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Thursday, November 12, 2020

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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