February goes out with some literal bangs, while March comes in like both a lion and a lamb.
Monday, February 24
At 8, “a night of trashy rock & roll” begins at Cafe Nine. “Featuring Charlotte NC’s very own Paint Fumes with local support from Venus Kiss and Psycho Brat, we also have DJ Hysterica from WFMU spinning sets of garage rock and early punk in between bands and into the night.”
Tuesday, February 25
At 5:30 p.m., Yale Consort, a “professional vocal ensemble” that “provides high-quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels,” performs during a Latin vespers service at St. Mary’s Church.
Wednesday, February 26
From 5 to 7 p.m., Yale’s Beinecke Library holds an opening reception for its latest exhibition, Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts. Featuring “150 items from the 9th to the 19th centuries,” The show highlights ways “Muslim scholars systematically organized and extended almost every field of knowledge.”
At 6:30, East Rock Brewing holds a ’90s music trivia night. “This trivia will cover any genre—any music band or group—from Nirvana to TLC!”
Thursday, February 27
Starting at 6 p.m., Puppy Love, a fundraising party for the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter, offers “live music, great appetizers, awesome drink specials and lots of raffles” at Lenny’s in Branford.
As of this writing, a handful of tickets remain for tonight’s 7:30 opening of the New Haven Theater Company’s latest production, The Christians, an “award-winning play [that] masterfully examines the price of conviction and the complexities of changing one’s mind.” Here’s the setup: “Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church’s belief.”
Friday, February 28
At 7:30 p.m., the Yale Percussion Group, known for technical and experimental but also whimsical performances, takes the stage at Morse Recital Hall.
At 9 back at Cafe Nine, DJs Townwide Tyler, Jentlemen and Antoni Maiovvi “bring bags [of vinyl] bursting with classic acid, house, techno and electro” dance music for the next Heatsync.
Saturday, March 1
From noon to whenever, a New Haven Nights Lucky Leprechaun Bar Crawl expects “thousands” of revelers across a dozen or so bars and clubs while promising DJs, giveaways, food/drink specials, costume contest prizes, party favors and a 360-degree photo booth.
Also at noon, West Haven’s Harugari German-American Club hosts a Lunch with the Leprechaun featuring food, a cash bar, raffles and photos with an ‘actual’ leprechaun.
At 3, in conjunction with its newest exhibition, David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, the Yale University Art Gallery screens “part documentary, part narrative film” Come Back, Africa (1959). The black-and-white movie “follows the lives of real inhabitants of South Africa’s segregated townships during the late 1950s, a decade into the government’s consolidated and implemented apartheid laws that restricted the freedoms and movement of Black South Africans and other multiethnic groups who fell under the category of ‘coloured.’ Not trained in acting, the cast members dramatize real events from their lives in a scripted yet improvised way, highlighting the cruelties and injustices of apartheid in everyday moments.”
“Come March 1 as we build a hive,” organizers say in their invitation to attend The Chapel in the Hive, a “forty-minute” 7 o’clock performance by poet/scholar Joseph Campana and composer/performer Kurt Stallmann in Yale’s Marquand Chapel. Using “literary and electro-eco-acoustic techniques,” the two performers aim to “immerse” the audience “in sound, words, and images that evoke and render palpable the long history of human devotion to bees.”
Also starting at 7, the Shubert hosts the Grand Kyiv Ballet for a performance of Swan Lake, “a ballet masterpiece that tells the story of a prince who falls in love with a beautiful swan princess under a spell. The ballet is renowned for its stunning choreography, intricate set design, and Tchaikovsky’s captivating music.”
Meanwhile, from 7 to 10, the Astronomy Society of New Haven holds a stargazing session at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield. Weather permitting, “you’ll be able to see the two biggest planets in our solar system and their largest moons, as well as galaxies, clusters, and nebulae. Blankets, chairs and red flashlights are recommended…”
Finally, at 8, a party at Stella Blues relives the ’90s. “Dust off your JNCOs, grab your slap bracelets, and get ready to party like it’s 1999! Mad Cats is throwing the ultimate ’90s party—three hours of pure nostalgia, ’90s-themed drink specials, and a jam-packed set from a supergroup of some of the scene’s finest musicians.”
Written by Dan Mims. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
