Indie Lens Pop-Up Online Screening: Coded Bias
Join us online for a free Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of the documentary CODED BIAS, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Shalini Kantayya and computer scientist Joy Buolamwini of the MIT Media Lab.
General Public
2021 Pan Asian American Heritage Month (PAAHM) Keynote featuring Alice Wong
Disability (In)Visibility: Moving from Inclusion to Justice
Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people, available now by Vintage Books (2020). You can find her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf.
Black Futures, Feminist Solidarities Featuring Professor Margo Okazawa-Rey
Black History Month Keynote
BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists
This is the final day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.
BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Public Space + Public Art
This is the fourth day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.
BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Community Activism + Built Environment Scholars
This is the third day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.
BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Cultural Preservation + Environmental Justice
This is the second day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.
Lunarfest 2021
Lunarfest is a celebration of the Lunar New Year and Chinese culture, offering arts and cultural programs for adults and children throughout the city of New Haven and at Yale. Lunarfest creates community bonds through schools, arts nonprofit, and business partnerships.
Programs begin in the fall each year and culminate in a series of performances and events celebrating Lunar New Year. Critical partners are Yale, the City of New Haven, Town Green, and the schools, arts nonprofits, and libraries that offer space to discover new cultures in the greater New Haven neighborhood.
25th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice
The Yale Peabody Museum’s annual MLK celebration has been reimagined and transformed into a digital festival experience. This year the Peabody is hosting a series of free, online programs with opportunities to engage in critical dialogue and enjoy storytelling, music, dance, and spoken word performances.
Talking Asian American Identity & Racism: A Parent Workshop
Join the Immigrant History Initiative (IHI) for a free, online workshop for parents to talk about Asian American identity and racism on January 22, 2021, at 7 PM. The workshop will provide an overview of Asian American racial identity and issues around anti-Asian racism, and then offer some concrete strategies and tools, including trauma-informed practices, to discuss these topics with children (K-12) in age appropriate ways. The workshop will be led by the IHI mental health expert Dr.
