Arts in Brief

by PRESCA AHN

Novem­ber 2009

This month, RALY will present a screen­ing of the doc­u­men­tary The Coat Hanger Project. Direc­tor Angie Young will hold a Q&A ses­sion after the screen­ing to dis­cuss the film and its sub­ject: the cur­rent state of the repro­duc­tive jus­tice move­ment. Pub­lic­ity for the screen­ing has cited the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion sta­tis­tic that an esti­mated 80,000 women world­wide die annu­ally from unsafe abor­tions. Novem­ber 4th at 6 p.m. in the Sil­liflicks Theater.

As part of the LGBTQ Co-op’s Sev­enth Annual Trans Aware­ness Week, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist and trans­gen­der indi­vid­ual Yve Laris Cohen will give a talk enti­tled “My Trans Body and Things I Make.” Orig­i­nally a bal­let dancer and a woman, Laris Cohen strives to improve pub­lic under­stand­ing of trans­gen­der issues through his research and art. Novem­ber 6th at 8 p.m. in Linsly-Chittenden 102.

OBIE Award-winning play­wright Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed, directed by Liesl Tommy, explores the lives of Liber­ian women strug­gling to sur­vive in the midst of civil war. Through Novem­ber 14th at the Yale Reper­tory Theatre.

The Yale Cen­ter for British Art will host “Women’s Social Net­works and Friend­ship Cir­cles,” a thirty-minute gallery talk led by Court­ney Thomas, a Ph.D. can­di­date in His­tory and Renais­sance Stud­ies here at Yale. Novem­ber 17th at 12:30 p.m. at the Yale Cen­ter for British Art.

“Break­ing the Veils,” an art exhi­bi­tion fea­tur­ing 51 women artists from 21 Islamic coun­tries, will show­case works meant to counter stereo­types about women’s lives in the Islamic world. Through Decem­ber 12th at the Yale Insti­tute of Sacred Music.

Presca Ahn is a senior in Yale Col­lege. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Broad Recog­ni­tion.