Join us this June and July as we help Amandla run virtual reading groups for kids in the South African township of Philippi.
Due to the legacy of apartheid education, literacy is a major challenge as most kids aren’t exposed to a culture of reading. To encourage reading for pleasure among Grades 7 and 9 Philippi learners, these students will be reading Kwame Alexander’s “Crossover” series during their winter holiday.
Join us this June and July as we help Amandla run virtual reading groups for kids in the South African township of Philippi.
Due to the legacy of apartheid education, literacy is a major challenge as most kids aren’t exposed to a culture of reading. To encourage reading for pleasure among Grades 7 and 9 Philippi learners, these students will be reading Kwame Alexander’s “Crossover” series during their winter holiday.
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 – Long Wharf Drive, New Haven, CT. 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 trimers. COVID guidelines will be followed and masks and social distancing will be required and adhered to. Food and beverage will not be provided.
Join FLY and the Farmington Valley Arts Center for our first Paint Night event! We will be working on a spring time painting accessible for painters of all levels. Follow the instruction of Christy Corey as you work on your personal creation. The event will be capped at 25 registrants. Registrants may include one additional household member for the paint session.
A supply list will be sent out shortly after your registration has been submitted.
Join in the fun, no experience necessary! Sign up quickly since space is limited!
Please join the Future Leaders of Yale (FLY) affinity group for this year’s virtual celebration of the outstanding recipients of the FLY Recognition Awards. All are welcome to help us celebrate these inspiring individuals. We will additionally recognize Yale staff working on the front lines of the Covid-19 response during this ceremony. If that’s you, we encourage you to join us.
Please give a congratulatory shout out to this year’s recipients on the Kudoboard.
Congratulations to our awardees!
Join the Asian Network at Yale, Working Women’s Network, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and Yale-China for a lunch and learn panel discussion on the hypersexualization of Asian American women in America, racial injustice, inequities, and how to show up as an ally for the AAPI community. Our panelists are Professor Mary Lui, Yale Professor of American Studies and Head of Timothy Dwight College, and Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF).
David W. Blight will draw on his research in progress on the life and work of the African-American poet, novelist, songwriter, and diplomat, James Weldon Johnson.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3eFc9Ie
Social Justice meets sci-fi meets songwriting in this panel discussion between musician, composer, and curator Toshi Reagon; cultural producer & sacred artivist Hanifa Nayo Washington; and writer, activist, educator, and spoken word artist Walidah Imarisha. In partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center, these award-winning luminaries will touch on themes of Afrofuturism, Octavia Butler, and bringing a creative approach to our understanding of what social justice initiatives of the future might look like.
Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Dormeshia.
The series continues! Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Irene Hultman.
