The Week Ender: Happenings Oct. 28 to 30

The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university Friday-Sunday.

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Join an interactive Highlights Tour of the Yale University Art Gallery’s history, architecture, and encyclopedic collection. The tours will focus on a handful of objects chosen to showcase both the permanent collection and special exhibitions currently on view. No two tours are the same. Free. 1111 Chapel St. 3:30 p.m.

Enjoy a multimedia presentation of Langston Hughes’ trailblazing poem “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz,” for which he wrote musical cues. The Langston Hughes Project, featuring spoken-word artist Kenyon Adams, the Ron McCurdy Quartet, and imagery from the Harlem Renaissance, is part of the Ellington Jazz Series. Sprague Memorial Hall, Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St. 7:30 p.m.

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Attend a performance of Current Location, the latest Yale Cabaret production. Written by Toshiki Okada, the play is about the shift in Japan towards ethics of “fortified solidarity with victims of catastrophe.” Seven women remark upon their supposedly doomed village from an unspecified distance. Each woman has a different impression of the ominous circumstances, but their divergent realities converge rather than clash. Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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See Three Films by Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA). Featuring performers dressed in Shonibare’s trademark Dutch wax-printed cottons, these three works link the artist’s interest in costume, masquerade, and performance through the medium of film. Free. Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel St. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Bring the family to CrystalCon: Lecture and Hands-on Crystal Demonstrations to learn more about x-ray crystallography — the use of lasers to look inside of crystals. X-ray crystallography is used to study a variety of problems related to biochemistry, medicine, and pharmacology. Space is limited, register in advance. Free. Kline Geology Laboratory, KGL123, 210 Whitney Ave. 1-4 p.m.

Get out your gloves and come to the Yale Whale to see the Yale men’s hockey season opener against Sacred Heart University. The contest between the Bulldogs and the Pioneers airs live on the Ivy League Digital Network. Ingalls Rink, 73 Sachem St. 7 p.m.

S U N D A Y

Enjoy the sounds of Roomful of Teeth, a Grammy-winning vocal project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from singing traditions around the world, the eight-voice ensemble continually expands its vocabulary of singing techniques and, through an ongoing commissioning process, forges a new repertoire without borders. Free. Battell Chapel, College and Elm Streets. 5 p.m.

To see more events, visit the Yale Calendar of Events and the Yale Arts Calendar.