Yale University
Office of International Students & Scholars
Office of International
Students & Scholars
International Center
421 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA
Phone: 203.432.2305
Fax: 203.432.7166
email: oiss@yale.edu
Thanks to THE GAME being in town this year, the predominant theme of the weekend is Yale/Harvard. Some events are rivalries like the hockey and football games, some bring students together like the Glee Club concert and the Yale Farm work day. This weekend also kicks off the Thanksgiving recess at Yale- classes will resume Monday, November 30. Yale OISS will be open November 23-25 but closed Thursday and Friday, so there will be no Weekend Report update next week. If you’re looking for something to do that weekend, see the Other Events section and remember that some places may be closed on Thursday, Nov. 26. If you’re trying to choose what to do this weekend, here are your options for NOVEMBER 20-22, 2009.
-Erin Gustafson, OISS Staff-
Bike to Work Day
7:30am to 9:30am, 200 Orange Street
Bike to Work and School decided to host one more free breakfast this year, to celebrate the opening of a new city bike parking facility at 200 Orange Street. Free breakfast, brought to you by The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop and Bru Café. Sponsored by Elm City Cycling: bicyclenewhaven@gmail.com or visit www.elmcitycycling.org.
Hot Coffee, Hot Issues: Power and Politics in Latin America
8:30am, Betts House, 393 Prospect Street
“Power and Politics in Latin America” with Claudia Lopez, Political Researcher, Colombia; and Maria Corina Machado, Chairman, SUMATE, Venezuela. Co-sponsored by the Yale World Fellows Program and PorColombia de Yale.
Holiday Bazaar
9am to 6pm, Friday and Saturday, Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, Chapel Street
Handmade Christmas decorations, a yarn boutique, raffles for themed baskets, homemade pies, cakes, cookies and more are available at the 17th Annual Trinity Holiday Bazaar, the largest in the area. The Bazaar also features a huge Tag Sale and Silent Auction. Homemade lunch and snacks are offered for sale each day. This event is the perfect beginning to your holiday shopping. More information on the Trinity Web site.
Yale-Harvard Farm Work Day
1pm to 7pm, Yale Farm, Edwards Street between Prospect and Whitney
The Yale Farm is hosting a special workday on Friday to celebrate the Yale-Harvard Game. Put on your Yale gear, bring your Harvard friends, and sing your school songs (boola boola!) while harvesting for market. They will be firing up the pizza oven for the last time this semester, so join other volunteers and get inspired for Thanksgiving. Everyone is welcome to participate and no gardening experience is necessary. Please bring a water bottle and wear work- and weather-appropriate clothing. Contact: sustainablefoodproject@yale.edu.
Artist Talk and Aerial Photography Exhibit of Africa, Latin America
5:15pm, Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street
An artist’s talk and reception will be held at the library to celebrate the aerial photography of Robert B. Haas. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibition, “Capturing the Inaccessible,” includes both published and unpublished photographs from three of Haas’ books: “Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa” (2005), “Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America” (2007) and “Through the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands” (forthcoming), all published by the National Geographic Society. Main exhibition open through December; sixteen large pictures will remain on permanent display. Information: atYUL@yale.edu.
Yale Women's Hockey
7pm Friday and 6pm Saturday, Ingalls Rink, 73 Sachem Street
Yale Women’s Hockey faces a league doubleheader this weekend! They take on Harvard Friday night in a precursor to the Harvard football game on Saturday, then face Dartmouth on Saturday. If you attend the football game on Saturday afternoon, bring your ticket stub to the hockey match for free admission! Information: athletic.tickets@yale.edu.
Yale Drama Presents Carousel
8pm, Friday and Saturday, University Theater, 222 York Street
Carousel is a Rodgers and Hammerstein classic! In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Following the resulting consequences, how Billy instills a sense of hope and dignity in both the child and her mother is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. Tickets: $15; $6 for students. Available at the door or online at www.dramat.tix.com.
Yale-Harvard Joint Concert
8pm, Woolsey Hall, 500 College Street
The Yale-Harvard 110th Annual Joint Glee Club Concert. Featuring choral works by Victoria, Sweelinck, Barber, Thompson, and two world premieres, along with ever-popular folk songs, spirituals, and college songs. Jeffrey Douma will conduct the Yale Glee Club, and Jameson Marvin will conduct the Harvard Glee Club. Admission is free.
GPSCY Yale-Harvard Party
8pm, GPSCY, 204 York Street
GPSCY is hosting a dance party/homecoming/karaoke party! Come show school spirit and enjoy the DJ, free drinks, free beer, and a chance to start meeting people who you will see awkwardly the next day at the tailgate. GPSCY is also holding the November Big Gay Party and working to make it a true Yale-Harvard Mega-Mixer so all people regardless of sexuality or gender can meet someone for some fun.
Insomnia Theater
11:30pm Friday and Saturday, Criterion Cinemas, 86 Temple St. Tickets: $5.
MOVIE: Pulp Fiction (1994)
GENRE: Crime, Thriller
RATED: R for for violence strong graphic violence and drug use, pervasive strong language and some sexuality
Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis. Jules and Vincent work as hitmen for crime boss Marcellus Wallace. Wallace is currently dealing with Butch Collidge, a boxer who failed to throw a fight after taking Wallace's money and is now planning to flee the city, but can't leave his father's watch behind. Vincent faces some problems of his own when Wallace asks him to show his wife Mia a good time while he's away. Some of these characters redeem themselves and some don't, and all meet an end appropriate to their choices.
Bagel Brunch before The Game
9am to 10:30am, McDougal Center, 320 York Street
Grad/Prof Students, Postdocs & Families are invited to the McDougal Center for bagels, coffee, juice and Yale football traditions before heading off to the Bowl to watch Yale vs. Harvard Game at 12pm. Prohibited inside the stadium: Backpacks, large duffles, coolers, large purses, airhorns, glass containers, pets.
Wooster Square Farmers Market
9am to 1pm, Wooster Square, Corner of Chapel Street and DePalma Street
Enjoy local food from local farms including herbs, salad greens, flowers, all-natural beef, lamb, milk, butter & yogurt, cow, sheep, & goat cheeses, shellfish, organic sauces, gourmet prepared meals with local ingredients, wheat- and gluten-free baked goods, honey, maple syrup, handcrafted bread, artisan soaps and more. Deatils: www.cityseed.org.
State Street Frarmers Market
10am to 2pm, 1006 State Street, between Edwards and Mechanic Streets
Featuring local farm vendors selling CT-grown produce, eggs, meats (beef and pork), maple syrup, honey, and flowers. Featured vendors include Eaglewood Farms of Barkhamsted, and Killam and Bassette Farmstead of South Glastonbury. The Farm Market will also feature local vendors Chestnut Fine Foods, selling breads and CT-made cheeses, and Koffee on Audubon, selling coffee and baked goods. See www.upperstatestreet.org for more information.
Open Farm Day and West Rock Hike
10am to 2pm, Common Ground High School, 358 Springside Ave
The farm is quiet in late fall. Visit the animals and see what is surviving the fall frost in the garden. At 12:30, farm staff will lead a hike to the Summit of West Rock Park, ending in a magnificent view of New Haven and Long Island Sound. Hike is moderate difficulty, about 30 minutes of mostly uphill ascent (steep in some parts), and about 20 minutes to go back down. Free for all ages. Information: http://www.commongroundct.org/.
Yale-Harvard Football Game
12pm, Yale Bowl, Yale Avenue, Westville
THE GAME, as the football match up between Yale and Harvard is called, is being played for the 126th time this weekend. The tailgates are bigger, the half-time entertainment is more grand, and the party starts early when parking lots open for tailgate partying at 9am. If you do not have a parking pass, you will need to catch a free shuttle out to the stadium (see shuttle schedule). Yale Students, faculty, staff & spouses partners get free admission to games with Yale ID; children under 14 free with parents. Guest tickets are still available from the Athletics Office (20 Tower Parkway, 203-432-1400) or at the gate. Or if guests bring a donation of food, tickets are free: http://yalebulldogs.com/information/the_game/Fill_the_Bowl_Ad.pdf.
New Haven Museum Exhibit
12pm to 5pm, New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave
If you haven’t visited the New Haven Museum, I highly recommend stopping by! The collection housed at the museum shows an incredible range of New Haven history and it’s possible to find photos of your neighborhood 100 years ago! In addition, the museum is opening a new photo exhibit, “East Shore Reflections” that promises to be a shining review of this neighborhood’s evolution from agrarian farm area, to seaside resort, to modern day family enclave and residential setting. The special exhibit is ongoing through Feb. 28. Admission: Adults $4, Students $2, Children $2, Children under age 6 free. More information: http://www.newhavenmuseum.org/.
New Haven Historical Play: The Excommunication of Mrs. Eaton
1pm to 3pm, Center Church, on the New Haven Green
The Excommunication of Mrs. Eaton is a six-person trial play and a theological love story in which John Davenport, the most powerful clergyman in severely Puritan New Haven Colony accuses Anne Eaton, the wife of the colony's Governor Theophilus Eaton, of opening the door to heresy in the new colony. Her theological sin is that she does not believe in the baptism of infants. At that time when the Puritans saw their lives as preparation for paradise or damnation, infant baptism was as much a passionate a red button as perhaps abortion is in our own time. Read more: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/06/anne_eaton_coll.php.
Film Screening: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
2pm, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (rated R; 94 minutes; 2005) Directed by Michael Winterbottom. This film, about the making of a movie version of Lawrence Sterne's eighteenth-century masterpiece, cleverly dissects twenty-first-century conventions of cinematic adaptation. Admission is free. Information: www.yale.edu/ycba.
Live Music at GPSCY
8pm to 2am, GPSCY, 204 York Street
The Come to GPSCY after the big game to wind down with live music from the Amples and $3 bottled beers. It is sure to be a great way to end the weekend and get prepped for the coming week. Must be age 21+, free for members, small cover charge without a membership.
Tap Dogs
8pm, Shubert Theater, 247 College Street
Tap Dogs is part theater, part dance and part rock concert. Created by two-time Olivier Award-winning choreographer Dein Perry, with a construction site set by eclectic designer Nigel Triffitt and a driving score by composer Andrew Wilkie, Tap Dogs, is a rough, tough and rocking reinvention of tap. Tickets range from $15 to $56. More information: http://www.capa.com/newhaven/events/event.php?e=165.
Shoreline Arts Trail Open Studios
10am to 4pm, various studios in Branford, Guildford, Madison
Explore the CT shoreline towns of Branford, Guildford and Madison and let the yellow “Open Studio” signs lead the way to forty artists who will be opening their doors. Maps are available at each participating studio, each town library and the Guilford Art Center. Admission: Free. Details and artist list: http://www.shorelineartstrail.com/.
Movies and Mimosas
11am, 86 Temple Street, Tickets: $5
MOVIE: The Sting (1973)
GENRE: Comedy, Crime, Drama
RATED: PG for Parental Guidance
Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young, try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. The story unfolds with several twists and last minute alterations.
Stamford Holiday Balloon Parade
12pm, Stamford, Parade Route only 5 minutes from Metro North Stamford Station
Stamford's annual holiday balloon parade started sixteen years ago and has become one of the largest events of its kind in the country, with giant helium balloons floating through Stamford Downtown, marching bands, and fabulous floats. More information: http://www.stamford-downtown.com/.
U.S. Coast Guard Band Concert
2pm, Coast Guard Academy, Leamy Hall Auditorium, New London
The USCGB is recognized as one of the finest professional concert bands in the world; offering music of great variety and appeal. This concert program will include music by Wagner, Adam Gorb (Yiddish Dances), Joseph Schwantner and the Ingolf Daho Saxophone Concerto performed by Chief Musician Joshua Thomas. Admission: Free. Information: http://www.uscg.mil/band/.
New Haven Chorale Concert
4:30pm, East Haven High School, Auditorium, 35 Wheelbarrow Lane, off Route 80
The New Haven Chorale opens its 60th Anniversary Season with "Ode to Music" on St. Cecilia's Day performing Alexander's Feast: Or, the Power of Music, Handel's brilliant setting of John Dryden's ode honoring St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The Chorale, along with orchestra and soloists, sings of music's great power and timeless magic in this joy-filled masterpiece. Tickets available at the door or by calling 203-776-SONG. Adults, $20 and $35; Seniors, $15; All Students FREE with ID. For more information and directions visit www.newhavenchorale.org.
Other events
Fantasy of Lights
Daily, 5pm to 9pm, Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven
Take a leisurely drive through Lighthouse Point (in your own vehicle) through an enchanted fantasyland of enormous holiday light displays. There are two new displays this year and the Ice Tunnel has returned! Around every bend, the 12th Annual Fantasy of Lights will delight children and adults of all ages. Vehicle charge: $10. Proceeds go to Easter Seals.
Sam Waterston at Long Wharf Theater
November 24-December 20, Long Wharf Theater, 222 Sargent Drive
Athol Fugard, hailed by Time Magazine as "The greatest playwright in the English-speaking world," and Sam Waterston, one of the most powerful and compelling actors of our time, return to the stage at Long Wharf Theatre in a new play that explores our common humanity and celebrates the limitless potential for human transportation. Information: http://www.longwharf.org/.
Pop! At Yale Rep
November 27-December 19, 8pm, Yale Repertory Theater, 1120 York Street
POP! is a new musical by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs, authors of Stepmommy Dearest . Who shot Andy Warhol? The fabulous drag queen Candy Darling hosts a happening whodunit musical in which the famous—and infamous—denizens of Warhol’s legendary Factory all have motives to pull the trigger. But the pop art icon unravels an even bigger mystery as he confronts not only the prime suspects, but also his art and his own greatest creation: himself. Information and tickets: http://www.yalerep.org/on_stage/2009-10/pop.html.
Black Friday Shopping Deals
Friday, November 27 through Sunday, November 29
Black Friday bargains should be especially good this year on electronics and clothing as well as other gift ideas. The outlet malls in Clinton and Westbrook will have weekend-long events going on, and department stores at the CT Post Mall in Milford will be offering special deals as well. Make your list, check the schedules for each sale, and happy shopping!
Movies and Mimosas for November 29
11am, 86 Temple Street, Tickets: $5
MOVIE: The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
GENRE: Comedy, Family, Music
RATED: G for General Audience
I can’t tell you how sorry I will be to miss this weekend’s Mimosas Movie! The plot: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.