The New Haven Jazz Festival kicks off Thursday evening with an event honoring Connecticut musician/composer Jeff Fuller. 

Fuller is a versatile and eclectic bassist who performed for over 15 years with jazz greatLou Donaldson, six years with Cuban jazz artist Paquito D’Rivera, and over the years, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan and Randy Brecker. He’s also an educator who has taught jazz for nearly two decades at an arts magnet school in New Haven.WNPR’s Diane Orson spoke with Jeff Fuller earlier this week. To hear the broacast, go to: http://wnpr.org/post/jazz-bass-player-who-can-call-pitches.

ACES Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) was selected as a "Best Magnet School" in New Haven Living Magazine's "Best of 2014" issue. To read more go to: http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/best-of/services/nhl-best-magnet-school-2014-20140715,0,1682737.story

By Michael C. Bingham

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) is pleased to announce Carissa Lockett as its 2014-2015 Teacher of the Year. Ms. Lockett is a teacher at ACES Whitney High School North in Hamden.

by Staff ◊June 17, 2014 Edition

ACES will be celebrating the reopening of the Little Theatre on Lincoln Street with a ribbon cutting ceremony June 6 at 11 a.m.

Built in 1924, New Haven’s Little Theatre (formerly known as Little Theatre on Lincoln) has seen several incarnations, including a period as a beloved art-film cinematheque. After months of construction, the latest transformation will be unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to be held June 6. Designed by local architecture firm Svigals + Partners, the renovation for Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) preserves the structure’s unique historic qualities while delivering dual functions: a cutting-edge theater venue and performing arts teaching facility.

Little Theatre Lives!

BY Allan Appel | JUN 6, 2014 4:04 PM

Randall Beach: A little, old theater that has ‘seen it all’ survives, with a new look

By Jaki Lauper 

ACES Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School students placed first and second in the 2014 OneWorld Progressive Institute Oratory Competition. Click the link below to read the  article, New Haven Independent.