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Monday, November 16, 2020

Still Serving the People; a reunion of the A-mazing Bureaucratic Events Archive | Artspace New Haven

Serving the People; a reunion of the "A-mazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake"

Local Art Community Collaborators

photo credits: Timothy Feresten

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST.

Location: Zoom Sign-in Link

For New Haven’s 350th-anniversary festival coordinator Bob Gregson commissioned local artist Bev Richey to create an interactive cake experience. Richey’s A-mazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake (Serving the People 3500 Pieces…) included artists, activists, lawyers, civic administrators, and their friends into the weeks of bureaucratic planning needed to share thousands of pieces of free cake on the New Haven Green in June 1988.

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Jeff Burnett, Margaret Bodell, Roberta Chambers, Bitsie Clark, Nikila Cole, Mimsie Coleman, Bill Derry, Tim Feresten, Bob Gregson, John Landino, Bev Richey, Johnes Ruta, Amy Seham, Mary Shiffer, and more for an A-mazing reunion as they share memories, stories, and lessons from the experience.

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Materials Related to: The Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake 1988 - Google Docs

Materials Related to:

The Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake 1988

BEVERLY M. RICHEY

bevrichey@gmail.com

On June 4-5, 1988, New Haven Connecticut celebrated its 350th anniversary

with a marathon festival on the Green. The festival was

called "New Haven Celebrates New Haven" and it was a microcosm of every

neighborhood group, civic organization, cultural association, arts

organization, and political leader–condensed together. It began with a

parade of neighborhoods led by Mayor DiLieto and Governor O'Neill -- and concluded

the next evening with everyone waltzing together -- filling the entire Green. I

n between people got a piece of birthday cake from the satiric "bureaucratic cake commission."

Over 200,000 attended during the two days. Video Credit: Robert Gregson

Video link here: https://vimeo.com/12903360

New Haven Arts

June 1988

Publication of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven

The A-Mazing Bureaucratic Birthday

By Mimsie Coleman

New Haven Register

Sunday, June 5, 1988

No 'just desserts' on this birthday cake

By Barbara Steinberger

New Haven Register

June 1988

A Cake by Committee transient Art an amazing part of 350th

By Markland Taylor

Google Working Album

“The google doc album looks fantastic! I so enjoyed

taking the trip through the planning, the construction,

the decorating, and the event which your collection

provides. It’s well done – congrats on digitizing,

laying out, including/not including, and making

it internet-able. ” Roberta Chambers 2020

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

some pix - bevrichey@gmail.com - Gmail

"The google doc album looks fantastic! I so enjoyed taking the trip through the planning, the constructing, the decorating and the event which your collection provides. It’s well done – congrats on digitizing, laying out, including/not including and making it internet-able. I’ve saved most of it to my hard drive. Studying the display at Artspace someone might piece it all together but, unless I missed a blurb, there is no overview, nothing tells really what made it unique, what happened at the ABBC, it’s mayor [unwittingly] sanctioned sly spoof on bureaucracy." Roberta Chambers 2020

Photo Credits: Roberta Chambers