The New Haven Independent published my account of a recent Literacy Forum on Early Learning, "It's about WORDS" – as the WORDS Project of the New Haven Early Childhood Council was a focus of the forum.

On public television this week, my wife and I watched The House I Live In – a provocative documentary about the human and social, as well as financial, costs of the “war on drugs” in the U.S.  The film includes glimpses of New Haven, where filmmaker Eugene Jarecki lived briefly as a child and where his friend Nannie Jeter has lived for many years.  This important movie merits a large audience, as does Jarecki’s earlier documentary, Why We Fight.
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In the realm of documentary film, another that deserves attention is Charles Ferguson’s 2010 Inside Job, mentioned in a June 2011 (June 4) post.

Friday evening, April 5, my children and I had the opportunity to attend a joint New Haven Symphony Orchestra/Fair Haven School performance at that New Haven public school.  We enjoyed the show, including the young dancers who are part of Ballet Haven.  Afterward, we greeted that organization’s founder, Mnikesa Whitaker.