June 2025 Newsletter
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Events!
Being Present is a two-person exhibition that explores abstraction through the photographic artwork of Robin Resch and paintings of Shirley Kern. They have long been drawn to each others work, finding that it resonates mutually in an emotive way that they feel is worth sharing.
Beau features eight actor-musicians telling the story of Ace Baker – a young queer man whose life is forever changed when he discovers his deceased grandfather is actually still alive. Family secrets unravel as Ace rushes to make up for lost time with a man who changes his life by putting a guitar in his hand.
Princeton Summer Theater announces a diverse season of classical and contemporary stories.
Luke Strathmann (MPA '19) is bringing together NYC's top comedians for EconLoL: The world’s first, best, and only economics-themed comedy variety show.
Save the dates for Chelsea Music Festival's 16th season titled "There’s More to Tell: Swiss Trails Ahead"—which takes place in New York City, June 20-28.
Tickets are now on sale for Chelsea Music Festival's 16th season titled "There's More to Tell: Swiss Trails Ahead" (June 20-28)
Catapult is a "shadow dance" company that tells stories through dance and shadow! You will be transported to fantastical worlds made from only light, shadow, and the human body. This is a family-friendly evening-length show.
Experience the captivating and charismatic vocal stylings of award-winning soul and jazz singer-songwriter Kemi Adegoroye on July 14th, in celebration of Blues Alley’s 60th Anniversary!
Past Events
Join us for an unforgettable evening at Jersey City's only Variety Night—the perfect way to unwind, share some laughs, and make memories.
Celebrate across disciplines and decades at the annual Alumni in the Arts Party, Friday, May 24 at 3:30pm in The Forum.
Join fellow alums from all artistic disciplines and decades for an interactive roundtable discussion, facilitated by Princeton Arts Alumni (PA2).
Sash Bischoff ('09, author of Sweet Fury), Laura Hankin ('10, author of One-Star Romance, The Daydreams, and more), Blair Hurley ('09, author of Minor Prophets and The Devoted), Daria Lavelle ('09, author of Aftertaste), and Lovell Holder ('09, author of The Book of Luke) have been writing together in a workshop they affectionately call PWG—the Princeton Writer's Group—since 2009.
Discover how the Office of Innovation is supporting founders and entrepreneurs, engaging industry and investors, and advancing technology translation.
Just in time for 2025 Reunions: a pop-up art exhibit featuring the work of four alumni artists: Martha Russo '85, Mark Sheinkman '85, Kalliopi Monoyios '00, and Jon Levy-Warren '05.
Join Daria Lavelle ‘09 for the launch events for her debut novel, Aftertaste!
Tsinghua University Musical Club presents Daddy Long Legs, a heartfelt two-person musical set in early 20th-century America.
Please join Amuse Singers on May 10th at 1 PM in NYC for HUMAN/NATURE, our spring choral program reflecting on a dialogue between humanity and the earth and nature's response, which despite all odds, always allows for hope.
Acclaimed Black playwright, Kilroys List honoree, and Princeton University Alum Roger Q. Mason will have their Califas Trilogy produced by Outside In Theatre and Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles this spring and summer.
This concert is a pot-pourri of music we love, from the garden of Melodia’s repertoire.
Hi Tigers! Happy to share an invitation to a new adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, presented by the Manhattan School of Music's Undergraduate Opera Theatre.
The Woodstock Folk Festival presents its Spring Benefit Concert, "Becoming the United States of America: Songs of Liberty, Justice, and Unity," on Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 2 p.m. at Stage Left Cafe on the historic Square in Woodstock, Illinois.
Writer, comedian, and dramatic coloratura soprano Nikki Muller is fulfilling a longtime dream of creating and performing a solo show that translates the 1987 classic action film Robocop into a set of original arias, which she's written in German (and a little Italian)—proving a new, unexpected usefulness for her comp lit degree.
The New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra welcomes back guest conductor Georgia Mills for its spring concert, opening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade for Orchestra, an early work full of ravishing melodies and lush string moments that owes its existence to Coleridge-Taylor's mentor, Sir Edward Elgar.
Conceived as a public humanities initiative, a community-engaged project, and an innovative promotion of the arts in Princeton, this festival will celebrate the 130th anniversary of cinema in all its richness and complexity.
Professor Anne Anlin Cheng’s (Class of 1985) 2019 monograph Ornamentalism serves as an impetus for a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. March-May 2025.
Noon Musicale at FUS is a regular Friday offering of varied music groups. Karlos Moser (Princeton Class of 1950) still plays piano and sings in varied programs in Madison, WI.
You're invited to the free screening of Vingt Dieux (English: Holy Cow) by French filmmaker Louise Courvoisier who will be in attendance for a Q&A to talk about her movie a few days before its national release in the USA and a few weeks before the Cesar Ceremony.
As a Teaser for the Major International Loan Exhibition of Old Master Paintings Planned for Princeton University Art Museum, Ronni Baer, the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum, Will Present a Virtual Lecture for Museum Members Entitled “Rembrandt and Dou: The Rough and the Smooth.”
From dawn to dusk, the Renaissance to the Roaring '20s, or 11:01 to 11:30, each lab writing team will create an original 10-minute musical that jumps through time on a journey of dramatic discovery.
Porter Square Books is excited to welcome author Rachel Lyon to celebrate the paperback release of her novel, Fruit of the Dead. Author Margot Livesey will join Lyon in conversation.
As part of the Black History Month, you're invited to the free screening of "Ni Chaînes Ni Maîtres" (English: "No Chains No Masters") by Franco-Beninese filmmaker Simon Moutaïrou (2024) who will be in attendance for a Q&A to talk about his movie a few days before its national release in the USA and a few weeks before the Cesar Ceremony.
P&T Knitwear is please to present a stellar multi-author reading to celebrate the official paperback release of Rachel Lyon's newest novel, Fruit of the Dead (Scribner), featuring Essie Chambers (Swift River, Simon & Schuster), Crystal Hana Kim (The Stone Home, William Morrow), Nayantara Roy (The Magnificent Ruins, Algonquin), and Lena Valencia (Mystery Lights, Tin House).
The Kravets Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce Anna Berghuis' debut solo exhibition, Dancing With A Former Self. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 1, 6-8PM.
STILL, by Lia Romeo '03, plays off-Broadway in a limited run starting Jan. 28. The play stars Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie) and Mark Moses (Mad Men) and is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.
Announcements!
Gordon Schaye (acting name Grant Rivers) appeared in major music video with Suki Waterhouse "On this Love" filmed in LA in May.
How can we lean into the changes that life inevitably brings? In her latest conversation about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater talked with Katherine May about being prepared for change and finding new insight during times of transition.
There are two episodes of television that [Valerie Weiss] directed premiering this summer.
Following its theatrical run earlier this spring, the critically acclaimed feature film "Lavender Men" will be available on all VOD platforms starting June 17.
Daria Lavelle's debut novel, Aftertaste, a speculative literary journey through food, the Afterlife, and the New York culinary scene, comes out this month!
Based off the critically acclaimed play by Roger Q. Mason '08, the feature film "Lavender Men" will be released in NYC, LA, and DC theaters.
Sandwich generation mom here with an adult child on the autism spectrum and super-senior parents.
Tickets are now on sale for Chelsea Music Festival's 16th season titled "There's More to Tell: Swiss Trails Ahead" (June 20-28)
Sis Boom ‘Ah silk accessories are now available at the Princeton University Art Museum store. These hand-made pure silk scarves, ties and pocket squares will be for sale at the Museum store’s on-campus tent during Princeton Reunions.
In day-to-day life, we often fall into well-worn grooves of perception, not noticing much of what’s around us. How can we see our everyday world in new ways?
Bethany, a panelist at this year’s ArtsX Fest, invites you to the Princeton Climate Storytellers’ Festival on April 10, hosted alongside the virtual Climate Storytellers’ Summit (4–6 PM ET). Attend the in-person watch party in Guyot Hall, followed by live author readings, the launch of Princeton Climate Stories magazine, and an evening of storytelling, networking, and refreshments.
Ari Satok '14 recently launched a poetry newsletter, through which he sends out one poem of his every week. The poems are nourishing. grounding, and good for the heart/ soul; lots of readers really appreciate receiving them.
Alumna Katie North ‘18 just co-produced her first Broadway show, Operation Mincemeat!
Correlations: Life+Work is a stunning monograph on multigenerational architecture studio Bentel & Bentel, highlighting their prominent buildings and interiors as well as each of the partners' personal histories, working methods, and artistic pursuits.
Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco, M.Ed. she/her/hers
translator, writer, poet
ABD PhD Candidate, Department of English
NO ARCHITECTURE is honored to be included on Architect’s Newspaper new list: the inaugural Twenty to Watch, which recognizes rising residential architecture design talent in New York.
Award-winning fiddler and roots artist Brittany Haas (Opens in a new window) has been announced as the recipient of the Eisenson Family Prize for American Roots Music, an endowed fund that allows an outstanding roots musician to visit Berklee each year.
The modernist architects known as the Harvard Five featured a Tiger, Landis Gores '39. A new film celebrates these interesting designers. Hilary Lewis '84 is also featured in the film.
In 1970, at the height of the sexual revolution, an idealistic academic couple and their 17-year-old daughter wrestle with revolutionary ideas around sex, race, and class. Available on Amazon, AppleTV & VOD.
A new book of personal essays from scholar Anne A. Cheng.
Kirkus Reviews: "Tenderly written essays form a beautifully intimate memoir.”
Freddy Blohm's performance at Cafe Improv Princeton on January 25 will be replaying "live" starting at 6pm each Tuesday and Saturday during February at Central New Jersey Network: cnjn (dot) org. He appears right AFTER the ballroom dancers, since he forgot to wear his blue suede shoes.
The Discipline of Inspiration, by Carey Wallace '96, is a book about the transcendent experiences we have around art—both creating and confronting it—the sense we get that we’re touching something beyond this world, and the possibility that those experiences aren’t just a mirage: they’re real encounters with God.
Gordon Square Review is a publication of Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio.
Al aka “Mifflin” Lowe’s picture book, DAD. THE MAN. THE MYTH THE LEGEND, was just published in Turkish, (cover seen here), in addition to Polish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian and English.
Multidisciplinary artist and singer-songwriter Katy Pinke is releasing her sophomore full-length album 'Strange Behavior' on the Brooklyn-based label Glamour Gowns on February 21st, 2025.
Alissa Hsu Lynch '90 recently launched her new podcast, The Leadership Dance, which explores the art of leadership through conversations with visionary leaders who are breaking barriers in the arts and business worlds.
The Lewis Center’s long-time producer for Theater and Dance, Darryl Waskow, retired after 31 years at Princeton on December 4. His retirement was recognized with a celebratory reception on December 3 in, very appropriately, the Drapkin Studio at the Lewis Arts complex.
Apply to be a PA2 Arts Mentor for the Spring or Summer 2025 cohort, in which Princeton Arts Alumni (PA2) will create pairs of students and alums to facilitate relationship building, learning, career guidance, and artistic growth for those interested in working in the arts as creators, managers, administrators, educators, entrepreneurs, and scholars.
What can we do when the world as we know it ends? Ann Tashi Slater talked about this with author Cheryl Strayed, who hiked 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to Washington State in search of answers after the death of her mother.
Helen Wong from Class of 2015 has become a host from Deeplearning.AI (one of the AI organizations founded by Andrew Ng to strengthen the AI communities across different industries) She has starting interviewing AI founders from LastMile.