Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Eecumenical Hymn Festival
Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New HavenIn celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will hold an ecumenical hymn festival in Woolsey Hall on May 5, 2024, at 4 p.m. A community choir of 300 voices will sing hymns around the theme “All Creation Sings,” celebrating the diversity of our creation and our duty as faithful people […]
Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New HavenIn this performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, internationally acclaimed performer, David Hill, will conduct Yale Schola Cantorum and the Juilliard415 music ensemble. The Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is considered an all-embracing musical masterpiece created by Bach at the pinnacle of his remarkable career. Beginning with the awe-inspiring Kyrie and ending with the jubilant Dona nobis pacem, […]
Webinar: Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Biophilia: In Excelsis
Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture initiative is pleased to present a dialogical webinar to celebrate the closing of the art exhibition, Biophilia: In Excelsis. Reflecting on the role of art, music and religion in addressing the climate crisis, this cross-disciplinary conversation will feature the exhibition curator M. Annenberg, the artist […]
Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Conference: Ecologies, Environmentalisms, and the Black Sacred Arts
Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center 391 Prospect Street, New HavenFrom May 13-15, 2024, Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s third conference on the Black sacred arts will convene scholars and artists in New Haven, CT to explore connections between the Black sacred arts, ecology, and environmental concerns. Keynote speakers will include Tracey Hucks(link is external), the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity […]
Webinar: “An Evening with German Climate Activist and Author Luisa Neubauer”
Join the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Yale School of the Environment's Climate Learning Community for an evening with Luisa Neubauer, a German climate activist, politician, author and co-organizer of Fridays for Future. Sena Wazer, a master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment and fellow environmental advocate, will moderate the […]
Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Wayang, Ecology, and the Sacred: Engagements with Indonesian Puppet Theatre
Miller Hall 406 Prospect Street, New HavenThis hybrid academic symposium bookended by two live performances (one virtual and one in person) explores the diverse relations between puppets arts (wayang), ecology, and the sacred in Indonesia. Presenters consider how communities and puppet artists express the interconnectedness of humankind with forces of nature, address nature spirits, and sustain ecological balance through wayang performances. The symposium […]