General Public

On the eve of election day, the weekly gallery talk series will feature a special set of readings by Yale faculty, students, and staff of prose and poetry from the collections that speak from the past, in the present, to the future. Drawn from library collections, readings will include works by Langston Hughes, Rachel Carson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Penn Warren, and James Baldwin, and selections from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Co-sponsored by Painting/Printmaking Department and The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Part of the Yale School of Art’s Antiracism Speaker Series
This talk will be hosted virtually, and is free and open to the public.
Join the event on Zoom here >> yaleart.org/ErickaHuggins

Vinson Cunningham, staff writer for The New Yorker, will discuss Jean Toomer and his unproduced play from 1935, “A Drama of the Southwest.”
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3nQEZb0
Toomer was, in Cunningham’s description, amodernist poet, novelist, religious omnivore, and occasional playwright .”

James Weldon Johnson, along with his brother, musician J. Rosamond Johnson, and showman Bob Cole, made up one of the most successful songwriting teams of the first decade of the twentieth century. The trio actively worked to elevate Black stage performance away from minstrelsy, the only avenue available for Black performers at the time, by challenging societal expectations at the turn of the century through their popular songs and stage shows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/2GIZw06

Public historian and curator Wm. Frank Mitchell will discuss the 1955 wedding photos of Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder by Saul Mariber from the Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. The photographs (for an example, see: https://bit.ly/3ivQEs4) document the wedding of De Lavallade and Holder at Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, and their reception at Clarence Derwent House.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/2GEL6OT

Mondays at Beinecke (online) gallery talks continue on Monday, October 12, with a discussion of the scrapbooks of the Rev. Rev. Amos Gerry Beman, a Black minister in New Haven, Connecticut, and a national leader during the mid-nineteenth century. The presentation will be led by Charles Warner, Jr., Chair of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church, where the Rev. Beman was pastor from 1837 to 1857.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/2HK9W0l

This years drive thru event begins at at Lighthouse Point Park, 2 Lighthouse Point Ter, New Haven, CT at 10:30 a.m. on October 18th, and will end at 11:30 a.m. We encourage all teams, participants and survivors attending to decorate their car on the 18th of October and drive a symbolic pre-determined lap throughout the park. Pictures next to the start and finish line will be taken via event staff and posted to the events Facebook page. Exiting the vehicles will be prohibited. Join the Yale Affinity Group Team, and/or to help with our fundraising efforts.

Mondays at Beinecke returns, virtually! Mondays at 4:00 pm during the academic year, all are cordially invited to gallery talks, online for now, with Beinecke Library staff, researchers, and friends.
Monday, October 5, 4 pm: Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder will speak about the Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. Zoom registration required: https://bit.ly/2Eu6vcG

Mondays at Beinecke returns, virtually! Mondays at 4:00 pm during the academic year, all are cordially invited to gallery talks, online for now, with Beinecke Library staff, researchers, and friends.