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Artists Next Door Hank Hoffman Interviews Kate Callahan

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Cynthia Clair executive director

Eileen O’Donnell president Rick Wies vice president Daisy Abreu second vice president

Debbie Hesse director of artistic services & programs Megan Manton director of development Nichole René communications manager Winter Marshall executive administrative assistant Amanda May Aruani design consultant interim editor, the arts paper

Ken Spitzbard treasurer Wojtek Borowski secretary

directors Susan Cahan Robert B. Dannies Jr. James Gregg Todd Jokl Mark Kaduboski Jocelyn Maminta Josh Mamis Greg Marazita Rachel Mele Elizabeth Meyer-Gadon Frank Mitchell John Pancoast Mark Potocsny David Silverstone Dexter Singleton Richard S. Stahl, MD

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Meteor Shower New Steve Martin Play Opens Long Wharf Season

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Windham-Campbell Prizes Literary Festival & Prize Ceremony in New Haven

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Season Preview Glimpse What’s in Store for the 2016-2017 Season

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Letter from the Editor Filling longtime Arts Paper Editor David Brensilver’s shoes has not been easy this month, but it has been fun. Planning and organizing, interviewing interesting people about interesting things, and somehow wrangling the millions of bits and pieces that make up every Arts Paper has been rewarding in a way that I had almost forgotten from my newspaper days.

Along with Communications Manager, Project Manager for Reintegrate, and Designer, with this issue I am adding Editor to positions that I have filled at The Arts Council of Greater New Haven. This one will be temporary and brief, however, as I have recently relocated to my home state of Iowa and am about to have baby number two.

Stay tuned for a formal introduction of the new editor soon!

This issue is chock full of interesting things going on in Greater New Haven, from the annual folk festival to a sampling of the 2016-2017 season that is about to begin for many arts organizations.

We begin with a profile that Hank Hoffman wrote about State Troubadour Kate Callahan. Her remarkable story of personal hardship to award-winning musician giving back to the community is nothing short of inspiring.

Next, one of our neighbors on Audubon Street, Lisa Rovello of Neighborhood Music School, tells about a fun event happening

soon: Fall Free for All. It’s a week of free classes and discounts on Audubon Street and a few adjacent businesses on Whitney Avenue in New Haven. If you’ve never taken a class or shopped in this area, or if you’d like to try something new, this is the perfect opportunity!

Steve Scarpa took time to write about a fellow arts colleague about to retire, Mimsi Coleman of the Hamden Arts Commission.

Her reflections, along with the Arts Council’s former Executive Director, Bitsie Clark, paint a picture of what vocation really looks like. We’d like to thank photographer Harold Shapiro for literally capturing Coleman’s personality for the article.

Frequent contributor Lucy Gellman wrote about the new Steve Martin play, Meteor Shower, that will take stage at Long Wharf Theater this month. Her story will tell you just enough to get excited about the season opener without any spoilers.

In this month’s Sounds Off article, we hear from our Director of Artistic Services & Programs, Debbie Hesse. She tells of her latest personal exhibition, Sway. Shift. Sea Garden that was installed at Vaiuso Farms in Branford earlier this year. In her own words, the colorful, collaborative work “aimed to spark a visual dialogue about the relationship between agriculture and ocean farming.”

I interviewed Program Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale, Michael

Weaving and the Social World

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On the Cover Kelleher, to get an in-depth look at the prestigious literary award that is now threeyears-old. Be sure to attend one or more of the free events they have planned as part of the prize festival and be introduced to these nine talented writers from around the globe that, lucky for you, will be in New Haven this September.

For the ultimate primer on the year, read the season preview piece that I worked on.

While it is in no way meant to be comprehensive, it will give you quite a few artistic offerings to mark on your calendars.

Of course one of those offerings is our fun event, Somewhat Off the Wall, a fundraiser for the Arts Council that actually lets you take art home with you! See page 19 for details.

I’ll leave you with a snippet of a Mary Oliver poem, “I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same.

So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over.” With this issue, I hope to illustrate the fantastic art happening in the region this fall. Definitely lots to admire and weep over. Make yourself a part of the arts community and participate! Belong.

Sincerely, Amanda May Aruani, interim editor The Arts Paper

Artwork by Maura Galante, one of the contributing artists for Somewhat Off The Wall 2016. Somewhat Off the Wall is a unique fine art exhibition & fundraising event for The Arts Council. This year, it takes place Saturday, September 17, 5-9 p.m. at The Gallery at EleMar, 2 Gibbs Street, New Haven. Call (203) 7722788 for tickets. See page 19 for more information.

In the Next Issue …

In the October issue of The Arts Paper, we’ll delve into City-Wide Open Studios, which takes place October 7-30. This year’s theme is Game On! and “will explore the increasing presence of games, game-playing, and game theory in contemporary artistic practice,” according to the organization. Photo: Artist Kathryn Frund at her Erector Square studio during last year’s CWOS. Photo by Graham Hebel, courtesy of CWOS.

Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA)

On view through December 11, 2016 Free and open to the public | 877 BRIT ART | britishart.yale.edu Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), Fake Death Picture (The Death of Chatterton–Henry Wallis) (detail), 2011, digital chromogenic print, Yale Center for British Art, Lee MacCormick Edwards Foundation and Friends of British Art Fund, © Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

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Sharing Her Voice kate callahan sings “connecticut roads” as state troubadour hank hoffman Kate Callahan knows what it’s like to be isolated. But the current official Connecticut State Troubadour also knows what it is like to battle out of isolation, to marshal her resources and take control of her life.

In 1996, during Thanksgiving break when she was a college sophomore, Callahan suffered a serious traumatic brain injury while skiing. For two years, her efforts at recovery were fitful and largely unsuccessful. But music — specifically, guitar lessons from then West Hartford-based teacher Jamie Sherwood — turned her life around.

As part of her efforts as State Troubadour, she would like to use music as a way to help female inmates. Callahan wants to bring a vocal empowerment program to women inmates to help them cope with their own isolation and recognize their own resources.

“I want to remind women who lost all their resources that they will always have one resource — and it’s their voice,” Callahan said in an interview at the Hartford apartment she shares with her husband David Ames and their cat, Beau.

Callahan also plans to promote cultural literacy among state residents by creating five-minute vlogs (video blogs) about the different towns where she is scheduled to perform. She hopes to find what’s “unique and original” about towns in the state by “talking to people in local diners, pubs and coffee shops.”

The vlogs will tie into her performances.

Callahan is one of the featured performers at the Connecticut Folk Festival, which will be held at Edgerton Park in New Haven on Saturday, September 10. Her songs are richly melodic, with openhearted and often profoundly spiritual lyrics sung over chiming acoustic guitar arpeggios. She has come a long way from her first lessons with Sherwood, when just forming a simple G major chord was a major accomplishment.

Beginning with her 2000 album, “The Influence of Red,” Callahan has released several acclaimed records. She was named to the two-year State Troubadour position this past March. Prior to that, Callahan was a 2015 nominee for Best Songwriter in New England and winner as Best Singer-Songwriter in the 2013 Connecticut Music Awards.

Connecticut is the only state that honors a singer-songwriter with an official position. Callahan is the 16th State Troubadour since the position was established in 1991. In her official capacity, she will appear at honorary events and represent the state in song. As part of her application for the position, she wrote a song about the state, “Connecticut Roads.”

In a video posted online, over sprightly, finger-picked acoustic guitar, Callahan sang, “I was born to a family of four/ We told jokes and sang in the car/ With the windows down in summer, spring and fall/ We sang songs to feel who we were/ And we drove Connecticut roads/ And we’d sing until we got home.”

“I approached the song intimately and personally. I wanted to draw people into my story as someone who’s grown up, launched

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State Troubadour Kate Callahan. Photo by David Ames.

a career, fought for my health, and sought enlightenment on the very roads that connect us all in this state,” Callahan said. “In its essence, the song evokes the feeling of bumping into a familiar friend on a well-known road. It’s connective.”

Asked to describe her approach to songwriting, Callahan said, “I have worked a lot of autobiographical material into my songs. But I also love fiction, so the storytelling part of my craft certainly comes through.”

In her process of writing, however, the music comes first. Callahan attributes that to the time spent studying with Sherwood, saying, “He really taught me how to speak with a guitar.”

Influenced by Joni Mitchell, she uses a lot of alternate tunings on guitar. Although she learned to read music prior to the accident, she lost the skill due to her injury.

“After the accident, I was just so compelled to translate the music I felt inside that I didn’t bother to re-learn the theory of music,” Callahan said. “I have a strong ear — that’s how I write.”

As she plays around with chords, she “listens for everything that’s not the song and I scrap all of that. Whatever is the song really compels me harmonically. That sort of lays out the foundation for me to sing upon.”

Coming up with lyrics, Callahan said, is more challenging. She keeps ideas in a notebook, on her laptop, her iPhone, scraps of paper — ”anywhere I can jot something down and put it in my pocket and return to when I have time.”

But — like Paul McCartney using the words “scrambled eggs” as lyrical placeholders when first writing “Yesterday” — Callahan often

starts with nonsense sounds and words. It’s a technique she uses to be “less rooted in convention.”

“That allows me to align the sounds I’m making with the emotional content of the chord progression I’ve written,” Callahan said.

The process starts out a “little ethereal.” In the end, she strives to “transform those nonsensical sounds into vivid and descriptive words that can tell a story.”

Among the themes that animate her songs are love and spirit, addiction, and the contrast between darkness and light.

An example of the latter is “Two Doors,” a song that Callahan said most often prompts listeners to tell her “they feel the presence of something greater in the room.” Based on a dream Callahan had where she was a violent male prisoner facing execution for his crimes, it is a narrative of spiritual rebirth.

“I woke up from the dream realizing I had just learned something about myself. I learned I’m not ‘other’ than the prison population,” Callahan said. “Up to that point in my early 20’s, I had been viewing the prison population as ‘other’ to me. The dream blew this out of the water. I felt eternally connected to human beings in general.

“It’s what started my interest in working with the prison population,” Callahan continued. “It’s taken me about 15 years to where I feel I have the platform to do that kind of work.”

For Callahan, music has been transformative. “I think music softens us to have more compassion for ourselves and the world around us,” said Callahan. n Visit kate-callahan.com for more information.

The 2016 CT Folk Festival & Green Expo Saturday, September 10 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Edgerton Park, New Haven FREE ADMISSION! APPEARING ON THE FESTIVAL STAGE: -Susan Werner with special guest Trina Hamlin -Ryan Montbleau -Spuyten Duyvil -Grassy Hill Song Circle: Brad Cole, Matt Nakoa and Robinson Treacher -The Young Novelists -Kate Callahan -Cricket Blue -The Grebes -Jim Trick -Stacy Phillips and His Bluegrass Characters -The Grassy Hill Songwriting Competition Finalists: Arms and Voices, O’hAnleigh, Amy Soucy, Mike Vial, and Ira Wolf More info at ctfolk.com.

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A Taste of the Arts whitney-audubon arts & retail district presents fall free for all lisa rovello Everyone likes the concept of “try it before you buy it,” and that goes for classes as well.

Which is why the Fall Free For All event might be just what you’re looking for!

From Monday, September 19 through Sunday, September 25, adults and children interested in taking music, dance, drama, or visual arts classes can try them out at both Neighborhood Music School and Creative Arts Workshop, located on Audubon Street in New Haven. There’s no need to register, just show up! There are also special discounts available at participating merchants located on Audubon Street and nearby Whitney Avenue. These include Bridal Trousseau, Crepes Choupette, Clark’s Family Restaurant, Gilden’s Jewelers, Good Nature, Katahdin Furniture, Katalina’s Bakery, Kennedy & Perkins, Knit New Haven, Moe’s, Phil’s Hair & Spa, Phone ‘N Com-

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puter, and Silk Road Art Gallery.

On Friday evening, September 23, from 6-9 p.m., Neighborhood Music School will host a “Date Night Dance Party” for grownups who need a night out. The evening will feature free dance lessons, wine and beer (cash bar), and babysitting available on site. No entry fee. Call (203) 624-5189 to register.

Fall Free For All will also feature an afternoon of performances on Saturday, September 24, from 12-4 p.m. on Leeney Plaza, located in the middle of Audubon Street. These will feature music by Neighborhood Music School student groups such as the Premier Jazz Ensemble, Suzuki Strings and West African Drumming with Tatchol Camara. The stage will be shared

by Educational Center for the Arts student groups, showcasing their music and dance talents. Works by the ECA visual arts students will be on display as well. Inside at Neighborhood Music School, the public can

participate in classes such as Dance or Early Childhood Music, and there will be vouchers for free introductory music lessons. At NMS’s “Instrument Discovery Zone,” kids can try playing real instruments, also from 12-4 p.m.

Creative Arts Workshop’s open enrollment offers free classes throughout the week-long Fall Free For All. Their bi-annual faculty show will also be on view, with an opening reception Saturday, September 24, from 2-4 p.m. where you can meet the featured artists. Exhibited works include oil, acrylic, watercolor, collage, metals, fiber, photography, pottery, printmaking, sculpture, and more, all by the esteemed CAW faculty of professional artists.

Later in the day, Creative Arts Workshop invites adults who want to try out their artistic skills and unwind to attend their happy hour/drawing class called Create + Sip, with instructor Judie Cavanaugh, from 4-6 p.m. Entry is free and there’s no

experience necessary! Bring a friend! Call (203) 562-4927 to register. facebook.com/ events/1202619759789518/.

Additional events may be added, so be sure to visit the websites of Fall Free for All partners for the most current information.

These include The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, newhavenarts.org; Neighborhood Music School, neighborhoodmusicschool.org; Creative Arts Workshop, creativeartsworkshop.org; ACES Educational Center for the Arts, aces. org/schools-programs/ magnet-schools/ educational-center-for-the-arts; and Town Green Special Services District, infonewhaven.org. Partners also include Yale University Properties. n Lisa Rovello is the marketing & public relations manager for Neighborhood Music School.

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Giving Heart to a Community steve scarpa

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ike many kids, Mimsi Coleman fell in love with the arts early, felt like it held something special for her, something that she couldn’t walk away from. The problem for Coleman was figuring out just what to do with that love. Knowing that, Coleman’s long career in the arts was in many ways a happy accident.

That happy accident yielded a rewarding career of arts patronage. In the fall, Coleman will retire from her post as director of arts, recreation, and culture for the town of Hamden, for whom she has worked for the past two decades.

Coleman, born Mary but dubbed Mimsi by her mom after a character in Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, always loved the visual and literary arts but didn’t have a clear direction on how to pursue them. In college, she studied art history and journalism but not with any particular end in mind. “I think there were many people who looked at their futures and had a path that was clearly defined. I followed my heart in what I chose to study,” she said.

She got married to her husband Jules and

they started a family, moving all over the country. Coleman spent time working for small alternative newspapers and other publications. Her travels landed her in Hamden in 1985, and a job editing the monthly periodical of The Arts Council for Greater New Haven only a few years later. It was, simply put, a great gig for her. New Haven’s art scene was very alive and The Arts Council had participated in the development of Audubon Street.

It was a time of possibility in the arts, and the Council’s publication was there to chronicle those developments.

Coleman pointed to the legendary Bitsie Clark, a long-time executive director of the Arts Council and alderman, as a true mentor right from the beginning of her career in New Haven. Clark gave Coleman her start in arts administration while at the Council. “She taught me many things. I learned that arts administration can be a creative endeavor.

I never had the courage to be an artist, but I wanted it to be a lifelong endeavor. She also showed me that a person can have a desk full of clutter, or lose their cell phone three times a day, and that it doesn’t really matter. It’s far more important (for a person) to direct their

Mimsi Coleman. Photo by Harold Shapiro.

energy to working with others and be attentive to the needs of other people and their organization,” Coleman said.

With the explosion of the arts happening in town, Clark tried to give Coleman some help writing the publication, so she hired a nattily-dressed World War II veteran to do some articles. The man, who looked and acted the part of a literary bon viveur, was simply not up to the challenge. Coleman adjusted, Clark said, found out he was a great typist, and put that to use. She supported the man through his eccentric behavior, which Clark attributed to post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead of firing the man, Coleman found that he was a gifted photographer, and ended up setting up a show in his honor — one more example of Coleman’s quiet leadership. “Mimsi is really empathetic and understanding, which made her a phenomenal director in Hamden,” Clark said. “She would say yes to everyone who asked for help.”

Coleman left The Arts Council in order to be home to take care of her children, who were in their teens at the time. “I feared that I was losing the balance between home and work,” she said.

The arts, though, were always a draw for Coleman. It didn’t take much to get her back in the game. When the position in Hamden opened, it was a part-time one responsible for presenting only a few events a year. “I don’t know how to work part-time, so I put in extra hours,” Coleman explained.

As time went on, the program grew to over thirty programs a year, including a successful summer concert series, programs for young children and seniors, and coordinating the annual winter holiday festival and tree-lighting ceremony. The commission works with the Hamden volunteer firefighters for the Independence Day celebration and fireworks.

Art fills the Hamden Government Center.

Coleman and her team even helped design and supervise the construction of the stage in Town Center Park. “We are very proud and

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happy about what we were able to accomplish,” she said. “An overused adage is that ‘it takes a village.’ I think we built a village. I think that is what I am most proud of, that I participated in that.”

Coleman is being modest — Clark noted that she has a real skill with volunteers, encouraging them, playing to their strengths, and being someone who builds a team. “She knows how to take what people bring to something,” Clark said.

Coleman doesn’t know what she’s going to do next — she’s not even going to start really thinking about it until January. “A quote from (Yankees Hall of Famer) Yogi Berra keeps running through my mind. He said, ‘when you come to a fork in the road, take it.’ I am coming to that point,” she said.

Coleman has a few more tasks to complete over the summer before she comes to her fork in the road. Running the summer concert series can be a bit harrowing — working with volunteers, making sure everyone is where they are supposed to be, tending to the bands, assuring that all of the technical aspects are going to come off flawlessly — but when she looks out over the crowd, over 16,000 one night this July to see the 1960s English band The Animals, the work becomes all worth it. “Music is a great connector of people. They start to feel free. I watch them jumping up and down, and singing along, and clapping,” Coleman said. “That brings me great joy.”

She knows what she’s going to miss: it’s the connection with people — working with the devoted volunteers, partnering with businesses and other arts organizations — all of which share her commitment to making her community a little more alive, a little more empathetic, colorful, and fun. “These kinds of bonds are what is keeping the arts alive in this country. It requires so much volunteer effort. In the end, it is so valuable and meaningful,” Coleman said. “I believe that the arts in general give heart to a community.” n

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Meteor Shower Over Long Wharf new steve martin play opens september 28 lucy gellman

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hen Steve Martin gave Gordon Edelstein, artistic director at Long Wharf Theatre, a copy of his brand-new play Meteor Shower some two years ago, Edelstein wasn’t just elated. A longtime fan of Martin’s work, he fell in love with the script, its absurdist humor and wit washing over him before he had even finished the play. He read it again and had a feeling that things were, as they do from time to time in the theater world, falling beautifully into place.

“I knew I wanted to do it at Long Wharf,” he said in an interview with The Arts Paper earlier this summer while he was working with Martin in San Diego, where the play was about to premiere at The Old Globe — not ironically, around the same date as 2016’s Perseids meteor shower.

“It was hilarious and very theatrical,” he added of his love-at-first-read. “Every good play has a good sense of character and time and place. When I read this play I thought it was terrific, hilarious, compelling, theatrical, and I wanted to direct it.”

Ultimately, he and Martin agreed to do just that, pitching the show as a collaboration between The Old Globe Theater and Long Wharf Theatre that would have it coming to New Haven in late September after an initial run in California.

While both venues have hosted Martin to great acclaim — The Old Globe most recently for the premiere of his bluegrass odyssey Bright Star in 2014, and Long Wharf with The Underpants in 2013 and Picasso at the Lapin Agile in 2014 — Edelstein saw Meteor Shower as a work of particular “genius … brilliant and extraordinary” that would move Martin and Long Wharf’s theatrical dialogue forward in delightful, productive, and artistically challenging ways.

“Every play you do challenges you,” said Edelstein. “But [in] this play … like every day in life, you’re challenged by new things. You have to take these words and make them theatrical and fun. This is a great challenge.”

A lot of that has to do with the heart of the play itself, a reflection on marriage and relationships whose core has proved unflappable in the face of edits and artistic tweaks. If there are a million and one ways to write theater about marriage, Edelstein said of the script, this is still somehow new, and rises above a lot of lukewarm and mid-

Steve Martin. Photo courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.

dling work that’s made its way out there.

That’s because the absurd elements — indeed, as quirky as the idea of marriage itself, when you really sit and think about it — creep up on the audience. When the play opens on comfortably-married Corky and Norm in their well-heeled Ojai, California home, nothing seems wholly out of the ordinary. The two argue and apologize and make small talk that is somehow not small, basking in the warmth of the early 1990s all the while. They are, per the work’s title, preparing half-eagerly for a small dinner party that will fall during a meteor shower. Guests Gerald and Laura, who have expressed particular interest in this natural kind of light show, are expected in a matter of minutes.

Nothing too weird yet, right?

Right. And wrong. A nostalgia for simpler times that may strike the audience as Corky and Norm prep for the party — a discussion about the merits of pre-dinner drinks; momentary lapse in memory and reference to Corky’s exploding head syndrome; a few references to body and diet that seem de rigeur for the pair — soon doubles itself within the narrative, as things go from strange to stranger. From the get-go to their parting sip of wine, Gerald and Laura aren’t standard dinner guests at all, requiring Corky and Norm — or maybe it’s the other way around, or maybe it is both — to step up their game in all sorts of unconventional ways. The meteors whizzing through the

“A dinner party can never just be a dinner party, nor a meteor shower just a meteor shower, nor a marriage just a marriage.”

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air (and at times, a little too close to Norm and Corky’s home and hearts) are hardly a match for the words and actions that unfold in Ojai, under a fire-streaked sky.

Indeed, Meteor Shower is a work rich in metaphor and punny, if dark, potential that employs serious romantic gymnastics.

Humans, and especially humans long in love, are confounding creatures, and Martin embraces that fact wholly, jumping from way-too-involved (and antiquated if funny) jokes about pubic hair to scenes where sex becomes destructive in ways far beyond imagination. We, eager audience members, soon realize that a dinner party can never just be a dinner party, nor a meteor shower just a meteor shower, nor a marriage just a marriage.

It’s this sense of comfortable, warm humor, a conflation of the expected and the absurd all with understated nuptial packaging that makes Meteor Shower stand out as something with the potential of being new.

For Edelstein, who will be working to redesign the set for Long Wharf’s stage as the work makes its way to the East Coast, that’s enough to be very excited about.

“I’m hoping they’ll really enjoy it,” he said. “I’m hoping that all kinds of people come and see it … the very history of drama is all about artists engaging with their time in all kinds of ways. That’s just it. Steve is engaging with his time.” n Visit longwharf.org for more information.

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Sway. Shift. Sea Garden art in the rafters

Panorama of the Sway. Shift. Sea Garden installation at Vaiuso Farms.

debbie hesse For the past two decades, on my daily route to work, I have passed by Vaiuso Farms - Connecticut Greenhouse Growers — a commanding cluster of greenhouses adjacent to fields of seasonally rotating crops along Interstate 95. As an installation artist inspired by natural processes and forms, I have always been drawn to this spot and hoped to create an art project there. When I finally approached the Vaiuso family about doing an installation in their greenhouse, they were receptive and subsequently became my partner for a Regional Initiative Grant Program (REGI) that enabled me to create a colorful Plexiglas seaweed-inspired garden amidst their plants. My project, Sway. Shift. Sea Garden, aimed to spark a visual dialogue about the relationship between agriculture and ocean farming.

Leading up to the actual installation, I worked with Branford Community Dining Room and Vista Life Innovations, a program that helps disabled adults achieve independent living. I had initially planned to conduct one workshop, however, we wound up meeting on an ongoing basis at their new storefront art studio behind a Vista-run craft store in Madison center.

Working closely with Vista art teacher Samantha Listorti and a wonderful group of enthusiastic, talented artists, we observed and created pressings from local seaweed specimens to create drawings, digital imagery, and cyanotypes. We studied seaweed, not only as an aesthetic form, but as an important food energy source. Seaweed-inspired drawings were transformed, enlarged, fabricated, and recontextualized into a temporary, large-scale construction that interacted with the changing plants in the greenhouse.

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the peak retail season at Vaiuso’s, as well as my installation. I stopped by every few days, before the onslaught of eager gardeners/shoppers, to add large acrylic elements along the rafters, above the plants, amassing a parallel synthetic sea garden that would “grow” adjacent to the greenhouse plants.

Working alongside the Vauiso family, I learned about their overall operation. I was especially struck by how they choreographed the space daily, moving grids of colors and textures across tables and hangers to optimize growth — agricultural and economic — like a dance performance.

In the aftermath, the retail season has dwindled, the mums are readying for autumn, and Sway. Shift. Sea Garden has been reconfigured into gallery-ready art.

Vaiuso reports that they had record sales in June, which is usually past their peak season. I know that everyone who came out to Vaiuso Farms to see the installation — many for the first time — fell in love with the place and bought plants, and many returned after the reception to replenish.

I would like to think that our collaboration helped in some small way, but who knows?

New projects have emerged from these collaborations and will be on view at Marquee Gallery in New London and GreenWave’s new processing hub in Fair Haven.

I am so appreciative that I had the chance to work with the Vaiuso family, Branford Community Dining Room, and Vista Life Innovations; not only have I gotten to move my project forward, I have made some wonderful new friends who I look forward to working with again in the future. n Debbie Hesse is the director of artistic services & programs at The Arts Council. This is her opinion. Visit geomorphictank.com for more information about this project.

Erin Doyle and Zach Posner participate in a workshop with Hesse and Vista Life Innovations.

Debbie Hesse installs her work amid the flowers of the Vaiuso greenhouse.

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Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes amanda may aruani

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ne of Program Director Michael Kelleher’s favorite parts of his job is making the phone calls to winners.

“It’s moving,” he said. “Reactions range from tears to stunned disbelief to nervous laughter.”

As well they should. The Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University, with the sole exception of the Nobel Prize, is monetarily the largest in the world dedicated solely to literature. Each year since its inception in 2013, nine writers have been awarded $150,000, no strings attached.

Well, maybe one string. They must attend the literary festival and award ceremony in September in New Haven.

and readings by all the prize winners at the Yale University Art Gallery’s auditorium on the second and third days of the festival, respectively.

“There will be panels, discussions, teas, all day long, 12-9 p.m.,” Kelleher said. “There will be a couple of lunch events, and an event at the New Haven Free Public Library about the importance of libraries. Some of the winners will also meet with students at Co-op High.” (This event is not open to the public).

The Prize The winners can be from any country, but at this stage of the prize, they are all

the work be in translation?, etc.”

There will be one change in the prize.

Coming next year, poetry will also be an awarded category. For the first three years the prizes have been for fiction, nonfiction, and drama. With the addition of poetry, the total number of awards will drop to eight (two in each category), but the award will rise to $165,000.

The prize began with a surprise gift to Yale, stipulated in the 2010 will of Donald Windham, a writer who long ago conceived of a prize with his lifelong partner Sandy Campbell. A prize that would make a difference in writer’s lives. A prize that would give writers

shed light on his career and his group of friends, which included Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote.

According to the prize website, windhamcampbell.org, Windham himself struggled economically in the beginning of his career, which may have been one of the motivators to create this generous prize. During his career, Windham wrote memoirs, novels, plays, short stories, and a children’s book and Campbell was a stage actor who was also published in the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine.

Selection Process “[This prize] is similar to the MacArthur foundation, in that it’s all confidential,” Kelleher said.

“We don’t name the nominees or jurors, and we don’t publish a short or long list [of finalists].”

The Festival Writers don’t The literary know they’ve festival is free and been nominated open to the pubuntil they’ve won. lic and puts on Kelleher solicits display a dizzying thirty nominaarray of talent tions in each from around the category, often world. This year’s asking people he festival kicks off has met at variwith a prize cereous international mony in Sprague literary festivals Hall at 470 to nominate for College Street, specific regions New Haven on of the world.

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“Part of what I Legendary punk do is go to literrocker and poet ary festivals so Patti Smith will be that I can meet delivering a compeople, so that missioned lecture they are aware titled “Devotion.” of [the prize], The lecture comes but also so I can from the prompt: ask somebody why write? The to nominate and “Why Write?” ensure it will be series began last a strong nomiyear with a Hilnation,” he said. ton Als lecture.

“We try to make (He was already sure the nominee unknowingly pool is global. nominated and To the best of is a prize winner our ability we try this year). Each to represent as “Why Write?”

The 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize winners. Top row: Hannah Moscovitch, Abbie Spallen, and Stanley Crouch. Middle row: C.E. Morgan, Hilton Als, and Helen Garner. Bottom row: Jerry Pinto, much as we can lecture (expanded Tessa Hadley, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Photos courtesy of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. [of the world].” to 10,000 words) The second will be published by Yale University English-language writers. time to write, at least a year. A prize that phase is the prize jury, appointed by the Press.

“There’s a part of me that would love (ironically) sympathizes with those not President of Yale (currently Peter SaloFollowing the ceremony, the campus to see us go beyond English, but there affiliated with academic institutions. vay), who have three months to create a will celebrate the work of the prizewinare a lot of practical obstacles to that,” (According to Kelleher, despite or perlist of finalists, whittling the list of names ners with a multi-day literary festival Kelleher explained. “It’s something in the haps simultaneous with his sympathies, from thirty to four in each category. featuring more than a dozen talks, teas, back of my mind, but the world of Enhe wanted the prize to have immediate “The only thing they look at is the readings, panels, and cultural events in glish writing is already massive when you “cache and gravitas,” which Yale brings). quality of the work,” Kelleher said of the a variety of venues in downtown New scale it globally. It gets even more comWindham’s affiliation with Yale was rejuror stage. “Then the nine-person selecHaven. plicated adding all the languages of the cent, as he donated his personal papers tion committee has the material for three According to Kelleher, these include world. … For example, finding nominees to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manmonths. [Donald Windham named four staged readings (15-20 minutes of the and jurors able to judge in [multiple] lan- uscript Library towards the end of his lifetime members in his will, the Presdrama winners’ plays) with a talk back, guages would be a huge challenge, would life. The papers are significant as they ident of Yale appoints the other five.]

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They are primarily focused on quality, but also thinking about how and what kind of impact this award will have on the winner.

I know Donald Windham wanted to have impact on writer’s careers. ... It ends up being a mix of people who are ‘promising’ people and some who are more ‘body of work’ people.”

One example of a ‘promising’ writer is this year’s C.E. Morgan, whose story stands out to Kelleher.

“C.E. Morgan is a youngish writer who just wrote her second novel, The Sport of Kings, which is now being lauded as a modern masterpiece. It’s an incredible book about horse racing and race. The nominator knew the second book was coming out and we were able to secretly get ahold of the manuscript, but carefully, discreetly. We didn’t want to tip anyone off that she was a nominee… This is not a book prize, the dossiers include information about other published works. But, [The Sport of Kings] is a hugely ambitious book, and it is the trajectory of her career that stands out. The leap from the first book to the second is huge. It’s gotten reviews that most writers can only dream of,” Kelleher explained.

Two other anecdotes from this year’s winner’s pool are about the Indian writer Jerry Pinto and Australian writer Helen Gardener.

“I went to the Jaipur literary festival in January,” Kelleher remembered. “It was a month and a half before final selections, and [Pinto] was a finalist. It was a huge literary festival, there were 330,000 people there. We got to go to all these parties with the writers and I was on this bus the last day coming back from a party in a town about an hour away, and there I was sitting next to Jerry Pinto for an hour. I had to pretend I didn’t know him.”

For Kelleher, keeping secrets is part of his job. Although it isn’t usually a problem once they reach out to the winners. In the case of Helen Gardener, her prize remained secret longer than most. After an unanswered call, the prize-divulging email from Kelleher went into her spam folder.

She reportedly never checks her spam folder, but randomly did.

“She called her publisher (who I know) and asked, have you ever heard of this prize?,” Kelleher said. “He told her, ‘Call them back now!’ The Guardian picked up the story, and eventually it turned into the headline ‘Women Checks Spam Folder and Wins $150,000.’”

2016 Winners Without further ado, the nine 2016 prize winners’ biographies, summarized from windhamcampbell.org; C.E. Morgan – Fiction – United States Her first two novels, All the Living (2009) and The Sport of Kings (2016), have explored themes of life in rural southern America, and either the abundance of or lack of money therein. Reviewers praise her lush prose style that manages to be both bold and resonant.

Morgan is a graduate of Berea College and the Harvard Divinity School and in addition to the Windham-Campbell Prize, has been named one of the New Yorker’s “20 under 40.”

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Tessa Hadley – Fiction – United Kingdom Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and graduate of University of the West of England, Tessa Hadley got a relatively late start in the fiction world. She published her first novel in 2002 at the age of forty-six, but has since carved out a space uniquely her own. Clever Girl (2013) and The Past (2016) display her refined style, which pulse with undercurrents of psychological tension. On windhamcampbell.org, Hadley is quoted as saying “It’s still marvellous to me that the words a writer dreams up in solitude can speak to strangers — winning this is so reassuring and encouraging.”

Stanley Crouch – Non Fiction – United States Stanley Crouch has been a force in the literary world for decades, painting a portrait of America across a variety genres including poetry, biography, cultural criticism, fiction, and even a novel. His latest publication is part one of a two-volume biography about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (2013). According to the prize website, Kansas City Lightning is written in a grand, biblical style and draws on unanticipated subjects, such as Buffalo Soldiers, Al Capone, and Sherlock Holmes to tell its story.

Jerry Pinto – Fiction – India Jerry Pinto’s reaction to winning a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize, published on the prize website, is funny, unassuming, and human, much like his writing: “My first thought was: there is a God. Then there was: freedom to write. Then: that’s America for you.

Then: I have to sit down. Then: Me? Then: I am a writer, I should know what to say. Then: I don’t know what to say.

So I think I am going to say those simple words, which should be worn out by use but are so powerful still: thank you.” Pinto is from Goa, India and has worked as an editor, journalist, novelist, poet, and translator. His work, including his first work of fiction, Em and the Big Hoom (2012), draws from personal experience to explore universal experience. Salman Rushdie has called Em and the Big Hoom, which delves into the opaque world of mental illness and its effect on relationships, “one of the very best books to come out of India in a long, long time.”

Hannah Moscovitch – Drama – Canada Unlike Pinto, Moscovitch often turns her emotionally and intellectually-complex gaze outward, to other times and places, such as Germany, Paraguay, and Afghanistan. Moscovitch, playwright-in-residence at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, was recently the first playwright to ever win the Trillium Book Award, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has been making big waves in the Canadian scene since her play East of Berlin received rave reviews in 2007. According to windhamcampbell.org, Moscovitch

“fuses the intimate and the epic in fiercely intelligent plays about violence, responsibility, and redemption.”

Hilton Als – Nonfiction – United States Brooklyn-born free-form essayist Hilton Als writes about our ideas of identity — racial, sexual, and otherwise. A writer and chief theater critic for the New Yorker, his bold style mixes cultural criticism, biography, and memoir. An associate professor at Columbia, Als has also taught at Wellesley, Wesleyan, Smith, and the Yale School of Drama. He is also a former Guggenheim Foundation fellow.

Of the Windham-Campbell Prize, Als said, “I am gobsmacked and humbled.

Essay writing is generally not known as a lucrative field; this honor allows me to continue the work I love with greater confidence — and faith.”

Abbie Spallen – Drama – Ireland Playwright Abbie Spallen describes her work as “uncomfortable theater,” often dark, despite moments of beauty, humor and tenderness. In addition to the Windham-Campbell Prize, Spallen has won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and won a major grant from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her work includes Bogwog (2005), Pumpgirl (2006), Strandline (2009), and Lally the Scut (2015), the last of which is about a mother struggling to save her son after he falls in a bog hole, one of many typically Irish geographical features she includes in her plays. She has also written several screenplays.

Helen Garner – Nonfiction – Australia One of the most well-known writers in Australia, Helen Garner has moved backand-forth from fiction to nonfiction in her career, during which she has published more than a dozen books. An expert in observation, Garner explores the depths of human behavior with her intelligent, lucid, and sometimes disturbing reflections. In This House of Grief (2014), she details the trial of a father accused of murdering his three sons by driving into a dam, in which her relating of the courtroom scenes is intertwined with her own often nakedly personal responses.

Program Director Michael Kelleher. Photo courtesy of the Windham-Campbell Prizes.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – Drama – United States “I only wish everyone alive could get a phone call like the one I just received,” playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins said when he won the Windham-Campbell prize. “I’ve never ever felt this confident, joyful, relieved, or encouraged on a Wednesday morning.” This prize comes as a direct result of his audacious and disarming plays, which have also won him a Fulbright Arts Grant and an Obie Award for Best New American Play. His range is impressive, with plays taking place in post-World War II Germany (War), to a 19th century Louisiana plantation (An Octoroon) to inside a cutthroat New York City magazine (Gloria). Jacobs-Jenkins received his education from New York University, Princeton, and the Juilliard School. Arts Paper readers may recognize him from his world premiere of War at Yale Repertory Theatre, as it was our December 2014 cover story. Read it again at issuu.com/artscouncil9. n Visit windhamcampbell.org for more information about the prize and the festival, including its schedule of events.

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Choral Evensong

Yale Schola Cantorum · David Hill, conductor Music of Byrd, Palestrina, and Lobo

september 23 friday | 5 pm

Christ Church New Haven 84 Broadway at Elm

Carolyn Forché

Reading followed by book-signing

september 22 thursday | 5:30 pm Marquand Chapel

Yale Literature & Spirituality Series presented with support from Yale Divinity Student Book Supply

Evensong photo credit: Seville Cathedral, Anual – Own work – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6590324

Both the evensong service and the poetry reading are free and open to the public. No tickets required. ism.yale.edu

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Season Preview amanda may aruani

For many local organizations, September is a New Years of sorts. We have all traveled around the sun another time since last fall, which means a new season is about to begin. There is a lot to look forward to this year, so let’s dive in!

Yale Repertory Theatre

Playwright Sarah Ruhl. Photo courtesy of the Yale Rep.

Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince, a new play by Sarah Ruhl September 30-October 22. Seven Guitars by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson will take stage November 25-December 17. What is being marketed as a “magnificently theatrical feminist hijacking of Shakespearean history,” Imogen Says Nothing by playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil will take place January 20-February 11. Bundy will direct Assassins by John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim March 17-April 8. “The Rep’s” season comes to a close with Mary Jane, a collaboration between playwright Amy Herzog (of Belleville) and director Anne Kauffman. Visit yalerep.org for more info and ticketing options.

Long Wharf Theatre

The Yale Repertory Theatre’s 50th anniversary season includes three Yale-commissioned world premieres and two contemporary masterpieces, according to Artistic Director James Bundy. “I am thrilled by the extraordinary range and power of the distinguished artists who will be represented on our stages,” he said in a statement about this season.

Their 50th begins with Scenes from

Brian Dennehy. Photo courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.

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Join us at our Monday evening rehearsals.

Shubert Theater

Pink Martini. Photo courtesy of the Shubert.

The New Haven Chorale, an auditioned 85 voice, professionally conducted, volunteer chorus serving our community is looking for talented voices to audition for the 2016-2017 season.

Our upcoming season is your opportunity to perform in New Haven & Hartford.

VISIT: NewHavenChoraleAuditions.com OR CALL 203-776-SONG (7664)

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Show off your art and help the Library celebrate our creative community!

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York City, will come to New Haven March 15-April 9. Written by Lydia Diamond, Smart People presents four intellectuals navigating the complicated waters of race and gender identity in contemporary America, according to Long Wharf, continuing the theatre’s long tradition of engaging with the great questions of our day. The season ends on a joyful note, with Table May 3-28. The production is by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Academy Award-winning composer David Shire. According to Long Wharf, Table is “charming” new musical about food and family, specifically a family trying to survive the restaurant business in modern-day New York City.

For more information and to purchase tickets or subscriptions, visit longwharf.org.

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The announcement of Long Wharf Theatre’s 2016-2017 season came with the promise that it asks BIG questions. Questions like; What do our lives actually mean?

How do we pursue and ultimately find happiness? And how do we handle the complexity of our relationships? Sure to avoid the banal, this season includes “new work from some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights, including a new musical, and a modern play that tackles racial and gender politics,” Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein said in a provided statement.

Meteor Shower, an absurdist comedy by iconic writer and comedian Steve Martin, opens Long Wharf’s season September 28-October 23. See page 7 for Lucy Gellman’s story about Meteor Shower. Other People’s Money, a 1980s comedy about a greedy Wall Street businessman, will run November 23-December 18. Endgame is playwright Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece and will feature two big-name actors: Brian Dennehy and John Douglas Thompson (from Satchmo at the Waldorf). Endgame will take place January 4-February 5. Meghan Kennedy’s Napoli, Brooklyn, about an Italian immigrant family, will see its world premiere at Long Wharf February 15-March 12. Smart People, of recent acclaim in New

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The Arts Paper september 2016 The legendary Shubert Theater will again be the place to see Broadway touring shows, as well as a handful of other excellent productions and special presentations. The Brian Regan Live Comedy Tour takes place this month, on September 24, and David Sedaris comes October 6. Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound: Dance Reimagined will be at the Shubert October 21 and New York Gilbert & Sullivan Player’s The Pirates of Penzance will take the stage on October 22. The Broadway season begins with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella November 11-13. There will be three holiday-themed shows this year; A Christmas Carol November 18-20, Pink Martini Holiday Spectacular December 16, and Broadway’s ELF the Musical December 20-24. After a bit of a break, the Shubert’s Broadway season comes alive again with dance. The Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour takes the stage March 3-5, and Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage will play April 7-9. The last two slated Broadway shows are the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour April 28-30 and Motown the Musical June 13-18. See shubert.com for show times and ticketing information, including their create-yourown season ticket package.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra

Composer Hannah Lash. Photo courtesy of the NHSO.

From Verdi’s Requiem to their first full-length musical, and Dvorák’s “New World” to a Louis Armstrong tribute, NHSO’s 2016-2017 season promises to “inspire and delight,” according to the NHSO Music Director, William Boughton.

Opening night will take place on September 29 at Woolsey Hall. The night will include compositions by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and the Lash/Voynich Project’s Movement 3: Biological. Dvorak’s “New World” will be performed on October 20, along with Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Bruch’s Violin Concerto. November 17th will bring Brahm’s Symphony No. 4 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major to Woolsey Hall, along with Yale Composition Professor Martin Bresnick’s The Way It Goes, with special guest performance by Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker.

The holiday season will be marked by Handel’s Messiah on December 15. The season continues in the spring, with Verdi’s dramatic Requiem March 2. Mozart’s compositional talent returns on April 6, when the NHSO will perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, along with Schumann’s Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54. May 4 will be a day to remember with the NHSO, as the culminating event of the two-year Lash/Voynich project’s world premiere of the entire Voynich Symphony. The evening will also be marked by the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 and Dvorak’s In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91. May 13 will be NHSO Concertmaster Ani Kavafian’s farewell recital. It will feature Kavafian and NHSO

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New Generation Artist Michael Brown playing her favorite solo and duo works

by Mozart, Bach, Franck, Mendelssohn, and Kreisler.

The NSHO season also includes the Pops Series (beginning November 5 &6), a Family Concert Series (January-March), a Holiday Extravaganza (December 10), a Louis Armstrong tribute (June 3), and for the first time, the symphony will perform its first full-length musical, My Fair Lady, at Shelton High and Hamden Middle School March 18 & 19.

For more information about these performances and more, visit newhavensymphony.org. Check out their new “Rush Pass!”

Afrika! November 17, and The Celtic Tenors December 18. Visit southernct. edu/lyman for more information about these and all performances at the Lyman Center.

Yale University Art Gallery

Yinka Shonibare Portrait ©Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer Marcus Leith. Photo courtesy of the YCBA.

Firehouse 12

Photo courtesy of Firehouse 12.

Unconventional jazz continues at gorgeous Firehouse 12 with both a fall and spring series. The 2016 Fall Jazz Series begins September 16. At press time, only the September dates were confirmed, with Ben Wendel September 16, Taylor Ho Bynum September 23, and Kris Davis September 30. As always, there will be two sets, one at 8:30 and another at 10 p.m. Visit firehouse12.com for ticketing information and to see more upcoming musicians as they are announced.

John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts

The Celtic Tenors. Photo courtesy of the Lyman Center.

Southern Connecticut State University will be hosting a variety of entertainment at the Lyman Center throughout the 20162017 season for your enjoyment.

Their fall jazz series begins with The Groove Project starring Eric Darius, Jeff Bradshaw, Gerald Veasley, and J.J. Sanseverino on September 24. Brian Culbertson will perform October 29 and Tower of Power will take stage November 19. Vincent Ingala, Jonathan Fritzen, and Cindy Bradley will close the series December 10.

Southern’s theatre department & Crescent Players will present The Boy Friend

by Sandy Wilson October 7-16, Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka November 29-December 4, and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and directed by Elm Shakespeare Company’s Rebecca Goodheart February 24-March 5. Student-directed one act plays will be performed April 25-29. Theatre tickets are a steal at $10 for the general public. More info at southernct.edu/theatre.

Other notable performances planned at the Lyman Center include comedian Chris D’Elia September 9, U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus November 6, Step

Yale Center for British Art

John Townsend, High Chest of Drawers, 1759. Mahogany, chestnut, eastern white pine, cottonwood, and southern yellow pine. Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey. Photo courtesy of YUAG.

Music and theater aren’t the only art happenings in the area. Not by a long shot. Local museums and art galleries like the Yale University Art Gallery also have some great offerings.

Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles, chronicling some of the earliest fabrics ever made, will be on display at the gallery through September 18. Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 is currently on display and will be until January 8. Over 130 pieces of elaborately carved Rhode Island furniture on display is from the Colonial and early Federal Periods.

Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley will be on display October 7-January 1. This exhibition was planned to mark the 150th anniversary of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the 100th anniversary of the American national park system. SmallGreat Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas is also slated for 2017.

From February 3-June 18, this show will examine the crossroads between the collection and the making of art by Anni and Josef Albers. Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light will be on display at the YUAG from February 12July 3, 2017. Light artist Thomas Wilfred was a pioneer in bringing modern art and technology together, building an array of sophisticated mechanical sculptures (as early as the late 1920s) to create vibrant, multi-colored displays, a new medium that he collectively called “lumia.” Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, an exhibition of 58 photographs by Lee Friedlander, will be on display from January 13-July 9, 2017 at YUAG. The photographs were taken at the May 17, 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom march to protest the persistence of racial segregation in public schools.

Yale University Art Gallery is free and open to the public. Visit artgallery. yale.edu for hours and more information.

Yinka Shonibare MBE opens September 1 and will run through December 11.

Shonibare is a contemporary British Nigerian artist known for his explorations of the legacies of colonialism through sculpture, installations, film, and photography. This exhibition dovetails with another at YCBA, Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, as it displays Shonibare’s interest in the British historical figure Admiral Lord Nelson. Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting opens September 15 and runs through December 4. Telling stories of Britain’s triumphs and disasters, this major exhibition will be the first to survey the tradition of marine painting during an age when Britain claimed to rule the waves.

Visit britishart.yale.edu for more information about these exhibitions and more, as they are announced for 2017.

The YCBA is free and open to the public.

New Haven Museum

The Milk Can, State Road 146, North Smithfield, Rhode Island (1975). Photograph by Richard Longstreth, courtesy of the New Haven Museum.

Stories from Far and Near: Refugee Artists in New Haven, a moving, relevant exhibition curated by Susan Clinard, is on view through September 10. Evocative artwork and the personal stories of refugee artists comprise the exhibition. They are: Ridha Ali Ahmed, Moussa Gueye, Wurood Mahmood, Dariush Rose, Maher Shakir, and Johnny Mikiki Bombenza. Also on view is an installation designed by Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez, created by Syrian refugee children. A panel discussion including the artists will be hosted by Yale Fellow, local author, and radio producer Jake Halpern Thursday, September 8 at 5:30 p.m.

Road Trip will be the New Haven Museum’s next exhibition, slated to open in late fall. Road Trip will celebrate America’s love for traveling by car and for the kitsch and at-times bizarre roadside architecture that comes along with it. Many of the objects and stories will be crowdsourced from the public, so if you have memories or mementos from childhood road trips, you can send the museum a photo and tell them about it by email at education@newhavenmuseum.org, or post to social media at: facebook.com/NewHavenMuseum or #nhmroadtrip through September 9 to take part in the exhibition. n

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Classes & Workshops

Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven. (203) 772-2788. newhavenarts.org/category/crosbygallery Shuffle and Shake Part 2. Seven artists randomly selected from a lottery of Arts Council members.

Each selected artist was assigned a spot on the wall, floor, or ceiling to install their work. On view through September 8. Closing Public Reception: Thursday, September 8, 5-7 p.m. Gallery open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free.

Degrees of Separation. Curated by Hayward Gatling and Debbie Hesse. A quirky look at the connectedness of all things art. On view September 15-October 28. Opening Public Reception: Friday, September 23, 5-7 p.m. Gallery open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free.

ACES ECA 55 Audubon Street, New Haven. (203) 795-9011. www.aces.org/eca Acting Classes for Children and Teens Quality Acting Classes offered by Ingrid Schaeffer, chair of Educational Center for the Arts Theatre Department. Classes meet on Saturdays for ages 8-11 and 12-15. Classes include improvisation, theatre games, storytelling, and short plays. Call (203)795-9011 or email ingrids@optonline.net for information and brochure. Fall session begins on September 10. Every Saturday September-June, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Liz Pagano Erector Square 315 peck Street, New Haven. (203) 675-1105. www.lizpagano.com Private Art Instruction Adults/children. Learn in a working artist’s studio. Artists/home schooled/ portfolio prep/special needs. Draw/paint/print/ collage/etc. in a spacious, light-filled studio at Erector Square in New Haven. Relaxed and professional. I can also come to you. Lessons created to suit individual. References available. lizpagano@snet.net RSCDS at the Whitney Arts Center 591 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. (203) 281-6591. www.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. September 13-December 13. Every Tuesday evening except Nov 23. $8 per evening. First night free. 7:45-10 p.m.

Exhibitions College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman Center Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Draw Yourself In. Draw Yourself In is an audience-participation exhibition. The aim is for you to re-imagine the exhibited works in new forms and mediums. Scattered throughout the gallery are regular and colored pencils and a whole lot of paper. Drawing something lets you interact with a work more closely, to see things you might otherwise miss. September 21 at noon. A luncheon buffet will be served. Free!

Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT. (203) 562-4927. creativeartsworkshop.org Dual Exhibition. Creative Arts Workshop presents two shows: an installation by young artists from their summer programs and an interactive work

by Eric Epstein, “Welcome to Whackville.” On view through September 2. Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free.

DaSilva Gallery 897-899 Whalley Avenue, New Haven. (203) 387-2539. www.dasilva-gallery.com Barbara Marks’ Color-Centric Paintings. Barbara Marks’ color-centric paintings oscillate between objective and geometric abstraction, driven by her interest in economy of expression, and her belief in the role that color can play in the situation of a particular painting. September 10-October 1.

Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Artist Reception: Saturday, September 8, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Davison Art Center Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 301 High Street, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: William Earle

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Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. (203) 432-5050. http://peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/treasurespeabody-150-years-exploration-discovery Treasures of the Peabody: 150 Years of Exploration and Discovery. It’s the 150th anniversary of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the museum has served as a world leader for 150 years in the collection, preservation, and study of objects that document the diversity and history of both nature and humanity. April 2-January 8. Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 12-5 p.m. $6-$13.

Ben Folds will play at College Street Music Hall on September 22 at 8 p.m. The multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter/ producer continues his solo career with this tour, which promises to be reminiscent of his earlier solo tours: just him and his piano, rocking out. Photo courtesy of Premier Concerts/College Street Music Hall.

Williams: A Stirring Song. For the last three decades, William Earle Williams has traced the overlooked histories of African Americans, locating unmarked sites and photographing them with clarity and quiet elegance. This exhibition will include more than 60 photographs together with eighteenth and nineteenth-century books, maps, newspapers, and manuscripts. September 22. Opening reception and gallery talk: Thursday, September 22, at 5 p.m.; Gallery talk by William Earle Williams at 5:30 p.m. Free!

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA Opening Reception: here is new york. here is new york is an exhibition of photographs made in response to the events of September 11, 2001. What began as a project to enable people from all walks of life to express their experience of the events became a vibrant grassroots memorial and a means for everyone to have voice beyond conventional networks of reportage. September 13, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free!

Kehler Liddell Gallery 873 Whalley Ave, New Haven, CT. (203) 389-9555. www.kehlerliddellgallery.com Metal Sculpture. Metal Sculpture, a solo show by New Haven artist Gar Waterman, includes sculptures inspired by a range of subjects — insects, orchids, birds, diatoms — as well as the odd utilitarian construct from his Tin Man series. Gallery hours available on website. The show will be on exhibit at Kehler Liddell Gallery from September 8 to October 2; Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 4-7 p.m. Free.

A Diversity of Lines. New Haven artist Robert Bienstock presents A Diversity of Lines, a collection of ink and monotype images exploring pattern and contrast, order and disorder through parallel lines. The solo show will be on exhibit at Kehler Liddell Gallery from September 8 to October 2; Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 4-7 p.m. Gallery hours available on website. Free.

New Haven Museum 114 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. (203) 562-4183. newhavenmuseum.org Fun, Fascinating and Made in the Elm City. “From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven,” highlights an astonishing variety of goods that were, and some that still are, produced in the Elm City.

The exhibition runs through September 3, 2016, and features more than 100 objects, advertisements, trade cards, photographs and more, with a wide-ranging products made in New Haven.

Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m-5 p.m. Saturday 12-5 p.m. Free 1st Sundays: 1-4 p.m.

Stories from Near and Far: Refugee Artists in New Haven. The evocative artwork and poignant personal stories of six New Haven artists/refugees who withstood imprisonment, persecution, fear, anxiety, and even death threats in some of the most repressive countries in the world comprise a new exhibition: Stories from Near and Far: Refugee Artists in New Haven. Through September 10.

Perspectives...The Gallery at Whitney Center Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden. (203) 281-6745. newhavenarts.org/category/perspectives Knack. Many artists, especially those with communication differences, are exceptionally creative and in some cases, just need a nudge to nurture and bring out their innate abilities and unique visions. On view through September 6, Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-7 p.m., Saturdays 1-4 p.m. Knack brings together artists, artisans and teachers that are affiliated with regional service organizations that support artistic practices through training programs, workshops and community interaction with the goal to promote creative self-expression, job creation, wellness and community integration. The exhibition, presented by The Arts Council, features art created by affiliates of Chapel Haven, Universal Arts, Opportunity House, Fellowship Place, Marrakech, East Street Arts, Play with Grace and Vista Life Innovations. Free.

Kids & Families Musical Folk First Presbyterian Church 704 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. (203) 691-9759. www.MusicalFolk.com Musical Folk. Offering “Music Together” classes, a fun creative music and movement program for babies through 5-year-olds and the ones who love them! Come sing, dance, and play instruments in an informal and fun setting. Classes are ongoing through the year and are held in New Haven, Hamden, Woodbridge, Cheshire, and Branford.

September 12-November 30. Classes held every day (morning, afternoon and weekend classes available) at various locations. Free demo classes also available. Eleven week semester is $233 and includes CD and songbook. Each semester is a new collection of music. Four semesters per yearfall, winter, spring and summer!

Whitney Audubon Arts & Retail District Audubon Street, New Haven. (203) 624-5189. neighborhoodmusicschool.org/support/events/ fall_free_for_all Fall Free For All - A Taste of the Arts. Whitney Audubon Arts & Retail District presents Fall Free For All. Adults and children interested in taking music, dance, drama, or visual arts classes can sign up to try them out at Neighborhood Music School and Creative Arts Workshop. Selected classes in music, dance and visual arts offered for free at both organizations, and special merchant discounts available. September 19-September 25.

Free intro lessons and classes at NMS, open enrollment at CAW all week. Outside music, dance, and activities September 24, 12-4 p.m. Free.

World Music Hall Wesleyan University, 40 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa/events.

Sign up your child for the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble. The Youth Gamelan Ensemble was founded as a Center for the Arts program in 2002

by Wesleyan Artist in Residence I.M. Harjito, who guides the group along with University Professor

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The group learns traditional music from Java and Indonesia, and rehearses during both the fall and spring semesters. September 10-December 8.

Saturday morning classes are held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in World Music Hall, starting on Saturday, September 10, 2016. Only $30 for a semester of lessons and rehearsals. No prior experience necessary. Open to all children ages 7 to 14. Your child can visit on the first day to try the gamelanif they like it, sign them up!

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26 Friday (August) New Haven Jazz Festival in the City The New Haven Jazz Festival in the City presents over 20 free concerts in bars, clubs and restaurants around town. August 26-September 3. Every evening between 8/26 & 9/3 plus Sunday brunch!

See JazzHaven.org for a complete schedule. #NHJF. Free.

9 Friday Bach to School Artist in Residence and University Organist Ronald Ebrecht’s seventh annual opening of the Wesleyan concert calendar will mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Maurice Duruflé with performance by Mr. Ebrecht of his restored editions of the complete organ works of Mr. Duruflé. September 9, 8 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/cfa/events.

Old English Music Hall The Old Howard Troupe, a vintage ensemble bringing the Old English Music Hall to the Branford Folk stage to performing the hits of the music hall stage. Join us for this delightful dessert of outrageous stage costumes, larger-than-life personalities, and rousing chorus songs. September 10, 8-10:30 p.m. $17 members, $20 non-members, $5 kids (12 and under). Branford Folk Music Society, First Congregational Church of Branford, 1009 Main Street, Branford. (203) 488-7715. folknotes.org/branfordfolk.

Open Rehearsal Interested in joining a choir? Join the New Haven Oratorio Choir for a rehearsal and meet the members and the director. This is an excellent opportunity to experience singing with a well-established chamber choir and to find out if you would like to join us. Auditions can be scheduled.

We are seeking singers of all parts. Refreshments and camaraderie will follow. September 14, 8-10 p.m. Free. New Haven Oratorio Choir, Church of the Redeemer, 185 Cold Spring Street, New Haven.

(860) 339-6462. www.nhoratorio.org.

Senior Day at the JCC The JCC invites all senior citizens to join us for lunch and live music by Chris Merwin! This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required. Wednesday, September 14, 12:30-2 p.m. Contact: Grace Koo, gracek@jccnh.org; (203) 387-2522 x228. JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. (203) 387-2522. jccnh.org.

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woodwind quintet Harmonia V features Jennifer Berman on flute, Janet Rosen on oboe, Sue Zoellner-Cross on bassoon, Curt Blood on clarinet, and Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Robert Hoyle on French horn. September 18, 3 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown. (860) 6853355. wesleyan.edu/CFA.

Street, New Haven. (203) 436-4840. www.NewHavenSymphony.org.

Special Events 13 Tuesday

Alex Waterman: Solo Cello from A to X Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Alex Waterman will give a recital of radical music for cello and voice with and without electronics, featuring pieces by Peter Ablinger, Laurence Crane, Morton Feldman, John Lely, Marina Rosenfeld, James Tenney, and Iannis Xenakis, as well as his own Crowns and Clouds for solo voice and electronics. September 20, 9 p.m. Free! Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA.

September Meeting with Visiting Artist The Hamden Art League announces its 2016-2017 schedule of meetings and exhibitions beginning with its September 13th meeting (visiting artist TBA) and continuing on the second Tuesday of each month until May. Only October’s meeting is on a Thursday, the 13th. Refreshments at 7 p.m., brief business meeting at 7:15 p.m., artist’s program at 7:30 p.m. Note: If the Miller Library is closed due to inclement weather the meeting will be cancelled. 7-9 p.m. Free and open to the public.

2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden. (203) 287-1322. www.hamdenartleague.com.

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Bach, Beatles, and Beyond! An eclectic program showcasing the extraordinary skills of oboists Marta Boratgis, Olav van Hezewijk, and other special guests, featuring the Trinity Boys Choir and Trinity Girls Choir (R. Walden Moore, director). The program will spotlight choral, oboe, and organ works by Bach, Lennon, and McCartney and others sure to delight young and old alike. Friday, September 23, 7-8 p.m. Children under 15 free; all others $15 at the door or online (www.trinitynewhaven.org). Trinity Church on the Green, 230 Temple Street (corner of Temple and Chapel Streets), New Haven. (203) 776-2616. www.trinitynewhaven.org.

One Community, One Read Join the JCC of Greater New Haven, in partnership with the Woodbridge Town Library, in presenting author Charles Belfoure. Discuss Belfoure’s novel, The Paris Architect, and get your book signed! Event is free and open to all. Book sales by R.J. Julia Booksellers. Wednesday, September 14 at 7 p.m.

Contact: Grace Koo, gracek@jccnh.org; (203) 387-2522 x228. Free. 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. (203) 387-2522. jccnh.org.

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25 Sunday This Is It! The Complete Piano Works of Neely Bruce: Part X John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Neely Bruce presents the tenth in a series of fifteen CD-length recitals of his piano music, featuring works inspired directly by Frédéric Chopin: the first five nocturnes, Chopin Jam (an improvisational framework for Études Op. 25), and Furniture Music in the Form of 39 Chopin Variants. September 25, 3 p.m. Free. Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown. (860) 6853355. wesleyan.edu/CFA.

29 Thursday Opening Night! The season begins! Opening night at the NHSO features Shostakovich’s Piano Concerti with pianist IIya Yakhusev and Mendelssohn’s delightful “Italian” Symphony, plus the premiere of Hannah Lash’s third chapter in the Lash/Voynich Project. September 29, 7:30 p.m. $15-74. College students $10, kids 7-17 free with the purchase of an adult ticket. New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Woolsey Hall, 500 College

18 Sunday Windows Project A unique community event!

The Windows Project will feature six windows designed by Cheshire artist Tony Falcone inspired by artist John F. Kensett (who was born in Cheshire- 2016 marks his 200th birthday). The remaining windows on the building will represent the “Let in the Light” winners. A true celebration of Cheshire and Cheshire artists! Sunday, September 18, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the factory site. Free parking behind Pop’s Pizza. Food Trucks! Live Music! Great Art! Free Admission! Ball & Socket Arts, 493 West Main Street, Cheshire. (917) 386-3242. ballandsocket.org. facebook.com/ events/1183834471638799.

19 Monday Tablet Live Podcast Join the JCC community for a live recording of Tablet Magazine’s podcast, “Unorthodox,” hosted by Westville local, Mark Oppenheimer. Tablet Magazine brings you the latest and greatest in Jewish news with a dose of humor.

Tickets available at jccnh.org. Monday, September 19 at 7 p.m. Contact Grace Koo, gracek@jccnh. org; (203) 387-2522 x228. Tickets are $5 for JCC members and students with valid ID or $10 for general public. 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge.

(203) 387-2522. jccnh.org.

Families ~ Events ~ Community

Photography Judy Sirota Rosenthal info@sirotarosenthal.com www.sirotarosenthal.com 203-281-5854

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Talks & Tours 13 Tuesday In Conversation: Charles Traub and Michael S. Roth Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth talks with artist Charles Traub, chair of the M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, about the here is new york project. Mr. Traub, a noted photographer, was one of the original organizers of the exhibition in 2001. September 13, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Free. Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA.

Theater A Midsummer Night’s Dream Elm Shakespeare Company brings to life Shakespeare’s most beloved comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tina Packer for the 21st season of free Shakespeare in the park! Picnicking and pre-show merriment begins at 6:30 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or blanket for a magical night under the stars. August 18-September 4. No performances Monday 8/22 and 8/29.

8-10 p.m. Free to the community. Donations appreciated- suggested $20 Adult, $10 Student, $5 Child.

75 Cliff Street, New Haven. (203) 392-8882. www.elmshakespeare.org.

Kaneza Schaal: GO/FORTH Actor/director Kaneza Schaal offers a powerful meditation on loss, grief, and ritual in a performance incorporating projection, sound, text, and movement. Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a 3,000-year-old series of spells and incantations intended for the deceased as a blueprint to the afterlife. September

Wasp (nickel plated steel, copper, 13x17x11 inches) by New Haven sculptor Gar Waterman. His latest show, Metal Sculpture, will be on view at the Kehler Liddell Gallery September 8-October 2, 2016. Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 4-7 p.m. The exhibit includes metal sculptures inspired by a range of subjects that include insects, orchids, birds, and diatoms, as well as some “odd utilitarian constructs” from Waterman’s Tin Man series. Photograph by the artist.

17, 2 and 8 p.m. $28 general public; $26 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students. 271 Washington Terrace, Middletown. (860) 685-3355. wesleyan.edu/CFA.

The Regicides A Broken Umbrella Theatre’s improv comdey troupe, The Regicides, are back! Enjoy some beverages along with some good, maybe not-so-clean fun. Inspired by New Haven’s own regicides, we’ve been knocking ‘em dead since

1661. Don’t judge. Ages 21+. Saturday, September 17, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission. Shubert Theatre, 247 College Street, New Haven. (203) 868-0428. www.abrokenumbrella.org.

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 Artists Call for Entries for Guilford Art League’s 69th annual juried exhibition and sale. Popular annual juried show open to all Connecticut artists, 18 years or older. Juror: Lenny Moskowitz, Connecticut landscape painter. Co-Chairs: Marge Casey (203) 458-8555 & Julie Meyers (203) 453-3985. Email to request entry form: capezzonedesign@gmail. com. Receiving: Saturday, September 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Reception: Friday, September 16, 6-8 p.m.

Show runs September 12-October 1, Monday-Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Entry fees: GAL members: $12 for one entry; $20 for two. Non-members: $18 for one entry, $30 for two. Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center Guilford Art League, 411 Church Street, Guilford.

(203) 453-1609.

Artist Members The Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven is seeking applications from new prospective members. Visit kehlerliddell.com/membership for more information.

Artists Digital Fabrication Residency Program.

Digital Approaches: Sculpture, Fiber Art, Painting & New Media. Digital fabrication residency program residents learn and gain hands-on experience with laser cutting, CNC routing, FDM 3D printing, digital embroidery, 2D plotting, and 3D scanning.

Applications for the three-day onsite residency program must include a project proposal that outlines what the resident plans to work on while onsite. Residents are responsible for arranging their own accommodations, travel expenses, meals, and if projects require materials outside of those

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provided. Two online planning meetings prior to residency for file preparation and project ideation.

This is a highly individualized opportunity to develop and work through ideas on the machines and utilizing a private studio. There are basic materials supplied and residents can send materials ahead of onsite visit. See website for residency participation details. No application fee. Currently accepting applications for late summer, fall & winter 2016 Deadline: September 1, 2016. www.digitalfabricationresidency.com.

Artists For Arts Center Killingworth’s 2015–2016 Spectrum Gallery exhibits, including the Gallery Show. Seeking fine artists and artisans in all media.

For artist submission, visit spectrumartgallery.org or emailbarbara@spectrumartgallery.org. Spectrum Gallery and Store, 61 Main St., Centerbrook.

Artists The Gallery Review Committee of The New Alliance Gallery at Gateway Community College is looking for artists to submit resumes and images for possible exhibition in 2016. Please send your resume and cover letter along with a DVD of not less than 20 and no more than 25 images to: Gallery Review Committee, Gateway Community College, 20 Church St., Room S329, New Haven, CT, 06510.

Artists The Tiny Gallery: a very big opportunity for very small art. The Tiny Gallery is a premiere space for “micro” exhibitions in the historic Audubon Arts District, located within the lighted display “totem” outside Creative Arts Workshop, at 80 Audubon St., in New Haven. The Tiny Gallery is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days

a year. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis and should include a written proposal, artist statement, and images of artwork. Call (203) 5624927x14, email gallery@creativeartsworkshop.org, or visit creativeartsworkshop.org/tiny.

Artists/Fine Art Crafters The Greater Denton Arts Council announces the opening of its 2017 Call for Entries for the 30th Annual Materials: Hard + Soft Contemporary Craft Exhibition. This exhibition celebrates the evolving field of contemporary craft and the innovation of artists who push the boundaries of their chosen media. Recognized as one of the premier craft exhibitions in the United States, this year we are thrilled to be partnering with the National Endowment for the Arts to expand this national exhibition to now include international artists. Approximately 70 works will be selected for exhibition by juror JoAnn Edwards, Executive Director of the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, California. Of the works selected, Juror Awards in amounts of $1,000, $750, $500, and $250 will be awarded.

Online submissions and prospectus available at dentonarts.com/materialshardandsoft. Submission deadline: September 30, 2016. Exhibition: February 4–May 6, 2017 at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center in Denton, Texas. Inquires may be directed to the Denton Arts Council at (940) 382-2787 or exhibit@ dentonarts.com.

Instructors Are you a maker who loves to share your knowledge? If yes, MakeHaven has been looking for you. We are hiring instructors to teach: fabrication, woodworking, 3D printing, sewing, mechanics, brewing, arduino, electronics, cooking

and other maker activities. What could you teach us? makehaven.org.

Musicians The New Haven Chamber Orchestra has openings for strings for the 2016-2017 season.

The orchestra rehearses on Tuesday evenings at the Fair Haven School, 164 Grand Avenue. Rehearsals begin after Labor Day. The orchestra performs three concerts per season. To sit in on a rehearsal or to audition, contact the orchestra via e-mail at info@ newhavenchamberorchestra.org.

Photographers Are you a fan of photography? A program of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Photo Arts Collective aims to cultivate and support a community of individuals who share an interest in photography through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, group critiques, and special events. The Photo Arts Collective meets the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven.

Singers The New Haven Chorale invites you to audition for its 2016-2017 season and become part of a community of passionate singers! The Chorale holds both scheduled auditions in late August and auditions throughout the year by individual appointment with the music director. Singers of all voice parts are encouraged to call the Chorale business office at (203) 776-SONG (7664) or email business@ newhavenchorale.org to arrange an audition. Please visit our website at www.newhavenchorale.org for information including the Chorale’s audition schedule, past and upcoming performances, community activities, and more.

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Singers The Bethesda Music Series calls experienced choral singers to sing concerts and church services with the Bethesda Choir. We will sing Bach Cantata 33 on October 30, and we will do a requiem concert in the spring. We cover a wide range of classical and modern sacred repertoire, including major choral works with chamber orchestra and professional soloists. Our concerts raise funds for local charities. Read more at www.BethesdaNewHaven.org or contact Lars Gjerde, Artistic Director, at music@bethesdanewhaven.org.

Singers The award winning Silk’n Sounds Chorus is looking for new members from the area. We invite women to join us at any of our rehearsals to learn more. We enjoy four part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style, lively performances, and wonderful friendships. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday, 6:30–9 p.m., at the Spring Glen United Church of Christ, 1825 Whitney Ave., Hamden. Contact Lynn at (203) 623-1276 for more information or visit silknsounds.org.

Singers New Haven Oratorio Choir invites auditions by choral singers (all parts). We are a chamber ensemble rehearsing weekly (Wednesday nights) at Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, under the leadership of Daniel Shaw. We perform a varied repertoire of sacred and secular classical music, including contemporary composers, with two main concerts per season (December and May). Our 2015–16 season will include works by Tavener, Gardiner, and Brahms. An audition consists of meeting with Artistic Director Daniel Shaw, doing some general vocalizing and performing a one-to-two-minute unaccompanied selection chosen by the singer. An audition may be scheduled at that time, or go to our website, nhoratorio.org, to learn more about NHOC, and follow the link there to schedule an audition.

Singers Male Choral Singers. The University Glee Club of New Haven calls men of all voice parts and levels of experience to join our brothers in song for a fun fall season of glee classics, sonorous sacred pieces, and cheerful holiday music.

We rehearse Monday nights at 7:15-9:30 p.m. at Bethesda Lutheran Church’s chapel on 305 St. Ronan St. First rehearsal is September 12. Read about us atwww.UniversityGleeClub.org. Contact music director Lars Gjerde with questions: lars@larsgjerde.com.

Singers Come sing with the GNHCC! We are an all-volunteer, non-auditioned, four part (SATB) chorus with a membership of over 100 voices.

The GNHCC December 2016 concert, “Tapestry

of Voices,” will feature Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, Haydn’s Missa Brevis, works by Lauridsen, Runestad, and others. Thursday evenings, 7-9 p.m.

September 8-December 8. Registration fees are $50 per person per semester ($75 for couple of same household) and must be paid within three weeks of the start of the semester. Greater New Haven Community Chorus, First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. (203) 303-4642. www.gnhcc.org.

Teachers Teaching Positions at Neighborhood Music School. We are always on the lookout for talented and dedicated instrumentalists, vocalists, and dancers to join our exceptional faculty! If you are passionate about teaching, please send your CV/resume, along with a cover letter detailing your teaching interests and expertise to: jobs@neighborhoodmusicschool.org. Tell us what you value, and why you feel you might be a good fit for NMS. We look forward to hearing from you!

Vendors 13th Annual JCC Craft & Gift Fair, Sunday, December 4. Join us as a vendor just in time for the holidays at our popular Craft & Gift Fair on Sunday, Dec. 4 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the JCC of Greater New Haven. This annual event will feature over 70 artisans, crafters and vendors from all over New England, free admission and plenty of free parking. Gift selections include pottery, home décor, jewelry, glass works, skin care, clothing, and much more! For more information: debbieb@jccnh.org.

Volunteers The Arts Council Seeks Intern/Volunteers to assist with study. The Arts Council is participating in the Arts and Economic Prosperity Study, a national study of the economic impact of the arts, led by Americans for the Arts. Our data collection will result in a report for the greater New Haven region as well as contribute to the State of Connecticut’s report. Throughout the summer and fall, we will be conducting in-person surveys at a variety of arts events throughout the region. We are seeking volunteers who can assist with these surveys, prior to and during events.

Ideally volunteers should commit 3 to 5 hours per week, including some evenings and occasional weekend timeslots. If interested, please email info@newhavenarts.org.

Volunteers The Yale Center for British Art welcomes applications for Information Volunteers.

Volunteers make an invaluable contribution by helping to carry out our mission to inform and educate the public about our collections. Following training, volunteers commit to the program for a minimum of one year. Volunteers receive special benefits including private tours and a museum shop discount. If you would like to be part of a committed corps of individuals, possess a love and appreciation of art, and a fondness for interacting with the public. Please email ycba.volunteer@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9491 for more information.

Volunteers, Artists, and Board Members Secession Cabal, a New Haven-based group of outsider artists working in theatre, film, visual art, and other mediums seek people for our board, sponsors, volunteers with fundraising experience, and artists in all mediums who agree with our mission and create radical, brave work. Volunteers/board members/ sponsors: Please send a brief introduction. Artists: Please email a letter of interest/introduction with examples of your bravest work. More information at art-secession.org.

The New England premiere of GO/FORTH by Kaneza Schaal will take place at the Wesleyan Center for the Arts Theater on Friday and Saturday, September 16 & 17. The show animates a series of burial vignettes with projection, sound, and dance. Photo by Maria Baranova, courtesy of Wesleyan.

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Volunteers Volunteers are a vital part of Artspace’s operation. Volunteering with Artspace is a great way to support the organization, meet new people, and develop new skills. Our volunteers provide a service that is invaluable to making Artspace function smoothly. We simply couldn’t operate without the tremendous support of our volunteers. To find out more about volunteer opportunities, please contact Shelli Stevens shelli@artspacenh.org.

Creative Services Art Installation Specialists, LLC An art-handling company serving homeowners, art professionals, offices, galleries, and museums. We offer packing, long-distance or local shipping, and installation of paintings, mirrors, plaques, signage, tapestries, and sculpture, as well as framing, pedestals, exhibit design, and conservation.

Contact Paul Cofrancesco at (203) 752-8260, Gabriel Da Silva at (203) 982-3050, e-mail: artinstallationspecialistsllc@gmail.com, or visit artinstallationspecialistsllc.com.

Chair Repair Chair Seat Weaving. We can fix your worn out seats: Cane, Rush, Danish cord, Shaker Tape, etc.! In business over 25 years!

Woven by artisans at The Association of Artisans to Cane, a Social Enterprise of Marrakech, Inc., providing services for persons of all abilities.

Located at East Street Arts, 597 East Street, New Haven. Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. (203) 776-6310.

Creative Events/Crafting Parties Our beautiful light-filled space in East Rock is the perfect spot to host an intimate creative gathering or party.

We’ll work with you to provide the programming, snacks, drinks, and decorations that will make your event memorable. Rent our space for up to three hours. thehvncollective.com.

Creative Services Video recording with Sony, photography and pictures for sale, personalized/ custom greeting cards, paper banners “done by hand,” mutant portraits, slideshows, New Haven history (artists, musicians), proofreader, writer, teacher, raconteur, driver/transporter, logo/poster/sign design, model, interior/exterior painting. Host of Oasis D’Neon Video Magazine.

For more information, email oasisdneon@gmail.com.

Historic Home Restoration Contractor Period appropriate additions, baths, kitchens & remodeling, Sagging porches straightened/leveled, Wood windows restored, Plaster restored, Historic molding & hardware, Vinyl/alum. siding removed, Wood siding repair/replace , CT & NH Preservation Trusts. RJ Aley Building Contractor (203) 226-9933, jaley@rjaley.com.

Web Design & Art Consulting Services Startup business solutions. Creative, sleek web design by art curator and editor for artist, design, architecture, and small-business sites. Will create and maintain any kind of website. Hosting provided.

Also low-cost in-depth artwork analysis, writing, editing services. (203) 387-4933. azothgallery@comcast.net.

Websites + Promotion for Artists and Businesses Need help setting up a website that you can maintain yourself? Need a postcard, business card or other promotional materials? For experienced and artist-friendly help: laura@laurabarrdesign.com or (203) 481-3921.

Space Artist Studio West Cove Studio and Gallery offers work space with two large Charles Brand intaglio etching presses, lithography press, and stainless-steel work station. Workshops and technical support available. Ample display area for shows. Membership: $75 per month. 30 Elm Street, West Haven. Individual studio space also available. Call (609) 638-8501 or visit westcovestudio.org.

Events and Parties With 2,000 square feet of open exhibition space, Kehler Liddell Gallery is a unique venue for hosting events. We tailor to the special interests of private parties, corporate groups, arts organizations, charities and aca-

demic institutions. Our inviting, contemporary setting provides the perfect venue for your guests to relax, mingle and enjoy the company of friends. We provide a warm atmosphere filled with paintings, drawings and sculptures by local CT artists and free parking, with front door wheelchair access. See www.kehlerliddellgallery. com/event-rental/ and contact roywmon@gmail. com or Roy at (203) 872-4139.

Studio Space Spacious three-car garage with open floor plan. Has its own heat and electricity and would make a really nice art studio. Great location in the Mt. Carmel/Hamden Center area (just off Whitney Avenue, near Eli’s Restaurant.) $495/month, plus utilities. Call Charlie at (203) 415-3393.

Studio Space for Dance/Performing Arts/ Events Hall A 1,500-square-foot space with adjoining rooms in a turn-of-the-century mansion in a historic district. Hardwood floors. Vintage stage with curtains. Mahogany woodwork and glass doors. Ample natural light. Chairs and tables on premises. Contact whitneyartsctr@aol.com.

Jobs Please visit newhavenarts.org for up-to-date local employment opportunities in the arts.

The Arts Paper advertising and calendar deadlines: The deadline for advertisements and calendar listings for the October 2016 issue of The Arts Paper is: Monday, August 29, at 5 p.m.

Future deadlines are as follows: November 2016: Monday, September 26, 5 p.m.

December 2016: Friday, October 28, 5 p.m.

January-February 2017: Monday, November 28, 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 communications@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.

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The Arts Paper member organizations & partners

Arts & Cultural Organizations A Broken Umbrella Theatre abrokenumbrella.org ACES Educational Center for the Arts aces.k12.ct.us

Branford Folk Music Society branfordfolk.org Chestnut Hill Concerts chestnuthillconcerts.org (203) 245-5736 The Choirs of Trinity Church on the Green trinitynewhaven.org

Elm Shakespeare Company elmshakespeare.org (203) 874-0801 Firehouse 12 firehouse12.com (203) 785-0468 Gallery One CT galleryonect.com

Alyla Suzuki Early Childhood Music Education alylasuzuki.com (203) 239-6026

City Gallery city-gallery.org (203) 782-2489

Greater New Haven Community Chorus gnhcc.org

American Guild of Organists sacredmusicct.org

Civic Orchestra of New Haven civicorchestraofnewhaven.org

Guilford Art Center guilfordartcenter.org (203) 453-5947

Another Octave CT Women’s Chorus anotheroctave.org

Classical Contemporary Ballet Theatre ccbtballettheatre.org

Artfarm art-farm.org

College Street Music Hall collegestreetmusichall.com

Arts Center Killingworth artscenterkillingworth.org (860) 663-5593

Connecticut Dance Alliance ctdanceall.com

Arts for Learning Connecticut www.aflct.org Arts in CT artsinct.org Artspace artspacenh.org (203) 772-2709 Artsplace: Cheshire Performing & Fine Art cpfa-artsplace.org (203) 272-2787

Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus ctgmc.org 1-800-644-cgmc Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators ctnsi.com (203) 934-0878 Creative Arts Workshop 203-562-4927 creativeartsworkshop.org Creative Concerts (203) 795-3365

Guilford Art League gal-cat.blogspot.com Guitartown CT Productions guitartownct.com (203) 430-6020 Hamden Art League hamdenartleague.com (203) 494-2316 Hamden Arts Commission hamdenartscommission.org Hillhouse Opera Company hillhouseoperacompany.org (203) 464-2683 Hopkins School hopkins.edu

Make Haven makehaven.org Mattatuck Museum mattatuckmuseum.org Meet the Artists and Artisans meettheartistsandartisans.com (203) 874-5672 Melinda Marquez Flamenco Dance Center melindamarquezfdc.org (203) 361-1210 Milford Fine Arts Council milfordarts.org (203) 878-6647 Music Haven musichavenct.org (203) 745-9030 Musical Folk musicalfolk.com

New Haven Chorale newhavenchorale.org

Ball & Socket Arts ballandsocket.org

DaSilva Gallery dasilva-gallery.com 203-387-2539

International Silat Federation of America & Indonesia isfnewhaven.org

East Street Arts eaststreetartsnh.org (203) 776-6310

Jazz Haven jazzhaven.org

EcoWorks CT ecoworksct.org

Kehler Liddell Gallery (203) 389-9555 kehlerliddell.com

Elm City Dance Collective elmcitydance.org

Knights of Columbus Museum kofcmuseum.org

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Madison Art Society madisonartsociety.blogspot.com

New Haven Ballet newhavenballet.org (203) 782-9038

CT Folk ctfolk.com

Branford Art Center branfordartscenter.com

Lyman Center at SCSU www.lyman.southernct.edu

Neighborhood Music School neighborhoodmusicschool.org (203) 624-5189

ARTTN Gallery www.arttngallery.com

Blackfriars Repertory Theatre blackfriarsrep.com

Long Wharf Theatre longwharf.org (203) 787-4282

The Institute Library institutelibrary.org International Festival of Arts & Ideas artidea.org

Bethesda Music Series bethesdanewhaven.org (203) 787-2346

Legacy Theatre legacytheatrect.org

New Haven Free Public Library nhfpl.org New Haven Museum newhavenmuseum.org (203) 562-4183 New Haven Oratorio Choir nhoratorio.org

Creative Businesses

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

Theater Department at SCSU/ Crescent Players southernct.edu/theater

New Haven Symphony Orchestra newhavensymphony.org (203) 865-0831

University Glee Club of New Haven universitygleeclub.org

New Haven Theater Company newhaventheatercompany.com New World Arts Northeast (203) 507-8875 One True Palette onetruepalette.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 Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, New Haven Branch nhrscds.org Shoreline Arts Alliance shorelinearts.org (203) 453-3890 Shoreline Arts Trail shorelineartstrail.com Shubert Theater shubert.com (203) 562-5666 Silk n’ Sounds silknsounds.org Site Projects siteprojects.org Susan Powell Fine Art susanpowellfineart.com (203) 318-0616 The Bird Nest Gallery thebirdnestsalon.com

Wesleyan University Center for the Arts wesleyan.edu/cfa

Access Audio-Visual Systems accessaudiovisual.com Hull’s Art Supply and Framing hullsnewhaven.com (203) 865-4855 Toad’s Place toadsplace.com

West Cove Studio & Gallery westcovestudio.com (609) 638-8501 Whitney Arts Center (203) 773-3033

Community Partners

Whitney Humanities Center yale.edu/whc

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

Yale Cabaret yalecabaret.org (203) 432-1566 Yale Center for British Art yale.edu/ycba

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

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

Fractured Atlas fracturedatlas.org JCC of Greater New Haven jccnh.org

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

New Haven Preservation Trust nhpt.org

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History peabody.yale.edu Yale Repertory Theatre yalerep.org (203) 432-1234 Yale School of Music music.yale.edu (203) 432-1965

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

Yale University Art Gallery artgallery.yale.edu Yale University Bands yale.edu/yaleband (203) 432-4111

The Second Movement secondmovementseries.org

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The Arts Paper arts council programs

Somewhat Off the Wall 2016 Somewhat Off the Wall, a unique art exhibition and party from which guests take home original works of art, will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2016 from 5 to 9 p.m. at The Gallery at EleMar, 2 Gibbs Street, New Haven. This year’s event features drawings, photography, sculpture, glass, jewelry, paintings, pottery, and prints by 51 outstanding artists who have each donated three pieces of their work.

These works will be on display to the public starting August 30. At 7 p.m. on the night of the party, numbered tickets will be drawn at random. As each ticket holders’ number is called, he or she will select a piece of original artwork to take home.

Each of the 51 participating artists will be given a ticket making only 102 tickets, at $120 each, available to the public. This year, we will also be selling a limited number of “1st Choice” tickets for $250. These tickets will be drawn prior to the $120 tickets giving you a serious chance at getting your first choice of artwork. An unlimited number of tickets to the party are available for $45 (these do not include artwork).

Participating Somewhat Off the Wall artists include: Corina S. Alvarezdelugo, Aspasia Anos, Liz Antle-O’Donnell, Judy Atlas, Ray Baldelli, Shirley Bernstein, Meg

Bloom, Maryelle Braunstein, Peter Casolino, Tracie Cheng, Larry Cowles, Claudia Cron, Marie Curtis, Kathleen DeMeo, Maura Galante, Lori Glavin, Lys Guillorn, Barbara Harder, Louise Harter, Debbie Hesse, Susan Higgins, Sharon Hirsch, Barbara Hocker, Shaunda Holloway, Sara Hsiang Kaluzynski, Kathy Kane, Beth Klingher, Mara Lavitt, Eva Lee, Robert A. Lisak, Ken Lovell, Helen Malchow, Kristin Merrill, Meredith Miller, Roy Money, Gus Moran, Susan Nichols, Douglas Nygren, Kariann Price, Chris Randall, Rob Rocke, Lawrence Russ, Annie Sailer, Michael Skrtic, Rashmi Talpade, Paul Theriault, Kevin Van Aelst, Chris Volpe, Karen Wheeler, Virginia Zimmermann, and Gale Zucker.

Call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788 for more information or to purchase tickets. Images of artwork will be posted at newhavenarts.org as they become available. Somewhat Off the Wall is sponsored

by First Niagara Foundation, Suzio York Hill, Frangi Pangi Hosiery, Gregg, Wies & Gardner Architects, Thomas A. Martin and Harold S. Spitzer, Quinnipiac University, EleMar New England Marble & Granite and Total Wine. Graphic design courtesy of the Odonnell Company. n

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

Knack Curated by Debbie Hesse Knack brings together artists, artisans, and teachers who are affiliated with regional service organizations that support artistic practices through training programs, workshops, and community interaction with the goal to promote creative self-expression, job creation, wellness, and community integration. The exhibition features art created by affiliates of Chapel Haven, Universal Arts, Opportunity House, Fellowship Place, Marrakech, East Street Arts, Play with Grace, ACES ACCESS, and Vista Life Innovations.

Dates: On view through September 6 Closing Reception and artwork pick up: Tuesday, September 6, 4-5 p.m.

Cultural Arts Center at Whitney Center. Special Performance by Play With Grace at 4 p.m., light refreshments served.

Nature Constructed Curated by Debbie Hesse A multimedia exhibition that examines the complex intersection between art, nature, and culture. Visit www.newhavenarts.org for details.

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.

Shuffle and Shake - Part 2 Curated by Debbie Hesse Seven artists randomly selected from a lottery of Arts Council members. Each selected artist was assigned a spot on the wall, floor, or ceiling to install their work.

Dates: On view through September 8 Closing Public Reception: Thursday, September 8, 5-7 p.m.

Degrees of Separation Curated by Hayward Gatling and Debbie Hesse A quirky look at the connectedness of all things art.

Dates: On view September 15–October 28 Opening Public Reception: Friday, September 23, 5-7 p.m.

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Mara Lavitt

Kariann Price

Shirley Bernstein

Rob Rocke

Writers Circle The Writers Circle is an Arts Council program created in partnership with the Institute Library to develop and support Greater New Haven’s growing community of writers. The Writers Circle encourages its members to improve their craft and share their work through write-ins, guest lectures with working writers, workshops, and readings. We host events at the Arts Council, 70 Audubon Street, at the Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, and other partner locations. Contact communications@ newhavenarts.org for more information and a schedule of events.

September Writers Circle: Sonya Huber and Lucy Gellman Join us for a conversation with Sonya Huber, author of The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Lucy Gellman, reporter for the New Haven Independent as we discuss the candidates and conventions of this historic election cycle.

Date: Wednesday, September 21, 6-8 p.m., The Institute Library, 847 Chapel St, New Haven. septemberwriterscircle2016.eventbrite.com

Advice from the AC Need help finding exhibition space/opportunities, performance/ rehearsal space or developing new ways to promote your work or creative event? Schedule a free one-on-one consultation with Debbie Hesse, the organization’s director of artist services and programs by calling (203) 772-2788. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Dates: Thursday, September 15, 1-4 p.m., Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St., New Haven & Thursday, September 29, 1-4 p.m., Ives Library, 133 Elm St., New Haven

Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery. Shuffle and Shake. Suzan Shutan.

Arts On Air Listen to the Arts Council’s Arts On Air broadcast on Monday, September 19 during WPKN’s Community Programming Hour from 12-1 p.m. Hosted by the Arts Council’s communications manager, Arts On Air engages in conversations with local artists and arts organizations. Listen live and online at wpkn.org.

Perspectives ... The Gallery at Whitney Center.

Knack opening reception.

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 email to photoartscollective@gmail.com.

For more information on these events and more visit newhavenarts.org or check out our mobile events calendar using the Arts, Nightlife, Dining & Information (ANDI) app for smartphones.

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