Saturday, February 29, 2020
The Nasty Women movement sprang into being in late 2016 as a feminist declaration against the presidential election. Three years later, the movement is still going strong in Connecticut. On …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2020
The 24th annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Fest will run March 5 to 15 in venues in Hartford, West Hartford and Bloomfield.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has announced a total of $360,000 in grants to support arts programs that benefit Hartford youth. The allocations to 11 arts programs were made in r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
"Americana Vibes" exhibit at Real Art Ways in Hartford traces history of 20th century American music in 54 album covers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
An exhibit at Fairfield University of work by six Cuban artists reflects on the years of collective memories of the Castro-era Cuban people, who have endured hunger, poverty and a constant d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Connecticut Office of the Arts has announced the newest round of Connecticut Arts Endowment and Artist Fellowship Program funding for the 2020 fiscal year. A total of 198 people and organiza…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:54AM[SHARE]Twelve not-too-expensive Valentine's Day date ideas to do before or after that intimate romantic dinner at a restaurant.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman will come to Wadsworth Atheneum on Feb. 8 to discuss "Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan" and to screen one of Ronald Reagan's films…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2020
A series of 15 artworks by Kara Walker, which address the issue of black identity and historical erasure, are on exhibit at New Britain Museum of American Art. The museum is dedicating 2020 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Seven theaters in the state will show Oscar nominated live-action, animated and documentary shorts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2020
Exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven remembers the now-lost 1952 mural by John Wilson, "The Incident," which depicts the aftermath of a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
When CONNetic Dance's "Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four members of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, an associate professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, has been named the first poet laureate of Hartford. Knowles is 45 and lives in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2018
When CONNetic Dance's "Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four members of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
Connecticut Public, which produces Connecticut Public Television, Connecticut Public Radio and Connecticut Public Learning, is introducing a new TV station on Dec. 3 called Create. Create's …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
At Christmastime, popular toys, hot books and the latest heavily advertised thing always catch the public's fancy. But the mall and Internet are not the sole options for holiday shopping. Co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
Tickets go on sale Nov. 19 for Camp John Waters, the third annual weekend at the 320-acre Club Getaway in northwestern Connecticut with the cult-film director. The event at the adult camp in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
Jess Nelson didn't used to be into art. "I never got past stick figures," says the 35-year-old Burlington native, who has cerebral palsy. Then she tried art therapy at New Horizons Village, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
The big news in the book-publishing world is actually quite small. Dutton Books for Young Readers has re-released four titles by young-adult best-seller John Green in a tiny format. Each boo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]'Antigone' Oddfellows Playhouse Teen Repertory Company will presenti Sophocles' drama "Antigone" Nov. 29 and Dec. 1, 7 and 8 at the playhouse at 128 Washington St. in Middletown. Marcella Tr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Puppetry has a long tradition in Africa, with puppets and masks used in sacred and secular ceremonies and as entertainment for centuries. But when kidnapped Africans were trafficked across t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
How do you like them apples? That's the question of the month in Southington, which has launched a public-art project titled Apples & Arts: Thirty area artists have painted 37, 3-feet-tall p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Stephanie Plum has been a bounty hunter in 24 novels by Janet Evanovich. In her 25th Plum novel, "Look Alive Twenty-Five," Plum takes on a second, unlikely job: the manager of a deli, superv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
Money for the arts Connecticut Office of the Arts is accepting applications for the Connecticut Arts Endowment program, fiscal year 2019. Applicants must be Connecticut 501(c)(3) arts organi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
While the rest of the world is cleaning up after the spooky funfest of Halloween, an arts market in New Haven is just getting started. Gothic Arts Market on Nov. 3 at Lyric Hall Theater is a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:33AM[SHARE]Open Studio Hartford, an annual extravaganza that lets local artists showcase their work and allows art lovers to buy one-of-a-kind creations, is expanding this year from one weekend to two …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
The inaugural Peter Tillou-Venture Smith Book Prize, which was created to honor West African authors writing fiction, nonfiction or poetry in English, will be awarded to Ghanaian poet Kwadwo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]By the time Dennis Hopper shot to international super stardom in "Easy Rider" in 1969, he had been a busy but relatively unknown film actor for 15 years. One of his friends was James Dean, w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]The Push! finalists The Push!, a pitch contest sponsored by YUPntwk, has chosen finalists in two categories. The contest challenged Hartford-area millennials to come up with ideas for a publ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
The first artwork visitors see when entering the Wadsworth Atheneum's new exhibit is a painting by Richard Oelze, which shows a group of people walking across a stark, gray no man's land und…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Composer Wins Prize Tawnie Olson, who lives in New Haven, has won this year's grand prize in the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition competition, which is administered by the school of mu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE] 
