Yale Arts Calendar

DAY WEEK MONTH

December 2011

Exhibitions

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“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuite of Happiness: We the People,” Yale University Art Gallery, JUL 29 – DEC 31

“Undergraduate Work from the School of Art,” Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, SEP 1, 2011 – JUL 31, 2012

“From Legal Pads to iPads,” Sterling Law Buildings, SEP 1 – DEC 22

“Remembering 9/11,” Yale University Art Gallery, SEP 1, 2011 – JAN 19, 2012

“The Book as Memorial: Book Artists Respond to and Remember 9/11,” Robert B. Haas Family Library, SEP 6 – DEC 16

“Theophile Gautier 1811-1872,” Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 6 – DEC 19

Leonard Everett Fisher: 70 Years an Artist, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, SEP 6, 2011 – JUN 29, 2012

“Nature’s Own Shape: Embroidery in Early Modern England,” Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 9 – DEC 16

“Gertrude Bell: Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy,” Whitney Humanities Center, SEP 19 – DEC 16

“Early Works on Biblical Exegesis,” Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, OCT 1, 2011 – JAN 15, 2012

“Making Sense of Religion,” Sterling Memorial Library, OCT 4, 2011 – FEB 3, 2012

“People, Piety, and Sacred Power in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Institute of Sacred Music, OCT 5, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Comic Inventions,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OCT 10, 2011 – JAN 7, 2012

“Adapting the Eye,” Yale Center for British Art, OCT 11 – DEC 31

“Exile as Destiny: Czesław Miłosz and America,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OCT 24 – DEC 17

“Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed,” Yale Center for British Art, OCT 27, 2011 – FEB 12, 2012

“Library Science” – Artspace, Artspace, NOV 12, 2011 – JAN 28, 2012

“Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation,” Paul Rudolph Hall, NOV 14, 2011 – JAN 27, 2012

“Sacred Satire: Lampooning Religious Belief in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Lewis Walpole Library, NOV 29, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Sam’s Space – David Whelan,” Yale School of Art (Green Hall), NOV 30 – DEC 29

“Alexander Smith Cochran and the Founding of the Elizabethan Club,” Sterling Memorial Library, DEC 3, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Monarchs in Mesopotamia,” Sterling Memorial Library, DEC 20, 2011 – APR 1, 2012

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1

11AM

TEDxYaleWomen

Presented by TEDxYale and the Yale Women’s Center

Silliman College

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830”

Yale Center for British Art

1PM

“The Darbari Ensemble”

Indian Music Workshop

Yale Center for British Art

4PM

The Americanist Colloquium

Tom Koenigs and Len Gutkin, PhD candidates in English

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

4PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Duck on a Bike”

By Amelia Roper

Iseman Theater

4:30PM

“Elite Women, Family Unity, and Honor in Early Modern England”

British Historical Studies Colloquium

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

4:30PM

“#People & the #Press Status Update: It’s Complicated”

Jonathan Edwards College

Community Arts

5PM

Joint Talk: Contemporary Art / Social Justice and Medical Discrimination

Kellie Jones and Alondra Nelson

African American Studies

5:15PM

Yale Literature and Spirituality series

Andrew Hudgins, poet

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

5:30PM

Concert: “The Darbari Ensemble”

Yale Center for British Art

5:30PM

“Family Values”

Joseph “Reverend Run” Simmons.

Sterling Law Buildings

Visiting Artist

6PM

Arts Panel: How to Live in NYC and Have Your Dream Creative Career

Panelists from the Creative Yale Alumni Network (CYAN)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

One Night Only Just for Students Undergraduate

6:30PM

“The Immigration Story”

A Conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas

Sterling Law Buildings

Visiting Artist

6:30PM

CMES Cinema: Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness

Followed by a discussion with Frank Griffel, Professor, Religious Studies, Yale University

Hall of Graduate Studies

7PM, 9:30PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Adding Machine: A Musical”

Whitney Humanities Center

Undergraduate

7PM

“Sholay”

(Ramesh Sippy 1975) DVD 188 min.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

7PM

Untitled: A Film by Jim Hodges

World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art

Whitney Humanities Center

One Night Only

8PM

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“The Gondoliers”

by W.S. Gilbert Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater

Family Friendly

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

Berkeley College Master’s Tea with David Pogue

William L Harkness Hall

Visiting Artist

8PM

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“Independents”

by Marina Keegan, Lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick, Music by Stephen Feigenbaum

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

8PM

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“Almost, Maine”

by John Cariani

Calhoun College

Undergraduate

8PM

Vocal Music of England

Sprague Memorial Hall

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2

12PM

“Historiography in Ancient Israel”

Workshop in Ancient Societies Robert Wilson, Yale Divinity School

Phelps Hall

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

12PM

The cultural production of Pierre Bourdieu

Classics & Theory Colloquium 2011-2012

Phelps Hall

12:30PM

Remnants of Utopia: European Film ca. 1975

Whitney Humanities Center

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

2PM, 8PM

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“Independents”

by Marina Keegan, Lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick, Music by Stephen Feigenbaum

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

2PM

Modernist Remediations: A Roundtable

Moderated by Dean Irvine, Canadian Studies Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale

Bass Library

4PM, 8PM

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“A Duck on a Bike”

By Amelia Roper

Iseman Theater

4PM

Embodied Voices, Textualized Voices, and Jōruri

Janice Kanemitsu, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Cornell University

212 York Street

Visiting Artist

4PM

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Yale Dance Theater’s Spring 2012 project on the legacy of Merce Cunningham

Information Session & Auditions

Broadway Rehearsal Lofts

Undergraduate

4PM

Rehabilitating the Image: Form, Inscape, and early Phenomenology in G.M. Hopkin’s Journals

Prof. Thomas Pfau, Duke University

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

7PM, 9PM

The Bad Romantics: A Holiday Show…Ho! Ho!

By Haus of Magnolia The Bad Romantics

Trumbull College

One Night Only Undergraduate

7:30PM

“Blue Ink: Music of Yale Composers”

Yale Concert Band Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director

Woolsey Hall

Family Friendly Undergraduate U.S. Premiere World Premiere

7:30PM

Plume Giant + Pearl and the Beard + Free Advice @ Dwight Chapel

Dwight Hall

Community Arts Local Artist

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Almost, Maine”

by John Cariani

Calhoun College

Undergraduate

8PM

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Yaledancers Fall Show 2011

Yaledancers

ECA DanceSpace

Off-Campus Undergraduate

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“The Gondoliers”

by W.S. Gilbert Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater

Family Friendly

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3

11AM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

11AM, 1PM

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll, adapted by Maggie Green

Dwight Hall

Family Friendly Undergraduate

12:30PM

Handel: Rodelinda

The Met at Yale

Sprague Memorial Hall

1PM

The YDC Presents a Dialect Workshop

Alex Trow

Broadway Rehearsal Lofts

Undergraduate

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed”

Yale Center for British Art

1PM

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Open Improv Workshop Series

William L Harkness Hall

Family Friendly Undergraduate

1PM

Dialect Workshop with Alex Trow DRA ’12

Presented by the Yale Drama Coalition

Broadway Rehearsal Lofts

Undergraduate

1:30PM

Highlights Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM, 8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“The Gondoliers”

by W.S. Gilbert Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater

Family Friendly

2PM

“Old Tunes and Old Bones”

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Family Friendly

2PM, 8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

2PM, 8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Almost, Maine”

by John Cariani

Calhoun College

Undergraduate

2PM, 8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Independents”

by Marina Keegan, Lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick, Music by Stephen Feigenbaum

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

2PM

“Taj Mahal”

(M. Sadiq 1963) 170 min

Yale Center for British Art

3PM

Framing the Stage: Performing Arts in Painting and Sculpture

Angles on Art Nell Klugman, PC ’12

Yale University Art Gallery

3PM

Ice Cream Social

with Yale School of Drama Students

Yale Cabaret

Just for Students Undergraduate

4PM

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“A Duck on a Bike”

By Amelia Roper

Iseman Theater

7:30PM

Yale Gospel Choir’s Winter Concert

Afro-American Cultural Center

Family Friendly One Night Only Community Arts Local Artist

8PM

Yale Camerata: Dona nobis pacem

Battell Chapel

8PM

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Yaledancers Fall Show 2011

Yaledancers

ECA DanceSpace

Off-Campus Undergraduate

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4

11AM, 1PM

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll, adapted by Maggie Green

Dwight Hall

Family Friendly Undergraduate

1PM

Family Day: Two Museums, Twice the Fun

Yale Center for British Art

Family Friendly Community Arts

1PM

Family Day: Two Museums, Twice the Fun

Yale University Art Gallery

Family Friendly Community Arts

4PM, 8PM

Yale Jazz Ensemble Cabaret at the GPSCY

Thomas C. Duffy, Director

Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale

One Night Only Undergraduate

4PM, 8PM

Chamber Music Celebration

Music 220a: “Performance of Chamber Music”

William L Harkness Hall

One Night Only Undergraduate

5PM

“Service of Lessons and Carols”

Battell Chapel

6:30PM

Christmas Carol Service

Trinity Baptist Church

7PM

Jordan Tice Trio Concert- FREE!

Jordan Tice Trio

Hall of Graduate Studies

8PM

Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus: Winter Wine and Cheese Concert

Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus

Dwight Hall

Undergraduate

8PM

“From Biber to Bach: Chamber Music of the German Baroque”

Sprague Memorial Hall

9PM

DPops present “The Homewreckers Concert”

Davenport Pops Orchestra

Davenport College

Family Friendly Undergraduate

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5

12PM

“Aristotle and the Eleatic One”

Lecture – Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Tim Clarke, Yale University

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

1:30PM

Audition Workshop

Presented by the Yale Drama Coalition

Theater Studies

Just for Students Undergraduate

4:30PM

“Ritual and the Improvisational Arts: Methodological Issues in the Audio-Visual Study of Ritual”

Liturgy Symposium Series Ronald L. Grimes

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

5PM

A Creative Writing Faculty Reading

Profs. Louise Gluck, Caryl Phillips, and Leslie Woodard

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Community Arts Local Artist

5PM

A Semester-End Concert

Presented by the Shen Curriculum in Musical Theater

Jonathan Edwards College

Undergraduate

6:30PM

Yale School of Art – ALL School Lecture

Shirin Neshat

36 Edgewood Avenue

Visiting Artist

8PM

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Sprague Memorial Hall

9PM

SEE ALL DATES

Welcome to the Jungle

Danceworks

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6

10AM

Triassic Parq

A Workshop of the Award-Winning Upcoming Off-Broadway Musical!

305 Crown Street

Just for Students Undergraduate Visiting Artist

12:30PM

“Paint, Space, and Identity in British India: Tilly Kettle’s ‘Dancing Girl’”

Art in Context

Yale Center for British Art

5:45PM

Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties, and American Racial Formation

Sarah Lewis, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale Department of the History of Art

Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art

6PM, 9PM

SEE ALL DATES

Welcome to the Jungle

Danceworks

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

8PM

American Brass Quintet

Sprague Memorial Hall

8PM

Music of North America Concert

Berkeley College Orchestra

Battell Chapel

Undergraduate

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7

11AM

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Sprague Memorial Hall

12:15PM

The Perfect Form: Vessels from Africa

Frederick John Lamp, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art

Yale University Art Gallery

12:30PM

Lunchtime Chamber Music

Sprague Memorial Hall

2PM, 8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

5:15PM

“A Very Brass Holiday”

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

6PM, 9PM

Groove Dance Company Fall Show

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

7PM

“In the Land of Blood and Honey” – Preview Screening

(Angelina Jolie, 2011) Post screening discussion with Production Designer Jon Hutman; moderated by John MacKay, Professor of Film Studies & Slavic Languages and Literature

Whitney Humanities Center

Preview Visiting Artist

7PM

“Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Photographs in the Channel Islands: Liminal Geography, Political Resistance and the Limits of Queer Self-Exposure”

Workshop by Liena Vayzman, Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Women Faculty Forum

Loria

One Night Only

7:30PM

Yale Macintosh User Group

Kline Geology Laboratory

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Trumbull College

Undergraduate

9:30PM

The Lost and Found Show

Presented by Magic Lantern Cinema

Cable Car Cinema & Café

Off-Campus

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8

4PM

“Trajectories of Agency: Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali and the Shape of the Social Novel”

a practice job talk on South African Fiction Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, Yale)

Luce Hall

5:30PM

Concert: “Clockwise”

Yale Center for British Art

7PM, 8:30PM

“Underachievers: A Film”

Jonathan Edwards College

Undergraduate

7PM, 10PM

SEE ALL DATES

Rhythmic Blue Presents: The Pursuit of Happiness

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

7:30PM

“The Construction of Memories: Paris, 1850-1870”

Whitney Humanities Center

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Trumbull College

Undergraduate

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

12PM

Lost in Time Colloquium

Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena-Berkeley)

Phelps Hall

3:30PM

The Princess Bride: The Musical

Starring Sara Hendel and Benji Goldsmith

Stoeckel Hall

Preview Undergraduate

5PM

Yale Schola Cantorum: Anniversaries and Messages

Christ Church Episcopal

7PM, 10PM

SEE ALL DATES

Rhythmic Blue Presents: The Pursuit of Happiness

Off Broadway Theater

Undergraduate

7PM

“Living Downstream”

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

7:30PM

Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra Winter Concert

Mary S. Harkness Memorial Auditorium

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Trumbull College

Undergraduate

8PM

Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet

Sprague Memorial Hall

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10

11AM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

11AM

SEE ALL DATES

Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed”

Yale Center for British Art

1:30PM

Highlights Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM, 8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

2:30PM

Lachrymae: Music for Viola and Piano

Colin Brookes on viola and Daniel Schlosberg on piano

Whitney Humanities Center

3PM

Pointing Fingers: The Use of Gesture in Art

Isabella Lores-Chavez, BR ’12

Yale University Art Gallery

Undergraduate

6PM

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“A Tribute to Eugene O’Neill”

THST 473: Directed Independent Study: Eugene O’Neill

Jonathan Edwards College

Undergraduate

7PM, 9PM

WORD Performance Poetry Presents: Word-Degree Burns

Afro-American Cultural Center

8PM

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“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

8PM

“Vista”

Sprague Memorial Hall

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11

11AM

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Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

1PM

Family Program: Stories and Art

Yale University Art Gallery

Family Friendly

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830”

Yale Center for British Art

2PM

Open House

Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

Family Friendly Off-Campus Community Arts Local Artist

2PM

“Messiah” Audience Singalong

Yale Glee Club

Battell Chapel

Undergraduate Community Arts

5PM

Great Organ Music at Yale: Martin Jean

Martin Jean

Marquand Chapel

6PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Tribute to Eugene O’Neill”

THST 473: Directed Independent Study: Eugene O’Neill

Jonathan Edwards College

Undergraduate

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12

8PM

“Liederabend”

Sprague Memorial Hall

8PM

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“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

8PM

Belly Dance Workshop

Yale Affiliaties Belly Dance Society

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

Family Friendly

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13

12:30PM

“Approaching Archaeology through the Artist’s Eyes: The Monuments Beyond the Representational Frame”

Art in Context

Yale Center for British Art

2PM

Organ Improvisation Showcase

Trinity Church on the Green

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

9PM

Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet Concert

Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet

Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale

Community Arts Local Artist

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14

12:30PM

Student Recital: Dana Steele

Woolsey Hall

8PM

Guitar Chamber Music

Sprague Memorial Hall

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed”

Yale Center for British Art

4:30PM

“Indigo and Independence in Nineteenth-Century Bengal”

British Historical Studies Colloquium Andrew Sartori

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

5:30PM

Concert: “The Quodlibet Ensemble”

Yale Center for British Art

8PM

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“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

Clarinet Recital by Mingzhe Wang

Mingzhe Wang, clarinet.

Sprague Memorial Hall

8PM

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“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“A Doctor in Spite of Himself”

by Moliere

Yale Repertory Theatre

8PM

SEE ALL DATES

“Cymbeline”

by William Shakespeare

University Theatre

Shakespeare

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17

11AM

Architecture Tour

Yale Center for British Art

11AM

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Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed”

Yale Center for British Art

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18

11AM

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Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21

2:30PM, 7PM

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World Premiere of “Broken Chains: A Gospel Hip-Hopera”

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School

Family Friendly Off-Campus World Premiere Community Arts

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22

2:30PM, 7PM

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World Premiere of “Broken Chains: A Gospel Hip-Hopera”

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School

Family Friendly Off-Campus World Premiere Community Arts

6PM

“A Christmas Carol”

(Brian Desmond Hurst 1951) 86 minutes

Yale Center for British Art

Family Friendly

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24

11AM

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Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31

11AM

SEE ALL DATES

Classic Holiday Movies @ Criterion

Criterion Cinemas

Off-Campus

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830”

Yale Center for British Art