The Yale-China Association is proud to present the 14th annual Lunarfest in New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday, February 1st, 2025. Lunarfest is the largest celebration of Lunar New Year in Connecticut and is one of New Haven’s premiere cultural events. Lunarfest 2025 celebrates the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac. The day’s festivities will begin at 10 am with a parade down Whitney Avenue between Grove and Trumbull Streets featuring a lion dance, a traditional Chinese dance performance, martial arts demonstrations, and speeches from local community leaders.

In celebration of the Yale University Art Gallery’s acquisition and installation of Maren Hassinger’s Monument (Pyramid) (2022), the artist joins Margaret Ewing, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her groundbreaking work. Underrecognized until recently by museums, Hassinger has worked steadily in sculpture, installation, and performance, becoming one of the leading artists of our time.

The 31st Annual Conference of the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF), titled Governing Resilient Tropical Forest Systems, will explore critical issues surrounding the governance of tropical forests, which play a vital role in global climate regulation, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of millions.

Members of the Yale Community are invited to gather on Hewitt Quadrangle/Beinecke Plaza to celebrate Yale veterans, past and present. Speakers include President McInnis, Secretary and Vice President for University Life Kimberly Goff-Crews a student veteran. A brass quartet will perform the national and service anthems and echoing taps will be played.

This is the tale of an adolescent girl who grew up in an “unseeable” Dalit caste group in southern India whose forced occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead, and menstruating women. She transcends her lot and becomes immortalised as their local deity, Maadathy.