FREE. How many different kind of libraries can one city have?
9:00am
10:00am
Peabody Museum Presents: Dinos to Birds
FREE. Watch the Green turn into a museum as staff from the Peabody showcase the four-billion-year intertwined evolution of dinosaurs and birds in an interactive exhibit featuring fossils, bones, feathers; and other artifacts.
Recycled Reflections: Collage Art Made For & From the Community with Faustin Adeniran
In Collaboration with Arts for Learning CT
FREE. Learn collage with Faustin Adeniran, a contemporary sculptor from Lagos, Nigeria, now working in New Haven. You’ll use newspapers, cardboard, cans, and other items to create treasure from trash in this session.
11:00am
Huneebee Project – Native Bee Hotel Making Workshop
FREE. Give bees a place to sleep and hear what all the buzz is all about from the Huneebee Project, who will teach us how to make hotels for native bees.
Exploring Westville
Westville Village Renaissance Alliance
FREE. Throughout the last several years, Westville Village has been expanding with new restaurants, a variety of quaint shops, and unique galleries.
12:00pm
CANning Hunger with Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen
FREE. View team-built sculptures that use cans to raise awareness about our shared connection to food and the issues around hunger and food scarcity in our community.
1:00pm
Sirius Coyote Music and Sounds of the Americas Music
with Arts for Learning CT
FREE. Travel across North America with Sirius Coyote, whose traditional, contemporary world music is renowned for its upbeat rhythm featuring guitar, sax, clarinet, flutes, kalimbas, drums, keyboards, ocarinas and a variety of other eclectic instruments made from materials found in nature.
2:00pm
Grand Avenue Gastronomy Tour with Lee Cruz
Presented with Chatham Square Neighborhood Association
Sample the cuisines of the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico at Fair Haven restaurants while exploring the neighborhood’s eclectic history with Lee Cruz, founder of the CSNA.
Felon: An American Washi Tale
Reginald Dwayne Betts explores the experience and lingering consequences of having a criminal record in a solo theater show based on his poetry collection, Felon.
The Adopted Flavors of New Haven
Presented by Elm City Cycling
FREE. Culturally diverse and teeming with flavor, New Haven soaks up the cuisines of its population.
3:00pm
Communities of Care: Love & Social Justice
Andrea Jenkins in Conversation
FREE. Hear from Andrea Jenkins, the nation's first out Black trans person elected to office, on love, social justice, and activism.
Connecting Community to the River's Natural Resources
FREE. Take a guided walking tour of the Mill River Trail with Steve Hamm, local filmmaker and creator of Mill River’s documentary, ""A River Speaks.""
6:30pm
High School Fellows Graduation Ceremony
FREE. Congratulations to our 2022 High School Fellows!
7:00pm
New Haven Symphony Orchestra with Harolyn Blackwell, Albert R. Lee, & Brian Stokes Mitchell
FREE. Kick off the 2022 in-person Festival in style with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra!