425 stories by "Susan Dunne"
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 …
Community 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 have an…
Exhibits around the state take on loaded issues such as sexism, racism, politics, the 2020 election.
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…
"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 exhibi…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Wadsworth 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…
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.
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.
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…
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. …
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…
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 company …
Sunken 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 M…
Hartford Business Improvement District's "Make a Thing" placemaking competition sought out artistic attractions that could be installed in places throughout Hartford, had about 75 applicants…
As the coronavirus pandemic surges, recedes and surges again, an exhibit at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic reminds us of a second and more longer-lasting crisis assaulti…
Connecticut Historical Society will reopen to the public on Aug. 18, with free admission until September, to no more than 40 people at a time. It closed in mid-March as a result of the coron…
The 11th annual Art for AIDS art-grab fundraising event will go on in person in Hartford on Aug. 6 and 8, a two-night event that will implement strict social-distancing, masking, temperature…
