Hello! I’m Isabel Connolly and I am very excited to be serving as the Undergraduate Student Arts Alumni Representative and to be launching the second cohort of Princeton Arts Alumni Mentors. The pilot program in 2022 was a great success and we hope to improve upon it and connect more students with amazing alumni such as yourself.

Author of international bestseller Beasts of a Little Land (winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Award), Juhea Kim's new novel City of Night Birds is out now.

Exciting news to share with fellow alumni!

"I’ve realized there’s no reason to be surprised by change," Malcolm Gladwell says. "In fact, we should be suspicious of its absence, not surprised by its presence."

Make an individual gift or become a Ujamaa Corporate Sponsor of DIW’s 2024 production of Spirit of Kwanzaa to ensure this year’s “For the Culture” theme thrives as a community beacon.

A rotting old manor House, recently vacated after the death of its owner. A pair of young women, returning to the House where they spent two very different childhoods. And you: the Ghost.

Nathan Phan ‘19, a Vietnamese American singer-songwriter, recently released his debut album Type A, based on his award-winning one-man senior thesis show. It is available on all streaming platforms under his artist name ASAMAI.

Art Against Racism and West Windsor Arts Council, (both 501(c)(3) organizations), invite artists to submit artwork for “Manifesting Beloved Community” a juried exhibition of work exploring the interrelationship of community health and efforts to create an antiracist society that share in the responsibilities to create a healthy planet for the good of humanity.

Malcolm, a product of an independent major through the Visual Arts Program at 185 Nassau, and of arts management and funding at the NEA and New York's biggest state and city-level arts agencies, has joined the Boards of Directors at Oakland Art Murmur and at the East Bay Photo Collective (EBPCO) in California where he has resumed being a full-time artist.

"Unstoppable: A Queer Dancical”, featuring Eric Stinehart ’20 in the lead role of “Keith”, was recently nominated for three 2024 Gregory Awards, including "Outstanding Ensemble - Dance/Movement".

Season 3 of Getty's Recording Artists podcast launched Oct. 8. Host Ahmed Best examines the groundbreaking art-science organization Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) using archival audio from the Getty Research Institute.

MIRROR ME, Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, '89's second novel, to be released on December 1.

“The way life is shot through with loss and gain is the painful beauty of being alive,” says Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez, one of America’s most celebrated Latina authors.

Created by former Princeton Arts student Tyler Maxey (*23), Princeton Alumni Weekly now has logic, number, and word games you can play for free at paw.princeton.edu/games.

A recording of the song cycle "Paradoxides," by John Sichel '81 is now available for streaming and download on CD Baby, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Spotify etc. The performers are Hans Tashjian, bass-baritone and Anna Keiserman, piano. The recording was made at NV Factory, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, in June 2024.

Marisol Rosa-Shapiro '07 will perform in Philadelphia Theatre Company's season opener, LA EGOISTA, running October 4 - October 20.

I hope that you are doing well! My name is Ovi Banerjee ‘25 and I am the Business Manager for Princeton's Premier Low-Voice R&B and Soul Acapella Group, Old NasSoul. Our group's rep includes classics like "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green and "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder, but also new hits like "Location" by Khalid and "Pink + White" by Frank Ocean.

Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with leading American Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein about coming to terms with loss and not missing your life.

Organized by the Princeton University Center for Career Development, Princeternship is a job-shadowing and micro-internship program in which Princeton undergraduate students connect with alumni hosts over their winter break.

I am honored to announce that my short film Never Fade Away is archived at the Bob Hope Memorial Library at Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island in perpetuity by the National Park Service for use in permanent and temporary exhibits.

Written and co-directed by Henry Loevner '11 and produced by Lovell Holder '09, "Peak Season" follows an emotionally adrift young woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wilderness guide while on a summer vacation with her fiancé in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Theatre Intime is thrilled to announce it's 124th season, featuring five mainstage plays, including a student written-play, and a musical! The season kicks off on October 4th with The Harvest, a gripping drama about faith and purpose set in a small-town church basement.

NYC-based treble ensemble Amuse Singers is holding auditions for our 2024-25 season. For more information about the ensemble, and for a link to our audition form, please visit www.amusesingers.net.

Katy Pinke has released a new single, titled “Not What I Thought.” It can be found anywhere music is streamed, and was recorded with Adam Brisbin (Cassandra Jenkins, Jolie Holland, Buck Meek) and Jason Burger (Big Thief).

Announcing the release of "My Best Friend," the result of a multi-year collaboration between Shruthi Rajasekar ‘18 and the musicians of Maithree, a celebrated ensemble of traditional and experimental improvisers.

Brittany Haas and Lena Jonsson – two of the world's most sought after and buzzworthy fiddlers and composers – have announced their first duo album in nearly ten years, The Snake (out June 28 on Padiddle Records). The project follows the pair of innovative and emotive instrumentalists on a winding journey through 12 joyful and bold tunes (including 9 originals) which were written and recorded in East Nashville over two weeks in March 2023. Since their self-titled 2015 recording, they each have worked and toured with an array of critically-acclaimed acts – Hawktail, Punch Brothers, The Goodbye Girls, Lena Jonsson Trio, and many more – honing their writing, arranging, and playing skills and sharpening their points of view.

"All's Fair - Vol. II" is the second of two sister EPs released in 2024 by Blanker, the solo project of guitarist/vocalist John Norwood (Triangle Club, Prince Jazz Ensemble).

Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with physicist, author, and Princeton alum Alan Lightman (Class of ’70) about happiness, hidden knowledge, and living our lives with an awareness of death.

Sonya Hayden '16 and Megan Loughran were awarded an Across a Crowded Room Fellowship from the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts to develop their new musical comedy For Love or Funny.

In her latest interview about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with Sandra Cisneros about being between cultures, embracing impermanence, and how we can live fully for both ourselves and our communities.