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.