The Week Ender: Happenings Oct. 2-4

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

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


F R I D A Y


Poynter
Sit in on a Conversation with Chloe Angyal, journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. Based in New York City, Angyal is a senior front-page editor at The Huffington Post. Free. Hall of Graduate Studies, Rm. 211, 320 York St. 12:30 p.m.

Listen to John Walsh, director emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and a specialist in Dutch paintings, give a talk titled Consider the Lilies: Virtue and Virtuosity in Flower Paintings by Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Others. Free. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. 1:30 p.m.

Enjoy a concert by the Christian McBride Trio. Performing as part of the Ellington Jazz Series, the group features Christian McBride on bass, Christian Sands on piano, and Jerome Jennings on drums. Sprague Memorial Hall, Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St. 7:30 p.m.


S A T U R D A Y


Explore the diversity of Yale University Art Gallery’s collection through the eyes of undergrad Yi-Ling Liu. This Angles on Art: Storytelling Tour will explore the ways in which artists tell stories through art — from the Buddhist sequences of sixth-century China to the moralizing parables of Golden Age Dutch painting to the surreal snapshots of Hopper’s post-war small-town America. Free. 1111 Chapel St. 3:30 p.m.


S U N D A Y


Field Hockey

Cheer for the Yale Field Hockey team as they play the UConn Huskies. Free. Johnson Field, 70 Central Ave. 2 p.m.

See a screening of Jackie Brown, the 1997 film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The crime thriller, full of twists and double-crosses, is part of the Yale Film Colloquium Bad Girls Series and features characters played by Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, and Bridget Fonda. Free. Whitney Humanities Center, auditorium, 53 Wall St. 3 p.m.

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