Scary Bunny, Starry Night
If you read Scary Bunnies, Weekend Party Update, and The Beat Bike Blog, you will see the side of Hartford that I love—darkly humorous, community-minded, environmentalist, artistic, and generous.
Recent Examples:
—A few weeks ago, HartBeat Ensemble called community leaders to City Hall to discuss, through theater, why Connecticut is losing its young people (and they came).
—This week, Hartford progressives who are tired of fear culture and its impact on Hartford launched the Simsbury Chicken Debate on the Hartford Courant’s website. The comments about the suburban town (”I’ve only gone to Simsbury ONCE in my life, and I had to drive through it with my windows up and my doors locked!”) are kind of funny unless you have heard this type of comment about your own neighborhood over and over and over again. But sometimes, you have to laugh.
—This morning, Hartford-based Scary Bunnies pointed me south to New Haven, where Van Gogh’s Starry Night is on exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery through September 7. Somehow, I missed this bit of news.
Thanks, Hartford!
Tags: Activist Art, Hartford, Little Cities, New Haven, Van Gogh, Visual Art