The Week Ender: Happenings Jan. 20-22

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  and  S A T U R D A Y


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See William Shakespeare’s Othello, the latest production in Yale School of Drama’s Studio Series. Othello, a renowned Moorish general, has wooed and won Desdemona, the white daughter of a powerful senator. The couple never enjoys blissful matrimony, however, because the villainous Iago slanders Desdemona, telling Othello she has slept with his trusted lieutenant, Cassio. Free, but tickets required. Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St. Friday, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 4 p.m.


S A T U R D A Y


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Attend Hidden Figures: Lecture & Film Screening. Author Margot Lee Shetterly will talk about the black women mathematicians whose “human computing” helped changed the course of space exploration. The conversation will be followed by a screening of the film adaptation based on Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures.” Free. Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. 4-8:30 p.m.

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Join the crowd and cheer on the Yale women’s ice hockey team at the annual White Out for Mandi. The Bulldogs will take on archrival Harvard for the event held in memory of Mandi Schwartz ’10 (1988-2011) and her courageous battle against cancer. Saturday’s game serves as a fundraiser for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation, with a raffle and special shirts on sale so that the crowd can “white out” Ingalls Rink. Free. 73 Sachem St. 3-5 p.m.

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Enjoy Yale Schola Cantorum’s Epiphany Concert. David Hill conducts the music of Eccard, Warlock, Howells, Victoria, and Messiaen, as well as the world premiere of a new work by Hannah Lash. Free. Christ Church New Haven, 84 Broadway. 7:30 p.m.


S U N D A Y


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Come and share in Joy! A Night of Celebration. Elm City Vineyard, a member of Yale Religious Ministries, will celebrate in light of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with poetry, music, scripture and liturgy. Performers include Tina Colón Williams, The Monk Family and Friends, and Paul Hudson. Free. First and Summerfield UMC, Sanctuary, 425 College St. 8 p.m.


A L L   W E E K E N D


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View a piece of history as you wander through the exhibition Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. On May 17, 1957 — the third anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, which outlawed segregation in public schools — thousands of activists and leaders from religious, social, educational, labor, and political spheres united in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C.

Photographer Lee Friedlander photographed many of the illustrious figures who attended or spoke at the march, including Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Mahalia Jackson, and Harry Belafonte, as well as other demonstrators. In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Yale University Art Gallery is exhibiting this set of images publicly for the first time. Free. 1111 Chapel St. Friday, 10 a.m-5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.


To see more events, visit the Yale Calendar of Events and the Yale Arts Calendar.

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