Celebrating the life of Yale’s Willie Ruff in conjunction with Yale School of Music’s Willie Ruff Memorial Concert. The exhibit features oral histories recorded by Willie speaking with other legendary Black musicians and composers. These oral histories are part of the Gilmore Music Library’s Oral History of American Music project and is presented in partnership with the Yale School of Music’s March 29th Willie Ruff Memorial Concert.
Yale’s Special Collections at the Beinecke house extraordinary Passover Haggadot, books of Jewish custom (minhagim), and legal treatises related to the holiday. Join us to explore these rare and beautiful books from around the world as the Passover season begins. At a pop-up exhibit, you are welcome to come at any time during the one-and-a-half-hour period to view the materials and ask questions.
What does it take to lead a nation’s cultural heritage preservation efforts?
Join Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Mongolia’s Former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism for a discussion on her journey in safeguarding Mongolia’s cultural heritage. From championing key policies to mobilizing critical resources, learn about the challenges and victories that shaped her leadership. Learn more about the speaker:
A conversation with leaders in West Africa who are building and redefining art institutions
Join Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithful and El Hadji Malick Ndiaye as they discuss how the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art in Dakar, Senegal are showcasing and preserving artistic heritage.
Book Bunk in Nairobi, Kenya is reimagining and renovating public libraries into sites of heritage, public art, and learning. Join Book Bunk’s Co-founder Wanjiru Koinange for an inspiring discussion on how Kenya’s colonial-era libraries are being transformed into vibrant, inclusive spaces for creativity, knowledge, and community.
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Open to all Yale and surrounding communities, the Nahuatl Working Group is hosting a special screening of “Mother’s Day in Cuetzalan: Panchita the Weaver” for Women’s History Month. The documentary offers an intimate look at the life of Panchita, a resilient and talented Nahua woman whose weaving skills sustain her family amidst challenging economic circumstances in Mexico’s Sierra Norte.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “Street Talk”: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace on view in the Hanke Gallery of Sterling Memorial Library.
Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.
This March, we are excited to announce that we are partnering with the Collective for Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Wellbeing (CRIW) and other Yale Offices for a very special event to commemorate International Women’s Day on Friday, March 7!
The evening will feature a film screening and talk-back with filmmaker Sepideh Yadegar. We will begin the evening with a screening of One Must Wash Eyes, a timely drama about Sahar, an international student from Iran who struggles to stay in Canada after her visa is compromised when she participates in the Women-Led revolution in Iran.
Since the mid-1980s, Andrea Fraser, the 2025 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, has worked in the realm of institutional critique, investigating and revealing the ways in which organizations, groups, and individuals hold and wield power. Frequently challenging the biases of arts institutions, her videos, performances, and texts deftly combine careful research with incisive, often humorous, delivery.
Since the mid-1980s, Andrea Fraser, the 2025 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, has worked in the realm of institutional critique, investigating and revealing the ways in which organizations, groups, and individuals hold and wield power. Frequently challenging the biases of arts institutions, her videos, performances, and texts deftly combine careful research with incisive, often humorous, delivery.
