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Happy Hour Jazz

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Friday Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library will continue a swinging tour of that great American art form, “LP Jazz”, meeting at 5:15 or so every Friday, in the third floor music room, to consider, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Collection.

Happy Hour Jazz

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Friday Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library will continue a swinging tour of that great American art form, “LP Jazz”, meeting at 5:15 or so every Friday, in the third floor music room, to consider, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Collection.

Event Series LOW KEY BRIDGE

BRIDGE

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

A low key evening of bridge, for people who know how and people who don't know anything at all.

SENSO DI VOCE: Megan Kyle and Esin Gunduz in performance

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Senso di Voce: Megan Kyle (oboe & English horn) and Esin Gunduz (voice, composition, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, harmonium) performing an original work '... through itself...', inspired by Islamic thinker, poet, scholar, and mystic, Ibn 'Arabî. 

Bonsoir, Mes Amis: A Screening of Orpheus

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

A series of three films, this time bringing Francophiles joy as we screen three French classics. August 29th: Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, NR, 1946, run time 1 hr. 36 mins.); Sept 12: Orpheus (Cocteau, NR, 1950, 95 minutes); Sept. 26: The 400 Blows (Truffaut, NR, 1959, 99 minutes)

Happy Hour Jazz

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Friday Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library will continue a swinging tour of that great American art form, “LP Jazz”, meeting at 5:15 or so every Friday, in the third floor music room, to consider, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Collection.

Spinning Poetry

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

A little chance to relax and think and absorb noted works of poetry as read by its authors. This month, we continue our tour of Caedmon recordings from the 20th century, and visit the 1950s recordings of Pound, Eliot, and Sitwell: Masters of Irony, Collage, and Innovation? Or Complicated Fops and Poseurs?

Happy Hour Jazz

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Friday Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library will continue a swinging tour of that great American art form, “LP Jazz”, meeting at 5:15 or so every Friday, in the third floor music room, to consider, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Collection.

Poet Joan Kwon Glass reading from her new collection of poetry, Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms (Perugia Press, 2024)

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Joan Kwon Glass's most recent collection, Daughter of Three Kingdoms, is the winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms explores themes familiar to those who know Kwon's work: it's described as part lamentation and part hymn—an illumination of diasporic hungers, hauntings, absence, and resilience. This collection "explores colonialism and “postcolonialism” through disordered eating, suicide loss, religious damage, familial estrangement, addiction, motherhood, and recovery.

Bonsoir, Mes Amis: A Screening of Breathless

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

A series of three films, this time bringing Francophiles joy as we screen three French classics. August 29th: Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, NR, 1946, run time 1 hr. 36 mins.); Sept 8: Orpheus (Cocteau, NR, 1950, 95 minutes); Sept. 26: The 400 Blows (Truffaut, NR, 1959, 99 minutes)

Happy Hour Jazz

The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

Friday Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library will continue a swinging tour of that great American art form, “LP Jazz”, meeting at 5:15 or so every Friday, in the third floor music room, to consider, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Collection.