Westville is home to a deep and uniquely committed artistic community, featuring critically-acclaimed galleries, a lively music and theater scene, scores of talented visual and performing artists, two arts magnet schools and a wide range of year-round cultural events and programming.
Westville Village has been a bustling commercial district since colonial times. The Historic District features a trove of local restaurants, cafes, boutiques, salons, and galleries laden with New England culture and thrumming with the best of New Haven’s creative spirit. Dive into Westville’s utterly individual community and find out just what you’ve been missing!
Westville hosts 3 parks, a beautiful view of West Rock, and an active community of outdoor lovers. Explore Westville in every season with its numerous activities!
Westville is a neighborhood in New Haven with amenities galore. Residents and visitors alike can enjoy community activities, the Mitchell Branch Library, nature trails, restaurants, boutiques, and more!
The Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA) is a New Haven non-profit and designated Connecticut Main Street organization. Our mission is to partner with local businesses, property owners, residents and public and private institutions to foster and sustain economic revitalization, community engagement and cultural vitality in Westville Village.
One of the only farmers’ markets operating year-round in Connecticut, CitySeed’s sixth annual Winter Farmers’ Market opens indoors for the 2020 season on Saturday, January 11th at Metropolitan Business Academy, 115 Water Street, from 10am to 1pm. In addition to providing a viable marketplace.. Read More...
There are many new, planet-friendly yarns on the market today, made with recycled plastic bottles, upcycled denim scraps, or eucalyptus. Come and meet some of these new yarns, discuss the green craft movement, and design your own reusable dishcloth using freeform techniques. Beginning knit.. Read More...
Join photographer Kim Weston for this 6-week photography workshop. Beginning February 10th – March 16th, this class will meet on Monday evenings from 7-9pm. Basic photography skills are expected.
About the Workshop: This workshop is about creating and looking at photographs – how to see them,.. Read More...
Leslie M. Rickey, MD, MPH, will present cutting edge information on the prevention of lower urinary tract infections. Dr. Rickey, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Urology and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine, specializes in helping women...Read More...
In A Pattern Language, sculptor Gar Waterman uses wooden foundry patterns from the National Pipe Bending Company (NPBC) to take a fresh look at a vestige of New Haven’s industrial past. NPBC prospered for over 100 years on River Street in Fair Haven as a subsidiary of The Bigelow Boiler Company... Read More...
One of China's foremost Sixth Generation directors, Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams) tells a striking, autobiographical coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang Han lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou.. Read More...
Tom Edwards takes a look at what goes unnoticed in Dreams and Shadows. The artist states that his “primary concern is the visual development of images that describe dream-related memory and a nocturnal atmosphere.”Presenting five triptychs developed in the realm of twilight and moonlight, and.. Read More...
The lines are so close together and so meticulously drawn that they buzz by proximity to one another. The effect is disorienting, like an optical illusion, a trick, a puzzle. It gets that much more intense when you see that New Haven-based artist Daniel Eugene’s drawings can be interpreted as a.. Read More...
