Contrasts this week include history and science, orchestras and rock bands and beer and wine.
Monday, November 18
MakeHaven convenes its next Building Business Meetup at 6:30 p.m. “Are you currently running a business where you sell what you make, or thinking of starting one? Join us for a monthly, laid-back conversation that covers different aspects of building a small business.”
Tuesday, November 19
At 53 Wall Street at 7 p.m., the Yale Film Society advance-screens a thriller that won a jury prize at Cannes despite somehow being “shot entirely in secret.” The Seed of the Sacred Fig “centers on a family thrust into the public eye when [a man named] Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife, Najmeh, and daughters Sana and Rezvan.”
Wednesday, November 20
Cambridge historian David Reynolds discusses “What We’ve Got Wrong About Churchill”—Winston Churchill, who’s been “lauded for his courageous leadership against Nazi Germany but also denounced as a robust defender of British imperialism”—in Yale’s Luce Hall at 4:30 p.m.
At 5:30 at Koffee?, the Peabody Museum’s Speakers Bureau presents the first batch in a series of “lightning talks” by young scientists enrolled in Yale’s graduate programs. Each speaker “will have five minutes and five slides to describe an important aspect of their studies,” with topics this time exploring arboreal methane emissions, DNA remnants from “archaic humans,” links between genetics and autism, wildlife adaptations to parasites and the nuances of wildfires.
Thursday, November 21
The semiannual wine, food and shopping crawl Flights of Fancy returns downtown with “20 sipping, tasting and shopping stops, souvenir wine glasses and event bags, shopping discounts and promotions, raffle prizes, giveaways and more” from 4:30 to 8:30.
Offering “crafts, plants, bulbs, cookies, jams and preserves, soups to go, a tag sale, jewelry, and more,” Trinity on the Green’s annual Christmas Market returns tomorrow through Sunday—and with it comes a Champagne Preview Party tonight from 6 to 8. “For $30 come enjoy a glass of champagne, some nibbles, and purchase items at the Market before the crowds arrive on Friday.”
Letters to Cleo deliver their especially fun ’90s rock package to Hamden’s Space Ballroom for a 7:30 bill opened by Heretix.
Yale Cabaret opens a three-day, four-show run of Beneath Soil, a translation of David Olguín’s Bajo Tierra, at 8. “At the end of his life, pre-Revolutionary Mexican political cartoonist Jose Guadalupe Posada bargains with death, promising her a beautiful new image in exchange for longer life. His hubris drags everyone else into a purgatorial dream world, where up is down, black is white, and life is but a farce.”
Friday, November 22
A three-day, five-show run of Dear Evan Hansen opens at the Shubert at 7 p.m. According to StageAgent, the Tony-winning musical “tells the story of a young man with social anxiety disorder who so yearns to make a connection with his peers that he fabricates a relationship with a deceased student to become closer to the boy’s family.”
At 7:30, the Yale Philharmonia performs Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C major in Woolsey Hall.
Back at Space Ballroom, New Haven native Jamey Jasta, best known as the singer for metalcore band Hatebreed, headlines an 8 p.m. bill under the auspices of his also hard-hitting solo project, Jasta.
Elm City Social hits a softer note with a 9 o’clock Plaid Party promising “a cozy evening of dancing, drinks and partying!”
Saturday, November 23
Speaking of softness, Fuzzy Day, a celebration of New England Brewing Company’s Fuzzy Baby Ducks IPA, promises vendors, food, live (and DJed) music and beer specials—including “Double and Triple Fuzzy beer releases”—from 11 to 9 at the Woodbridge brewery.
At noon, Yale football takes on Harvard in 2024’s edition of The Game. It’s happening at Harvard, but you can catch it from here on ESPNU.
Sunday, November 24
At 3 p.m., Kehler Liddell Gallery hosts an opening reception for Deck the Walls, “an annual holiday show that features framed and unframed art by more than 20 local artists, ready to gift!”
Meantime, the New Haven and Hamden Symphony Orchestras offer dueling concerts. At 3 at SCSU’s Lyman Center, the NHSO performs a “world premiere setting of Beethoven’s only ballet score, The Creatures of Prometheus, featuring the Tia Russell Dance Studio and New Haven Poet Laureate Sharmont Little.” At 3:30 at New Haven’s Trinity Lutheran Church, the HSO presents “Reverberations,” a program featuring, among other works, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims. Image features Yale football players celebrating a touchdown. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
