Common Room of Yale Divinity School (409 Prospect Street) Come one, come all! Join us in celebrating the end of Black History Month. We will be honoring many voices and faces from the black culture through performances of dancing, singing, spoken word, and music. It's going to be a celebration! Food will be provided! Sponsored by Yale Black Seminarians and Pan African Women's Fellowship
The Creative Writing Reading Series and the James Weldon Johnson Collection of the Beinecke Library presents: A Reading by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Wednesday, March 2nd, 5:00 p.m. LC 211 (Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street) Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and student the Yale Law School. He has written two collections of poetry, the recently published and critically acclaimed Bastards of the Reagan Era and Shahid Reads His Own Palm. His memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, is the story of a young man confined in the worst prisons in the state of Virginia, where solitary confinement, horrific conditions, and the constant violence threatened to break his humanity. Instead, Betts used the time to turn himself into a poet, a scholar, and an advocate for the reform of the criminal justice system.
The Sounds of Digital Joy: Black Women's Sonic Space Making Online
This workshop invites participants to look at digital music and podcasts created by black women as sites of transformative resistance and as a praxis of alternative world building. The workshop will be led by Moya Bailey (Northeastern University) and Jalylah Burrell (Yale University). For more information or to register, go to the YUL Instruction Calendar or click here.
Call for Photographers!
The Yale School of Nursing will hold its annual Annie Goodrich Ball on Friday, April 15th. The theme is Hollywood Nights and the committee is looking for photographers to act as “paparazzi” in the foyer of the ballroom before everyone enters. Please contact Ana Sofia De Brito for more information.
Black Pulp!
Organized by William Villalongo and Mark Gibson 1/19/2016 – 3/11/2016
Curated by Artists William Villalongo Lecturer, YSA) and Mark Thomas Gibson (YSA MFA ‘13), the exhibition features rare print media, comics and contemporary art from the Black Diaspora showcasing the creative use of highly disseminated media to leverage limited notions of black subjectivity and humanity.
"The Kings at Yale": an exhibition in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave
From January 11 - March 11, 2016, a temporary exhibition will be on display in the Sterling Memorial Library nave, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King.
The Honorable Toni N. Harp and the Amistad Committee Inc. are pleased to invite you to join us in commemoration of the 175th Anniversary of the US Supreme Court Decision Freeing the Amistad Captives. March 9th, 2016, 6 - 10PM Please click HERE to download the reservation form. Due by February 26, 2016.
NEXT YALE: Demands for the Administration
If you have not yet read the demands from Next Yale, please take a moment to read them here.
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