A downtown bike race and pizza fest anchor an eclectic week.
Monday, September 9
At 6 p.m. in Kroon Hall, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication presents a screening of True False Hot Cold, “an award-winning documentary series exploring how to build a more cohesive society, through the lens of climate opinions,” followed by a discussion with the series’s director, Ben Stillerman, about “climate change, belief, and talking with people you don’t agree with.”
Tuesday, September 10
Coinciding with the bar’s latest Taco Tuesday, the next monthly Brew and Glue at Three Sheets offers a selection of collaging materials curated by Ileana Garcia. “Troegs Brewing will be joining us with delicious drafts and raffle prizes!”
Wednesday, September 11
A show to benefit victims of the unprecedented flash floods that hit the Housatonic and Naugatuck River Valleys in August comes to Hamden’s Space Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. and features Pangea, The Alpaca Gnomes, The Moonrise Cartel and Erik Rabasca. “In addition to the music, we will hold a raffle with concert tickets and items generously donated by our friends at Redscroll Records, Static Era Records, each band performing that night, and more. We will also be accepting food donations at the door for the Seymour Oxford Food Bank.”
Thursday, September 12
At 7, the next Weird Music Night at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art promises an “evening of experimental performances” curated by artist John O’Donnell, paired with a “wine tasting provided by Ungrafted Selections.”
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Friday, September 13
With downtown road closures beginning as early as noon, the New Haven Grand Prix and concurrent Apizza Feast open at 4. The former turns the loop from Chapel to High to Elm to Temple Streets into a bike racing course, while the latter turns the diameter on College Street into a pizza truck bazaar.
Famous for their energetic live shows, east-meets-west punk band Gogol Bordello headline Toad’s Place during a 7 o’clock show opened by Puzzled Panther and Crazy & The Brains.
Also at 7, FrightHaven—“Connecticut’s largest, scariest and greatest world-class indoor haunted house attraction”—opens for one night ahead of the Halloween season.
Saturday, September 14
After an opening event last night, the 2024 Milford Irish Festival opens in earnest at 11:30 a.m., with live music and other performances; food and other vendors; and kids’ activities on Fowler’s Field through 10 p.m.
“Connecticut-based saxophonist, composer, and author” Allen Lowe leads an unusual lecture-plus-concert event. The talk, titled “Louis Armstrong’s America,” starts at 2 in Yale’s Sudler Hall, while the show, featuring “original compositions that explore the many styles that developed during Armstrong’s life,” happens at 4 in Morse Recital Hall.
Sunday, September 15
Edgerton Park’s 36th annual Sunday in the Park—“an outdoor celebration under the trees with food trucks, music, [a] scavenger hunt, children’s games, carriage rides, [a] dog parade, pony rides, owls, [a] book sale and more!”—runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
From noon to 3, a party at Gioia kicks off New Haven Cocktail Week.
At 7, Buddhist monks from Plum Village, “a global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries,” come to Yale’s Battell Chapel to lead “an evening of guided mindfulness meditation and teachings.”
Sweet Pill calls their music emo with “edges of pop and hardcore,” but I also hear alternative and math rock. Hear what that means at Hamden’s Space Ballroom, where they headline an 8 o’clock show opened by Cashier and Cinema Stare.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims. Image features a pizza being fired by Big Green Truck, who’ll be at the Apizza Feast this week. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
