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Cinemix Film Screening: Perfect Days

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023, DCP, 123 mins)

Wenders’s latest is “a sublime validation of the ordinary, a film replete with grace, harmony, and hope that overwhelms and engulfs you in its humane world” (Namrata Joshi). This current Best International Feature Oscar nominee stars Kōji Yakusho, who won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a Tokyo toilet cleaner. The Kinks, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, and—of course—Lou Reed grace the soundtrack. In Japanese with English subtitles. DCP courtesy NEON.

Brutal Imagination: a reading of Cornelius Eady's play by Joe Morton and Sally Murphy

Based on Cornelius Eady’s poem cycle, Brutal Imagination is a powerful examination of the notorious 1994 incident in which a white woman in South Carolina, Susan Smith, claimed that a Black man had kidnapped her children. The FBI searched for the man until Smith confessed that she had invented the Black man and had drowned her children. Brutal Imagination, two voices inside one consciousness, brings this invented man to life.

Mondays at Beinecke: Early Black Students at Yale with Jennifer Coggins and Charles Warner, Jr.

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A talk in conjunction with new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” curated by Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr., and designed by David Jon Walker. The exhibition will be on view at the museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, from February 16. It is presented by Beinecke Library, Yale University Library.

Mondays at Beinecke: The Many Stories of Yale’s Black Sweeps, 1865-1900, with Hope McGrath

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, racism and discrimination meant that few occupations were open to Black people in New Haven and elsewhere in Connecticut. Although a small number of formally educated Black men became doctors, lawyers, educators, and other professionals, the majority worked as barbers, porters, waiters, and laborers. Black women worked outside the home as well, often as cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, or household staff.

Mondays at Beinecke: Designing "Shining Light on Truth" with David Jon Walker and Michael Morand

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A behind the scenes look at the design thinking for a new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” curated by Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr., and designed by David Jon Walker. The exhibition will be on view at the museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, from February 16. It is presented by Beinecke Library, Yale University Library.

Ruby Bridges Storytime

Branches of the New Haven Free Public Library and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater New Haven, in collaboration with Yale University’s MLK planning committee/community volunteers, will host a “Ruby Bridges Storytime” citywide read for young students and families at various locations throughout January (January 9 - January 23). Below you’ll find the list of participating locations, dates, times, addresses and contact information. (NOTE: In the case of inclement weather, please directly contact the location before traveling to the event.)

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