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SUMMARY:Shoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park
DESCRIPTION:Shoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park brings four regional reggae acts together in downtown New London on Sunday\, September 6\, for an outdoor afternoon and evening of roots reggae\, dub and improvisational music. \nDoors open at 4 p.m. for the returning festival\, with Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River filling the Art Park with reggae through the evening. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. \nIt’s also a lineup with unusually deep local roots. These aren’t four touring acts passing through Connecticut on the same bill. The musicians come from the southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island music community\, and several have been playing reggae around the region for years. \nReggae Returns to the Art Park\nShoreline Reggae Fest made its Hygienic Art Park debut last summer with a lineup that included Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect and Jam Shed. \nAll three return in 2026. \nThat makes Sunday’s show less a collection of unrelated bands and more of a reunion of musicians who have helped build a regional reggae scene stretching across southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island. \nAnd Hygienic Art Park is particularly well suited to it. \nThe outdoor performance space sits alongside Hygienic’s galleries on Bank Street\, creating a small open-air music venue in the middle of downtown New London. There’s a stage\, room to sit and\, importantly for this show\, space in front of the stage to dance. \nFor Shoreline Reggae Fest\, the park becomes a meeting point for four different approaches to the music. \nRed Lion Brings the Roots\nRed Lion describes its sound as conscious\, uplifting reggae. \nBut the group didn’t begin with musicians learning reggae from scratch. \nIts members brought experience from several other reggae projects\, with connections to bands including Soulshot\, Large Up\, Space Mon Rah\, Dub Squad\, Inity and The High Voltage Band. \nAt the center is Eric “Irie Feelinz” Williams\, whose original lyrics and vocals help give Red Lion its identity. \nThe band’s sound sits firmly in the roots-rock reggae tradition\, where rhythm carries the music but the words matter too. \nIt’s a distinction worth making. \nRoots reggae developed as more than dance music. Social consciousness\, spirituality\, resistance and community became central to the form\, particularly through the Jamaican music that spread internationally during the 1970s. \nRed Lion draws from that tradition while making the music here in Southern New England. \nGlaucoma Suspect Crosses the State Line\nFollow the shoreline east from New London and eventually you reach another piece of Sunday’s lineup. \nGlaucoma Suspect is an eight-piece roots reggae band based in Westerly. \nThe group approaches reggae with an emphasis on the music’s original roots and its tradition of carrying social messages\, while bringing a full-band sound to stages around Connecticut and Rhode Island. \nEight musicians also give them a considerably different presence from a stripped-down reggae group. \nThe rhythm section establishes the pocket\, but a larger ensemble leaves room to layer vocals and instrumentation over it\, creating the kind of full sound associated with classic roots reggae bands. \nGlaucoma Suspect has become familiar around the local live-music circuit and isn’t new to Hygienic. The band previously appeared in the venue’s Downtown Live programming and was part of the first Shoreline Reggae Fest last summer. \nNow they’re back for year two. \nJam Shed Started in an Actual Shed\nSome band names require an explanation. \nJam Shed really doesn’t. \nThe Salem\, Connecticut\, group traces its beginnings to Wednesday-night jam sessions held in a shed. \nWhat started as musicians getting together to play became something more permanent. They worked through reggae and dub favorites\, experimented with arrangements and improvised. \nEventually\, the jam sessions became a band. \nMore than a decade later\, that loose beginning remains part of Jam Shed’s musical identity. Reggae and dub provide the foundation\, but improvisation gives the musicians room to stretch songs rather than simply reproduce them. \nThat’s especially appropriate for dub. \nThe form grew out of Jamaican reggae recording culture as producers began stripping songs apart\, emphasizing bass and drums and manipulating individual elements with echo\, reverb and other studio effects. \nIn a live setting\, that same spirit creates room for musicians to explore. \nFor a group born during jam sessions\, it’s a natural fit. \nLazy River Rounds Out the Festival\nLazy River completes Sunday’s four-act lineup. \nThe current festival materials connect the act with DJ Ben Jammin’ and dalabil\, adding another approach to the afternoon alongside the three returning live bands. \nWhy Reggae Works in New London\nJamaica is a long way from Bank Street. \nThe music isn’t. \nReggae has traveled far beyond the island where it developed\, absorbing local influences wherever musicians have picked it up while retaining one of the most recognizable rhythmic foundations in popular music. \nSouthern New England has supported its own reggae community for years\, helped by small clubs\, breweries\, outdoor stages and festivals willing to put local bands in front of an audience. \nSunday’s lineup illustrates that community particularly well. \nRed Lion draws musicians with experience across several regional reggae projects. \nGlaucoma Suspect comes down from Westerly. \nJam Shed comes from Salem. \nPut them together and Shoreline Reggae Fest becomes a snapshot of a scene that already exists around us. \nAn Outdoor Stage in the Middle of New London\nHygienic Art Park is one of the more unusual music spaces in the region. \nWalk along Bank Street and you’re surrounded by the buildings\, restaurants and bars of downtown New London. Step into the Art Park during a concert and the atmosphere changes. \nThe outdoor space was designed to function as both a public arts environment and performance venue\, with a raised stage\, sound and lighting infrastructure and space for an audience to gather around it. \nIt’s part of the larger Hygienic Art complex at 79 Bank Street\, which includes galleries and artist spaces in the historic building next door. \nHygienic’s connection to New London’s creative community goes back decades\, including its famous annual Salon des Indépendants and the grassroots effort that ultimately saved the former Hygienic Restaurant building from demolition. \nMusic eventually became another part of that mission. \nDuring the warmer months\, the Art Park turns that history inside out. \nThe gallery walls disappear. \nThe stage lights come on. \nAnd on Sunday\, the soundtrack is reggae. \nFour Bands and One Late-Summer Sunday\nLabor Day weekend usually feels like a dividing line around here. \nSummer isn’t technically over\, but everyone knows what’s coming. \nShoreline Reggae Fest offers another option before letting it go. \nThere are four acts\, an outdoor stage and hours of music beginning late Sunday afternoon. \nRed Lion brings its conscious roots-reggae approach. Glaucoma Suspect arrives with an eight-piece Westerly lineup. Jam Shed brings the improvisational spirit that started during those Wednesday nights in a Salem shed. Lazy River adds another piece to the mix. \nAnd for the second year\, it all comes together in the middle of downtown New London. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Shoreline Reggae Fest\nDate: Sunday\, September 6\, 2026\nDoors: 4 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art Park\nAddress: 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320\nLineup: Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River\nAdvance Tickets: $15\nTickets at the Door: $20\nAges: All ages\nSetting: Outdoor concert \nShoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park brings Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River together for a late-summer celebration of the regional reggae scene in downtown New London. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/shoreline-reggae-fest-at-hygienic-art-park/
LOCATION:Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hygenic Art
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SUMMARY:Hygienic Art Opens Two New Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Art opens two new exhibitions Saturday\, August 29\, bringing photography\, sculpture\, glass\, painting\, and mixed-media work together for an evening of new art in downtown New London. \nBoth opening receptions begin at 6 p.m. at Hygienic Art’s Bank Street galleries. The annual f-Stops Here Juried Photography Exhibition runs from 6 to 9 p.m.\, while E Pluribus Venus celebrates its opening from 6 to 8 p.m. \nWith the receptions happening simultaneously\, visitors can move between two very different exhibitions during the same Saturday night. \nThe f-Stops Here\nThe f-Stops Here is Hygienic Art’s recurring juried exhibition devoted entirely to photography. \nThe exhibition has a long history at the New London gallery\, providing both emerging and established photographers with an opportunity to submit work for consideration by a juror rather than participating in an open-entry exhibition. \nThat distinction changes the show. \nA juried exhibition begins with a larger pool of submissions\, with works selected for inclusion based on the juror’s evaluation. Previous editions of f-Stops Here have attracted photographers working across color and black-and-white photography and have included awards recognizing standout work. \nThe result isn’t intended to represent one photographic style or subject. \nInstead\, the gallery becomes a snapshot of what photographers are seeing\, documenting and creating through the camera. \nE Pluribus Venus\nThe second opening takes an entirely different approach. \nE Pluribus Venus brings together five female artists working in dramatically different media: Catherine Gibson\, Serena Bates\, Diane Brown\, Heather Lusk and Kira Seamon. \nEven the title plays with the idea behind the exhibition. \nE pluribus unum\, the familiar Latin phrase meaning “out of many\, one\,” becomes E Pluribus Venus\, shifting the idea toward five women whose individual approaches come together within a single gallery. \nAnd their work doesn’t look remotely alike. \nFive Artists\, Five Ways of Working\nCatherine Gibson works with fused glass\, using heat to transform individual pieces of glass into larger compositions. \nSerena Bates brings sculpture into the exhibition\, including substantial three-dimensional work that changes how visitors physically experience the gallery space. \nDiane Brown works with an unusual combination of wax and oil\, creating mixed-media pieces that occupy another territory altogether. \nHeather Lusk moves in the opposite direction of monumental sculpture with miniature realist oil paintings\, where scale forces viewers to come closer and pay attention to small details. \nKira Seamon completes the group with kaleidoscopic\, dreamlike photography. \nGlass. Sculpture. Wax and oil. Miniature realism. Photography. \nThe differences aren’t something the exhibition tries to hide. They’re the point. \nTwo Shows in One Night\nPutting E Pluribus Venus alongside f-Stops Here makes Saturday’s opening especially interesting. \nOne gallery exhibition starts with a single medium and asks how many different things artists can do with it. \nThe other starts with five very different media and looks for the ideas and human experiences that can connect them. \nVisitors can spend part of the evening looking at work selected from regional photographers\, then walk into another exhibition where molten glass can share a room with bronze\, oil paint\, wax and experimental photography. \nYou don’t need to choose one. \nBoth open Saturday night. \nAn Arts Institution Built Around Access\nHygienic Art has occupied a particularly unusual place in New London’s arts community for decades. \nIts name comes from the former Hygienic Restaurant\, a longtime Bank Street gathering place that became closely associated with the city’s artists. When the restaurant closed\, the building eventually became home to the nonprofit arts organization that carries its name today. \nHygienic has since developed into a combination of galleries\, artist spaces and the outdoor Hygienic Art Park. \nIts best-known tradition remains the annual Salon des Indépendants\, where artists can exhibit without a judge or jury. \nSaturday’s f-Stops Here flips that formula by putting the selection process back into the hands of a juror. \nE Pluribus Venus does something different again\, assembling a deliberately selected group of artists around a shared exhibition concept. \nOn Saturday night\, visitors get both approaches under one roof. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Hygienic Art Openings: f-Stops Here and E Pluribus Venus\nDate: Saturday\, August 29\, 2026\nLocation: Hygienic Art\nAddress: 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320 \nf-Stops Here Juried Photography Exhibition\nOpening Reception: 6–9 p.m.\nMedium: Photography\nFormat: Juried exhibition \nE Pluribus Venus\nOpening Reception: 6–8 p.m.\nFeatured Artists: Catherine Gibson\, Serena Bates\, Diane Brown\, Heather Lusk and Kira Seamon\nMedia: Fused glass\, sculpture\, wax and oil mixed media\, miniature realist oil painting and photography \nHygienic Art Openings: f-Stops Here and E Pluribus Venus give visitors two exhibitions to explore during the same Saturday evening\, from a juried photography show to five female artists working across dramatically different media. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/hygienic-art-opens-two-new-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Hygenic Art\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
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SUMMARY:Multiplier Summer Party at Hygienic Art
DESCRIPTION:Multiplier Summer Party at Hygienic Art returns for its fifth year on Saturday\, June 20\, bringing an evening of live electronic music\, local artists\, and community energy to downtown New London. Held in the Hygienic Art Park\, the annual event combines a dance-party atmosphere with a celebration of local creativity\, making it one of the city’s most distinctive summer gatherings. \nHeadlining the evening is New London-based electronic group Multiplier\, whose genre-blending sound draws from house\, EDM\, dub\, funk\, breakbeat\, hip hop\, and trip hop. Known for building hypnotic grooves layered with unexpected musical twists\, the band creates an immersive live experience that feels equally at home on a dance floor and in an art space. Support comes from DJ Brian Carter\, who will help keep the energy flowing throughout the night. \nBefore the music begins\, guests can browse a marketplace hosted by ONA\, featuring local artisan vendors. The combination of live music\, visual art\, local makers\, and outdoor summer vibes makes the Multiplier Summer Party a unique showcase of New London’s creative community. \nEvent Details\nDate: Saturday\, June 20\, 2026\nVendor Market: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.\nMusic Begins: 7:00 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London \nFeatured Entertainment\n\nMultiplier\nDJ Brian Carter\nLocal artisan vendors hosted by ONA\n\nTicket Information\n\n$15 advance purchase\n$17 at the door\n\n\n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/multiplier-summer-party-at-hygienic-art/
LOCATION:Hygenic Art\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hygenic Art
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