Rachel Kauder Nalebuff & Friends: OUR RED BOOK
2022-11-05 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Rachel Nalebuff Kauder comes to celebrate the publication of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the editor of the New York Times bestselling anthology My Little Red Book.

Our Red Book takes us through stories of first periods, last periods, missing periods, and everything about bleeding that people wish they had been told. Weaving together powerful voices—from teenagers, midwives, Indigenous scholars, Olympic athletes, incarcerated writers, disoriented fathers, elected leaders who fought to make period products free, friends transitioning genders, grandmothers, and lovers—the book invites us on a collective journey of growth and change, with Rachel’s own voice as a guide.

Copies of Our Red Book will be available for purchase thanks to New Haven’s newest indie bookstore, Possible Futures.

Readers will include: Nina Bentley, Mindi Englart, Nadia Gaskins, Axel Gay, Somah Haaland, Nina Kauder, Kica Matos, Sofiya Moorem Amira Pierotti, & Piper Zschack!

BRIDGE
2022-11-07 13:00 - 15:30, 2022-12-05 13:00 - 15:30, 2023-01-02 13:00 - 15:30, 2023-02-08 13:00 - 15:30 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
A low key evening of bridge, for people who know how and people who don’t know anything at all.

Happy Hour Jazz
2022-11-11 12:15 - 2023-11-11 14:00, 2022-11-18 12:15 - 2023-11-18 14:00, 2022-11-25 12:15 - 2023-11-25 14:00, 2022-12-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-09 12:15 - 2023-12-09 14:00, 2022-12-16 12:15 - 2023-12-16 14:00, 2022-12-23 12:15 - 2023-12-23 14:00, 2022-12-30 12:15 - 2023-12-30 14:00 and 5 more dates | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510

Sew Sew Social: A Sewing Bee @ The Institute Library
2022-11-16 12:30 - 14:30, 2022-12-07 12:30 - 14:00, 2022-12-21 12:30 - 14:00, 2023-01-04 12:30 - 14:00, 2023-01-18 12:30 - 14:00, 2023-02-01 12:30 - 14:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Welcome to the Institute Library’s Sewing Bee! Bring your knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, needlepoint, cross-stitch, quilting, lace-making (!) or mending project. There are no organized classes, demos, or presentations — simply an opportunity to enjoy a casual evening with fellow creatives. We will meet every other Wednesday evening, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Just ring the doorbell, and we will let you in. No registration necessary. So what, come sew!

Holiday Gathering
2022-12-02 13:00 - 15:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Join us at the Institute Library to welcome in the holiday season. A lovely gathering for all to enjoy — music, drink, quality nibbles, and divine company. This is how to start the month of December!
Musical entertainment will be provided by The Yale Alley Cats, and local a cappella vocal group Silkn’ Sounds’ Very Large Quartet.
Members! Care to join us December 2? Alley Cats and Silkn’ Sounds Await You… For current Library Members, this event is free. Non-members are asked to purchase tickets ($10 each, for all over the age of 12), easily done online by clicking here.

Please RSVP by clicking below on the appropriate response.
I’m a Library Member & I’ll Be There!
I Can’t Make It

Institute Library "In-Person" Story-Sharing Group
2023-01-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
The Story Sharing Group welcomes everyone to tell stories or to listen. We give feedback to those who choose. We are informal, friendly, and fun.
Come to the Institute Library in-person only if you are vaccinated, and please bring a mask.

Waste Management: Reuse, Reimagine, Repurpose Closing Party and Exhibit Tour
2023-01-26 12:00 - 14:00 | The Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States
Waste Management: Reuse, Reimagine, Repurpose Closing Party
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Closing Party (5-7pm) + Exhibit Tour (6pm)

Join Writer Calvin Ramsey in our Biography Room
2023-01-28 09:00 - 11:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Saturday, January 28th, 2023 from 2:00-4:00
Mr. Ramsey will be discussing the subject of his next work, and his writing process.
Light refreshments will be served at this casual event. NO RSVP is required, and this event is free and open to all.
Mr. Ramsey has become a familiar face to many at the Institute Library in the last year or so. While we often chat with him about jazz, and books others have written, we are pleased to give him a venue to speak with you about his latest work-in-progress, a biography of Edward Bouchet.
Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was born in New Haven and lived here as a child with his parents and siblings. He is recognized today for being the first Black man to earn a Ph.D from an American university, in Physics; the degree was awarded by Yale University in 1876. Bouchet left New Haven and taught until he stepped down from teaching in 1913 due to poor health. Upon retirement he returned to his hometown, New Haven, and he stayed here until the end of his life in 1918.
Calvin Ramsay turned to writing as a second career and found success writing plays and books for children, among them Ruth and the Green Book (Candlewick Press), which you can purchase at your local bookstore –including Possible Futures, 318 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven CT @ corner of Edgewood & Hotchkiss
