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Yale College New Music presents Collaborations I

Yale College New Music presents Collaborations I. Our concert features new works for violin, cello, voice, percussion + vibraphone, and cell phones, digital metronomes, and wine glasses written by our Yale College composers: Tommaso Bailo, Rory Bricca, John Brockett, Willa Hawthorne, Nathan Moran, Tai O’Malley, John Raskopf, Noah Stein, Adam Winograd, Andy Wong, and Miles Zaud.

Our guest performers are Keeley Brooks and Meili Gupta, violin, Yiftach Bick, cello, John Raskpof, voice, Makana Medeiros, percussion, and composers on cell phones, with metronomes and wine glasses.

New Haven, Yale, and Slavery in the Archives: Display of Original Materials

A special afternoon display of original archival materials co-sponsored by Greater New Haven African American Historical Society and the Beinecke Library.

Visitors will be able to view original documents from the archives that tell the story of New Haven, Yale, and slavery, including original account books from the early days of Yale, newspapers and other accounts of the proposal to build a Black College in New Haven in 1831, maps, and much more.

All Creation Sings: ISM's 50th Anniversary Hymn Festival

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will hold an ecumenical hymn festival in Woolsey Hall on May 5, 2024, at 4 p.m. A community choir of 300 voices will sing hymns around the theme “All Creation Sings,” celebrating the diversity of our creation and our duty as faithful people to care for it. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the choir will have Yale Camerata at its core and will be accompanied by brass ensemble, gospel instrumentalists, and organists Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs and Dr. Bruce Neswick. Drs.

Mondays at Beinecke: Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives with Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.

A special Mondays at Beinecke online talk with Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.,the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass and the co-founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. Since its inception in 2007, FDFI has been advocating for a more equitable world on the issues of human trafficking and racism.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/48rK1RE

Copying Sacred Scriptures: Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) and Lecture

This event marks the opening of the new exhibit, “Copying Sacred Scriptures: A Spiritual Practice,” now on view in the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library. The event will include an introductory lecture and live Sagyŏng demonstration from Master Dagil Kim Kyeong-ho. A reception will follow at 6:00 p.m.

Master Kim is a poet, calligrapher, and artist who has devoted himself to the continuation of the rare art and technique of Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) for the last 30 years.

Mondays at Beinecke: From that Time and Place - Celebrating Felice Picano and Andrew Holleran on Their 80th Birthdays

Join us for a special Mondays at Beinecke online conversation featuring Felice Picano (The Lure, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay) and Andrew Holleran, (Dancer from the Dance, The Kingdom of Sand) reflecting on the first full flowering of gay male literature in the 1970s and 1980s they helped create, drawing on their diaries and letters and manuscripts on deposit at the Beinecke, to explore how their works took shape – and helped shape the era of literary and political liberation after Stonewall and into the early years of the AIDS epidemic and beyond.

Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery at the New Haven Museum - Opening Event

An opening event for “Shining Light on Truth,” a new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, that complements the publication of “Yale and Slavery: A History” and draws from the Yale and Slavery Research Project’s key findings. Presented by Beinecke Library, the exhibition is curated by Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr., designed by David Jon Walker, and with research leadership by Jennifer Coggins and Hope McGrath. The show will remain on view through summer, 2024.

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