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Arnott’s Arts Happenings for June 29-July 4

Talk about your Grateful Dead. The seminal jam band is marking the 50th anniversary of its formation with a California reunion of four of its original members. The three nights of concerts are being simulcast at clubs and theaters across the country, including at least two in downtown New Haven.

Also happy to be dead: George Washington, who is feted not only with fireworks at East Rock on Independence Day, but with the rededication of a stolen-then-recovered plaque in his honor at 91 Church St. on Saturday morning.

Then there are the sultry summery sounds of Jack + Eliza Wednesday at BAR, which make you glad to be alive.

Monday, June 29

So This is Christmas

Hot enough for you? The Mitchell Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library is holding a Christmas in July” party, with a screening of the wintry special Arthur’s First Perfect Christmas. Bring non-perishable foodstuffs to donate to the Connecticut Food Bank. 6 p.m. (203) 946‑8117.

Keyed Up
We’re in the midst of the Great Organ Music at Yale Summer Series, held at Yale by the Northeast Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists. Today at 1:45 p.m. you can hear Ahream Han at Trinity Church on the Green, 230 Temple St. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. it’s a Hymn Festival at Battell Chapel (corner of College and Elm). (203) 432‑5062.

Tuesday, June 30

Plants in the Sound

New Haven Land Trust is hosting a walk through Long Wharf, with Justin Freiberg of Yale West Campus Urban Farm talking about the wild edible plants in the area. 6 p.m. at Long Wharf Nature Preserve (near the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Park). Free.

Pumped

The Great Organ Music at Yale Summer Series performer today is Diane Meredith Belcher, 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 5 Hillhouse Ave. Brought to you by the Northeast Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists. (203) 432‑5062.

Wednesday, July 1

July Starts With Song

Joe Michelini from the band River City Extension, the NYC duo Jack + Eliza and singer/songwriter Julia Autumn Ford play an uncommonly intimate and soft-spoken free BAR Wednesday show. 9 p.m. 247 Crown St.

Thursday, July 2

Supermagic
superhero-themed magic show is conjured up by Mr. Magic, 2 p.m. July 2 at the main (Ives) New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St. (203) 946‑8129.

What’s Black, Grey, Grizzly and Secondhand All Over?

The Local Rock Showcase at Toad’s Place (300 York St.) features Black River Union, Bridge Out, The Elwoods, Grey Negative, Matzah Cigar, Migrant, Noel Levvis & Teddy Grizzly, and Secondhand Watermelon. $12. (203) 624-TOAD.

Shorty Set
Mondo Bizarro, the New Orleans-based theater troupe that put on Cry You One, has barely left town, and now along comes Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue for an 8 p.m. concert at College Street Music Hall (238 College St.). R&B singer Son Little is the opening act. $25-$30.

Friday, July 3

Dead to the World

The three-night Fare Thee Well” concert by reunited surviving members of the Grateful Dead is being live-streamed tonight through Sunday at College Street Music Hall (238 College St.) and at Stella Blues (204 Crown St.). The shows, marking the band’s 50th anniversary, will apparently be the last time that Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir intend to share a stage together. The quartet are joined by Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. (203) 752‑9764.

Saturday, July 4

Fireworks Rock
They’re shooting off fireworks from East Rock again. The summit of East Rock will be closed to the public so that the pyrotechnicians can do their thing. The recommended place to view the display is the Wilbur Cross High School field (181 Mitchell Dr.). The event also includes a performance by the U.S. Coast Guard Band. If it rains, the band will play in the Wilbur Cross auditorium.

Washington Worshipped Here

Other Independence events, unique to New Haven: At 9 a.m. in Grove Street ceremony, there’s a ceremony to honor the signers of the Declaration of Independence — right at the grave of one of them, Roger Sherman. Following that observance at 11 a.m., a plaque will be placed at 91 Church St. to mark the the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth. The plaque has been there before; it was first placed in 1932, recently stolen, and then recovered. People who assisted in its recovery (including historian Robert Greenberg and junk dealer Ian Alderman) will be there, plus the Humphreys branch of the Sons of the American Revoution, a color guard from the Governor’s Foot Guard, New Haven police officers, representatives of Northside Development and Five Guys Restaurants (the site’s new tenant), and a Revolutionary War re-enactor dressed as Washington’s aide-de-camp David Humphreys. The Mary Clap Wooster chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who placed the original plaque there in 1932, will replace it now. The rededication will also honor Washington’s visit to New Haven in 1789. He attended a service at Trinity Church, which was then at this part of Church Street. The public ceremony is free.

Sunday, July 5

Must Be Going

Today is the closing day of the Hello, I Must Be Going: American Pastoral” exhibit by photographer (and Best Video founder) Hank Paper, which is at the Kehler Liddell gallery at 873 Whalley Ave., alongside the Momentary Landscapes” paintings of Liz Antle‑O’Donnell.

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