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The Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake 1988
BEVERLY M. RICHEY
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
June 1988
A Cake by Committee transient Art an amazing part of 350th
By Markland Taylor
"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
