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.
The Turn of the Screw
In the Organ Improv Showcase, ISM students in Jeffrey Brillhart’s organ improvisation course riff on given themes.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Organ Improv Showcase
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
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
Oneppo Chamber Music Series
Hear the School’s top musicians in an evening of inspiring performances by winners of the annual chamber music competition.
Chamber Music Competition Winners
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 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
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
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
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. It features Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek), a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), choreography by Danny Mefford (Dear Evan Hansen) and direction by Tony-nominated director Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants).
Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this "howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker), Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Kimberly Akimbo
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
Michael W. Smith has been releasing new music regularly and performing around the world to sold-out crowds for the last 35+ years. During his storied career, he's written and recorded over 36 No. 1 songs, been honored with three GRAMMY Awards and 45 Dove Awards, one American Music Award, was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and has sold more than 15 million albums.
Michael W. Smith - Live in Concert
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
Hosted by Top Chef contender Chrissy Camba, The Grocery List Show is a trip to five bustling international grocery stores in America and the communities they serve. Special guests and food enthusiasts join Chrissy to shop for ingredients and cook a favorite family recipe, as they celebrate global food traditions over a shared meal.
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 Grocery List Show | Indie Lens Pop-Up
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
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
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
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Come read your poem or a favorite, sing a song, play a tune …the mic is yours!
OPEN MIC
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
Still the world's most popular musical.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph). Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and many more.
Les Misérables
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
It's not a farewell party but hey, you're going to say goodbye to your mundane week with Daniel Tosh's "My First Farewell Tour". The comedian is heading to Connecticut and Wallingford fans are in for a great night. Join his return on the road at the legendary Toyota Oakdale Theater on Friday, June 12, 2026!
After years of creating hit specials and hosting the widely popular TOSH.0, Tosh is finally stepping back onstage with fresh material that stays true to his dry humor, quick remarks, and straight-to-the-point delivery.
Tosh have been making millions of audiences laugh since 2000s from memorable appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, to multiple Comedy Central projects. His style hasn’t changed—he still pokes fun at anything and everything, and he does it with a confidence only he can pull off.
Daniel Tosh at Toyota Oakdale Theatre
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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
Internationally renowned for his inimitable style Joe Avati , who is Australian born with an Italian heritage, is one of the most significant and pivotal comedians of his generation who, undoubtedly, is directly responsible for the ethnic comedy circuit around the world today.
For the past 30 years Joe Avati’s routines about growing up with a culturally diverse background have gained him a cult following around the globe. Avati has also become the master of treading the very fine line of saying whatever everyone seems to think but no one dares to say whilst not resorting to the use of profanities or vulgar shock tactic routines and in doing so allowing audiences of all ages to attend his shows. He has a razor sharp wit and his observations are not only deadly accurate but extremely relatable to his growing international audiences.
An Evening with Joe Avati
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
We don’t get to repeat even one minute of our time here - but what if you could experience all of the youthful energy and sonic celebration that was 1980s New Wave & Radio Pop? Every sound. Every nuance. Every feeling. That's Electric Avenue.
An Electric Avenue show is a high energy space that reminds people of a time when they came home from school, put a record on, and listened with open ears and an open heart; conjuring first dates, first cars, prom nights, weekend movies, meeting friends at the mall, while finding a sense of fashion and an identity all their own.
At an Electric Avenue show, 80's music is as alive and well today as it has ever been.
Electric Avenue - The 80s MTV Experience
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nicole Zuraitis is a 2-time Grammy-winning and 4-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, New York based bandleader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a "heart as big as her remarkable voice," (Jazz Police), Nicole is a trailblazing artist who is redefining vocal jazz, earning her a place as one of the top artists and "prolific songwriters" (Broadway World) to watch in jazz and beyond.
Nicole Zuraitis
Nicole Zuraitis is a 2-time Grammy-winning and 4-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, New York based bandleader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a "heart as big as her remarkable voice," (Jazz Police), Nicole is a trailblazing artist who is redefining vocal jazz, earning her a place as one of the top artists and "prolific songwriters" (Broadway World) to watch in jazz and beyond.
Nicole Zuraitis
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
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
An Eastbound Theatre Production
A thrilling and heartwarming adventure story featuring an unforgettable young hero.
Written by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Kevin Pelkey
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – June 12-27
Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm || Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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
Come read your poem or a favorite, sing a song, play a tune …the mic is yours!
OPEN MIC
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
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
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
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.
