An extraordinary silver lining : Ridgefield designated as state s first cultural district
Alyssa Seidman
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RIDGEFIELD Gov. Ned Lamont paid a special visit to Ridgefield on Friday to celebrate the town’s achievement in becoming the first municipality in the state with a designated “cultural district.”
A small, mostly maskless crowd gathered outside The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on Main Street for a news conference marking the occasion.
“A lot of people have rediscovered Connecticut . and what makes this state so great,” Lamont said. “It’s our culture, it’s our history, it’s our values. . It just shows you that sometimes there are silver linings, and this is an extraordinary silver lining for the state.”
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Three local women to be honored May 21
LaShawn Cunningham was recently voted in as a board member of the Norwich Arts Center Board of Directors.
Published May 06. 2021 9:00AM
By ROBERTA VINCENT, Special to The Times
“The 100 Women of Color” will honor three women who are well-known in the Norwich area and are also affiliated with the Norwich Arts Center. LaShawn Cunningham, Laura DelGado-Clemons and Sharece Sellem will be honored at a gala designed to honor those amongst us who have had a positive impact in their communities.
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Poetry by young Hartford area writers is currently reaching a wider readership - on a CTtransit Bus.
The “Poetry Bus” will inspire riders for the next few weeks with excerpts of poems written by students who participate in creative writing classes at the Charter Oak Cultural Center’s Youth Arts Institute. The poems form a graphic display on the outside of the bus.
Charter Oak teaching artist Melanie Faranello came up with the idea for this “moving” piece of public art.
“For the poems that we used on the bus, the prompt was from a tribute poem about Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden” said Faranello. “So we studied Frederick Douglass, and the poem by Hayden and they wrote in response to that poem.”
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West Hartford lawmakers are supporting a bill hat expands health insurance coverage to certain undocumented immigrants. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)
HARTFORD, CT State Sen. Derek Slap (D – West Hartford) and State Rep. Kate Farrar (D – West Hartford) Tuesday joined the Connecticut Immigrant & Refugee Coalition, United Action Connecticut, HUSKY 4 Immigrants, the Charter Oak Cultural Center, and advocates in front of the Legislative Office Building to rally support for a legislative proposal that expands health insurance coverage to certain undocumented immigrants.
The bill, S.B. 956, provides Medicaid for pregnant women and HUSKY B for children who meet certain income eligibility guidelines. The legislature s Human Services Committee voted to advance the bill on Thursday, April 1. Members of the West Hartford legislative delegation, which also includes State Representatives Jillian Gilchrest (D – West Hartford) and Tammy Exum (D – West Hartford, Avon, Farmington), fully s
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