General Public

E-Study Tour, American Furniture: Interpretation through Reproduction

Furniture maker and educator Bob Van Dyke discusses with Eric Litke, Museum Assistant in the Department of American Decorative Arts, his project to reproduce several pieces of Colonial American furniture in the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection for use in two Connecticut houses owned by the Windsor Historical Society. The conversation charts Van Dyke’s process of selecting and studying objects at the Leslie P. and George H. Hume, B.A.

Yale Innovation Summit: New VENTURE Haven

The Yale Innovation Summit is delighted to return to an in-person format this year. The Summit has become the largest entrepreneurship event on campus and the largest gathering of venture capital investors in Connecticut. Over two days we will celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship at Yale, in New Haven and Connecticut as a whole. The Summit offers unequaled networking, education, and inspiration for the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. All are welcome!

Senior Exhibit: We Are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive

This year’s Yale Library Senior Exhibit,
curated by Gabrielle Colangelo ‘22, is now
on display in the Sterling Memorial Library
Exhibition Corridor.

Curator's Talk: Senior Exhibit Project "We Are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive"

Please join us to celebrate the opening of “We are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive.” Curator Gabrielle Colangelo will provide a tour of this exciting exhibition and will be available for questions and conversation over light refreshments afterward. No registration is necessary.

Dare to Write & Publish: My Journey to Becoming an Author

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a moderated discussion with three local authors: Erica G. Bradley, Don’t Start Dinner Without Us!, Von Narcisse, The Forgotten Prophecy, and Marion Regina Mullings, And I Pray…My Daily Declaration to Walking in My Destiny. The first 30 attendees will receive a copy of one of the speaker’s books. Q&A will follow. This event is open to the public and will be recorded.

Yale Alumni LIVE: Maxine Williams ’91

Join us live from New Haven during the Afro-American Cultural Center’s 50th anniversary celebration with Maxine Williams ’91, the chief diversity officer at Meta, formerly Facebook. Maxine serves as a member of Meta’s most senior executive leadership team under the CEO. Her team works to increase cognitive diversity — different ways of thinking based on different backgrounds, experiences, and information — of all Meta teams and integrate diverse perspectives into policy and product development.

Afro-American Cultural Center 50th-Anniversary: Celebration of the Arts

Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center was established at the height of the Black Arts Movement, and, as such, visual, literary, and performing arts have remained at the heart of our community. Join us for a panel discussion featuring some of our prominent alumni who will be sharing their insights from their work and lives in the arts and reflections on how art can change the world. Close the night out by enjoying a family-friendly showcase featuring student performance groups from the House and other cultural centers.

Book Club Discussion - Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

In honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, join the Working Women’s Network and Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill.

YLNG Cinco De Mayo Celebration

Join the Yale Latino Networking Group for a celebration of Cinco de Mayo! Enjoy great food, meet our current members, and learn more about our organization. Feel free to bring a friend, Yale allies, family, or your animal friends, for an afternoon of fun, conversation, and “communidad”! We hope to see you there. Free tacos and quesadillas will be available from the Taqueria Tlaxcala food truck while supplies last.

This event will take place on Thursday, May 5 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm at 139 Ashmun Street, New Haven (across from Scantlebury Park).

YVN Spring Clean Up

In Partnership with the City of New Haven, American Legion Post 210, VFW Post 12150, National Veterans Council for Legal Redress, and Yale Veterans Network, join us for a morning of community service at the Vietnam War Memorial. Materials will be provided by the New Haven Public Works Department. Please bring your work gloves, shovels, brooms, and gas or battery powered blowers or trimmers.

COVID guidelines will be followed and masks and social distancing will be required and adhered to.