WNHH Arts Mix

On this episode, WNHH Station Manager and host Lucy Gellman talks to Josh Wilder, a political playwright working on his MFA at the Yale School of Drama, about the intersection of food, food security, and magical realism in his work, most of which takes place in his hometown of Philadelphia.

Host Dan Fitzmaurice interviews guest Paulette Rosen and Lisa Hess Hesselgrave about their exhibition Double Vision: Paintings and Works on Paper at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library.

On this inaugural episode, host Tagan Engel brings on chef and community member Serena Spruill to discuss her spiritual and culinary journey as an African American great grandmother and mental health peer support specialist with a passion for vegetarian cooking.

Host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks to Kenyan film producer and director Jinna Mutune about her career and film "Leo," which was screened in early November at Yale.

On this short episode of Kitchen Sync, host Lucy Gellman talks to Elaine Carroll, executive director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and brewers Tyler Jones of Black Hog Brewing Co. and Kevin Mark of No Worries Brewing Co. about the NHSO's upcoming "Beers, Beards and Brahms!" concert, and why craft brewing and classical music aren't so different.

On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and fellow WNHH hosts Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman review Hacksaw Ridge, a new World War II movie from director Mel Gibson that stars Andrew Garfield as American Army medic and battlefield conscientious objector Desmond Doss. For the second segment of the show, Breen talks with Lyric Hall film programmer Joe Fay about his time working at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas-Fort Worth and about two movies that have had a strong influence on his own understanding and love of cinema: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and Joe Dante’s family-friendly 1989 horror-comedy THE ‘BURBS.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin welcomes award-winning singer/songwriter Lara Herscovitch, former CT State Troubadour, to talk about the overlap between the arts and social justice and the work she is doing through her arts outreach to change the state of the juvenile justice system in Connecticut.

On this episode, host Lucy Gellman talks to Lucy Nolan, Executive Director of End Hunger Connecticut, and fellow WNHH host Babz Rawls-Ivy, editor of the Inner-City News CT, about food insecurity, national politics, and how local and national elections affect the allocation of federal funds to social benefits.

On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen welcomes experimental animators and filmmakers Frank and Caroline Mouris and film archivist Brian Meacham to the show to talk about the Mouris' careers making movies, some reflections on the mesmerizing world of experimental animation, and upcoming screenings of their films at the Whitney Humanities center. For the second segment of the show, Breen, Allan Appel, and Lucy Gellman review the new movie The Handmaiden.

It’s 1968 in upstate New York. Jon is sixteen and a runner. He’s running from the brother who died, from the mother who hates him for surviving, from the father who stays quiet. He’s running from small-town Brewster, the kind of place that feels like it will hold you down and keep you there, the kind of place that won’t ever let you escape for something better. Ray is seventeen and a fighter. He’s bloody, he’s damaged, and he hates Brewster too. “Of course it wasn’t really about Brewster,” Jon tells us, looking back. “Brewster just made it easy to pretend it was.” What follows is the story of their friendship - of their efforts to save each other, and all the ways they fail. Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Mark Slouka about story and memory, truth and fiction, and the inherent tension between Slouka's sense of tragedy and his desire for redemption. Guest readers Sam Purdy and Jessica Sager join Oppenheimer to discuss brothers and fathers, power and pain, and what it means to run the race we run.

It’s 1968 in upstate New York. Jon is sixteen and a runner. He’s running from the brother who died, from the mother who hates him for surviving, from the father who stays quiet. He’s running from small-town Brewster, the kind of place that feels like it will hold you down and keep you there, the kind of place that won’t ever let you escape for something better. Ray is seventeen and a fighter. He’s bloody, he’s damaged, and he hates Brewster too. “Of course it wasn’t really about Brewster,” Jon tells us, looking back. “Brewster just made it easy to pretend it was.” What follows is the story of their friendship - of their efforts to save each other, and all the ways they fail. Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Mark Slouka about story and memory, truth and fiction, and the inherent tension between Slouka's sense of tragedy and his desire for redemption. Guest readers Sam Purdy and Jessica Sager join Oppenheimer to discuss brothers and fathers, power and pain, and what it means to run the race we run.

On this episode, host and WNHH station manager Lucy Gellman checks in with language chef Robert Aiudi about the origins of Halloween and growth of the candy industry in the U.S.

This week's episode is about It Happened, But Nobody Noticed, a 2009 documentary from directors Jerry Lombardo and Eric Michael Schrader that documents New Haven’s punk and New Wave underground music scene from 1978 to 1988. Host Tom Breen talks with Lombardo and Schrader about how this movie came to be; some of the bands, venues and unique personalities that made up New Haven’s punk and New Wave scene in the 80s; and the ways that movies and music can intersect to help us understand this specific time and place in our city’s underground cultural history. The second half of the show features a review of the new movie Denial.

On this episode, host Dan Fitzmaurice welcomes Town Green Executive Director Win Davis and Director of Economic Prosperity Chris Ortwein and marketing impresario Jackie Buster to launch WAGO, a new initiative connecting New Haven business districts through art.

Host Brian Slattery talks with jazz legend Willie Ruff about the Ellington Jazz Series and his own illustrious career.

On this episode, host and WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman talks to chef, activist and Global Local Goumet Guru Nadine Nelson about her upcoming "Harvest Mandalas" project, part of City Wide Open Studios' traveling artists weekend on Oct. 22 and 23 in New Haven, CT.

On this episode, host Babz Rawls-Ivy welcomes writer, poet and playwright Marisel Vera, author of "If I Bring You Roses," to talk about identity politics, blood memory, and the role of history in her work.

On this episode, host Tom Breen talks all about the movies of John Huston with Yale dean and lecturer Mark Schenker, who will be hosting a 4-part series on Huston's movies at Best Video Film & Cultural Center in Hamden starting Sunday Oct. 23. For the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman for a review of the new movie American Honey. Independent's website.

On this episode host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Boris Fishman about belonging, community, and notions of home; about fiction as a way to explore alternate lives; and about the American obsession with truth and transparency. Then guest readers Brad Ridky and Shifra Sharlin join her to discuss insiders and interlopers, others and outsiders, and what it means to drive versus what it means to be driven.

On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks to Brian Meacham, Molly Wheeler, and David Pilot about Home Movie Day New Haven 2016, hosted Saturday 10/15 at the New Haven Museum. During the second half of the show Breen welcomes fellow WNHH host and Inner City News CT editor Babz Rawls Ivy for a review of Ava Duvernay's new Netflix documentary, 13TH.