The Week Ender: Happenings Oct. 4 to 6

The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the University Friday-Sunday.

Friday

View an exhibition that brings together three artists who have expressed the loss of loved ones through art. All that Remains: Material Remembrances in Love and Loss is on view from 3 to 6 p.m. at the ISM Gallery for Sacred Arts, 409 Prospect St. Free.

Listen to Homegrown on Common Ground: Duke Ellington Jazz Series, a concert featuring jazz, blues, and art songs from the James Weldon Johnson collection housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and part of the library’s 50th anniversary celebration. The concert will take place at Sprague Memorial Hall, Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St. at 7 p.m.

Saturday

Join a tour led by a Yale student guide and see Postcards from Paradise: British Paintings of Foreign Places at the Yale Center of British Art, 1080 Chapel St. 2 p.m. Free.

 

See the exhibit Iconographie Photographique de la Salpetriere (1876-80): The Physician and the Hysterical Woman, a collection of texts and photographs representing a transformative moment in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Free.

Enjoy the Yale Symphony Orchestra 2013-2014 Season Opener featuring works by Wagner and Bartók, and a performance of Glière’s Harp Concerto by 2013 William Waite Concerto Competition winner, student Chelsea Lane. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St. 8 p.m.

Sunday

Visit the Yale University Art Gallery for an exhibition tour of Many Things Placed Here and There, a collection of work by contemporary artists, gifted to the gallery from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. 1111 Chapel St. 3 p.m. Free.