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VIRTUAL: Midday Musical Moments with Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu

午间琴音
Midday Musical Moments
施坦威艺术家许兴艾
with Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu
Join us as pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (Yale School of Music ‘01) leads musical webinars every Thursday from May 27 through July 29.
In our present day of medical, social, economic, and racial distress, creativity in music offers us a path forward. Music offers a general gentle approach to the topic of multi-dimensional awareness, which provides a crucial foundational step towards empathy.
May 27 - July 29
Thursdays at 12:00 pm ET

VIRTUAL: Yale Alumni Service Corps Presents: Amandla Virtual Reading Group, Session 3

Join us as we help Amandla run virtual reading groups for kids in the South African township of Philippi.
Due to the legacy of apartheid education, literacy is a major challenge as most kids aren’t exposed to a culture of reading. To encourage reading for pleasure among Grades 7 and 9 Philippi learners, these students will be reading Kwame Alexander’s “Crossover” series during their winter holiday.

Yale Alumni Service Corps Presents: Amandla Virtual Reading Group, Session 2

Join us this June and July as we help Amandla run virtual reading groups for kids in the South African township of Philippi.
Due to the legacy of apartheid education, literacy is a major challenge as most kids aren’t exposed to a culture of reading. To encourage reading for pleasure among Grades 7 and 9 Philippi learners, these students will be reading Kwame Alexander’s “Crossover” series during their winter holiday.

Transpositions, Pt. 16: Dormeshia (Video Premiere)

Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Dormeshia.

Transpositions, Pt. 15: Irene Hultman (Video Premiere)

The series continues! Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Irene Hultman.

Transpositions, Pt. 13: Emily Coates (Video Premiere)

The series continues! Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Emily Coates.

Transpositions, Pt. 14: Jennifer Harrison Newman (Video Premiere)

The series continues! Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Jennifer Harrison Newman.

Maria Luiza Film Screening and Q&A Session with Director, Marcelo Diaz

Join the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at Yale University for a film screening and a Q&A session after the screening with the film director (Marcelo Díaz) of Maria Luiza. The Q&A session will be moderated by Prof. Margherita Tortora at Yale.
Maria Luiza is a documentary about Maria Luiza da Silva, the first transgender in the history of the Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work as a military, she was retired due to disability.

Free Expression on Campus

This event is presented by the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse and the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago. Over the past few years, there has been much debate about the tensions between protecting free speech and creating an inclusive environment on university campuses. There are many interesting and unresolved questions in this area, such as:

What is the role of “civility” in conversations on campus? Are calls for civility a weapon used by those who wish to silence certain voices, or is civility a necessary condition for productive discussion?

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