Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities welcomes local public high school students to Yale’s campus for a wide array of arts and humanities performances, talks, tours, and seminars. Pathways programs and events include the MOSAIC lecture and workshop series featuring graduate students and professors in history, philosophy, and public humanities, the New Voices in Theater high school playwriting program led by graduate students at the Yale School of Drama, and special exhibitions and behind-the-stacks tours with curators at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New events and programs are developed each year in collaboration with museums and libraries including the art and science of museum curation at the Yale Center for British Art and hands-on demonstrations of medieval pigment recipes and paper preservation with Beinecke Library conservators and archivists. Students have also been able to participate in the Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities Summer Scholars Program, a free two-week program for New Haven high school students. You can view the summer closing ceremony video here.
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Revolutions are messy. In this special workshop, participants worked together to design an election for a nation coming out of a revolution. Drawing on the experiences of Tunisia, participants collaborated to develop solutions for a new democracy. This was truly a unique opportunity to Design Democracy! More events in collaboration with the Yale Council on Middle East Studies coming in December!
Where would a perfect city be located? What laws would a perfect city have? How much of its resources would the city devote to supporting literature and the arts? On Saturday December 7th, New Haven students and families worked with Citizens-Thinkers-Writers fellows and professors to discuss topics philosophers and writers started thousands of years ago. Students learned that even with a blank slate, designing a perfect city was not as easy as it seemed. MOSAIC (Minds on Society, Arts, Ideas, and Culture) is a special lecture series designed to share the work of Yale faculty in the arts and humanities with the community.
Everyone—from media personalities, teachers, parents, to friends— has specific ideas about how you should live, what you should think about, and even what it means to succeed. But what do you have to say? WriteOutLoud, a new writing program from Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities, gave students a chance to read, write, and raise questions about topics such as rebellion, identity, success, and education.