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2022 Festival

ALL EVENTS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, September 19

5 PM

Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Natasha Trethewey

  • Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
  • 1111 Chapel Street (enter at 201 York Street)

Tuesday, September 20

10 AM

Daily Wake Up with Aleshea Harris

  • College Street Tent
  • Cross Campus

12 PM

Outside the Comfort Zone, or the Playwright as Novelist

  • College Street Tent
  • Cross Campus

12 PM

This Mournable Body

  • Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
  • 1080 Chapel Street

12 PM

Book Launch: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

  • Asian American Cultural Center
  • 295 Crown Street

4 PM

Theater as Ritual

  • College Street Tent
  • Cross Campus

4 PM

Ask Your Mama: Sharon Bridgforth on Langston Hughes

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-29
  • 121 Wall Street

4 PM

Book Launch: England's Green by Zaffar Kunial

  • Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 202
  • 34 Hillhouse Avenue

6 PM

Choral Performance: Intimate Strangers

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Mezzanine
  • 121 Wall Street

7:30 PM

Staged Readings: Works by Drama Prize Recipients

  • Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
  • 1111 Chapel Street (enter at 201 York Street)

Wednesday, September 21

10 AM

Daily Wake Up with Ishion Hutchinson

  • College Street Tent
  • Cross Campus

12 PM

The Hauntologies of Slavery

  • College Street Tent
  • Cross Campus

12 PM

Children of Migrations

  • Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
  • 1080 Chapel Street

2 PM

Zimbabwe in Fiction

  • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
  • 121 Wall Street

4 PM

Close Looking: Richard Wright's African Photographs

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
  • 121 Wall Street

6 PM

Oracles and Blessings: The Artist in Turbulent Times

  • Stetson Branch, New Haven Free Public Library
  • 197 Dixwell Avenue

8 PM

Music, Movies, & Dancing: One (More) Night in the Roof Nightclub

  • The Gryphon
  • 204 York Street

Thursday, September 22

10 AM

Daily Wake Up with Jonah Mixon-Webster

  • LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
  • 121 Wall Street

12:30 PM

Who is the Critic?

  • LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
  • 121 Wall Street

12:30 PM

Sources of Poetry

  • Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
  • 1080 Chapel Street

2 PM

Fiction and Its Discontents

  • LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
  • 121 Wall Street

2 PM

Screening: In My Father’s Village

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
  • 121 Wall Street

4 PM

Close Listening: Skokiaan by Louis Armstrong

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
  • 121 Wall Street

4 PM

Close Looking: Turner Turned Inside Out

  • Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
  • 1080 Chapel Street

4 PM

Tender Photo: African Photography in Real Time

  • Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
  • 1111 Chapel Street

7:30 PM

Prize Recipient Readings

  • Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
  • 1111 Chapel Street (enter at 201 York Street)