Events Calendar
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CALENDAR – May 2025
Location is New Haven unless noted otherwise.
*=Wheelchair accessible
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Thursday, May 1, 12-7 p.m. Rally on the New Haven Green noon till 7 p.m. Speakers, music, information tables, activities. March begins at 5 p.m. Info: John, 203-606-3484. *
Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 New Haven Green, Dwight Hall at Yale, Temple Plaza. For more info: [email protected]. *
Saturday, May 3, 12 p.m. Urban Life Experience Book Discussion: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson. New readers welcome! Wilson Branch Library, 303 Washington Ave. *
Saturday, May 3, 12 p.m. Film screening: The ABCs of Book Banning followed by a discussion of real-life parallels to Fahrenheit 451. Mitchell Library. 37 Harrison St. *
Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Gather New Haven’s 5th Anniversary. An engaging day of community connection, hands-on workshops, and more! This is a family-friendly event, so all ages are welcome! Ward Street Farm, 170 Ward St. *
Saturday, May 3, 6 p.m. The annual People’s World May Day Rally will be held at 267 Chapel St. We Are Many, They Are Few. Stop the Billionaire Coup is the rallying cry. *
Sunday, May 4, 12-1 p.m. New Haven Sunday Vigil for Peace and Justice commemorates the four students killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970. Join the vigil from noon till 1 p.m. at the park at Broadway, Park, and Elm Streets. *
Monday, May 5, 5 p.m. Black Men Reading: Artworks by Larry Morse, Poetry by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo. In the Jim Crow South, a Black person seen reading a book in public would attract aggressive attention. Mitchell Branch Library, 37 Harrison St. *
Monday, May 5-Saturday, May 10 The Westville ArtWalk returns! Neighborhood festival, music, vendors, participatory art, food trucks, fun, children’s activities. See full schedule at https://westvilleartwalk.org.
Monday, May 5, 7 p.m. May Day Celebration at the People’s Center, 37 Howe St. *
Wednesday, May 7, 6-7:30 p.m. Windowsill Herb Gardening Workshop. Materials will be provided. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *
Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wake Up the Green & Mother’s Day Market. A Spring celebration with food trucks, a DJ, arts & crafts, petting zoo, a special Mother’s Day market, local vendors, more. *
Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Garden Club of New Haven Centennial Flower Show. Starts at 10 a.m. in the Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St., then heads out to the New Haven Green for activities. 133 Elm St. *
Saturday, May 10, 2-3 p.m. Sean O’Brien will explore the rapidly evolving world of generative AI. O’Brien is founder of Yale Privacy Lab, an initiative of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *
Saturday, May 17, 7 p.m. May Day Shorts! Celebrate May Day with two short films about labor and youth organizing. Doors open at 6:30. New Haven People’s Center, 37 Howe St. *
Monday, May 19, 6 p.m. Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide: Film and discussion. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. *
Wednesday, May 21, 6-7:30 p.m. Author presentation by Millie Grenough, Oasis in the Overwhelm. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *
Wednesday, May 28, 6-7:30 p.m. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio will discuss her new novel, Catalina, about a year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. *
Thursday, May 29, 6 p.m. Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide: Film and discussion. Woodbridge Town Library, 10 Newton Rd., Woodbridge. *