

Hank Paper- NEW INCISIVE MOMENTS, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe- WIDE OPEN,
& Chris Ferguson- LABORS of LOVE
The title of Hank Paper's show, New Incisive Moments, comes from the phrase that every street photographer knows from Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Decisive Moment". On the other side of the gallery, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe shows her panorama and composite photographs in Wide Open. In the North Gallery, Chris Ferguson shows his new body of work, Labors of Love, which focuses on portraits and depictions of local people who love the work that they do.
Hank Paper, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe, & Chris Ferguson
Calling all knitting and crochet enthusiasts! Join us at MakeHaven for our monthly gathering, meticulously orchestrated by Denise, one of our esteemed textile facilitators.
This recurring event, dedicated to the joys of knitting and crochet, offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with fellow crafters in a setting that's both warm and welcoming. Scheduled for the 4th Sunday of every month from 12pm to 3pm, this meetup is a haven for those looking to dive into their projects, exchange ideas, and foster a vibrant, creative community.
What to Expect:
- Community Building: Led by Denise, our meetups are designed to cultivate a nurturing environment for knitting and crochet enthusiasts at all levels of expertise. It’s the perfect venue to connect with others who share your passion and to be part of an inclusive, creative community.
- Dedicated Project Time: Bring along your knitting needles, crochet hooks, and work-in-progress projects. Whether you’re looking to make headway on your current piece, eager to start something new, or hoping to learn a novel stitch or technique, you’ll find plenty of opportunities here.
- Brainstorming and Conversation: This is your chance to participate in engaging conversations, exchange tips and tricks, and brainstorm on future projects. If inspiration, advice, or just a friendly chat about your favorite pastime is what you seek, you’ll find an open and supportive space here.
What to Bring:
- Your Projects and Materials: Don’t forget to bring your knitting, crocheting, or needlework projects along with your yarns, needles, and hooks.
- Resources to Share: Got any helpful guides, patterns, or insights? Bring them along to share with the group! Our community thrives on the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
Our Goal:
With Denise at the helm, our aim is to provide a recurring platform for knitters and crocheters to come together, share their love for the craft, work on their projects, and contribute to a flourishing community. Whether you’re looking to meet like-minded individuals, find inspiration, or simply enjoy a few hours of crafting in great company, you won’t want to miss out.
Mark your calendars for the 4th Sunday of every month, and join us from 12pm to 3pm for an afternoon of knitting, crocheting, and community building at MakeHaven. Let’s come together to weave a rich tapestry of creativity and camaraderie, one yarn at a time. We look forward to seeing you there!"
Instructor: Denise McGillicuddy
You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:
https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=446&reset=1&reset=1
Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the information under Register (gray box) and hit submit. You will receive an acknowledgement by email. Questions? Email info@makehaven.org
Knot Just Knitting
Learn to use mixed media to create a floral image with a bee. Show some elements in sharp focus in the foreground and other elements blurred in the background. Use watercolor, colored pencil and pen to great effect on watercolor paper. Discover some new techniques that you can apply to your other work. All supplies, along with a frame and mat, are included.
Focus and Highlights at Artsplace
Join us for a docent-led tour of “Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning,” the first major North American museum exhibition of her work. Known for her expressive, autobiographical style, Emin explores love, loss, and the female experience with unflinching honesty.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
For more information, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/docent-tour-tracey-emin-i-loved-you-until-morning-29
Tour of “Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning”
New Haven Museum educator Rohanna Delossantos will present, “Make a Plate! Juneteenth Food & Culture for Kids,” at the Pardee-Morris House on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 2 p.m. Register here for this free family event for kids aged 12 and under. For weather updates check FB/IG or call 203-562-4183.
During this special kids’ program, visitors will recreate a pretend feast using paper to make Juneteenth-inspired play food. The “menu” will include red foods (like hibiscus tea and red velvet cake), that are symbolic of power and transformation. Each family will take home a collection of play foods to continue the joyful celebration at home. Families are encouraged to bring a blanket to sit on.
Make a Plate! Juneteenth Food & Culture for Kids
Hank Paper- NEW INCISIVE MOMENTS, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe- WIDE OPEN,
& Chris Ferguson- LABORS of LOVE
The title of Hank Paper's show, New Incisive Moments, comes from the phrase that every street photographer knows from Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Decisive Moment". On the other side of the gallery, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe shows her panorama and composite photographs in Wide Open. In the North Gallery, Chris Ferguson shows his new body of work, Labors of Love, which focuses on portraits and depictions of local people who love the work that they do.
Closing Reception
Hear how music provides solace during the free choral performance “Via Patiens: Music of Hope & Faith.” Join us on Sunday, June 22 at 2pm as Canticum Novum performs songs of refuge, mercy, and love which complements the temporary exhibition "Among the Persecuted and Displaced: Photographs from Iraq & Nigeria."
Free Concert | Via Patiens: Music of Hope & Faith
Join our volunteer museum educators for an in-depth tour of the museum’s iconic building, designed by modernist architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974).
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
For more information, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/docent-tour-architecture-ycba-10
Tour of the Architecture of the YCBA
Inspired by the real stories of New Haven apizza pioneers, Family Business: (A)Pizza Play follows the Carbonizatto family’s pizza shop from it’s immigrant beginnings as it passes down over generations. This production explores New Haven’s pizza magic (la magia dell'apizza) from New Haven’s cultural and historic connection to pizza.
Family Business: (A)Pizza Play is a special collaboration with CitySeed and Sanctuary Kitchen, highlighting New Haven’s food culture, and celebrating the impact of 100 years of immigrant entrepreneurship in New Haven. Performances are at 162 James St., New Haven, future home of CitySeed’s operations, food incubator, and Sanctuary Kitchen.
THE CARBONIZATTO STORY
Pizza is a big deal in New Haven. We’re the Pizza Capital of America, after all. A Broken Umbrella Theatre has always wanted to tell the New Haven Apizza story, but not as a biography of any pizzaioli, but as a story of all of them. To do that, they took New Haven’s Apizza people and joined them into the fictionalized Carbonizzatto Family. Carbonizzatto, from the Italian for “carbonized” — a knowing wink to the black-dusted fingers walking out of any apizza shop.
Last year, in A Slice, we saw multiple generations of the Carbonizzattos throughout history, but always in New Haven and always at their pizza shop. The Carbonizattos struggled from generation to generation as they grappled with what they owe to future Carbonizattos — and what did they owe to those who came before? Because this is part of a larger story, and it’s not just about Apizza, it’s about a family. A Slice was only the seed for this full production, or as Bruno Cantante sings in the show, “One slice don’t make a pie.”
Family Business: (A)Pizza Play
Three Sheets is hosting our 6th annual tag sale featuring local artists selling their art at slashed prices!
Artists will be making room for new art while giving you discounted prices on their creations!
We will have vendors inside and around Three Sheets.
Sunday, June 22 3-6pm
We will be joined by:
Chance For Love Rescue who will be here with information & Art Raffles to benefit the 🐈⬛ 🐈
Vendor List-
Shaki Presents
https://www.instagram.com/shakipresents?igsh=MTJ4YmZ5aHdnazVkcg==
Nick Robinson
http://www.instagram.com/nickrxbnson
The SpicyMonger (Aly Wheway)
https://www.instagram.com/createtospeak?igsh=MXF1eXpoZmRobGlpeg==
Sam swap
@thirdcatpress
Nicole and Rich Mackin
https://www.instagram.com/nikkip10?igsh=dWtybWtieXF1cGdr
https://www.instagram.com/richmackinart?igsh=MWd1Nzgxa3QzbW01aw==
Brandon Sands
@barebonesartistry;
@brandon.who.ru; website https://barebonesartistry.carrd.co/
Typsy Gypsy
@typsygypsyjewelry
Amanda Ward
https://www.instagram.com/ward_manda?igsh=emIyNTJrOTRxeWVx
Vic Byrne
https://www.instagram.com/vicy_b?igsh=MTBlMDN4djJkeXd1Zg==
Lipgloss Crisis
@sarascranton
Grayson Jeffries
https://www.instagram.com/willjeffriesart?igsh=MWxveXducXdrc3g5bQ==
The Dogwood Press
https://www.instagram.com/thedogwoodpress?igsh=MWFldTdkMHpndnAzag==
Chris Edwards
https://www.instagram.com/hairy_diamond?igsh=MTZ2bGVodG52YXN1Zg==
Demon Daisy-
https://www.instagram.com/demon_daisy?igsh=ZzI1bmpkN2xnNjht
Art Tag Sale At Three Sheets
Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company on the Connecticut shoreline, will present We’ve Got Magic to Do: The Music of Stephen Schwartz for four performances from June 20-22 at the MLS theater tent on the grounds of Madison’s historic Deacon John Grave House.
Featuring a talented ensemble of eight singers and a live band, the production will showcase beloved songs by the legendary composer behind Wicked, Pippin, Godspell and more.
This musical celebration pays homage to the Tony Award-winning composer, spotlighting the extensive songbook from both his iconic stage productions and from his acclaimed film scores, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Prince of Egypt.
With a career spanning over five decades, Stephen Schwartz has crafted a remarkable repertoire of songs such as All Good Gifts, Corner of the Sky, Day by Day, Defying Gravity, For Good, Meadowlark, Magic to Do, Morning Glow, Popular,and many others, which have left an indelible mark on American musical theater.
We've Got Magic to Do: The Music of Stephen Schwartz
Join us for the opening our new exhibit celebrating the life and work of distinguished artist Howard Fussiner (1923–2006). Throughout his career, Fussiner was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across New York, New Haven, and New England, including a major thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990.
His paintings and prints are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Slater Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Curated by Judy Birke this exhibition and sale will run through August 31. The venue is accessible 24/7 with a lobby concierge onsite.
Vibrant Vision of Painter Howard Fussiner Exhibit
Kasey Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of music, theatre, photography, design, fashion, and installation art. Her creative work is driven by a curiosity about collective culture, the subtleties of human behavior, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life. With nearly a decade of experience as a yoga teacher, Kasey brings mindfulness and intention into every project. Most recently, DJing has become her favorite way to connect, express, and move through the world.
DJ Kasey Cortez
Complete your Juneteenth holiday weekend with a night of mesmerizing music featuring violin sensations, Sons of Mystro, and youth collaborations. Mentored by Black Violin, Sons of Mystro is a musical duo that plays over ten popular music genres. They use their violins to interpret reggae classics, American pop songs, and their creations, accompanied by a DJ & a drummer. They are winners of the Emerging Artist Under 21 Years Old award at IRAWMA (International Reggae and World Music Awards). Curated by Artsucation , Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven, and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Sons of Mystro
FREE Summer Meals for ALL kids and teens 18 and under!
50+ open sites in New Haven!
Serving breakfast, lunch, and/or supper.
No registration or sign up required!
Meals MUST be eaten on site.
June 23, 2025-August 15, 2025 (Monday-Friday) no meals July 4th.
See website for locations, dates, & serving times: https://nhpscnp.org/
FREE Summer Meals for Kids & Teens
This isn’t your typical playground—get ready for a world of creativity!
At CAW’s playground, students will have access to a rainbow of materials: colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper, and so much more! Using all these supplies, they’ll create amazing projects like masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and even imaginary creatures.
How will they bring their ideas to life? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring—all while mixing their own one-of-a-kind colors.
We bet you’ll wish you could join in the fun too!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
Bring lions, zebras, elephants, and other animals to life through the magic of Procreate.
Join us on an exciting and creative journey across the African savannah, where students will sketch, detail, and animate favorite animals in their natural habitats.
Throughout the class they will develop techniques for quick sketches, designing nature scenes, and creating dynamic animal layouts.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Sketching The Safari: Digital Animal Art
This class is for beginners as well as previous students. We’ll have more time to build our skills with lots of choices for sewing by hand and on the machine. Use felt to sew colorful animals and fun shapes decorated with buttons and stitches. Learn how to use and design your own patterns. Projects from simple to more advanced projects include bags, stuffed animals like a teddy bear or whale, a patchwork pillow, a sewing kit, potholder and more.
Sewing Bonanza! at Artsplace
An Exhibition of Printmaking by the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven Faculty
An Exhibition by the Creative Arts Workshop Faculty Printmakers
An Exhibit of Abstract Watercolor and Mixed Media Assemblages featuring Work by Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler
Celebrate the summer solstice with an exciting new show at City Gallery. Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler present an exhibit of abstract watercolor landscapes and handmade paper and mixed media assemblages in SOLSTICE, on view from June 6 - June 29. The Opening Reception on Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., is open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
SOLSTICE at City Gallery
🍻Happy Hour Alert! 🚨 Join us at Dockside Brewery, Mon-Fri 3-6PM at the bar for deals that will make your wallet smile! 💸
Happy Hour!
What turns a simple drawing of a chair or a tree into a true work of art? It’s the artist’s imagination, emotions, and creativity.
Embark on a journey of transformation, reimagining everything around us—trees, flowers, birds, animals, everyday objects, and more—as unique artworks. Students will refine their skills in realistic sketching, while also exploring innovative ways, like altering size, context, or perspective, to infuse imagination into their drawings.
Transform realistic drawings into fantastical scenes and create something extraordinary!
Weather permitting, there will be a one-day field trip to the Yale University Art Gallery.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
See, Draw, Transform
Join us for the opening our new exhibit celebrating the life and work of distinguished artist Howard Fussiner (1923–2006). Throughout his career, Fussiner was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across New York, New Haven, and New England, including a major thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990.
His paintings and prints are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Slater Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Curated by Judy Birke this exhibition and sale will run through August 31. The venue is accessible 24/7 with a lobby concierge onsite.
Vibrant Vision of Painter Howard Fussiner Exhibit
Please join ISM professors Martin Jean and James O’Donnell for an opening organ recital that will begin at 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall, which will then travel to Christ Church New Haven at approximately 8:15pm. The recital will be followed immediately by a participant-led Compline service.
Free and open to the public. This event is a part of the ISM's 2025 Sacred Music Academy.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Yale Sacred Music Academy presents: Organ Recital and Compline
Join us every Monday for Music Bingo at Dockside Brewery!!! The most fun you’ve had on a Monday in a long time!🎶 7PM start! See you there🍻
Music Bingo!
FREE Summer Meals for ALL kids and teens 18 and under!
50+ open sites in New Haven!
Serving breakfast, lunch, and/or supper.
No registration or sign up required!
Meals MUST be eaten on site.
June 23, 2025-August 15, 2025 (Monday-Friday) no meals July 4th.
See website for locations, dates, & serving times: https://nhpscnp.org/
FREE Summer Meals for Kids & Teens
This isn’t your typical playground—get ready for a world of creativity!
At CAW’s playground, students will have access to a rainbow of materials: colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper, and so much more! Using all these supplies, they’ll create amazing projects like masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and even imaginary creatures.
How will they bring their ideas to life? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring—all while mixing their own one-of-a-kind colors.
We bet you’ll wish you could join in the fun too!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
Bring lions, zebras, elephants, and other animals to life through the magic of Procreate.
Join us on an exciting and creative journey across the African savannah, where students will sketch, detail, and animate favorite animals in their natural habitats.
Throughout the class they will develop techniques for quick sketches, designing nature scenes, and creating dynamic animal layouts.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Sketching The Safari: Digital Animal Art
This class is for beginners as well as previous students. We’ll have more time to build our skills with lots of choices for sewing by hand and on the machine. Use felt to sew colorful animals and fun shapes decorated with buttons and stitches. Learn how to use and design your own patterns. Projects from simple to more advanced projects include bags, stuffed animals like a teddy bear or whale, a patchwork pillow, a sewing kit, potholder and more.
Sewing Bonanza! at Artsplace
An Exhibit of Abstract Watercolor and Mixed Media Assemblages featuring Work by Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler
Celebrate the summer solstice with an exciting new show at City Gallery. Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler present an exhibit of abstract watercolor landscapes and handmade paper and mixed media assemblages in SOLSTICE, on view from June 6 - June 29. The Opening Reception on Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., is open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
SOLSTICE at City Gallery
What turns a simple drawing of a chair or a tree into a true work of art? It’s the artist’s imagination, emotions, and creativity.
Embark on a journey of transformation, reimagining everything around us—trees, flowers, birds, animals, everyday objects, and more—as unique artworks. Students will refine their skills in realistic sketching, while also exploring innovative ways, like altering size, context, or perspective, to infuse imagination into their drawings.
Transform realistic drawings into fantastical scenes and create something extraordinary!
Weather permitting, there will be a one-day field trip to the Yale University Art Gallery.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
See, Draw, Transform
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Annie Sailer Adult Intermediate Dance Class
Join us for the opening our new exhibit celebrating the life and work of distinguished artist Howard Fussiner (1923–2006). Throughout his career, Fussiner was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across New York, New Haven, and New England, including a major thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990.
His paintings and prints are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Slater Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Curated by Judy Birke this exhibition and sale will run through August 31. The venue is accessible 24/7 with a lobby concierge onsite.
Vibrant Vision of Painter Howard Fussiner Exhibit
Join James O’Donnell, Professor of Organ and Sacred Music at Yale, and Yale Sacred Music Academy participants leading a traditional Evensong, featuring music of Gibbons, Richard Webster, and Jessica French.
Free and open to the public. This event is a part of the ISM's 2025 Sacred Music Academy.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Yale Sacred Music Academy presents: Evensong
Learn how to sew buttonholes using a sewing machine and attach buttons. This technique can be used for sewing clothing and other items. Students will leave the class ready to add buttons to their next sewing project.
Button Up at Artsplace
Mireya Ramos' concert Guerrera ( "Warrior") is a vibrant celebration of cultural fusion and musical empowerment, serving as an homage to the women who have inspired her. Backed by a live band, Ramos, a Latin Grammy-winning vocalist and violinist, blends mariachi, salsa, and jazz with genres like country and R&B. Her performances reflect her Dominican and Mexican heritage, while honoring the strength of women in music.
Mireya Ramos: Guerrera
FREE Summer Meals for ALL kids and teens 18 and under!
50+ open sites in New Haven!
Serving breakfast, lunch, and/or supper.
No registration or sign up required!
Meals MUST be eaten on site.
June 23, 2025-August 15, 2025 (Monday-Friday) no meals July 4th.
See website for locations, dates, & serving times: https://nhpscnp.org/
FREE Summer Meals for Kids & Teens
This isn’t your typical playground—get ready for a world of creativity!
At CAW’s playground, students will have access to a rainbow of materials: colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper, and so much more! Using all these supplies, they’ll create amazing projects like masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and even imaginary creatures.
How will they bring their ideas to life? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring—all while mixing their own one-of-a-kind colors.
We bet you’ll wish you could join in the fun too!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
Bring lions, zebras, elephants, and other animals to life through the magic of Procreate.
Join us on an exciting and creative journey across the African savannah, where students will sketch, detail, and animate favorite animals in their natural habitats.
Throughout the class they will develop techniques for quick sketches, designing nature scenes, and creating dynamic animal layouts.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Sketching The Safari: Digital Animal Art
This class is for beginners as well as previous students. We’ll have more time to build our skills with lots of choices for sewing by hand and on the machine. Use felt to sew colorful animals and fun shapes decorated with buttons and stitches. Learn how to use and design your own patterns. Projects from simple to more advanced projects include bags, stuffed animals like a teddy bear or whale, a patchwork pillow, a sewing kit, potholder and more.
Sewing Bonanza! at Artsplace
March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).
Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups.
The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/
Exhibit | Among the Persecuted and Displaced: Photographs from Iraq & Nigeria
Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thursday, November 27 (Thanksgiving Day); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).
In remembrance of Pope Francis, who passed on April 21, 2025, the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to present this exhibit illustrating the pope’s outreach to the peripheries during his 47 international trips.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/francis-pope-of-the-peripheries/
Exhibit | Francis: Pope of the Peripheries
Explore the Charm of Yesteryear at Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Spend an hour, spend the day – embark on a nostalgic journey with the Shore Line Trolley Museum! Open for visitors, our museum offers enchanting trolley rides and captivating tours that transport you back in time. Purchase your tickets online or at the door and enjoy unlimited access throughout the day!
Ticket Prices:
- $13 for Adults
- $12 for Folks 62+
- $10 for Children
- Kids under 2 ride FREE!
Please note that special events may have different pricing.
Operating Hours: 11 AM – 3 PM, Wed-Sun with trolley cars departing every hour. Our volunteer trolley operators will guide you through the oldest suburban street railway in the U.S.A. – a National Historic District that opened on July 31, 1900, connecting New Haven with the Connecticut shore line.
Authentic Trolley Experience: Step into history as you ride on an authentic antique trolley car. Whether it’s the yellow Connecticut Company trolley capturing old New Haven, the 1923 New Orleans Public Transit trolley, or the semi-open 1904 Brooklyn Rapid Transit trolley, your journey promises a unique experience. We regularly operate trolley cars from New Orleans and Johnstown PA, providing diverse rides depending on weather conditions.
Witness Restoration in Action: Marvel at meticulously volunteer-restored display cars and catch a glimpse of our dedicated volunteers working on overhead wires, signals, or tracks. If you’re passionate about preservation, inquire about volunteering opportunities with your tour guide or ticket agent.
Membership Benefits: Consider becoming a member for exclusive advantages if you plan to visit multiple times a year. Ask about our annual membership subscriptions to enhance your museum experience.
Take Home a Piece of History: Don’t forget to stop by our museum store before you leave! Explore a variety of mementos to commemorate your visit.
Join us for an unforgettable day filled with history, charm, and the joy of trolley rides at Shore Line Trolley Museum. Purchase your tickets now and let the past come alive!
Museum Tours & Trolley Rides
An Exhibit of Abstract Watercolor and Mixed Media Assemblages featuring Work by Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler
Celebrate the summer solstice with an exciting new show at City Gallery. Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler present an exhibit of abstract watercolor landscapes and handmade paper and mixed media assemblages in SOLSTICE, on view from June 6 - June 29. The Opening Reception on Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., is open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
SOLSTICE at City Gallery
Spectrum Art Gallery and Artisans Store of Centerbrook presents Nature Up Close. As we move into the pleasures of summer, this exhibit invites us to take a closer look—at our gardens, blooming flowers, towering trees, and the intricate world of insects emerging with the season. Nature Up Close showcases original artwork that captures these intimate views through painting, sculpture, mixed media, and photography by both established and emerging artists. The exhibit runs through July 6. Also, Spectrum’s Artisans Store offers new pottery, glass, fiber, home décor, jewelry, clothing, and accessories, children's books and toys. Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St., Centerbrook, Connecticut. Gallery and Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday (12-6 pm) and Sunday (12-5 pm). For more information about gallery exhibits and classes, workshops, and summer camps for preteens and teens call (860) 767-0742 and visit spectrumartgallery.org. Shop online at SpectrumAnytime.com with shipping available throughout the US. Follow Spectrum social media at facebook.com/spectrumartgallery, instagram.com/spectrumartgallery, x.com/spectrum_ct, and youtube.com/@spectrumgallery6211
Nature Up Close
Inaugurated in 1867, Street Hall—today part of the Yale University Art Gallery—housed the first collegiate school of art in the country. Its curriculum permitted students from a variety of disciplines to sketch from live models and original works of art. Take part in this centuries-old practice by joining us for an evening of guided sketching. Offered in conjunction with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Open to all ages and levels of drawing experience. Materials are provided.
Sketching in the Galleries
What turns a simple drawing of a chair or a tree into a true work of art? It’s the artist’s imagination, emotions, and creativity.
Embark on a journey of transformation, reimagining everything around us—trees, flowers, birds, animals, everyday objects, and more—as unique artworks. Students will refine their skills in realistic sketching, while also exploring innovative ways, like altering size, context, or perspective, to infuse imagination into their drawings.
Transform realistic drawings into fantastical scenes and create something extraordinary!
Weather permitting, there will be a one-day field trip to the Yale University Art Gallery.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
See, Draw, Transform
Join us for the opening our new exhibit celebrating the life and work of distinguished artist Howard Fussiner (1923–2006). Throughout his career, Fussiner was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across New York, New Haven, and New England, including a major thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990.
His paintings and prints are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Slater Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Curated by Judy Birke this exhibition and sale will run through August 31. The venue is accessible 24/7 with a lobby concierge onsite.
Vibrant Vision of Painter Howard Fussiner Exhibit
Noted Baroque specialist Ruben Valenzuela and Yale Sacred Music Academy participants will lead a Lutheran Vespers service featuring Bach Cantata 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (For Thee, O Lord, I long) with instrumental ensemble.
Free and open to the public. This event is a part of the ISM's 2025 Sacred Music Academy.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Yale Sacred Music Academy presents: Lutheran Vespers
Join Haven’s Harvest in a fundraising celebration in honor of an incredible milestone—10 million pounds of rescued food!
June 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Haven’s Harvest invites the community to a special celebration marking the rescue and redistribution of over 10 million pounds of food in Connecticut. This event will be held on-site at the Shore Line Trolley Museum and includes:
- Delicious food from Hotel Marcel
- Live music from Gammy & Reinaldo
- Community networking
- Activities for kids (including face painting)
- Complimentary trolley rides throughout the evening
Event details, tickets, and sponsorship opportunities are available at havensharvest.org/events .
Please note: This event is hosted by Haven’s Harvest. The Shore Line Trolley Museum is proud to serve as the venue for the evening.
The Perfect 10[million lbs]
The 2025 Twilight Concert Series at the historic Pardee-Morris House will kick off with a special blend of urban folk, country and blues by the Porch Party Mamas on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., (rain date, Thursday, June 26, 2025). Grounds open for picnicking at 5:30 p.m.
For weather updates visit http://newhavenmuseum.org or @newhavenmuseum on FB/IG.
The Pardee-Morris House will be open to visitors for tours till 8 p.m. The public is invited to bring blankets and chairs and enjoy a picnic on the lawn. Parking is available on Lighthouse Road.
New Haven Museum thanks community partners WSHU 91.1 FM and The Howard Gilman Foundation for supporting the 2025 summer season.
Twilight Concert Series: Porch Party Mamas
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." —Victor Hugo
Sometimes there is nothing more refreshing than a nice – deep - belly laugh. A laugh that makes your side hurt, your eyes water and your breath hard to catch. A laugh so powerful that - at least for a moment - you forget all about your troubles.
In a world with so much uncertainty, we invite you to bring your troubles and hear stories that make you say, “That’s Funny!” Our tellers will delight you with stories of joy and sadness, success and failures, agreements and conflicts. And all of them are stories that will make you laugh. Come join us as we laugh our troubles away.
Our featured teller is Jamie Brickhouse.
"Laughter is an instant vacation." —Milton Berle
That's Funny: Stories That Make You Laugh
Join us at Old Heidelberg Bar inside Graduate by Hilton New Haven every Wednesday at 7:30 PM for Big Boy Trivia! Get your game faces on and be ready to compete!
Old Heidelberg Trivia Night
Movies in the Plaza brings you free Wednesday night movie screenings May through October in downtown New Haven’s beloved, cozy Pitkin Plaza! Grab your lawn chairs, picnic blankets and some takeout from a local spot, and spend an evening under the stars enjoying blockbusters, nostalgic blasts from the past, cult favorites, family films, and more.
Movies in the Plaza
Long Days
June 12-19
By Gabe Mckinley
World Premiere production by Gabe McKinley about a group of actors putting on a production of O’Neill’s LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at a regional theatre; a tragic and sometimes darkly humorous overlapping of themes amidst the plays with a deliciously compelling plot of what happens “behind the scenes."
Long Days
FREE Summer Meals for ALL kids and teens 18 and under!
50+ open sites in New Haven!
Serving breakfast, lunch, and/or supper.
No registration or sign up required!
Meals MUST be eaten on site.
June 23, 2025-August 15, 2025 (Monday-Friday) no meals July 4th.
See website for locations, dates, & serving times: https://nhpscnp.org/
FREE Summer Meals for Kids & Teens
Bring lions, zebras, elephants, and other animals to life through the magic of Procreate.
Join us on an exciting and creative journey across the African savannah, where students will sketch, detail, and animate favorite animals in their natural habitats.
Throughout the class they will develop techniques for quick sketches, designing nature scenes, and creating dynamic animal layouts.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Sketching The Safari: Digital Animal Art
This isn’t your typical playground—get ready for a world of creativity!
At CAW’s playground, students will have access to a rainbow of materials: colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper, and so much more! Using all these supplies, they’ll create amazing projects like masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and even imaginary creatures.
How will they bring their ideas to life? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring—all while mixing their own one-of-a-kind colors.
We bet you’ll wish you could join in the fun too!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it.
This workshop will be hosted at Valor Wines. Located in North Haven Connecticut, we are a family owned and operated micro winery with generations of experience in wine making. This nurtured passion allows us to make unique and distinctive wines using grapes from all over the world. It was a long fight to start one of the first micro wineries in CT, and we were excited to finally open our doors in September 2021. Our passion for wine making blends respect for tradition with boundless curiosity for what is possible. We believe knowing your roots can uncork the potential to think outside the bottle. Making us uniquely situated to create one of a kind small batch wines which will invoke both familiar comfort and striking intrigue. Come visit us in our state of the art facility, where industrial meets medieval romance.
Under 21 policy: Please contact Valor Wines for details regarding underage entry
For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/valor-wines
Bonsai Workshop at Valor Wines
The Clinton Art Society (CAS) is pleased to present the annual Summer Juried Exhibition June 26 through July 30. “The event will be the highlight of our exhibition season as we celebrate visual arts and the vast talents of our member artists,” said CAS President Robin Hammeal-Urban. “We are honored to have renowned artist Anda Styler serve as our juror to select works and choose award recipients,” she added.
Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, June 29, from 2pm to 4pm and be a part of the visual celebration. The event is free, open to the public, and includes refreshments, live music, and inspiring art. The exhibition includes works in a wide range of artistic styles and mediums.
CAS was established in 1949 by a small group of professional artists dedicated to the growth of the arts in the region. “We’ve grown to become a vibrant influence in the arts community with members from across Connecticut and throughout New England,” Hammeal-Urban said. CAS sponsors exhibitions, critique events, and educational programs. Artists work in all fine-art media including painting and sculpture and new members are welcome.
The exhibit will be on view in the Andrews Memorial Town Hall at 54 E. Main Street in Clinton, CT from June 26 through July 30. The show is open for viewing during regular town hall hours Monday through Friday. For more information, contact CAS at casclinton@gmail.com or visit clintonartsocietyct.org.
Monday through Wednesday, 9am to 4pm
Thursday, 9am to 7pm
Friday, 9am to 12pm
Closed July 4
Summer Juried Exhibition
This class is for beginners as well as previous students. We’ll have more time to build our skills with lots of choices for sewing by hand and on the machine. Use felt to sew colorful animals and fun shapes decorated with buttons and stitches. Learn how to use and design your own patterns. Projects from simple to more advanced projects include bags, stuffed animals like a teddy bear or whale, a patchwork pillow, a sewing kit, potholder and more.
Sewing Bonanza! at Artsplace
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thursday, November 27 (Thanksgiving Day); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).
In remembrance of Pope Francis, who passed on April 21, 2025, the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to present this exhibit illustrating the pope’s outreach to the peripheries during his 47 international trips.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/francis-pope-of-the-peripheries/
Exhibit | Francis: Pope of the Peripheries
March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).
Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups.
The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/
Exhibit | Among the Persecuted and Displaced: Photographs from Iraq & Nigeria
A two person exhibition of work by artists Day Moore and Kelly Clark.
Salt Water Dialogue
Explore the Charm of Yesteryear at Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Spend an hour, spend the day – embark on a nostalgic journey with the Shore Line Trolley Museum! Open for visitors, our museum offers enchanting trolley rides and captivating tours that transport you back in time. Purchase your tickets online or at the door and enjoy unlimited access throughout the day!
Ticket Prices:
- $13 for Adults
- $12 for Folks 62+
- $10 for Children
- Kids under 2 ride FREE!
Please note that special events may have different pricing.
Operating Hours: 11 AM – 3 PM, Wed-Sun with trolley cars departing every hour. Our volunteer trolley operators will guide you through the oldest suburban street railway in the U.S.A. – a National Historic District that opened on July 31, 1900, connecting New Haven with the Connecticut shore line.
Authentic Trolley Experience: Step into history as you ride on an authentic antique trolley car. Whether it’s the yellow Connecticut Company trolley capturing old New Haven, the 1923 New Orleans Public Transit trolley, or the semi-open 1904 Brooklyn Rapid Transit trolley, your journey promises a unique experience. We regularly operate trolley cars from New Orleans and Johnstown PA, providing diverse rides depending on weather conditions.
Witness Restoration in Action: Marvel at meticulously volunteer-restored display cars and catch a glimpse of our dedicated volunteers working on overhead wires, signals, or tracks. If you’re passionate about preservation, inquire about volunteering opportunities with your tour guide or ticket agent.
Membership Benefits: Consider becoming a member for exclusive advantages if you plan to visit multiple times a year. Ask about our annual membership subscriptions to enhance your museum experience.
Take Home a Piece of History: Don’t forget to stop by our museum store before you leave! Explore a variety of mementos to commemorate your visit.
Join us for an unforgettable day filled with history, charm, and the joy of trolley rides at Shore Line Trolley Museum. Purchase your tickets now and let the past come alive!
Museum Tours & Trolley Rides
An Exhibit of Abstract Watercolor and Mixed Media Assemblages featuring Work by Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler
Celebrate the summer solstice with an exciting new show at City Gallery. Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler present an exhibit of abstract watercolor landscapes and handmade paper and mixed media assemblages in SOLSTICE, on view from June 6 - June 29. The Opening Reception on Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., is open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
SOLSTICE at City Gallery
Spectrum Art Gallery and Artisans Store of Centerbrook presents Nature Up Close. As we move into the pleasures of summer, this exhibit invites us to take a closer look—at our gardens, blooming flowers, towering trees, and the intricate world of insects emerging with the season. Nature Up Close showcases original artwork that captures these intimate views through painting, sculpture, mixed media, and photography by both established and emerging artists. The exhibit runs through July 6. Also, Spectrum’s Artisans Store offers new pottery, glass, fiber, home décor, jewelry, clothing, and accessories, children's books and toys. Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St., Centerbrook, Connecticut. Gallery and Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday (12-6 pm) and Sunday (12-5 pm). For more information about gallery exhibits and classes, workshops, and summer camps for preteens and teens call (860) 767-0742 and visit spectrumartgallery.org. Shop online at SpectrumAnytime.com with shipping available throughout the US. Follow Spectrum social media at facebook.com/spectrumartgallery, instagram.com/spectrumartgallery, x.com/spectrum_ct, and youtube.com/@spectrumgallery6211
Nature Up Close
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Ave, Floor 2, Hamden, CT
Annie Sailer Adult Beginner-Intermediate Dance Class
What turns a simple drawing of a chair or a tree into a true work of art? It’s the artist’s imagination, emotions, and creativity.
Embark on a journey of transformation, reimagining everything around us—trees, flowers, birds, animals, everyday objects, and more—as unique artworks. Students will refine their skills in realistic sketching, while also exploring innovative ways, like altering size, context, or perspective, to infuse imagination into their drawings.
Transform realistic drawings into fantastical scenes and create something extraordinary!
Weather permitting, there will be a one-day field trip to the Yale University Art Gallery.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
See, Draw, Transform
Explore the brilliance of J. M. W. Turner in this special exhibition tour, showcasing the Yale Center for British Art’s unparalleled collection of his work.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
For more information, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/docent-tour-j-m-w-turner-romance-and-reality-15
Tour of “J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality”
Brouhaha, Squonk’s newest show, is an immersive outdoor spectacle bursting with rollicking music, dazzling imagery, and the thrill of audience participation. At the center of this riotous romp is the Squonkcordion, an enormous musical instrument the audience gets to play. Experience the joy of community, the power of live music, and the pageantry of Squonk’s visual extravaganza.
Squonk: Brouhaha
The annual Festa is back! Come eat and enjoy with us as we carry on a century-old tradition in the heart of Wooster Square. Free admission and open to all , mark your calendar for 4 nights of musical entertainment, craft vendors, and delicious Italian American food!
Event times:
Thursday, June 26th 5pm-10pm
Friday, June 27th 5pm-11pm
Saturday, June 28th 3pm-11pm
Sunday, June 29th 2:30pm- 10pm
Website:
St. Andrew Society 125th Italian Festa Celebration | Facebook
St. Andrew Society Annual Italian Festa
Shoreline Arts Alliance is proud to host the 3rd Annual Celebration of the Arts on Thursday, June 26 at Scranton Memorial Library in Madison. The event, which runs from 5-7 PM will celebrate the arts with performances, readings and exhibits by winners of Shoreline Arts Alliance’s 2025 Scholarships in the Arts, IMAGES 2024, the 2025 Tassy Walden New Voices in Children’s Literature competition and SAA’s 2025 Future Choices juried art exhibition for high school students. In addition to seeing emerging artists, attendees will be able to experience the work of professional artists from the shoreline region of Connecticut. View the photography of Allison Maltese, Cathy Ramin and Robert Thomas and view two dance pieces by River Valley Dance Project.
Celebration of the Arts is sponsored in part by Connecticut Office of the Arts, Guilford Foundation, Guilford Savings Bank and National Roofing.
3rd Annual Celebration of the Arts
Join us for the opening our new exhibit celebrating the life and work of distinguished artist Howard Fussiner (1923–2006). Throughout his career, Fussiner was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across New York, New Haven, and New England, including a major thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990.
His paintings and prints are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Slater Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Curated by Judy Birke this exhibition and sale will run through August 31. The venue is accessible 24/7 with a lobby concierge onsite.
Vibrant Vision of Painter Howard Fussiner Exhibit
Come dance the night away in Ninth Square! If you're a beginner, feel free to join us for our 30 minute beginner salsa lesson from 6 - 6:30 before letting loose the rest of the night with your new salsa skills!
Salsa in Ninth Square
HHTTS is an indie Asian dreampop/shoegaze band from Brooklyn, New York. HHTTS began like many indie bands—as a weekend passion project, rehearsing once a week while its members balanced full-time jobs.
After spending a year refining their sound in a $180/month rehearsal studio, the band made its live debut in mid-2022. As an all-Asian group, they quickly stood out in New York City's indie music scene. Since then, they have performed at numerous venues in NYC and beyond, including two sold-out shows. Their growing presence has earned them spots at festivals such as the New Colossus Festival 2023, Moonvibez MusicFest 2023, and Bacchanalia Festival 2022. In May, they released their debut EP, Poutine.
Hang Him To The Scales
Join us for a docent-led tour of “Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning,” the first major North American museum exhibition of her work. Known for her expressive, autobiographical style, Emin explores love, loss, and the female experience with unflinching honesty.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
For more information, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/docent-tour-tracey-emin-i-loved-you-until-morning-15
Tour of “Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning”
Learn how to attach zippers to projects using a sewing machine. The class will cover visible and invisible zippers. This knowledge will expand the breadth of projects the student can sew.
Zipper Magic at Artsplace
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A collaboration of CT Folk, Bigger Beast Records, All Boats Rise Entertainment and Milford Arts Council come together to present some of the best New England songwriters to the MAC stage, performing their songs and the songs from some of the greats!
Each performance will feature 4 regional songwriters singing in the round, celebrating their own music and the iconic songs of the great songwriters that inspired them. A unique and intimate experience for music lovers!
June 26th: ICON | Stevie Wonder
Manny James
Charlotte Roth
Erik Rabasca
Kala Farnham
August 21st: ICON | Joan Baez
Meggie
Frank Critelli
North County Duo
Denise Jones
October 2nd: ICON | Pearl Jam
Henry Jones
Benny Mikula
Hatfield
John Torres
November 6th: ICON | Dolly Parton
Canyon
Liz Ashkins
Bryan Titus
Stephen Peter Rodgers
Tip of the Hat Series
For more than twenty years that the group has been rolling its hump in the world of jazz manouche and revisited song, Christine Tassan and the Impostors has been able to win the esteem and loyalty of an ever-growing audience.
True pioneers in a field usually reserved for men and precursors of the manouche wave that swept over Quebec, these four musicians reinvent with the singularity that we know them a music that, far from being frozen in time, adapts on the contrary to all kinds of new ideas. From covers to compositions, the arrangements of the Impostors innovate, dust, give way to the unbridled creativity of four experienced musicians.
The group's reputation is no longer to be done, with 7 albums to its credit and more than 700 theatrical and festival shows, including multiple tours in Quebec, Canada, Europe, the United States and China. We saw Christine Tassan and the Impostors at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine (France), the Django Festival in Liberchies (Belgium) and the North-West Django Fest (USA). The album "Entre Félix et Django" received the Opus Award for jazz album of the year in 2017 and was nominated in the Show of the Year category in 2018. Since 2020, the group has presented a special holiday show entitled "Django Belles", which has become an annual tradition.
Christine Tassan Et Les Imposteures
Come meet local singles at this exclusive social event to mix and mingle and potentially meet your match. Meeting other singles is tough... so we're make it easy by bringing together singles for you at this fun, laid back event!
Optional, fun, no-pressure ice-breakers will connect singles to ensure you make some new friends and possibly meet your match.
Check in starts at 6:30pm. Event is from 7-9pm with live music by Dan Tressler. This is an open-aged mixer so singles of all ages are welcomed to attend. However, keep in mind events are typically attended mainly by singles ranging from 30-55.
"Wingman" tickets are very limited and only available for purchase WITH a singles ticket. Wingmen will be clearly marked so there's no mistaking them for singles. They're only there to help their single friends feel more comfortable.
Plus, meet the matchmaker to be considered as a match for private Matchmaking clients.
Limited space available so reserve your tickets today.
**We reserve the right to refund your ticket.
REFUND POLICY: All ticket sales are final! NO REFUNDS! NO TRANSFERS to future events. You may transfer your ticket to another person with 48 hours notice previous to the event. NO EXCEPTIONS.
NO REFUNDS!
****Ticket purchase is good for this event ONLY. Not transferable to other events.****
Get your ticket now. You never know who you'll meet...
Looking for a PROMO CODE? Join the Jillin' It LoVe CluB for member only savings, access to reserved tickets and perks, member only monthly events, prefered database status to be considered as a match for Jill’s VIP Matchmaking clients and so much more. Learn more and join the Jillin' It Love Club today!
For more info about Jill's private and personalized matchmaking service and other opportunities for singles check out: www.Jillinit.com
Summertime Singles Mixer + Matchmaking Event on the Patio
Help save "Sister Soosie", Trinity on the Green's historic 90-year-old pipe organ, by attending a series of free-will-donation organ recitals that will benefit the restoration project. Hear world-class performers work with our 3-manual Aeolian-Skinner organ every Thursday at 7 pm, and come up to the console after the recitals for a tour of the instrument. Learn more about the organ restoration here: https://www.trinitynewhaven.org/new-page-5
Benefit Organ Recital Series "Summers with Soosie" - organist Walden Moore
Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it.
This workshop will be hosted at Valor Wines. Located in North Haven Connecticut, we are a family owned and operated micro winery with generations of experience in wine making. This nurtured passion allows us to make unique and distinctive wines using grapes from all over the world. It was a long fight to start one of the first micro wineries in CT, and we were excited to finally open our doors in September 2021. Our passion for wine making blends respect for tradition with boundless curiosity for what is possible. We believe knowing your roots can uncork the potential to think outside the bottle. Making us uniquely situated to create one of a kind small batch wines which will invoke both familiar comfort and striking intrigue. Come visit us in our state of the art facility, where industrial meets medieval romance.
Under 21 policy: Please contact Valor Wines for details regarding underage entry
For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/valor-wines
Bonsai Workshop at Valor Wines
Please join us for a community Hymn Festival led by Martin Jean, director of the ISM, Catherine Rodland of St. Olaf College, and Michael Kleinschmidt of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle. Accompanied by brass ensemble, with Yale Sacred Music Academy participants leading a musical tour through the church year.
Free and open to the public. This event is a part of the ISM's 2025 Sacred Music Academy.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Yale Sacred Music Academy presents: Hymn Festival
Inspired by the real stories of New Haven apizza pioneers, Family Business: (A)Pizza Play follows the Carbonizatto family’s pizza shop from it’s immigrant beginnings as it passes down over generations. This production explores New Haven’s pizza magic (la magia dell'apizza) from New Haven’s cultural and historic connection to pizza.
Family Business: (A)Pizza Play is a special collaboration with CitySeed and Sanctuary Kitchen, highlighting New Haven’s food culture, and celebrating the impact of 100 years of immigrant entrepreneurship in New Haven. Performances are at 162 James St., New Haven, future home of CitySeed’s operations, food incubator, and Sanctuary Kitchen.
THE CARBONIZATTO STORY
Pizza is a big deal in New Haven. We’re the Pizza Capital of America, after all. A Broken Umbrella Theatre has always wanted to tell the New Haven Apizza story, but not as a biography of any pizzaioli, but as a story of all of them. To do that, they took New Haven’s Apizza people and joined them into the fictionalized Carbonizzatto Family. Carbonizzatto, from the Italian for “carbonized” — a knowing wink to the black-dusted fingers walking out of any apizza shop.
Last year, in A Slice, we saw multiple generations of the Carbonizzattos throughout history, but always in New Haven and always at their pizza shop. The Carbonizattos struggled from generation to generation as they grappled with what they owe to future Carbonizattos — and what did they owe to those who came before? Because this is part of a larger story, and it’s not just about Apizza, it’s about a family. A Slice was only the seed for this full production, or as Bruno Cantante sings in the show, “One slice don’t make a pie.”
Family Business: (A)Pizza Play
Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the 1990’s. Born in Berkeley, California he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and had already been accepted by Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year. Instead, he moved to New York City and immediately found himself immersed in the city’s burgeoning jazz scene. Five months later Redman was named winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Since then, Redman has worked and played with a vast array of jazz luminaries, released over twenty albums (Warner & Nonesuch), and has garnered top honors in critics and readers polls of DownBeat, Jazz Times, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.
Joshua Redman (Quartet)
Long Days
June 12-19
By Gabe Mckinley
World Premiere production by Gabe McKinley about a group of actors putting on a production of O’Neill’s LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at a regional theatre; a tragic and sometimes darkly humorous overlapping of themes amidst the plays with a deliciously compelling plot of what happens “behind the scenes."
Long Days
No kids. No worries. Just pure, grown-up fun under the stars. Zip through the moonlit skies and conquer climbing challenges under the glow of the moon as we stay open late for the grown ups.
Enjoy music and late night vibes while you climb under the moonshine. This event is for adult climbers 18+ only.
Adults Only Night
FREE Summer Meals for ALL kids and teens 18 and under!
50+ open sites in New Haven!
Serving breakfast, lunch, and/or supper.
No registration or sign up required!
Meals MUST be eaten on site.
June 23, 2025-August 15, 2025 (Monday-Friday) no meals July 4th.
See website for locations, dates, & serving times: https://nhpscnp.org/
FREE Summer Meals for Kids & Teens
Bring lions, zebras, elephants, and other animals to life through the magic of Procreate.
Join us on an exciting and creative journey across the African savannah, where students will sketch, detail, and animate favorite animals in their natural habitats.
Throughout the class they will develop techniques for quick sketches, designing nature scenes, and creating dynamic animal layouts.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Sketching The Safari: Digital Animal Art
This isn’t your typical playground—get ready for a world of creativity!
At CAW’s playground, students will have access to a rainbow of materials: colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper, and so much more! Using all these supplies, they’ll create amazing projects like masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and even imaginary creatures.
How will they bring their ideas to life? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring—all while mixing their own one-of-a-kind colors.
We bet you’ll wish you could join in the fun too!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
The Clinton Art Society (CAS) is pleased to present the annual Summer Juried Exhibition June 26 through July 30. “The event will be the highlight of our exhibition season as we celebrate visual arts and the vast talents of our member artists,” said CAS President Robin Hammeal-Urban. “We are honored to have renowned artist Anda Styler serve as our juror to select works and choose award recipients,” she added.
Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, June 29, from 2pm to 4pm and be a part of the visual celebration. The event is free, open to the public, and includes refreshments, live music, and inspiring art. The exhibition includes works in a wide range of artistic styles and mediums.
CAS was established in 1949 by a small group of professional artists dedicated to the growth of the arts in the region. “We’ve grown to become a vibrant influence in the arts community with members from across Connecticut and throughout New England,” Hammeal-Urban said. CAS sponsors exhibitions, critique events, and educational programs. Artists work in all fine-art media including painting and sculpture and new members are welcome.
The exhibit will be on view in the Andrews Memorial Town Hall at 54 E. Main Street in Clinton, CT from June 26 through July 30. The show is open for viewing during regular town hall hours Monday through Friday. For more information, contact CAS at casclinton@gmail.com or visit clintonartsocietyct.org.
Monday through Wednesday, 9am to 4pm
Thursday, 9am to 7pm
Friday, 9am to 12pm
Closed July 4
Summer Juried Exhibition
This class is for beginners as well as previous students. We’ll have more time to build our skills with lots of choices for sewing by hand and on the machine. Use felt to sew colorful animals and fun shapes decorated with buttons and stitches. Learn how to use and design your own patterns. Projects from simple to more advanced projects include bags, stuffed animals like a teddy bear or whale, a patchwork pillow, a sewing kit, potholder and more.
Sewing Bonanza! at Artsplace
Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thursday, November 27 (Thanksgiving Day); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).
In remembrance of Pope Francis, who passed on April 21, 2025, the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to present this exhibit illustrating the pope’s outreach to the peripheries during his 47 international trips.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/francis-pope-of-the-peripheries/
Exhibit | Francis: Pope of the Peripheries
March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).
Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups.
The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/
Exhibit | Among the Persecuted and Displaced: Photographs from Iraq & Nigeria
A two person exhibition of work by artists Day Moore and Kelly Clark.
Salt Water Dialogue
Explore the Charm of Yesteryear at Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Spend an hour, spend the day – embark on a nostalgic journey with the Shore Line Trolley Museum! Open for visitors, our museum offers enchanting trolley rides and captivating tours that transport you back in time. Purchase your tickets online or at the door and enjoy unlimited access throughout the day!
Ticket Prices:
- $13 for Adults
- $12 for Folks 62+
- $10 for Children
- Kids under 2 ride FREE!
Please note that special events may have different pricing.
Operating Hours: 11 AM – 3 PM, Wed-Sun with trolley cars departing every hour. Our volunteer trolley operators will guide you through the oldest suburban street railway in the U.S.A. – a National Historic District that opened on July 31, 1900, connecting New Haven with the Connecticut shore line.
Authentic Trolley Experience: Step into history as you ride on an authentic antique trolley car. Whether it’s the yellow Connecticut Company trolley capturing old New Haven, the 1923 New Orleans Public Transit trolley, or the semi-open 1904 Brooklyn Rapid Transit trolley, your journey promises a unique experience. We regularly operate trolley cars from New Orleans and Johnstown PA, providing diverse rides depending on weather conditions.
Witness Restoration in Action: Marvel at meticulously volunteer-restored display cars and catch a glimpse of our dedicated volunteers working on overhead wires, signals, or tracks. If you’re passionate about preservation, inquire about volunteering opportunities with your tour guide or ticket agent.
Membership Benefits: Consider becoming a member for exclusive advantages if you plan to visit multiple times a year. Ask about our annual membership subscriptions to enhance your museum experience.
Take Home a Piece of History: Don’t forget to stop by our museum store before you leave! Explore a variety of mementos to commemorate your visit.
Join us for an unforgettable day filled with history, charm, and the joy of trolley rides at Shore Line Trolley Museum. Purchase your tickets now and let the past come alive!
Museum Tours & Trolley Rides
An Exhibit of Abstract Watercolor and Mixed Media Assemblages featuring Work by Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler
Celebrate the summer solstice with an exciting new show at City Gallery. Kathy Kane and Karen Wheeler present an exhibit of abstract watercolor landscapes and handmade paper and mixed media assemblages in SOLSTICE, on view from June 6 - June 29. The Opening Reception on Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., is open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
SOLSTICE at City Gallery
Spectrum Art Gallery and Artisans Store of Centerbrook presents Nature Up Close. As we move into the pleasures of summer, this exhibit invites us to take a closer look—at our gardens, blooming flowers, towering trees, and the intricate world of insects emerging with the season. Nature Up Close showcases original artwork that captures these intimate views through painting, sculpture, mixed media, and photography by both established and emerging artists. The exhibit runs through July 6. Also, Spectrum’s Artisans Store offers new pottery, glass, fiber, home décor, jewelry, clothing, and accessories, children's books and toys. Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St., Centerbrook, Connecticut. Gallery and Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday (12-6 pm) and Sunday (12-5 pm). For more information about gallery exhibits and classes, workshops, and summer camps for preteens and teens call (860) 767-0742 and visit spectrumartgallery.org. Shop online at SpectrumAnytime.com with shipping available throughout the US. Follow Spectrum social media at facebook.com/spectrumartgallery, instagram.com/spectrumartgallery, x.com/spectrum_ct, and youtube.com/@spectrumgallery6211