Rapper "Little Eddie" performs on stage during the 9th New London Talent Show Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Garde Arts Center. The show, themed "Small City Big Dreams" was founded by Curtis K. Goodwin and Frank Colmenares. Performers hail from towns around the area, with 3/4 from New London. The show was formerly called the New London Youth Talent Show. The event was started in the wake of the 2010 murder of downtown resident Matthew Chew by a group of local teens. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Bobbi Nidzgorski, left, and Sharron Challenger laugh as they work through a scene of "Animal Farm" during a rehearsal with Flock Theater non Sunday, January 13, 2018 at the Mitchell College Red Barn. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Members of the local Haitian community practice their dance in the hallway before performing during a Feast of The Three Kings celebration on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at Saint Mary Church in Norwich. During the second annual event the church celebrated with food, entertainment, gifts and raised money to support La Gonave, Haiti. In many hispanic cultures DÌa de Los Reyes (Epiphany) is celebrated on January 6 to honor the Three Wise Men and is the day the people exchange gifts (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Four cast members of the U.S. tour of STOMP, from left, Jeremy Price, Ivan Salazar, Jonathon Elkins, and Lexi Juliano play their barrel drums to group of students from the Interdistrict School for Arts And Communication (ISAAC) and Nathan Hale Arts Elementary School for a master class in percussion Thursday, January 17, 2019 at ISAAC. The workshop was arranged by Jeanne Sigel from The Garde, where STOMP will be performing Thursday and Friday night shows. The community outreach event was only possible with the addition of the second Garde show. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Barbara Lynch, right, of Norwich, and instructor Marcia Gipstein work on a pose during a Gallery Yoga session in the McKee Gallery, featuring the art of Emil Carlsen, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 in New London. The classes continue on the first and third Tuesdays at 8:30am in March, April and May. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Members of the cast of the Chestnut Street Playhouse production of "Next to Normal" rehearse Wednesday, January 30, 2019. The show, directed by Hunter Parker and starring Lisa Foss, Brett Boles, Jordan Chenette, Joe Lucenti, and Marc Bibeau, runs February 7th through 24th (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 7:30pm; Sundays 2:00pm). (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Fifth graders, from left, Tyler Chen and Alex Li carry a dragon during a Lunar New Year event on Thursday, February 14, 2019 at Mohegan Elementary School. The school celebrated the holiday with student's participating in a Chinese dragon parade and Tibetan dancing. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Gene Simmons of the hard rock band KISS waves to the crowds as they perform on their End of the Road World Tour stop at Mohegan Sun Arena Saturday, March 23, 2019. The group is retiring from touring after over 40-years of performing at the end of this tour. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Brittany Turner sings in the 9th New London Talent Show Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Garde Arts Center. The show, themed "Small City Big Dreams" was founded by Curtis K. Goodwin and Frank Colmenares. Performers hail from towns around the area, with 3/4 from New London. The show was formerly called the New London Youth Talent Show. The event was started in the wake of the 2010 murder of downtown resident Matthew Chew by a group of local teens. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Pop star Justin Timberlake and his dancers strut their way across the stage that weaves through the arena as he performs the first of two sold out shows on his Man of the Woods tour Friday, April 12, 2019 at Mohegan Sun Arena. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Audience members watch as dancers with GUSTO Dance and the IMMIX Dance Project perform "Comfort Food" on Sunday, April 28, 2019 Lyme Art Association. The event featured roving improvised interpretative dances inspired by the galleries annual Elected Artist and Connecticut Watercolor Society exhibit. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Freshmen Katlyn Brown, right, and Holly Gray, both townspeople, laugh as they practice a dance number backstage during rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast on Monday, April 29, 2019 at Waterford High School. The musical is WATERFORDrama's first Disney production and is May 2-4 at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Artist and activist Mike Alewitz poses for a photo in his New London studio Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Alewitz was at Kent State University on May 4th of 1970 when Ohio National Guard troops fired on a group of protesters killing four students and wounding nine others. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Artist Grace Zazzaro poses with two examples of her religious iconography, "Archangel Michael", left, and "Archangel Gabriel", Friday, April 19, 2019 in her Mystic home. Zazzaro is the coordinator of the Ender's Island Sacred Art Institute. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Karen Doherty, left, laughs as she and classmate Chloe Folts, both seniors, wait for the music to start as Williams School students perform Enviro 8 on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at the school in New London. Students in theater and dance classes worked to create site specific performance pieces using natural elements. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Leif Nilsson, of Chester, uses a knife and oil paint as he works on a painting on Wednesday June 19, 2019 at the Mystic Seaport. Nilsson is one of the Maritime Gallery artists participating in a plein air event at the seaport that continues through Saturday, June 22. An exhibit of the pieces created during the week will be up at the Maritime Gallery through September 22. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Child actors and actor director Kamlin Cox , third from left, with Missoula Children's Theatre, rehearse a scene from their production of "Pinocchio" during Summer On Stage theatre camp at the Garde Arts Center in New London on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. MCT has toured for 45 years and has visited all 50 states and 17 countries. Each play is an original adaptation of children's stories and fairytales. Performances are on Friday at 7p.m. and Saturday at 11a.m. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Cooper Thompson, 5, reacts to holding a beaded animal as he and his sister Scarlett, 3, both of East Lyme, look at pieces by Domingo Wire and Bead Works during the Juried Arts and Craft Show on Sunday, July 7, 2019, at East Lyme Town Hall. The annual show, sponsored by the Niantic Lions, featured over 140 vendors and a food court. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Dan Curland, owner of Mystic Disc stands in his record shop Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Mystic Disc was recently named the Best Record Store in Connecticut by the Vinyl Me Please we site. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Entertainer Alyson Stoner performs at halftime of the Connecticut Sun Phoenix Mercury game Friday, July 12, 2019 at Mohegan Sun Arena. The Sun broke their five-game losing streak with the 79-64 win. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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All Thames Valley Music School Arts Camp campers, age 6 to 13 years-old, perform on the stage of Evans Hall in the Cummings Art Center on the Connecticut College campus in New London during a camp sampler on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 the last day of the camp session. The camp in its 26th year offers art, music theater and dance for children between the ages of 6 and 13. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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On the last day of the camp session family members take their campers art down from the Cummings Art Center gallery wall that the campers made during the Thames Valley Music School Arts Camp at Connecticut College in New London on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Jan Damm works on his balance as he stands on a rola during a Nimble Arts Circus performance on Sunday, August 4, 2019 at Parade Plaza in New London. This was the 10th year that the Brattleboro, Vermont based circus troupe has brought trapeze, juggling, comedy, acrobatics and more to New London. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Photographer Stacy Pearsall, left, adjusts the pose of WWII Army Veteran Ben Cooper, of West Hartford, before she takes his portrait during a stop of the Veteran's Photo Project at the Submarine Force Library and Museum on Monday, August 12, 2019, in Groton. Pearsall, a decorated military photojournalist, has captured over 7,500+ veterans' portraits in over 90 cities since she started the project in 2008. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Eva Franchi, right, teases tenor Matthew White before he performs during the Final Sergio Franchi Memorial Concert on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019, at the Franchi estate in Stonington. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Angela Taylor, right, of New London works on her drawing while participating in the Studio Art for All class at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London onTuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Instructor Rick Lacey, left, works with Carolyn Lally of Waterford in the background. The class, an introduction to drawing from life, teaches students step by step how to draw what they see. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Highland dance competitors Seraphina Cranson, front, Fallon Sutherland, center, and Isabel Ewing, back, take the stage in the dance tent at the 32nd annual Scotland Connecticut Highland Festival Sunday, October 13, 2019 at the Waldo Homestead in Scotland, Connecticut. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Members of the brass section of the Ledyard Colonels Marching Band during their performance at the Classic Band Festival hosted by Norwich Free Academy Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Jack Lange, as Peter VanDann, is seen through a set window during a rehearsal for The Diary of Anne Frank on Monday, October 7, 2019, at Waterford High School. The play runs October 17 -19 at 7:00pm in the school's auditorium. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Elayna Cars-Burbank, 1, of Mystic stands in the middle of the room and watches while her sister, Anabella Cars-Burbank, 5, left, Capri Woodcock, 10, of Groton, portraying Clara, center, and her sister, Nora Woodcock, 4, right, march around the room while learning dance movements with the theme from "The Nutcracker" ballet during the creative movement with the Eastern Connecticut Ballet event at the Mystic & Noank Library on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Friends Gracelyn Smith, left, wearing a dress made of old chip bags, and Delaney Reck, wearing an old bridesmaid dress and recycled paper, both with Girl Scout Troop 840, laugh before walking in the Trashion Fashion show at the Granite Theater in Westerly on Monday, November 4, 2019. The sixth annual event, sponsored and organized by the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce, features pieces made out of trash or recycled materials. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Emmett Campbell, left, works on his technique in Damara Bennett's class at the Eastern Connecticut Ballet Monday, November 25, 2019. The ten boys currently enrolled in classes marks the most in this history of the school. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Crosbi Pettit, as Clara, is surrounded by the rats as the cast of the Eastern Connecticut Ballet's production of The Nutcracker perform a show for schoolchildren from around the region Friday, December 13, 2019 at the Garde Arts Center. The company will perform three shows, two Saturday and one Sunday, over the weekend at The Garde with guest artists from the New York City Ballet joining the cast. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Entertainer Justine Nicole of Mystic preforms a Hula Hoop routine on the boardwalk at Ocean Beach Park during the New London Pride Festival Saturday, August 24, 2019. (Tim Cook/The Day)
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The Ledyard High School marching band prepares to take the field at the NFA Classic Marching Band festival at Norwich Free Academy, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (Tim Cook/The Day)
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