The Public Service/Social Justice Committee of the YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK is proud to partner with the YALE CLUB of NYC and the Association of Yale Alumni to sponsor YALE DAY OF SERVICE, on May 16, 2009.
On this day, thousands of Yale Alumni, family members and friends will gather to volunteer for meaningful events and projects stemming from the laborious (sprucing up parks, planting gardens & painting) to the more intellectually stimulating (reading books to children, assisting with job applications & college applications) throughout the New York City Area as well as around the globe.
As an additional incentive, there will be prizes for several lucky volunteers whose names are drawn by activity leaders on May 16. Prizes include: * an iPod Shuffle (donated by YAAMNY) * one free night at the Yale Club of New York City, including breakfast (donated by the Yale Club of New York City) * a dinner for two at Bay Leaf Indian Brasserie (donated by Uday Gupta, Yale SOM '08)
If you cannot donate your time or talent at one of the many Yale Day of Service volunteer activities, please consider a tax-deductible gift to sponsor another alum at sites that need supplies or fundraising. Go to http://yaamny-donation.eventbrite.com/ to make a contribution.
Sign up now! Click on the link above for all the details.
Rickshaw Dumpling Bar, 61 West 23rd Street (b/w 5th & 6th Aves)
Cost:
$35.00
Have you ever wanted to open a restaurant, start your own business, or manage your own brand? If so, don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dine and dish with one of Forbes Magazine's 40 Under 40! Kenny Lao, Brown '98, founder of Rickshaw Dumpling Bar, his partner and fellow NYU Stern School of Business alum David Weber, Yale '99 have garnered national attention for the unique dumpling bars (and dumpling trucks) that have sprouted up all around New York City. Together, Kenny and David will share their experiences in business, marketing practices, getting through tough times and how they turned their personal passions into a business and culinary success! Learn what it takes to launch a new business and succeed in one of the toughest restaurant markets.
Join us for an evening of complimentary beer, dumplings and other dishes, and network with other like-minded entrepreneurs! This event is open to alumni, current students, family, and friends.
Yalies make up more than half of the 60 folks who have registered thus far. There is space for 80 attendees, so use this link to register before tickets sell out.
This event is co-sponsored by the following organizations:
Brown University's Entrepreneurship Program
Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York
NYU Stern School of Business
Songs for Our Future: The Stars of Today Unite for the Stars of Tomorrow
Sing for Hope (www.singforhope.org) has joined forces with Yale University to present an evening of songs performed by distinguished Yale alumni. Songs for Our Future will take place as a prelude to Yale's Day of Service on May 16th, as a benefit for Sing for Hope's Informance Arts program, which brings dynamic arts education to under-served New York City public schools. Featured Sing for Hope performers include: Michael Cerveris, Melissa Errico, Joe Farrell, Malcolm Gets, Christopher Herbert, Lisa Hopkins, Amy Justman, Anika Larsen, Robert Lopez, Andy Sandberg, Sophie Shao.
This program is co-sponsored by the Yale Alumni Association Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) and is presented as part of the global Yale Day of Service (www.yaledayofservicenyc.org).
7:30 p.m. Concert
6:30 p.m. Pre-Concert Reception for VIP Ticket-Holders
To buy tickets please click HERE. Be sure to also register on the following site to let your friends know you're planning to attend: www.yaledayofservicenyc.org
Tickets: $75 (concert only) and $150 (includes VIP reception with the artists and preferred seating). Sponsorship packages available at $2500 and $5000 which include naming rights to Sing for Hopes in-school residencies. More info: click here.
Are you considering re-entering the work force?
Develop a game plan that works for you!
Weil & Wein is proud to host a roundtable discussion for Yale alumni and guests designed to:
Jump-start your career search
Define your career objectives
Identify your professional skill sets
Reconcile personal, professional, and financial goals
The program is designed for off-ramped professionals with significant (5+ years) work experience who are seriously considering returning to the work force. The roundtable discussion will be led by Susan Weil (Yale SOM '88) and Terri Wein, Co-Founders of Weil & Wein, a professional career coaching and consulting firm.
Attendees must register in advance by clicking here. The program is limited to 25 attendees, and the fee is $25.
Join the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) for a reception featuring Innovative Web Startups. Network with Yalies and their guests who are entrepreneurs, investors, or just interested in entrepreneurship. Featuring short presentations from community members, alumni and current Yale student startups including:
GigMaven: an innovative web-service that helps musicians and venues book gigs online. www.gigmaven.com
Presenter: Howard Han '05, Founder
StyleHop: helping the fashion industry re-capture $23 billion currently lost in markdowns from demand forecasting error. www.stylehop.com
Presenter: David Reinke, President and Founder
Green Bride Guide: an online marketplace where companies can list their eco-friendly wedding products and services. www.thegreenbrideguide.com
Presenter: Kate Harrison '09 MEM, Founder and CEO
LiKiRi Learning Services: an innovative note-taking platform with unique sharing and collaborative capabilities for both students and teachers. http://www.likiri.com/demo/index.html
Presenter: James Rapp '10 MED, Founder and CEO
In these precarious times, its more important than ever that we all have someone to lean on to get through this period successfully. Keith Ferrazzi '88, nationally recognized keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, is launching his new book Who's Got Your Back.
Whether you want to:
Deepen your current relationships or build new ones;
Learn team-based formats for refining goals and work-plans;
Develop tools to identify and overcome career-crippling bad habits;
Who's Got Your Back will give you the roadmap that you have been looking for to achieve the success you deserve.
This is the perfect opportunity to reach out to clients, associates and friends with a generous offer and invite them to join you at the event. Keith's dynamic and highly interactive session will help you deepen those bonds, which can make such a difference to your family relationships, your friendships and your bottom line at the office. You will also be able to establish new connections with prospects you meet at the event.
Columbia University, Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, 530 West 120 Street
Cost:
$15
The Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York, the Yale School of Management Alumni Association, and Columbia University's Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department present ....
"The Global Economic Crisis: The U.S. in a Volatile World"
Professor Paul Bracken '82 PhD
Professor of Management & Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Financial shocks on Wall Street have spilled over into global economics and politics. Major economic problems are hitting not only the United States, but also Europe, China, India, Russia, and Japan. Generational tensions (Europe), rising unemployment (China), nationalism (India), stagnation (Japan), and frustrated ambitions (Russia) are accelerating the creation of a new international order. In this lecture Professor Bracken explores these challenges and looks at what they mean for America's national security as well as the future of the U.S economy.
Professor Bracken's lecture will be followed by Q&A and an informal reception. All are welcome to enjoy this educational enrichment opportunity, to be held at Davis Auditorium in Schapiro Center on the campus of Columbia University.
Early registration is strongly encouraged. Tickets are $12 before May 20, and $15 on or after May 20. Register today by clicking here.
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, Second Floor Parlor
Cost:
$8 (early); $12 (late)
The Educational Programs Committee and the Arts & Entertainment Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY), in collaboration with The National Arts Club, present...
an evening with Yale University Press author Joshua Shannon on his book The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City. Shannon is assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory at the University of Maryland
In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new economy took shape, manufacturing lofts, piers, and small shops were replaced by sleek high-rise housing blocks and office towers. Focusing on works by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, Shannon shows how New York art engaged with this transformation. Shannon argues that these four artists - all living amid the changes - filled their art with old street signs, outmoded flashlights, and other discarded objects in a richly revealing effort to understand the economic and architectural transformation of their city.
Join us in the second floor parlor room of the National Arts Club's Tilden Mansion at 15 Gramercy Park South for Professor Shannon's lecture, followed by an informal reception.
Register today by clicking here. All are welcome; this event is open to the public. Register before May 20th and save: tickets $8 before May 20th, $12 thereafter.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, 113-A 2nd Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets
Cost:
$8 (before May 29); $12 (on or after May 29)
The Educational Programs and Arts & Entertainment Committees of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY), in collaboration with the Graduate Musical Theater Writing program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, present an afternoon with Yale University Press author and Yale alumnus James Leve on the collaboration between composer Kander and lyricist Ebb.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated for more than forty years, longer than any such partnership in Broadway history. Their two most successful works, Cabaret and Chicago, had critically acclaimed Broadway revivals and were made into Oscar-winning films. Professor Leve's book, the first study of Kander and Ebb, examines their artistic accomplishments as individuals and as a team. Leve discusses their contribution to the concept musical; he examines some of their most popular works including Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman; and he reassesses their flops as well as their incomplete and abandoned projects. James Leve is associate professor of musicology and coordinator of music history at Northern Arizona University.
Students of musical theater and lovers of Kander and Ebb's songs and shows will enjoy hearing firsthand from Professor Leve. His talk will be followed by a question and answer session and an informal reception. This program will take place in a wonderful black box theatre in the heart of the East Village.
Register today by clicking here. Register before May 29th and save! Tickets are $8 before May 20th and $12 thereafter. All are welcome. This event is open to the public.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
550 Madison Ave. at 56th Street
New York, New York
Cost:
$10 (early), $15 (after June 5th)
The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee presents a talk by Lloyd Kaufman '69 on how to succeed in independent cinema. Numerous now-famous talents including Kevin Costner, Samuel L. Jackson, Oliver Stone, Marisa Tomei, Robert DeNiro, and Carmen Electra had their first start in Lloyd's films. Lloyd will discuss his success as the world's longest surviving, most prolific independent film maker. He will show clips from his newest work, and share trade secrets that allowed him to produce gargantuan screen epics on microscopic budgets.
Lloyd Kaufman is a giant in the field of independent films, having produced, directed, written and even acted in over 20 original films in 35 years at Troma Films, the New York City based company he co-founded with Yale classmate Mike Hertz. He works in a unique genre combining violence, sex, political satire, horror, humor and what film critic Pauline Kael called "actual sweetness." He has given to Western culture the iconic "Toxic Avenger," currently resurrected as a Broadway musical. PoultryGeist, his latest work, features gigantic mutant chickens who spring from a fried chicken franchise and devour the staff, an ominous talking hamburger, musical and dance interludes and a cameo by Lloyd himself.
To register for this event and the reception afterwards, please click here.
Special thanks to Norm Zamcheck '69 for helping to organize this event!
About $2000, including international and domestic flights, lodging, 4 day-long excursions and ground transportation
YAAMNY is hosting the first-ever alumni trip to Iceland for the August 22nd marathon, half-marathon, 10K, and 3K races and to see glaciers and volcanic craters, walk on ancient lava flows, swim in geothermal pools, visit other scenic sites, and participate in local cultural activities. For information about the races in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, click here. For more information on Iceland, visit: www.icelandtouristboard.com.
If interested, please email My (
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). Alumni from various cities, including New York, Boston, Chicago and Miami, have already reserved their trip package. Yale alumni based in Iceland, including the Minister of Business Affairs and a University of Iceland professor of environmental studies, have agreed to speak at the welcome dinner. The trip costs only about $2000 (including international and domestic flights), which is an amazing deal.
On a separate but related note, we've started a Yale Alumni Running Group. If you'd like to join Yalies to do some runs, check out the following Facebook Yale Alumni Running Group to get details: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80553446143
Your Iceland Marathon trip leaders,
My Luu, BA '96 and Ajit Pai, M.Arch and MBA '99
P.S. We welcome alumni of all ages from Yale College and the graduate/professional schools to participate. Alumni who have already signed up include those from Yale College,the School of Management, the Divinity School, and the School of Architecture. We also encourage you to consult a physician before starting any new exercise regimen as there might be potential risks depending on your health, for which YAAMNY holds no responsibility.
Kiss and Fly
409 West 13th Street
(Betw. 9th and Washington)
Cost:
$12 through 5.13.09, $15 thereafter
Join the The Ivy Plus Society (TIPS) for the launch of our brand new NYC chapter with our inaugural NYC Young Alum Party! We'll be celebrating with dessert and cocktails at Kiss and Fly. The Club will be open to TIPS exclusively for the party.
TIPS has been filling the nights of LA and San Fran with laughs and cocktailing Ivy Leaguers (and Ivy Plus-ers) since 2006. With all the fabulous Ivy young alums who call NYC home, of course we had to start up an outpost here - far too many dancing nights and bubbling cocktails to leave un-played and un-drunk. Stop-by our website to see snapshots of some of the fun we've had along the way and make sure to be a part of the sparkling NYC nights ahead!
TIPS brings together young alumni from a select group of schools to create a community of talented, dynamic individuals. The chance to meet incredible people was one of the best parts of the top schools we were privileged to attend. We create fun opportunities for this exceptional group to connect here in the real world, beyond the iron-gates of our alma maters.
Once you register, you will be added to the event guest list at the door. No physical ticket will be sent to you. PayPal will email you a receipt for your records.
Advance Registration will be open through 12 noon May 20th or whenever we reach capacity whichever happens first. After that, limited admission will be available at the door on a first-come-first served basis depending on venue capacity.
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