Featuring work by Faustin Adeniran, Jasmine Nikole, Kwadwo Adae, Moshopefoluwa “Mo” Olagunju, and Marquis Brantley.
Exhibit is in Art Gallery (basement of Trumbull College)
Enter main gate of Trumbull College (241 Elm Street). Go in the double doors immediately on the right. Downstairs to the basement level.
Yale School of Art hosts their first Art & Activism conversation series that brings together world-renowned and courageous artists with academic leaders from the Arts to converse on societal matters that impact our nation. In this inaugural segment of this series, we welcome our keynote speakers, Curator Rashida Bumbray in conversation with Artist Jamal Cyrus, moderated by Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies, Yale SOA Graphic Design.
Co-hosted with the Yale School of Architecture
Please join the Program on Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management for a lively conversation with Reddit’s Chief Operating Officer, Jen Wong YC ’96 after their recent IPO. Jen will talk about how she has helped manage and build one of the largest online communities while driving advertising growth and revenues.
Recently listed at number 1 on Fast Company’s Queer 50, Jen was also included in the Gold House’s A100 List that honors the most impactful Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders in culture every May for API Heritage Month.
Las Madres de Berks is a documentary film on the stories of four mothers detained with their children at Berks Detention Center. Following the screening, lead organizer Jasmine Rivera will talk about Shut Down Berks, the movement that closed the prison in January 2023.
Back by popular demand, I Belong: Mix and Mingle Second Edition is a fun, casual, and stress-free networking event over meaningful conversations and cocktails. The first 65 attendees will receive one complimentary beverage and light refreshments will be served alongside a performance by a trio of members of the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective.
Shining Light on Truth presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. And it illuminates knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for more than three centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget.
Event registration page coming soon. Location will be found on the event registration page.
Event registration page coming soon. Location will be found on the event registration page.
Tattooing as an art form has a complex, often repressed, frequently stigmatized history shared by and unique to every single culture on earth! Come listen to 7 tattoo artists of various heritages talk about their journey into tattooing, what it was like developing their own artistic styles, and how their intersecting identities have impacted and informed their career and their self-expression as tattoo artists.
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The dance drama Chitrangada is a phenomenal illustration of Tagore’s conceptualization of human emotions. The play follows the warrior-princess Chitrangada, who has been raised like a man by her father as he wanted a son. Upon an encounter with Arjuna, the greatest warrior of the time, where she is ignored and dismissed as a little boy, the masculine Chitrangada starts grieving her disconnect from femininity.
