Friday, November 13, 2020
The Melanin Project CT is a photographic project to appreciate all the various shades of Blackness, and to give recognition to Connecticut Black creative artists.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, November 11, 2020
The inaugural Connecticut Literary Festival (http://connecticutliteraryfestival.org/) took place in September 2019 in Hartford. As an extension of that festival, an anthology of work by 36 C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:54PMMonday, November 9, 2020
A new gallery in Hartford devoted to LGBTQ artworks is being inaugurated this month with a show of work by transgender Connecticut artists. The exhibit will run until Nov. 30. The dates coin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:40AMMonday, November 2, 2020
Black Art Heals is a Hartford initiative to encourage communities of color to make and enjoy art to heal community trauma. Six members of the Black Art Heals collective are taking their show…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 30, 2020
With the election just days away, UConn has installed an outdoor art exhibit that puts a twist on the political lawn sign. Thirteen artists used the format to express their views on social, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 23, 2020
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s S.P.L.A.S.H. Project, created in honor of Iran Brugueras Jr., a rap artist who lived with mental illness who died in 2016 at the age of 20, issued i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:04AMWednesday, October 21, 2020
New England Ballet Theatre of CT, a new professional ballet company based in Hartford, will host a fall gala virtual/live performance at Hartford Flavor Company on Oct. 25.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMOpen Studio Hartford, the annual autumn extravaganza of art-buying in the city, is going virtual this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and has put out a call for artists to part…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PMMonday, October 19, 2020
The Free Center in Middletown is hosting a live-streamed ballet this month, “Dark Night,” The Ekklesia dance company, which studies spirituality through dance, is based in Middletown.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, October 18, 2020
Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon in 1988, lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines and then got asylum in the United States with his family, eventually settling in Hartford. From this scatte…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:01AMFriday, October 16, 2020
Connecticut Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards on Thursday. Among the winners are Ocean Vuong, a book about Yale accepting women and a novel about …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:52PMCommunity Renewal Team’s Women’s Empowerment Center at 330 Market St. in Hartford, which recently was renamed after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will soon hav…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:44PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Exhibits around the state take on loaded issues such as sexism, racism, politics, the 2020 election.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 13, 2020
A virtual fundraising gala for the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford will be Nov. 6 at 8 p.m., with special guests including publishing superstar John Grisham and musical legends Jim…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:25PMMonday, October 5, 2020
“Some Day is Now: Women, Art and Social Change,” set to open on Aug. 7, was moved to October, and is on view now through Jan. 24. The delay, rather than a detriment, worked out to the ex…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2020
12 Months of Steampunk, the monthly event centering on steampunk aesthetic, will be Oct. 3 at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. It will be followed by two other events in November and Decembe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:23AMSunday, September 27, 2020
The 33rd annual Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival will take place Oct. 2 to 10, showing 18 features and documentaries and dozens of short films. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 26, 2020
Hartford is a city of murals, with such subjects as Martin Luther King, city pioneers, Jackie McLean, Roberto Clemente and everyday people. Here is a list of outdoor murals throughout the ci…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
Nine cement blocks blocking off Ann Uccello and Allyn streets to car traffic were painted with flowers and bees, to beautify the streets and lure people to eat at the outdoor restaurants.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:20AMMonday, September 21, 2020
Like everything else in 2020, museum fundraising galas are going virtual. On Sept. 26, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford will hold its virtual gala starting at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:59AMFriday, September 18, 2020
Albert Woodfox has been awarded the 2020 Stowe Prize from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, an honor for books about social justice issues. In an interview, he talks about his yo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, September 14, 2020
Hartford area lovers of literature can gather on the Facebook page of the Hartford Public Library on Sept. 19 to “All Things Lit Live!,” a virtual version of the Hartford L.I.T. festival.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 3, 2020
Cathy Malloy, who has been CEO of Greater Hartford Arts Council for nine years, will step down. Malloy also is the former first lady of Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:29PMWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States. is reopening on Labor Day weekend after being closed for 5 1/2 months a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
The first of three Black Lives Matter murals was unveiled on Tuesday evening at town hall. The murals are being financed by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:10PMThursday, August 27, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has severely cut back services offered by most municipal libraries. But in many towns, people who love books can meet in book clubs on Zoom.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities announced the finalists for the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards, an annual honor bestowed on Nutmeg State authors and illustrators…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:32AMMonday, August 24, 2020
Hartford Public Library and Hartford History Center's summer "Changemakers" program, which offered virtual workshops in a variety of artistic disciplines, will conclude on Aug. 29 and Sept. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:56AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
Hartford Public Library has started a book club to encourage people ages 13 to 25 to read and discuss books on subjects of anti-racism and social justice. The club opens with "How to Be an A…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 6, 2020
Hartford Stage – whose executive director stated in March that coronavirus cancellations would result in “a financial hardship that is going to be extensive” – has sued a production …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMSunken Garden Poetry Festival isn’t letting the coronavirus stand in its way. Unlike many cultural events shelved as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 28th annual event, at Hill-Stead…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
