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Advance Screening: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (2024)

Winner of Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Description: Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.

2024 | Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran, Germany, France | 168 minutes | Persian with English subtitles

Screening: ONLOOKERS (2023) followed by Q&A with director

Named one of the best documentaries of 2024 by The New York Times, Kimi Takesue’s ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how people live as observers. The film traverses the country’s dusty roads and tranquil rivers, unfolding elaborate painterly tableaus and revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play.

Yale Veterans Day Ceremony

Members of the Yale Community are invited to gather on Hewitt Quadrangle/Beinecke Plaza to celebrate Yale veterans, past and present. Speakers include President McInnis, Secretary and Vice President for University Life Kimberly Goff-Crews a student veteran. A brass quartet will perform the national and service anthems and echoing taps will be played.

Mondays at Beinecke, November 18: What the Start of the Arab Spring Taught Me about Diplomacy with Gordon Gray

Join the Beinecke online Monday, November 18, 2024, at 4 PM, for the talk, “What the Start of the Arab Spring Taught me about Diplomacy,” by former U.S. Ambassador Gordon Gray, Yale College ’78. Gray served as U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia from 2009 until 2012, witnessing the start of the Arab Spring and directing the U.S. response in support of Tunisia’s transition.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/48iQMXB

Public Performance with Awilda Sterling-Duprey

NXTHVN is thrilled to announce a Public Performance by our Visiting Artist, Awilda Sterling-Duprey, in conjunction with her exhibition: Aesthetics of dis-order. A public performance featuring her “…blindfolded” work is set to premiere on Saturday, October 26, 2 pm. For this performance, Sterling-Duprey will be in dialogue with local New Haven musicians providing improvisational jazz and bomba acoustics while she allows her body to feel and translate the music into rhythmic bodily movements articulated into bright pastel markings, lines, and textures onto black construction paper.

Saturday Introductory Tour of Beinecke Library

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 other important visitor information.

A reminder the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas are always free and open to the public, seven days a week. See the library’s website for more information on hours and exhibitions and to explore the library online.

Saturday Introductory Tour of Beinecke Library

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 other important visitor information.

A reminder the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas are always free and open to the public, seven days a week. See the library’s website for more information on hours and exhibitions and to explore the library online.

Mondays at Beinecke: Celebrating the Centennial of Geraldine Page with Hilton Als, Angelica Page, and Estelle Parsons

A very special Mondays at Beinecke online talk with three extraordinary speakers to celebrate the centennial of the birth of the extraordinary actress Geraldine Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987).

Her life and career will be discussed by three celebrated contemporary cultural leaders: writer and theater critic Hilton Als, actress Estelle Parsons, and actress Angelica Page, the daughter of Geraldine Page.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/4849yS6

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