “Three Beethoven Masterpieces” Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (“Moonlight”) Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”) Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97 (“Archduke”) Todd Phillips, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; Benjamin Hochman, piano.

August 15: “Schumann and Schubert” Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 Schumann: lieder (a selection) Schubert: “Auf Dem Strom,” D. 943, for soprano, horn, and piano Schubert: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op.100 Hyunah Yu, soprano; William Purvis, horn; Jennifer Koh, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; Mihae Lee, piano.

Information and photo courtesy of Jazz Haven.

August 22: “Hungarian Flair” Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, for viola and piano Dohnányi: Serenade in C major, Op. 10, for string trio Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 Yura Lee, violin; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Julie Albers, cello; Mihae Lee, piano.

Information and photo courtesy of Chestnut Hill Concerts.

Information and photo courtesy of the Hamden Arts Commission.

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Harold Mabern, foreground, and Nat Reeves.

Cellist and Chestnut Hill Concerts Artistic Director Ronald Thomas.

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be screened on August 16 and August 21 at 7 p.m.

Free and open to all. 3-6 p.m. Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-389-9555. kehlerliddell.com.

Theater Shakespeare in the Grove Presents King Lear Artfarm presents King Lear, featuring John Basinger in the title role. Bring a picnic and enjoy professional music and theater in the beautiful grove overlooking

the Connecticut River Valley. Every evening features a different Connecticut musician or musical group at 6 p.m. before the play begins. See Shakespeare’s greatest drama in a stunning setting. Thursday through Sunday, July 17-July 27, at 7 p.m. $20 adults, $10 students. 100 Training Hill Road, Middletown.

860-346-4390. www.art-farm.org.

Neighborhood Music School Audubon Arts Theater Group: Once Upon a Mattress The highly regarded theater program for ages 14-17, led by experienced professionals, presents a full production of this

popular musical comedy. July 29 & July 30 at 7 p.m. For more information, contact program director Anne Tubis at atubis@neighborhoodmusicschool.org or 203-624-5189 x. 26. Hamden Hall Country Day School, 1108 Whitney Ave., Hamden. 203-624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org.

(Below) The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History presents Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies through August 30. Pictured: Sauropods Hatching¸ illustration by Luis Rey.Photo (detail) courtesy of the Stone Company, copyright L. Rey.

The Arts Paper advertising and calendar deadlines The deadline for advertisements and calendar listings for the September edition of The Arts Paper is: Monday, July 28, at 5 p.m.

Future deadlines are as follows: October – Monday, August 25 November – Monday, September 29 December – Monday, October 27 Calendar listings are for Arts Council members only and should be submitted online at newhavenarts.org. Arts Council members can request a username and password by sending an e-mail to sgrant@newhavenarts.org. The Arts Council’s online calendar includes listings for programs and events taking place within 12 months of the current date.

Listings submitted by the calendar deadline are included on a monthly basis in The Arts Paper.

BULLETIN BOARD The Arts Council provides the job and bulletin board listings as a service to our membership and is not responsible for the content or deadlines.

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eligibility information, visit milfordarts.org or call 203.878.6647.

Artists The Arts Center Killingworth seeks artists working in all media for its annual Autumn Outdoor Arts Festival, which will take place October 11-12.

Exhibit on the Madison Town Green (Boston Post Road/Copse Road, Madison). Festival participants also have the opportunity to exhibit in the new Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook. Prospectus and registration form available at artscenterkillingworth.org. $70 registration fee. Register early!

Volunteers Learn new skills, meet new people, and be part of a creative organization that gives to the community. Upcoming volunteer opportunity: Models and counselors needed for July Fashion and Art of Mother Nature Camps for children and teens and to help during the Outdoor Autumn Arts Festival, October 11 and October 12. Teens are welcome and earn community-service credit. Visit artscenterkillingworth.org or call 860-663-5593.

Artists and Crafters The Fine Art and Craft Exhibit and Sale at the Finnish American Heritage Society seeks artists and crafters for an October 11 event at Finnish Hall, 76 N. Canterbury Road, Canterbury.

Indoor/outdoor spaces. $25 fee (postmarked on or before July 31), $35 (after July 31.) Demonstrations, live music, refreshments. Free admission, handicapped accessible. Send email to FACESatFAHS@gmail.com or call 860.974.2760 for information and registration form/prospectus.

Singers The award winning Silk’n Sounds Chorus is looking for new members from the Greater New Haven area. We invite women to join us at any of our rehearsals to learn more. We enjoy four part a cappella harmony, lively performances, and wonderful friendships. Rehearsals are every Tuesday from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Spring Glen United Church of Christ, 1825 Whitney Ave., Hamden. Contact Lynn at 203-623-01276 for more information and visit silknsounds.org.

Tattoo Artists The Milford Arts Council Visual Arts Committee presents Tattoos a show celebrating the art and history of ink. Tattoo artists are invited to submit photos, drawings, and paintings of their work. All styles are welcome. To be considered, please send a high-resolution image of work as well as a description to milfordfac@optonline. net no later than July 18. All entrants will be contacted with a decision. For additional details and

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Services Art Consulting Services Support your creativity!

Low-cost service offers in-depth artwork analysis, writing, and editing services by former arts newspaper editor, current art director of the New Haven Free Public Library, and independent curator of many venues. Call Johnes Ruta at 203-387-4933, visit azothgallery.com, or send email to azothgallery@comcast.net.

Birthday Parties at Guilford Art Center Schedule a two-hour party and our youth program instructors will tailor projects to your child’s creative interests.

Themes include Outer Space, Pirates, Clay, Puppets, Jewelry, Fairies, and others. Art parties offer a fun and creative environment for children’s celebrations. Please call Lynn Fischer at 203-453-5947 x.

11 for more information and to request a brochure. $100 for five children minimum; $15 for each addition child. guilfordartcenter.org.

Chair Repair We can fix your worn-out chair seats if they are cane, rush, Danish cord, Shaker Tape, or other woven types! Celebrating our 25th year!

Work is done by artisans at The Association of Artisans to Cane, a project of Marrakech, Inc., a private nonprofit organization that provides services for people with disabilities. Open Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m,-4 p.m. 203-776-6310.

Creative Art Birthday Parties You bring the children and cake, we do the rest! Themes: Jewelry Design for Boys and Girls, Clay and Painting Discovery, Personalized Perfumes, Felting Critters/ Flowers, and Rock Star! Arts Center Killingworth, 276 North Parker Hill Road, Killingworth. Visit artscenterkillingworth.org or call (860) 6635593.

Historic Home Restoration Period-appropriate additions, baths, kitchens, and remodeling. Sagging porches straightened/leveled, wood windows, plaster, and historic molding and hardware restored. Vinyl/aluminum siding removed. Wood siding repaired/replaced. Connecticut and New Haven Preservation Trusts. R.J. Aley Building Contractor 203-226-9933. jaley@rjaley.com.

Japanese Shoji Screens Designed for Connecticut homes. Custom built for windows, doorways, or freestanding display, they allow beautiful filtered light to pass through while insulating. For a free quote, contact Phillip Chambers at 203888-4937 or send email to pchambers9077@sbcglobal.net.

Professional Art Installation For residential and commercial work. More than 15 years’ experience in museums, galleries, hospitals, and homes in New York City, Providence, New Haven, Chester, and elsewhere. Rate is $30 an hour, no job too small or large. Call Mark at 203-772-4270 or send email to livepaint@aol.com. More information and examples at ctartinstall.com.

Web Services Startup business solutions. Creative, sleek Web design by art curator for art, design, architectural, and small-business sites.

Twenty-five years’ experience in database, logistics, and engineering applications. Will create and maintain any kind of website. Hosting provided. Call 203-387-4933, visit azothgallery.com, or send email to azothgallery@comcast.net.

Space Artist Studio West Cove Studio and Gallery offers work space with two large Charles Brand intaglio etching presses, lithography press, and stainless-steel work station. Workshops and technical support available. Ample display area for shows.

Membership: $75 per month. 30 Elm St., West Haven. Call 609-638-8501 or visit westcovestudio.com.

Performance Space Elegant, contemporary performance space with seating for up to 376 people.

Great for concerts and recitals. Free on-site parking, warm lighting, built-in sound system, adjacent social hall, and kitchen available. Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. Call 203-288-1807 x. 201 or visit usnh.org.

Studio Space Thirteen-thousand square feet of undeveloped studio space available in old mill brick building on New Haven harbor. Conveniently located one minute off I-95, Exit 44, in West Haven.

Owners willing to subdivide. Call 609-638-8501.

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Notes

On the Gathering of the Vibes

An aerial view of the festival. Photo courtesy of Gathering of the Vibes.

an interview with festival founder ken hays stephen chupaska he 19th edition of the Gathering of the Vibes music festival is back for another summer at its much-loved home, Seaside Park in Bridgeport.

The festival, which takes place July 31-Au-

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Ken Hays. Photo courtesy of Gathering of the Vibes.

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gust 2, will close out its teenage years with co-headliners John Forgerty, Widespread Panic, and Disco Biscuits featuring former Grateful Dead drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann among 49 other bands. Gathering of the Vibes founder Ken Hays checked in to talk about this year’s festival and to take stock of the past 19 years.

What’s the special about the venue?

It is a beautifully manicured 300-acre waterfront park with over a mile and a half of beach. It truly is one of Bridgeport’s gems. There’s something about the water that lets the everyday stresses in our lives just wash away. That’s how the water works for me. (It’s) why 85 percent of Vibes attendees come back every year. It’s not only for the music but it’s an annual reunion with friends and family. And to gather in such a beautiful space, hopefully with some nice, warm 80-degree weather, it changes the vibe. It’s tough to be in a bad mood when thousands of people around you are smiling.

What do you know now about running a music festival that you didn’t when you first started?

When we first started 19 years ago, there wasn’t the incredible competition in the marketplace. Every weekend in the Northeast throughout the summer there

is a major music festival. It’s become more and more challenging to book the bands because (of) contractual clauses with other festivals. When we started this as “Deadhead Heaven” in 1996 after the death of Jerry Garcia, it was an opportunity for the deadhead community to gather.

But it’s not a festival that’s driven by the Grateful Dead. (We’ve had) James Brown and the Harlem Gospel Choir, all different genres of music – bluegrass, funk, and folk.

Where are people coming from?

The average drive for attendees was just about four hours, with 700 people flying in from all over the world. Four hundred people came from California last year. There’s no better place for a transit hub than Bridgeport. People enjoy the easy access.

How do you go about booking the festival? Do bands reach out to you? How does that work?

There are bands that come back every year. But it’s important to switch it up and bring in fresh blood. This we received 2,600 band submissions for 52 spots. It’s challenging in that sense for the up-andcoming bands to get up on the stage but when they do it’s amazing to see them.

A great example would be the McLovins, who are from Connecticut. Twiddle, they started out a couple of years ago in their garage with 50 people watching them in

small bars and now they are performing on the main stage at Vibes.

Do fans have any input to booking?

Oh, yes. We do a survey every year ask them which band they’d like to see return.

The Vibe Tribe are really emotionally invested and they are passionate about it.

During the festival, do you ever get a chance to enjoy some music?

Every year I enjoy it more and more. Early on I’d be out there assisting parking cars – I’m pretty hands on. But we have an amazing team and there’s an incredible group of people around me.

Was there a moment at a past festival where it all coalesced and you thought, “This is really something”?

It was right from the beginning at SUNY Purchase, when 3,500 people showed up and it was a beautiful weekend with friends and family and good music. We said, “We have to continue this.”

Is there a past performance that really sticks out for you where you really had your doors blown off?

In 2011 Elvis Costello performed on a beautiful Saturday night and then into Jane’s Addiction. That was an extraordinary four hours of music. n

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Prince of Trinidad Elm Shakespeare presents Pericles in Caribbean setting david brensilver photos courtesy of elm shakespeare company

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ames Andreassi spent much of May driving his power boat from Fort Pierce, Florida, up the coast to the Connecticut shoreline. When we caught up with Andreassi, he and his wife, Margie, along with two dogs and a cat, were located on Bald Head Island, on North Carolina’s Cape Fear River.

For Andreassi, the Elm Shakespeare Company’s artistic director, it was a chance to spend time on the water and immersed in the Bard’s work – particularly the play he’ll direct in Edgerton Park in August.

This year’s offering, Pericles, will be staged August 14 through August 31. In May, at what he called Elm Shakespeare Company’s “nautical office,” Andreassi was arriving at a vision for his turn at a play that he described as an “epic sea voyage.”

Having staged Macbeth two years ago and Julius Caesar last summer, Andreassi said, “I certainly didn’t want to do another big tragedy.” Nor was he interested in dedicating a year to planning and studying one of Shakespeare’s “low comedies.”

“I was looking to work on something a little more substantive,” he explained.

He chose Pericles, Prince of Tyre because it fit that requirement and was a work with which he was completely unfamiliar.

“I began reading it with a complete misconception,” he said.

That the title character is not the same Pericles who’s credited with being the father of Athenian if not modern democracy was an attraction.

“That ambiguity, that confusion, I love,” Andreassi said.

There’s also the intrigue that comes with the fact that an otherwise largely unknown writer named George Wilkins is believed by many to have contributed to the play, which is a riff on John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, itself a version of the ancient Greek story Apollonius of Tyre.

“In Shakespeare’s life,” Andreassi said, citing Harold Bloom, a literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, “it was his most popular play.”

James Andreassi as Brutus in Elm Shakespeare’s 2013 production of Julius Caesar.

As he began thinking about how he wanted to present Pericles, Andreassi found himself thinking of actor and Trinidad and Tobago native Paul Pryce, who played Mark Antony in last summer’s production of Julius Caesar. And while he wasn’t about to rename the play Pericles, Prince of Trinidad, that’s exactly how Andreassi began reimagining the story.

On the water en route to the Connecticut shoreline from Florida, Andreassi thought about one of his favorite historical figures, Toussaint Louverture, who led the Haitian Revolution at the turn of the 19th century.

Pericles, in Andreassi’s mind, became a black Caribbean prince living in a mid-18th century world that’s extremely dangerous for him – a time period less than half a century before the cultural upheavals that led to the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.

While no revolution takes place in his turn at Pericles, Andreassi said he wants the production to convey a sense that there’s a political powder keg that could be set of at any moment.

“I think it’s my job … to find an interesting take on the play,” he said. “I have license, I think, to try to tell the story as theatrically, as entertainingly, as arrestingly as I can.”

Andreassi said that “every director is invited – particularly with plays written by Shakespeare – to invent their own landscape.”

The genius of Shakespeare’s plays, he said, is that “they’re incredibly flexible.”

“What you bring to them,” he said, “they’ll offer you back more in exchange.” n

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Elm Shakespeare Company presents Pericles in Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff St., August 14-17, August 19-24, and August 26-31. Performances begin at 8 p.m. and admission is free. Visit elmshakespeare.org for more information.

Paul Pryce stars in the title role in Pericles.

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The Arts Paper member organizations & partners

Arts & Cultural Organizations A Broken Umbrella Theatre abrokenumbrella.org 203-868-0428 ACES Educational Center for the Arts aces.k12.ct.us 203-777-5451 Adele Myers and Dancers adelemyersanddancers.com Alyla Suzuki Early Childhood Music Education alylasuzuki.com 203-239-6026 American Guild of Organists sacredmusicct.org The Amistad Committee ctfreedomtrail.org Another Octave - CT Women’s Chorus anotheroctave.org ARTFARM art-farm.org Arts Center Killingworth artscenterkillingworth.org 860-663-5593 Artspace artspacenh.org 203-772-2709 Artsplace: Cheshire Performing & Fine Art cpfa-artsplace.org 203-272-2787

Center for Independent Study cistudy.homestead.com Chestnut Hill Concerts chestnuthillconcerts.org 203-245-5736 The Choirs of Trinity Church on the Green trinitynewhaven.org City Gallery city-gallery.org 203-782-2489 Civic Orchestra of New Haven conh.org Classical Contemporary Ballet Theatre ccbtballettheatre.org Connecticut Dance Alliance ctdanceall.com Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus ctgmc.org 800-644-cgmc Connecticut Guild of Puppetry ctpuppetry.org Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators ctnsi.com 203-934-0878 Connecticut Storytelling Center connstorycenter.org

Hamden Art League hamdenartleague.com 203-494-2316 Hamden Arts Commission hamdenartscommission.org 203-287-2546 Hillhouse Opera Company 203-464-2683 Hopkins School hopkins.edu Hugo Kauder Society hugokauder.org The Institute Library institutelibrary.org International Festival of Arts & Ideas artidea.org International Silat Federation of America & Indonesia isfnewhaven.org

Elm City Dance Collective elmcitydance.org

Kehler Liddell Gallery kehlerliddell.com

Bethesda Music Series bethesdanewhaven.org 203-787-2346

Encore Music Creations encoremusiccreations.com

Branford Folk Music Society folknotes.org/branfordfolk

Guitartown CT Productions guitartownct.com 203-430-6020

John Slade Ely House elyhouse.org

Elm Shakespeare Company elmshakespeare.org 203-874-0801

Branford Art Studio branfordartstudio.com 203-488-2787

Guilford Art Center guilfordartcenter.org 203-453-5947

Creative Arts Workshop creativeartsworkshop.org 203-562-4927

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library library.yale.edu/beinecke

Blackfriars Repertory Theatre blackfriarsrep.com

Greater New Haven Community Chorus gnhcc.org 203-624-1979

Fellowship Place fellowshipplace.org Firehouse 12 firehouse12.com 203-785-0468 Fred Giampietro Gallery giampietrogallery.com 203-777-7760

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Knights of Columbus Museum kofcmuseum.org Legacy Theatre legacytheatrect.org 203-457-0138 Long Wharf Theatre longwharf.org 203-787-4282 Madison Art Society madisonartsociety.blogspot.com 860-399-6116 Magrisso Forte magrissoforte.com 203-397-2002

Mamas Markets mamasmarketsllc.com

New Haven Oratorio Choir nhoratoriochoir.org

Marrakech, Inc./Association of Artisans to Cane marrakechinc.org

New Haven Paint and Clay Club newhavenpaintandclayclub.org 203-288-6590

Meet the Artists and Artisans meettheartistsandartisans.com 203-874-5672

New Haven Preservation Trust nhpt.org

Melinda Marquez Flamenco Dance Center melindamarquezfdc.org 203-361-1210

New Haven Review newhavenreview.com New Haven Symphony Orchestra newhavensymphony.org 203-865-0831

Milford Fine Arts Council milfordarts.org 203-878-6647

New Haven Theater Company newhaventheatercompany.com

Music Haven musichavenct.org 203-215-4574

Orchestra New England orchestranewengland.org 203-777-4690

Music Mountain musicmountain.com 860-824-7126

Pantochino Productions pantochino.com

Music with Mary accordions.com/mary Musical Folk musicalfolk.com

Paul Mellon Arts Center choate.edu/artscenter Play with Grace playwithgrace.com

Neighborhood Music School neighborhoodmusicschool.org 203-624-5189

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, New Haven Branch rscdsnewhaven.org 203-878-6094

New England Ballet Company newenglandballet.org 203-799-7950

Shoreline Arts Alliance shorelinearts.org 203-453-3890

New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema nefiac.com

Shubert Theater shubert.com 203-562-5666

New Haven Ballet newhavenballet.org 203-782-9038

Silk n’ Sounds silknsounds.org

New Haven Chamber Orchestra newhavenchamberorchestra.org New Haven Chorale newhavenchorale.org 203-776-7664 New Haven Free Public Library nhfpl.org 203-946-8835 New Haven Museum newhavenmuseum.org 203-562-4183

Silk Road Art Gallery silkroadartnewhaven.com

Creative Businesses

Trinity Players/ Something Players 203-288-6748

Best Video 203-287-9286 bestvideo.com

University Glee Club of New Haven universitygleeclub.org

Fairhaven Furniture fairhaven-furniture.com 203-776-3099

Wesleyan University Center for the Arts wesleyan.edu/cfa West Cove Studio & Gallery westcovestudio.com 609-638-8501 Whitney Arts Center 203-773-3033 Whitney Humanities Center yale.edu/whc Yale Cabaret yalecabaret.org 203-432-1566

Yale Institute of Sacred Music yale.edu.ism 203-432-5180

JCC of Greater New Haven jccnh.org Overseas Ministries Study Center omsc.org

Yale Repertory Theatre yalerep.org 203-432-1234

Theatre 4 t4ct.com 203-654-7711

Yale University Bands yale.edu/yaleband 203-432-4111

Department of Arts Culture & Tourism, City of New Haven cityofnewhaven.com 203-946-8378

Fractured Atlas fracturedatlas.org

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History peabody.yale.edu 203-432-5050

Yale University Art Gallery artgallery.yale.edu 203-432-0600

The Owl Shop owlshopcigars.com

DECD/CT Office of the Arts cultureandtourism.org 860-256-2800

Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Child Life Arts & Enrichment Program ynhh.org 203-688-9532

Susan Powell Fine Art susanpowellfineart.com 203-318-0616

MEA Mobile meamobile.com

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Yale Glee Club yale.edu/ygc

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Hull’s Art Supply and Framing hullsnewhaven.com 203-865-4855

Toad’s Place toadsplace.com

Yale Center for British Art yale.edu/ycba

Site Projects www.siteprojects.org

Foundry Music Company www.foundrymusicco.com

Town Green Special Services District infonewhaven.com Visit New Haven visitnewhaven.com Westville Village Renaissance Alliance westvillect.org

Young Audiences of Connecticut yaconn.org

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The Arts Paper arts council programs

Perspectives …

Gallery at Whitney Center Location: 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m. & Saturdays, 1-4 p.m.

Animal Powers Dates: June 25–October 2 Public reception: September 27, 2-5 p.m.

Artist talk at 2 p.m.

Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery Location: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon St., 2nd Floor, New Haven Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Perspectives … Gallery at Whitney Center. Harold Shapiro.

Rendezvous Dates: July 10–September 19 Opening reception: July 10, 5-7 p.m.

John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art Location: 51 Trumbull St., New Haven Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m.

Doll-like An exhibition and community doll collection Curated by Paul Clabby and Debbie Hesse Dates: Through July 20

Save the Dates!

ArtSpot! Arts and Culture Happy Hour returns on July 31 at the Yale University Visitor Center featuring live music, drinks, and refreshments. Bring a friend!

Somewhat Off the Wall, a gala fundraiser to

John Slade Ely House. Margaret Roleke.

Somewhat Off the Wall. Eileen Eder.

benefit the Arts Council, returns on September 20 in the lobby of 360 State Street. Numbered tickets available for $100. When your ticket number is called, you select and take home a piece of original artwork! $35 event tickets do not include artwork.

Party begins at 5 p.m., drawing of ticket numbers begins at 7 p.m. Contact info@newhavenarts.org for more information.

For more information on these events and more visit newhavenarts.org or check out our mobile events calendar using the ANDI app for smartphones.

Perspectives … Gallery at Whitney Center. Joy Bush.