Jeb Bishop-trombone 
Nate McBride-bass 
Kelly Bray-trumpet 
Joe Morris-drums 
Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense, and often evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Center’s artistic director Jason Moran and a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by the New Yorker and the New York Times nominated her composition Vogelfrei as ‘one of the best 25 Classical tracks of 2018’. She worked with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Andy Milne, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others. Awards included the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004, a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, the 2014 German Record Critics Quarterly Award, Downbeat Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015), Rising Star-Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019. Ingrid Laubrock has received composition commissions from The Fromm Music Foundation, BBC Glasgow Symphony Orchestra, Bang on The Can, Grossman Ensemble, The Shifting Foundation, The Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, The Jerwood Foundation, American Composers Orchestra, Tricentric Foundation, SWR New Jazz Meeting, The Jazz Gallery Commissioning Series, NYSCA, Wet Ink, John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series, and the EOS Orchestra. She is a recipient of the 2019 Herb Alpert Ragdale Prize in Music Composition and the 2021 Berklee Institute of Gender Justice Women Composers Collection Grant. Ingrid Laubrock is a part-time faculty member at The New School and Columbia University. Other teaching experiences include improvisation workshops at Towson University, CalArts, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Baruch College, University of Michigan, University of Newcastle, and many others. Laubrock was Improviser in Residence 2012 in the German city of Moers. The post is created to introduce creative music into the city throughout the year. As part of this, she led a regular improvisation ensemble and taught sound workshops in elementary schools.
Hidemi Akaiwa is a Japanese pianist and composer. At 30, she shifted from a successful corporate career to focusing on jazz music. She received a full scholarship to Berklee, where she participates in the college’s Global Jazz Institute, Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, Planet MicroJam Institute, and Interdisciplinary Arts Institute. These experiences have allowed her to study with world-class musicians, including Danilo Pérez, Kenny Werner, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Billy Childs, David Fiuczynski, and many others. Her passion is to create a new art form infusing the tenets of Japanese Zen with the sounds of jazz and microtonal contemporary classical music. 
Joe Morris is a composer/improviser multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, double bass, mandolin, banjo, banjouke electric bass and drums. He is also a recording artist, educator, record producer, concert producer/curator and author. His is considered to be one of the most original and important improvising musicians of our time. Down Beat magazine called him “the preeminent free music guitarist of his generation.” Will Montgomery, writing in The Wire magazine called him “one of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S.” He has performed or recorded with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Evan Parker, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, David S. Ware, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Dewey Redman, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Andrew CyrilleJoe Maneri, Barry Guy, Tyshawn Sorey, Ken Vandermark, Mary Halvorson, Han Bennink, Barre Phillips, Tomeka Reid, Paul Rutherford, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Gerald Cleaver, Rob Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, DKV Trio, Aaly Trio, Daniel Carter, Rashid Bakr, Wilbur Morris,, Kidd Jordan, Alvin Fielder, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Tim Berne, Fred Anderson, Ivo Perelman, Andrea Parkins, Hamid Drake, Thurman Barker, Fred Hopkins, Bern Nix, Joe McPhee, Billy Bang, Lowell Davidson, Peter Kowald, Simon Fell, Roy Campbell Jr., Raphé Malik, Whit Dickey, Sabir Mateen, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Warren Smith, Karen Borca, Malcolm Goldstein, Paul Lytton, Tim Berne, Suzie Ibarra, Mat Maneri, Sylvia Courvosier, Thurston Moore, Alex Ward, Jamie Saft and many others. He has also performed as a member of William Parker’s Organic Ensemble, Pipeline 2000, Jim Hobbs Ghost Band, Alan Silva’s Celestial Communications Orchestra, Simon Fell Orchestra, Agustí Fernández Celebration Ensemble, and in a large ensemble led by Leroy Jenkins. He currently leads various groups including Abstract Forest, a 20+ piece improvising ensemble, Go Go Mambo, Joe Morris Quartet, Mess Hall, Shock Axis, Plymouth, as well as performing solo, in duos and as a freelance guitarist and double bassist. In 2019 he began his INSTANTIATION music, recording and performing the first four parts of the multi-part work that uses the properties of free music in new ways with various ensembles. He is featured as leader, co-leader and sideman on 150 recordings to date. Many of his recordings as a leader have been named among Writer’s Choice (best of the year) in the Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, Wire, Coda, and Jazziz, and on Free Jazz.org and All About Jazz.com.. He has recorded for the labels AUM Fidelity, SoulNote, Thirsty Ear, Ayler, Knitting Factory, Okka Disc, OmniTone, Avant, Incus, Hat Hut, ECM, Leo, Homestead, NoMore, About Time, Clean Feed, Skycap, Rogue Art, Rare Noise, ESPdisk, Bug Incision, Relative Pitch, and Cuneiform. In 2014 he founded Glacial Erratic records. In 2019 he was nominated for a St Botolph Distinguished Artist Award. He received the 2017 Killam Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Calgary Alberta Canada. He was the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant in 2004. He was nominated for a 2001 Calarts Alpert Award. He was nominated as New York Jazz Awards Guitarist of the Year in 1998 and 2002. In 2012 he published the book Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music (Riti, 2012). His article Encryption was included in Arcane vol 7 (Tzadik 2014). His article Perpetual Frontier appears on www.pointofdeparture.org (Pod39) May 2012. He has written numerous liner note articles on his music and for other artists for recordings on the labels Sony, Hat Hut, Aum Fidelity, RogueArt and others. His monthly column Intentional Evolution begins publication in the German magazine Jazz Podium in January 2020. He has presented workshops and master classes in a wide variety of settings throughout North America and Europe, including at Harvard University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, University of the Arts, Berklee College of Music, University of Calgary, University of Guelph, University of Alberta, and Mannes School of Music. He has taught improvisation and/or guitar on the faculty at Tufts University Experimental College, Southern Connecticut State University and the Longy School of Music at Bard College. He is a lesson faculty member at New School Jazz and Contemporary Music. He has been on the faculty in the Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation Department at New England Conservatory of Music since 2000. He began his work as an organizer and performance producer/curator in 1976 in Boston and continued there and in New York until 2001 when he left Boston for New Haven CT. Upon moving to Connecticut in 2001 he created the Just Play series in New Haven (2003/2004), curated the premier season at Firehouse 12 (2005), was artistic director for Hartford Jazz Society Jazz in the Park series (2008), co-founded and curated the Improvisations series at Real Art Ways in Hartford (2011–2016), and founded and co-curated the Multiplex series at State House in New Haven (2019). He was in residence at The Stone NYC for two weeks in January 2013, and for one week in June 2014, August 2016, June 2017 and May 2018. In September 2015 through June 2016, he produced the series Arcade which presented him in performance with new emerging musicians with ten performances presented in New Haven, Hartford, Cambridge, Mass., and Brooklyn, N.Y. His one-day festival Spectacle was presented at Real Art Ways in Hartford CT annually from 2013-2018. It featured emerging musicians performing in ad-hoc groupings with well-known professionals. In this insightful book, Jillian Gilchrest shares her personal journey, from identifying as a feminist to learning the value of engaging with diverse viewpoints to becoming a champion for gender and social justice.
This book guides those engaged in feminist advocacy efforts, encourages those fighting for equal rights, and inspires those fighting fiercely for women’s right to choose.
Jillian will read excerpts from her new book. There will be a light reception (appetizers) and a cash bar (at concessions) for all guests of this launch event. This is a free-to-the-public event.Bernie T (Dominican)
Kali Wale (Connecticut native)
Ras Iba (St. Croix)
On Wednesday, November 13, at 7 PM, we will host contributing poets from the anthology Of Hartford in Many Lights: Celebrating Hartford’s Buildings. Featured readers: Dennis Barone, Debbie Ducoff-Barone, Ginny Connors, Julia Paul, Brad Davis, Joan Hofmann, Jim Finnegan, Clare Rossini, Srini Mandavilli, Christine Beck, Marilyn Johnston, Catherine Hoyser, and Pegi Deitz Shea. Of Hartford in Many Lights includes poems by contemporary Connecticut poets inspired by particular buildings in the capital city. If a poetic muse imbues this book, it is that of Wallace Stevens, the insurance executive who was Hartford’s greatest 20th-century poet. The title of the anthology, “Of Hartford in Many Lights,” is a play on Stevens’ poem “Of Hartford in a Purple Light.” In addition to the poems, Deborah Ducoff-Barone and Dennis Barone have added short essays about each structure the poets described. The result is a fascinating look at a historic and interesting city. No open mic will precede this reading due to time constraints. About Riverwood Poetry Series The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to promoting and appreciating poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Authors’ books will be available to buy for book signing and conversation. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. This monthly event is free of charge. Ample parking is available via the 56 Arbor parking lot.
John L. Stanizzi is the author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, Four Bits, Chants, Sundowning, POND, The Tree That Lights The Way Home, Feathers and Bones, Viper Brain, and SEE. His poems have appeared widely in Italy with profound gratitude to his translator and dear friend, Angela D’Ambra. He has read at venues all over New England, including the Mystic Arts Café, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and Hartford Stage. He coordinated the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition for Young Poets at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut, was a “teaching artist” for the national poetry recitation contest, Poetry Out Loud. Former Wesleyan University Etherington Scholar, New England Poet of the Year, and Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Community College, John received a Fellowship in Creative Writing – Non-Fiction, by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Culture, and Diversity for his memoir, Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned. He lives in Coventry with his wife, Carol.
T’challa Williams is an award-winning creative advocate, poet, actress, and bestselling author from Hartford, Connecticut. As the Executive Co-Founder of Hartford’s L.I.T., now in its sixth year of hosting the Hartford Book Festival, and a board member of the Greater Hartford Arts Council, T’challa consistently advocates for her community. Recognized with the 2021 100 Women of Color Award, the 2023 Hartford Public Schools Impact Award, and the 2024 I Am Woman Award, T’challa is known for her dedication to craft and culture. T’challa also has a deep passion for nurturing bonds among Black women, which is evident in her work featured in the anthology Heavy is the Crown, a collaboration with A Queen’s Narrative. It also shines through in her recent poetry collection, Captured Thoughts, dedicated to her grandmother, which highlights her powerful voice and heartfelt dedication. She passionately inspires future writers, poets, and performers, embodying her moniker, “The Lover & The Revolutionary!” About Riverwood Poetry Series The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.”
Synopsis:
Set in the mid-1960s in Hartford, Connecticut, The Featherweight presents a gripping chapter in the true-life story of Italian-American boxer Willie Pep (James Madio)—the winningest fighter of all time—who, down and out in his mid-40s and with his personal life in shambles, decides to make a return to the ring, at which point a documentary camera crew enters his life. Painstakingly researched and constructed, the film is a visceral portrait of the discontents of twentieth-century American masculinity, fame, and self-perception.
Robert Kolodny’s (cinematographer of Procession and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed) feature directorial debut follows the true story of legendary 2x World Featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep. The impressive cast is led by James Madio (The Penguin, Band of Brothers, Hook, Basketball Diaries) with a career-best performance as Pep, alongside Ruby Wolf in her feature debut, Keir Gilchrist (Love & Death, Atypical), Stephen Lang (Avatar Franchise), Ron Livingston (Swingers, Office Space, The Flash, Loudermilk), Lawrence Gilliard Jr (The Walking Dead, One Night in Miami…), undefeated professional featherweight boxer Bruce Carrington, and Hartford local Imma Aiello in her big-screen debut as Mama Papaleo, Willie Pep’s mother.
This acclaimed Hartford-based Willie Pep biopic opens in theaters across Pep’s hometown state of Connecticut on September 20. It had a world premiere in 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival with a 6-minute standing ovation.
“The making of The Featherweight in our beloved Hartford is a case study on how filmmaking can create community pride, honor the legacy of a hometown hero, and provide local economic impact. More than a film production, it is a community collaboration.” – Executive Producer Donna Collins
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, flirt, and love your mom. — Dìdi is the debut feature from director and writer Sean Wang. You may remember watching his Oscar-nominated short, Nai Nai & Wài Pó, earlier this year in our cinema. There has been so much buzz around Dìdi all summer, we are thrilled to be screening it after much anticipation.
On Friday, September 6th, 6 PM (for one night only), we are hosting a conversation with Angela Rola (founding Director of the Asian American Cultural Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus), Catherine Shen (host of CT Public’s Where We Live), and Jaspreet Singh (Trumbull High School senior). This presentation is co-hosted by our community partner, Asian Pacific American Coalition of CT (APAC CT). APAC is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 that provides services and education for and about the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Connecticut.
If you are a member of APAC CT, you will be offered a discounted price of $7 for admission. When ordering tickets online, please select Adult Member for the discounted pricing.Due to limited seating, securing advance tickets for the September 6 screening and panel is highly recommended.
Link to buy tickets for September 6 here.
Angela Rola is the founding Director of the Asian American Cultural Center (AsACC) at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. This student-centered space focuses on cultural identity, equity, and inclusion, where students can be part of many programs that develop their leadership skills and sense of belonging. She is an Affiliate Faculty for the UConn Asian & Asian American Studies Institute and developed and taught a course on Asian American mentoring and leadership. She lectures extensively in undergraduate and graduate courses on campus and at local colleges and universities. Most recently, she also served as a co-principal investigator for a $1.9 million grant at the UConn Hartford campus that centers on developing courses and programs focused on the Asian American community. Angela develops and facilitates workshops on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, implicit bias, cultural competency, and creating inclusive environments. Within the state of Connecticut, Angela lobbied for the creation of the first Asian American Affairs Commission, which is now part of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity (CWCSEO). In 2006 she co-founded the Asian Pacific American Coalition of CT, a non-profit, non-partisan community group that provides services and education for and about the Asian American community in Connecticut. She presently sits on its Executive Board. Before working in Higher Education, Angela worked in both the corporate and non-profit worlds as a Human Resources specialist in New York, California, and Alaska. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers 
Jaspreet Singh is a senior at Trumbull High School, where he’s captain of the cross country track team, VP of Finance for the DECA chapter and a member of FBLA. Outside of school, he enjoys serving his community and is an intern with the Sikh American Legal Defense Education Fund (SALDEF) and Asian Pacific American Coalition of Connecticut. Jaspreet volunteers at his local place of worship (gurdwara) on Sundays and is CFO of a tutoring non-profit called Trumbull Tutors, whose goal is to provide students in underprivileged areas with free access to education. When he’s not in school or volunteering and has some time to himself, he enjoys playing basketball with friends and skiing during the winter. — 
Artwork by Rich Black At the Global Brain Health Institute, based at UCSF, Josh Kornbluth immersed himself in studying brain disease and wondered if our society was suffering from political dementia. The discovery of the “empathy circuit” in the brain might be the cure. Can a neurotic storyteller who flunked every science class spark a science-based revolution of empathy? Citizen Brain is a live solo show – an autobiographical monologue – that aims to “spark an empathy revolution.” Check out this fantastic write-up of his show on Forbes. Josh will be performing in person in our cinema all three days for these special events: Friday, Oct 4, 7 pm Saturday, Oct 5, 7 pm Sunday, Oct 6, 2:30 pm REGULAR ADMISSION: $40 REAL ART WAYS MEMBERS: $35 FULL-TIME STUDENTS (WITH ID): $15 
We are hosting a one-night event on Thursday, September 12, at 6:30 pm – a documentary screening and Q&A with filmmakers Pamela Yates (Director) and Paco de Onís (Producer) – in our cinema.
Getting advance tickets is highly recommended. 
Pamela Yates filming with cinematographer Juan Hernández, AEC, in the Sonoran Desert Never has my work as a human rights defender and documentary filmmaker come together so closely nor been so demanding. Never had I had to depend so strongly on the collaboration of the protagonists in telling their stories. For example, when Kaxh Mura’l an environmental defender of the Maya-Ixil ancestral lands was threatened with death for his activism, he fled his homeland Guatemala and began the dangerous journey to seek asylum in the U.S. Since he was in my previous film, 500 Years, he contacted me upon leaving so of course I was going to do what I could to help him. He’s a beautiful writer and an important leader. Together we would tell his story. When Kaxh arrived in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, I got him a pro bono lawyer just across the border in El Paso who could travel back and forth and represent him. I acted as a kind of paralegal to the lawyer Carlos Spector, doing research, gathering documentation, creating briefs to argue the case in court, and writing an affidavit for Kaxh as well as his traveling companion Francisco. Together we formed a circle of solidarity made up of Carlos, Giovanni Batz, a PhD in social anthropology, church supporters, and humanitarian aid people working in the El Paso/Juárez corridor. We’d meet weekly to move Kaxh and Francisco’s cases forward and provide for their needs. I knew I had to be completely transparent about my involvement in how the filmmaker helped shape the story. I did it through sparse narration, and Kaxh’s harrowing WhatsApp voice messaging back and forth with me. We laid bare the process of making the film, which is another interesting facet of the film itself. BORDERLAND would be connected to The Resistance Saga, the trilogy of films about Guatemala that I had made over the past 35 years, but it would take place in the U.S. As Mayan immigration increased – there are now thought to be more than 1 million Mayan people in the diaspora here – I thought of BORDERLAND as a kind of continuation of the story and of our work. I was so fortunate to meet Gabriela Castañeda of The Border Network for Human Rights and for her to collaborate with me over the years it took to make this film. Gaby, talented organizer that she has become, showed me what special perseverance it takes to build leadership when people are so afraid. She brought us into places where immigrants felt free to talk to her and to each other about this fear and how it affected their children. Though in danger of being deported for her activism, Gaby’s sharp intelligence always put others first and she knew how to bring out the greatest leadership potential in each person she encountered. Together with Juan Hernández, the cinematographer who lives in northern Mexico and who is best known for his dramatic feature films, we devised a look that made the most of the anamorphic widescreen format 2.39:1 (for a more epic feel) as we wove complicated stories together using only prime lenses. I wanted to capture the majesty and terror of the landscapes, the border wall scar, the excitement of creating power in numbers as immigrants formed networks across the country. I thought about how to visualize an almost subversive environment for the xpMethod digital humanists, a liminal space to expose the cruelty of what our tax dollars are supporting, often without our knowledge. BORDERLAND was filmed to be seen on the big screen, it’s my commitment to the future of cinema. The recorded location sound had to be perfect, always difficult in documentary filmmaking where you have no control over the surroundings. I began my career as a sound recordist, so you can only imagine how demanding I am of sound recordists on my own films. David Fournier Castillo is the prodigy sound recordist from Mexico City who made all the difference in his close attention to recording the soundscape. From the Arizona desert to studio shoots in New York City, he came through to deliver magnificent sound. I had always wanted Sara Curruchich to compose and perform the musical soundtrack on BORDERLAND. I knew she would bring Mayan sensibilities, instrumentation and vocalization to evoke the tragedy of being forced to flee, and the nostalgia for family, land, language, and culture left behind. Our long-time composer Roger C. Miller joined Sara and together they created the extraordinary film music track. The meaning of the title BORDERLAND | The Line Within is at the heart of the film. The border is not geographical line, but rather a vast border industrial complex entrenched in every corner of the U.S. It is inside each and every undocumented person because wherever they may be, the fear of being discovered and deported is looming, yet in the shadow of the border industrial complex, they are quietly creating networks and building power. Lead Vocals/Drums: David Rivera
Bass Guitar: Ricky Rodríguez
Piano: Anibal Cruz César
Percussion: Marcoz Lopez & Marcos Torres
Trumpet: Manuel Maneco Ruiz
Trombones: Arturo Vejez & Omy Ramos
Tenor Sax: Jonathan Suazo
VGB’s & Flauta: Jailene Michelle
A special crowd-sourced art project for the launch of the new Real Art Ways (final piece to be constructed by artist Amy Genser)
Jeff Ostergren makes paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, and installations about the intertwined histories of pharmaceuticals and color. His pointillist, color-saturated works, infused with actual pharmaceuticals and chemicals, utilize imagery from art history and advertising to explore the ecstasy and toxicity of our present moment. Originally trained as an anthropologist, Jeff has been a practicing artist for two decades. Upcoming shows include a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and a two part project called “A Suitcase” at Picture Theory in New York City and Kunstraum Super in Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include “Double Take: Familiar Objects in Unexpected Materials” at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, “The Past Pushes Forward” at Omola Studios in New Haven, CT, and “Circadian Rhythms,” curated by URSA Gallery in Bridgeport, CT. In 2018, he completed a 2,400 square foot solo site-specific installation “Science For a Better Life,” in which he explored the chemical and visual history of Bayer Pharmaceuticals at Yale University’s West Campus in New Haven, a former Bayer facility. Ostergren is a recipient of a 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He also received an Artist Grant from the Puffin Foundation earlier this year. In 2023, he was awarded an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and The Bitsie Clark Fund for Artists Grant, an annual project based-grant in New Haven. He was also chosen a 2021 “Artist-To-Watch” by Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. He also has a curatorial practice, including a well-reviewed exhibition “False Flag: The Space Between Reason and Paranoia” at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, CT in 2018. In addition, from 2018-2019, Ostergren ran Tilia Projects, a community exhibition space, out of his studio in New Haven. Ostergren received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 2006, following upon receiving a BA in a double major of anthropology and gender studies at Rice University in Houston, TX in 1998. He lives and works in New Haven, CT. 
Sarah Fritchey is an independent Curator and Writer who works at the intersections of art, justice, civic engagement, memory and belonging. Fritchey has curated exhibitions in museums, galleries and art non-profits around the country, including the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Hessel Museum of Art in Hudson, NY, Sideshow Gallery in NYC, Fine Arts Gallery at York College in NYC, NYPOP Gallery in NYC, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and Franklin Street Works in Stamford, CT. She has juried regional exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, FL, and has contributed writing to Artforum.com, Hyperallergic, Art New England Magazine, Big, Red & Shiny, Artscope Magazine, and the Hartford Courant. 
A special crowd-sourced art project for the launch of the new Real Art Ways (final piece to be constructed by artist Amy Genser)
Special crowd-sourced art project for the launch of the new Real Art Ways (final piece to be constructed by artist Amy Genser)
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The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” 
