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Letter from the editor Three of New Haven’s most beloved and iconic arts organizations are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is 120, the Shubert Theater is 100, and Long Wharf Theatre is 50. In this issue of The Arts Paper, we explore the very beginnings of those institutions. Amanda May Aruani spoke with the Shubert’s executive director, John Fisher, and with longtime Shubert patron Evelyn Dermer about that organization’s storied history. For a feature about the establishment of Long Wharf Theatre, I spoke with founders Jon Jory and Harlan Kleiman, the organization’s artistic director, Gordon Edelstein, and past board chairmen Charles Kingsley and Fred Walker. A document that revealed a great deal about the atmosphere around the theater during its inception was a piece written by founding trustee Elizabeth Kubler for the winter 1996 issue of Smith Alumnae Quarterly. In writing about the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s
founding in 1895, I consulted several archival documents, including a 1950 monograph by William Bacon Carey titled The New Haven Symphony Orchestra: The Origin, Development, and Present Problems of a Secondary American Orchestra and Reminiscences of Morris Steinert, a book “compiled and arranged by Jane Marlin” (1900, The Knickerbocker Press/ G.P. Putnam’s Sons). In addition to the NHSO’s music director, William Boughton, and its executive director, Elaine Carroll, I spoke with Louise Guion, whose grandfather, Henry Wolcott Farnam, hosted a fundraiser for the fledgling orchestra in October 1895. With the help of folks at the Shubert, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and New Haven Museum, we’ve been able to include a number of historical photographs. Hank Hoffman’s Artists Next Door feature this month introduces us to new ACES Educational Center for the Arts Director Jason Hiruo, whom Hank quoted as saying, proudly, “At ECA, we strongly encourage students to take risks and create. In doing so, they’re sharing a piece of themselves.” For our Rock Notes feature, I interviewed a musician named Leyla McCalla, who’ll be performing at Café Nine this month. McCalla was discovered playing on Royal
Street, in New Orleans, by New Haven native Timothy Duffy, who heads the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a Hillsborough, North Carolina-based nonprofit that supports blues musicians and manages the careers of ascendant young artists like McCalla. Also included in this issue of The Arts Paper is a “Sounds Off” piece about opening night at the New Haven Symphony, a collection of photos related to Creative Arts Workshop’s annual Celebration of American Crafts, and the names of this year’s Arts Awards winners. The December issue of The Arts Paper will include detailed biographical information about and portraits, by Harold Shapiro, of the 2014 Arts Awards winners. We hope you enjoy the stories presented herein and that you’ll remember to recycle this print publication once you’ve finished reading it. n Sincerely,
David Brensilver, editor The Arts Paper
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On the Cover The December issue of The Arts Paper will including biographical information about and portraits, by Harold Shapiro, of the 2014 Arts Awards winners. See page 5 for this year’s award winners. Photo by Judy Sirota Rosenthal.
Long Wharf Theatre’s inaugural production, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, starring Tom Toner, left, and Leslie Cass. Long Wharf Theatre, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the Shubert Theater are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. See stories on pages 6, 8 & 9. Photo courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.
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The arts world hank hoffman “I’m having the most incredible experience,” the Newtown High School student told assistant principal Jason Hiruo. “ECA is the best part of my day. I’ll remember it forever.” It was early 2013 and Hiruo had responsibility for helping to manage the recovery process for Sandy Hook School in the wake of the shootings. He had initiated the conversation with the girl because she was in a good mood. What was lifting her spirits at such a troubling time for the community? “ECA is a saving grace for me,” she told him, referring to ACES Educational Center for the Arts, a half-day arts magnet high school on Audubon Street in New Haven. Newtown is one of more than 20 communities in the state that send students to the rigorous magnet school, which has programs in theater, music, visual arts, creative writing, and dance. “It’s only because I get to go to ECA that I’m able to find reward and value in everything in the world right now.” The conversation was a revelation to Hiruo, who visited ECA shortly thereafter. He went to ECA just to understand what students from Newtown were experiencing there. “But as soon as I walked into the building I was sucked in,” Hiruo tells me in an interview at his ECA office where he is now director. “It knocked my socks off — the level of engagement not only by the students but by the staff. The level of mentoring that was taking place and the enthusiasm and energy of the building when you walked in was overwhelming to me.” That night, Hiruo told his wife it would be “literally a dream to get to work in a place like that.” A month later, he learned of an opening for the director’s position. He took over in July 2013. Chief among Hiruo’s priorities for ECA are globalizing the school — building educational exchange relationships with similar arts academies in other countries — and expanding and deepening its programming. Hiruo also aspires to connect the school more deeply to the community through summer programming and adult education. Hiruo brings to the position not just a background in school administration and teaching. He is also steeped in the arts. He studied world literature in college and is a longtime musician who began learning the drums while in sixth grade. During his college years, Hiruo toured and recorded extensively, mostly with modern rock bands but also with jazz groups. In his music career, he has played with Wide Black Sky and Mrs. Mason’s Sofa, and, more recently, with Daria Musk, and has opened for such luminaries as Weezer, Marilyn Manson, and The Roots. Hiruo performed at New York City clubs, including the Village Vanguard, CBGB’s, and the Knitting Factory. “While teaching, I was still in the industry, still a working drummer,” Hiruo says. “It was quite an awesome life. I was able to balance my excitement for teaching and my students and my excitement with playing out and getting in the studio.”
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His experience in finding a balance between practicing his art and working as an educator comes in handy when mentoring students. ECA students have to balance the demands of their rigorous ECA curriculum with the requirements of their sending schools. This tightrope act is training for the likely need in later life to balance the demands of making art and making a living. He authored a Tweet popular among students: “You don’t always get what you wish for but you get what you work for.” He urges students to reflect on what is of value to them. “A lot of students are random and abstract in their thinking as artists,” explains Hiruo. “We have to have a discussion on how to structure and organize” their priorities. As assistant principal at Newtown High School — he was named to the position in 2006 when he was 30 — Hiruo oversaw the arts, music, English, and special-education departments and was the assistant marching-band director. Recognizing that the school community “needed more global perspectives and diversity,” Hiruo was the founding program coordinator for the Newtown International Center for Education, or NICE, a K-12 educational exchange program. Under his leadership, NICE developed sister-school arrangements with schools in China, Japan, France, and India. “The experience was life-altering for students,” Hiruo recalls, “being able to meet their peers and find there are more similarities than differences on the other side of the world.” “The program also changed my life. It made me realize, in coming to ACES, that it’s very easy to connect culture to the arts here,” Hiruo says. Whether it’s African hand drumming or French painting, instructors delve into not just the art form but also the culture from which it emerged. Out of this, “students are finding more personal, individual relevance for themselves,” says Hiruo. “At ECA, we strongly encourage students to take risks and create. In doing so, they’re sharing a piece of themselves,” says Hiruo. “Students are starting to pull from within their own cultural understandings and putting it out into their artwork.” In the past year, ECA has already established relationships with some of the best art schools in China. Hiruo’s goal is to connect with five countries in five years — China, Japan, Germany, France, and either England or Ireland. This coming April, more than 20 ECA faculty members will pay their own way to China to connect on a professional level with colleagues in their sister schools and to work on how to collaborate. While Hiruo maintains his drumming chops — and keeps an African djembe in his office to play after hours — he is not currently performing. “My art form right now is leading ECA,” he tells me. He is pooling his experiences in music, writing, and education to fulfill the time-intensive demands of running the school. But like the students of ECA, drumming for him “is not just an outlet but a personal need. It’s just who I am.” n
Jason Hiruo drums up enthusiasm for ECA
Jason Hiruo. Photo by Harold Shapiro.
“At ECA, we strongly encourage students to take risks and create. In doing so, they’re sharing a piece of themselves.” – Jason Hiruo
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Opening night at the symphony david brensilver
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aving spent the past month researching the very beginnings of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (see pages 6-7), it seemed only fitting that I attend the opening night concert of the ensemble’s 2014-15 season — a program on October 2 at Woolsey Hall that featured performances of Richard Strauss’ tone poem Don Juan, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Naturally, I had history on my mind as I settled into one of Woolsey Hall’s 2,650 folding, wooden seats. Fortunately, my frame didn’t require me to sit in the so-called “Taft seat,” a chair that’s 28 percent wider and 15 percent deeper than the 2,649 others. It was installed in the balcony of Woolsey Hall when former U.S. president William Howard Taft, a robust man, to be kind about it, joined the Yale University faculty in 1913, 12 years after the building was completed. The Newberry Memorial Organ, which serves as a fully functioning backdrop to the venue’s stage, is always an impressive sight, as is the interior of the hall itself, which architects John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings designed in the Beaux-Arts style in 1901 in celebration of Yale University’s bicentennial. Fresh from writing about the early history of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra for this issue of The Arts Paper, I couldn’t help but to think about the fact that the orchestra is the fourth-oldest in the United States, having given its official debut performance on January 25, 1895. I also couldn’t help but to think about the history of the pieces on the program. Strauss’ Don Juan was written in 1889 and received its premiere in November of that year under the composer’s baton. Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, which the NHSO performed on October 2 with violinist Yevgeny Kutik, received its premiere in Paris in 1923 under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky. And Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5 received its premiere at a December 22, 1808, concert in Vienna that most attention-deficient humans couldn’t handle today. As NHSO Artistic Director William Boughton explained from the podium, that December 22, 1808, program, which Beethoven conducted, also featured the premieres of his Symphony No. 6 and Choral Fantasy, a performance of his Piano Concerto No. 4 with the composer at the keyboard, and part of his Mass in C major. Boughton also explained that the
2014 Arts Awards winners ac staff We here at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven are excited to announce the winners of the 2014 Arts Awards, the theme for which is “Small City, Big Art,” a nod to creativity’s ability to transcend geography and offer boundless inspiration.
Despite this surviving concert program, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra gave its first performance on January 25, 1895. Photo courtesy of the NHSO.
famous motif that pervades Symphony No. 5 is said to represent “fate knocking at the door” — and, in the end, triumph in the face of adversity, which, in Beethoven’s case, was the loss of hearing. Fittingly, Boughton and the orchestra dedicated their opening-night performance to all those around the world who are suffering. Hearing the NHSO’s spirited reading of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, I only lamented that the program didn’t continue to include the works the composer so audaciously presented on December 22, 1808. While that concert was received less-than enthusiastically, I have a feeling that the audience at Woolsey Hall on October 2 would have relished the opportunity to hear more. n David Brensilver is the editor of The Arts Paper. This is his opinion.
C. Newton Schenck III Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Contribution to the Arts Having literally changed the skylines of cities around the world, architect Cesar Pelli’s presence in New Haven has inspired us to look up, to think big, and to celebrate the visionary work that happens in our small city each and every day. With her compelling documentaries, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Karyl Evans has masterfully shared with us stories of the extraordinary treasures and institutions that have contributed so much to the region’s rich cultural history. Through her work at the Elm City Dance Collective and elsewhere, dancer, choreographer, and educator Kellie Ann Lynch has invigorated the local dance community, challenging both the artists with whom she shares the stage and those who experience the yield of her expression. For decades, arts champion Barbara Pearce has promoted New Haven as a small city whose cultural offerings make it much larger, contributing her time, energy, and impassioned leadership to beloved organizations while insisting that each institution’s strength bolsters the health of the region’s cultural ecology. Winfred Rembert’s artwork, practiced and developed in the harshness of a Georgia prison cell, recalls his often brutal experiences as an African American man in the Deep South, providing for us not just a glimpse into the darkness of our nation’s history, but the story of one man’s courageous journey toward a brighter future. Coordinated by Peter Noble, Pequenas Ligas Hispanas de New Haven is an organization that serves as a bridge to important cultural experiences, connecting young people who might otherwise not have access to the arts with programs that foster creativity and greatly enhance lives. n
The December issue of The Arts Paper will include detailed biographical information about the 2014 Arts Awards winners. The 2014 Arts Awards luncheon is scheduled for Friday, December 5, at 11:45 a.m., at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave., in New Haven. For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788. William Boughton and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra at Woolsey Hall. Photo courtesy of the NHSO.
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The New Haven Symphony Orchestra in 1901. Morris Steinert’s daughter, Heloise Shoninger, was the ensemble’s first female member. Photo (detail) courtesy of New Haven Museum.
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n December 1894, a group of amateur musicians from Dorscht Lodge No. 2, a music club on Crown Street, approached a local piano dealer named Morris Steinert about helping to grow their modest ensemble into a full-fledged orchestra. Together, those musicians represented “one of those many small private groups founded by German-Americans in the interests of preserving their old-world musical traditions in the less appreciative United States,” Steinert later explained, according to a 1950 monograph by William Bacon Carey titled The New Haven Symphony Orchestra: The Origin, Development, and Present Problems of a Secondary American Orchestra. Of that day in December 1894, Steinert wrote (according to Carey), matter-of-factly: “One fine morning a body of musicians came to me to organize an orchestra.” It wasn’t a foreign concept to Steinert. In fact, it was something he’d tried to do decades earlier. Born in Bavaria in 1831, Steinert had immigrated to the United States in 1850, before the outbreak of the Civil War. After bouncing around a bit working as a violinist, Steinert found himself in Savannah, Georgia, working in a music store, before accepting a gig as a
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church organist in Athens, Georgia. There, Academy in Cheshire to teach music. He, Carin 1860, he opened a piano dealership, and oline, and their growing family settled into a taught privately, until the war began. At that house on Crown Street. It was a time of “prospoint, Steinert moved his family to New York, perous circumstances,” as Steinert described where he struggled to find work. In Reminisit in his Reminiscences. cences of Morris Steinert, a book “compiled and It was at this point that Steinert, who’d been arranged by Jane Marlin” and published in playing chamber music with local musicians, 1900 by The Knickerbocker Press, a division of set his mind to starting a larger ensemble, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Steinert recounted: “I viswhich, as he explained in his Reminiscences, ited the playhouses “was not an easy task, over and over as the woods were not “ again, trying to then full of musicians get some position who could play upon in the orchestra. I orchestral instrualso called upon ments.” Fortunately, orchestral leaders Steinert had a healthy and conductors for sense of humor. some employment, In Reminiscences, but there was no he explained: “Our opening for me in rehearsals were simply New York. … Mrs. frightful … the volume Steinert [the forof tone which the men mer Caroline Dreysucceeded in bringing fuss] had a sister out of their instru.” residing in New ments reminded me – Morris Steinert Haven, and in our of the heavy artillery distress my wife and lamentations of wrote to her, telling her of our troubles.” the wounded at that time congregated upon In New Haven, Steinert found work as a the battlefield at Bull Run, which was quite as substitute organist at a Congregational church disastrous to our army as my little Yankee and that is now the New Haven Free Public Library, Dutch band was to the peaceful neighborhood and then as the organist at St. Thomas’s Episof Crown Street. … they were a d—d bad lot of copal Church. He also had a growing roster musicians, and I looked upon them, when proof private students. The modest good fortune fessionally engaged, as children of Hades.” continued. Steinert was hired by the Episcopal Undaunted, Steinert subjected members
They were a d—d bad lot of musicians, and I looked upon them, when professionally engaged, as children of Hades
of the public in Meriden to what he’d dubbed the Steinert Orchestra. And while that concert was a success, the next one was anything but. The orchestra performed before a lecture by temperance advocate John B. Gough, a gig that coincided with violinist Peter Fischer’s birthday. Naturally, the musicians decided to celebrate at a nearby bar. “I was in despair when I looked around and saw the condition of my little band and, knowing their musical state when sober, I naturally felt that the engagement to play for the lecture that evening would be connected with great risk,” Steinert recounted in his Reminiscences, remembering that “I was just congratulating myself upon the success of the affair, and we were on the last waltz, when the double-bass utterly collapsed and fell to the floor, his big instrument on top of him. … I regret to say that we were not re-engaged.” Steinert soon thereafter reconsidered his options, though, at first, not too carefully. No sooner than he decided to go into the hoopskirt business did he learn that hoop skirts had gone out of style – in large part due to the introduction of the modern-day bicycle, for which Pierre Lallement, a Frenchman living in Ansonia, Connecticut, secured a patent in 1866. Somewhat predictably, Steinert turned once again to what he knew best and instead opened a music store on Grand Avenue, eventually building his own instruments — an enterprise that yielded little reward — before becoming a successful Steinway & Sons dealer with showrooms in numerous U.S.
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cities. It was in New Haven, in 1894, that the musicians from Dorscht Lodge No. 2 came calling. It was an important year in New Haven, musically speaking. The Yale School of Music conferred its first degrees and American composer Horatio Parker was named the school’s Battell Professor of the Theory of Music. He became the school’s dean a decade later. When in December 1894 musicians from Dorscht Lodge No. 2 appeared at Steinert’s door seeking help in forming a full-fledged orchestra, Steinert, of course, obliged. Parker was invited to the group’s first rehearsal, which took place at an M. Steinert & Sons storefront at 777 Chapel St., and he conducted the nascent New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s first public performance on January 25, 1895, at Carll’s Opera House, on Chapel Street. The earliest surviving concert program erroneously indicates that the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s debut performance took place on March 14 of that year. Regardless, tickets to the orchestra’s debut performance were $.25. A New Haven Register review of the fledgling orchestra praised Parker’s musical leadership, opining that “the orchestra was at all times under his control. Professor Parker showed an artistic conception of the works performed and his readings were musicianly and dramatic.” In his 1950 monograph, William Bacon Carey wrote: “While few people knew much about music there was great enthusiasm for keeping up with the neighboring cities of Bos-
ton and New York.” On October 9, 1895, a group of enthusiastic townspeople gathered at Yale University economics professor Henry Wolcott Farnam’s house, at 43 Hillhouse Ave., to pledge their financial support to the new orchestra. Five years later, Yale University assumed responsibility for the orchestra’s financial stability. It was an organizational relationship that lasted 36 years. Reached in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Farnam’s granddaughter Louise Guion, now 91, said her grandfather “was very much into (the) arts, music particularly.” Guion started going to the symphony in New Haven, with her sister, mother, and grandmother, when she was 11 — an age at which she had a “hard time staying awake.” “We were regular members of the audience,” she said, and “usually sat up in the balcony in that first row,” once the orchestra moved into Woolsey Hall in 1903. Talking about the cultural atmosphere in New Haven in 1895, New Haven Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director William Boughton said, “It was a place and a time of great forward-thinking people, both in business, commerce, and the arts.” That three decades passed between Steinert’s initial attempt to form an orchestra and the organization’s formal founding and 1895 debut under Parker’s baton in no way diminishes the instrumental role Steinert played in establishing an orchestra in New Haven. Eventually, the orchestra’s executive director, Elaine Carroll, pointed out, “the community stepped up and helped him to do it.” n
Morris Steinert, shortly before his death in 1912. Photo courtesy of New Haven Museum.
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ne hundred years ago, the Panama Canal was inaugurated, Babe Ruth debuted with the Boston Red Sox, Charlie Chaplin made his first appearance on film, and Harry Houdini was performing stunts in New York City. Gentlemen wore bowler hats and drove heavy black automobiles with large spindle wheels down College Street in New Haven, where the Sam S. Shubert Theater opened on December 11, 1914. New Haven was a lively town at the time, with a hopping downtown area full of restaurants, shops, and hotels, much as it is today. The public welcomed the Sam S. Shubert Theatre with The Belle of Bond Street, raising the curtain on what was to become “the birthplace of America’s greatest hits.” Lee and J.J. Shubert named the theater (and all their theaters) for their brother Sam, who passed away in 1905. The theater’s success in New Haven was immediate, with the backing and knowhow of the brothers, who had opened a Broadway theater in New York two years earlier and were on a roll. “At one time the Shubert brothers owned, managed, or booked over 1,000 theaters across the country,” explained John F. Fisher, the New Haven Shubert’s vice president and executive director. “Most try-outs (pre-Broadway shows) happened in Boston, Philadelphia or New Haven,” Fisher said. Why was New Haven often the first place a musical or play was produced? “Certainly because we were close to New York. Trains stopped in New Haven,” Fisher offered. “In the film All About Eve starring Bette Davis there’s of a shot of them walking down College Street while the narrator says, ‘To the theater world, New Haven, Connecticut, is a short stretch of sidewalk between the Shubert Theater and the Taft Hotel – surrounded by what looks very much like a small city. It is here that managers have what are called ‘out of town
openings,’ which are openings for New Yorkers who want to go out of town.” About three decades down the line, the jig was up for the Shubert brothers. “They were the Clear Channel of the day. The government called it a monopoly and broke them up in the ’40s. They were able to keep a few theaters, those in New York, Boston, Chicago, and maybe D.C. They were the largest theater owners on Broadway, with about 18 theaters,” Fisher explained. The truth is that the theater’s heyday was after the Shubert brothers leased it out. Maurice H. Bailey took over in the fall of 1941 and ran New Haven’s Shubert Theater for the next 35 years. The theater hit legendary status with the world premieres of Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and many more. Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gabe, Mary Martin, Julie Andrews, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, and Sidney Poitier all earned their professional acclaim at the Shubert, according to promotional materials provided by the theater. All in all, it has presented around 600 pre-Broadway shows and 300 world premieres, including virtually all the Rodger and Hammerstein shows. Long-time Shubert patron Evelyn Dermer spoke with The Arts Paper about the early days of the theater. At 91, she has long been a champion of the venue, seeing countless performances, helping it to reopen in 1983 after its seven-year hiatus, and even serving on the board. “My introduction to the Shubert was basically beginning in the ’40s. I graduated from Hill House (James Hillhouse High School) in 1940 and around that time, I had an older cousin who went to Yale and he was my older sister’s age. They would go to the Shubert and I guess I wasn’t a pesky kid, so they would invite me. We used to sit in the upstairs balcony. We went to all the musicals, it was 55 cents in those days,” Dermer said. When she met her husband, their first date was to a boxing match. When she got home, her mother asked her, “Well, do you like this guy?” She replied, “Not particularly.” But after the second date she asked again and her answer summed it up: “I think this might be something, he took me to the Shubert.” They went on to marry in 1946.
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One of the many world premieres Dermer saw with her husband was My Fair Lady. “It was a Saturday night when we went to see My Fair Lady, which was of course absolutely fabulous, but Rex Harrison was having a rough time, didn’t want to sing. We sat up front and you could hear him being prompted by someone behind the scenes. They were threatening that he’d never be on stage again. He was having a rough time. He didn’t sing, he talked his lines, but it was so good how he did it, it was wonderful. Of course he went on to play in New York and in the movie and was wonderful,” Dermer recalled. Another anecdote was Julie Andrews (as Eliza Doolittle) singing “Say a Prayer for me Tonight,” which was later taken out of the long My Fair Lady show and used in Gigi instead. “When I saw Gigi, I said, ‘That originated in My Fair Lady!’ That happened a lot, they made changes. (The shows in New Haven) were basically a big dress rehearsal,” Dermer said. “We would go to Shubert, and the custom was all the big shots would go across the street to Kayseys (Restaurant) on College Street after,” Dermer said. “We always went there, it was a good dinner. One of the reasons was because all the actors and actresses would come in and we would applaud. “Once my husband and I went to Sicily on vacation and we were all dressed up walking around, and we saw the actor Ben Gazzara on the street. Real handsome guy. I said to him, ‘I used to see you all the time at Kayseys!’ And he said, ‘The best part of playing in New Haven was going to Kayseys after the show.’” Kayseys is now Briq (266 College St.) and instead of being the first place shows are staged before Broadway, now the Shubert is often the first post-Broadway stop. “Back then (the Shubert) was a Broadway touring theater, nowadays you’ve got to mix it up for a broader audience,” Fisher said. “We’ve reinvented ourselves as a regional performing arts center.” In a town which has seen many theaters come and go, the Shubert has endured. “The Palace was across the street, there was the Iperian, which was torn down around 1999 and had been closed for 30 years. There were one or two on Church Street,” recalls Fisher of New Haven’s rich theater history. “It was a different time. There is a lot more for people to do now. This was before TV, ‘high def,’ all that. This was also before the regional
Above: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. Below: A young Audrey Hepburn (left) in Gigi.
theaters like Hartford Stage and Long Wharf (Theatre). They didn’t (yet) exist.” Next month, it will be one hundred years since the Shubert opened, and they are reinventing themselves once again. As director of marketing and community relations, Anthony Lupinacci, puts it, “With the centennial, we are celebrating our past, building our future.” They have been literally building, beginning a multi-million dollar renovation in May 2014. See a performance at the Shubert this year to see “phase one” of their renovations, which are mostly back-of-house, but includes bathrooms on all levels for audience members. Coming phases will include a new entry and façade and a 150-seat black-box theater. n
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harles Kingsley remembers Long Wharf Theatre’s first production, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, as being “awfully well done.” The show — and the theater — opened on July 4, 1965. It was the heyday of the regional theater movement in the United States. Current Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein pointed out that for many decades prior to the 1960s, the only way people in cities outside New York could see top-quality professional theater was to attend performances by touring productions. The regional theater movement that was in full swing from the late 1950s until about a decade later was born of the notion “that cities of America deserved an active culture that was locally created,” Edelstein said, explaining that “the arts were in ascendancy at the time.” “Everybody was breathing the same air,” Edelstein said. The Ford Foundation had opted in and was helping regional theaters get started. In New Haven, which at the time was ripe for the establishment of a regional theater, two idealistic young Yale University students, Jon Jory and Harlan Kleiman, found a group of people who made that happen. Reached in New Mexico, where he’s on the faculty of Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Jory said the mid-1960s were “the golden age of starting regional professional companies.” The son of actor Victor Jory, Jon Jory grew up in California, in and around the Pasadena Playhouse. “I was already sort of regional-theater oriented,” he said. Having left the University of Utah to work at the Cleveland Play House, and after a stint in the Army, Jory enrolled the Yale School of Drama. At the university, Jory got to know fellow graduate student Harlan Kleiman, who was studying industrial administration and had always had an interest in theater. After gaining some experience running a summer-stock theater in Clinton, Connecticut, in the summer of 1964, Jory and Kleiman looked around for help and money to start a resident company in New Haven. “We started reading the society pages of the New Haven Register,” Jory said, and they started cold-calling people in the community to ask if they’d be interested in serving on a steering committee. Kleiman focused on the business side of things while Jory focused on all things artistic. Armed with a business plan, they began to pitch the idea at cocktail parties. “Gradually,” Jory said, “we found a bunch of people who were interested.” That bunch included Elizabeth Kubler, Ruth Lord, and Charles Newton “Newt” Schenck III — the organization’s founding trustees (Lord as the board’s first president and Schenck as the board’s first chairman), along with Virginia Hepler. In a piece for the winter 1966 Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Kubler wrote: “In November (1964) friends were found who offered the use of a large ballroom for an initial meeting, to which about 80 people of varying persuasions and interests were invited. Fifty or more came, and the two future directors
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Left to right: Thomas Waites, Clifton James, and Al Pacino in David Mamet’s American Buffalo, which was staged during Long Wharf Theatre’s 1980-1981 season. Photo courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.
began the first of a long series of spiels that became known as the ‘Gallagher and Sheehan Act,’ telling of their hopes for a theatre where good plays well produced would be available at modest prices.” Schenck, who longtime local arts champion Frances “Bitsie” Clark said was “very, very interested in the whole aspect of the (postwar) development of the city,” was an attorney at Wiggin and Dana. Schenck was “fascinated” with the idea of starting a regional theater in New Haven, Kleiman said. Charles Kingsley, a former board chairman at Long Wharf Theatre and an attorney at Wiggin and Dana since 1962, said, “Newt’s enthusiasm for the theater was contagious.” Today, the performance space bears Schenck’s name. While it was at Wiggin and Dana that Long Wharf Theatre was established on paper, it was in the nascent New Haven Food Terminal that the theater took physical shape. Through longtime Democratic Party official Arthur Barbieri, Kleiman had met Jim Lamberti, owner of the Lamberti Sausage Co., which made its home at Long Wharf. “He was the guy in the New Haven Food Terminal that got us the bays that allowed us to build the theater,” Kleiman explained. Schenck had suggested locating the theater at the Food Terminal, where he had clients. The location, Jory said, “had a space we could afford” and plenty of parking. It wasn’t lost on anyone involved that Covent Garden, in London, is located in a food district. What Jory and Kleiman needed at that point were actors. Some they knew — like William Swetland, whom Jory knew from his days at the Cleveland Play House — and others they found at Yale and in New York. Of casting The Crucible, Jory said, “we sort of knew people who could play those parts,” including Swetland, who played the role of John Proctor. Because the theater, still under renovation, didn’t yet have running electricity, they rehearsed by light of battery powered lamps. Figuratively speaking, it’s thanks to Kubler, Lord, and Schenck that the electricity came
on for The Crucible, on July 4, 1965. Newt believed in what Jory and Kleiman were doing and helped them through the bureaucratic process, Kleiman said. Enough money was raised — at cocktail parties and at soup parties at Kubler’s home — to present the play and the first season. And Lamberti had secured excellent prices to have the physical space renovated, Kleiman said. The audience members who attended the theater’s first production sat in seats purchased from the Old Howard Theatre, a burlesque house in Boston that had closed more than a decade earlier. In her Smith Alumnae Quarterly piece, Kubler wrote: “By July 4th, somehow, everything was pretty well finished. Even the air-conditioning was working. … Almost every night chairs had to be put in for the overflow of customers. In fact, there were only 23 unsubscribed seats for the summer season. This has been commented on as a minor miracle for a new theatre. Nobody seemed to mind the rather stark interior, the 440 battered seats, and the bleak aspect of the lobby.” In addition to The Crucible, the first season, in the summer of 1965, included productions of Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Rick Besoyan’s Little Mary Sunshine, and Peter Shaffer’s The Private Ear and the Public Eye. “Luckily,” Jory said, “that summer sold like hot cakes.” The following season didn’t do as well. Still, the theater grew. After a few years, Jory and Kleiman moved on — the former to the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the latter to New York, where he produced plays and for a time served on the faculty at New York University. Long Wharf Theatre soon became a preeminent regional theater under the artistic direction of Alvin Brown, whom Kleiman had hired to run the children’s theater programs, and under the management of Edgar Rosenblum. After working in television and as the head of programming at HBO, Kleiman turned his attention to health-care funding, starting Shoreline
Pacific Equity and then founding the San Francisco-based Self Health Network, of which he’s currently the executive chairman. Jory, as previously mentioned, is on the faculty at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. While Kubler, Lord, and Schenck died in 2009, 2014, and 2002, respectively, their involvement with Long Wharf Theatre’s founding remains a watershed moment in New Haven’s cultural history. Jory described the atmosphere around the theater in the early days as one of “passionate hysteria.” He also acknowledged his youthful naiveté. “I was in way, way, way over my head,” he said. Of Long Wharf Theatre’s early productions, Jory said, “I think they were qualitatively pretty good.” The mood, he said, was “buoyant … it was wonderfully exciting.” Still, Jory said, it was “extremely stressful.” “We did The Trojan Women and I had never seen a Greek play,” he explained. “I was just operating out of sheer chutzpah and some talent.” Growing pains notwithstanding, what Jory and Kleiman created at Long Wharf Theatre was momentum. Fred Walker, who succeeded Schenck as the organization’s board chairman and today is a trustee emeritus, said it only took a few years before “the drums were beating … you heard about Long Wharf Theatre.” There was “high-grade theater,” Kingsley said, “but you didn’t have to go into New York City to find it — which is still true.” And it began with the efforts of a “handful of extremely idealistic and energetic theater lovers,” Edelstein said — “non-artist citizens who were taking responsibility for the cultural life of their communities.” “Their generosity of spirit was quite extraordinary,” Jory said of the community of people who helped found the theater. “I was too young to be grateful enough.” It was, after all, 50 years ago. “We were pioneers,” Kleiman said. n
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ac staff Somewhat Off the Wall was a great success! Guests and artists mingled together in the lobby of 360 State Street, which, for the second year has proven to be the perfect space to view the amazing art and meet new friends. Thank you to the 48 artists who each donated three original works of art. Without their donations and artistic talent, Somewhat Off the Wall would not happen. Thank you to our sponsors for their generous support: Suzio York Hill, Sally and Stephen Glick, 360 State Street, Martha and Terry Maguire, Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, and Space-Craft Manufacturing. To our local restaurants, suppliers, and services, we are very grateful for your community support: Caseus, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Claire’s Corner Copia, Eder Brothers, Eubank Frame, Hull’s Art Supply and Framing, Kumo Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse, La Cuisine, Odonnell Company, P&M Orange Street Market, Project M.O.R.E., Sitar, Stony Creek Brewery, Thali, Tikkaway Grill, Town Green Special Services District, Trader Joe’s, and Whalley Glass. Lastly thank you to 9th Note, Chatfield Hollow Bed & Breakfast, Fascia’s Chocolates, Fig Cooking School, Flight Trampoline Park, Gary Smith, Gotham Chamber Opera, idiom boutique, Lyman Center at SCSU, Mohegan Sun, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra New England, Pantochino, Taste of New Haven, Toad’s Place, Woodbridge Social, and Yale School of Music for providing fabulous door prizes. n
Somewhat Off the Wall guests view the works donated by local artists, hoping to bring one of the pieces home. Photo by Judy Sirota Rosenthal.
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carts have become a huge part of New Haven culture over the past few years; these paintings prove to a perfect combination of my favorite subjects.” On view through November 30. Opening reception: November 1, 6-8 p.m. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday by appointment.
ACES Educational Center for the Arts 55 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-777-5451. aces.org/schools/eca. Creative Dramatics. Quality acting classes for kids and teens offered on Saturdays through May. Ages 8-11 and 12-16. Call Ingrid Schaeffer, chair, theater department, at 203-795-9011 or email ingrids@optonline. net. Classes are 9-10:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Please call or write for more information. Contemporary Technique Dance Class (Intermediate). Instructor: Pamela Newell. Classes offered through December 1. Classes meet on Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m. No class November 3. $15 per class/$100 for 10 classes. Free for ECA alumni. Artsplace 1220 Waterbury Road, Cheshire. 203-2722787. cpfa-artsplace.org. Veteran’s Workshop. Special program for veterans. No drawing ability required in this workshop for veterans only. Bring a few favorite photos to class. You’ll learn specific techniques to create your professional pen and ink illustration in this eight-hour workshop. Instructor: Tony Ruggiero. Funding provided by Friends of CPFA/Artsplace, Inc. Thank you to our veterans! Wednesdays and Thursdays, November 12-20. No charge. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-562-4927. birdabode2014.org. Fall Session: Classes and Workshops. Have you ever wanted to paint a landscape? Or shoot great family photos? Or make your own jewelry? Give your creativity a kick-start with visual art classes for all ages and experience levels in book arts, design, drawing and painting, fiber, fashion, jewelry, photography, pottery, and sculpture. Register online today. Session runs through December 5. Connecticut Capoeira and Dance Center 1175 State St. (Trolley Building), New Haven. 203-645-8472. elmcitydance.org. Advanced Contemporary Dance Technique. We will playfully tumble through space attempting to find ease in effort, weight, and clarity. Moving dynamically while simultaneously exploring nuance and performance, we will fall into and out of the floor for a full body dance experience. This class will invite you to discover your fullest movement potential. Sunday classes offered through November 23. $15 drop-in, $60 for five-class pass, $150 for all-semester pass (includes Sunday Contemporary and Tuesday Club Fusion only. Expires December 31). 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Club Fusion Dance Class – Beginner Welcome. Come and get your groove on in this non-stop followalong-style movement experience that will leave you energized and sweaty. No dance experience is needed as you will be guided through basic club style dance steps from beginning to end, rounded out by a series of dance conditioning and stretching exercises for warmup and cool-down. Tuesday classes offered through December 16. $15 drop-in, $60 for five--class pass, $150 for all-semester pass (includes Sunday Contemporary and Tuesday Club Fusion only. Expires December 31). 6:45-7:45 p.m. Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center, 230 West Campus Drive, Orange. 203-934-0878. ctnsi.com. Art Classes in Natural Science Illustration. Delve into natural history drawing and painting with a wide array of courses at the Yale West Campus in Orange. We offer classes and workshops in Beginning Drawing, Botanical Watercolor, The Science of Color, Drawing and Painting Birds, Landscapes in Oil, Colored Pencil, and Insects Writ Large. Details at online. Email ctnsi.info@gmail.com. Classes offered through December 13, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. See website for details.
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Davison Art Center Wesleyan Center for the Arts, 301 High St., Middletown. 860-685-2500. wesleyan.edu/dac. Call to Action — American Posters in World War I. Selected from the collection of the Davison Art Center, the exhibition Call to Action includes more than 30 American World War I posters designed by James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, and others. On view through December 7. Hours: 12-4 p.m. Free.
The Yale University Art Gallery presents Odd Volumns: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, November 7 through February 1, 2015. Pictured is Chris Perry’s 86 Ripples: Droplet, 2011. Artist’s book with gel acetate and wood. Yale University Art Gallery, The Allan Chasanoff, b.a. 1961, Book Art Collection, curated with Doug Beube. © Chris Perry. Image and caption information courtesy of YUAG.
First and Summerfield United Methodist Church College and Elm Streets, New Haven. 585-2008903. sacredmusicCT.org. Improvisation Master Class with Jeff Brillhart. Learn from master teacher and improviser Jeff Brillhart, who has helped so many organists become more comfortable with improvisation. Following a presentation and master class, we will enjoy catered dinner together. The workshop is open to all for free. If you wish to eat with us, RSVP for dinner by November 7 at info@sacredmusicCT.org. November 16, 4 p.m. Free workshop (dinner is $20, RSVP required). Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford. 203453-5947. guilfordartcenter.org. Fall Semester of Classes at Guilford Art Center. Classes for all ages and skill levels available in media such as ceramics, painting and drawing, sewing, blacksmithing, jewelry and metalsmithing, stone carving, photography, and more. After-school classes for youth. Visit website for information and to register. Classes offered through November 21. Neighborhood Music School 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org. English Country Dance. Beautiful music, cheerful dance, and friendly community. All dances taught by Paul McGuire. Come with or without a partner. Beginners welcome. Live music by Marshall Barron, Grace Feldman, Phoebe Barron, Margaret Ann Martin, and musicians from Marshall’s Dance Band Workshops. Visit website for details. 8-10:30 a.m. Royal Scottish Country Dance Society at the Whitney Arts Center 591 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203281-6591. 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. Every Tuesday evening through December 9. $8 per evening. First night free. 7:45-10 p.m. World Music Hall 40 Wyllys Ave., Middletown. 860-685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa. Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble Classes. The ensemble is open to children ages 7 to 14. The group learns traditional music from Java, Indonesia, during the fall and spring semesters. Fall classes conclude with a performance with the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble on Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. Classes offered on Saturdays, 10-11 a.m., through November 29. $30 for a semester of lessons and rehearsals. To register, please contact the Wesleyan University Box Office at 860-685-3355 or boxoffice@wesleyan.edu.
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu. Sketching in the Galleries. Sketch from original works of art with Jaime Ursic, MFA ‘02, artist and the center’s assistant curator of education. Drawing materials provided; all skill levels welcome. Free – registration requested: ycba.education@yale.edu or 203-4322858. November 5. Free. 5:30-7 p.m.
Exhibitions Artspace 50 Orange St., New Haven. 203-772-2709. artspacenh.org. Connecticut (un)Bound. A collaboration between Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace that features eight Connecticut artists who have been commissioned to create work in response to the Allan Chasanoff Book Arts Collection at YUAG as well as objects from the collection itself. On view November 7-February 7, 2015. Opening reception: November 7. Atticus Bookstore Cafe 1082 Chapel St, New Haven. 203-776-4040. Watercolor Painting Exhibit. Watercolor exhibit of abstract compositions by Rosemary Benivegna of the natural and man-made environment influenced by the artist’s architectural background. Benivegna’s works are rendered in analogous or complimentary colors with transparent washes bathing the paintings in light from unknown sources. On view through November 9. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-562-4927. birdabode2014.org. Celebration of American Crafts. The 46th annual Celebration of American Crafts kicks off the holiday shopping season on November 1. Creative Arts Workshop’s Hilles Gallery is transformed into a one-of-a-kind holiday shopping destination. More than 300 artists from across America are featured, representing the finest in glass, ceramics, jewelry, wearable and decorative fiber, hand-crafted furniture, and much more. Open through December 24. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; December 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Da Silva Gallery 897-899 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-387-2539. dasilva-gallery.com. Food Carts: Paintings by Chris Ferguson. “I think art is a gift and it can have a very positive impact on the viewers,” Ferguson says. Working primarily in oils, Ferguson’s goal is to reach out to his viewers and to create a happy emotional response. He says, “Food
Fred.Giampietro 315 Peck Street Gallery 315 Peck St., New Haven. 203-777-7760. giampietrogallery.com. Becca Lowry, Oriane Stender, and Sol LeWitt: “be me I’ll be you.” Exhibition with artist Becca Lowry. Works on paper by artists Oriane Stender and Sol LeWitt. Works in the office by artist Jaena Kwon. On view through November 15. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Free. Fred.Giampietro 91 Orange Street Gallery 91 Orange St., New Haven. 203-777-7707. giampietrogallery.com. Karen Dow and Laurie Gundersen: Cross Currents. Exhibition with recent works by artists Karen Dow and Laurie Gundersen. On view through November 22. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com. November’s Artist: Bimschwel Cunningham. Funky Monkey Cafe & Gallery hosts a new artist in the gallery each month. On view through November 30. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org/events/ bar-kochva-gallery-israeli-arts-expo. Arts and Culture Festival: Bar Kochva Art Exhibit. A wonderful opportunity to purchase outstanding items found in galleries and fine stores internationally and to support Israeli artists. More than 45 different Israeli artists represented. On view November 9-12. Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Free. Kehler Liddell Gallery 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-389-9555. kehlerliddell.com. Two Directions. Kehler Liddell Gallery presents Two Directions, featuring pen-and-ink artist Edith Borax-Morrison and painter John Harris, through Sunday, November 16. For more information, visit our website or call 203-389-9555. See website for hours. Free. 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, Minn. 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 daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through November 2. Free admission and parking. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan Center for the Arts, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860685-3355. wesleyan.edu/dac. A World of Dreams — New Landscape Paintings by Tula Telfair. Exhibition includes new large-scale paintings in which art professor Tula Telfair presents monu-
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mental landscapes and epic-scale vistas that are simultaneously awe-inspiring and intimate. She combines stillness with motion, solitude with universality, and definition with suggestion in her bold and quiet works. On view through December 7. 12-5 p.m. Free. Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-685-2330. wesleyan.edu/cfa. Not of This World. To inaugurate Wesleyan University’s College of East Asian Studies, students curated this exhibition of the most compelling artworks from the collection. The divine, the uncanny, and the surreal all merge into our lived reality in this selection of objects and images. On view Tuesday-Sunday through December 5. Free. New Haven Free Public Library Ives Main Branch 133 Elm St., New Haven. 203-387-4933. nhfpl.org. $ Not Free Speech. Photography by Byron Lembo-Frey of Occupy New Haven and Occupy Wall Street. On view through November 25, 2-4 p.m. Artist reception: Saturday, November 1, 2-4 p.m. in the business/ periodicals room. Free and open to the public. 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 – “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, children younger than 12 admitted free. Every first Sunday of the month admission is free of charge. From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven. From the Colonial era to present, New Haven has produced an astonishing array of goods including carriages, auto parts, guns, corsets, clocks, and candy just to name a few! More than 100 objects, ads, photos, etc. from the museum are featured in this fascinating look at the production of consumer goods in New Haven over the past three centuries. On view through February 28, 2015. Adults $4, seniors $3, students $2, children younger than 12 admitted free. First Sundays: 1-4 p.m. Paul Mellon Arts Center Choate Rosemary Hall, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. 203-697-2398. choate.edu/boxoffice. Marked by Line — Installation and New Work by Sculptor Shelby Head. Installation by Madison, Connecticut-based sculptor. Gallery reception: November 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m. On view through December 19. Gallery hours: Every day when school is in session, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Reynolds Fine Art 96 Orange St., New Haven. 203498-2200. reynoldsfineart.com. OUT on 9. Reynolds Fine Art is pleased to present OUT on 9, a group exhibition that speaks to the experience of individuals who identify as members of the LGBTQ community and the narratives of being an LGBTQ person in the 21st century. OUT on 9 will showcase works by national artists whose themes focus on these experiences. On view November 7 through December 2. Artist reception: Friday, November 7, 5-8 p.m. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; or by appointment Open to the public. Silk Road Art Gallery 83 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-772-8928. silkroadartnewhaven.com. Chinese Ink and Wash Painting. Enjoy the intricate and impressionistic landscape, bird-and-flower, and figurative work of four mid-career brush painters from central China: Hui Min, Wang Bao’an, Li Yunji, and Yang Jiahuan. On view through November 4. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free of charge. Spectrum Gallery and Store Arts Center Killingworth, 61 Main St., Centerbrook. 860-767-0742. spectrumartgallery.org.
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Arts Festival Group Show. On view through November 9, the Arts Festival Group Show is an exhibit of local and regional fine artists and artisans participating in the annual Outdoor Autumn Arts Festival, held on the Madison Town Green the weekend of October 1112. Spectrum Gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Susan Powell Fine Art 679 U.S. 1, Madison. 203-3180616. susanpowellfineart.com. Contemporary Figurative Exhibition. From the classical Beaux Art tradition to Modern interpretations, this is an exciting modern realist exhibition of 18 nationally recognized master painters depicting the human figure in portraits, nudes, and daily life. “Tranquility and peace in the beauty of gestures and movements are central to the show,” says gallery owner Susan Powell. Participating artists include Carol Arnold, Del-Bourree Bach, Dan Brown, Frank Bruckmann, Scott Burdick, Grace M. DeVito, Hollis Dunlap, Kim English, Vincent Giarrano, Sarah Stifler Lucas, Susan Lyon, Alain Picard, Tony Pro, JuanJr. Ramirez, Mary Sauer, Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal, Jerry Weiss, and Katherine Whipple. On view November 7-30. Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 5-9 p.m. Join us for a festive evening and meet the artists. For more information, contact the gallery. Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall St., New Haven. 203-432-0670. yale.edu/whc/ GalleryAtTheWhitney/current.html. Conversing with Things: Drawings, Paintings, and Pastels by Karsten Harries. These pictures by Karsten Harries do not try to make a point. They do not demonstrate anything. They seek to respond to some often not particularly memorable objects, a rock formation, a seashell, roots, flowers, fruit, garbage, and especially the sea. On view through December 10. Hours are Monday and Wednesday, 3–5 p.m., or by appointment by calling 203-432-0670. Free.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-432-5050. peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/farmers-warriors-builders-hidden-life-ants. Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants. The word is small – and so are they – but their world is enormous. With complex and wildly diverse lifestyles, ants are everywhere, living lives mostly hidden from plain sight. But what if we could see into their world – on their level? What would we learn? And what similarities would we find between them and us? On view through January 4, 2015. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m. $5-$9.
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Film 1 Saturday The Pleasure Garden (1953) A half-hour tour of the exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 will precede the screening, beginning at 1 p.m. This film, directed by James Broughton (not rated; 38 min.) tells the story of a group of eccentric characters trying to live among the ruins of the Crystal Palace. Accompanied by rare archival footage. 2 p.m. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu.
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Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, Keyes Gallery 146 Thimble Island Road, Stony Creek. 203-488-8702. wwml.org/events-exhibits. Mixed Media and Monoprints. Karen Wheeler demonstrates a playful, quirky spirit in her intricate ink drawings as well as in her richly textured mixed media assemblages. Alice Nolan Merlone’s monoprints range from her peaceful and serene seascapes to her colorful and bold, yet meditative mandala-like images. Opening reception: Sunday, November 2, 4–6 p.m. Free and open to the public. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu. Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901. The first exhibition of its kind ever undertaken by a museum, Sculpture Victorious examines the making and viewing of sculpture in Britain and its empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. On view through November 30. Free. Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables. Celebrating an extraordinary manuscript in the center’s collection, a set of fables written and illustrated by James Northcote (1746-1831), this exhibition will present Northcote as artist, cultural broker, gossip, and chronicler of his time. On view through December 14. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m.; open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, December 4, December 11, and December 18. Free; all are welcome. Figures of Empire: Slavery & Portraiture in 18th-Century Atlantic Britain. This exhibition explores the complex relationship between slavery and portraiture in 18th century British art, as represented in the collections of the center and neighboring Yale University institutions. On view through December 14. Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m.; open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, December 4 and December 11. Free; all are welcome.
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Galas & Fundraisers 8 Saturday Flash: The Gala That Glitters Break out your flashy threads and get a glimpse of what’s glittering at Elm City Dance Company. Join ECDC for drinks and light fare and a special performance at ECDC’s fall gala. The party continues into the evening with dessert and dancing. Come enjoy an unforgettable, fabulous evening. Proceeds will fund ECDC’s 2015 season, including classes, a festival, and more. The Grove, 760 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-645-8472. elmcitydance.org.
Kids & Families JCC of Greater New Haven 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org/events/ bar-kochva-gallery-israeli-arts-expo. Arts and Culture Festival: Author Tracy Newman, Shabbat is Coming. (For ages 3-8.) A series of art, music, and author events. “Bagels and Books” with storyteller Tracy Newman sharing the story of a family and their pet puppy eagerly preparing for Shabbat. Includes snack, craft, and story time. Book available for purchase. Sunday, November 9, 10:30 a.m. Free. Arts & Culture Festival: Global Day of Jewish Learning: Noah’s Bed with PJ. This year’s Global Day of Jewish Learning revolves around the theme of courage. Join PJ Library as we learn about play, learn, and grow with Noah’s Bed by Lis and Jim Coplestone. Noah’s Bed is an enchanting retelling of the Ark tale and a boy’s courage. Sunday, November 16, 12 p.m. Free. Musical Folk First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-691-9759. MusicalFolk.com. Daily Music Together Classes for Toddlers. A fun cre-
ative music and movement program for kids up to 5 years old and the grownups who love them. Come sing, dance, and play instruments in an informal setting. Classes and demonstration classes ongoing through December 15 in New Haven, Woodbridge, Hamden, East Haven, and Cheshire. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m Classes are held every day (morning, afternoon, weekend classes available). Demonstration classes are free and open to the public. Eleven-week semester is $249 and includes a CD and songbook. Each semester features a new collection of music. Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu. Exploring Artism. A program for families with children between the ages of 5 and 12 who are on the autism spectrum. The program is free but preregistration is required: please email ycba.education@yale.edu or call 203-432-2858 with your name, phone number, and a good time for a museum educator to call you. November 15, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Free.
Music 1 Saturday Haven String Quartet The Haven String Quartet kicks off its 2014–2015 concert series with “The Architecture of Sound,” featuring the music of Bartók (selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins; String Quartet No. 6), Adams (Fellow Traveler), and Beethoven (String Quartet No. 16 in F major). Tickets and series subscriptions available at musichavenct.org/ concerts. 7:30 p.m. $20 adult general admission, $10 for students, seniors, and Unitarian Society of New Haven members. Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org.
Westminster Abbey Choir Music from the royal wedding and more. James O’Donnell, conductor, Daniel Cook, organ. 5 p.m. Free. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ guest-artist-westminster-abbey-choir.
2 Sunday Rabindra Goswami, sitar Evening ragas, with Ramchandra Pandit, tabla. 7:30 p.m. Free. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ guest-artist-rabindra-goswami-sitar.
5 Wednesday Music Haven at Stetson Library The young violin, viola, and bass students of Mr. Colin Benn and Mr. Gregory Tompkins share their talents with the community in an intimate studio recital. 6 p.m. Free. New Haven Public Library, Stetson Branch, 200 Dixwell Ave., New Haven. 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org.
6 Thursday Concert: Classical Guitar Yale School of Music graduate students perform classical guitar music in the Library Court. Please note that seating is limited. 12:30 p.m. Free. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu.
Yale Voxtet, Nicholas McGegan, guest music director Nicholas McGegan guest directs the Yale Voxtet. 7:30 p.m. Free. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ yale-voxtet-nicholas-mcgegan-guest-music-director.
9 Sunday Arts and Culture Festival: Irving Fine Centennial Concert Performance by Irving Fine’s daughter, Emily Fine, and friends. The Arts and Culture Festival at the JCC is a series of art, music, and author events that take place October through December. 4 p.m. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org/events/ irving-fine-centennial-concert. Camerata Chamber Chorus, Whitbourn: Annelies Based on the diary of Anne Frank. Marguerite L. Brooks, conductor. 4 p.m. Free. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Church of the Redeemer UCC, 185 Cold Spring St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ camerata-chamber-chorus-whitbourn-annelies.
Music Haven at Wilson Library The young violin and piano students of Ms. Yaira Matyakubova and Ms. Miki Sawada share their talents with the community in an intimate studio recital. 6 p.m. Free. New Haven Public Library, Wilson Branch, 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org.
Great Organ Music at Yale, Lynne Davis Music of Demessieux, Parker, Roger-Ducasse, Vierne, and Widor. 7:30 p.m. Free. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ great-organ-music-yale-lynne-davis.
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Music for a Fall Evening Silk’n Sounds will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Join us for an evening of wonderful a cappella music by this award-winning chorus sponsored by the Music Society of Branford. The performance is free and open to the public. Free and open to the public. First Congregational Church, 1009 Main St., on the Green, Branford. 203-281-7689. silknsounds.org.
Music Haven Veterans’ Day Concert Music Haven students and their teachers, the Haven String Quartet and pianist Miki Sawada, perform a free lunchtime concert in the VA Hospital’s Community Living Center. 12:30 p.m. Free. VA Healthcare, 950 Campbell Ave., West Haven . 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org.
Bella’s Bartók According to Bella’s Bartók, “We sound like Tom Waits kicking the crap out of the Fleet Foxes, whilst being serenaded by a klezmer wedding band.” 8-10 p.m. $7. The Funky Monkey Café and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. bellasbartok.com.
Sister Speak and Wilhelm Brothers Two bands this evening. See sisterspeak.com, wilhelmbrothers. com, or thefunkymonkeycafe.com for music videos of bands. 7-10 p.m. $15. The Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com.
8 Saturday Music Haven at Ives Main Library The young violin and cello students of Ms. Tina Lee Hadari and Mr. Philip Boulanger share their talents with the community in an intimate studio recital. 3 p.m. Free. New Haven Public Library; Ives Main Branch, 133 Elm St., New Haven. 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org.
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11 Twelve 13 A jazz/funk fusion performance. The Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com.
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15 Saturday Dr. Ralph Stanley and Clinch Mountain Boys The legendary Ralph Stanley, one of the original founders of bluegrass along with Bill Monroe. Now 87, his voice still sends shivers up your spine. 7:30-10:30 p.m. $50 general admission, $65 reserved, discount tickets available. Please inquire. GuitartownCT Pro-
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Orchestra, St. Mary’s Church, 165 Church St., New Haven. 203-865-0831. NewHavenSymphony.org.
Siren Songs, as told by Hughie Stone Fish Go to thefunkymonkeycafe.com to see music videos of performers. 7-9 p.m. The Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com.
Music Haven presents “Rush Hour Concert III” Wind down after work with a 40-minute show and a glass of a wine. Explore Mozart’s Duo for Violin and Viola No. 2 in B-flat major in a relaxed setting and discover what makes the music brilliant. 5:30 p.m. $8. Music Haven, 117 Whalley Ave., New Haven. 203-745-9030. musichavenct.org
Daniel Amadee Performance See thefunkymonkeycafe.com for music videos. 7-9 p.m. The Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com.
16 Sunday Student Music Recital See what are talented musicians are up to. Event takes place in the Paul Mellon Arts Center Recital Hall. 4 p.m. Free. Choate Rosemary Hall, Paul Mellon Arts Center, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. 203-697-2398. choate.edu/boxoffice.
19 Wednesday Concert: Crystal Palace Soiree This concert, “Crystal Palace Soiree: Music inspired by Victorian Sculpture,” will present Victorian songs inspired by sculpture at the Great Exhibition of 1851, including “The Greek Slave,” composed by S.W. New in response to Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave (1847). Please note that seating is limited. 6 p.m. Free. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu.
Daniel Amadee Performance See thefunkymonkeycafe.com for music videos. 7-9 p.m. $7. The Funky Monkey Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory Shoppes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. thefunkymonkeycafe.com. Yale Voxtet with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra: Puccini, Virtue, and Redemption The Yale Voxtet performs as guests of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton, music director, with Tony Arnold, soprano, and members of the Yale Opera. Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Christopher Theofanidis’ Virtue explore morality through music in two triumphant anthems. 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at newhavensymphony.org. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ yale-voxtet-nhso-puccini-virtue-and-redemption.
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Corinna Rose Canadian indie singer-songwriter Corrina Rose performs. See thefunkymonkeycafe.com 20 Thursday for music videos. 7-9 p.m. $7. The Funky Monkey Classics Series: Puccini, Virtue, and Redemption Cafe and Gallery, 130 Elm St., Watch Factory ShopPuccini’s Suor Angelica and Christopher Theofanpes, Cheshire. 203-439-9161. idis’ newly commissioned Virtue explore themes of thefunkymonkeycafe.com. morality through music in two triumphant anthems. 7:30pm- 9:30 p.m. $15-$74, students $10, KidTix Dinner Opera: Handel’s Alcina The studio of interfree with accompanying dult. New Haven Symphony national opera teachers Valeria Sorel and Eric Trudel
perform Handel’s entertaining Alcina while enjoying a pasta dinner and desserts. You may bring your own wine. The event is a fundraiser for the American Guild of Organists. RSVP to info@ NewHavenAGO2015.org or by calling 585-2008903 by November 16. 7 p.m. Suggested donation: $30. Bethesda Lutheran Church, 450 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 585-200-8903. sacredmusicCT.org.
American poets of his generation. Born in 1935 in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, Wright attended Davidson College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry. In 2014, he was named Poet Laureate of the United States. 5:30 p.m. Free. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ literature-spirituality-charles-wright.
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Great Organ Music at Yale: Jean-Baptiste Robin French Music of Rameau, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel, Widor, Dupré, and Robin. 7:30 p.m. Free. Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. 203-432-5062. ism.yale.edu/event/ great-organ-music-yale-jean-baptiste-robin.
29 Saturday Thirty-Fifth Annual Colonial Concert Celebrating 35 years, Orchestra New England’s flagship flash-back entertainment event features wigs, waistcoats, candlelight, and the great music of the 18th century. We usher in the holiday season and bring Colonial New Haven back to life with this family concert tradition. A festive pre-concert dinner is held at the Graduate Club. Graduate Club pre-concert dinner at 6 p.m. Inquire about reservations. 8 p.m. $20 general admission, $35 reserved seating, $5 student rush tickets available at the door. Graduate Club dinner: $40. United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St., New Haven. 203-777-4690. orchestranewengland.org.
30 Sunday Russian Voices: St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble We welcome back the sonorous and charming Russian group for a program of sacred songs and Russian folk music. The hour-long program is bound to delight and move you. Free parking. Reception to follow. Bring a friend. 4 p.m. Freewill offering. Bethesda Music Series, Bethesda Lutheran Church, 450 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-787-2346. bethesdanewhaven.org.
Special Events Paintings by Layne Painting has become a way of life for Layne. Through the years it has chronicled all that has touched her, be they places or human situations. Her figures are contemporary, yet timeless. We invite the viewer to share the moment. On view through November 30. Docent-led tour every Saturday, 2-4 p.m. Evergreen Woods, 88 Notch Hill Road, North Branford. 203-488-8000. EvergreenWoods.com. Celebration of American Crafts An annual exhibition and sale of fine, contemporary crafts sponsored by Creative Arts Workshop. The exhibition is held in CAW’s handsome two-story Hilles Gallery. All proceeds from the Celebration of American Crafts directly support the artists and CAW’s community programming. Open through December 24. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; December 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-562-4927. birdabode2014.org.
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Artistry: American Crafts for the Holidays Handmade crafts by more than 250 American artists, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fiber, ornaments, accessories, toys, and specialty foods. Works fill the Guilford Art Center’s shop and gallery in a bountiful, festive display. New works are added regularly. Proceeds benefit exhibiting artists and GAC’s educational programs. Open November 1 through January 4, 2015. Opening reception: Thursday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. Open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Free. Guilford Art Center, 411 Church St., Guilford. 203-453-5947. guilfordartcenter.org.
11 Tuesday Literature and Spirituality: Charles Wright The Poet Laureate of the United States reads from his work. Charles Wright is often ranked as one of the best
November Meeting and Artist Demonstration Plein-air oil painter Michele Byrne will present a demonstration titled “Adding the Figure to Your Landscapes.” She will show how to add the figure in a natural, fluid way and how to simplify the subject by breaking it down into basic shapes. Byrne will also talk about the effects of light on the subject and landscape, and how to add drama with brushstrokes. Please note the change to Thursday for this meeting only. Coffee and conversation at 7 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting at 7:15 p.m. and the artist’s demonstration at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. If the library is closed due to inclement weather, the meeting will be canceled. Hamden Art League, 2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden. 203-494-2316. hamdenartleague.com.
16 Sunday Soup for Good Guests are invited to the Guilford Art Center school for a bowl of soup, bread, dessert, and glass of wine or sparkling water. Each guest gets to choose their own one-of-a-kind bowl, handcrafted by Guilford Art Center potters. Bowls will be washed to take home. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Community Dining Room, as well as Guilford Art Center. 4:40-6:30 p.m. $30 in advance, $35 at door. Guilford Art Center, 411 Church St., Guilford. 203453-5947. guilfordartcenter.org. Celebrate Style! Fashion Show A champagne reception and fashion show featuring items of fiber and jewelry made by artists in the Celebration of American Crafts. The high-end jewelry and apparel available at the exhibition has made it a fashion destination. Members of the local community will model ensembles of “wearable art,” distinctive and beautifully designed pieces. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $20. Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-5624927. creativeartsworkshop.org/celebration.
22-23 Saturday-Sunday Shoreline ArtsTrail Open Studios Weekend What are you doing this weekend? Visit the private studios of 42 artists during the Shoreline ArtsTrail Open Studios Weekend, November 22-23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artists from Branford, Guilford, and Madison participate in this juried, two-day event. Free and open to the public. For an ArtsTrail map, artist profiles, and more, visit shorelineartstrail.com. Free. 181 Main St., Branford. 203-481-3505. shorelineartstrail.com.
Talks & Tours 1 Saturday Comedy: Lavell Crawford Best known for his recurring role on AMC’s Emmy Award-winning series Breaking Bad, funnyman Lavell Crawford is quickly climbing the comic ranks. 8 p.m. Tickets: $35 general public, $25 faculty/staff/active alumni and SCSU student guests (limit two), $10 SCSU students with valid ID (limit one). Seating: general admission (for mature audiences). John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. 203-392-6154. tickets.southernct.edu.
6 Thursday Arts and Culture Festival: Author Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages The JCC Arts and Culture Festival is a series of art, music, and author events. The best-selling Passages, named by the Library of Congress one of the 10 most influential books of our time, tells the story of Sheehy’s unconventional life and gives a bold perspective on all of life’s passages. 7 p.m. $6. JCC of Greater New Haven, Jewish Fed-
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7 Friday Arts and Culture Festival: Author Laura Silver Join the world’s current leading expert on the knish as we explore this iconic Jewish staple. Includes a chance to purchase wonderful samplings of our favorite knish recipes baked by Edge of the Woods. Books will be available for sale and signing. 12 p.m. Free. JCC of Greater New Haven, Shoreline Office, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org.
12 Wednesday The Future of the Humanities and the Arts in the University “Beyond Fashion and Fear: The Future of the Humanities and the Arts in the University”: lecture by Leon Botstein, president, Bard College. 5:30 p.m. Free. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu.
13 Thursday Arts and Culture Festival: Author Tova Mirvis, Visible City National bestselling author of The Ladies Auxiliary shares her most recent novel, Visible City, which is about those all-important forks in the intersecting paths of three Jewish couples living in a glass apartment tower. 7 p.m. $6. JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2522. jewishnewhaven.org/events/ arts--culture-festival-2014---tova-mirvis.
16 Sunday Arts and Culture Festival: Global Day of Jewish Learning: Author Naomi Schaefer Got Religion? How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back examines the reasons for the defection and how the solutions for one religious group can be adapted to work for another. Sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council. 10:30 a.m. Jewish
Community Relations Council of Greater New Haven, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2424. jewishnewhaven.org.
18 Tuesday Arts and Culture Festival: Author Judith Frank, All I Love and Know 11 a.m. $6. Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2424. jewishnewhaven.org.
23 Sunday Arts and Culture Festival: Author Liana Finck, A Bintel Brief Drawn from the enormously popular advice column of the Yiddish newspaper The Forward, the author-illustrator highlights a world and its people who, though long gone, are startlingly like us. 10:30 a.m. Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. 203-387-2424. jewishnewhaven.org. Arts and Culture Festival: Author Daniel Goldhagen, The Devil That Never Dies A groundbreaking and terrifying examination of the widespread resurgence of anti-Semitism in the 21st century, with book-signing. 1:30 p.m. Free. Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Shoreline Office, Guilford Free Library, 67 Park St., Guilford. 203-738-0033. jewishnewhaven.org.
Theater The Wicked Witch of the West: Kansas or Bust Pantochino presents its new musical by Bert Bernardi and Justin Rugg. Follow the yellow brick road back to Kansas with all of the best-loved characters from Oz as they search for Dorothy in this fun-filled musical. Perfect entertainment for the entire family. Saturday, November 1, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 2, 2 p.m. All seats $18 if purchased online, or $20 at the door. 40 Railroad Ave. South, Milford. 203-9376206. pantochino.com.
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It Comic twists and turns abound in the Forest of Arden where Rosalind, banished from her father’s kingdom by her usurping uncle, disguises herself as a boy while falling in love with the exiled Duke Orlando. Produced by Choate’s theater program. Paul Mellon Arts Center Chase-Bear Experimental Theater. November 1, 7:30 p.m. and November 2, 2 p.m. Adults $15, seniors 65 and older and non-choate students $10. Choate Rosemary Hal, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. 203-697-2398. choate.edu/boxoffice. Mrs. Independent Presented by Priest Tyaire, starring Robin Givens and Christopher Williams. November 1 . Saturday 3:00pm 3:00pm Prices vary by location.. 247 College Street, New Haven. 203-562-5666. shubert.com Singin’ in the Rain Based on the classic motion picture, this stage musical is performed by the students of Sacred Heart Academy. Friday, November 14 and November 15, 8 p.m. Prices vary by location. Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. 203-5625666. shubert.com. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A whimsical retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The tale of the little girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world has been an enduring classic for over a century. November 14 and November 15, 7:30 p.m.; November 15 and November 16, 2 p.m. Adults $15, those 65 older and non-Choate students $10. Choate Rosemary Hall, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. 203-697-2398. choate.edu/boxoffice. A Christmas Carol This joyful musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic features favorite Christmas carols in a production the whole family will enjoy. The story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge – who discovers the true meaning of Christmas – captures all the warmth, goodwill, and musical memories of the season. Friday, November 28, 7:30
p.m.; Saturday, November 29, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Prices vary by section. Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. 203-562-5666. shubert.com.
Arts Paper ad and calendar deadlines The deadline for advertisements and calendar listings for the December issue of The Arts Paper is Monday, October 27, at 5 p.m. Future deadlines are as follows: January-February 2015: Monday, November 24, at 5 p.m. March 2015: Monday, January 26, at 5 p.m. April 2015: Monday, February 23, at 5 p.m. May 2015: Monday, March 30, at 5 p.m. June 2015: Monday, April 27, at 5 p.m. 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.
Call For Artisans and Craftspeople The JCC is seeking all artisans and craftspeople to showcase their products at the JCC’s 11th annual Arts and Crafts Fair on Sunday, December 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Arts and Crafts Fair is one of the JCC’s most popular events drawing thousands of holiday shoppers each year. Limited spaces are available. Deadline to register is November 3. Register at jccnh.org/ holiday-craft-fair or call Tanya at 203.387.2522 x. 216. Artist Members Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven is seeking applications for new visual arts members. For more information please visit kehlerliddell.com/membership. Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators The Tassy Walden Awards, a statewide competition, is open to unpublished Connecticut writers and illustrators. Submission deadline (postmark date): February 2, 2015. Submission guidelines and entry form available at shorelinearts.org or by calling 203-453-3890. Craft Artists Guilford Art Center is seeking contemporary craft artists to participate in Craft Expo 2015, one of the oldest and finest outdoor craft shows in the northeast. The juried show, to be held July 17-19, 2015, is open to crafts made by hand or with the use of appropriate tools, by an individual and/or with help from a limited number of assistants/apprentices. Works must be handmade in the United States or Canada, be of high quality and well-designed, and convey artistic originality and vision. Event benefits Guilford Art
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Center’s educational programs. Entry deadline: January 11, 2015. $40 entry fee; $60 late fee. Visit guilfordartcenter.org. Crafters Silk’n Sounds holds its annual Holiday Craft Fair and Bazaar on Saturday December 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Knights of Columbus Lodge located at 2630 Whitney Ave. in Hamden. Space is available for crafters and the cost is $50. A six-foot table is provided, or bring your own setup. For more information and to reserve a space contact Louise at 203-239-7104. We look forward to having you join us for a fun and successful day at our holiday event. Performing and Visual Artists Applications are available for the Shoreline Arts Alliance Scholarship in the Arts for high school juniors and seniors. Visit shorelinearts.org or call 203453-3890. One-thousand dollars in cash prizes awarded in creative writing, dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theater, and visual arts. Applicants must reside in the 24-towns served by the Shoreline Arts Alliance. Application deadline (postmark date): December 19. Auditions/portfolio reviews: late January and early February. 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 on Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m. at the Spring Glen United Church of Christ, 1825 Whitney Ave., in Hamden. Contact Lynn at 203-623-01276 for more information or visit silknsounds.org.
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 203387-4933, visit azothgallery.com, or send email to azothgallery@comcast.net. 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. 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 & 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/month. 30 Elm St., West Haven. For more information, call (609) 638-8501 and visit westcovestudio.com. 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.
Jobs Please visit newhavenarts.org for up-to-date local employment opportunities in the arts.
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Leyla McCalla appears at Café Nine cellist explores langston hughes, haitian music david brensilver
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our years ago, Leyla McCalla was living in New York City. She’d graduated in 2007 from New York University, where she studied cello, and was in a period of transition. And then she met a guy who changed the direction of her musical focus. She saw cellist Rufus Cappadocia playing with a Haitian roots music group and was “really blown away by his playing.” McCalla was drawn to New Orleans — to the music that’s made there, to the culture, and to the pace of life. She “loved that music was such a part of everything that people do down here” and started performing on the city’s streets. Not long after that, McCalla’s sister, Sabine, met Timothy Duffy, a New Haven native who runs a Hillsborough, North Carolina-based nonprofit called the Music Maker Relief Foundation, an organization that seeks to preserve southern blues music by supporting artists whom time has forgotten. The foundation was started, Duffy said, as a “heartfelt response to helping a small number of blues artists … in a small town called Winston Salem, North Carolina.” The foundation also nurtures the careers of young, ascendant artists like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the first group Duffy and his team committed to represent through their organization’s “Next Generation Artists” program. At the time that Duffy met Leyla McCalla’s sister, Sabine, the Carolina Chocolate Drops were looking for a new member. With direction from Sabine — McCalla said her sister gave Duffy “the coordinates of where I usually played” — Duffy found McCalla playing Bach on Royal Street, in New Orleans. “I was very intrigued,” he said. “We could just hear (that) the music came out of her soul.” McCalla gave Duffy a recording she was working on — a project that became her debut album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes¸ which was released in February. The introduction led to a gig with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. “She an artist,” Duffy said of McCalla. “She’s a poet.” McCalla started playing guitar at age 13 and has translated that technique to the cello. She’s since learned to play the tenor banjo, which helped connect her to her Haitian roots. McCalla’s parents were both born in Haiti and as children immigrated to the United States with their families. McCalla’s maternal grandfather ran a Socialist Haitian newspaper in Brooklyn. Her father, who worked at the company, and her mother became active
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Leyla McCalla. Photo by Timothy Duffy.
in the Haitian rights movement. Talking about her heritage, McCalla said, “Music has connected me to it more than anything else.” Of the musical traditions she’s exploring today, McCalla said, “It’s hard to not be immersed if you live here.” In addition to jazz and Haitian music, attending different performances and jam sessions has piqued her interest in Cajun and oldtime music. Setting Langston Hughes’ poetry to music was something McCalla started doing in New York. “The content of his poetry is so powerful,” she said. “The way he writes is so rhythmic.” When it came time to record Vari-Colored Songs, on which a number of New Orleans musicians and a few members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops played, McCalla said, “I kept the arrangements really simple … I wanted it to sound raw and not too complicated.” McCalla is scheduled to appear at Café Nine on November 28. The show, she said, will feature a good amount of music from the album. Audiences can certainly look forward to something special. “She’s very authentic,” Duffy said. “She’s not putting on any airs.” Having discovered McCalla on Royal Street in New Orleans and helping to launch her career, Duffy said, “When I started the foundation I didn’t dream of stuff like this happening." n
MONDAYS AT BEINECKE Mondays at 4 pm during the term Join us for a brief talk, followed by tea, on an object in the library’s current exhibition, Reading English: An Exhibition Celebrating the James Marshall & Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library 121 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut beinecke.library.yale.edu/mondays-beinecke
Visit cafenine.com for details about Leyla McCalla’s November 28 appearance. Learn more about the artist at leylamccalla.com. And learn more about the Music Maker Relief Foundation at musicmaker.org.
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Celebration of American Crafts opens holiday sale at caw helps support programs david brensilver photos courtesy of caw
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or the 46th consecutive year, Creative Arts Workshop is presenting its Celebration of American Crafts, which features pieces by more than 300 artists from around the United States. A press release issued by the organization in early October describes the nearly two-month-long event as a “oneof-a-kind holiday shopping destination offering ceramics, decorative and wearable fiber, jewelry, home furnishings, blown glass, handmade toys and more.” Since its inception CAW’s Celebration of American Crafts has been an important fundraiser, with proceeds going into the organization’s operations coffers. Longtime CAW Executive Director Susan Smith, who plans to retire in December, said the funds raised “help support the programs we do in the community … that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to.” She explained, for example, that “we give out more scholarship money than we have funds to support.” Of the more than 300 artists who’ll have items for sale during the Celebration of American Crafts, 17 of those will be involved with the juried event for the first time, according to CAW public relations manager Katherine Spencer Carey. Kate Paranteau, CAW’s program director, said, “I got my first gifts here in the ’60s.” And Carey’s boyfriend, Nicholas, has for the past two years purchased gifts for his niece and nephew in France. As part of the event, CAW will put on an event called “Celebrate Style!” a fashion show on Sunday, November 16, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring many of the wearable pieces made by artists participating in this year’s Celebration. Fashions will be modeled by members of the community. The show, admission to which is $20, includes a champagne reception. Organizers of the Celebration will also host an event called “Crafternoon,” which is scheduled to take place on Sunday, December 7, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This free event, open to everyone, offers crafters an opportunity to come together to work on pieces in progress. n
Maggie Chan models clothing during last year’s “Celebrate Style!” event.
Wooden toys by Dona Dalton.
Creative Arts Workshop’s Celebration of American Crafts opens in CAW’s Hilles Gallery on November 1 and runs through December 24. Between those dates, the show is open Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and December 24, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, visit creativeartsworkshop.org.
Ceramic work by Boyon Moskov.
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The Arts Paper member organizations & partners
Arts & Cultural Organizations 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 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library library.yale.edu/beinecke Bethesda Music Series bethesdanewhaven.org 203-787-2346 Blackfriars Repertory Theatre blackfriarsrep.com Branford Art Studio branfordartstudio.com 203-488-2787 Branford Folk Music Society folknotes.org/branfordfolk Center for Independent Study cistudy.homestead.com
Chestnut Hill Concerts chestnuthillconcerts.org 203-245-5736
Fred Giampietro Gallery giampietrogallery.com 203-777-7760
The Choirs of Trinity Church on the Green trinitynewhaven.org
Greater New Haven Community Chorus gnhcc.org 203-624-1979
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 Creative Arts Workshop creativeartsworkshop.org 203-562-4927 Creative Concerts 203-795-3365 CT Folk ctfolk.com DaSilva Gallery gabrieldasilvagallery.com 203-387-2539 Elm City Dance Collective elmcitydance.org Elm Shakespeare Company elmshakespeare.org 203-874-0801 Fellowship Place fellowshipplace.org Firehouse 12 firehouse12.com 203-785-0468
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Guilford Art Center guilfordartcenter.org 203-453-5947 Guitartown CT Productions guitartownct.com 203-430-6020 Hamden Art League hamdenartleague.com 203-494-2316 Hamden Arts Commission hamdenartscommission.org 203-287-2546 Hillhouse Opera Company hillhouseoperacompany.org 203-464-2683 Hopkins School hopkins.edu Hugo Kauder Society hugokauder.org The Institute Library institutelibrary.org
Lyman Center at SCSU www.lyman.southernct.edu Madison Art Society madisonartsociety.blogspot.com 860-399-6116 Madison Lyric Stage madisonlyricstage.org Make Haven makehaven.org Mamas Markets mamasmarketsllc.com Marrakech, Inc./Association of Artisans to Cane marrakechinc.org Meet the Artists and Artisans meettheartistsandartisans.com 203-874-5672 Milford Fine Arts Council milfordarts.org 203-878-6647 Music Haven musichavenct.org 203-215-4574 Music Mountain musicmountain.com 860-824-7126 Music with Mary accordions.com/mary
New Haven Free Public Library nhfpl.org 203-946-8835
Susan Powell Fine Art susanpowellfineart.com 203-318-0616
New Haven Oratorio Choir nhoratoriochoir.org
Theatre 4 t4ct.com 203-654-7711
New Haven Museum newhavenmuseum.org 203-562-4183 New Haven Paint and Clay Club newhavenpaintandclayclub.org 203-288-6590 New Haven Preservation Trust nhpt.org New Haven Symphony Orchestra newhavensymphony.org 203-865-0831 New Haven Theater Company newhaventheatercompany.com Orchestra New England orchestranewengland.org 203-777-4690 Pantochino Productions pantochino.com Paul Mellon Arts Center choate.edu/artscenter Play with Grace playwithgrace.com Reynolds Fine Art reynoldsfineart.com
International Festival of Arts & Ideas artidea.org
Musical Folk musicalfolk.com
International Silat Federation of America & Indonesia isfnewhaven.org
Neighborhood Music School neighborhoodmusicschool.org 203-624-5189
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, New Haven Branch rscdsnewhaven.org 203-878-6094
John Slade Ely House elyhouse.org
New England Ballet Company newenglandballet.org 203-799-7950
Shoreline Arts Alliance shorelinearts.org 203-453-3890
Kehler Liddell Gallery kehlerliddell.com Knights of Columbus Museum kofcmuseum.org Legacy Theatre legacytheatrect.org 203-457-0138 Long Wharf Theatre longwharf.org 203-787-4282
New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema nefiac.com New Haven Ballet newhavenballet.org 203-782-9038 New Haven Chamber Orchestra newhavenchamberorchestra.org New Haven Chorale newhavenchorale.org 203-776-7664
Shubert Theater shubert.com 203-562-5666 Silk n’ Sounds silknsounds.org Silk Road Art Gallery silkroadartnewhaven.com Site Projects siteprojects.org
Creative Businesses Best Video 203-287-9286 bestvideo.com Fairhaven Furniture fairhaven-furniture.com 203-776-3099
Trinity Players/ Something Players 203-288-6748
Foundry Music Company www.foundrymusicco.com
University Glee Club of New Haven universitygleeclub.org
Hull’s Art Supply and Framing hullsnewhaven.com 203-865-4855
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts wesleyan.edu/cfa
MEA Mobile meamobile.com
West Cove Studio & Gallery westcovestudio.com 609-638-8501
The Owl Shop owlshopcigars.com
Whitney Arts Center 203-773-3033
Toad’s Place toadsplace.com
Yale Cabaret yalecabaret.org 203-432-1566
Community Partners
Yale Center for British Art yale.edu/ycba
Department of Arts Culture & Tourism, City of New Haven cityofnewhaven.com 203-946-8378
Yale Glee Club yale.edu/ygc Yale Institute of Sacred Music yale.edu.ism 203-432-5180 Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History peabody.yale.edu
DECD/CT Office of the Arts cultureandtourism.org 860-256-2800 Fractured Atlas fracturedatlas.org JCC of Greater New Haven jccnh.org
Yale Repertory Theatre yalerep.org 203-432-1234
Overseas Ministries Study Center omsc.org Town Green Special Services District infonewhaven.com
Yale School of Music music.yale.edu 203-432-1965
Visit New Haven visitnewhaven.com
Yale University Art Gallery artgallery.yale.edu 203-432-0600
Westville Village Renaissance Alliance westvillect.org
Yale University Bands yale.edu/yaleband 203-432-4111 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.
On The Spiritual in Art: Connecting to our inner inclinations Curated by Debbie Hesse Dates: November 15 – February 15, 2015 Public reception: Saturday, January 17, 3-5 p.m.
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery. More Than a Face. Anne Doris-Eisner (detail).
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.
Thinking Through Painting: Exploring the Ideas of Peter Geimer and Isabelle Graw Curated by Leticia Galizzi Dates: Through November 7
More Than a Face Curated by Marissa Rozanski Dates: November 19 – January 2, 2015 Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5-7 p.m.
Advice from the AC Photo Arts Collective. Hank Paper.
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery. Thinking Through Painting. Kevin Daly.
Let the Arts Council staff help you find exhibition space/opportunities, performance/ rehearsal space and develop new ways to promote your work or creative events and activities. Debbie Hesse, the organization’s director of artistic services and programs, will be available for one-on-one appointments. To schedule an appointment call 203-772-2788 or email info@newhavenarts.org. Walk-ins are also welcome. Date: Thursday, November 20, 1-4 p.m. Location: Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven
Photo Arts Collective The Photo Arts Collective is an Arts Council program that aims to cultivate and support a community of individuals who share an interest in photography, through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, group critiques, and events. The Photo Arts Collective meets the first Thursday of the month at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whitney Ave., New Haven, at 7 p.m. To learn more, send e-mail to photoartscollective@ gmail.com.
ON AIR
Perspectives ... Gallery at Whitney Center. Jessica Cuni (detail).
Listen to the Arts Council’s Arts ON AIR broadcast every third Monday of the month during WPKN’s Community Programing Hour. Hosted by Stephen Grant, Arts ON AIR engages in conversations with local artists and arts organizations. Links to past and streaming episodes are available at artnhv.com/on-air.
Save the date for the 2014 Arts Awards Date: Friday, December 5, 11:45 a.m. Location: New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave., New Haven See page 5 for award winners.
ArtSpot! Arts and Culture Happy Hour Arts Awards. Photo by Judy Sirota Rosenthal.
Date: Thursday, November 13, 5:30-730 p.m. Location: Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven