Summertime and team activities abound well beyond the volleyball nets and baseball fields. Kehler Liddell Gallery mounted an ambitious group show that will be on display
Thursday-Sunday this week. Featured artists include Frank Bruckman, Jason Buening, Rod Cook, Jessica Cuni, Matthew Garrett, Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, Blinn Jacobs, Keith Johnson, Gigi Horr Liverant, Lawrence Morelli, Edith Borax Morrison, J.S. Robinson, Joseph Saccio, Roger VanDamme and Gar Waterman. Gar has recently won commissions for work in several European cities where he and wife, Thea Buxbaum. will spend a good deal of time in the coming months. The artistic and innovative power couple are clearly a neighborhood blessing .
Pictured: Venerable artist Gar Waterman with a signature sculpting “Due Disci.”
Thea Buxbaum, the indomitable catalyst for the rebirth of Westville Village, recently announced that she left Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven, after a wonderful seven-year tenure,. She will devote her efforts to Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA) as it moves from a volunteer-led non-profit to a professional organization with a full-time staff. The Westville Village Renaissance Alliance is anticipating designation as a Connecticut Main Streets program. She will be shepherding that process through completion. One has only to look at the ArLoW project of affordable work/live space for artists, the new restaurants, vibrant galleries and thriving shops to applaud this outstanding and energetic “rain maker”. She induced her friends and colleagues to relocate and invest in her vision.
Pictured: Joe Saccio, child psychiatrist and sculptor photographed with his “Perpetua; Seed.”
Moving on to Audubon, the fourth Annual Members’ Show of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven is the best in the show’s history, featuring diverse work from full and part-time artists; it is worth a look and will remain at 70 Audubon Street’s Second floor gallery until August 31. The more you think you know about people, the less you know you know; one of the surprises is that Bill Foster (pictured), a professor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, a diversity trainer for ADL, and a playwright (Prudence Crandall story) is also a comic book historian and collage artist.
Moving on to Chamber news… Pictured: Paul Tommaselli , Operations Coordinator of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce looks over the crowd at the Business After Hours festivities at the Great River Golf Club with Assistant Pro Kevin Ferrarotti.
Almost 150 sun-loving life science entrepreneurs, scientists, and staff flocked to the idyllic Owenego Inn in Branford for CURE’s first-ever biotech summer cookout. Paul Pescatello, president and CEO of CURE, welcomed the guests, telling them he was delighted to add to the CURE calendar a summer networking event. Guests wore name badges that included snippets of DNA code and, in the spirit of bioscience networking, scoured the rooms and porches of the Inn for partners with complementary codes. Those who found partners put their names in the hat for noteworthy door prizes, thanks to the generosity of several gift sponsors. Sponsors made it possible for employees of CURE member companies to attend without charge included Kelly Scientific Resources, 454 Life Sciences, and CuraGen. Kelly Scientific, a staffing firm specializing in scientists, has just opened an office in Connecticut.
This weekend the Arts Council hosts its OFF THE WALL event on Sunday evening. The party starts at 5. It is one of the more unusual fund raising events in the arts Community. For a ticket price of $85.00, you not only wine and dine, but you actually take one of eighty five photographs (donated by professional artists) right off the wall to hang at home. Most of the framed work has value beyond the ticket price. There are still a few tickets available and this Dish deems it a “Deal; call Winter Marshall at 772‑2788 as soon as possible to join the festivities.
While you are there, don’t forget to stroll up the street to look at the installation in the Farmington Canal (behind the Neighborhood School of Music). Internationally acclaimed artist Matej Andraz Vogrincic Has created a stunning exhibit for Site Projects and this should not be missed. It is free.
If you’d rather be participating than viewing, Independent Film in Promfret Needs Extras and Featured Extras Cannes Film Festival award-winning production crew is filming a feature film at the Pomfret School in Connecticut. If you ever wanted to be in a movie, or ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of a film set, please come down to the Pomfret School and get involved! All positions are unpaid. Looking for students ages 14 through 23 and teachers ages 30+.
Friday, August 10: 40 students needed
Saturday, August 11: 150 students and 15 teachers needed
Thursday, August 23: 40 students and 15 teachers needed
Friday, August 24: 50 students needed
Saturday, August 25: 200 students and 50 teachers needed
Thursday, August 28: 50 students and 20 teachers needed
NOTE: Students, unless otherwise advised, should come to the set wearing BOARDING SCHOOL ATTIRE. Boys should wear khakis, button-down shirt, navy blue blazer or any other similar color blazer. Girls should wear a skirt or dress pants and a polo or button own top or sweater.
Teachers should simply wear professional attire.
If interested, please email: [email protected]
You’d do well to fit Elm City Shakespeare into your schedule as well. Edgerton Park is a wonderful venue for James Andreassi’s production of The Three Musketeers, performed at 8PM from Thursday through Sunday this weekend. It will continue on August 21,23,25,29. 31 and September 2 . Allyn Burrows production of As You Like It will be staged August 16 – 19, and the 22,24,26,30 and September 1.
If you’d rather be indoors than out, the Little Theatre on Lincoln Street has an original and provocative play.
Haskins Laboratories, presents Environmental Visions: Beauty and Fragility at the Haskins Laboratories Gallery at 300 George Street, 9th floor. The exhibition will be in place by August 20.
SO MUCH TO DO BEFORE WE EVEN GET TO THE PILOT PEN….. HOT TIMES! SUMMER IN THE CITY!
It’s a time that your own good really meshes with OF COURSE! THE GREATER GOOD!!
