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All are invited to this one day display of collections material and a video screening about an essential story of New Haven in 1831: the visionary – and thwarted – proposal for a Black college that would have been America’s first historically Black college (HBCU).
1623: Part II
A continued exploration of this monumental year in Elizabethan music history.
Lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director
1623: Part I
Works by three English composers who all died in 1623: William Byrd, Philip Rosseter, and Thomas Weelkes. Featuring pieces from the Beinecke’s collection. Guest ensemble, Piffaro, the Renaissance Band.
Lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/46LgH9b
Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Join us for coffee and treats from 10:00-10:30 AM, followed by short readings by prize recipients from their contributions to an upcoming issue of The Yale Review. Hosted by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The annual Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival closing event returns, featuring short readings by the 2023 recipients.
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil, based on the book Color Bar by Susan Williams.
Co-hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a self-described Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist, recently completed a biography of the OG Queer Black Troublemaker, poet Audre Lorde. Join her for a trip through the poet’s life and a blessing including original archival materials from the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library.
Over a period of two years, starting in 2019 when he began work on his novel The Trees, Percival Everett made a series of paintings to commemorate the century anniversary of the Red Summer, a summer that saw so many lynchings in the United States. In the conversation and slide presentation, Everett and Crystal Feimster discuss the ways he uses oil paints, watercolors, and photographs of his own paintings to create portraits of an American landscape that is ever-present, but often conveniently ignored.
Join Jasmine Lee-Jones and award-winning author Dan Charnas, author of Dilla Time: The Life and After Life of J. Dilla, as they listen to and discuss a selection of tracks from the legendary producer and artist.
