SJR Project Presentations
2023-06-23 - 2023-06-24 | CT
Project presentations will be presented on Saturday, June 24. Time and location to be determined.

Happy Hour Jazz
2023-06-30 13:15 - 2024-06-29 15:00, 2023-07-07 17:15 - 19:00, 2023-07-14 13:15 - 15:00, 2023-07-21 13:15 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510

Institute Library "In-Person" Story-Sharing Group
2023-07-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-08-10 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-14 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.
For questions, contact the group coordinator, Arnie Pritchard, at apritchard01@snet.net.

Institute Library "ZOOM ONLY" Story-Sharing Group
2023-07-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Institute Library via Zoom
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.
This meeting is being offered as a ZOOM ONLY meeting.
Join the Institute Library Story-Sharing group via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82984857044
For questions, contact the group coordinator, Arnie Pritchard, at apritchard01@snet.net.

A Time To Breathe: an Oasis Workshop
2023-08-10 13:00 - 15:00 | The Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States
YOU ARE INVITED! (BUT PLEASE RSVP)August 10, 2023 from 5 to7 pmA Time To Breathe: an Oasis Workshop with exhibit curator Maxim Schmidt
READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWS
Come visualize your dreams…
In collaboration with Oasis, artist and show organizer Maxim Schmidt will be hosting a two-hour hands-on collage workshop. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own as well.
This free event is open to everyone, but there will be a donation jar to support future gallery programming. All contributions are greatly appreciated but not mandatory – what we truly want is YOU.
All ages and levels of experience are welcome.
Please RSVP to Gallery@InstituteLibrary.org
We have a capacity of 25 participants.

Put Your Camel to Bed! The Oasis Closing Party
2023-09-13 13:00 - 17:00 | The Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States
You are cordially invited come and say goodbye to Oasis, our lovely, chill summer show.
The Oasis Closing Reception:Put Your Camel To Bed!Wednesday, September 13, from 5-9 pm. We encourage you to invite your friends and loved ones for this night of celebration and activities. From 5-7 we have refreshments in the gallery, and then we move down to the Biography room to a special oasis of storytelling games from 7-8 pm with plenty of time to mingle afterwards. Refreshments will be served and of course we always welcome contributions to the spread. Think good cocktail nibbles and fun libations.
Oasis features the work of: Ioana Barac, Marsha Borden, Trae Brooks, Amira Brown, Jody Clouse, Jeanette Compton, Susan Czark, Laurie Flaherty, Dan Gries, Lys Guillorn , John Hatch, Abeer Hussain, Helen Kauder, Aidan Keefe, kHyal, Steph Kubish, Linda Lindroth, Andres Madariaga, Kiara Matos, V.V. Aldebaran McEvoy, Tom Medwell, Bailey Murphy, Gerry Niemierowko, ArtGuy Pat, Karen Ponzio, Alice Prael, Kacey Ramirez, DG Reid, Melissa Coleridge Rich, Judy Sirota Rosenthal, Alison Safford, Roxy Savage, Scott Schuldt, Lisa Siedenberg, Emily Teall, Kim Van Aelst, Adam Viens, Amy Wachtel, & Doron Wolf
The Exhibition was organized by Martha Willette Lewis & Maxim Schmidt
The exhibit features an exciting textural mix of collage, video, assemblage, ceramics, painting, sculpture, bead work, installation and more to refresh and enliven your senses.See a review in the New Haven Independent here: https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/institute_library_oasis

Storytelling Workshop
2023-09-28 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
The Institute Library Story Sharing Group is gearing up for its tenth annual workshop series and Tellabration performance. Experienced tellers and newbies are invited to join us. Here is the registration link.
We should point out, however, that there are no real newbies in storytelling. Everyone tells stories all the time – when we update the boss on our latest project, tell our partner about our day, or tell our kids about the weird thing we did back in middle school. All we do in the story sharing group is make the process a bit more deliberate.
We begin with four workshops, during which each participant chooses a story and prepares it for public telling, with the help of feedback from the other participants. Stories may be of any genre; most of the stories we hear come from the tellers’ own lives, but if you want to share your version of Jack and the Beanstalk that’s fine. Those who choose to do so will tell their stories at a public performance, a “Tellabration”, which is one of many Tellabration sites across Connecticut every Fall.
The workshops will be from 7-9 P.M. on four Thursdays, September 28 and October 5, 12, and 19. Workshops will be held at the Library. Participants should be fully vaccinated against Covid.
The Tellabration will be at 7:30 P.M. on October 26. In recent years we have had too many tellers to fit into one evening. if that happens this year there will also be a performance on October 25. The performance(s) will be at the Library.
We are asking workshop participants who can afford it to make a donation to the Institute Library of $30 for Library members and $45 for non-members. This covers all four workshops plus the Tellabration. If this is a hardship, join us anyway. We do not want to exclude anyone.
Here is the registration link again.
You only need to register once for the four workshops and the Tellabration.

Listen Here!
2023-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510

Mysterious Circumstances
2023-10-18 - 2024-01-24 | The Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States

Opening Reception for Mysterious Circumstances & Halloween Party
2023-10-29 12:00 - 14:00 | The Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States
Join us for the Opening Reception of Mysterious Circumstances on Sunday October 29.
**Yes it is Halloween so please dress accordingly.

RANDALL BEACH, Local Chronicler of the Hyperlocal, on Connecticut Characters
2023-11-04 09:00 - 11:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Longtime New Haven journalist Randall Beach visits to talk about his recently published collection of profiles of New Haven area personalities, Connecticut Characters: Rascals and Renegades. Copies of the book, published by Globe Pequot, will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public.

DAVID OTTENSTEIN and ROBERT LISAK, Connecticut Photographers, discuss their recently published book, CAPITOL AMERICA: A Photographic Portrait of the 50 State Capitols
2023-11-04 12:00 - 14:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Robert Lisak and David Ottenstein, master photographers, have seen their project of over a decade find fruition now in 2023 with the publication of this glorious collection of photographs. Hear them discuss their work, the process, and the beauty of the state capitols. This event is free and open to the public.

SPENCER W. STUART, Bibliophilic Advisor, chats with The Institute Library Community via ZOOM EVENT
2023-11-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Institute Library via Zoom
Spencer Stuart, author of Contemporary Issues in Rare Book and Manuscript Collecting: A Handbook for Collectors and the Trade, , speaks to questions of interest to today’s bibliophiles. Book collecting is not what it was 50, or even 15, years ago; Spencer will enlighten us as to the significance and opportunities afforded because of speedy evolution in the world of rare book collecting. What does it even mean, now, to collect rare books? It may not be what you think!
This is a Zoom-only event, and ticket purchase and registration is required. Please visit https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/lM_z3E08cMvSgWYzljXpew?t=1697906605 to register. Registering gives you access to the Zoom link. Tickets are $5 for people with active memberships at the Library, and $10 for others.

CHRIS MOLANPHY, Music and Culture Critic, Visits to Discuss New Book about Lil Nas X’s OLD TOWN ROAD
2023-11-17 12:30 - 14:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Chris Molanphy, columnist for Slate and writer for publications including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, New York Magazine, NPR Music, and the Village Voice, visits the Institute Library to celebrate the publication of his new book, from the Duke University Press Singles series, about the Lil Nas X song Old Town Road. Critical acclaim from Emily Lordi: “Chris Molanphy provides a (typical for him) master class in understanding ‘Old Town Road’ as well as the interaction between race, the charts, and country music. A fascinating, rigorous, and joyful book.” Copies of Old Town Road will be for sale courtesy of New Haven’s own Possible Futures. This event is free and open to the public.

Holiday Party! with the Yale Alley Cats and special guest Malachi Dre Beasley
2023-12-01 13:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Join us at the Institute Library to welcome in the holiday season featuring the Yale Alley Cats with special guest Malachi Dre Beasley.
7:00pm: Malachi Dre Beasley
7:45pm: Alley Cats
A lovely gathering for all to enjoy — music, drink, quality nibbles, and divine company. This is how to start the month of December!
$10 Non-Members / FREE for members (Please RSVP)
For non-member use, please click here to buy $10 tickets.
For folks with up-to-date memberships, please click here to simply RSVP.

Special Film Event: The Age of Love
2024-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Free Screening • Refreshments
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 • 6-8 PM
Limited Seating
RSVP NOW! Use this form to RSVP

A Grand Tour of the United States with Painter James Lancel McElhinney
2024-02-17 10:00 - 12:00 | The Institute LIbrary, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
A Grand Tour of the United States with Painter James Lancel McElhinney
Fight Your Cabin Fever Here!
Saturday, February 17, 2024
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
At the Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven CT 06510 — Biography Room

Painter, author, and topographer James Lancel McElhinney returns to the Institute Library on a February day to show you his work: books of paintings, a visual travelogue, depicting travels across the United States. The most recent in the series, Sketchbook Traveler: New England, was published in 2023. The Sketchbook Traveler books are portable, interactive art journals and field guides that inspires through depictions scenery across America; through these books McElhinney encourages a deeper engagement with travel through painting, drawing, and writing. Shake off your own mid-winter cabin fever by tramping to the Institute Library on this Saturday afternoon, and enjoy McElhinney as he describes his work through his unofficial position as skilled raconteur! Tea and light refreshments will be served; no RSVP is required for this event, which is free and open to all.

BRIDGE
2024-03-11 15:00 - 16:30 | 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.
