The Week Ender: Happenings Feb. 19-21
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
Cheer on the members of Yale men’s ice hockey team as they take on St. Lawrence at home. Ingalls Rink, 73 Sachem St. 7 p.m.
Enjoy an evening listening to the Yale Concert Band. Thomas C. Duffy, music director, will lead the band in featured selection, including “Church Windows” (Respighi), “Symphony No. 2” (Ticheli), “Hymn for Emanuel” [in memoriam Charleston, S.C.], “Ave Maria” (Biebl), and more. Free. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St. 7:30 p.m.
S A T U R D A Y
Join the Angles on Art Tour: Cultural Conversations, led by undergraduate Olivia Armandroff, who will focus on cross-cultural dialogues, emphasizing the appropriation of foreign artistic practices in colonial Europe, Northern Qi Dynasty China, Sierra Leone, and 19th-century America. Free. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. 3:30 p.m.
Root for Yale as the women’s basketball team takes on Penn at home. Payne Whitney Gym, Lee Amphitheater, 70 Tower Pkwy. 7 p.m.
S U N D A Y
Stay warm watching some indoor tennis as Yale women’s tennis team hosts Fairfield University in the morning and Long Island University (LIU) in the afternoon. Free. Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, 279 Derby Ave. Fairfield at 10 a.m.; LIU at 2 p.m.
Watch one of the Treasures from the Yale Film Archive — Run Lola Run. Directed by Tom Tykwer, film was described by the New York as “…a furiously kinetic display of pyrotechnics” that “fuses lightning-fast visual tricks, tirelessly shifting styles, and the arbitrary possibilities of interactive storytelling into the best-case scenario for a cinematic video game.” Free. Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall St. 2 p.m.
A L L W E E K E N D
Enjoy a new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by Yale Opera. Magic, mischief, and melodies intertwine in this setting of Shakespeare’s comedy directed by Claudia Solti. Conductor Rune Bergmann leads the Yale Philharmonia. Shubert Theater, 247 College St. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.
To see more events, visit the Yale Calendar of Events and the Yale Arts Calendar.
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