Yale College New Music presents Art Song VII! Our concert features new works for mezzo-soprano, oboe, clarinet, and vibraphone written by Yale College composers and performed by returning vocalist Jennifer Beattie and instrumentalists Zach Pulse, Emily Lichen, and Makana Medeiros. Our composers’ new pieces were written in conjunction with the current exhibit “Art, Protest, & the Archive.” Join us for this exciting concert!
All are invited to a special display in the Beinecke Library reading room to mark Constitution Day, September 17, 2023, from 1pm to 4pm. This event commemorates the 236th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution by the members of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969, 35mm, 111 mins)
Robert Forster stars as a TV news cameraman at Chicago’s 1968 Democratic National Convention in what Vincent Canby called “a film of tremendous visual impact, a kind of cinematic Guernica, a picture of America in the process of exploding into fragmented bits of hostility, suspicion, fear, and violence.” 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, 35mm, 120 mins)
Lee’s Oscar-nominated screenplay sets tensions to boil on a hot Bed-Stuy day when a boombox and a pizzeria’s wall of fame spark a tragedy. Siskel and Ebert both named it the best film of 1989. Starring Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 35mm, 121 mins)
Set during Algeria’s struggle for independence and scored by Ennio Morricone, Pontecorvo’s Golden Lion-winning masterpiece remains tragically relevant and visually astonishing. “Both a how-to manual for guerrilla terrorism and a cautionary tale about how to fight it” (Chris Nashawaty). In Arabic and French with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS won the National Book Award for Voyage of the Sable Venus, her first collection of poetry. The book was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and it was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New York Times. Literary Hub named it one of the best books of the last twenty years. Her second book, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, weaves together poetry with an archival exploration of photographs found in her late grandmother’s home.
All are welcome to an opening reception for the building-wide exhibition “Art, Protest, & the Archives.” Visit the Beinecke Library website to learn more about the exhibition, which is on view until January 7, 2024.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3QNyWoS
An introduction to the new exhibition, “The First Folio: Shakespeare for All Time?” on view from August 21, 2023 to February 4, 2024, in the Hanke Gallery of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street.
This exhibit celebrates a portion of the Elizabethan Club’s rare book collections, largely assembled in the early 1910s by Alexander Smith Cochran, BA 1896, a young alumnus inspired by the Shakespeare lectures he attended while a student at Yale.
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All are invited to this one day display of collections material and a video screening about an essential story of New Haven in 1831: the visionary – and thwarted – proposal for a Black college that would have been America’s first historically Black college (HBCU).
