Yale College Family Weekend 2021

Welcome

Welcome students, friends, and families to Yale College Family Weekend 2023.  Below you will find a schedule of events to choose from during the weekend of October 6th, 2023, that will provide you a glimpse into what makes Yale College life distinctly unique.  Click on each specific event for more information and use the filter categories below to find the events most relevant to your interests.  Wherever possible, speaker events will be live streamed, and recordings will be made available at this same website in the weeks after the event. 

While registration is not required to attend any of these events, doing so will help give us a sense of who will be coming to campus:

Register for Yale College Family Weekend 2023

We look forward to welcoming you to New Haven in October.

Schedule of Events

October 6–8, 2023

Family Weekend Visitor Arrival Welcome Table

9:00am to 4:00pm
Drop by our welcome table to pick up a complimentary Yale Family Weekend keepsake, wristband for Saturday's Family Weekend brunch (that will also be available at the door...

Microorganisms In and On Us

12:00pm to 12:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
We think of ourselves as single individuals, but in fact each of us is a community, an ecosystem: our bodies are teeming with a zoo of microorganisms that outnumber our cells...

The American Dream and America’s Health

1:00pm to 1:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
This lecture will explore economic opportunity as a determinant of population health trends in the United States. access the recording

Why I Love Chemistry and You Should Too: Chemistry Demystified

2:00pm to 2:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
This lecture will provide a fun, interactive, and non-technical introduction to chemistry. It will explain fundamental concepts in chemistry using demonstrations and...

It Takes a Village

3:00pm to 3:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Matuku will tell the story of his upbringing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it takes a whole village to raise a child.  It is also the story that...

Student Guide Tour: "In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art"

3:00pm to 3:30pm
Arts
While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is closed for building conservation, more than fifty major collection works, spanning four centuries of British landscape and...

The War in Ukraine: The Problem of Evil in a Postmodern World

3:00pm to 3:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, that brought the end of a post-communist narrative arc of "the End of History." What does...

“Why I Teach”, A Panel on Teaching and Education by Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis

4:00pm to 5:15pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
A panel moderated by Yale College Dean, Pericles Lewis featuring 2023 Yale College Teaching Prize faculty winners, Marci Shore, Matuku Ngame, Rourke O'Brien, John Carlson...

Trans@Yale: Parents of Gender Diverse Youth - What to Know

5:30pm to 6:30pm
Student Life
Student Organization
Are you a parent with a child who is transgender, nonbinary, or gender diverse? Do you believe you may have a child who is? Do you know a parent with a child who is? Come to...

Three’s Company

6:00pm to 7:30pm
Arts
Student Organization
A collaboration between Dzana Dance, Steppin’ Out, and Jashan Bhangra. Combining Afro-fusion dance, synchronized step, and bhangra dance styles to bring you a show rich with...

Shabbat Services and Dinner

6:15pm to 9:30pm
Join the Slifka Center for Shabbat services and dinner. There will be three services (Reform, Egalitarian and Orthodox) at 6:15pm followed by dinner at 7:30pm and a concert...

Family Shabbat

6:15pm to 7:30pm
Student Life
Experience the warmth of a Shabbat at Chabad at Yale, and the joy of the Sukkot holiday with Yale students and families.

Chi Alpha Live

7:00pm to 8:15pm
Student Organization
Chi Alpha Live is our weekly large group gathering. Filled with energy, fellowship, and a timely word from a campus pastor, Chi Alpha Live is a great place to end your week...

YaleBleeds Documentary Screening & Discussion

7:00pm to 8:00pm
Student Organization
Join YaleBleeds and visiting families for a brief screening of the Oscar-winning documentary, "Period. End of Sentence." In this 26-minute documentary, women in rural India...

WORD Family Weekend Show

7:00pm to 8:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
Interested in listening to some incredible poetry by Yale's oldest and hypest spoken word group? Join WORD: Performance Poetry at Yale this family weekend for a night of...

Families of Trans/Nonbinary/Gender-Diverse Dessert Night

8:00pm to 9:00pm
Student Organization
Join us in the Cafe of the Office of LGBTQ+ Resources/Dowe Center for a dessert social! This is an event for Family Weekend, inviting transgender, nonbinary, and gender-...

5H Sketch Comedy Presents: The Five Trick Pony Show

8:00pm to 9:30pm
Arts
Student Organization
Please join The Fifth Humour, Yale's oldest sketch comedy group, at our annual family weekend show! Come for a night of laughter and meet our new members: the...

Education

8:00pm to 10:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
The Yale Dramatic Association presents our Fall 2023 Ex Show, Education. Tickets are available at www.yaledramat.org/education. During senior year, a new superintendent...

Three’s Company

8:30pm to 10:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
A collaboration between Dzana Dance, Steppin’ Out, and Jashan Bhangra. Combining Afro-fusion dance, synchronized step, and bhangra dance styles to bring you a show rich with...

Red Hot Poker Sketch Comedy Show

10:00pm to 11:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
Red Hot Poker, Yale's premiere sketch comedy group, introduces a late-night comedy show for friends and family! We write, perform, and produce our own sketches, a la SNL. In...