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Arnott’s Arts Happenings For Jan. 19 – 25

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Prudence Crandall. Harry Potter. The Helium Brothers. Historic figures get appreciated in New Haven this week. Plus a great big pile of leaves.

Monday, Jan. 19

MLK I

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day concert, with Music Haven faculty and students plus the St. Luke’s Steel Band, erupts in strings and pings 2 p.m. at St. Luke’s Church, 111 Whalley Ave. (203) 745‑9030.

MLK II
The19th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice 2015 celebration continues at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.,203 – 432-5050). Performances today include Pan Jam and Lime Steel Band, Solar Youth Drummers, Tarpukay Peruvian Art & Culture, Brian Jarawa Gray and Friends, Michael Mills’ drum circle, and the annual Invitational Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Poetry Slam.

Tuesday, Jan. 20

Potter Party

You’re encouraged to dress up in Hogwarts garb for the opening reception of the touring exhibit Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine, at Yale’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library (333 Cedar St.; 203 – 432-21810). The exhibit, which was developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, will be at Yale through Feb. 28. Refreshments at the opening, today from 3 to 5 p.m., include such Potterian delicacies as cauldron cakes” and butterbeer.”

Wednesday, Jan. 21

Leaf Rock

Quirky Brooklyn-based band A Great Big Pile of Leaves does the Alligator Bop,” and Call It Arson calls it arson, 9:30 p.m. for free at BAR, 254 Crown St., thanks to Manic Productions.

Thursday, Jan. 22

Exercising Prudence

Prudence Crandall’s struggle to run a school for African-American students in Canterbury, CT nearly 200 years ago helped set legal and social precedents that have aided civil rights cases ever since. Donald E. Williams, the former Connecticut senate president pro tempore, has written Prudence Crandall’s Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott and Brown v. Board of Education to drive home Crandall’s lasting influence. Williams discusses and signs the book 6 p.m. tonight at New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave., 203 – 562-4183). Free.

Friday, Jan. 23

Sick and Lush

Raw roots-rockers Sasquatch and the Sick-a-billys and local punk Americana act Lushlife on a Friday night in wintertime? Just the thing to light your fire at the end of a long cold week. 9 p.m. at Cafe Nine, 250 State St. (203) 789‑8281.

Saturday, Jan. 24

Westward Photo

Kehler Liddell Gallery hosts a lecture by Larry Schwarm of Wichita State University — On Fire: The Photographic Story of the Burning of the Flint Hills of Kansas” — in conjunction with the gallery’s current Cowboys and Cattle photo exhibit. 3 p.m. Free. 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. (203) 389‑9555, http://www.kehlerliddell.com

O Judas May These Noble Views Inspire”
The Yale Schola Cantorum sings, Yale Baroque Ensemble plays, and David Hill conducts, Handel’s three-act oratorio Judas Maccabeus 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 5 Hillhouse Ave. Tomorrow, the performers do the same piece in New York City. (203) 432‑5062.

Sunday, Jan. 25

Ale’s Well
BAR holds its annual Real Ale Festival today from noon to 5 p.m. A $45 ticket gets you two 5 oz. ale samples, a collector’s glass, two slices of BAR pizza, and much more.

Airs and Graces

The Helium Brothers never deflated. The jaunty folk-pop band, a popular club act in the 1970s that even toured with Johnny Winter, marks its 40th anniversary tonight at Toad’s Place (which also turns 40 this year). Four of the five founding members will be playing: A.J. Gundell (now a multplei-Emmy winning composer), pianist Kim Oler (a musical theater professional), Paul Fargeorge (who’s drummed for Eight to the Bar and The Platters), and Oscar Hills, whose current band The Professors of Bluegrass will also be on the Toad’s bill. $20, $15 in advance. 7 p.m. 300 York St. (203) 624‑8623.

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