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Arts Council of Greater New Havenwww.newhavenarts.org
neighborhood music school JOIN US FOROUR OPEN HOUSESunday,January 2712 - 2 p.m.
music, dance and drama for chi ldren and adults
100 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT I 203-624-5189
www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org
Arts Council of Greater New Havenwww.newhavenarts.org
january | february 2013
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Executive Patrons
The United Illuminating
Company/Southern
Connecticut Gas
Yale University
Senior PartnersFirst Niagara Bank
Knights of Columbus
L. Suzio York Hill Companies
Odonnell Company
Webster Bank
Corporate Members
Anthem Blue Cross
and Blue Shield
AT&T
Firehouse 12
Fusco Management Company
The Lighting Quotient
Peoples United Bank
Wiggin and Dana
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Business Patrons
Albertus Magnus College
Jewish Foundation of Greater
New Haven
Lenny & Joes Fish Tale
Newman Architects, LLC
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Business Members
Beers, Hamerman
& Company P.C.
Cheney & Company
Duble & OHearn, Inc.
Giampietro GalleryGriswold Special Care
United Aluminum Corporation
Thank you, also, to
our foundations and
government agencies.
The Community Foundation
for Greater New Haven
Connecticut Arts Endowment
Fund
DECD/CT Office of the Arts
Emily Hall Tremaine
Foundation
The Ethel & Abe Lapides
Foundation
The George A. and Grace L.
Long Foundation
The Josef and Anni
Albers Foundation
NewAlliance FoundationPfizer
The Wells Fargo Foundation
The Werth Family Foundation
The Arts Council is pleased to recognizethe generous contributions of our business,corporate and institutional members.
3 Artists Next Door
4 2012 Arts Awards
10 A half-century of literary rarities
12 December calendar
18 Bulletin Board19 Member Organizations
20 Arts Council Programs
On the cover: The Beinecke Rare Bookand Manuscript Library is celebrating its50th year. Photo courtesy of the Beinecke.Page 10
In this Issue
STAFF
Executive Director
Cynthia Clair
Director of Finance
Soonil Chun
Director of Artistic
Services and ProgramsDebbie Hesse
Director of Membership
& Advertising
Bobbi Griffith
Editor, The Arts Paper
David Brensilver
Director of Development
& Marketing
Julie Trachtenberg
Communications Manager
Amanda May
Executive
Administrative Assistant
Winter Marshall
Coordinator of
Community Programs
OluShola A. Cole
Design Consultant
Russell Shaddox
Quicksilver Communication
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Robert B. Dannies, Jr.
Vice President
James Alexander
Second Vice President
Lois DeLise
TreasurerKevin Tobias
Secretary
Mark Potocsny
Directors
Daisy Abreu
Lizinka Benton
Wojtek Borowski
Lindy Lee Gold
Mandi Jackson
Charles Kingsley
Kenneth Lundgren
Terry Maguire
Jocelyn Maminta
Josh Mamis
Thomas Masse
Frank Mitchell
John Newman
Eileen ODonnellBill Purcell
David Silverstone
Dexter Singleton
Ken Spitzbard
Richard S. Stahl, MD
Honorary Members
Frances T. Bitsie Clark
Cheever Tyler
The Arts Paper is published by the Arts Council ofGreater New Haven, and is available by direct mail through
membership with the Arts Council.
For membership information call 203-772-2788.
To advertise in The Arts Paper, call Bobbi Griffith
at the Arts Council.
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
70 Audubon Street, 2nd Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-772-2788
Fax: 203-772-2262
Email address: info@newhavenarts.org
On the web: www.newhavenarts.org
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven is pleased
to share its updated mission statement, which
reflects the organizations commitment to clear
communication with its constituents.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven
promotes, advocates, and fosters opportunities
for artists, arts organizations, and audiences.
Because the arts matter.
The Arts Paper.January / February 2013
Arts Council of Greater New Haven newhavenarts.org
neighborhood music schoolmusic, dance and drama for chi ldren and adults
J O I N US FOR O UR
OPENHOUSE
100 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510 I 203-624-5189
Sunday, Jan.2712-2 p.m.
visit www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org
PERFORMANCES I INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOO I MINI-LESSONS
O N L IN E R E GI S T RAT I O N FO R S PR I N G NO W O P EN
In the next issue ...The March 2013 issue of The Arts Paperwill focus
on dance and will include a story about Wesleyan
University Center for the Arts annual DanceMasters
Weekend (March 9 & March 10), which will feature a
performance by Armitage Gone! Dance.
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January / February 2013 3
Hank Hoffman
Jim Martin has a quick answer for why he was attracted
to punk: I was an angry young boy! It was the late
1970s and the time was right. I came from a broken
home and I was acting out.
For the better part of the past two decades, Martin has
fronted the hardcore punk band Broken. Drummer Ken
Cushen, bass player Hoss Austin, and guitarists Gerry
Stopper and Jason Gorman join Martin, the only remain-
ing original member. The current band has been together
over four years with Gormans and Cushens tenures
exceeding a decade each. Broken, which has numerous
tours of the United States under its belt, has also per-
formed in Canada, Mexico, and several European coun-
tries. The groups aggressive, pummeling, often-political
music has been showcased on numerous seven-inch 45s
and compact discs.
The combination of the buzzsaw music and anti-
authoritarian message in punk hooked Martin.
It was the soundtrack, the pulse. It was aggressive
and I was feeling aggressive, locked in. The Kids Will
Have Their Say! Martin says, referencing the title track
of a 1982 album by the Boston band SS Decontrol.
Martins mother was a nurse who designed fabrics
on the side. He recalls her taking him and his younger
brother into Manhattan with her when she went to shop
her designs to a New York City designer.
In the late 1970s, the punk scene was thriving. I was
13 or 14, a total outsider, and I remember seeing the
original punks walking around, Martin says.The day after hearing James Velvet, a dinner guest of
his parents, regale the table with talk of the seething rage
in the then-new Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bol-
locks Martin says, I was hanging on every word he
went down to the Music Box in Hamden and bought the
record.
Martin began going to shows around 1980. The D.I.Y.
ethic doing it yourself appealed to him. Rather than
wait for bars and clubs to warm to the aggressive new
music, musicians and fans created their own spaces.
That was pretty powerful, Martin says, to take
things into your own hands and walk outside the boundar-
ies.
Punk may have appeared scary and violent to the main-
stream culture. But for young outsiders like Martin, it was
a participatory, welcoming environment.
There were a lot of people who opened the door and
showed you the way, Martin says, name-checking Joe
Dias, the singer for Lost Generation, as someone who
was a total big brother to me in that respect. It wasnt,
Get out of here, kid! It was more like, Come here, kid,
want to hang?
Martins entre into the punk culture initially wasnt
his booming growl of a voice but his drawing skills. His
parents encouraged creativity.
Martin says that for his mother, Nothing was a dumb
idea as long as you werent going to get hurt. The rules in
her house if things were getting crazy she was pretty
open about drinking and knew we were going to smoke
pot she said, Dont get in cars with drunk people and
dont come home a junkie or youll break my heart.
I always drew and always did well in art. That was my
contribution, he says.At the Anthrax Club in Stamford (and later Norwalk)
a legendary hardcore punk mecca in the Nutmeg State in
the early to mid-1980s it got around that Martin could
draw. Brothers Brian and Shaun Sheridan, who ran the
club, encouraged him to create flyers; he often traded
flyer designs for free club admission when short on cash.
His cartooning style was influenced by both the Marvelsuperhero graphics of Jack Kirby and his fathers stash of
underground comics.
I used to trip out on Robert Crumb comics,Anarchy
Comics, Zap, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers,
Martin says. But I also liked the fact that they were real
satirical there was politics in those comic books.
Another influence was the fringe leftist political flyers
hed see papered around New Haven, reverberations of
the anti-Vietnam War and Black Panther activism of the
1960s.
A flyer would always get me in the door and got my
name around Hey, who did this flyer?
Soon, Martin was doing artwork for bands record
sleeves as well as flyers. Perhaps inevitably the bor-
der between performer and audience member being so
sketchy in punk Martin recalls the friendly challenge:
Hey, Jim, youve got really great taste in music when
are you going to start a band?
Although he had been immersed in punk since about
1980, it wasnt until 1988 that he fronted his first band,
Malachi Krunch.
It took me a while. I didnt know how to play an instru-
ment. But I had attitude, says Martin. I remember at my
first gig somebody asked me if I was scared. I said, Nah,
this is like a keg party, and I was just goofing around.
Among his influences were Wendy O. Williams, the late
singer of The Plasmatics, and John Brannon, vocalist
from Negative Approach.
That guy could make paint peel in the room, his voice
was so scorching, says Martin. In the pre-Internet days
of the 1980s, Martin also managed to acquaint himself
with Japanese punk bands like Lip Cream and Gauze,
adding another dimension to his vocal approach.
I didnt know what the hell they were saying but it was
crazy to hear that stuff, he says.
Martin, who formed Broken with friends in 1994, is
capable of a convincing representation of burly, coiled
menace.
You can be scary with your eyes. I try to hold the stage,
small as it is, and use it as a platform, Martin says.
Punk privileges the fired-up amateur but that doesnt
mean putting on a r iveting show isnt important. Martin
recalls playing a club in Canada that had a balcony all
around the stage.
It felt like a theater to me. I felt like I was on t rial and
appealing to them all the time, looking up at the balco-
nies. All I could think about was Dont cry for me, Argen-
tina. It was my Broadway moment because usually we
play smaller bars and dingy basements. I got off on it andI hammed it up big time.
While Martin is the primary lyricist, most of Brokens
music is composed in a collaborative process. The tem-
pos get set according to the subject matter: Is it really
fast and angry or is it more drawn back and a little more
storytelling?
Martin brings ideas to rehearsal and the band then
starts hammering the anvil as the guys make the music
tighter, sorting out what part makes sense as the verse
and what lines work as a chorus.
They try to incorporate experiences they have shared
as a band conflicts with authority figures, injustices
theyve seen, promoters who have ripped them off, has-
sles crossing borders.
In At the Border from the 2007 vinyl EP of the same
name, Martin sings about a stop at the Canadian border
en route to Montreal.
Continued on page 8
Artists Next Door
Broken unbowed
Camaraderie and anger fuel punk singer Jim Martin
From left, Brokens Homeland InsecurityandAt the Borderalbums
Jim Martin
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Arts Council News4
Full year
JanuaryApril
MaySeptember
OctoberDecember
January 24
February 14
April 18
April 2627
October 18
B E I N E C K E R A R E B O O K & M A N U S C R I P T L I B R A RYCelebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2013
EXHIBITIONS
In the Minds Eye: Beinecke Architecture Imagined
Devotion and Inspiration: Beinecke People
By Hand: Celebrating the Manuscript Collections
Permanent Markers: Aspects of the History of Printing
The Power of Pictures
SELECTED EVENTS
Lecture Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture
Lecture Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and 2009 Beinecke Fellow
Poetry Reading Alice Notley
Conference Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century
Lecture Umberto Eco
CONCERTS
BrassYale Collegium MusicumEllington Jazz Series
School of Music Fiftieth Anniversary SeriesYale College New Music
Details and additional events at www.library.yale.edu/beinecke
Photos by Judy Sirota Rosenthal
On December 7th, 2012, The Arts
Council of Greater New Haven hosted
its annual Arts Awards luncheon at
The New Haven Lawn Club. This year,along with a sold out crowd, we paid
tribute to people in the arts commu-
nity that take creative risks, stand out
from the crowd, and go Against the
Grain.
The Arts Council would once again
like to congratulate the 2012 Arts
Award winners; Carol Ross recipi-
ent of the 2012 C. Newton Schenck
III Award for Lifetime Achievement
in and Contribution to the Arts, John
Cavaliere, Stephen Dest, Ruth M.
Feldman, Helen Kauder, and the New
England Ballet Companys Adaptive
Nutcrackerwith dancers from the Mil-
ford Recreation Departments Merry
Musical Theater program.
The Arts Council would also like
to express its gratitude to present-
ing sponsor John Lapides & Melanie
Ginter, contributing sponsor 217 Can-
ner Associates, LLC, and sponsors;
Bank of America, Cannelli Printing,
CHL Holdings / Highsmith, The United
Illuminating Company / Southern Con-
necticut Gas, and Yale-New Haven
Hospital.
2012 Arts Awards: Against the GrainArts Awards win-
ners clockwise
from top left: John
Cavaliere, Helen
Kauder, Kenneth
Hopkins (Adap-
tive Nutcracker),Carol Ross, Debra
Marchese (Adap-
tive Nutcracker),
Amy Migliore-Dest
(accepted on
behalf of Stephen
Dest), and Ruth M.
Feldman
Presenting sponsors Melanie Ginter and John Lapides, who
sponsored the event in memory of Ruth Lapides
Right: The Elm City
Dance Collective per-
forms Contemporanea
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Arts Council News 5
YaleUniversityArtGallery,viewof theancientart sculpturehall.ElizabethFelicella,2012
YaleUniversityArtGallery
Expandedmuseumnow open
VISIT WITH FRIENDS
Free and opento the public
artgallery.yale.edu/dec12
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center
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art
November 30, 2012March 10, 2013
Organized by the Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
TuesdaySaturday 105; Sunday 125
Admission is free | 877 brit art | britishart.yale.edu
John Constable,A Cloud Study, Sunset (detail), ca. 1821, oil on paper on millboard,
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, b1981.25.128; Mark Leonard,
Constable Study I [YCBA B1981.25.128] (detail), 2011, gouache and synthetic resin on panel,
Collection of the artist
Reflections on Constables
Cloud Studies
Paintings by Mark Leonard
Friends and colleagues
of Yale Repertory Theatre
applaud as Ruth M. Feldmanreceives her Arts Award
David Newton and sponsor Shelly Saczynski of United Illuminating/Southern CT Gas, with Penny Canny
of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Artist Gar Water-
man, Arts Award
winner John
Cavaliere and
Gabe DaSilva of
DaSilva Gallery
Artspace board president Barbara Pearce, Arts Award winner Helen Kauder, and former recipient Nick Lloyd of
Firehouse 12
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CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP80 Audubon St, New Haven | 203.562.4927 | creativeartsworkshop.org
Visual art classes
for all ages andexperience levels
Join us for our A nnual Open House! Sunday, February 24, 2 to 5 pm
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For enrollment forms and information contact:administrator@newhavenballet.org | 203-782-9038
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SpringSessionJanuary 28-June 8, 2013 AGES 3 ADULT
John WatersDavid A. Brensilver
My introduction to Baltimore,
when I arrived there in 1988 tobegin my undergraduate stud-
ies at the Peabody Institute
at Johns Hopkins University,
included a crash course in the
films of John Waters. One of my
professors frequently invited
students to his home for home-
cooked meals, stimulating
conversation, and, oftentimes,
movies. It was during these
soirees that I and several of my
classmates developed a taste
for Waters work.
In his 1995 book Shock
Value: A Tasteful Book About
Bad Taste(Thunders Mouth
Press), Waters wrote: To me, bad taste is
what entertainment is all about.
I hadnt, to that point in my life, thought
much about whose work might have set
an all-but-insurmountable bar in a genre
I probably believed was reserved for acci-
dental pioneers and lucky hacks. It hadnt
dawned on me (to put it another way) that
lowbrow had a high priest an apt turn
of phrase, I think, given Waters career-
long evisceration of all that the Catholic
Church stands for.
Pink Flamingos(1972)
was probably the first John
Waters film I experienced. A
description of the movie on
the Internet Movie Database
website (IMDb.com) reads:Notorious Baltimore criminal
and underground figure Divine
goes up against Connie & Ray-
mond Marble, a sleazy married
couple who make a passionate
attempt to humiliate her and
seize her tabloid-given title as
The Filthiest Person Alive.
It is worth including here
an excerpt from Divines bio at
IMDb, which reads: Originally
born Harris Glen Milstead just
after the end of WWII, Balti-
mores most outrageous resident
eventually became the interna-
tional icon of bad taste cinema,
as the always shocking and highly entertain-
ing transvestite performer, Divine.
Pink Flamingoswas, for me, the gate-
way to Polyester(1981). With those two
films alone, Waters reached the apex of
lowbrow, an accomplishment he revels in
by way of his one-man show This Filthy
World, which I saw recently at the Garde
Arts Center in New London.
Not long after I first became familiar
with his work, Waters Cry-Baby(1990)
introduced a much larger audience to the
filmmakers delightfully shameless sense
of humor. The film, which stars Johnny
Depp, was also the vehicle for a friends
serendipitous big-screen debut/swan song
(a classmate and fellow percussionist had
a small part as the drummer in the talent
show scene).
While Id been aware that Hairsprayand
Cry-Babyhad been adapted for Broad-way (the former to great acclaim) and
that Waters had made more movies and
authored several books, I hadnt followed
his career all that closely. Apart from
watching Cry-Babywith a friend about
a year ago and seeing the filmmaker on
HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher, it had
been many years since Id indulged myself
in Waters films. Still, I remained appre-
ciative of his inimitable cinematic contri-
butions to the extent that I made plans to
see his one-man show as soon as I saw it
advertised.
Perhaps what I enjoyed most about
that performance was that it was devoid
of any evidence that Waters imagination
had become less twisted over time. I tookcomfort, for example, in hearing him talk
about his desire to make a delightfully
irreverent sequel to The Wizard of Oz. (Ill
let you find out what Waters plot would
look like.)
Waters performance reminded me that
he redefined lowbrow, whereas the above-
mentioned accidental pioneers and lucky
hacks have merely been defined by it.
David A. Brensilver is the editor ofThe
Arts Paper. This is his opinion.
The Arts Council sounds off on
John Waters. Photo cour-
tesy of Admire Entertain-
ment
The deadline for advertisements
and calendar listings for the March
2013 issue of The Arts Paperis
Monday, January 28, at 5 p.m.
Future deadlines are as follows:
April 2013:
Monday, Feb. 25, p.m.
May 2013:
Monday, March 25, 5 p.m.
June 2013:
Monday, April 29, 5 p.m.
Calendar listings are for Arts
Council members only and shouldbe submitted online at newhaven-
arts.org. Arts Council members can
request a username and password
by sending an e-mail to amay@
newhavenarts.org. The Arts Coun-
cils online calendar includes list-
ings for programs and events taking
place within 12 months of the cur-
rent date. Listings submitted by the
calendar deadline are included on a
monthly basis in The Arts Paper.
Arts Paperad andcalendar
deadlines
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGENEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT ALBERTUS.EDU
St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture SeriesIn-the-headlines topics viewed from a Dominican perspective.
J anuary 29, 2013Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P.
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Lectures are free. Reservations are suggested. 203-773-8502
Expand Your Mindat Albertus
David A. Brensilver
Rachel Alderman, a producer with the New
Haven-based A Broken Umbrella Theatre, has been
awarded a Denham Fellowship from the StageDirectors and Choreographers Foundation, which
describes the prize on its website as an annual
award to aspiring young directors, and particularly
women directors, to further develop their directing
skills.
The foundation is a program of the Stage Directors
and Choreographers Society, a labor union serving
theater professionals.
Alderman said the $2,500 award would be put
toward A Broken Umbrella Theatres production of
Freewheelers,which will explore the relationship
between the establishment, in 1866, of New Hav-
ens first corset factory and the patent Frenchman-
turned-New Havener Pierre Lallement secured that
same year for the modern-day bicycle.
Alderman said she applied for the fellowship
wanting to really be able to develop (Freewheelers)
and develop my own skills.
While she thought receiving the award was a long
shot when she applied in July, Alderman saw the
application process as an artistic exercise, a way
of communicating my vision.
Having recently enjoyed opportunities to assist
theater directors Michael Wilson (for productions at
the Alley Theatre in Houston and The Old Globe in
San Diego) and Hana Sharif (at the Hartford Stage),
Alderman was looking for new professional-devel-
opment opportunities, which she found through her
SDC membership.
Alderman said A Broken Umbrella Theatre plans
to stage Freewheelersin June. Information about
the production will be made available at here.
This story originally appeared in theNew Haven
Independent.
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Communi-
ty Developments Office of the Arts in December announced
the results of a national, arts-industry-specific economic-
impact study released earlier this year by Americans for theArts.
Language in Arts & Economic Prosperity IV in the State
of Connecticutsays the study provides compelling new
evidence that the nonprofit arts and culture are a significant
industry in the State of Connecticutone that generates
$653 million in total economic activity. This spend-
ing$455.5 million by nonprofit arts and culture organi-
zations and an additional $197.5 million in event-related
spending by their audiencessupports 18,314 full-time
equivalent jobs, generates $462.5 million in household
income to local residents, and delivers $59.1 million in
local and state government revenue.
According to the Americans for the Arts website, the
national study examined data collected from 182 partici-
pating study regions. Those 182 regions include 139 indi-
vidual cities and counties, 31 multi-city regions, 10 states,
and two arts districts and represent all 50 states and the
District of Columbia.
Language in Arts & Economic Prosperity IV in the State of
Connecticutcan been downloaded from the DECDs Office
of the Arts website, cultureandtourism.org. Detailed infor-
mation about Arts & Economic Prosperity IVcan be found
on the Americans for the Arts website, americansforthearts.
org.
This story was originally published by theNew Haven
Independent.
A Broken Umbrella TheatresAlderman wins Denham Fellowship
State announcesarts impact findings
Rachel Alderman
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Introducing
Make.Art.Work,
workshops for
visual artistsThe Arts Council of Greater New
Haven, Cultural Alliance of Fairfield
County, and Greater Hartford Arts
Council are pleased to introduce
Make.Art.Work, a new workshop series
designed to give visual artists tools
to help advance their careers. Made
possible with support from the Emily
Hall Tremaine Foundation, the series
was developed with artist input col-
lected through an online survey and
focus groups. To help artists increase
business knowledge and entrepre-
neurial skills, eight workshops will be
presented between January and June
2013. The series will run concurrentlyin New Haven, Fairfield County, and
Hartford. Each workshop will address
a topic such as goal-setting, market-
ing and promotion, financial manage-
ment, pricing work, and working with
galleries. Artists who register for the
entire series will have an opportunity
to participate in a peer-learning and
coaching cohort. For more informa-
tion, including a workshop schedule
and registration information, visit
www.newhavenarts.org.
Welcome,new members
The Arts Council proudly welcomes
new members Charmaine Banach, Lori
Ann Desormeau, Courtney Marchese,
and Music Mountain, Inc.
We thank you for supporting us in
our mission to expand the arts and
enrich the region as we strive to build
a vibrant artistic and cultural com-
munity that is representative of all
disciplines, fiscally strong, supportive
of artists and organizations, rich in
ethnic and socioeconomic diversity,
and accessible to all audiences.
Artists Next DoorContinued from page 3
No one has done any prison time/And
we dont have any drugs at all/If you are
looking for the shit/the shit is right here/
Whats with all your suspicion?/We donthave guns, just guitars/Let us in!! Let us
in!!/Broken wants to play Montreal!!
Message-wise, I believe in satire. And
weve been called on it, too, like, How can
you make fun of that? Actually, Im just
trying to shed light on it because it really
does suck, explains Martin.
As an example of the bands way of pro-
cessing social injustice, Martin recalls an
incident during a tour of Mexico.
It was a real poverty-stricken area near
the airport, really bad. Were laughing and
our tour minders, who were Mexicans,
said, Its not funny, you know. We said,
Were not laughing at them. Were laugh-
ing at the absurdity of the whole scene how can this happen?
This is our report, what were seeing. I
think I take a lot of that from the early hip-
hop scene. I remember being in Los Ange-
les before the L.A. riots and hearing some
of these bands and they were telling it how
it was. Then in 92, it kicked off and I was,
like, Everything they were talking about,
it was in those songs, says Martin.
On Active Denial the most recent
Broken CD, which came out in 2010
Martins guttural, declamatory rants ride
a sound field of breakneck-tempo drums
and barbed wire guitar chords. Lyrically,
he lashes out at the homogenization of
culture through globalization, suppres-
sion of dissent, and the militarys useof depleted uranium ammunition. In
U-232, Martin barks: U-232/carrying
out orders, acceptable death ratios/Killing
their troops and our own/Conquests of the
moment, indiscriminating legacy/Civilians
were just in the way.
Martin says Brokens music these
days is heavier, more guitar-oriented,
with more of a bass drive and more on
the attack. About 10 years ago, the
band tried easing up a little bit, taking
more of what Martin calls a rock n roll
approach. It didnt last.
We decided, No more of this funtime
crap! Its back to being scary! recalls
Martin, now in his mid-40s.
Thats the way to keep a young mans
attention, he adds, referring to the
bands audience.
Touring with a hardcore punk band
isnt for the weak of heart. In the eyes ofofficialdom, punk is associated not
unreasonably with dissident, some-
times insurrectionist, countercultures.
And punk venues are often found in more
hardscrabble urban districts.
As a roadie with the group Nausea in
Germany in the early 90s, Martin and
the bands members had to flee, guitars
in hand, when a police tank bore down
on the stage. On tour in Mexico in 2009,
Broken experienced a country in a state
of war. Outside a taqueria, a host of police
officers held the band at machine gun
point while Brokens Mexican minder tried
fast-talking the gun-toting cops.
I was taught not to look Mexican police
in the eye they take it as a challenge
so I was scanning, (looking) from side to
side, says Martin. All of a sudden, El
Jefe showed up. He had five pistols on
his chest. He looked like something out
of a movie very military, spit polish. He
looked me over and let us go.
After leaving a gig in Derry in Northern
Ireland while touring the UK and Ireland
shortly after 9/11, Brokens van was
pulled over at a British Army checkpoint
outside of town.
I pulled up and rolled down the window
and asked, Can I help you? He locked
and loaded on me, Martin recalls. He
screamed in a high-pitched voice like out
of a movie, I-dent-i-fi-ca-tion!In his rearview mirror, Martin could see
the rest of the paratroopers surrounding
the van, faces blackened and dressed in
camouflage. They werent ordered out
of the van but Martin had his passport
scanned and says that since then he
has often been pulled aside on random
checks at airports.
Now that Martin is an elder statesman
of the punk scene, he feels the same obli-
gation to share his knowledge and cama-
raderie, as Joe Dias of Lost Generation
did with him in the 1980s. With his friend
and former band mate Matt Sachs, Martin
founded Vex Records to not only release
Broken recordings but also the music of
other bands. Martin puts up money to help
bring international punk groups to the
U.S. and then transports them to Mon-
treal for the Varning international punk
festival. On tour in Mexico, he arranged for
youngsters hanging out in the street to get
in free to Brokens performance at an art
collective.
Punk gave me so much, Martin says.
Its part of my mission to give back.
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in the Arts & SciencesReintegrateis an Arts Council of Great-
er New Haven project that celebrates and
showcases the regions creativity in both
the arts and sciences by facilitating col-
laboration between artists and scientists,
showcasing innovative projects, and invit-
ing the public to share the arts/science
connection through events and resources.
In September 2012, we requested pro-
posals and received applications from 42
artist/scientist teams seeking funding to
pursue collaborative projects.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven
is proud to announce the Reintegrate
teams of artists and scientists. Each of
these seven teams was chosen to receive
a $10,000 grant to fund collaborative
projects through June 2013. Teams were
selected by an independent panel of art-ists and scientists.
For more detailed descriptions of the
projects, please visit ReintegrateNe-
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about The Arts Council or Reintegrate call
203-772-2788. Also visit our website for
information about the symposium Inno-
vations: Intersection of Art & Science
at Wesleyan University on Feb. 28 and
March 1.
Reintegrate has been made possible
with support from the Connecticut
Department of Economic and Community
Development, Office of the Arts.
Reintegrate Teams:
Williams + Williams:Place as Character
This team will bring together the worlds
of geography and literature in creating
an expandable database of places from
scenes in literature. The data will then be
analyzed to discover how authors create a
sense of place.
Banach + Bliss:Cross-Discipline Learning Kits
This project will mix applied mathemat-
ics, education, and design to create edu-
cational tools that will be made available
to the public at the projects completion.
Demers + Coates + Calvo:Discovering the Higgs
Particle physics meets dance meets
photography in this project that will
translate the details of the Higgs boson
discovery in a non-verbal way, specifically
in photographs of dance. In doing this,
the project team hopes also to give back
to the science new ways of conceiving the
momentous discovery.
Slomba + Heidkamp:Sculpting the Census
This project will integrate geographic
information science, sculpture, andsocial engagement. They will be taking
local census data and then make sculp-
tures to visualize the information in a
new, engaging way.
Liu+ Smith + Skrtic +Gusberg + Haines + Yuh:Conversations onBody and Faith
The science of medicine mixes with
the arts of glass-making and photography
for this project, which aims to teach the
public, through a series of installations,
about the human body and have them
question the fragility of it, their faith in it,
and the implications of disease.
Singleton+ Jackson: Living with
Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderThis artist/scientist collaboration will
result in a Collective Consciousness
Theatre Inc. theater-based multimedia
performance on the subject of PTSD. The
project teams aim is to entertain while
remaining informative and drawing from
personal accounts, psychiatry, and biol-
ogy of the brain.
Grabel + Johnson+ Willems:Science Choreography
This dance/cell biology/education
teams goal is to build an interactive, mul-
timedia performance piece that explores
stem cells and the ethical implications of
stem-cell research.
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There was one image Zoe Keller, the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Librarys public relations manager, kept coming
across when researching stories about the opening of the
building 50 years ago.
My favorite compares Beinecke to an iceberg whats visible is
minuscule to what is really here, she said.
Its an apt description, both for the architecturally stunning struc-
ture on High Street and for the rare literary riches collected therein.
For five decades academics have used the library for everythingfrom undergraduate papers to works of very serious scholarship. The
institution will celebrate that milestone throughout 2013 with year-
long exhibitions and a series of monthly events.
Like most things, money started the whole thing off. The library
was born when three Yale University alumni, the Beinecke brothers,
charming old book collectors who made their money in the grocery
business, donated the resources for a new building to house the uni-
versitys rare book collection. Yales rare book archives had been previ-
ously stored at the august Sterling Memorial Library. Those volumes,
some which dated from the founding of Yale University in the 18th
century, was the seed of the Beineckes collection, and is now housed
in a fireproof six-story glass-enclosed tower in the center of the build-
ing.
It is a time capsule of what was the special collection in 1963,
Keller said. Its a tiny fraction of whats housed here.
Over time, curators charged with overseeing a particular subjectarea or time period augmented the collection.
Curators are given a lot of freedoms to follow their passions,
Keller said.
Over a million volumes are stored within the 125,000-square-foot
library, so many that space is actually an issue, and there is a backlog
in the meticulous task of cataloging materials, a job done in offices
and warrens throughout unseen areas of the building. There are five
major collections currently stored in the library: a general collection
of rare books and manuscripts, collections geared toward Western
Americana, American literature, German literature, and the Osborn
Collection of English Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
It is a broad and deep collection, said head of access services
Stephen Jones. The amount of books that have resulted from
research done here is substantial.
The collections contains some truly magisterial works, like one of
the few remaining copies of the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1454,
on permanent display in the mezzanine of the library. The papers of
authors such as Eugene ONeill, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes,
and Gertrude Stein are held at the Beinecke.
There are also oddities in the collection, like the Voynich Manu-
script, a 15th century text written entirely in an indecipherable lan-
guage. The lone copy of Boy Castaways, an adventure story written
by the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, can be found at the library.
There are 14th century Arthurian romances, books on alchemy, collec-
tions of playing cards. The librarys staff collects photos of writers and
pieces of ancient papyrus. Despite the modern look of the building,
the overwhelming impression one gets is of age, time, and collective
wisdom.
The distinctive look of the library is a product of its time, archi-
tecturally. The Brutalist movement, known for its blocky and linear
construction often made from poured concrete had, in 1963, not
yet taken hold on college campuses, so the design of the Beinecke,
channeling that movement, was a bold statement. Indeed, the YaleUniversity buildings surrounding the Beinecke on Wall Street are clas-
sical in tone.
The building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of the firm Skid-
more, Owings, and Merrill.
This was a huge departure from classic university architecture,
Keller said. For some people this was a real affront.
Bunshaft, speaking to the SOM Journal, said that initially the Bei-
necke brothers wanted something akin to the Houghton Library at
Harvard a series of small period rooms. Bunshaft had different ideas.
With the guiding principle of books as treasures, Bunshaft came up
with the idea of housing books under glass not simply as small exhi-
bitions, but in larger rooms where humidity and temperature could be
controlled. The Beineckes agreed.
Seeking inspiration, Bunshaft came across a Renaissance-style
palace in Istanbul covered in what he believed to be translucent onyx,
a rare material. It took Bunshaft two years to find suitable onyx, and it
was located in a war zone in Algeria. A few initial forays, including one
in which French troops were dispatched to secure of a field of
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Beineckecelebrates
50 yearsCollections hold
the promise of discoverySteve Scarpa
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The first page of Thornton Wilders script for Our Town. Published with the consent of the Wilder Family LLC, and
with the courtesy of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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The Best Of
Best Videos
music DVDsHank Hoffman
For those of us at Best Video in Hamden, where I have worked since
1994, music is as much a passion as movies. The store is well known for
its non-stop soundtrack of browsing music jazz, classical, world music,
roots, reggae, and underground rock. These days Best Video also promotes
music with live concerts in the shops Performance Space. Eclecticism
is the rule here, as well we have booked a string quartet and a hip-hop
group, Brazilian music with jazz colorings and pop punk bands.
Musical taste is deeply subjective. The list of best music DVDs below was
complied by Best Video owner Hank Paper and manager Richard Brown
and me and reflects our predilections for rock, jazz, and roots music. An afi-
cionado of classical music might prefer From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in
China, Horowitz in Moscow, or Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.
The Beatles: A Hard Days Night; The First U.S.VisitA Hard Days Night is simply one of the most joyful pop movies ever made.
What could have been a throwaway project instead captured the phenom-
ena of Beatlemania in full bloom with personality, cheeky irreverence, and
gentle anti-authoritarianism. The First U.S. Visit, a documentary by the
Maysles Brothers, is the cinema vrit counterpart to A Hard Days Night, a
narration-free backstage pass to the epochal arrival of the British Invasion
on American shores. What did John Lennon really think of Murray the K,
the DJ and self-proclaimed Fifth Beatle?
Monterey PopWoodstock is better known but I prefer Monterey Pop. This D.A. Pennebak-
er documentary of the June 1967 pop music festival captures the musical
counterculture in its Edenic phase. Monterey Pop features career-making
turns by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, and others.
The Rolling Stones: Gimme ShelterIf Monterey Popdepicts the counterculture in its innocence,
Gimme Sheltercaptures the end of illusions. From peace and love
to murder by the Hells Angels in two eventful years. Jagger plays
the devil and theres hell to pay. Honorable mention: Charlie is
My Darling, a Peter Whitehead documentary of the Stones 1965
Irish tour, and Shine A Light, Scorseses 2008 concert film of the
band in its still-vibrant dotage.
The Last WaltzFeaturing an overflowing marquee of stars and directed by Martin
Scorsese,The Last Waltzdocuments The Bands 1976 farewell
concert. An exemplary concert film.
Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads defined twitchy, art schoolnew wave, inflecting it with a dollop of
white funk. By 1984, when the Jonathan
Demme-directed concert movie Stop Making Sensewas filmed, they had
scaled their act up to arena proportions. David Byrne needed a Big Suit to
contain his ambitions, which are well realized here.
Buena Vista Social ClubA feat of musical archaeology, Buena Vista Social Clubdocuments the
glorious rediscovery of aged Cuban musicians whose social club milieu was
suppressed by the Revolution. Wim Wenders directed Buena Vista Social
Club, which also features American slide guitarist Ry Cooder. By recordingwith musicians Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, and Rubn Gonzlez in
Havana, Cooder ran afoul of the U.S. embargo. It cost him a $25,000 fine
but won him wide plaudits
The Howlin Wolf StoryLegendary bluesman Chester Burnett, aka Howlin Wolf, was a giant of
a man with a voice to match. A disciple of Delta b lues king Charley Patton,
Howlin Wolf had his greatest success recording for the Chess label in Chi-
cago in the 1950s. A notable highlight of this video is an intimate Chicago
nightclub scene culminating in an exchange between Howlin Wolf on
stage and bluesman Son House heckling from the audience.
High Lonesome: A Story of Bluegrass MusicA primer on one of the rootsiest of American roots musics, starting with
the innovations of mandolin player Bill Monroe. More than just a musical
history, High Lonesomesituates the music in its social context, beginning
with the Great Depression.
The T.A.M.I. ShowLong unseen, The T.A.M.I. Show(standing for Teenage Awards Music
International and pronounced Tammy) was finally released on DVD in
2009. Filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in October, 1964, the
live concert was a thrilling snapshot of the pop world some six months after
The Beatles conquered America, with a bill encompassing British Invasion
rock, pop, surf, and hot rod music, Motown soul, James Brown funk, and
1950s rock n roll. The Rolling Stones topped the bill, having the deeply
unenviable task of following a magisterial performance by James Brown.
The Harder They ComeReggae riddims and outlaw politics combined with a star turn by Jimmy
Cliff and one of the all-time great-
est pop music soundtracks make
The Harder They Comean under-ground classic.
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Classes & WorkshopsACES Educational Center for the Arts 55 Audubon St.,New Haven. 203-777-5451. www.aces.org/our-schools.Acting Classes for Children and Teens. Quality actingclasses offered for children and teens on Saturdays.Students will explore improvisation, pantomime, andacting exercises and perform a one-act play. For ages7-11 and 12-15 years. Classes lead by Ingrid Schaeffer,Chair of ECAs theater department. Through March 30.Every Saturday, 9-10:30 a.m. (ages 7-11) and 10:30a.m.-12:30 p.m. (ages 12-15).
Arts Center Killingworth 276 North ParkerHill Road, Killingworth. 860-663-5593. www.artscenterkillingworth.org.Introduction to Sewing Classes. Dont let that sewingmachine gather dust! With designer Monique Fazzone,learn to change needles, wind bobbins and troubleshootyour machine. Recognize the grain of a fabric, learnto make a strong seam and the importance of cuttingand pressing. With these skills and your fabric choices,create a trendy hobo style bag. Sundays, Jan. 27 &Feb. 3. $150. 1:30-4:30 p.m.Fashionable Fine Art Classes. Use selected works offine art to examine the cultural and historical details ofthe Byzantine, Impressionist, Art Nouveau, and Cubistperiods. See how fashion then depicted reflected what
was a contemporary point of view. Use the past toinspire your current designs. Sessions include fashionsketching. Beginner to intermediate levels. Jan.27-March 10. Sundays. $130. 11 a.m.-1 p.m.Lap Loom Weaving Workshop. Using a Beka rigid heddlecherry loom, make a unique table mat for your holidaytable while learning weaving basics. Each studentwill choose colors for their project, learn to preparethe loom, weave fabric, finish a mat, and plan the nextproject! Feb. 3. $60 plus $5 material fee. 1-5 p.m.Oil & Acrylic Painting Classes.Learn composition, colormixing, starting a painting, developing it to a finishedstage, and working with final values to make it cohesiveand dynamic. Demonstrations of painting techniquesincluded while artists work at their own pace. Beginnerto advanced levels. Watercolorists welcome. Feb.8-March 22. Fridays. $160. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Encaustic Painting I Classes. In this hands-onintensive, explore the luminous beauty and versatility ofencaustic painting with molten, pigmented beeswax.Learn techniques to build layers, texture, fuse, stencil,embed objects, incise, image transfer, and collage.Open to all levels. Feb. 10. $125, plus $35 material fee.10 a.m.-4 p.m.Designer Silk Scarf Workshop. Imagine hand-paintingnot one, but two luxurious 100 percent silk scarves.Begin your journey into the art of silk painting with thisexciting introductory workshop. The session is hands-
on, interactive and will give you a solid understandingto silk painting as you experiment with various colors.Feb. 17. $35. 2-4 p.m.Digital Photography Workshop, Part II. Youve goneout into the field and taken photographs. Now what?With professional photographer Jessica Smith,explore uploading, organizing, and sorting images.Learn to post-process them Photoshop as you adjustlighting, crop, patch, resize and more. Bring up to 15photographs to discuss and edit in class. Jan. 27. $70.1-4 p.m.
Artsplace 1220 Waterbury Road, Cheshire. 203-272-2787. www.cpfa-artsplace.org.Winter Art Classes & Workshops. Fifty-two choicesof drawing and fine a rt classes for seven weekswith professional artists, all supplies included. Jan.14-March 16. Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday, 9a.m.-3:30 p.m. $70-$150, plus small registration feeand non-resident fee of $10.
Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon St., New Haven.203-562-4927. www.creativeartsworkshop.org/celebration.Asian Brush Painting: An Introduction. Chinesebrush painting is an ancient art form that grew out ofcalligraphy (4000 BC). In this introductory class, youwill learn through simple exercises and techniques therichness and harmony of this beautiful and relaxing art
form. There will be demonstrations, and we will paintsubjects including orchids, bamboo, and animals.Jan. 17-Feb. 7. Four sessions, Thursdays only. $125,members $113. 3-5 p.m.Discover PMC. Have fun working with Precious MetalClay (PMC). It looks and feels like clay, but is actuallypure silver in an organic binder. It is fun and fast towork with, and requires no previous jewelry-makingexperience. Use of basic PMC tools and PMC for classprojects is included in the materials fee. This workshopis great for beginners. January 26. One day only. $110,members $99. Materials fee* of approximately $100is payable to the instructor at class. (*Materials fee issubject to change with the metals market.) 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.Art in Age and Adversity. In this workshop, Roz Meyerwill talk about how she discovered a passion forphotography at a difficult time in her life, and shewill reflect on her journey as an artist. A slide lecturewill include some of her work. Roz will discuss whatphotography has meant to her and how it has enabledher to share herself with the world in a new way. Feb. 2.One day workshop only. $30, members $27. 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.The Painted AccordionBook. This two-day workshopcombines watercolor collage with accordionbookbinding. Adding collage to watercolor paintingallows for experimentation to a new way of expression,
creating beauty in texture. Students will also learn tomake a hard or soft cover accordion book that can standup for display. All levels welcome. Feb. 2 & Feb. 3. Oneweekend only. $150, members $135. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.Creative Mastermind 101. Connect with othercreatives to gain artistic clarity and focus. Whetheryou are starting something from scratch, are stuckin the middle of a project, or need support as youtransition to a new phase of your career, this programis designed for creatives like you. You will leave witha personal map of your own design to guide you. Feb.3. One day workshop only. $115, members $104. 10a.m.-3 p.m.Japanese Lampmaking. Learn to make an elegantJapanese Shoji lamp in this one-day workshop.Students will use wood and rice paper to create a flooror table lamp and will learn a simple technique forelectrically wiring the lamp. Students will leave with aunique lamp of their own design. All materials supplied,but feel free to bring any special rice paper. Feb. 3. Oneday only. $105, members $95. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Waxed Paper: Encaustic on Paper. Put paper andencaustic medium together and you get a multitudeof creative opportunities. In this mini class, we willexplore encaustic monotype, wax resist, mark-makingtechniques, and simple paper sculpture. Beginnerswelcome. Feb. 7-Feb. 21. Three sessions. $175,members $158. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Nature Photography Close-up. Close-up and macro
photography of nature can be great fun but alsofrustrating. This workshop will show you how to reducethe frustration and get better close-up images. Topicswill include techniques, equipment, types of subjects,lighting, and affordable equipment options. A DSLR isrecommended. Instructor: Robert Rattner. Feb. 9. Oneweekend only. $56, members $50. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Weaving on the Weekend. Learn to prepare a warpand complete a project on a rigid heddle loom. Thissimple, portable loom is a great way to start weavingand a great resource to enhance the practice of anexperienced weaver or fiber artist. By the end of theclass, students will have learned the basic steps forpreparing a warp, weaving, and finishing. Feb. 10 &Feb. 17. Two Sundays. $130, members $117. Studentscan bring their own rigid heddle looms, purchase onefrom the instructor ($139), or rent a loom ($30) with theoption to buy at the end of the workshop. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Bead Stringing: Magic on a String. In this introductionto beaded jewelry, students will learn about thedifferent techniques, tools and materials used toproduce beautiful beaded jewelry. Techniques andmaterials such as pearl knotting, stringing materials,and findings will be studied providing each studentthe opportunity to leave with a professionally finishedproduct. Feb. 16. One day only. $40, members $36.Materials fee payable to the instructor will rangefrom $25 for basic materials and higher for high end
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materials. 1-4 p.m.PMC Rings and More. This workshop focuses onring making. Students will learn several ringforming techniques using PMC-3. Use of slipsyringe will be discussed, and students will learnhow to set synthetic stones for firing in PMC. Feb.23. One day only. $120, members $108. Materialsfee* of approximately $100 payable to instructor atclass. (*Materials fee is subject to change with themetals market.) 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Elm City Dance Collective CACC, 84 Broadway,New Haven. 401-741-8140. www.elmcitydance.org.Contemporary Dance Technique. Contemporarytechnique taught in a fun and welcomingenvironment offering some of the best danceclasses in New Haven. Jan. 10-April 25. Thursdaynights. $17/drop-in, $55/four-class card, or $150/semester (15 classes). 6-7:30 p.m.
Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford. 203-453-5947. www.guilfordartcenter.org.Demystifying Stone Settings Workshop with JoyRaskin.Learn all about how to set stones. Basicbezel mounts, tube bezel settings, and prongsetting for round, oval, square, trillion, emerald-cut faceted stone, and more w ill be covered. Wewill work mostly in silver, but also with some
gold if desired. Students may bring their ownsettings projects to work on. Open to students withmetalsmithing experience. Feb. 2 & Feb. 3. $200,members $180. Materials fee for stones, silversettings, and some gold. $5-$30. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Introduction to the Hand-Forged Blade Workshopwith Mace Vitale. We will cover the basics offorging, grinding, heat treating, and sharpeningof a small utility knife. Feb. 2 & Feb. 3. $170,members $153. Fee $20. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Sculptural Felting Workshop with Lanette Barber.In this workshop we will focus on the dry feltingmethod to build forms from fiber which will beintroduced by example and hands on approach.This method requires very little equipment andspace and is easily mastered. Students willconstruct forms that can be used as additions toa piece or stand on their own. Supplies provided.Feb. 2 & Feb. 3. $200, members $180. Fee $24. 10a.m.-4 p.m.Discover Precious Metal Clay Workshop with NancyKarpel. It looks like clay, but is actually pure silverin an organic binder. Learn basic techniques forforming, surface texturing, firing, and finishingPMC, and have the opportunity to finish and takehome your unique pieces of silver jewelry. Great forbeginners, jewelry students and others! Materialsfee includes PMC and supplies. Open to all levels.February 9. $100, members $90. Fee $100. 10a.m.-3:30 p.m.Forging Animal Heads Workshop with MattParkinson. In this two-day workshop students willexplore the forging of animal heads in steel. Rams,long horn steer, snakes, horse heads many formsare possible and this class will give the student thebasics to build on for more intricate designs. Bringleather work gloves and safety glasses. Feb. 9 &Feb. 10. $170, members $153. Fee $20. 10 a.m.-4p.m.
Viking Knit Bracelet Workshop with Viola GalettaStudents will make a silver wire bracelet enhancedwith beads utilizing this ancient wire knittingtechnique. Open to all levels. Feb. 23. $30,members $27. Fee $25. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Dichroic Glass Day Workshop with Susan Hackett.Heres the chance to work with that brilliant gemof hot glass you have seen and admired. Brilliantcolors! Amazing patterns! We will cut, grind,drill, etch, stamp, and fire this material to makebeautiful objects. Open to all levels. Feb. 23. $100,members $90. Fee $60. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Modern Artistic Forged Elements Workshop withSam Salvati. Blacksmithing experience required.This class will introduce a smith to the basictechniques of ornamental iron work, to includescrolling, decorative ends and elements, leaves,vines, and twisting. Feb. 23 & Feb. 24. $170,members $153. Fee $30. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Chain-Making for the Metalsmith Workshop withLanette Barber. In this class you will be introducedto chain maille, orbit chain, classic loop in loop,Egyptian links, Byzantine, and woven chain.Handmade chains for your one of a kind or smallproduction pieces will add detail not accomplished
by most machine-made chains. Open to all studentswith a foundation in metals. Jan. 12 & Jan. 13. $200,members $180. Fee $30. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry Workshop with NaomiKantrow. Open to students with experience. Makebeautiful enameled jewelry with a torch. Enameledcomponents can be used in earrings, pendants,and necklaces. Specially designed copper beadsand findings to be incorporated in your designswill be available for purchase. Students areencouraged to bring their own beads to incorporateinto their designs. Jan. 19. $100, members $90. 10a.m.-4 p.m.Introduction to Blacksmithing Workshop with Mace
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to teach the basic skills: lighting and tending acoal fire, making a simple wall hook, a square-headed nail, and a fireplace poker. Jan. 19 & Jan.20. Tuition $170, members 153. Fee payable withtuition $15. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Introduction to Enameling on Copper Workshopwith Susan Hackett. This workshop is the perfectopportunity to learn this colorful art form.Students will learn to prepare metal for successfulenameling, apply enamels both wet and dry-forlots of different effects and include fine silver andgold for brilliance. Open to all levels. Jan. 26. $100,members $90. Fee $45. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.The Art of Bead-Stringing Workshop with ViolaGaletta.Learn the basics of beadwork: kinds ofbeads, findings, tools, and various methods ofdesigning, stringing, and finishing. Jan. 26. $90,$81 members. Materials fee $25. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Collage Accordion Book Workshop with DoloresMarchese. Using a variety of papers, foundillustrations, and your own art, create a personalstatement in book form. Bring in any materialsyou would like to use for collage and/or use thoseprovided by the instructor. Open to all levels. Jan.26. $40, members $36. Materials fee $10. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Fireplace Tools Workshop with Matt Parkinson.This weekend class will cover the making of a setof fireplace tools (poker, log tongs, ash shovel),including the basics of blacksmithing. Bringleather work gloves and safety glasses. Jan. 26 &Jan. 27. $170, members $153. Materials fee $20.10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Neighborhood Music School 100 AudubonSt., New Haven. 203-624-5189. www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
Spring Semester Open Registration. Now is thetime to register for lessons and classes at NMS!We offer music, dance, and drama for all ages andexperience levels. Visit our website for detaileddescriptions and online registration or call and wecan help you register. Jan. 27-Feb. 4.
United Church on the GreenCorner of Elm andTemple streets, New Haven. 585-200-8903. www.sacredmusicCT.org/ago.html.Pedals, Pipes, and Pizza. Kids ages 8-18 who arecurrently taking piano lessons are invited to afun day of exploring the pipe organ, the King ofInstruments. All participants will have a chance toplay a real pipe organ, at United Church or in YaleUniversitys famous Woolsey Hall, under gu idanceby members of the American Guild of Organists.E-mail lars@larsgjerde.com to sign up. Feb. 9.Free (including pizza lunch). 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
World Music Hall Wesleyan University,40 Wyllys
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edu/cfa.Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble. The YouthGamelan Ensemble was founded as a Center forthe Arts program in 2002 by Wesleyan Universityartist-in-residence I.M. Harjito, who guides thegroup along with Professor Sumarsam and DirectorJoseph Getter. The ensemble is open to all childrenages 7 and up. Jan. 26-May 9. Rehearsals areSaturdays, 10-11 a.m. $30/semester. To register,please contact the Wesleyan University Box Officeat 860-685-3355 or boxoffice@wesleyan.edu.
Zhang Tai Chi Whitney Arts Center and FirstPresbyterian Church, 591 Whitney Ave. and 704Whitney Ave., New Haven. 860-345-3838. www.zhangtaichi.com.Tai Chi Classes. Tai Chi for all ages. MasterZhang, lifetime tai chi practitioner, offers classesto improve, balance, circulation, and overall well-
being. Feb. 6-Feb. 25. Every Monday, 6-8 p.m.
DanceFebruary
8 FridayDance Studio Showing: Emily Faulkner EmilyFaulkner (Wesleyan University class of 86) hasperformed her choreography at the BaryshnikovArts Center, The Joyce SoHo, Dance TheaterWorkshop, the DanceNow NYC Festival, andEdinburgh Festival Fringe. She has performedthe works of D.D. Dorvillier and Susan Matheke,among many others. She is also on the facultyof Movement Research. 1:30-2:30 p.m. BessieSchonberg Dance Studio, Wesleyan UniversityCenter for the Arts, 247 Pine St., Middletown. 860-
685-3355. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa. See website forcosts of programs.
8-9 Friday-SaturdayGallim Dance Hailed for their quick wit, technicalvirtuosity, and visceral movement style, Andrea
Millers works embody fearless physicality. AtWesleyan University, Gallim Dance will performthe New England premiere of Mama Call(2011),a contemporary tale of border-crossing, and PupilSuite(2010), set to the contagious music of Israeliband Balkan Beat Box. Performances 8 p.m.Please visit our website for the cost of individualprograms. Wesleyan University Center for the Arts,271 Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-685-3355. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Exhibitions
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An Evening of Art & Music. Art opening and musicalperformances by the ECA Small Ensembles. Jan.24, 5-7 p.m. Snow date Jan. 28, 5-7 p.m. Free.
Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven. 203-772-2709. www.artspacenh.org.Instructions Not Included. An exhibition on theintersection of industrial design, DIY, and themaker movement organized by Martha Lewis.Through Jan. 26. Wednesday-Thursday, 126 p.m.;Friday-Saturday, 128 p.m. Free and open to thepublic.Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work. A solo show ofworks on paper by Alyse Rosner. Through Jan. 26.Wednesday-Thursday, 126 p.m.; Friday-Saturday,128 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Beverly Kaye Gallery 15 Lorraine Drive,
Woodbridge. 203-387-5700. www.artbbrut.com/www.BeverlyKayeGallery.blogspot.com.Oddities & Such. Non-mainstream one of a kindart works, some anonymous and some signed,including work by German favorite AlexandraHuber. Street art, outsider art and things thatgo bump in the night are the focus of this showwhich is open by appointment at your convenience.Museum quality sculpture and paintings for bothbeginning and seasoned collectors. Through April21. Call for appointment as this is a private space.10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.
Chestnut Fine Foods and Confections 1012 StateSt., New Haven. 203-782-6767.Original Artwork Wall Quilts. By Nini Munro-Chmura. Through Feb. 28.
City Gallery 994 State St., New Haven. 203-782-
2489. www.city-gallery.org.Open Book. In this show Shelby Head uses the bookas an art object. By using the versatile, flexible,and ordinary material of paper, Head creates avisual interpretation of text, material, form, andcontent. Jan. 3-Jan. 27. Reception: Sat., Jan. 12,
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2-5 p.m. Snow date: Jan. 19, 2-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sun.,12-4 p.m. and by appointment. Free.
Creative Arts Workshop 80 Audubon St., NewHaven. 203-562-4927. www.creativeartsworkshop.org/celebration.Celebration Sale. Save 25 percent on finecontemporary crafts from the 44th annualCelebration of American Crafts! Jan. 3-Jan. 6.Thurs.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 1-5 p.m.Opening: Deirdre Schiffer: Retrospective andDorothy Powers: The Women. Our 2013 galleryseason kicks off with a pair of exhibitions.Retrospective features paintings and prints bydedicated CAW student Deirdre Schiffer.TheWomen, a multimedia installation by longtimedrawing and painting faculty member DorothyPowers, uses the figure to explore contemporarygender issues. Jan. 18-Feb. 8. Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat., 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Da Silva Gallery 897-899 Whalley Ave., New Haven.203-387-2539. www.westvillegallery.com.Wood Engravers Network Relief EngravingExhibition 2012. The first juried exhibitionsponsored by the Wood Engravers Network. Thetraveling exhibit features 60 prints and three artistbooks by 33 relief engraving artists from the UnitedStates, Canada, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Jan. 18-Feb. 22. Reception: Jan. 19, 5-7 p.m.
Davison Art Center Wesleyan University Center forthe Arts, 301 High St., Middletown. 860-685-3355.www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.Re)viewing Bodies: Selected AmericanPhotographs. This exhibit examines the ways 20thcentury American photographers have representedthe body, whether as subject or compositionalelement. The exhibition includes works by DianeArbus, Larry Burrows, Harry Callahan, Judy Dater,Gordon Parks, and Jerry Uelsmann. Feb. 8- March7. Opening reception: Feb. 7, 5-7 p.m. with gallerytalk by student curators at 5:30 p.m. Gallery isopen Tues.-Sun., 12-4 p.m. Free.
Elm City Artists Gallery 55 Whitney Ave., NewHaven. 203-922-2359. www.elmcityartists.com.Art for the New Year.Beat the winter blues by comingin to our warm cozy gallery and view works by ourresident artists. Paintings in oil, pastel, watercolor,collage/mixed media, monotype, and etchings aswell as unique one of a kind pottery. Come in andmeet the artists and learn more about their work.Jan. 2- Feb. 28. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Free.
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan Centerfor the Arts, 283 Wash ington Terrace, Middletown.860-685-3355. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.Lucy+Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life. The work ofLucy+Jorge Orta explores the major concernsthat define the 21st century: biodiversity,environmental conditions, climate change, andexchange among peoples. The works in the Food-Water-Lifeexhibition are metaphors-in-action,constructions that perform the tasks of wh ich theyare emblematic. Jan. 25-March 3. Tues.-Sat., 12-5p.m. Opening reception: Tues., Jan. 29, 5-7 p.m.with a gallery talk at 5:30 p .m. by curator Judith
Hoos Fox. Free!
Remodeling Zilkha. Remodeling Zilkha is a site-specific video installation by Janna Hltermannthat shows the filmed gallery space withinthe same gallery space. The two videos of theinstallation extend, compress and mirror the roomusing the inherent architectural characteristicsof the gallery (repetition, segmenting, mirroring)to reconfigure space. Jan. 25-March 3. Tues.-Sun.,12-5 p.m. Opening reception: Tues., Jan. 29, 5-7p.m. Free!
Gallery 195 NewAlliance Bank, 195 Church St.,4th Floor, New Haven. 203-772-2788. www.newhavenarts.org.Perry Obee and J.D. Richey. This exhibition featurespaintings by J.D. Richey and Perry Obee. An artistsreception will be held on Tues., Jan. 15, from 5-7 p.m.Through March 15. On view during bank hours.
Fred.Giampietro Fred.Giampietro, 315Peck St., New Haven. 203-777-7760. www.giampietrogallery.com.Karen Dow Alone Together with works by DannyHuff and Jonathan Waters. Dows work is a directresponse to an aesthetic relationship betweenpatterns, shapes, forms, and colors. Huff is a self-taught collage artist whose work demonstrates adeep understanding of materials and composition.Waters large floor sculptures challenges ones
senses and understanding of perspective, space,and the physical relationship. Feb. 1-Feb. 23.Artists reception: Fri., Feb. 1, 5-8 p.m. Artists talk:Sat., Feb. 16, 1:30-4 p.m. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri,10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.
ISM Gallery of Sacred Arts Yale Institute ofSacred Music, 409 Prospect St., New Haven.203-436-5062. www.yale.edu/ism/events/FujimuraFourGospelsandGoldenSea.html.Makoto Fujimura: The Four Gospels and TheGolden Sea. From the ninth century Book of Kellsto William Blake, past centuries have producedmagnificent illumined manuscripts based on theBible. In taking on this project, Fujimura revisitsthe illuminated legacy, with the Bible as a sourceof creative inspiration and artistic expression. Jan.17-March 8. Wed.-Fri., 12-6 p.m., weekends 12-4p.m. Free.
Ives Main Library New Haven Free PublicLibrary, 133 Elm St., New Haven. 203-387-4933.azothgallery.com.Blue artwork by Vanilia Majoros.New Havenartist Vanilia Majoros came from Hungary in 2003and now teaches printmaking at Creative ArtsWorkshop. I love to explore my own self and image;this is the culmination of the fusion of scienceand art for me. Majoros. Jan. 12-Feb. 9. Artistsreception: Sat., Jan. 12, 2-4 p.m. Gallery hours:Mon., 12-8 p.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Mansfield FreemanCenter for East Asian Studies
Gallery Wesleyan University Center for the Arts,343 Washington Terrace, Middletown. 860-685-3355. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945-1992. This exhibit captures the details of Korean
peoples everyday lives between 1945 and 1992.
The exhibition features 27 photographs taken bythe first generation of Korean realists, 13 pioneerswhose works evoke nostalgia for a nation in aradical transition from its past. Feb. 6- May 26.Opening and gallery talk: Wed., Feb. 6, 12 p.m. Aluncheon buffet will be served. Free. Gallery is openTues.-Sun., 12-4 p.m.
New Haven Museum 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven.203-562-4183. www.newhavenmuseum.org.Cycle New Haven. From Pierre Lallement filinga patent for the pedal-driven velocipede to thegrowing popularity of the bike in sustainabletransportat ion, New Haven has played an impressiverole at the forefront of cycling in America.CycleNew Havenfeatures material from the museumsarchives and collections and contributions from thelocal community. Through March 31. Open duringmuseum hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., 12-5p.m.; Free, first Sundays of the month, 1-4 p.m. Freewith museum admission.
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery Arts Councilof Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon St., 2nd Floor,New Haven. 203-772-2788. www.newhavenarts.org.No, Seriously. This exhibition of animationsfeatures work by Ian Applegate, BeansCunningham, Raheem Nelson, and Vin Paneccasio.
Through Feb. 1. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.
The Gallery at Center Stage Theatre Jan McLean/Syntax Artists, 54 Grove St., Shelton. 203-225-6079. www.centersstageshelton.com.Syntax Showtime: Art at Center Stage. An exhibit ofmixed media works of Exhibition by Syntax artistsduring the run of A Christmas Carol: The Musical.Syntax is a group of nine women artists livingand working in New Haven and Fairfield counties.Through Jan. 12. Opening reception: Fri., Nov. 30,6:30-8 p.m. Free and open to the public.
The Institute Library 847 Chapel St., New Haven.203-562-4045.institutelibrary.org/events.html.
Sounding New Haven: Music Scenes, 1840-1940.A project of the Yale Publ ic Humanities Program,curated by Saga Blane, Jennifer Brown, MatthewJacobson, Lawrence Lim, Anya Montiel, John SanPedro, Carmel Raz, Emily Reilly, Claire Schwartz,Stefan Thorsteinsson, Ghazaal Vojdani, and LauraWexler. Jan. 12- Jan. 26. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;Sat., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Bittersweet: Dying in the Nicaraguan SugarFields.A series of photographs by Brad Horrigandocumenting an epidemic of kidney failure amongworkers on sugarcane plantations in Nicaragua.Feb. 9-Feb. 23. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat.,11 a.m.-2 p.m. Donations requested for the NewHaven/Len Sister City Project.
The Orison Project 8 Railroad Ave., The WitchHazel Complex, Building No. 7, Essex. 860-767-7572. www.theorisonproject.com.Permutations by Jasper Goodrich. Mr. Goodrichcreates sculptures about pictures, transformingtwo-dimensional images into sculptural entitiesthrough metal casting and mold-makingtechniques. He has exhibited in Saratoga Springs,NY, the North Bennington Art Park, and at theSalem Art Works Sculpture Park. Artist reception:Fri., Feb. 1, 6-8 p.m.; Artist talk: Wed., Feb. 20, 6p.m. Feb. 1-March 16. Wed.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Free.
Umbrella Arts Azoth Gallery & Butler ExhibitionDesign, 317 East 9th St., New York, NY. 203-387-4933. azothgallery.com.Ten Narratives. Ten artists from Connecticut,New York, and California: Claudine Burns-Smith,Hamden; Elisa Vegliante, New Haven; GordonSkinner, Woodbridge; Bob Cuneo, New Haven; JesseGuillen Ricardo, New Haven; Nick Grossmann,Norwalk; Dana Naumann, Branford; CherieTredanari, New York City; Helene Burke, New YorkCity; Moria Fain, California (from Connecticut).Jan. 26-March 2. Artists reception: Sat., Jan.26, 6-9 p.m. Free. Bus to and from NYC offer.azothgallery@comcast.net. Curators: Johnes Rutaand Chris Butler.
Judy Sirota Rosenthal
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family in remote Bolivia
Yale Cameratamarguerite l. brooksdirector
Yale Glee Clubjeffrey doumadirector
Yale Schola Cantorummasaaki suzukidirector
yale institute of sacred music presents
Erwin Ortnerguest conductor
Free; no tickets required.
Presented in collaboration with
Yale Glee Club. More information
at www.yale.edu/ism or
203.432.5062.music of Bruckner, Schnberg, Webern, and more
sunday, february 24
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Whitney Center 200 Leeder Hill Drive, SouthEntrance, Hamden. 203-772-2788. www.newhavenarts.org.Web Versions. This mixed-media exhibit is made upof works that reference textile and craft traditions.Curated by Debbie Hesse and Steven Olsen.Through March 30. Tues. & Thurs., 4-7 p.m.; Sat.,1-4 p.m.
Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library 146Thimble Islands Road, Stony Creek. 203-488-8702.www.wwml.org.A Moments Notice. Stained glass artist Pat Millerand watercolorist Sharon Rowley Morgio will exhibittheir work reflecting each artists intent to capturenatures fleeting moments. Both artists expresstheir responses to the constant flux of nature as anongoing creative experiment. Jan. 6-Jan. 30. Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Opening reception: Sun., Jan.6, 4-6 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel St., NewHaven. 203-432-2800. britishart.yale.edu.The English Prize: The Capture of theWestmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour. Thisexhibit tells the extraordinary story of the captureof the Westmorland, a British merchant shipladen with works of art acquired by young Britishtravelers on the Grand Tour, and the subsequentdisposition of its contents. Through Jan. 13. Free.
Yale Peabody Museum Community Education
Center Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History,
170 Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-432-5050.peabody.yale.edu/events.Seasons of Change: Global Warming in YourBackyard. This family-friendly exhibition featurescomputer games, videos, hands-on specimens,and activities. Through Feb. 24. Mon.-Sat., 10a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., 12-5 p.m. $5-$9.
FilmJanuary
24 ThursdayReligion and Film Series: MelancholiaProfessorsKathryn Lofton and Sally Promey (AmericanStudies and ISM) will lead the audience in apost-screening discussion of the film. 7 p.m. YaleInstitute of Sacred Music, Whitney Humanities
Center Auditorium, 53 Wall St., New Haven.203-436-5062. www.yale.edu/ism/events/ReligionandFilmMelancholia.html.
Galas &Fundraisers21 ThursdayMidwinter Cabaret Join us for an entertainingevening of scenes, sonnets and songs, forthe benefit of the Elm Shakespeare Company.Light supper, wine and beer provided. Cashbar available. Sage American Grill, 100 SouthWater St., New Haven. 203-874-0801. www.elmshakespeare.org.
Kids & FamiliesAlyla SuzukiFamily Life Center, 33 Center Road,Woodbridge. 203-239-6026. www.alylasuzuki.com.Suzuki Early Childhood Education Classes.Renowned early childhood music program helpsto develop all foundational skills. Through Jan. 9.Wednesdays. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Rolling admissions.Please visit our website for more details andregistration.Spring Semester. SECE Teaching all foundationalskills through music from age 0-3. Jan. 30-Feb. 28.Rolling admissions all spring. 9:30 a.m. $360 for18 weeks.
Arts Center Killingworth 276 North ParkerHill Road, Killingworth. 860-663-5593. www.artscenterkillingworth.org.Creative Homeschooling Sculpting Classesfor Children. Creative Sculpting: Dissectingthe Portrait in Clay for ages 9-14. Practicingsubtractive techniques using air dry clay andworking towards future sculpture of the fullhead, students construct the nose and ear. Pencilsketches of each feature will help studentscomprehend form and detail. Jan. 25-March 20.9-10:30 a.m. $130.Creative Homeschooling Painting and DrawingClasses for Children. Pastel and acrylic focusfor ages 9-14. With pastels, participants usethe medium as a drawing tool and explore it as awash to create a paintings atmosphere. Acrylicpaints are handled as a transparent medium.Students study dry brush techniques, texture, andcolor value. Preliminary sketches ensure excitingcompositions in both mediums. Jan. 25-March 20.10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. $130.Saturday Morning Childrens Sculpting Classes.Dissecting the Portrait in Clay for ages 9-14.
9-10:30 a.m. Practicing subtractive techniquesusing air dry clay and working towards futuresculpture of the full head, students construct thenose and ear. Pencil sketches of each feature willhelp students comprehend form and detail. Jan.26-March 16. 9-10:30 a.m. $120.
Saturday Morning Childrens Painting & DrawingClasses. Acrylic and pastel focus for ages 9-14. Withpastels, learn to use the medium as a drawing tooland explore it as a wash to create a paintings atmo-sphere. Acrylic paints are handled as a transparentmedium. Students study dry brush techniques,texture and color value. Preliminary sketchesensure exciting compositions in both mediums. Jan.26-March 16. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. $110.Saturday Morning Childrens Mixed-Media Classes.Mixing It Up: Mixed Media and Sculpting for ages6-8. Children work in several mediums to createa variety of art. Use polymer clay, tissue paper,tempera paint, glitter, crayon, torn paper, sequins,and feathers. Projects include Valentines Day
Flowers, Zig-Zag-Zebras, Colorful, Laurel BurchCats, Birds of a feather Masks, and Dragon Pens.Jan. 26-March 16. 12-1:30 p.m. $100.
Musical Folk The First Presbyterian Church 704Whitney Ave., New Haven. 203-691-9759. www.MusicalFolk.com.Music Together Classes. A fun creative music andmovement program for babies through 5 years oldand the ones who love them! Come s ing, dance,and play instruments in an informal setting.Classes and demonstration classes are ongoingthroughout the year. Jan. 14-March 18. Classes areheld every day (morning, afternoon, and weekendclasses available) at various. Demonstrationclasses are free. Ten-week semester is $210 andincludes a CD and book. Each semester features anew collection of music. Four semesters per year.
Neighborhood Music School 100 AudubonSt., New Haven. 203-624-5189. www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org.NMS Open House. Learn about all that NMS has tooffer! Our Open House is the perfect opportunity toask questions about lessons or classes for you or yourfamily.Children are invited to try out instruments atour instrument petting zoo, or sample a music andmovement class. Jan.27.12-2 p.m.Free.
MusicJanuary
6 SundayNMS Greater New Haven Youth Ensembles
Concert NMSs Greater New Haven YouthEnsembles present their Winter Concert at BattellChapel. All four auditioned ensembles will perform.2 p.m. Concert Orchestra and Youth Orchestra;4 p.m. Concert Band and Symphonic WindEnsemble. Tickets are available for purchase atthe door. $10 adults, $5 seniors and children 12and under. Battell Chapel, Yale University, 400College St., New Haven. 203-624-5189. www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
9 WednesdayJazz Department Recital NMS students performjazz favorites for friends, family, and otherstudents. Youre invited! 7 p.m. Free. NeighborhoodMusic School, 100 Audubon St., New Haven. 203-624-5189. www.neighborhoodmusicschool.org.
12 SaturdayIrish Roots of American Fiddle Music Showcasingmigration of the folk tradition and illustratingthe connection and evolution of melodies born inIreland and continued in America. Features 1995Gramm
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