More upcoming events in and around New Haven
Upcoming events, ordered by date. Search the calendar for a date, venue, or category.
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Sterling Memorial Library
This exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library highlights the history of movable books and paper-based scientific tools in early modern Europe. It explores how readers used dials, flaps, and layered paper to engage with astronomy, navigation, anatomy, and geometry.
· 8:00 PM
Space Ballroom
Lily Seabird performs at Space Ballroom with Eliza Niemi. This New Haven-area show is part of the venue's live music lineup.
· 5:15 PM
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Brass performs a seasonal concert at Beinecke Library, showcasing the venue’s acoustics and the ensemble’s range of tonal colors and moods. The quintet has been bringing creative programming to Yale and the greater New Haven area since 1999.
· 7:30 PM
Sudler Recital Hall
Students from the studio of faculty member Carol Jantsch perform an all-tuba program.
· 7:00 PM
53 Wall Street
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive presents Peter Hujar's Day, with Ira Sachs in person and a new 35mm print. The screening is free and open to the public.
Free admission
· 4:00 PM
100 College Street
Join the Wu Tsai Institute for an open house about the Graduate Certificate in Brains, Minds, and Machines. Attendees can browse research posters, talk with faculty and lab members, and hear from current certificate students.
· 5:30 PM
Yale Schwarzman Center
This tasting class recreates the famous 1976 Judgment of Paris blind tasting and invites guests to compare French and California wines. Led by James Todeasa and presented with Yale Schwarzman Center Hospitality, it offers a guided culinary experience at The Well.
· 7:30 PM
Morse Recital Hall
YSM Ensembles present performances of chamber music masterpieces with brief commentary to enhance the listening experience.
· 12:00 PM
Luce Hall
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, an associate professor of political science at UNC Chapel Hill and Yale alumnus, presents research on political economy, international relations, comparative politics, and formal theory. The talk draws from his book on the political logic of international so…
· 12:30 PM
Yale University Art Gallery
Emma Hartman discusses a recently acquired and conserved Indian painting and the materials and techniques used to create it. This Gallery Talk also looks at the surprises and challenges that surfaced during conservation treatment.
· 8:00 PM
Cafe Nine
Live music at Cafe Nine in New Haven featuring Endearments and LAPêCHE. The show is scheduled for 8:00 PM.
· 4:00 PM
Loria Center
This book celebration features Prof. Allison Caplan in conversation with several scholars and museum professionals. The event centers on her book, "Flickering Creations: Concepts of Nahua Precious Art."
· 4:30 PM
Sterling Memorial Library
Eve Sneider discusses her new biography of Janet Malcolm in conversation with Karin Roffman. The talk explores Malcolm’s archive, her writing, and the ethical questions raised by biographical portraiture.
· 5:00 PM
Dwight Chapel
The Yale Voxtet presents a Latin Vespers program at Dwight Chapel. The ensemble specializes in early music, oratorio, and chamber music, and the performance is free and open to the public.
Free admission
– · 8:00 PM
MakeHaven
This group badging event helps members complete their in-person check-out on MakeHaven’s 3D printers. Participants will learn the process by creating a small personalized print in a supportive group setting.
· 1:00 PM
Wright Laboratory
A Yale physics seminar featuring Rita Sadek of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Talk title and abstract were listed as TBA.
· 8:00 PM
Cafe Nine
A punk and Americana bill at Cafe Nine featuring Free The Witness and New Haven's own Wolf Harbor. The show is scheduled for Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM.
· 8:00 PM
Space Ballroom
· 5:30 PM
Yale University Art Gallery
Join a guided evening of sketching at the Yale University Art Gallery, inspired by a centuries-old Yale art-school tradition. Materials are provided, and the program is open to all ages and levels of drawing experience.
· 7:30 PM
Woolsey Hall
New Music New Haven features works by today’s leading composers and Yale School of Music students. Expect an evening of contemporary orchestral music in Woolsey Hall.
– · 8:00 PM
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Black Box
– · 8:00 PM
Underbrook Theater, Saybrook College
· 8:50 PM
Humanities Quadrangle
Yale Film Archive’s Sundance Revisited series presents Run Lola Run, a high-energy thriller screening on 35mm. The screening is free and open to the public.
Free admission
· 12:00 PM
New Haven
Students from Yale’s physics department independent research courses will present their fall-term research in a poster session. The event is a student research showcase in New Haven.
