Tag: SWS New Haven

We hate to love you and leave you, New Haven, but our adventure here has come to an end. The highlight, of course, was our time spent with your young visionaries whose passionate creativity and dedication to social justice issues assure us you’re in good hands for the future. But we also loved exploring your many secret gems and daily delights: the Obias & Isms show at the Pride Center, a slowly disintegrating Swoon piece, a film fundraiser at the New Haven Company Factory, The Local Honey Project at Pardee Morris House, Helen’s hospitality and heaping bowls of delectable Arethusa Farm Dairy ice-cream, a free 35mm screening of Speed Racer as part of the Treasures From The Yale Film Archive series, at rainy day tacos at Long Wharf and a close encounter with Bread & Puppet Theater, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Yale University Art Gallery with dear friend Jeffrey Yoshimine, the very magical Institute Library (one of a handful of private mechanical libraries left in the world, with it’s own unique cataloguing system!), best burger ever at Louis’ Lunch (don’t even think about asking for ketchup!), a night of weird tango music at Best Video, walking around Lost In New Haven, Ferraro’s wonderful world of CHEAP MEAT with the Ten Commandments laid out nicely right beside the exit, morning mayoral press conferences, daily green bike rambles (love the Farmington Canal heritage trail!), Perkins Rubber Stamp Company, endless pizza options (Pepe’s comes out on top according to our taste buds but shout out to Sally’s for amazing graphics!), fireflies, chatty old ladies and work by Women Artists of the New Haven Paint & Clay Club at the New Haven Museum, Friday afternoon bambolini at Skappo, Saturday morning cannoli at Lucibello’s Italian Pastry Shop, a perfect day of Madison beach + dogs with Jeffrey and Susan (I’ll cherish the hawk feather always!), and of course our beloved Wooster Square that we passed through every single day on our way to or from somewhere. Of course we’re leaving a little bit of our hearts with you… The Sound We See: A New Haven City Symphony film and exhibition will be on display at Artspace until September 14! All aboard!

Let’s see just how much we can pack into a single day! It’s a wee hours chocolate-chip-cookie-and-Korean-surf-rock-fueled Mentors Meet-Up as we journey to the top of East Rock Park for a 2 am moongaze with Emil, then over to the train tracks to channel the Lumière Brothers with Soldedad at 3 pm, back and forth across the blue blue electric blue Q Bridge with Emily and Sarah. Jasmine and Tyler explore Fair Haven at Noon. 1 PM and it’s back to Artspace for the most chaotic, most cacophonic All-In SWS shoot EVER! Then some round-robin hand-processing, direct animation, soundtrack composition, loop projections while Paolo and Syed sneak off to Vivi for a tasty 3 pm bubble tea shoot. Switching gears, we invite the public to come on over for a discussion about Echo Park Screening and a special screening of Free Time & Sunshine: Home Movies in Southern California, a documentary created by the Fall 2013 EPFC Youth Class. After devouring copious amounts of popcorn and lemonade, it’s time for the final shoot with Nelly and Genesis at Union Station. Wow, Team, we made it!!!!! 24 film shoots in four fabulous days and we’re right back where we started from… all roads lead to Wooster Square!

From early in the morning until late at night, today it’s all about FAMILY! For the 8 am shoot, Stella goofs around with her Dad and her sister at the Boulevard Flea Market (oldest in Connecticut!). In the 9 am hour, Sara documents food for body and soul at the Wooster Square Farmers Market and Loaves & Fishes at Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James, paying tribute to family histories of struggle and resilience. At 11 am, Isaias tells us about family life in his home town of Riobamba, Ecuador, as we ramble around The Green. While we’re in the neighborhood, Carol gives us a glimpse of the final resting place of some of New Haven’s early families in the crypt of Center Church on The Green. We join Mabel at 2 pm to walk in the footsteps of a favorite family stroll along the Vision Trail, created in 1995 in conjunction with a New Haven hosting of the Special Olympics . Yreli’s whole family–including Bobby The Dog!–gets into the act for her 8 pm shoot at Wilbur Cross High School. At 10 pm, Evan celebrates his figurative and literal educational families at the two high schools he attends: New Haven Academy, and EAC where his artist Mom is a teacher!