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New York based rapper Mykki Blanco will be performing a benefit show for Yale Union on June 30, 2013. Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss is the debut rap release from the multi-talented artist, who has explored the many sides of an international clubbing scene through music and performance art. Melding different genres including rave, hip-hop, trip-hop, and riot grrl as deftly as she switches gender roles, Mykki Blanco swerves with ease in and out of each with artful lyricism, aggressive…See More

For the last thirty years, Michael Stirling has been a disciple of the Indian classical vocalist, Pandit Pran Nath (1918–1996) and a student of the American minimalist composer, Terry Riley (1935-). On Saturday, April 20, Stirling will perform three Hindustani ragas. It is easiest, perhaps, to think of a raga as a tonal framework for composition and improvisation. A raga is not fixed, but is created through time by a lengthy evolutionary process. Each Hindustani (North Indian) raga is assigned…See More

Keiji Haino’s career as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist began 43 years ago when he dropped out of high school. Since then, he has aimed to become the total sum of his music, speaking of it as an absolute condition.Keiji Haino was born in 1952 in Chiba, Japan. He has released twenty-two solo studio albums and collaborated with countless other musicians and composers, including Tony Conrad, Toru Takemitsu, and Faust. He currently lives in Tokyo. At Yale Union, Keiji Haino will perform a solo…See More

An ExhibitionMarch 30, March 31, April 5, April 6, April 12, and April 13, 7pmAll Screenings are FREE at the HOLLYWOOD THEATREFor the last fifty years, Thom Andersen and Morgan Fisher have been filmmakers and friends in Los Angeles. This retrospective, the first of its kind, will present a large selection of their films from 1965 to 2013. It will take place over the course of three weekends at the Hollywood Theatre, as our building seems like an absurd constraint for two artists who make films…See More

An ExhibitionMarch 30, March 31, April 5, April 6, April 12, and April 13, 7pmAll Screenings are FREE at the HOLLYWOOD THEATREFor the last fifty years, Thom Andersen and Morgan Fisher have been filmmakers and friends in Los Angeles. This retrospective, the first of its kind, will present a large selection of their films from 1965 to 2013. It will take place over the course of three weekends at the Hollywood Theatre, as our building seems like an absurd constraint for two artists who make films…See More

RESONANCE ENSEMBLE presents a program of Soviet choral compositions at Yale Union. Under the Soviet regime’s strict censorship, composers found different ways to cope. They wrote nationalist propaganda, subversive works in “musical code,” or oppositional pieces that endangered their lives or forced them into exile. This concert, presented by Resonance Ensemble as part of A Shostakovich Festival, will include choral pieces by Shostakovich, Pärt,…See More

We say goodbye to the ephemeral distinction of two thousand and twelve with Walter Marchetti’sNatura Morta (1988). Composed for a grand piano covered in fruit, Natura Morta is slow with no punctures, peaks, or destinies. There is so seemingly little to the composition that it inevitably invites the feeling that one could have made it, but don’t lose your head, one couldn’t have.There can be no question that what makes Walter Marchetti’s Natura Morta safe from larvae and rust is not its…See More

We say goodbye to the ephemeral distinction of two thousand and twelve with Walter Marchetti’sNatura Morta (1988). Composed for a grand piano covered in fruit, Natura Morta is slow with no punctures, peaks, or destinies. There is so seemingly little to the composition that it inevitably invites the feeling that one could have made it, but don’t lose your head, one couldn’t have.There can be no question that what makes Walter Marchetti’s Natura Morta safe from larvae and rust is not its…See More

BLACK DICEA PerformanceMay 12, 2012, 9pm (doors, 8pm)$10 – PURCHASE NOWIn all fairness, Black Dice are hard to keep up with. Concept-slingers as much as musicians, they formed during the late 90′s in Providence, RI. They have gone from broken aggressor to amiable droner, and now have moved-15 years later-into a much poppier locale. They’ve never lived at the bottom of a rhetorical deep freeze,…See More

MAHMOUD AHMEDA PerformanceMay 5, 2012, 9pm (doors, 7pm)$30 – PURCHASE NOWAhmed is one of the pioneers and great innovators of modern Ethiopian music, a true legend who has influenced the way music gets made and distributed on the African continent. There, he remains an object of intense fandom. Here, he remains relatively obscure.Born in 1941 in Addis Ababa, Ahmed left school to become a…See More

Closing event for YU's first Preview Projects: the exhibition Selections from the PCVA Archive, opening of the the library, and YU's first publication Veneer 08/18.Saturday, July 30th, 2011, 4-7 PMYU is pleased to present The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, an on-going action by San Francisco-based conceptual artist Tom Marioni. Marioni was first seen in Portland in 1977 at PCVA where he created a sculptural action, Yellow is the Color of the Intellect.In 1976,…See More

Saturday, July 9th, 4pm- 7pmOPEN HOUSE for Buckman Neighborhood & Central Eastside CommunityFree -YU Contemporary is thrilled to be a part of the Buckman and Central Eastside Industrial Community. We look forward to meeting more of our neighbors and invite you to tour the historic Yale Union Laundry Building with the leaders of the project and view  YU’s first Preview Project, inaugural exhibition Selections from the PCVA Archive,  Veneer 08, and the first iteration of the YU…See More