All Ages

Hop Into Spring: A Swing Dance Workshop with a Live Jazz Performance!

Join us for Hop Into Spring 2025: A Lindy Hop & Balboa Dance weekend with national instructors Jennifer Barnett and Dominic Hanna! This weekend will be jam packed with lessons for dancers of all levels and includes an incredible evening of social dancing to the Wes Lewis Quintet, led by a Yale PhD student, and featuring vocals by Teddy Horangic, a professional vocalist and also a Yale student. Lindy Hop is the original swing dance, originating in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, and continuing to be enjoyed by dancers worldwide all the way up to the current day.

Lunarfest 2025 - Year of the Snake

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.

2025 University MLK Commemoration featuring Bishop William J. Barber II

Monday, January 27, 2025 | 6:00pm to 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

This event is free and open to the public, and it will also be livestreamed. Registration is required to attend.

The Yale University and Greater New Haven communities are invited to attend this year’s MLK Commemoration that honors the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are pleased to announce that this year’s commemoration will feature Bishop William J. Barber II.

The Rev. Dr. William Joseph Barber II

Artist Talk: Maren Hassinger in Conversation

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.

Creative Convergence: Non-traditional Classical Music Performance & Creative Discussion

We are hosting an experimental non-traditional classical music event, featuring music that draws from a wide variety of cultures and styles. Removing the barrier between artist and audience, we seek to bring together an eclectic group of artists of all types. Each short 5-7 minute piece will be introduced with points of interest, personal anecdotes, cultural background, and relevance; following each performance, we will lead a small discussion, reacting to what we heard and felt.

31st Annual Conference of the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters: Governing Resilient Tropical Forest Systems

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.

The Bridge: A New Musical

Please join us for a presentation of the new musical, The Bridge, in Morse Recital Hall at Yale University, on November 21 at 7:30 PM.

Yale Veterans Day Ceremony

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.

RITM Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary

The Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary will bring together scholars, practitioners, and artists from across the Centering Race Consortium (CRC), a collaboration with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in American (CSREA) at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University, the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) at Yale University, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago.

Maadathy, an Unfairy Tale and Conversation with the Filmmaker

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.