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]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Govenor's Arts Awards Five individuals and entities were recently given the Governor's Patron of the Arts Awards, an annual honor which acknowledges support of the arts. The 2018 winners are…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2018
Two creative Connecticut millennials will each be the winners of a $5,000 prize that will allow them to turn their ideas into reality. A contest called The Push! is looking for pitches for s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Faeries have returned to Old Lyme, as they do every autumn, and this year, they've got a letter for you. In fact, they have all 26 letters and a few punctuation marks. For 2018, Wee Faerie V…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:35AM[SHARE]The paintings are uncomplicated, childlike, inspired by ads, movie stills or magazine illustrations. Simple figures ride horses, play with dogs, climb ladders, pose in a garden, row boats. T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Modest Mussorgsky composed "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874 while grieving the death of his friend Viktor Hartmann. Mussorgsky created his suite as musical accompaniment to 10 Hartmann ar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
The president's never-ending battles with the media are reported on the news every day. But if he thinks he invented the concept of "fake news," he is wrong. For centuries, the powerful have…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
Rachel Valentino of Waterbury met Mick Posner of Long Island at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. Both were deaf but they came from different upbringings: She had spoken all her life, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PM[SHARE]Anyone who wants to tap into their inner artist won't want to miss the third annual lunchtime "I Am An Artist Day" on Wednesday, Sept. 12, when dozens of free events take place in Hartford's…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Alex Vincent was 6 years old when he was cast as the lead in the horror movie "Child's Play." He was a little worried about the crying scene, but his best friend in the movie didn't scare hi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:20AM[SHARE]Jodi Picoult likes writing stories that challenge readers' long-standing beliefs. "I have become known for writing about contentious issues by showing all side of a controversial subject and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2018
The State Bond Commission has approved $1 million to help Real Art Ways with "planning and acquisition for a new, larger facility" in Hartford, according to minutes of the July 25 meeting po…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Colorful murals are popping up all over Hartford: a huge image of a toothy-smiled little kid on a community center, a painted collage of city leaders on the side of a school, two mysterious …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
Artist Collective, the arts-education hub in the North End of Hartford, will close by mid-2019 if $1 million is not raised to pay its debts, Board Chairman Benjamin Foster told The Courant. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The 32nd annual Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, a weekend of family-friendly activities, is July 27 and July 28 in areas around the Old Lyme Arts District, along Lyme Street. All events are fre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Every weekend, Ron-A-Roll roller rink in Vernon is packed with skating families. On Friday, July 27, circus performers join the fun. Cirque to Go is a newly formed collective of former circu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2018
It isn't just the inside of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art that is bursting with artworks. The front lawn's collection of outdoor artworks is growing. On June 21, the first day of summ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
Rennie McQuilkin was born and raised in Pittsford, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. His mother, Eleanor, was a poet. "I think you have to have somebody in the family preceding you as a poet, to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2018
The deadline to apply for consideration as Hartford's first poet laureate has been extended to June 18. The position is open to Hartford residents at least 18 years old who have had original…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
"The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" was cancelled in 2016, in the heat of the election season. At that time, the host stated "Our show was at its best when the news was at its worst." This…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
A few years back, the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was renamed the Connecticut LGBT Film Festival. This year, the "T" in LGBT is placed front and center. The 31st annual Hartford …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
A few weeks back, an auction at Christie's in New York raised the highest-ever total for a private collection: $832,573,469, from more than 1,500 lots from the estate of Peggy and David Rock…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AM[SHARE]As a celebrated practitioner of the Hudson River School, Frederic Church was renowned for his sweeping natural vistas and dramatic, cloud-filled skies. But while on a trip to the Mediterrane…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:45AM[SHARE]In 1975, Margaret Gibson was teaching English at George Mason University in Virginia and was offered a residency at Yaddo, a retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. At Yaddo, she met fellow poet D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Riverfront Recapture is gearing up for a busy summer, with its usual variety of free activities on both banks of the Connecticut River and an added bonus of a few new events starting in June…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Music, poetry and art-making come to downtown Hartford starting May 29 with the Greater Hartford Arts Council's four-week Art on the Streets festivities, plus two summerlong lunchtime concer…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
FriendZWorldMusic, a Hartford-based musical collective, presents The BlackOut Experience on April 28 at 6 p.m. at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford. Megan Craig, a d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! The state's two gay men's choruses are performing back to back: The first performance is a revue of classic pop songs and the other is a play about romance. "Oh …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:45AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
Adam Rippon is riding high. The figure skater just won a medal at the PyeongChang Winter Games. He's traveling the country with "Stars on Ice," which is coming to Hartford April 22. And he i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
The theme of Connecticut Arts Day 2018, celebrated on April 25 in Hartford, is resiliency. Keynote speaker Bettina Love fits right in. Love has made her name theorizing on a new approach to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:25PM[SHARE]Chango Rosa is known for its unique spin on the cuisine of Mexico. But on April 19 another country will take over the vibe: Japan. A launch party that night in the downtown restaurant kicks …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE] 
