The YAANY Arts Committee provides a forum where alumni can learn from leading practitioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts and support those in the entertainment industry. Whether you have won a Pulitzer and travel by limousine or are pushing cabs between auditions, come share your ideas and help create a resource to assist us all in our work.  Please RSVP to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .

Thanks to everyone's enthusiastic response and support, this event is almost sold out! There are still some tickets left and they will be sold on a first come first serve basis until they sell out, or up till 4 PM tonight. We apologize that there will be no tickets available at the door. If you plan on coming, please go online and secure your tickets ASAP. Be sure and check out the amazing offerings in our online BENEFIT AUCTION, which will end tonight at 9:30.  See you at the SOIREE!

Artists on the Brink, the Yale Alumni Association of New York, and the Yale Black Alumni Association are pleased to present an evening with author ZZ Packer '94.  The New Yorker featured ZZ Packer as one of it's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers in June 2010.   Her short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and lauded by Harper's, The New Yorker, and NY Times.  On May 10, she will be reading a selection of her work, and will discuss her personal creative writing process and life as a professional writer.  Click to register here now.

Join us in May for the third annual Yale Day of Service! Thousands of Yale Alumni, family members and friends will gather to volunteer for meaningful events and projects ranging from the labor intensive (sprucing up parks, planting gardens & painting) to the more intellectually stimulating (assisting with job applications and tutoring) throughout the New York City Area and around the globe. 

Click on this link to see the full range of activities and dates in May, as well as an interactive map of sites.

This second annual event will bring together Yale alumni in NYC for an evening of mingling, eating, and drinking at General Assembly, the gorgeous new urban campus for technology, design, and entrepreneurship in Manhattan. Refreshments include an open bar of wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres. Tickets: $20 before May 19th, or $25 at the door. Cocktail attire. Feel free to invite guests. To purchase tickets, go to Spring Gala for Yale Alumni Creatives & Entrepreneurs.