Discovering Christopher Columbus - Surreal Installation in NYC

Fellow Ivy Pluser Dexter Palmer's Debut Novel - The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Princeton Art Museum Exhibition - Dancing into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom

Fall Harvest Dinner - to support NOFA-NJ 
(special guests Meg & Gary Hirschberg)

Open Air - Philadelphia Interactive Light Installation

July Events

Thursday, July 22
7:00 to 8:00 pm
Princeton University Art Museum

© Stephen Shore, Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York

Joel Smith, Princeton Ph.D. and Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, will provide a special introduction to Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980. The show is the first-ever museum survey of the "New Color Photography" in the 1970s and features 18 artists who fast-forwarded their medium out of its black-and-white past and put it at the center of contemporary art.

Joel will provide an overview of the major artistic themes in the exhibition and be available to answer questions as we explore the works currently on exhibit across various galleries. Read more about the show here.

Please meet inside the Museum’s main room on the second floor (follow the staircase behind information desk up to the second floor). While our event will end at 8pm, the Museum will remain open until 10pm and we encourage you to explore the galleries at your leisure. Parking is available at metered spaces near Palmer Square and along Nassau Street, or at public parking garages on Chambers, Hullfish, and Wiggins streets. RSVP to Lily Just: lilyajust@verizon.net by July 21.

Thursday, July 29
6:30 - 8:30
July Happy Hour - The Peacock Inn

Join us for our monthly happy hour on Thursday, July 29th at the newly revamped Peacock Inn in Princeton from 6:30 -8:30 pm. Come have fun, share a drink, and mingle with other alumni in the Greater Princeton area. Free admission, pay as you go for drinks and food. 20 Bayard Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540. Tel: 609-924-1707

Thursday, July 29th
7:00 - 8:30
July Networking Event - Princeton Township Municipal Complex

Do you want to learn how to set yourself apart from the pack and how to mount an effective marketing campaign for yourself? If so, join fellow Cornell Club of Central New Jersey and IvyPlus members for a free evening workshop led by Lloyd L. Feinstein of Career Marketing Consultants. Lloyd will provide strategies for positioning yourself for advancement in a difficult job market and communicating your value using P-A-R method (problem-action-result). Bring your pencil, pad and an open mind...you won't be disappointed!

Date: July 29, 2010

Time: 7pm-8:30pm (workshop 7pm-8:30pm, networking 8:30pm-9:30pm)Light refreshments will be served starting at 6:45pm

Location: Princeton Township Municipal Complex, Main Meeting Room

Address: 400 Witherspoon Street (at Witherspoon St. and Valley Rd), Princeton, NJ 08540

Directions can be found here: http://www.princetontwp.org/mappage.html Positioning Yourself for Advancement in a Difficult Job Market.

Positioning Yourself for Advancement in a Difficult Job Market

Using a combination of reliable marketing solutions, this presentation will lay out a strategy for achieving your career objectives. Managing your career with your present employer or making a move to a new employer will be the main focus. Topics include: defining the scope of the problem, myths about career advancement, analyzing yourself as a competitive product (key issue), and marketing strategies and methods for communicating your VALUE.

How to Communicate Your Value: P-A-R Workshop

This workshop will introduce you to the value of storytelling as it is applied to the job search process and career management. The origin of PAR will be discussed, its components and how to apply this classic communication methodology to your resume, cover letters, marketing letters and thank you letters. In addition, strategies will be reviewed for applying the methodology when preparing for your next performance review and merit raise.

Instructor: Lloyd L. Feinstein, president, Career Marketing Consultants of Murray Hill, New Jersey; co-author of Career Changing: The Worry-Free Guide, a book which has received wide acclaim including syndication by The New York Times, excerpted by The Wall Street Journal and Success Magazine, and selected as one of the top 10 career books by USA TODAY.http://www.careermarketing101.com.

RSVP by end of Tuesday, July 27, to Oksana Yuzefovich (oyuzefovich@yahoo.com), providing:

• Your name
• School, specialization, year
• Current affiliation or position
• Other industry experience
• Purpose for networking
• Anything else you want others to know about you or your company

We will send the list of attendees along with the information we collect from their RSVPs to everyone by Wednesday night to help you maximize the use of your time during networking.

IvyPlus February Announcements

Thank you to everyone that came out to the Tap Room last week. We raised over $325 for Partners in Health to support the disaster relief effort in Haiti . Thank you to our member Reva for thinking of putting this together, carrying it out and finding the Barak Raviv Foundation to match out donation.

Way to go Reva and way to go IvyPlus!

On deck for February:

Announcing el CLUB: an informal Spanish conversation group
First meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010
@ Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau St.
(lower bar, near the kitchen)
7:00 - 8:30PM



Anunciando el CLUB: un grupo informal de conversación en español
Primera reunión: miércoles 10 de Febrero, 2010
@ Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau St.
(bar bajo, cerca la cocina)
19:00 - 20:30

All levels from beginners to native speakers are welcome. The one and only rule of el CLUB is that only Spanish will be permitted. Contact Reva (revahaselkorn@gmail.com) with questions.

IvyPlus January Happy Hour - Hopewell Valley Vineyards

Robert Phillips playing live jazz guitar, wine to taste,
by the glass or by the bottle, and brick oven pizza.

FRIDAY, 2/19 - 6PM
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com
6-8 PM
46 Yard Road
Pennington, NJ 08534-3905
(609) 737-4465

Our January Happy Hour will be located at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington on FRIDAY Feb 19th from 6-8PM. Come have fun, share a drink, and mingle with other alumni in the Greater Princeton area at this month's IvyPlus happy hour.

Thank you from IvyPlus! Find us on facebook!

IvyPlus New Year's Eve Party

Let's Party Like it's 1999!

If you're not hiking Kilimanjaro or sipping champagne surf side in the Riviera Maya, join your favorite cognoscenti this New Year's Eve at Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton. We're basically crashing Triumph's party, so if you're looking for something fun to do, a way to share the evening with good company and possibly do a little dancing, come join us on Thursday, December 31st. There will be a DJ and cover is $10 for the evening. We'll gather at 8:30 near the back of the restaurant, on the lower level. It tends to be a bit busy on major holidays like this and we might not necessarily have space roped off. We're opting for no name tags so we don't look like geeks.

If you're interested in attending, let me know; when I have an idea of head count, I can try to get us dedicated space. I will send updates to those that RSVP. Details are as follows:

IvyPlus New Year's Eve Party
Triumph Brewing Company
Thursday, December 31st
8:30 PM
183 Nassau Street, Princeton

reply to: ReillyRJL@gmail.com

PA3, IvyPlus and Cornell Club of Central NJ present:

SOLD OUT!
November Wine Tasting: Discover Your Personal Wine Palate
In Place of our November Happy Hour

Are some wines better than others, or are there only wines that you like and wines that you don’t like? Find out on Nov 13, as Mark Censits, Cornell alum and Proprietor of award-winning wine shop CoolVines, takes you on a tour of your personal wine palate. You’ll taste your way through a broad array of wines of all different styles from all over the world. You’ll learn what “off-dry” means, what tannins taste – or feel – like, what “terroir” is. In short, you’ll learn the major factors that make wines taste different, and begin to identify your own personal wine palate.

Princeton's Triangle Show will be later in the evening! Some of the Princeton Alumni will walk over to the show after this event.

Please arrive as close to 6 as possible, the first glass of wine will be served upon arrival and the program will begin at 6:30.

We will gather from 6-8PM at Princeton's newly constructed Community House, an organization committed to closing the minority achievement gap in Princeton. Community House is located at 58 Prospect Ave and provides programs that bolster early childhood literacy, promote the mastery of fundamental academic skills, and create early awareness of post-secondary opportunities for underserved minority youth. Come enjoy great wine and great food to get the weekend started!

Friday, November 13th
Princeton University Community House
58 Prospect Ave, Princeton NJ
6:00 - 8:00 PM

-SOLD OUT-

Email Reilly for alternate payment options, to RSVP to pay at the door, to ask any questions or just to say "hi." (ReillyRJL@gmail.com).

CoolVines is the wine store for wine lovers. Specializing in authentically made wines from smaller, artisanal producers, rather than big-label commercial wines, CoolVines aims to bring you authenticity and value. Wines are presented according to how they taste and how they pair with food, so you need not be an expert to find wines of the style you like. Craft beers and spirits too. Fun gifts and accessories to support the wonderful culture of food, wine and friendship. Visit CoolVines in Princeton or Westfield, NJ or online at www.coolvines.com.

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