State cuts hit city arts programs
Keeping Connecticut’s budget in the black means putting the New Haven’s Festival of Arts and Ideas into the red.
That was the message from Gov. M. Jodi Rell in delivering the state’s proposed budget for the coming year last Wednesday. The festival will be one of 19 cultural programs — which include the Shubert Theater and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven — to face cuts in state entitlement grants. Though the arts council has pledged to lobby against the proposed cuts, Rell’s budget as it stands poses a serious threat to the future solvency of many of the city’s arts...
