The free, public performance, under the direction of Ronald Pollard, is designed for a family audience. The choir has appeared at hundreds of venues, from prisons and soup kitchens to Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Other gallery events include the following. The small exhibition accompanies a course given by Robert Farris Thompson, the Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome.
The Yale University Art Gallery is located on the corner of Chapel and York streets. His reading will be followed by remarks by the Reverend Louise Higginbotham, pastor of United Church on the Green, and the Reverend John Henry Scott, pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Church of Christ. The exhibit, currently on national tour, is the largest privately held collection of memorabilia and photographs of African-American soldiers in this country. Ties that Bind. Powell's grandfather, First Sergeant Samuel Waller, served as a soldier and photographer with the United States Army from the mid-1880s until his retirement in 1927.