All are welcome to a a special one-display of highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement on view for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room. You will be able to see an array of materials, many drawn from the library’s James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, that highlight Dr. King’s life, legacy, and impact, and the long civil rights movement in the United States.

An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.

An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.

Join Emily Laurens, Rachel Porter and Persephone Pearl, aka Feral Theatre—the co-founders of Remembrance Day for Lost Species—for a talk about the project and their journeys with it as performers and activists over the past decade. Their own offerings to this annually recurring world-wide initiative have ranged from rough theatre, puppetry and procession to Zoom conferences, experimental rituals and most recently spell-casting. Is ritual art? Is art a ritual? And what makes them believe that any of it can have an impact or be a meaningful form of eco-social activism?

Kathy Pakay and Josh Morton in person! Three Yale-preserved films by Yale filmmakers have their campus premieres: MAYDAY (May First Media, 1970, 22 mins) and PUPPET SHOW (Josh Morton, 1970, 9 mins) examine events surrounding New Haven’s Black Panther trials, while JAMES BALDWIN: FROM ANOTHER PLACE (Sedat Pakay, 1973, 12 mins) lets us hear from Baldwin during his self-imposed exile in Istanbul.

Yale-preserved films presented in 35mm and 16mm by the Yale Film Archive with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.