Join us for an evening with the legendary Clark Sisters, a group that has been on the vanguard of gospel music for more than half a century! Come be lifted by their distinctive combination of fiery vocals, spiritual fervor, and sonic innovation. In addition to the Clark Sisters set, the concert will also feature an organ solo from Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark, and a performance with a community choir composed of singers from New Haven and surrounding areas.
Victoria Hepburn, Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, will discuss Marcus Richard Fitzroy Thomas, the previously unnamed boy in Reynolds’s portrait of Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington. The Yale Center for British Art’s retitling of the painting in May 2022 marked the first time in its 240-year exhibition history that both sitters were named.
Kovie Biakolo is a freelance journalist who writes about culture, identity, and the arts. Her work can be found in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, TIME, among other publications. She is also the author of the forthcoming “Foremothers: 500 Years of Heroines From the African Diaspora” due in 2024/2025. Additionally, she currently serves as the Distinguished Lecturer for the Arts and Culture Reporting Program at the City University of New York where she was recently awarded a Tow Professorship for the 2022-2024 academic years.
EMILY BERNARD
Memoirist and author of Black Is the Body
Wednesday, February 8
5:00–6:00pm
Beinecke Library Mezzanine
Contact: Yale College Deans Office 432-2920 clare.schlegel@yale.edu
The Yale African American Affinity Group Social and Networking Subcommittee and New Haven Club of The National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women’s Club’s Inc. invite you to join us for a viewing of “Black At Yale: A Film Diary.” There will be time after the film to stay and share your own thoughts and views regarding where we’ve been and where we are now.
Tangled Up in Blue, Yale’s premier American folk¬-singing group, performs at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Gallery+ is an ongoing series of collaborations that invites responses to the Gallery’s collection through special programs and performances. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Space is limited. For our current vaccination and mask requirements, visit https://artgallery.yale.edu/hours-and-directions.
The Teacher Leadership Program is a free, one-hour workshop on Zoom for educators of all levels and disciplines that meets at 4:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month throughout the academic year. The sessions are led by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Public Education; Amanda “Semente” Caroline de Oliveira Pereira, the John Walsh Fellow in Museum Education; Wurtele Gallery Teachers; and Education Department staff. In this program, educators explore innovative ways to connect their curricula and interest in art with the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection.
A panel of three distinguished alum scholars— Keri Day, Alisha Lola Jones, and Jeremy Williams—will present this year’s Parks-King Lecture at Yale Divinity School.
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The event—titled “From Where We Stand: Envisioning the Future of Black Theology”—will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, February 24, in Niebuhr Hall. Professor Willie James Jennings will moderate.
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Join Yale School of Management’s Krystal Augustine for a fun, casual, and stress-free networking event over meaningful conversations and cocktails. The mixer will allow attendees to speak freely about their personal work experiences. Participants will explore how, although they each may be different on the surface, they share similar goals in the workplace.
Countries in Latin America have enjoyed periods of democratic revival and suffered from periods of democratic decline since their independence. Recent events in Peru and Brazil add to the many cases in which democracy was about to break, but it did not.
