uYAKu: Sonido Líquido, a bilingual exhibition curated by ISM fellow Felipe Ledesma Núñez, will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from February 5 - March 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m.
uYAKu: Sonido Líquido presents an exploration of the acoustics and metaphysics of water and clay through a set of whistling bottles, created after the discovery of the only known archival record of their use.
Double-chamber whistling bottles are among the most mysterious of archaeological artifacts. Inside, they contain intricate acoustic mechanisms capable of producing sound on their own, revealing a technical and spiritual knowledge that remains only partially understood. Although thousands of these vessels have been found, their purpose remains a mystery.
This exhibition presents the only known historical record of their use: a seventeenth-century manuscript describing a whistling bottle in the form of a woman, venerated by a community in the Andean highlands. This vessel was not merely a ritual object; it embodied an ancestral progenitor, an Andean mother whose voice was audibly present.
Inspired by this ancestral figure, the exhibition brings together sound sculptures created by contemporary Latin American artists that reactivate the acoustic vitality of these ancient technologies. The works engage with the resonant past, exploring how clay, air, and water remain carriers of memory.
Featuring works by Felipe Ledesma Núñez, Genaro López, Daniel Mesones, and Samuel Tejeda.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the ISM and the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
Installation: Ellis Berwick
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this exhibit on Wednesday, February 4 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
uYaku: Sonido Líquido
Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Choral Evensong with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
Seamlessly blending comedic genius and technical mastery, the Austrian septet — known as the Monty Python of the music world — presents Strau$$, a fresh take on Johann Strauss’s waltzes to mark the composer’s bicentennial.
Personnel
Thomas Gansch, trumpet
Robert Rother, trumpet
Roman Rindberger, trumpet
Leonhard Paul, trombone
Gerhard Füßl, trombone
Zoltan Kiss, trombone
Wilfried Brandstötter, tuba
Mnozil Brass
uYAKu: Sonido Líquido, a bilingual exhibition curated by ISM fellow Felipe Ledesma Núñez, will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from February 5 - March 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m.
uYAKu: Sonido Líquido presents an exploration of the acoustics and metaphysics of water and clay through a set of whistling bottles, created after the discovery of the only known archival record of their use.
Double-chamber whistling bottles are among the most mysterious of archaeological artifacts. Inside, they contain intricate acoustic mechanisms capable of producing sound on their own, revealing a technical and spiritual knowledge that remains only partially understood. Although thousands of these vessels have been found, their purpose remains a mystery.
This exhibition presents the only known historical record of their use: a seventeenth-century manuscript describing a whistling bottle in the form of a woman, venerated by a community in the Andean highlands. This vessel was not merely a ritual object; it embodied an ancestral progenitor, an Andean mother whose voice was audibly present.
Inspired by this ancestral figure, the exhibition brings together sound sculptures created by contemporary Latin American artists that reactivate the acoustic vitality of these ancient technologies. The works engage with the resonant past, exploring how clay, air, and water remain carriers of memory.
Featuring works by Felipe Ledesma Núñez, Genaro López, Daniel Mesones, and Samuel Tejeda.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the ISM and the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
Installation: Ellis Berwick
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this exhibit on Wednesday, February 4 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
uYaku: Sonido Líquido
School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.
Lunchtime Chamber Music
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
uYAKu: Sonido Líquido, a bilingual exhibition curated by ISM fellow Felipe Ledesma Núñez, will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from February 5 - March 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m.
uYAKu: Sonido Líquido presents an exploration of the acoustics and metaphysics of water and clay through a set of whistling bottles, created after the discovery of the only known archival record of their use.
Double-chamber whistling bottles are among the most mysterious of archaeological artifacts. Inside, they contain intricate acoustic mechanisms capable of producing sound on their own, revealing a technical and spiritual knowledge that remains only partially understood. Although thousands of these vessels have been found, their purpose remains a mystery.
This exhibition presents the only known historical record of their use: a seventeenth-century manuscript describing a whistling bottle in the form of a woman, venerated by a community in the Andean highlands. This vessel was not merely a ritual object; it embodied an ancestral progenitor, an Andean mother whose voice was audibly present.
Inspired by this ancestral figure, the exhibition brings together sound sculptures created by contemporary Latin American artists that reactivate the acoustic vitality of these ancient technologies. The works engage with the resonant past, exploring how clay, air, and water remain carriers of memory.
Featuring works by Felipe Ledesma Núñez, Genaro López, Daniel Mesones, and Samuel Tejeda.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the ISM and the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
Installation: Ellis Berwick
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this exhibit on Wednesday, February 4 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
uYaku: Sonido Líquido
The Teacher Leadership Program is a free, one-hour workshop on Zoom for educators of all levels and disciplines that meets at 4:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month throughout the academic year. The sessions are led by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Public Education; Clara Poteet, the John Walsh Fellow in Museum Education; Wurtele Gallery Teachers; and Education Department staff. In this program, educators explore innovative ways to connect their curricula and interest in art with the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection. The sessions also address online and in-person teaching techniques.
Closed captions will be available in English.
Teacher Leadership Program
Come read your poem or a favorite, sing a song, play a tune …the mic is yours!
OPEN MIC
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to New Haven in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Grete Pedersen will lead the Yale Schola Cantorum in her first concert since being appointed the principal conductor of this premiere ensemble.
Check back later for concert program and other details.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Jeff Hazewinkel
Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by new principal conductor Grete Pedersen. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.
Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Debut Concert with Grete Pedersen
A performance of new music for small ensembles by composition faculty members David Lang and Katherine Balch, and students.
NMNH - Katherine Balch & David Lang
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to New Haven in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to New Haven in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to New Haven in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
Monthly Open Mic Nite at the Milford Arts Council, downtown Milford. Poetry, comedy, music. Online signup opens on the 1st of each month.
Open Mic Nite
Open Mic Nite is Open To All
Expect Warm Welcomes and Encouragement
Milford Art Council’s Open Mic Nites are a safe place, welcoming to all forms of performance – music, poetry, storytelling, comedy and dance.
We provide a professional sound system and tech, helping to lift and support each performer while creating an excellent and enjoyable audience experience as well.
Performers are encouraged to share a little about themselves, their journey and performance.
While we do not censure our artists, we do ask that performers be mindful of their audience, which may include families.
- Performers sign-up for free online.
- After registration closes, you may register at the door for any remaining open slots.
- Audience, $5 at the door.
- Snacks and beverages available in our Speakeasy.
- Stay for the whole show with family and friends. Make a night of it.
Open Mic Nite
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music organizes a series of Zoom lectures that focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. The Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture lecture series is offered in collaboration with the departments of Classics and History of Art and is organized by Robert S. Nelson (History of Art, emeritus), Felicity Harley (Yale Divinity School/ISM), Justin Willson (History of Art) and Vasileios Marinis (Yale Divinity School/ISM).
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
View the Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture page for specific event dates, titles and presenters.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Image: Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis, ca. 540 CE, The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery
Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture Lecture Series
METTA QUINTET is a highly creative unit featuring some of the most dynamic, sought after artists on the jazz scene today. They are as collectively dedicated to blazing new artistic territory as they are to cultivating new generations of jazz listeners and performers. The quintet includes alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums.
In the role of JazzReach’s "resident ensemble," the quintet is charged with carrying out the organization's mission to foster a greater appreciation, awareness and understanding of jazz music.
An Evening With the Metta Quintet
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to New Haven in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
Explore the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan in The Inquisitor. Jordan was a groundbreaking Texas congresswoman whose sharp intellect and moral clarity transformed U.S. politics. From Nixon’s impeachment to civil rights battles, her voice demanded accountability, while she privately faced struggles few ever knew of.
Please join us for complimentary pizza, viewing of the film and conversation following the film.
THIS EVENT IS FREE but please RSVP so we will know how many people are attending - registration is suggested but not required. Seating is first come, first served.
The Shubert Theatre will debut the new season of Indie Lens Pop-Up, the long-running community screening series that has brought people together for community-driven conversations around its thought-provoking documentaries. Patrons will have the opportunity to view the films before they air on television on INDEPENDENT LENS, PBS’s award-winning documentary anthology series.
The Inquisitor | Indie Lens Pop-Up (FREE!)
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
On March 22, 2026, the award-winning Trio Animoso will grace the stage at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek on East Kings Highway in Chester, CT for our third Essex Winter Series concert. This phenomenal group of young artists – Sophia Jean, flute; Julian Seney, viola; and Subin Lee, harp – who formed at Yale and won First Prize at the Angel Padilla Crespo International Harp Competition, will delight with a program called French Impressions, American Echoes. Selections include Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, as well as pieces by Rameau, Ravel, Bonis and others.
Concerts are on Sundays at 3 pm and are general admission. Adult - $45 / Student - $5. Discounted subscriptions are available as well. For information or tickets visit
www.essexwinterseries.com or call 860-272-4572. For all our venues, parking, entry and seating accessibility is available.
2026 season sponsors include ASP Trust, BrandTech Scientific, Clark Group, Essex Bank & Essex Financial Services, Essex Meadows, Jeffrey N. Mehler CFP LLC, Masonicare at Chester Village, Tower Laboratories, and WSHU. We also gratefully acknowledge the support for our mission of concerts and community outreach received in part through grant funding by ASP Trust, Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD/NEA, Essex Bank Community Investment Program, and The Kitchings Family Foundation.
Essex Winter Series presents Trio Animoso
All are welcome to join us for a concert of organ music by Kimberly Marshall performed on Marquand Chapel's Krigbaum Organ. The concert is part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series. Kimberly Marshall currently holds the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Artist bio:
Kimberly Marshall is known worldwide for her compelling presentations of organ music. She currently holds the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. From 2019-2022 she held the Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship at the Malmö Academy of Music. Her distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship was recognized by the Royal College of Organists in 2022 with their highest award. She is an accomplished teacher, giving master classes internationally and teaching an annual summer organ academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Marshall has performed and presented her research at 12 national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She gave the final recital on the two large organs at Stanford’s Memorial Church for the San Francisco Convention in July 2024. In 2023 she gave recitals for the Oaxaca International Organ Festival, a teaching residency at Yale University, and performances at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and on the new symphonic organ at Göteborg Concert Hall (Sweden). In 2024, she was invited for a residency at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, a concert tour on the east coast of Italy, and as a member of the jury for the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal, performing a concert at the Chapelle du Grande Séminaire. She began 2025 with a recital on the prestigious concert series at St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, later performing in Buenos Aires, Belgium, and Sweden.
Performer, scholar, and educator, Kimberly Marshall is a committed advocate of the organ. She works to promote the instrument in both local and global communities. An authority on the organ’s rich history over the past 2000 years, she is devoted to continuing this tradition of artistic ingenuity into the next millennium.
See Marshall's website and facebook page.
Great Organ Music at Yale with Kimberly Marshall
Join Yale Consort for an Annunciation Mass service.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Annunciation Mass with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
Join us for an opening reception at Miller Hall for the ISM's new art exhibit, Laboratory for Other Worlds, featuring a talk by Patte Loper, Andrew Kemp and Erin Genia. Reception begins at 5 p.m. and artist talk at 5:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Laboratory for Other Worlds will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7. Exhibit is free and open to the public. There will also be an accompanying symposium on April 10.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Exhibition Opening Reception for Laboratory for Other Worlds
Horowitz Piano Series
John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes — a pinnacle of his work with prepared piano — meets the effervescence of Debussy’s Préludes, in this program performed by Boris Berman.
Boris Berman, piano
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
This symposium will be held primarily at Miller Hall (406 Prospect St., New Haven), with a portion at the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle's Great Hall (409 Prospect St., New Haven). This is a hybrid event, with attendance feasible both in-person and via webinar link.
The event Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities is a two-day Symposium bringing together scholars in the field of anthropology and practitioners (religious practitioners, healers, dancers and artists). The event will be held in a hybrid format with speakers attending in person at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music along with the Yale community, and online attendance will also be made available. The event merges scholarly paper sessions with expressive culture workshops, such as dance, storytelling, sacred art and performances centered around the relationship with more-than-humans held by anthropologists-practitioners.
This symposium explores the connections between sacred histories, historicities—i.e., the ways in which time and temporality are understood, experienced, and lived—and well-being by means of an engagement with more-than-humans through expressive and material cultures.
Free and open to the public.
Please register if you plan on attending lunch at the symposium. Registration is only required for lunch and not for the overall event.
This symposium is convened by Emily Pierini, Giovanna Capponi and Giovanna Parmigiani. Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Photo: Henk Kieft
Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights
Thursday March 26, 2026
@ College Street Music Hall
7:00PM Doors / All Ages
Tickets on sale NOW: https://found.ee/ha823nhv
Premier Concerts and Manic Presents:
This show will be an evening with, Herb Alpert and his brand new Tijuana Brass. Herb along with his 6 great musicians will be playing all of your favorite TJB hit songs just as you remember hearing them while growing up.
2026 will mark the 61st anniversary of the iconic album, “Whipped Cream & Other Delights”. Herb and the band will be performing many of those great songs in addition to many other hit songs that we all know; “The Lonely Bull”, “Spanish Flea”, “Taste of Honey”, “Mexican Shuffle”, “Tijuana Taxi”, “This Guy’s In Love With You”, “What Now My Love”, “Zorba the Greek”, “Ladyfingers”, “Rise” and many other delights.
The show runs 90 minutes and is informal as Herb loves to answer questions from the audience about his career, A&M Records and the many iconic artists like Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, The Carpenters and Burt Bacharach that he has worked with over the past 63 years. The show features a giant video screen that displays hundreds of classic photos, videos, art and various memorabilia from Herb’s music career. A really exciting show and truly a Once in a Lifetime Concert Event!
HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS
Creator and innovator, musician and producer, artist, and philanthropist, Herb Alpert is a man with a profound passion.
Born in Los Angeles, the future trumpeter came of age in a house filled with music. At the age of eight, he was drawn to the trumpet in a music appreciation class in his elementary school.
“I was very fortunate that I had that exposure to music and was encouraged to stick with it. Years ago, when the arts programs were cut out of our public schools, so many kids stopped having that kind of opportunity.”
A legendary trumpet player, Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine GRAMMY® Awards, the latest from his 2014 album, “Steppin’ Out,” fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and has sold over 72 million records. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling the Beatles two to one. In 1966, they achieved the since-unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10– and five in the Top 20. Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental and a #1 vocal single.
Some of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’ fourteen Top 40 singles include; The Lonely Bull, Mexican Shuffle, Spanish Flea and the GRAMMY®-winners “A Taste Of Honey” and “What Now My Love,” and the #1 hits “This Guy’s In Love With You” and “Rise.” In 2016 the Herb Alpert Presents record label released 30 deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus all of Herb’s solo albums from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s. In all, Alpert has recorded over forty albums and produced for many other artists, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Stan Getz, Michel Colombier, Gato Barbieri and Alpert’s wife, GRAMMY winning vocalist Lani Hall, to name a few.
As an industry leader, Alpert’s commitment to artists with personal vision guided A&M Records (with partner Jerry Moss) from a Hollywood garage operation into one of the most successful independent record labels in music history that started in 1962 with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Stars including Janet Jackson, Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Stan Getz, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, The Carpenters, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, The Police and scores of others that are evidence of the consistent quality and diversity of the A&M Records family.
In 2006, Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in recognition of their accomplishments and are a part of the Grammy Museum’s ”Icons of the Music Industry” series. In 2013 Herb Alpert was awarded The National Medal of Arts Award by President Barack Obama for his musical, philanthropic and artistic contributions.
Herb Alpert has continually explored other artistic ventures, always acknowledging a connection between music and visual art in his creative process. A painter for over four decades, Alpert’s bold, abstract expressionist canvases have been exhibited internationally and are a part of the permanent collections of MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles, the Tennessee State Art Museum in Nashville, the Kranzberg Arts Foundation in St. Louis as well as the University of California Los Angeles. Herb’s work has been exhibited in galleries around the U.S, Europe and Asia.
A sculptor for over three decades, Alpert has installed his lyrical sculpture and his massive, bronze Totem sculptures on public display throughout Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville Tennessee, and most recently a permanent installation at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Alpert explains, “There is a certain satisfaction and energy that comes from playing the horn – a feeling that I am really in my element. I am passionate about what I am doing, whether painting, sculpting or playing the trumpet. I am just trying to create whatever comes out in the spontaneity of the moment.”
Broadway theatre is another arena in which Alpert has enjoyed success. His producing credits include the Tony Award/Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and The Boy from Oz.
With his desire to bring the arts back to young people, the Herb Alpert Foundation is helping to change the educational environment. The Herb Alpert Foundation supports a number of educational, arts and compassion oriented programs, dedicated to serving young people to help them reach their potential and lead productive, fulfilling lives and to support their unique creative energies and special talents. HAF supports young people to live free from prejudice and, with its many programs, nurtures a capacity for empathy, compassion, mutual respect, tolerance and kindness.
The Herb Alpert Foundation, which Herb created with his wife Lani Hall Alpert in 1985, was instrumental in establishing the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz graduate program at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, founded with an endowment from the Foundation in 2007, aspires to educate the whole student through productive collaborations between performance and scholarship and preparatory training for a broad range of careers in music.
In 2008, through an endowment from the Foundation, the school of music at CalArts was named for Herb Alpert. This gift continues to support music scholarships, endow three faculty chairs, and fund faculty programs at a school known for its rigorous training in a variety of musical styles and cultures. Continuing their support of arts education, the Foundation created an endowment in 2016 to provide music majors at Los Angeles City College tuition–free attendance, additional private lessons, and further financial aid to enable them to succeed in their community college experience. Over the past nine years Herb has come to the rescue of the legendary Harlem School of the Arts, establishing an endowment that not only prevented the school from closing its doors but has led to a major redesign of the campus, financial aid and the funds to thrive as a key arts destination for the community.
Over the past 25 years, 125 mid-career, risk-taking artists have received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, an award administered by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), which also houses the Herb Alpert School of Music at Cal Arts.
In addition to his ongoing creative outlets in music, philanthropy and the arts, Alpert owns the noted Vibrato restaurant/jazz club in Bel-Air, California. He also continues to perform and tour across the country with his wife, Grammy-winning vocalist, Lani Hall and their band.
Herb’s priorities derive from the same sense of generosity and humility that has guided him through a long, illustrious career. In all of these ventures, there is a harmony not unlike Alpert’s music. A flowing of energy and sound, a dedication to quality, which sustains everything Alpert does. With more than 40 years of continuous philanthropic, musical and artistic activity, Alpert has established a legacy that reflects his firm belief that the arts can make a difference in the world and in the lives of each of us.
Official Website: https://herbalpert.com
Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
This symposium will be held primarily at Miller Hall (406 Prospect St., New Haven), with a portion at the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle's Great Hall (409 Prospect St., New Haven). This is a hybrid event, with attendance feasible both in-person and via webinar link.
The event Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities is a two-day Symposium bringing together scholars in the field of anthropology and practitioners (religious practitioners, healers, dancers and artists). The event will be held in a hybrid format with speakers attending in person at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music along with the Yale community, and online attendance will also be made available. The event merges scholarly paper sessions with expressive culture workshops, such as dance, storytelling, sacred art and performances centered around the relationship with more-than-humans held by anthropologists-practitioners.
This symposium explores the connections between sacred histories, historicities—i.e., the ways in which time and temporality are understood, experienced, and lived—and well-being by means of an engagement with more-than-humans through expressive and material cultures.
Free and open to the public.
Please register if you plan on attending lunch at the symposium. Registration is only required for lunch and not for the overall event.
This symposium is convened by Emily Pierini, Giovanna Capponi and Giovanna Parmigiani. Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Photo: Henk Kieft
Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
A performance on piano by The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, José García-León.
This event is taking place at the Collection of Musical Instruments, located at 15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT.
José García-León, piano
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant to be enjoyed - it’s meant to be shared. Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this vibrant and romantic tale of Maria and the von Trapp family features beloved songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "Edelweiss."
DID YOU KNOW?
The original production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC made its World Premiere right here on the Shubert Theatre's legendary stage on October 3, 1959.
The Sound of Music
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Join Yale Consort for a Tenebrae service.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Tenebrae with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
A performance by the School’s Fellowship String Quartet, the Terra String Quartet, a group that in 2022 won the grand prize at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Terra String Quartet
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.
Lunchtime Chamber Music
Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.
Chair seated exercise
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
The Teacher Leadership Program is a free, one-hour workshop on Zoom for educators of all levels and disciplines that meets at 4:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month throughout the academic year. The sessions are led by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Public Education; Clara Poteet, the John Walsh Fellow in Museum Education; Wurtele Gallery Teachers; and Education Department staff. In this program, educators explore innovative ways to connect their curricula and interest in art with the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection. The sessions also address online and in-person teaching techniques.
Closed captions will be available in English.
Teacher Leadership Program
Come read your poem or a favorite, sing a song, play a tune …the mic is yours!
OPEN MIC
Recognized for his “transcendent” and “impassioned” interpretations of Mahler (KDHX), Philharmonia principal conductor Peter Oundjian leads the composer’s towering Symphony No. 6.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 6
The spring Yale Repertory Chorus Recital will feature choral conducting performances by ISM student conductors Grace Currie, Brian De Stefano, and Anthony Washington.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Donald Youngberg
Yale Repertory Chorus Recital
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Choral Evensong with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Monthly Open Mic Nite at the Milford Arts Council, downtown Milford. Poetry, comedy, music. Online signup opens on the 1st of each month.
Open Mic Nite
Open Mic Nite is Open To All
Expect Warm Welcomes and Encouragement
Milford Art Council’s Open Mic Nites are a safe place, welcoming to all forms of performance – music, poetry, storytelling, comedy and dance.
We provide a professional sound system and tech, helping to lift and support each performer while creating an excellent and enjoyable audience experience as well.
Performers are encouraged to share a little about themselves, their journey and performance.
While we do not censure our artists, we do ask that performers be mindful of their audience, which may include families.
- Performers sign-up for free online.
- After registration closes, you may register at the door for any remaining open slots.
- Audience, $5 at the door.
- Snacks and beverages available in our Speakeasy.
- Stay for the whole show with family and friends. Make a night of it.
Open Mic Nite
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
This symposium will be held on April 10 in Miller Hall (406 Prospect St., New Haven, CT).
Laboratory for Other Worlds is an ongoing collaborative project, presented at Yale ISM as an art exhibition and symposium that responds to damaged landscapes by constructing spaces of refuge—incomplete yet insistent acts of preservation, witnessing, and re-enchantment within worn-out worlds. Conceived by Patte Loper, an interdisciplinary artist who works across painting, sculpture, and installation, the Laboratory began as a way to reflect and communicate research on variable sea level rise in the Northeastern United States; as environmental scientist and collaborator Andrew Kemp points out, sea level rise is a problem for coastal communities that requires scientists to approach the land itself as an archive that records both damage and repair. Here, the language of the laboratory is both concrete and metaphorical: it suggests that an engagement with artwork is itself a kind of experimentation that can teach us how to feel our way into a different kind of world-making—engagements with Earth that are grounded in the land’s memory, rather than an extractive drilling-down. Kemp and Loper are also collaborating with Erin Genia (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), a multidisciplinary artist, educator and community organizer. At Genia’s prompting, they have come to ask: what if the salt marsh, site of scientific research, were considered sacred? What if the agency and sentience of the marsh itself, and all beings located here, even the microscopic ones, were able to be known?
The diverse artistic, poetic, and scientific voices in this symposium contribute to a larger pedagogical project, seeking to make climate science accessible through creative work - an integral part of imagining worlds otherwise. Through encounters with Indigenous knowledges and European pre-modern mythology in Laboratory for Other Worlds, Western ontological frameworks are broken, but still present, creating generative tension – an ontological rupture that exposes “naturalized” default settings, assumptions about the nature of reality (linear time, the irreducibility of the centralized human individual, nature as resource, the division between human and the more-than-human and between sentient and non-sentient) that are taken for granted, and rarely questioned.[1] The goal is to sit with this tension, to begin the work of sorting out threads of thriving from those that entail what Deborah Bird Rose calls “double death”: death across species including humans and nonhumans, of not just individuals, but of entire communities, populations, and cultures due to modern practices, and to support a much-needed re-weaving of ontologies.
This symposium is held in association with the ISM's current art exhibition, Laboratory for Other Worlds, which will be on view at Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7. Exhibit is free and open to the public and features an opening night reception on March 25. Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Speakers include Cassie Aimetti, Tanya Crane, Erin Genia, Karen Holmberg, Eugenia Kisin, Andrew Kemp, Patte Loper, and Juliana Spahr.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Art Credit:
Erin Genia
Earthling
2025
[1] Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma, Relationality (Bloomsbury, 2024), 94-95
Laboratory for Other Worlds: Designs for Living Beyond Damage (Symposium)
Visionary artist Francesca Fuentes, also known by her childhood nickname Chess, channels her real-life experiences and relationships into organic pop-rock-inspired tracks—effortlessly capturing the exhilarating, romantic, and soul-stirring facets of the human experience with sincerity and finesse. Born and raised by the Jersey shore, she started playing guitar and writing at 12—and began her musical journey at 18 after finding a like-minded musical community at Monmouth University. Her career was gaining momentum and buzz—her debut music video, “Rock With Me,” won Best Film at the 2019 Lovesick Film Festival in Jersey City. However, her trajectory took a sharp turn in 2021 after personal and professional split with producer, Max Wolf, leaving her with an unfinished debut album and a deep creative, spiritual void. Inspired by powerhouse singer-songwriters like Taylor Swift and encouraged by mentor Mike Flannery, Francesca began a series of cathartic projects—emerging with a refined, authentic pop sound. Now 26, she’s diving headfirst into her artistry—fearlessly pushing creative boundaries and baring her soul to the world. With a brand-new versatile, stripped-back album on the horizon, Francesca has a renewed voice—soulful, dedicated, & more vibrant than ever. Her latest MTV Spankin' New featured music video, “I Just Wanna Be Your Lover Again” is her most creative and compelling display of artistry yet—and it’s just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Francesca Fuentes
Step Afrika! is one of the top 10 African American dance companies in the world. The acclaimed company blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities; traditional West and Southern African dances; and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into a cohesive, compelling artistic experience. Performances are much more than dance shows; they integrate songs, storytelling, humor and audience participation. The blend of technique, agility, and pure energy makes each performance unique and leaves the audience with their hearts pounding.
Step Afrika!
Having captivated audiences worldwide, Chanticleer – the Grammy® Award-winning choral ensemble of 12 male voices – again appears for an Essex Winter Series concert with a soaring, spellbinding program called Without A Song. This “orchestra of voices” will close the 49th EWS season on April 12, 2026, at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, CT.
Concerts are on Sundays at 3 pm and are general admission. Adult - $45 / Student - $5. Discounted subscriptions are available as well. For information or tickets, visit
www.essexwinterseries.com or call 860-272-4572. For all our venues, parking, entry and seating accessibility is available.
2026 season sponsors include ASP Trust, BrandTech Scientific, Clark Group, Essex Bank & Essex Financial Services, Essex Meadows, Jeffrey N. Mehler CFP LLC, Masonicare at Chester Village, Tower Laboratories, and WSHU. We also gratefully acknowledge the support for our mission of concerts and community outreach received in part through grant funding by ASP Trust, Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD/NEA, Essex Bank Community Investment Program, and The Kitchings Family Foundation.
Chanticleer in Concert at Essex Winter Series
Yale Camerata's yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary continues on Sunday, April 12 at Woolsey Hall with a program entitled "An American Songbook."
This concert is free and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed.
Check back here closer to the event for more details.
Contact: Don Youngberg
Yale Camerata is a seventy-five-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985.
Yale Camerata Spring Concert: An American Songbook
Join us for a lecture in Miller Hall by Samantha Slaubaugh.
This talk explores how the lives of Giovanna of Orvieto (d. 1306) and Margaret of Castello (d. 1320) present various approaches for learning to engage with the church's liturgy. The fourteenth-century Latin lives of these two lay women reveal how stories and images, postural practices, and learning the Latin liturgy by ear could be models for other laity and penitents who sought a deep connection with the ritual and sacramental life of the church. The talk will also examine how in the fifteenth century the Dominican friar, Thomas of Siena, interpreted these models as he translated the earlier Latin lives of Giovanna and Margaret into Italian as part of his efforts to promote an institutional history of the Dominican Third Order.
Free and open to the public.
This event is part of the ISM Liturgy Symposium Series.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Orvieto and Margaret of Castello
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Martin Jean joins with Yale Consort to present a service of Organ Vespers in Marquand Chapel.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Organ Vespers with Martin Jean
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
School of Music students perform a concert of chamber music and provide insight into the repertoire.
Vista: Chamber Music
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.
Lunchtime Chamber Music
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
New Music New Haven
Concluding the season, this evening highlights contemporary works forlarge and small ensembles by artistic director Aaron Jay Kernis and students.
NMNH - Aaron Jay Kernis
Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music organizes a series of Zoom lectures that focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. The Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture lecture series is offered in collaboration with the departments of Classics and History of Art and is organized by Robert S. Nelson (History of Art, emeritus), Felicity Harley (Yale Divinity School/ISM), Justin Willson (History of Art) and Vasileios Marinis (Yale Divinity School/ISM).
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
View the Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture page for specific event dates, titles and presenters.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Image: Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis, ca. 540 CE, The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery
Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture Lecture Series
Based on the worldwide bestselling hit series by Dav Pilkey , Dog Man: The Musical is a hilarious and heartwarming production following the chronicles of Dog Man, who with the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture. But while trying his best to be a good boy, can he save the city from Flippy the cyborg fish and his army of Beasty Buildings? Can he catch Petey, the world’s most evil cat, who has cloned himself to exact revenge on the doggy do-gooder? And will George and Harold finish their show before lunchtime?? Find out in this epic musical adventure featuring the hilarity and heart of beloved characters from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club.
Recommended for ages 6+
Dog Man: The Musical
with Yale Glee Club
YSO Concert 5
Students from the studio of Professor João Luiz Rezende perform a program of guitar chamber music.
Guitar Chamber Music
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Choral Evensong with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.
Lunchtime Chamber Music
A performance by students of the Yale School of Music cello studio, directed by Ole Akahoshi.
Yale Cellos
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Music on Main Presents Hubby Jenkins of the Carolina Chocolate Drops
Hubby Jenkins
The Great American SoulBook delivers a journey through the decades of Motown, R&B and other iconic Soulful music performed by the American Soul Band.
This is no oldies show - it is a high energy tribute that will wow audiences with the music of The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Luther Vandross, Sam and Dave, James Brown, Anita Baker, Babyface, Peobo Bryson, and so many more.
The Great American SoulBook
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Join Yale Consort for a Festal Evensong service.
Free and open to the public.
Yale Consort, a professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Festal Evensong with Yale Consort
Open Mic Surgery is a freeform poetry open mic held at Never Ending Books (Volume Two) on State Street. The weekly event offers a welcoming space where writers of all backgrounds can connect, read their own work, share poems by others, or simply listen and enjoy. Expect an eclectic mix of poetry and spoken word in a supportive, low-pressure setting filled with a wide range of creative voices.
Open Mic Surgery: A poetry open mic
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
The Tallest Dwarf follows filmmaker Julie Wyman as she searches for her place in the little people community and unpacks dwarfism’s impact on her own family. Through intimate stories, creative collaborations, and archival history, the film delves into identity and medicine, asking whether society should change people or the structures that limit them.
Please join us for complimentary pizza, viewing of the film and conversation following the film.
THIS EVENT IS FREE but please RSVP so we will know how many people are attending - registration is suggested but not required. Seating is first come, first served.
The Shubert Theatre will debut the new season of Indie Lens Pop-Up, the long-running community screening series that has brought people together for community-driven conversations around its thought-provoking documentaries. Patrons will have the opportunity to view the films before they air on television on INDEPENDENT LENS, PBS’s award-winning documentary anthology series.
The Tallest Dwarf | Indie Lens Pop-Up (FREE!)
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 26 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 -4 p.m.
Laboratory for other worlds is an exhibition series originated by contemporary artist Patte Loper. Past versions have invited viewers to consider the ways human imagination - whether arising from collective action or from communication across biological kingdoms - can affect the ongoingness of life on Earth.
At the Institute of Sacred Music, Loper is collaborating with Earth scientist Andrew Kemp and contemporary artist and community organizer Erin Genia to connect climate science and social justice through speculative world building practices. The project asks: what if salt marshes and their microscopic biome, the site of Kemp’s research on paleolithic sea level rise, were considered sacred? These marshes are often located adjacent to urban areas, are valuable archives of Earth history for climate scientists, home to vital ecosystems, and provide protection to coastal communities (human and nonhuman) against storms and flooding. They are also highly vulnerable to anthropogenic damage. Laboratory for Other Worlds imagines the life in the microscopic cosmos that climate scientists depend on for data, as both sentient and entangled with our sphere of being. Our desire is to use this speculation to connect to the land and to help us consider what is owed locally and globally, by institutions that rest in and profit from lands that were once interconnected ecosystems stewarded by tribal peoples.
Free and open to the public.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, March 25 at 5 p.m. There will also be an affiliated symposium on April 10. Both the opening reception and symposium will be held at Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Image credit:
Patte Loper: Future Salt Marsh Refugia (detail)
Oil on canvas, 144" x 72", 2025
Laboratory for Other Worlds Art Exhibit
Yale Philharmonia
Ahead of the nation’s 250th, the Philharmonia finishes the season with a joyful, high-energy celebration of American music, featuring works by Gershwin, Bernstein, Barber and Valerie Coleman. Conducted by Peter Oundjian, principal conductor, and Ezra Calvino ’26MMA.
Program
Valerie Coleman: Seven O'Clock Shout
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Barber: Overture from The School for Scandal
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Gershwin & Bernstein: A 250th American Celebration
Grete Pedersen leads Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation at Woolsey Hall.
This oratorio masterpiece by Haydn depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as narrated in the Book of Genesis.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Jeff Hazewinkel
Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by new principal conductor Grete Pedersen. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.
Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415 , that school’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has made significant contributions to musical life in New York and beyond, bringing major figures in the field of early music to lead performances of both rare and canonical works by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. With its frequent musical collaborator the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has performed throughout Scandinavia, Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., and India.
Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 present: The Creation
Yale Opera
With haunting vocal performances, Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera — based on Henry James’s classic novella — brings a suspenseful and eerie ghost story to the stage.
The Turn of the Screw
Yale Opera
With haunting vocal performances, Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera — based on Henry James’s classic novella — brings a suspenseful and eerie ghost story to the stage.
