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.

A Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts Film Series

Join us for an evening of interactive music-making with gospel legend Kirk Franklin. During this special meeting of Prof. Braxton D. Shelley’s course on “The Gospel Imagination: Tradition and Revolution,” Kirk Franklin will critique student compositions, participate in a free-flowing discussion about his life and work, and direct members of a New Haven-based community choir as they sing several of his best-loved songs.

This event will be held at Immanuel Baptist Church (1324 Chapel St., New Haven). It will also be livestreamed.

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.