Black History Month has began. Please be on the look-out for number of events happening this month! If you have any events (or anything else) that you would like to publicize, please send it to the BGN email so that we can include it in the weekly newsletter.
In love & solidarity, BGN Board, 2015 - 2016
BLACK HISTORY MONTH JAZZ BRUNCH
Saturday, February 6th, 11AM - 1PM Location: McDougal Center Common Room (320 York Street)
BGN and Grad Student Life at the McDougal Center are excited to invite you to a special event in celebration of Black History Month. On February 6th from 11AM - 1PM, we will be co-hosting a Jazz Brunch in the HGS Common Room in commemoration of Black history in America. Brunch and mimosas (as well as sparkling cider) will be served, and there will be music & live performances. Please join us in this unique celebration of Black history - we hope to see you there!
RSVP's are all gone, but you can join the waitlist HERE!
JOB OPPORTUNITY --
Program Coordinator, Mellon Mays & Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowships
The Yale College Deans Office is seeking a graduate student to serve as the Program Coordinator for the Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowships Program, beginning the coming 2016-2017 academic year.
The Program Coordinator works in collaboration with the Program Director to plan, execute, and lead all activities associated with the Mellon/Bouchet Fellowships Program at Yale. Compensation for the position is approximately $675/month ($5,400/year) running September 1 to May 31. A full description of the job and associated responsibilities is listed here on the Yale Student Employment website.
Interested applicants should submit an online application through the Student Employment website and also email a CV and letter of interest to Dean Saveena Dhall (saveena.dhall@yale.edu), Director of the Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Fellowships Program, and Tyler Rogers (tyler.rogers@yale.edu). Applications for the position are due by March 1.
“Silent No More: Jews, African-Americans and Civil Rights” Art Exhibit
Jan. 25th - Feb. 29th | Slifka Center, Art Gallery | 80 Wall St
Wednesday Film Screenings with yNAACP
8:00p-10:00p | Af Am House, Lighten Room Feb. 3: “Tuskegee Airmen” Feb. 10: “Night Catches Us” Feb. 17: “Get on the Bus” Feb. 24 “Bessie”
Film Screening: Strange Fruit
February 6th | 2p | 303 Washington Ave. The Wilson Branch Library will observe Black History Month with a screening of the film “Strange Fruit,” named for the song made famous by Billie Holiday and written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish-American High School English Teacher from the Bronx. The film explores the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement. Sponsor: NHFPL Courtland Seymour Wilson Branch Library
Free & Open to the Public Light Refreshments served
DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION
Saturday, February 6th, 3 - 6PM Location: Af Am House, E-Room
This event will explore the construction of identity and community through photography and storytelling, which is especially pertinent to the theme of Black History Month 2016 at the House: "Roots, Rebirth and Renaissance.” Attendees will work with filmmaker and artist, Thomas Allen Harris, to create a transmedia event. Bring a photo! The event will also look at the ways the family photo album has served as a trope for his memoir-based documentaries including "Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People," winner of the NAACP Image Award. FOR MORE ABOUT DDFR SEE: www.1World1Family.me and RSVP to the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1096354833729808/.
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Black Out An Afro-Heritage Celebration
When: Wednesday, February 10th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm Where: Beinecke Auditorium, Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave, New Haven) What: Join us for a joyful celebration of Black History Month around drinks, great Afro-Caribbean food and wonderful artistic performances. RSVP HERE.
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 materials in this exhibition are reproductions of records from the Office of the President, Kingman Brewster (RU 11); Office of Public Affairs and Communications, Yale Events and Activities Photographs (RU 690); Buildings and Grounds Photographs (RU 703), the Helen Hadley Hall Fellowship Program (RU 9), and YaleNews.
#BethelFlintRelief
Two Yale Divinity students -- Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes and Johnie Jones -- have teamed up to create a socially conscious response to the Flint Water Crisis. They have collaborated on the design of a Flint T-Shirt in support of the city. There are two ways that people can support this socially conscious campaign. People can either give a monetary donation (we are asking people to give at least $15 each) to the GoFundMe page that Brydge Media Collective LLC has launched: (www.gofundme.com/BethelFlintRelief) or you can purchase a $20 Flint T-Shirt (www.greaterlifeapparel.com) where a portion of the sale will go towards the efforts to help Bethel UMC of Flint.
Their goal is to raise at least $5,000 in seven days. Raising that amount will allow them to give 300 families water filters for their homes.
Please click HERE to see the attached press release. Please click HERE to support.
Yale Swing, Blues, and Fusion Bootcamp
Saturday - Sunday, February 6-7, 1-5PM every day Saturday at Harkness Memorial Hall (367 Cedar St.) and Sunday at Slifka Center (80 Wall St.)
Come join us for a complete introduction to Swing and Blues dancing with four hours of instruction Saturday and Sunday! Our teachers will also introduce the type of music that Swing and Blues are danced to and some history about the musical forms to get you comfortable in the basics of intentional partner dancing. Register here.
No partner or previous experience needed--come as you are and leave as a dancer! Wearing comfortable and closed-toe shoes is recommended. And once you're done, you can come to our weekly practicum on Sundays!
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