Latest Past Events

Woodworking for Liberation

Frailty Myths, a non-profit based in Oakland, California, is bringing its communityworkshops to NEW HAVEN, CT, hosting a free self-reliance workshop for women, trans, andgender-nonconforming communities. This is an incredible opportunity to see how communitiesare coming together and fighting back in a year of unprecedented attacks against marginalizedcommunities, opening a space to challenge toxic masculinity and learn woodworking,construction, and self-reliance […]

Timeless: Telling Our Neighborhood Stories, Chapter One: Constance Baker Motley

The Greater New Haven African American Historical Societyand Dixwell Q House History Committee invite you to a Guided tour and conversation with organizers Frank Mitchelland Constance Royster of the new exhibition Timeless: Telling Our Neighborhood StoriesChapter One: Constance Baker Motley Saturday, April 29, 3pm Dixwell Community HouseToni N. and Wendell C. Harp Historical Museum197 Dixwell Avenue No RSVP or registration […]

Translations of Zaynab: Negotiating Space, Memory & Justice with Dr. Noor Zaidi – The Second Annual Imam Hussein (AS) Lecture on Social Justice

Register here! Location: HQ 136 How do we understand the role of a historical figure whose name has echoed in communities across space and time? Based on archival research and fieldwork in Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq, this talk explores the way the memory of Zaynab bint Ali is drawn upon and reconstructed in different sociopolitical contexts, as a means of […]