Events Calendar

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CALENDAR – January 2025
Location is New Haven unless noted otherwise.
*=Wheelchair accessible
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Now through March 1
Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. And it illuminates knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for more than three centuries—even when the dominant culture chooses to ignore, bury, or forget. For details on days and hours open phone 203-562-4183 or go to www.newhavenmuseum.org. New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave. *

Thursdays, Jan. 2, 9, 16, 4-5 p.m.
Financial Literacy Workshops. This three-session Financial Literacy Workshop is presented by Robert Jaekle, Community Liason Officer of Webster Bank. Week 1: Budgeting Basics. Call 203-946-8117 for information. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. *

Mon., Jan. 6, 3-4 p.m.
Annual 3 Kings Day Celebration! The 3 Kings will be here to give gifts to children 0-18, we will have live music from Son Chaneques Rebeldes, crafts and refreshments. Wilson Library, 303 Washington Ave. *

Wed., Jan. 8, Thur., Jan. 9, 6-7:45 p.m. (various locations)
Milk Jug Winter Sowing Workshops. Create a mini greenhouse that will spend the winter outdoors. This is a practical method for starting seeds of native perennial plants. Registration and info: go to hamdenlibrary.org and click on the “chat with librarian” link. 6-7:45 p.m. on Wed., Jan. 8 at Brundage Library, 91 Circular Ave., and on Thurs., Jan. 9 at Whitneyville Library, 125 Carleton St. *

Thursday, Jan. 9, 4-5 p.m.
Week 2 of Financial Literacy Workshop. Budgeting and Savings, See Jan, 2 calendar event for full description. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. *

Saturday, Jan. 11, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Milk Jug Winter Sowing Workshop. See Jan. 8 calendar event for full description, information, and how to register. Miller Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave. *

Wednesday, January 15, 11 a.m.
MLK Love March. Join WYBC and Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church for the annual Love March, going strong for over 50 years, celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Begins and ends at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 100 Lawrence St. *

Wednesday, Jan, 15, noon
Public reading of Dr. King’s Beyond Vietnam Speech. If you are interested in reading a page of the speech on January 15, please email [email protected]. Organized by the Greater New Haven Peace Council, City of New Haven Peace Commission and Veterans for Peace. New Haven City Hall, 165 Church St. *

Wednesday., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m.
ACLU of Connecticut Civil Rights Town Hall: The Implications of a Second Trump Administration. Join us to learn more. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/3aeasenz. Contact ACLU of CT for information: (860) 523-9146. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *

Thursday, 16, 4-5 p.m.
Week 3 of Financial Literacy Workshop. Credit and Debt Management. See Jan. 2 calendar event for full description. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. *

Saturday, January 18, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
The People’s March. Washington, D.C. Donald Trump will be the next president, and the stakes are higher than ever. We will demand and defend our freedoms against fascism. Washington Monument, 2 15th St. NW, Washington, DC. https://tinyurl.com/t22j9hvm

Sunday, Jan. 19, noon-4 p.m.
MLK and the Black Freedom Movement – annual display of materials for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. One-day display in the reading room. Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St. *

Sunday and Monday, Jan 19-20
29th Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy of Social and Environmental Justice. Info: https://peabody.yale.edu/events/calendar. Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. *

Thursday, Jan. 23, 5 p..m.
Live concert of Songs from Testimonies featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurie. Musical research and performance project based on poems and songs recounted in interviews with survivors recorded at the Fortunoff Archive. Features songs that represent a wide diverse array of musical traditions, genres and languages, from instrumental Hasidic niggunim to Polish tango and Yiddish folksongs. Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St. *

Thursday, Jan. 23, 6-7:30 p.mm
Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State. Author Andy Piascik discusses his new book which tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures in Connecticut whose work has been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *

Saturday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Yale Schola Cantorum will perform Fauré’s Requiem along with pieces by Poulenc and Martin in Consolation and Confidence. Conducted by Stefan Parkman. Free and open to the public. Livestream available. See events at https://ism.yale.edu. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St. *

Friday, Jan. 31
Applications for GNH Green Fund grants due. See https://par-newhaven.org/2024/12/30/reminder-new-haven-green-fund-grant-applications-due-jan-31-2025 for more information.