Join the Yale Peabody Museum, CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the New Haven Museum for the 28th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy of Social and Environmental Justice with two days of free events open to all. Generously sponsored by Citizens.
Join us to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for a more equitable and just future with a display of drawings, photographs, prints, and rare books highlighting the concepts of integrity, justice, peace, and resistance.
Influential poet-performers Croilot and Ngoma emcee a packed slate of on-stage programs inside one of the largest auditoriums on Yale’s campus. They’ll kick things off with a high-energy group performance and a curated open mic. Those talented storytellers will be followed by a dazzling line-up of over a dozen renowned competition poets, including Ray Jane, Lyrical Faith, Tymani Rain, T’challa Williams, and last year’s winner Slangston Hughes.
Family Storytelling and Dance at the New Haven Museum
New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue
The New Haven Museum and the Peabody are teaming up for an afternoon of inspiring family programs celebrating Dr. King’s life and legacy. Storytellers Joy Donaldson, Waltrina Kirkland, and Clifton Graves will share stirring fables, anecdotes, and stories that honor King’s work and testify to his impact on the justice movement.
Note: Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information.
Yale Camerata will be holding in-person auditions for experienced singers from the Yale and greater New Haven communities on Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Thursday, January 18 from 4-8 p.m. Soprano, alto, tenor, and bass positions are available. The auditions will take place in in the Great Hall (N100) at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven. The audition will include:
Yale Camerata will be holding in-person auditions for experienced singers from the Yale and greater New Haven communities on Thursday, January 18 from 4-8 p.m. Soprano, alto, tenor, and bass positions are available. The auditions will take place in in the Great Hall (N100) at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven. The audition will include:
A prepared short solo song or aria of your choice: bring a copy of your music for the accompanist
Sight Reading and Ear Training excerpts
Simple vocal exercises demonstrating range and musicianship
The Future Leaders of Yale, Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging at Yale invite you to the Belonging at Yale Series. This three-event series will focus on belonging in a complex workplace. These events will explore what the new term of belonging at an organization means and offer diverse experiences and pathways to show and be authentic in a workspace.
The third and final part of this series will take place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 12:00-1:15PM around the topic of “Belonging: How can YOU share YOUR space with others?”.
How do we think gendered being at the beginning of the world? Across Lucille Clifton’s work is both an engagement of this question and, as such, object lessons for how to theorize key terms of black/feminist criticism. Or, to say it another way, Clifton thinking is a study in thinking.
Join Brown University professor Kevin Quashie for this public lecture on black poetry and black feminism.
The REEES Program at Yale, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies present “Remembering Vilna: The Jerusalem of Lithuania.”
