After a breakneck October, New Haven takes it pretty easy this week.
Tuesday, November 5 - Election Day
Connecticut voters head to the polls from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Find yours here, and familiarize yourself with a sample ballot here.
Thursday, November 7
In Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, a 7 p.m. director-attended screening of Bright College Years (1974) offers the chance to “revisit New Haven’s tumultuous 1970 May Day weekend, as seen by a School of Drama student filmmaker.”
At 7:30 on their home stage in the back of EBM & Civvies Vintage, the New Haven Theater Company opens a two-weekend run of Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, “a warm and deeply moving story of the relationship between two of our greatest American poets. Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, both Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, exchanged more than four hundred letters. Ruhl’s play knits together key moments from these letters and brings theatrical life to the story of a 30-year friendship that lived almost entirely in their writing.”
Friday, November 8
From 6 to 8, “a night of food, community and conversation” is on the menu at CitySeed’s new home, 162 James Street. The food comes courtesy of Sanctuary Kitchen, Chef Sil’s Vegan Kitchen, Razzi’s Eats and Treats, Momma Kiss Kitchen Cuisine, Mitho Garden and Tortilleria Semilla, while the conversation—the featured one, anyway—happens between cookbook author Chrissy Tracey and local personality Babz Rawls Ivy.
At 7, Kehler Liddell Gallery hosts a “wine-fueled” chance to discuss art with some of the gallery’s artists: William C. Butcher, Rod Cook, Tom Edwards, Brian Flinn, Sean Gallagher, Sheldon Krevit, Hank Paper and Gar Waterman.
Also at 7, New England Brewing Company hosts a burlesque show by Ladybird Vixen, with an extra twist of the tassel: the theme of the show is NEBCo itself.
Saturday, November 9
The Staves—comprised of sisters Jessica, Camilla and Emily Staveley-Taylor—bring their rich vocal harmonies and soothing acoustic guitars to Hamden’s Space Ballroom for an 8 p.m. bill.
Sunday, November 10
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Annex YMA Club, it’s the next New Haven Comic & Collectible Spectacular, where visitors can expect vendors selling vintage and modern comic books and toys as well as “featured artists… discussing, doing live sketches, taking commissions and selling their original art.”
Written and photographed by Dan Mims. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
