The Week Ender: Happenings July 18-20

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

Browse the brains, view the videos, open the drawers, and light up the vitrines on a guided tour of the Cushing Center. Dedicated to the work of Dr. Harvey Cushing, regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, the center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations and personal diaries, patient photographs, memorabilia, and historical anatomical and medical materials. Free. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Visit the Peabody to catch a roving concert by members of the Morse Summer Music Academy, a comprehensive music program for select students from the New Haven Public Schools. Starting at 1 p.m., small ensembles will perform short selections throughout the museum galleries. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. 1-1:45 p.m

Enjoy a Friday evening carillon concert. Listen to Michael Solotke ‘13 play the bells in the fourth concert of the Summer Carillon Concert Series. Old Campus, directly across from Harkness Tower on High Street, is one of the best listening locations. Free. 7 p.m.

S A T U R D A Y

S U N D A Y

Join a tour of Art in Focus: Wales, an exhibition that explores the history of interest in Welsh landscape, ruins, and the bardic tradition through oil paintings, finished watercolors, and plein-air sketches from the center’s collection. Free. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. 1 p.m.

A L L   W E E K E N D

View African art, American decorative arts, ancient art, and European art as well as the special exhibitions “Jazz Lives: The Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton” and “Contemporary Art/South Africa.” Free. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. Open Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.