YAAMNY is excited to bring you an amazing opportunity.  LUSH LIFE is a new, exciting exhibition creating a lot of buzz in the art community, and was recently featured in the NY Times. Curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, LUSH LIFE takes place at nine Lower East Side galleries and adopts Richard Price's 2008 novel to title and organize the exhibition. For more information and to register, click here.  

Meet other art lovers including other young professionals from Yale, PENN & Columbia at the Artlog Lower East Side Art Crawl. Yale alumni get a special art crawl reception from 6:30-7:30pm where they can enjoy free drinks and meet one another before visiting over 20 galleries and the New Museum.  Tickets are limited, so register now!

YAAMNY has partnered with Penn and MIT to bring you this summertime alumni party. We'll meet on the rooftop of Highbar at 251 West 48th Street to enjoy beautiful views, delicious cocktails and good conversation. This event is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends and meet new NYC people. The event is free, but please click here to register.

Join the Educational Programs Committee and the Arts & Entertainment Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) for an intimate guided tour of the Hispanic Society of America.  The art and artifacts collections at this free museum are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula.  The available number of tickets is strictly limited.  Register here today! 

The Summer Institute for the Arts (SIA) offers a unique community service opportunity for Yale alumni to work with students in the Arts. We need volunteers to mentor, provide and/or assist with creative workshops, and facilitate field trips/ chaperone middle school students who would otherwise not have the opportunity.  This program is co-sponsored by the Yale Black Alumni Association and YAAMNY.

YAAMNY is pleased to partner with Sasha Grinshpun (BR96), executive coach and career architect, to bring you this unique personal branding workshop. How do you describe what makes you unique and compelling? Learn to use personal narrative to stand out in the crowd whether it's with prospective employers, prospects, customers, associates, or donors.

Want to inspire a young person, serve as a role model and have fun?  YAAMNY is partnering with The After-School Corporation (TASC) for this week's College & Career Fair, which will be attended by hundreds of high school students.  Volunteer for a couple of hours -- review resumes, do mock interviews, and serve on career panels -- and make a difference in a young person's life.  

Join NYC-area Yale alumni for an adventure trip to Costa Rica on August 21-29! Enjoy 8 days of kayaking, biking, zip lining, caving, volcano hikes, hot springs, pristine beaches and more! All alumni (from Yale College as well as the graduate/professional schools), family and friends are welcome to join.  For full trip details and registration directions, click here.

The YAAMNY 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 .