Please mark your calendars for the 2019 - 2020 Film and Lecture Series, presented under the Patrons of the Arts and in conjunction with the Civic Engagement Committee. Events are generally held in the John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center, unless otherwise specified. Please stay tuned for more details about speakers, panelists, and locations.
- Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor, Student Media Adviser, English, Journalism and Mass Media Faculty Mentor
Sunday, January 19: Annual MLK Celebration
3 p.m. ; John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center
Co-Hosted with Neighbors United – Undoing Racism
Thursday, February 27: 13th
6:30 p.m. ; John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center
This 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay explores the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States. It is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.
Thursday, March 12: Cléo from 5 to 7
6:30 p.m. at the Walt Theatre in Downtown New Haven
Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) is a French New Wave film that follows a young pop singer who wanders across Paris while awaiting the results of a medical test.
April 3-4: Riverside Short Film Festival - Downtown New Haven
Hosted by Downtown New Haven, Inc. at the Walt Theatre
Thursday, April 9: Poetry Reading
7 p.m. in HS 100
Co-Hosted with the ECC English Department
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Depression and Other Magic Tricks by Tuesday, April 21: Night and Fog
6:30 p.m. ; John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Night and Fog is a 1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made 10 years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the notorious Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") program of abductions and disappearances decreed by the Nazis on December 7, 1941.
Night and Fog [videorecording]Thursday, April 23: Documentary: A Great Day in Harlem
6:30 p.m. ; John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center
Presented With The East Central College Jazz Clinic
On a summer morning in 1958, photographer Art Kane assembled a remarkable array of leading jazz musicians in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood for a group picture. A Great Day in Harlem is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Jean Bach about the photograph.
A Great Day In Harlem: The story and sounds behind the most famous photo in the history of Jazz [videorecording] by 
