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SCSU Hosts “Women and Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity”

Guest Contributor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:31:30 +0000

New Haven, CT – The 19th Annual Women’s Studies Conference will be held April 16 and 17 at Southern Connecticut State University. This year, the conference will focus on “Women and Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity.”

The conference, which features nearly 30 panels over two days, will take a close look at women and girls of color, looking back at their achievements throughout history. It will be broken into five sessions with multiple panels for those in attendance to choose from.

Some of the panels include: “Feminists of Color Engaging Popular Culture,” “Health Matters,” “Motherhood of Color,” “Empowerment and Healing through Spirituality” and a roundtable discussion of the film “Precious.” Other events include several artistic performances, film screenings and the women’s and girls’ fair.

“Women and Girls of Color” will feature a multi-racial, multi-generational keynote plenary session. Highlighted in the session will not only be the keynote speaker Dr. Andrea Smith, but also Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Smith is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project, and Guy-Sheftall is President of the National Women’s Studies Association, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, and Founding Director of the Women’s Resource and Research Center at Spelman College.

To receive the reduced pre-registration rates, all materials must be postmarked by April 2. Rates vary for faculty, staff and children and a discount is available for groups of eight or more. See www.southernct.edu/womensstudies or contact Women Studies at (203) 392-6133 for more registration and conference information.

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Southern Ensembles to Play for Haiti

Guest Contributor — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:29:49 +0000

New Haven, CT – In the wake of last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the campus community of Southern Connecticut State University is rallying together to support the relief effort. As a part of this large-scale effort, the SCSU Music Department and honor-service society Zeta Delta Epsilon will present a benefit concert for Haitian relief as part of the campus commitment to “365 days of Haiti relief.”

The March 3 concert features student performers and Southern ensembles, including the Jazz Standards Ensemble, University Choir, Blues Ensemble and Latin Jazz Ensemble. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in Garner Recital Hall (Engleman C-112) and continue for several hours.
Members of the general public are invited to drop in at any time to make a donation and listen to the SCSU ensembles. Suggested donation is $5 for students and $10 for faculty, staff and general public. Refreshments and T-shirts will be available at the event as well. All proceeds from the event will be added to the campus fund for Haitian relief set up by The Office of Student Life.

The SCSU Haiti Relief Committee will continue to organize fundraisers on Southern’s campus to address the humanitarian needs of the country. Zeta Delta Epsilon strives to advance the spirit of service and fellowship and promote and recognize scholarship and service within the student body. The honor-service society is just one of many campus organizations working to provide aid to Haiti.

For more information about the Haiti Relief Committee, contact Aaron Washington at (203)392-5885. For more information about the March 3 concert, contact David Chevan in the Music Department at (203)392-6630.

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Photos of yesterday’s snowstorm: Share your own!

Sean Henri — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:45:08 +0000

Think you took some good photos of yesterday’s snowstorm? Or how about from the following morning? Then share them on our Facebook page! Just click here and then post your photos on the wall. Be sure to include the town it was taken in. Photos will be added to this post once their posted on the wall. Thanks to Anne from Monroe, CT for posting the first one!

Wooster Square in New Haven, CT

Nearby Wooster Square in New Haven, CT

Osborndale State Park in Derby, CT

Fan photos below the cut. Just click the link below.

Monroe, CT - Anna C.

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“New Media Haven” to bring techies, creative’s, entrepreneurs together

Sean Henri — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:29:44 +0000

New Media Haven takes place Monday, February 15 at Black Bear Saloon in New Haven

New Haven, CT - Interested in sharing cocktails with people doing big things in mobile, social media, and web technology? Then you should check out New Media Haven at the Black Bear Saloon on Monday the 15th, at 6pm.

From the event organizers:

Prolific Interactive is proud to present the first ever New Media Haven at Black Bear Saloon! The event is the first of its kind in the New Haven area and will bring all techies, creative’s, entrepreneurs and anyone who is interested in the digital space together, someplace other than Twitter!

New Media Haven is the perfect event to meet, greet and have a good time with people while talking digital. We encourage you to relax and take in a couple of demos from local Connecticut companies. Featured presenters are Ben Berkowitz, CEO of SeeClickFix, and Odin Liam Wright, Founder of Beeing.com, who will both showcase their kick ass companies. Don’t forget to enjoy Black Bear’s complimentary dishes of food and also a few cocktail specials which include $2 “You Call Ems” from 6-7pm and 2 for 1 drinks from 7-8pm.

Interested in what’s the latest in the tech world? How about just finding out more about the cool projects people have been working on in the area? New Media Haven is the event for you!

Ben Berkowitz – local t-shirt king, graphic designer and free-lance web designer, he can also manage your construction project while spinning records. As a fourth generation New Havenite, Ben knows almost everyone and quotes the comments on New Haven Independent for fun.

Odin Liam Wright – Industrial Designer, Artist, Entrepreneur & Founder of Beeing.com (a social media platform that adds a social layer to the web). Liam has always had a strong desire to create new products and to develop them with like-minded individuals. After leaving the NYC adverting scene to take time to travel and finish grad school, he started part time a design service to maintain an income. Subsequently it grew into a design company – the V3 Group – a service oriented company, which out of that experience in the interactive 3D virtual world created a LLC, Beeing – that is now a product oriented company.

Tickets still remain and can be reserved at http://newmediahaven.eventbrite.com/.

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Help Can’t Wait: Yale offers benefit concert for Haiti on Monday, Jan. 18

Sean Henri — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:58 +0000

Help Can't Wait Haiti Benefit Concert

New Haven, CT – Musicians in the Yale community will present Help Can’t Wait, a benefit concert for Haiti on Monday, January 18 at 7:30 pm in Woolsey Hall. Performers include the Yale Bands, Yale Glee Club, Yale Symphony Orchestra, Yale Gospel Choir, Shades, Whim ‘N Rhythm, the Whiffenpoofs, Schola Cantorum, WORD, and others. Contributions will go toward the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, and other relief groups responding to the devastation in Haiti.

Suggested donations are $20, $10 for students. Advance tickets can be purchased HERE on the Yale School of Music website. 100% of ticket revenue will be given to relief organizations.

Performers who want to volunteer for the “Help Can’t Wait Haiti” benefit concert should contact Thomas C. Duffy, Director of University Bands. For more information on Yale students’ relief campaign or to volunteer for future efforts, call 203.432.4113 or e-mail helpcantwaithaiti@gmail.com.

Visit http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/ to donate funds and learn more about Yale’s initiatives. Source: http://yale.music.edu.

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Yale University Art Gallery

Sean Henri — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:37:41 +0000

Yale University Art Gallery

What: Art Museum
Where: 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06520
Open: Tue-Wed,Fri-Sat 10am-5pm; Thu 10am-8pm; Sun 1pm-6pm
Admission: Free and open to the public
Web: www.artgallery.yale.edu
Phone: (203) 432-0600

The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art. Its holdings of American decorative and fine arts are amongst the best in existence.

History

The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere. The Gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist John Trumbull donated to Yale College more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution and designed the original Picture Gallery. This building, on Old Campus, was razed in 1901.

The Gallery’s main building was built in 1953 and was among the very first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale. A complete renovation, which returned many spaces to Kahn’s original vision, was completed in December 2006 by Polshek Partnership Architects. The older Tuscan romanesque portion was built in 1928 and was designed by Egerton Swartwout. A 10-year renovation project is due to be complete in 2011.

Collection

The Gallery’s encyclopedic collections number more than 185,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to the present day. The permanent collection includes:

African Art: over 1000 objects in wood, metal, ivory and ceramic
American Decorative Arts: about 18,000 objects in silver, glass, wood, porcelain, and textile with an emphasis on the colonial and early federal periods.
American Paintings and Sculpture: over 2,500 paintings, 500 sculptures, and 300 miniatures from before the mid-twentieth century including paintings by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Frederick Remington, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Arthur Dove, and Edward Hopper, and sculptures by Hezekiah Augur, Hiram Powers, Horatio Greenough, William Henry Rinehart, Chauncey Ives, Alexander Archipenko, and Alexander Calder.
Ancient Art: over 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome dating from the Neolithic to the early Byzantine.
Art of the Ancient Americas: Mayan and Olmec figurines, vessels and sculptures.
Asian Art
Coins and Medals
Early European Art
Modern and Contemporary Art
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

In 2005, the museum announced that it had acquired 1,465 gelatin silver prints by the influential American landscape photographer Robert Adams. In 2009, the museum mounted an exhibition of its extensive collection of Picasso paintings and drawings, in collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. For the first time, portions of the Yale University Library’s Gertrude Stein writing archives were displayed next to relevant drawings from Picasso.

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Spooky Halloween fun in Westville

Sean Henri — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:19:35 +0000

WESTVILLE VILLAGE, NEW HAVEN, CT – Whether you seek tooth-chattering chills or kid-friendly thrills, you’ll find your kind of Halloween fun in Westville. Most events are free unless otherwise noted. Events are sponsored by Westville Village Renaissance Alliance; City of New Haven Dept. of Parks, Recreation, and Trees; Friends of Edgewood Park; and Broken Umbrella Theatre.

Thursday, Oct. 29

5–5:45pm Not-So-Scary Haunted House and Crafts for Kids, Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park (near intersection of Whalley & Fitch Sts.), $2 fee.

6–7:30pm Haunted House, family fun for older children, and Crafts for Kids, Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park, $2 fee.

7–8pm Listen Here! Short Story Series: Something Wicked This Way Comes Halloween Special. Stories read aloud by New Haven Theater Company actors: “We Have Always Lived in the Forest” by Nancy Holder and “A Dead Summer” by Lynne Tillman. Manjares Fine Pastries, 838 Whalley Ave. (enter on West Rock Ave.). Presented by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and the New Haven Review.

7:30–9pm Outdoors Movie: Son of Frankenstein, 1939 film classic, in the skate park behind Edgewood Park’s Coogan Pavilion.

Friday, Oct. 30

5–5:45pm Not-So-Scary Haunted House and Crafts for Kids, Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park (near intersection of Whalley & Fitch Sts.), $2 fee.

6–7:30pm Haunted House, family fun for older children, and Crafts for Kids, Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park, $2 fee.

6:30pm Halloween Film Night: The Wizard of Oz (ages 6+) and at 8:45 Stephen King’s The Dead Zone (ages 12+). Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., 389-9555. $3 donation; reservation suggested.

7:30–9pm Outdoors Movie: Son of Frankenstein, 1939 film classic, in the skate park behind Edgewood Park’s Coogan Pavilion.

9pm Lost Forty Fives, live rock ‘n’ roll at Westside Bar & Grille, 883 Whalley Ave.

Saturday, Oct. 31

1:30pm Magic Show, Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. Presented by International Brotherhood of Magicians.

2:30pm Halloween Parade and Trick or Treating in Westville Village, Whalley Ave.

2–5pm Horse-Drawn Hayrides in Edgewood Park, Coogan Pavilion to Thunderbolt show.

2–7pm Thunderbolt, a ghostly pirate tale for ages 8+, inspired by Westville’s own Captain Thunderbolt. Performed by A Broken Umbrella Theatre in the Edgewood Park tunnel every hour, rain or shine, starting at 2pm; last performance at 6 pm.

Schedule subject to change. Check www.westvillect.org for up-to-date information.

Westville Village is located on Whalley Ave. and Fountain St. two miles northwest of downtown New Haven. It can be accessed from Merritt Parkway’s Exit 59. Nestled among majestic West Rock, Edgewood Park, and the West River, it is known for exceptional art galleries, dining, boutiques, salons, and spas—and Halloween fun.

Westville Village Renaissance Alliance is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to the celebration and enhancement of Westville Village. For more information, visit www.westvillect.org.

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CT Folk’s First Fridays concert series to feature David Jacobs-Strain

Sean Henri — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:51:48 +0000

David Jacobs-Strain

NEW HAVEN, CT – Pacific Northwest songwriter and guitar virtuoso David Jacobs-Strain performs songs off of his forthcoming release Terraplane Angel at CT Folk’s First Fridays concert series at the First Presbyterian Church in New Haven on Friday, November 6th at 7:30 p.m. Shawn Taylor opens the show.

Born in New Haven and raised in Eugene, Oregon, David Jacobs-Strain has come a long way from his days slugging a bamboo gear cart with a tattered “Delta Blues” sign through the Oregon Country Fair mud at the age of 13. For the next twelve years, he toured clubs and festivals nationwide, crisscrossing the Sierra-Nevada and Siskiyou mountains and navigating urban jungles of the East before landing in Nashville this year to cut a world-class recording of powerful original songs at the legendary studio of Ray Kennedy.

Years of solo shows formed Jacobs-Strain into a performer of rare strength and virtuosity. His outrageous guitar work jumps from wild fingerstyle to slide and percussive drive with a depth and fluidity that produces enough tone to rival any jam band. And his voice carries an emotional intensity that his songs demand.

Folks say that David Jacobs-Strain writes songs about the Pacific Northwest the way Lucinda Williams writes about the South or Tom Petty captures Southern California. The songs about love and loss, joy and outlaws, are set amidst the landscape of the old mining towns and old-growth clearcuts where counterculture kingpins reign.

Jacobs-Strain’s ability to capture emotional intensity in a deeply personal way has made him a mainstay on the national festival circuit. And his guitar style, both thundering and shimmering, has landed him onstage alongside performers like Taj Mahal and Bob Weir. His festival credits include Strawberry, MerleFest and the Vancouver Folk Festival, and he spent an entire summer opening for Boz Scaggs as a solo performer. David Grisman invited Jacobs-Strain to appear alongside many of the nation’s greatest string players on the Tone Poets compilation.

His forthcoming recording, Terraplane Angel produced by Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams), will soon be available. David Jacobs-Strain’s current release, Liar’s Day (2008) was produced by Kenny Pasarelli (Stephen Stills, Joe Walsh).

ADMISSION: tickets $16/adv $20/door seniors & students $12/adv $15/door. For more information and tickets visit: http://www.ctfolk.com/tickets.html

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An evening with “Last Lecture” author Jeffrey Zaslow

Sean Henri — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:39:21 +0000

"The Last Lecture" co-author comes to SCSU

NEW HAVEN, CT – Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow comes to New Haven at 8pm tonight for a discussion at Southern Connecticut State University’s Lyman Hall.

In his best-selling book “The Last Lecture”, Zaslow writes about all the moments when life takes a turn. In this entertaining presentation, Zaslow delves into the recesses of our cultural psyche, with results that are surprising, funny and often extremely moving. His talks appeal to a variety of audiences and include an inside look at the phenomenon that led to his bestselling book with Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture.

Showing video footage of Dr. Pausch, and sharing lessons learned in his many hours writing the book with the professor, Zaslow brings audiences unforgettable insights into a story that has captivated people worldwide.

Tickets are $15 for the general public, $5 for faculty and staff, and free for SCSU students with valid ID’s. For more information visit http://tickets.southernct.edu or call 203-392-6154.

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Elm Shakespeare Company Presents Shakespeare in the Park

Katie Rowe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:47:57 +0000

As an outdoor theater, Shakespeare in the Park faces risk—of the weather, bugs, and airplanes passing by. But Shakespeare in the Park embraces risk: its adaptations of classic plays include moments of modernization that speak to the audience—literally: the characters wink occasional references to outdoor theater. After all, not much separates them from the audience other than the stage. Shakespeare in the Park’s theater, like its adaptations, has no boundaries.

In the past, New Haven’s Elm Shakespeare Company has performed at least one non-traditional Shakespeare adaptation as well as a second stage production in its annual Shakespeare in the Park. This year the Company goes beyond tradition by not performing any Shakespeare. Instead, the Company presents, respectively, “Holiday” by Philip Barry and “The Imaginary Invalid” by Moliere. This weekend “The Imaginary Invalid” takes the stage (“Holiday” opened the theater last weekend). After each production debuts in its own weekend, Shakespeare in the Park will alternate the two plays through the beginning of September.

That it was opening night of the Company’s conception of “The Imaginary Invalid” only added risk as I stretched my legs out in Edgerton Park last night. But the Elm Shakespeare Company, of course, welcomed that risk. In fact, Shakespeare in the Park’s outdoor theater proved perfect for the Elm Shakespeare Company: the actors’ energy would’ve been too big for a closed theater. At times their energy was even bigger than Edgerton Park. For yet another year, Shakespeare in the Park proves to be a risk worth taking.

(Occasionally I did hear crickets, but at Shakespeare in the Park, that’s a good thing.)

Elm Shakespeare Company’s website provides a complete schedule of this year’s Shakespeare in the Park. Admission is a suggested donation.

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