May Day, a yearly tradition at Bryn Mawr, continues once more! Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City as we celebrate the occasion in the city’s iconic Central Park. Enjoy a lively gathering focused on community, networking, and, of course, strawberries and cream. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, water, and sunscreen. For details about the location, plans in case of rain, and a speaker to be announced, follow the link below.

Thank you to everyone who made this event possible by contributing their dues, which help make alumnae/i events available at no cost to members.
Notice of Annual Meeting 2025

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City sends notice of its 2025 annual meeting to be held on Sunday, May 4, at 1:00 p.m. in Sheep Meadow in Central Park.

The business to be conducted consists of a report on the club’s activities by the president of the club, the treasurer’s report, and the election of club officers and board members.

Nominations for 2025 Annual Meeting

The officers and members in bold are nominated for the following positions:

 Dues Form

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City provides a full range of activities for alums in New York City and receives no financial support from the college or the Alumnae Association. Please help the club continue to offer exciting events and networking opportunities to Bryn Mawr alums in New York City. The suggested basic annual dues contribution is $50 ($30 for those from last decade), and larger amounts are welcome.

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Proxy Voting Form for Members Not Attending the Annual Meeting

Download, print and mail proxy form to

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
Old Chelsea Station, P.O. Box 437
New York, NY 10113

Completed proxy voting forms may also be emailed to brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

Central Park’s North Woods is one of the best-kept secrets of the park. The forty-acre woodland epitomizes the desire of landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to bring the healing powers of nature into a concrete jungle. This ninety-minute custom tour, given by Catherine Fredman ’80, an experienced Central Park Conservancy guide, will showcase the newly completed restoration of an area that once was synonymous with urban blight. We’ll see the reimagining of a playground and public pool, then follow a winding stream through the woods past three waterfalls to one of the loveliest bodies of water in the park.

Catherine Fredman ’80 is a ghostwriter who has collaborated on six bestselling leadership strategy books and memoirs. She was a volunteer tour guide with the Central Park Conservancy for twelve years. Despite living in New York for most of her life, she still finds new things to discover and delight in in the park.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

NOTE TIME CHANGE

An evening of art and cultural expression unfolds at the Nokmee New York Group Exhibition, featuring works by distinguished alumnae of Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, South Korea. This special exhibition, held at One Art Space in Tribeca and hosted by Seunghyun (Debbie) Lee ’24, showcases a diverse collection of artistic perspectives, blending tradition with contemporary vision.

As part of the experience, multidisciplinary artist and designer Yeonsoo, known for her work in mixed-media wearable art, will offer an intimate thirty-minute to one-hour guided tour of her pieces, which explore the boundaries between design, art, and personal expression, pushing creative limits with striking forms and textures.

Bryn Mawr and Seven Sisters alums are invited to engage with these compelling works, exchange ideas, and immerse themselves in the storytelling power of art.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pulls one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. As they are holed up in an old ballroom, the hours pass, the pressure mounts, and the truths that have always bound this group together are put to the test. What will be left when the sun rises?

FLASH SALE: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City has secured a small block of tickets to All Nighter, the hot new show about everyone’s worst night in college. Your palms are sweating, your head is throbbing (with caffeine and ideas), but will anything you write make sense? The second off-Broadway show by playwright Natalie Margolin, who has a project in development with Lorne Michaels’s Broadway Video, All-Nighter is directed by Jaki Bradley, who has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, and Ars Nova. The cast includes Tony nominees Kathryn Gallagher and Julia Lester. If you’re looking to catch up-and-coming stars on their way to the top—and spend a cool night out in Hell’s Kitchen—sign up quick.

Kayla Baquiran (Hford ’23) and Liana Wilson-Graff (Hford ’23) are launching a new event series called Ford Founders. To promote the series, they’re doing monthly “takeovers” of Haverford College’s LinkedIn page, connecting Bi-Co/Tri-Co alumnae/i in the spirit of entrepreneurship. They are thrilled to announce their kickoff panel, featuring remarkable entrepreneurs in food and beverage, on Thursday, April 3, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the 13th Storey (216 East 45th Street, 13th floor, 10017). There’ll be a little something for everyone—whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, business professional, passionate foodie, or just want to meet people. And yes, there will be (free!) food.

Stay tuned by subscribing to Kayla and Liana’s Luma page here and engaging with their LinkedIn content—like, comment, and share their first takeover here.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE! Due to popular demand – we have acquired a few more tickets for this event!

The Morgan Library & Museum, to mark its centenary as a public institution, is presenting an exhibition devoted to the life and career of its first director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). The tour, organized for the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, reveals the remarkable confidence and knowledge Greene brought to her roles as a librarian, scholar, curator, and cultural executive.

The daughter of Genevieve Ida Fleet Greener and Richard T. Greener, Greene was the first Black graduate of Harvard College and at birth was known by a different name: Belle Marion Greener. When her parents separated, in the 1890s, her mother changed the family surname to Greene, and the family began to pass as white in a racist and segregated America.

Greene’s position as the personal librarian for the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan as well as for his son and heir, J. P. Morgan Jr., is well known. What is less well understood are aspects of her education, private collecting, and deep social and professional networks. This exhibition traces the entirety of Greene’s journey, from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, DC, to her distinguished career at the helm of one the world’s greatest research libraries.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City is pleased to present its first theater outing of 2025! We have secured tickets to the hottest new show on Broadway, Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, which brings to life one woman’s healing journey among the redwoods after the unbearable loss of her son. The culmination of fifteen years of inspiration and dogged determination, Redwood is a collaboration between Menzel and director Tina Landau, with songs by Kate Diaz. Staged at the Nederlander, the theater where Menzel made her Broadway debut in Rent twenty-nine years ago, the musical is a moving tribute to renewal and community. Said Menzel in The New York Times, “The redwoods signify everything I think we strive for as human beings. Their roots clasp hands with each other and sustain each other and hydrate and fuel each other and hold each other up.”

Attendees are welcome to come along for dinner beforehand at the Penn Club, where we will be joined for a drink by one of the producers (reservation with organizer required).

For more details and to RSVP, click here

Come to Harlem to mingle with fellow Mawrters and dip your toes into the world of needle felting, a craft developed by wool workers in the 1980s. Needle felting is a process by which bundles of brightly colored wool are shaped—in this case, into small owls—by repeated stabs with a barbed needle. The craft is easy to learn, environmentally friendly, and intensely satisfying. The event will take place at the home of Molly Marion ’20.

Molly Marion (she/her) graduated from Bryn Mawr with a degree in political science. She currently helps run the after-school study-hall program at New York City’s Hewitt School. A lifelong artist and crafter, she is proficient in watercolor painting, linocut printing, digital illustration, and crochet.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

Join the Seven Sisters Alum Association for an exciting journey through Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, co-curated by Kiki Smith, Smith ’71. Explore the evolution of women’s fashion over the course of two centuries and discover the stories behind the garments (including Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scout uniform). Ideal for fashion enthusiasts and history buffs alike, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn housedresses to psychedelic microminis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms. Attendees will also have access to other exhibitions at the museum in addition to 10 percent off in the gift shop.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO RSVP, CLICK HERE

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City 2025 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest
Deadline: Friday, February 28, 4:00 p.m.

Topic: Hope for the Earth

For a fourth year, New York alumna Evelyn Barish ’56 is sponsoring a poetry prize to be awarded by the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to a Bryn Mawr alum. This year’s topic is hope for the earth. The poem should be submitted in traditional haiku format: three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.

The contest is open to all Mawrters, including graduate school alums, and requires no entry fee. Alums who live in the New York City region are especially encouraged to enter.

WHAT: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City 2025 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest
WHEN: Email or postmark entries by Friday, February 28, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
2025 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest Rules

• The deadline for all submissions is Friday, February 28, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. No late submissions will be accepted. Submissions may be made by email or US mail.
• Email: Please email your poem to brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com with the subject line “Poetry Contest.”
• US mail: Please mail your poem to Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, P.O. Box 437, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10113, postmarked no later than Friday, February 28, 2025.
• Each participant may submit only one poem.
• No entry fee is required.
• Each poem must conform to traditional haiku format: three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.
• The poem must be original work and not previously published.
• Eligibility is limited to alums of Bryn Mawr. Alums who live in the New York City region are especially encouraged to enter.
• All poems must be written in English.
• All poems must have a title.
• Winners will receive a check in the amount of $250.00.
• Winners must agree to the publication of the winning poem in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin and in electronic and social media communications from Bryn Mawr College and the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.
• All submissions must be accompanied by the following:
  • author’s name;
  • class year; and
  • contact information, including mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

Prize Selection and Announcement

The judges will select the winning poem in April, and the winner will be announced publicly shortly thereafter. The judges’ decision is final. If the judges do not find a poem worthy of the prize, no prize will be awarded.

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
2025 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest Judges

The following panel of judges (listed in order of class year) will review the submissions.

Evelyn Barish ’56: A native of New York, Evelyn graduated from Bryn Mawr College magna cum laude and studied at Oxford as a Fulbright scholar while earning a PhD from New York University. Her four literary biographies, based on archival sources, include Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy (a recipient of Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award), chosen by the Modern Language Association as “the year’s best work of criticism and scholarship,” and The Double Life of Paul De Man, for which the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City hosted a launch party in 2014. Evelyn has received numerous fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Helen Thurston ’74: A lover of poetry, thanks to high school teachers who went to Bryn Mawr, Helen believes in the transformative power of the arts to influence ideas and hearts and to support efforts for the public good. After graduating from Bryn Mawr with a degree in English, Helen worked in Boston city government, on Wall Street, and at not-for-profit education and arts institutions. She now is a consultant in the areas of historic preservation, the arts, sustainable natural development, and nonprofit programming. While at Bryn Mawr, she served on the Haverford College student council. She holds degrees from Université d’Aix-Marseille II and Columbia Business School. Helen has been involved with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for more than fifteen years and presently serves as president emerita. Under her program-focused leadership, the club has welcomed more than four thousand attendees to an extensive variety of monthly events.

Barbara Clark ’79: Barbara was an English major at Bryn Mawr, where she won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize for best single poem. Shortly after graduation, she began her career in book publishing, where she’s been ever since—except for three years in the mid-1990s, during which she earned her MFA in acting. She is currently a freelance book editor as well as the career adviser for the Columbia Publishing Course. She also serves as member at large on the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City board. In 2022, her haiku “Goodhart Hall” won the inaugural Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest.

Trilby V John ’98: Trilby is a program manager for the Office of Teacher Recruitment and Quality at the New York City Department of Education. After decades as a English teacher, she is elated to now be leading the team that hires and trains new teachers. Trilby serves as the ’90s representative to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

Alisha Park ’13: Alisha graduated from Bryn Mawr with a degree in anthropology and an interest in environmental sustainability. Shortly thereafter, she moved to Newark, New Jersey, and served as an AmeriCorps teaching fellow for two years. Also in New Jersey, she cofounded the environmental nonprofit organization Greener JC and completed an MBA in finance at Rutgers Business School. An avocational writer, she is a former participant in the Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest. Alisha serves as president of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

Inspired by the celebration of WTF Week on campus, Happy Friday Happy Hours are events held regionally during the spring semester and hosted by GOLD alums. Meet other alums in your area, enjoy refreshments courtesy of the college, and celebrate the newest group of Mawrters being welcomed to the BMC community!

For more information: 
Email Liz Horvath ’20, assistant director of alumnae/i engagement.

For more details and to RSVP, click here

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City: Lizard-Making Party

Sunday, January 26, 3:00-5:00pm

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City in the timeless tradition of lizard making for first-year students from the Greater New York City area. Bring a thermos and your art supplies- ribbons, bows, cards, markers, stickers, glue – for creating and sharing. The event will be held at the apartment of Alisha Park ’13 (address provided upon registration) and is limited to fifteen participants – first come, first served. Light refreshments will be provided. Help us welcome the class of 2028!

Membership dues are integral to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City’s success – without them, there would be no club. Club dues directly support supplies for the event and continuing to provide no-cost events to Greater New York City alumnae/i.

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For more details, email us here: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for a performance of Our Town on Broadway, followed by an optional post-theater dinner at the Italian restaurant Becco. We have a limited supply of orchestra seats (rows P and Q) for Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon and starring Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons. This timeless new production sports a modern, diverse cast that includes Richard Thomas, Katie Holmes, and Michelle Wilson. In Wilder’s universal tale of a small town, a stage manager narrates the daily lives of its locals, depicts a childhood friendship that turns into a marriage, and sets the stage for the magnificent truths of what it means to be alive.

Jesse Green of the New York Times hails the production as “an Our Town for all of us” and praises Parsons for “his light touch and cynical sang-froid.” Green writes that the play is both “brutal and avant-garde after 86 years,” highlighting the multicultural cast as well as the production design. Aramide Tinubu writes in Variety that the production “captures the most magnificent part of the human experience—life itself. Its outstanding performances and minimalistic set design by Beowulf Boritt highlight the brevity and magic of being alive.”

Director Kenny Leon said, “I grew up thinking it wasn’t a play for me, but later in life I thought, ‘If you just include more people, it’s a play about our time and our planet and each other.’”

Attendees are welcome to come along for dinner afterward at Becco, where we will be joined by one of the producers, Gabby Palitz, for a drink and post-show discussion (reservation with organizer required).

WHAT: Performance of Our Town with optional dinner and post-show discussion with producer at Becco afterward

WHEN: Saturday, December 7, 2:00 p.m. curtain

WHERE:

• Theater: Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47 Street, New York, NY 10036. Please meet Sabrina Seidner at the entrance to the theater at 1:45 p.m. She will hand out tickets. Late-arrival tickets will be left at the box office.
• Restaurant: Becco, 355 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036

HOW MUCH: $145 per ticket. Dinner is à la carte. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support programming for Bryn Mawr alumnae/i.

RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited—first come, first served. Friends welcome.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DINNER RESERVATIONS, CONTACT: Sabrina Seidner ’85 at sjseidner@gmail.com. Please use “Becco after Our Town RSVP” in the subject line for dinner reservations.

Get ready for Crafts of Cairo sale, where you can purchase beautiful and reasonably priced gifts for your loved ones made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment, a job-skills training program for women living and working in the zabbaleen (garbage recyclers) community in Cairo. The dazzling array of goods—including rugs, jewelry, quilts, tote bags, potholders, stuffed toys, pillows, holiday decorations, and stationery—is all handmade from cleaned and recycled materials. Proceeds from your purchases will go toward the funding of a school in Mokattam, an area above Cairo’s Citadel, which teaches women and girls from the zabbaleen community reading, writing, arithmetic, and marketable skills such as weaving, sewing, recycling, and embroidery. The school helps the community take a step out of poverty.

Shoppers are invited to gather at Anassa Taverna on Sunday, December 15, for some post-shopping refreshment. Meet the club president, Alisha Park, at the sale at noon. She will lead a group to the restaurant at 2:30 p.m. from the church entrance.

WHAT: Crafts of Cairo Sale, hosted by Suzan Habachy ’54 and Nimet Habachy ’67, with optional gathering at Anassa Taverna
WHEN:
Friday, December 13, 12:00–6:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 14, 12:00–6:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 15, 11:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Sale: St. Mary and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, 237 East 62 Street (between Second and Third Avenues), New York, NY 10065
Restaurant: Anassa Taverna, 200 East 60 Street (just east of Third Avenue), New York, NY 10022
HOW MUCH: Admission to the sale is free; refreshments are à la carte. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support programming for Bryn Mawr alumnae/i.
RSVP HERE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Alisha Park ’13 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Fall is here, and with it the annual Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Welcome to the City event, which welcomes our newest alums to the Big Apple.

Every year, Bryn Mawr alumnae/i clubs around the country host informal gatherings to welcome our most recent graduates to the alumnae/i community in their regions. The events provide an opportunity for all alums to reconnect with classmates, network, and make new friends. It’s the perfect time to meet club board members, sip some wine, enjoy some snacks and savory treats, and celebrate all things Bryn Mawr.

Whether you’re new to the city yourself or a lifelong resident, your advice and support for those who’ve just landed will be invaluable. Join us and see why Bryn Mawr has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most tightly knit, active, and vibrant alumnae networks.

WHAT: Annual Welcome to the City event for 2024 graduates and city newcomers; all class years are invited
WHEN: Sunday, November 17, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Upper West Side home of Marcia Cantarella ’68; address provided upon RSVP
HOW MUCH:

• Class of 2024: Free
• Alumnae who paid 2024–2025 membership dues: Free
• Other alumnae: $15

RSVP HERE.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Alisha Park ’13 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

This custom tour, given by an experienced Central Park Conservancy guide, will be a step-by-step exploration of the thinking that went into designing and creating Central Park, the first purpose-built public park in the United States. We’ll begin at Hunter’s Gate, the entrance at 81st Street and Central Park West. After walking through what was once Seneca Village and the remnants of the footings of an enormous reservoir, we’ll climb up to Belvedere Castle, then amble back down through the Ramble, a “naturalistic” woodland meant to provide an escape from the stresses of urban life. Along the way, we’ll see how landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux played with the picturesque, pastoral, and formal design traditions before crossing Bow Bridge to end our tour.

This tour will take between ninety minutes and two hours. There will be steep steps going up to the castle and down into the Ramble.

Catherine Fredman ’80 is a ghostwriter who has collaborated on six bestselling leadership-strategy books and memoirs. She was a volunteer tour guide with the Central Park Conservancy for twelve years. Despite living in New York for most of her life, she still finds new things to discover and delight in in the park.

WHAT: Guided Walking Tour of Central Park with Catherine Fredman ’80
WHEN: Sunday, October 27, 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: 81st Street and Central Park West entrance to Central Park, at Hunter’s Gate
HOW MUCH: $25. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and are nonrefundable—first come, first served. Friends welcome.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Becky Hahn ’07 at
brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City as we kick off the fall theater season with an outing to Water for Elephants, the hit Broadway musical that garnered seven Tony nominations and was chosen as a New York Times critic’s pick. Frank Rizzo of Variety called the production “spellbinding,” adding that it “could be the greatest show on Broadway.” Jesse Green of the New York Times called it a “huge and heart-filling musical,” adding, “The director Jessica Stone’s stunning, emotional production . . . leads with movement, eye candy, and awe.”

Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Sara Gruen, the play brings the experience of circus animals, their handlers, and performers to life against the darkness of the Depression, creating a dazzling show.

Attendees are welcome to join the group at 5:00 p.m. for dinner at nearby Sardi’s restaurant (reservation with organizer required).

WHAT: Performance of Water for Elephants with optional dinner at Sardi’s beforehand
WHEN: Thursday, September 12, 7:00 p.m. curtain; dinner at 5:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Theater: Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45 Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), New York, NY 10036
Restaurant: Sardi’s, 234 West 44 Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), New York, NY 10036
Please meet Sabrina Seidner at the entrance to the theater at 6:45 p.m. She will hand out tickets. Late-arrival tickets will be left at the box office.
HOW MUCH: $135. Dinner is à la carte. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited—first come, first served. Friends welcome.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND TO MAKE DINNER RESERVATIONS, CONTACT: Sabrina Seidner ’85 at sjseidner@gmail.com

It has come to our attention that there will be a 10K race in Central Park on June 8 that will disrupt our planned itinerary. We have made the decision to move the walk to the North Woods. The date and time will remain the same, but our new meeting location will be the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, on the north shore of the Harlem Meer, inside the park at 110th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. (Take the B or C train to Cathedral Parkway/110th Street or the 2 or 3 train to Central Park North/110th Street.) Thank you for understanding, and we hope you enjoy the tour of the North Woods.

The tour will begin at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, on the north shore of the Harlem Meer, inside the park at 110th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. (Take the B or C train to Cathedral Parkway/110th Street or the 2 or 3 train to Central Park North/110th Street.) The tour will end at 100th Street and Central Park West. There are some steps and steep paths.

Catherine Fredman ’80 is a ghostwriter who has collaborated on six bestselling leadership strategy books and memoirs. She was a volunteer tour guide with the Central Park Conservancy for twelve years. Despite living in New York for most of her life, she still finds new things to discover and delight in in the park.

WHAT: Guided walking tour of Central Park’s North Woods with Catherine Fredman ’80
WHEN: Saturday, June 8, 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, on the north shore of the Harlem Meer, inside the park at 110th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard
RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and nonrefundable—first come, first served. Friends welcome.
HOW MUCH: $25
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Becky Hahn ’07 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Anassa Kata! Join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City in this year’s jubilant celebration of May Day, with festivities, strawberries and cream, and, of course, excellent company. The event, which includes our annual meeting, will take place at the apartment of Jennifer Suh Whitfield ’98, a Bryn Mawr College trustee. Mingle with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City board, learn about upcoming events, and celebrate with alumnae from all decades. Further details about this exciting event to come.

Although our May Day celebration is free to attend, please remember to pay your annual membership dues, which support the club’s extensive and lively programming.

WHAT: Bryn Mawr Club of New York City May Day celebration and annual meeting
WHEN: Saturday, May 18, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
WHERE: 1 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
HOW MUCH: Free. Please pay club dues HERE.
RSVP HERE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mina Bansal ’17 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com.

Jennifer’s apartment is located just across the East River from Manhattan.

By car, cross the Brooklyn Bridge and head down Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard until you reach Brooklyn Borough Hall. The building is on the corner of Boerum Place and Fulton Street. Please give your name at the front desk, and you will be directed to the event space.

By subway: Borough Hall (2,3); Jay Street–Metrotech (A,C,F); Court Street (N,R,W)

SOLD OUT!

How will they do it
when it’s never been done?

Following a sold-out extended run at the Public Theater, Suffs arrives on Broadway this spring—and not a moment too soon. From the singular mind of Shaina Taub, this “remarkable, epic new musical” (Variety), coproduced by Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, boldly explores the victories and failures of a struggle for equality that’s far from over.

It’s 1913, and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists—“Suffs,” as they call themselves—and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment more than a century ago, yet we’re reminded sometimes that we need to look back in order to march fearlessly into the future.

WHAT: Performance of Suffs: The Musical, hosted by Laura M. Gellert ’93
WHEN: Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Music Box Theater, 239 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036. Please meet Laura Gellert at the entrance to the theater at 6:45 p.m. She will hand out tickets. Late-arrival tickets will be left at the box office.
HOW MUCH: SOLD OUT! $125 per ticket. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums
RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and are nonrefundable—first come, first served. Friends welcome.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Laura M. Gellert ’93 at lmgellert@gmail.com

Join us for a docent-led tour of what Time Out calls one of the best museum exhibitions in New York City.

The End of Fossil Fuel, the last exhibition at the pop-up Climate Museum before it leaves New York City, explores how the fossil fuel industry, whose product is causing the climate crisis, manages to keep making a killing off of killing us—and what we can do about it. The exhibition features artist R. Gregory Christie’s forty-five-foot mural Making Tomorrow, which examines the impact of the climate crisis on the American landscape, both real and imagined, as well as a climate action incubator, interactive maps, and more inspiring activities. Overall, the exhibition tells a story that encompasses the hard truths we must confront to arrive at a vibrant, earned belief in the better future we can make together.

R. Gregory Christie is an artist and an illustrator of children’s books and more. He is an NAACP Image Award winner, a six-time Coretta Scott King Honor recipient, and a Caldecott Honor winner. He’s won additional awards from the New York Times, the Museum of Tolerance, and the Boston Globe. Christie is focused on encouraging audiences to find a love for learning and to build bridges of empathy.

The Climate Museum is the first museum dedicated to climate change in the United States. Its programming integrates art, social science, and activism to deepen understanding of the climate crisis, build connections, and advance just solutions. The Climate Museum’s interactive exhibitions have engaged the public in settings as diverse as the New York Estuary, Rockefeller Center, Washington Square Park, and Governors Island.

Alisha Park ’13 is a new Bryn Mawr Club of New York City board member who is passionate about climate matters. While at Bryn Mawr, she was co-chair of Green Ambassadors, a student group focusing on sustainability and heat reductions in the dormitories, and received a Sustainability Leadership Award in 2013. After Bryn Mawr, she cofounded Greener JC, an environmental nonprofit group in New Jersey, celebrating five years in 2024.

WHAT: Docent-led tour of the pop-up Climate Museum exhibition The End of Fossil Fuel, organized by Alisha Park ’13
WHEN: Saturday, April 6, 1:45 p.m.
WHERE: 120 Wooster Street (between Prince and Spring Streets)
HOW MUCH: $25 per person; adults and children welcome
RSVP HERE. Please respond by April 1. Space is limited; first come, first served. Reservations are transferable but not refundable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Alisha Park ’13 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com or 617-276-7792

It’s a leap year. What will you do with that extra day? We hope you’ll join us at the first happy hour of the year with the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC! Come celebrate the leap year with us.

WHAT: Leap Year Happy Hour
WHEN: Thursday, February 29, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
WHERE: La Lanterna di Vittorio, next door to 129 MacDougal Street (between West 3rd and West 4th Streets)
RSVP:  RSVP HERE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jill Li ’18 at jillvyli@gmail.com

As a corrective to histories that define slavery and anti-Black racism as a largely southern issue, Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North offers a new window into Black representation in a region often overlooked in accounts of early African American history.

Through 125 remarkable works, including paintings, needlework, and photographs, this exhibition invites visitors to focus on figures who appear in—or are omitted from—early American images and will challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the region’s history between the late 1600s and early 1800s.

Afterward, weather permitting, we can cross to the square at Lincoln Center to sit and chat or gather in a local restaurant for a bite to eat, Dutch treat.

Elizabeth Warren ’72, president of the American Folk Art Museum board of trustees, will lead the tour. Elected to the presidency of the board in 2019, Elizabeth has served on the museum’s board since 2007. She was a curator at the museum from 1984 to 1991 and subsequently served as a consulting and guest curator. She has organized a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions, many of which have been accompanied by books, including Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts (2011), The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball (2003–2004), and Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (2019). After graduating with an AB from Bryn Mawr, where she also served on the board of trustees, she received her MA from New York University in folk art studies.

WHAT: Tour of Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North at the American Folk Art Museum led by Elizabeth Warren ’72
WHEN:  Saturday, February 24, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Avenue at West 66th Street)
HOW MUCH: $25. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP:  RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and nonrefundable; first come, first served.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Helen Thurston ’74 at hthurston77@earthlink.net

The New York Times calls Prayer for the French Republic “thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, and wickedly funny.” The Wall Street Journal raves, Prayer is “easily the finest play of the Broadway season.”

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City has reserved a block of orchestra seats for a matinee of the acclaimed Prayer for the French Republic, a timely drama set in Paris in which five generations of a Jewish family grapple with the need to hold on to each other as they reel from historic persecutions that are shockingly familiar. Directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic—winner of the 2022 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for best new off-Broadway play—is a crackling tour de force bringing to the stage one family’s need for connection amid growing anti-Semitic threats.

The show has a run time of three hours with two intermissions, so afterward we will be hungry for conversation and food! Let us know if you would like to join us at 6:00 p.m. for dinner at the kosher French restaurant Le Marais, a block from the theater.

WHAT: Matinee of Prayer for the French Republic and optional post-theater dinner at kosher French restaurant Le Marais
WHEN: Sunday, February 11, 2:00 p.m. curtain; dinner at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47 Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue); Le Marais, 150 West 46 Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)
HOW MUCH: $125 for the matinee; dinner à la carte. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums
RSVP: RSVP HERE for the matinee. Tickets are limited and nonrefundable; first come, first served. Friends welcome. To RSVP for the dinner, contact Sabrina Seidner ’85 at sjseidner@gmail.com
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Sabrina Seidner ’85 at sjseidner@gmail.com

The Space at Irondale
85 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Terce: A Practical Breviary is a radical rethinking of a monastic mass that reimagines the face of the Holy Spirit through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Sung by a community choir of 30-plus caregivers and makers, it is a wild meditation/celebration of the sacred mother alive in all of us and how that manifests in regard to the Earth, each other, and ourselves. Inspired by ideas taken from three primary female mystics (Julian of Norwich, Hildegard von Bingen, and Robin Wall Kimmerer), this non-narrative song cycle—a blend of new music, neo-soul, and gospel with traditional medieval organum—is percussed with active caretaking and craft making and is danced wildly. More of an event than an opera, it is built as an active ritual to celebrate and venerate our feminine alignment with nature and recover from living in the confines of a civilization built to control or ignore it.

Terce has been commissioned, developed, and produced through HERE&Back (a program of HERE) as part of PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now.

Co-presented with the Space at Irondale.

HERE&Back encompasses projects developed and produced by HERE and helmed by established artists with deep connections to HERE.

The Club thanks Jennifer Suh Whitfield ’98 for bringing this special musical theatrical experience to our attention and underwriting a portion of the GOLD tickets. Jennifer, a former board member of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, is a member of the Bryn Mawr College board of trustees and chair of the board of directors of HERE Arts Center.

Tickets are non-refundable and limited, with reservations on a first come, first served basis. A portion of the ticket price goes toward supporting the Club’s work on behalf of alums.

WHAT: Performance of Terce: A Practical Breviary
WHEN: Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m. 
WHERE: The Space at Irondale, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
HOW  MUCH: GOLD $55; regular $75. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP: RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and nonrefundable; first come, first served.

The award-winning HERE was named a Top Ten Off-Off Broadway Theater by Time Out New York and is a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performances viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines—theatre, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual and installation, spoken word and performance art. HERE is a producer, presenter, and venue for local and global ground-breaking artists.

HERE’s standout productions include Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Taylor Mac’s The Hang and The Lily’s Revenge, Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle’s all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Robin Frohardt’s The Pigeoning, and Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique, as well as works directed by Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting, including James Scruggs’s Disposable Men and Kamala Sankaram’s Looking at You.

In addition to its extensive producing work with local artists through its HERE Artist Residency Program, HERE presents work from New York, across the country, and around the globe through its Dream Music Puppetry Program (co-curated with Basil Twist), and its widely acclaimed PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre, co-curated and co-produced with Beth Morrison Projects.

As a welcoming venue, HERE proudly curates adventurous artists, companies and productions, whether emerging or recognized, through its SubletSeries.

Since its founding in 1993, HERE and the artists it has supported have received 18 Obies, 2 Bessies, 5 Drama Desk nominations, 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Doris Duke Awards, 7 Tony nominations, and 2 MacArthur Fellowships.

HERE.org

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

For a third year, New York alum Evelyn Barish ’56 is sponsoring a poetry prize to be awarded by the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to a Bryn Mawr graduate. This year’s topic is endings or beginnings—or both. The poem should be submitted in traditional haiku format: three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.

The contest is open to all Mawrter alums, including graduate school alums, and requires no entry fee.

WHAT: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City 2024 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest
WHEN: Email or postmark entries by Friday, March 8, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

SOLD OUT

Get to know the cultural landmark that has inspired great artists for more than a century. Take a private guided tour of Carnegie Hall and experience the history and magic of this legendary New York City institution. From Tchaikovsky conducting the venue’s inaugural performance to Martin Luther King speaking from its legendary stage to Marlon Brando living above the Stern Auditorium, this building has seen it all. Come and find out what makes Carnegie Hall so special in this fascinating peek behind the scenes.

This tour has been organized by Leila Ghaznavi ’01, a theatrical artist of American-Iranian descent who serves on the Board of the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC. She has a diverse career working as a puppeteer for stage and television as well as working as a fundraiser for Carnegie Hall with a specialization in corporate relations and sponsorships. She is also the General Manager of Pantea Productions, a multidisciplinary theatrical company that combines puppetry, dance, animation, Middle Eastern Cultural influences, and live performances.

For more information, visit: https://www.carnegiehall.org/

WHAT: Private tour of Carnegie Hall
WHEN:  Saturday, January 27, 2024, 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Carnegie Hall box office, 881 Seventh Avenue at 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
HOW MUCH: $20. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP: RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited; first come, first served. SOLD OUT
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leila Ghaznavi ’01 at leilag@gmail.com

A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and the Contemporaries is the first exhibition to explore the work and impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902–57), the first woman in the United States to open her own printmaking workshop. Lowengrund was a visionary leader, organizer, and critic and a driving force behind the revival of artistic lithography.

Lowengrund’s the Contemporaries, a vibrant print workshop and gallery, was the hub of printmaking activity in midcentury New York City. The show brings together a diverse selection of objects, including seventy-nine prints, one sculpture, and various ephemera, by artists such as Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Warrington Colescott, Jim Dine, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), David Hockney, Sister Corita Kent, Lee Krasner, Shiko Munakata, Gabor Peterdi, Liliana Porter, David Smith, June Wayne, and Adja Yunkers, among others. Co-curator Lauren Rosenblum will lead a forty-five-minute tour of the exhibition.

Lauren Rosenblum ’04 is the Jensen Bryan curator at the Print Center, Philadelphia, and a doctoral candidate in the prestigious CUNY Graduate Center art history program. As a fellow at the James Gallery, she investigates structural insecurities in academia and art museums. Prior to joining the program, she was a curatorial assistant in the department of prints and drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a fellow in prints and drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lauren has taught art history at the University of New Haven, the University of Houston, the City College of the City University of New York, and Purchase College.

WHAT: A Guided Tour of the Print Center by Lauren Rosenblum ’04
WHEN: Saturday, December 9, 3:00 p.m. 
WHERE: The Print Center, 535 West 24 Street,
New York, NY 10011
HOW  MUCH: $25. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support Club programming for Bryn Mawr alums.
RSVP: RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited and nonrefundable; first come, first served.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mina Bansal ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com

First Come, First Served!
The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City has reserved a block of ten tickets for the 7:00 p.m. performance of Poor Yella Rednecks, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center, on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. This can be combined with a 5:30 p.m. pre-theater dinner at the nearby Vietnamese fusion restaurant Murals on 54.

The Club is delighted to continue its arts and culture gatherings highlighting underrepresented voices with this second installment of inventive playwright and Marvel screenwriter Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone trilogy. Drawing on his childhood in El Dorado, Arkansas, where he was born and raised by his Vietnamese refugee parents, Nguyen offers a multifaceted take on growing up as a first-generation American while remaining connected to his family’s roots.

The Manhattan Theatre Club, founded in 1972 by its award-winning artistic director, Bryn Mawr alum and trustee Lynne Meadow ’68, is bringing to New York the show that the Bay Area’s Mercury News called “tart and refreshing.” In its rave review of the San Francisco production, Broadway World said, “Nguyen’s vision of his family life in 1970s Midwest USA after leaving war-torn Saigon [is] full of rap beats, slo-mo martial arts, sarcasm, and romance.”

Join us before the show for dinner at Murals on 54, a unique dining experience located in the Warwick Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The restaurant’s walls are adorned with Dean Cornwell’s historic 1937 murals depicting scenes of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I. The prix fixe dinner, offering an array of contemporary Vietnamese fusion dishes, will include a choice of cocktail or wine, appetizers for the table, and a choice of three entrees.

WHAT: Manhattan Theatre Club production of Poor Yella Rednecks; pre-theater dinner optional

WHEN: Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 7:00 p.m. curtain; 5:30 p.m. dinner

WHERE: Theater: New York City Center, Stage 1, 131 West 55 Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue; Restaurant: 65 West 54 Street at Avenue of the Americas

HOW MUCH: $75 show only, $190 show + dinner. In addition, we would appreciate club dues to support future programs

RSVP: RSVP HERE

As the leaves begin to turn and we start to don our sweaters, Robert Frost’s words come to mind – “nothing gold can stay”…unless you’re a Mawrter!

This NYC summer has been long, humid, and hot. So, come celebrate the change in seasons with your fellow Mawrter’s at Porchlight’s southern happy hour. Mint juleps and fried chicken are optional.

WHAT: Happy Hour at Porchlight

WHEN: Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Porchlight (271 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

RSVP: RSVP HERE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mina Bansal ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com or Jill Li ’18 at jillvli@gmail.com

Folk art has flourished in the heart of New York City since the eighteenth century and continues to do so today! Join us on Saturday, September 23rd as we view the beautiful newly renovated galleries and tour the exhibitions of the Museum of Folk Art with Bryn Mawr College Trustee and President of the Folk-Art Museum Elizabeth Warren’72!

SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST ONLY

Gather at the Museum of Folk Art with Elizabeth Warren, as she explores the beauty and impact of art on the human experience in What That Quilt Knows About Me and Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work.

What That Quilt Knows About Me – This exhibition features 35 quilts and related works of art that explore the deeply personal and emotional power associated with the experience of making and living with quilts. The exhibition’s title conveys the idea that quilts have the capacity for “knowing” or containing information about the human experience. Reflecting on this sentiment, the exhibition presents quilts as collections of intimate stories.

Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work – Material Witness is the first in a series of thematic shows drawn from the Museum’s collection and generously supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Featuring nearly 150 works of art, this exhibition chronicles how artists across four centuries have utilized various components of the material world.

Afterwards, weather permitting, we can cross to the square at Lincoln Center to sit and chat or gather in a local restaurant for a bite to eat, Dutch treat.

Elizabeth Warren ’72 has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Folk Art Museum since 2007 and was elected President in 2019. Previously she was curator at the Museum from 1984 until 1991, and subsequently a consulting and guest curator. She has organized a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions, many of which have been accompanied by books, including Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts (2011), The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball (2003-2004), and Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (2019). After graduating with an AB from Bryn Mawr College, where Ms. Warren currently serves on the Board of Trustees, she received her MA from New York University in Folk Art Studies.

WHAT: Welcome Tour of Galleries and Exhibitions with Bryn Mawr College Trustee and President of the Folk Art Museum Elizabeth Warren ’72

WHEN: Saturday, September 23rd at 11:30 AM

 RSVP: RSVP HERE. (Space is limited; first come, first served). SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST ONLY

WHERE: The Museum of Folk Art (2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at West 66th Street)

HOW MUCH: $25. In addition, we would appreciate Club Dues to support Club programing for Bryn Mawr alums.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lucille Blair ’76 at lucilleblair95@gmail.com

UPDATE: The weather goddesses finally cooperated and a great time was had by all! Here is some photographic evidence:

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York and the Seven Sister Alum Association would like to invite you to a summer picnic at Central Park! Bring a picnic blanket and some snacks (though light refreshments will be provided). Chat with one of our “siblings,” throw around a football, or just sit back and enjoy the sun – we won’t judge!

Make sure you register so we can keep you alerted of any changes in location due to weather!

WHAT: Summer Picnic with the Seven Sisters Alum Association

WHEN – RESCHEDULED: Sunday, July 23rd at 11:00 AM

WHERE: RSVP HERE. Central Park (Sheep’s Meadow – we’ll have balloons marking our spot!)

HOW MUCH: Free

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mina Bansal BMC ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com

Attend this year’s summer send-off party to welcome incoming Mawrters and their families to the Bryn Mawr College community. This informal gathering is designed to ease the anxiety of leaving home, foster a sense of community amongst alumnae/i and current students, and celebrate being part of Bryn Mawr. It is also a time for parents and family members to build their own support systems as families embark on this journey together. Please register by July 27th.

WHAT: Summer Send-Off party for the incoming class

WHEN: Tuesday, August 1st from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

WHERE: RSVP HERE by July 27th. Hosted by Diane Jaffee & David O’Brien P’21 in New York, NY

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: sendoffs@brynmawr.edu

UPDATE: We had a great group of people thinking pink and having a wonderful time with Barbie!

When she is “expelled from Barbieland for being a less-than-perfect doll,” Barbie sets off to the real world to find true happiness in this modern interpretation on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.  Come watch a true masterpiece of cinema with your fellow Mawrters on opening weekend. We’ve reserved a block of seats and popcorn is on us!

Oppenheimer is playing at 10:50 AM and 7:00 PM in case you want to make it a “Boppenheimer” double viewing.

WHAT: 2023 Barbie Movie Viewing

WHEN: Saturday, July 22nd at 3:00 PM (Please come 10 minutes early so we can pass out tickets)

WHERE: RSVP HERE. Located at Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, New York, NY 10003)

HOW MUCH: $25 (includes concessions)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mina Bansal BMC ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com 

TICKETS: $20 general seating; $10 for alums graduating in 2013-2023

(Ticket sales support the Chamber Singers by reducing expenses for current students. Tickets purchased at the door are CASH ONLY.)

This concert is made possible by generous support from Hugh Rosenbaum ’60.

The Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, a mixed choir of 28 voices, perform challenging repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present day in a variety of languages and styles. In addition to students majoring in music, the ensemble also attracts students from many other majors who wish to perform challenging choral works in a more intimate setting. The Chamber Singers have collaborated with arts organizations and colleges throughout the northeastern United States and frequently explores music from cultures that are not widely represented in the greater choral world. The group has also undertaken numerous foreign and domestic tours, including a 2022 tour of Quebec.

The concert program for Spring 2023 will include works by Goudimel, Schubert, Elaine Hagenberg, Ned Rorem, Stacey Gibbs, Kenneth Frazelle, and Moses Hogan. A set of four pieces will celebrate the choral traditions of Argentina and Venezuela. Maria Dell’Orefice accompanies the ensemble.

 Nathan Zullinger, conductor is an Assistant Professor at Haverford College, where he conducts the Chorale, the Chamber Singers, supervises private vocal study, and teaches courses in the Department of Music. Through the Bi-College Partnership, he also teaches students from Bryn Mawr College. During his tenure he has premiered six new compositions, conducted numerous performances of lesser-known choral masterpieces, and led concert tours to Boston and Quebec. He was presented with the Innovation in Teaching award by Haverford College in 2021 and served as a Faculty Marshall for the Class of 2022. In addition, Dr. Zullinger is the Associate Conductor and Director of Community Engagement for the Singing City Choir of Philadelphia. He studies voice with Dr. Bradley Williard.

In 2020, Dr. Zullinger formed Viva Voce, a professional choral ensemble to perform and record Curt Cacioppo’s Women of Ancient Greek Myth for Albany Records. The recording was balloted for a Grammy award and won the Ernest Bacon Prize for American Choral Music Performance in 2021. Viva Voce returned to the concert stage in September 2022 with music by Hugo Distler and Heinrich Schutz.

From 2014 until 2018, Dr. Zullinger was a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. At UNCSA, he taught courses in conducting and aural skills and conducted the Cantata Singers, an ensemble of vocal performance majors. In addition, Dr. Zullinger taught for three years at the University of Rhode Island. At URI he conducted the University Chorus, taught aural skills and music appreciation, accompanied voice students, and served as conductor of the Opera Orchestra.

Dr. Zullinger graduated from Chambersburg (PA) Area Senior High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Messiah College. While at Messiah, he studied conducting and voice with Linda Tedford and founded the Messiah College Student Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Zullinger received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in conducting from Boston University, where he studied with Ann Howard Jones, Dennis Shrock, and David Hoose.

 WHAT: Concert and reception with the Bi-Co Haverford Bryn Mawr Chamber Chorus

 WHEN: Tuesday, May 16th at 7:00 PM, with reception at 8:15 PM

 WHERE: RSVP HERE General Seating: $20, Alums graduating in 2013 – 2023: $10). Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, 160 Central Park West

 HOW MUCH: Tickets go on sale April 1st.

 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Helen Thurston ’74 at hthurston77@earthlink.net

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for its 2023 Annual Meeting, on Thursday, May 11th, from 7:30 PM, via Zoom. The few minutes of business to be conducted consists of a report on the Club’s activities by the President of the Club, the Treasurer’s Report, the passage of a resolution, and the election of Club Officers and Board Members.

The Annual Meeting will be followed by a poetry reading from special guest, Emma Wippermann ’12, the recipient of the 2023 Whiting Award for poetry and drama. Emma is the author of the forthcoming Joan of Arkansas (Ugly Duckling Presse), a queer drama about climate catastrophe and political divinity. Her previous works also consist of Pleasure as a Series of Objects (Patient Sounds, 2019), jubilat, Omniverse, Second Factory, No, Dear, Oversound, Temporary Art Review, and Organism for Poetic Research. Currently, Emma lives in Brooklyn, has an MFA from Brown University, and is working on her first novel.

Resolution: WHEREAS, The Board of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City seeks to update its bylaws, now be it resolved that: A new position of Assistant Treasurer will be added to the Board, to serve for a term of 2 years. The Assistant Treasurer will support the Treasurer by taking on various responsibilities requested by the Treasurer.

The officers and members in bold are nominated for the following positions:

Support the Club with your Annual Membership DUES HERE. Dues help support lively programming to connect and celebrate Bryn Mawr alums. If you are not able to attend by Zoom but want the Annual Meeting proxy voting form, click HERE.

WHAT: The Annual Meeting of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City with Special Guest Emma Wippermann ’12, winner of the 2023 Whiting Award, hosted on Zoom

WHEN: Thursday, May 11th from 7:30 PM

WHERE: RSVP HERE. A Zoom Link will be provided upon registration and closer to the date.

HOW MUCH: While the Annual Meeting is free, we encourage you to renew your membership at this time. Tickets for the program and for membership are greatly appreciated and support programing for alums.

 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
2023 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest
Deadline: April 30th by 4:00 PM EST
Topic: Since the Pandemic

Dear Bryn Mawr alums,

For a second year, New York alum Evelyn Barish ’56 has provided for a poetry prize to be awarded by the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to one of our graduates. This year’s topic is “Since the Pandemic.” The poem can be in any form but not longer than twenty lines. Any type of poem is eligible (such as sonnet, terza rima, or villanelle—see contest rules for a list of suggestions) other than haiku and limerick.

The contest is open to all Mawrters, including graduate school alums, and requires no entry fee.

WHAT: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City 2023 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest

WHEN: Email or postmark entries by 4:00 p.m. EDT April 30, 2023

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
2023 Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest Rules

1. The deadline for all submissions is 4:00 PM EDT on April 30, 2023. No late submissions will be accepted. Submissions may be made by email or US mail.
2. 1. Email: Please email your poem to brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on April 30, 2023, with the subject line “Poetry Contest.”
   2. US mail: Please mail your poem to Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, Old Chelsea Station, P.O. Box 437, New York, NY 10113, postmarked no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on April 30, 2023.
      
3. The poem’s form, punctuation, and capitalization are at the poet’s discretion.
4. Each participant may only submit one poem.
5. Each poem may not be longer than twenty lines.
6. The poem must be original work and not previously published.
7. All poems must be written in English and have a title.
8. All submissions must be accompanied by the following:
   1. author’s name;
   2. class year;
   3. contact information, including mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and
   4. chosen form, if any.

Potential Form Suggestions (Not Required)   

Prize Selection and Announcement

The judges will select the winning poem, and the winner will be announced during Spring 2023. The winner will receive a check for $250 and will be recognized in the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City e-newsletter. The judges’ decision is final. If the judges do not find a poem worthy of the prize, no prize will be awarded

Contest Judges

The following panel of judges (listed in order of class year) will review the submissions.

 Evelyn Barish ’56: A native of New York, Evelyn graduated from Bryn Mawr College magna cum laude. She studied at Oxford as a Fulbright scholar and earned a PhD from NYU. Her books include Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy (recipient of the 1989 Gauss Prize, awarded by Phi Beta Kappa as “the year’s best work of criticism and scholarship”); Arthur Hugh Clough: Growth of a Poet’s Mind; Emerson in Italy; and The Double Life of Paul De Man, for which the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City hosted a launch party in 2014. She has received numerous fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and others. Evelyn serves as the ’50s representative to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

 Helen Thurston ’74: After graduating with a degree in English, Helen worked in Boston city government, on Wall Street, and in not-for-profit education and arts institutions. She now is a consultant in the areas of historic preservation, the arts, sustainable natural development, and nonprofit programing. While at Bryn Mawr, she served on the Haverford College student council. A lover of poetry, thanks to high school teachers who went to Bryn Mawr, she believes in the transformative power of the arts to influence ideas and hearts and to support efforts for the public good. She holds degrees from Université Aix Marseille II and Columbia Business School. Helen serves as president of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

Barbara Clark ’79: Barbara was an English major at Bryn Mawr, where she won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize for best single poem. Shortly after graduation, she started a literary magazine with Barry Schwabsky (Haverford ’79) called Some Other Magazine, which published four issues between 1979 and 1981, and began her career in book publishing, where she’s been ever since—except for three years in the mid-1990s, during which she earned her MFA in acting. She is currently a freelance book editor. In 2022, her haiku “Goodhart Hall” won the inaugural Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest. She is honored to be among this year’s judges.

Trilby V John ’98: Trilby is a program manager for the Office of Teacher Recruitment and Quality at the New York City Department of Education. After decades as a English teacher, she is elated to now be leading the team that hires and trains new teachers. Trilby serves as the ’90s representative to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.

If you have questions, please contact brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com .

We look forward to receiving and reviewing your poem.

Mt. Holyoke was founded in 1837, making her nearly fifty years Bryn Mawr’s elder. If Mt. Holyoke is the eldest of the seven sisters, where does Bryn Mawr fall in the order? Bryn Mawr’s school colors are yellow and white and Mt. Holyoke’s school colors are blue and white. However, students at both institutions are represented by class colors. How does each school determine the color?

Though separated by about two hundred miles, Mt. Holyoke College and Bryn Mawr College have a lot in common. So, join us on Thursday, April 20th for a drink with our siblings and exchange strange traditional tidbits so that one day we can take over the world.

 WHAT: Happy Hour with the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City and Mt. Holyoke Club of New York City

 WHEN: Thursday, April 20th at 7:00 PM

 WHERE: RSVP HERE. Hi-Note (188 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009)

 HOW MUCH: Free

 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryn Mawr College: Mina Bansal’17 at minabansal@gmail.com or Mount Holyoke: Camille Serrano’15 at camiserr@gmail.com

Join us on March 21st for a riveting hour and a half special with Luvon Roberson ’74, Verneda “Rikki” Lights ’74, and Elizabeth Mosier ’84, as they reflect on a time of storytelling that features Bryn Mawrters from start to finish.

These three influential women share how the Riverside Writing Group series on “Writing Memoir & Justice,” is one of those experiences that sprung from Mawrter inspiration, draws from the historic social justice legacy of Riverside Church in New York City, and that sparked Mawrter creativity — as well as 21st century NFT and AI storytelling.

The series, led by two writer-Mawrters and inspired by Marcia Cantarella ’68 and her memoir “Recognize & Give Thanks,” tapped the august Riverside Church Archives, attracted several alumnae from across the nation, and ignited memoir justice writing, which is available in our published anthology.

For more information about the Riverside Writing Group, visit:

https://www.trcnyc.org/riversidewritinggroup/

Luvon Roberson ’74. After 30 years as Marketing Communications executive for Fortune-50 companies, she now defines herself as a Writer – of poetry, memoir, ethnographic fiction, narrative performance – fueled by word as social justice. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, University of London, and Columbia University, and tweets @LuvonRwriter. Luvon founded Riverside Writing Group in 2021 to build a community of justice writers. Her current accolades include Equinox 2021’s Prize for Prose for Sweet Yam Weather (14) and an Honorable Mention for her poem BLACK GIRL JUNE MEMORIES DONE BEEN CHANGED (18). Currently, she is working on Mississippi Sanctifyin, a memoir-collection of multi-genre writings about her family’s sharecropping experience and their legacy.

Novelist and essayist Elizabeth Mosier ’84 taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and elsewhere for more than twenty years. Her most recent book is Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home which was featured at a previous Bryn Mawr Club of NYC event.

Verneda “Rikki” Lights ’74 is a visual artist/ photographer, published poet, historian, physician (retired), and griot of South Carolina’s Gullahgeechee Nation. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (MD), Strayer University (MBA), and holds a certificate in International Arts Management from Deusto University School of Business, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, and Guggenheim Bilbao. Her exhibits include: the Whitney Biennial, The Wrong Biennial, Woman Made Gallery, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Edward M Kennedy Institute, Harlem Fine Arts Show, Southampton Arts Center, M.A.D.S. Galleries in Milan and Canary Islands, and La Pedrera in Barcelona. Verneda is founder and CEO of E-graphX Omnimedia, an art house, design firm, and business consultancy, located in Port Royal, SC. A member of her class’ fundraising team, Verneda created the Bryn Mawr Collection to help the Class of ’74 raise funds during the pandemic. She can be reached at her LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google Scholar, and Jennylights Designz.

 WHAT: Writing for Social Justice with Luvon Roberson ’74, Elizabeth Mosier ’84 and featuring Verneda “Rikki” Lights ’74

WHEN: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 7:30 PM

WHERE: Register ONLINE HERE.

HOW MUCH: $20. Guests welcome.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Helen at hthurston77@earthlink.net.

Join us for a curated museum visit and a specially catered sustainable meal!

The Climate Museum is the first museum dedicated to climate change in the U.S. Its programming integrates art, social science, and activism to deepen understanding of the climate crisis, build connections, and advance just solutions. The Climate Museum’s interactive exhibitions have engaged the public in settings as diverse as the New York Estuary, Rockefeller Center, Washington Square Park, and Governors Island.

Come tour the Museum’s latest project, a Pop-Up in Soho, featuring artist David Opdyke’s Someday, all this, which explores the impact of the climate crisis on the American landscape—both real and imagined, the Climate Action Incubator, and more activities designed to prompt discussion, encourage reflection, and spur action on climate change.

After the curator-led tour we’ll enjoy a meal on site catered by Le Botaniste, New York City’s only organic, plant-based, and certified carbon-neutral restaurant. Through their globally-inspired food, from Tibetan Mama Bowls to Omega-3 Brownies, Le Botaniste presents innovative and enticing ways of eating plants. Experience just how delicious plant-powered fare can be – food that’s “better for you, better for the planet.”

We’ll meet inside the Pop-Up entrance for the tour, then share our sustainable lunch in the Pop-Up’s community room, where we’ll continue our conversation with fellow alums.

Space is limited, and first come first served – please RSVP by March 5th.

WHAT: Climate Museum Pop-Up Tour & Lunch in Soho, organized by Annemarie Amparo ’87

WHEN: Sunday, March 12^th at 1:00 PM

WHERE: Climate Museum Pop-Up at 120 Wooster Street (between Prince and Spring Streets)

HOW MUCH: $30 per person (includes museum and luncheon)

RSVP HERE: RSVP HERE by March 5^th. (Space is limited and first come first served). Please note, as the meal must be ordered ahead of time, there will be no refunds but another can take your place if you can no longer attend.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Annemarie Amparo’87 at TCM.soho@gmail.com

Did you know that the term “Seven Sisters” is a reference to the Pleiades, the seven divine sisters who served Artemis, the goddess of the hunt? In fact, on a clear night, when Orion is out, you can see this open star cluster (known as Twr Tewdws to the Welsh, Matariki to the Maori, al-Thurayya to Arabs, Subaru to the Japanese, and Krttika to Hindu’s).*

Unfortunately, NYC produces too much light pollution to see anything in the sky, except the odd helicopter, so instead join The Bryn Mawr Club of NYC and the Seven Sisters Alumnae Association on March 29th at Miladys to see a real-life clustering of stars!

We would love to have you!

* Source: Wikipedia

WHAT: SAVE THE DATE: Happy Hour with the Seven Sisters Alumnae Association

WHEN: Wednesday, March 29th from 6:00 – 7:30 PM

WHERE: Miladys (160 Prince St, New York, NY 10012)

HOW MUCH: TBA

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Mina Bansal ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com

“At a time when many white-collar workers are lobbying for the right to keep Zooming in sweatpants, Bully Market is a reminder of when offices were stage sets in the sky for dark, outrageous human drama.“
—New York Times

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for an evening with best-selling author, Jamie Fiore Higgins ’98, as she presents her debut memoir, Bully Market, My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs. She was recognized as one of the 25 world’s most influential women of 2022 by the Financial Times.

Jamie Fiore Higgins spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, one of the most cutthroat organizations in the world. Spurred on by the obligation she felt to her working-class immigrant family, she rose through the ranks to achieve the position of Managing Director, a title that only 8% of employees earn, and became the highest-ranking woman in her department. Despite Goldman Sachs having the right talking points, Jamie soon realized that these provided a veneer to cover up an abusive culture. This toxic work environment did serious damage to her morale, her health, and even her marriage, until she eventually broke free from that unhealthy system. Drawing on her almost two decades on Wall Street, Jamie sounds the alarm on the culture of finance and corporate America and offers us the chance to learn from her experience so that we can change our companies for the better. She gives us practical steps that we can take at any level to improve our workplace cultures and promote an environment where everybody can not only belong, but flourish.

For more information about Jamie, visit:

https://jamiefiorehiggins.com

Order Bully Market HERE:  

https://jamiefiorehiggins.com/buy/

Jamie Fiore Higgins ’98 worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs and was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women’s Network Committee, Fiore Higgins spent her workdays running the trainee and internship programs, recruiting, managing top equity clients, and $100 billion in stock. Living in New Jersey with her husband and four children, she is a trained coach, working with teens to hone their leadership skills, high school and college graduates as they begin careers, professionals as they navigate the workforce, and those in midlife looking to reinvent themselves. She was recognized as one of the 25 world’s most influential women of 2022 by the Financial Times.

WHAT: Virtual Book Talk: Bully Market, My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs with Jamie Fiore Higgins ’98

WHEN: Thursday, February 2nd at 7:30 PM

RSVP: Register ONLINE HERE.

HOW MUCH: $20. Guests welcome.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Helen at hthurston77@earthlink.net.

More than half of all New Year’s resolutions fail according to this NYTimes article.  If you’re one of these people (like me) who struggle to get out of bed at 5 AM to go to the gym before work, you’re out of luck – this event won’t help you.  But it can help you make new friends or reconnect with old!

Come share your New Year’s Resolutions with us (or don’t – maybe that’s your resolution) at the Bryn Mawr Club’s first monthly happy hour of the year.  We’ll meet at Famous Last Words in Brooklyn at 6 PM.  First drink is on us.  And if your resolution is to drink less this year…well, come anyways!

Who knows, maybe you’ll find a gym buddy.

WHAT: Good as GOLD: Happy Hour, hosted by Mina Bansal ’17 and Jill Li ’18

WHEN: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023, 6:00 – 7:30 PM

WHERE: RSVP HERE. Located at Famous Last Words (925 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, 11238)

HOW MUCH: Free – first drink on the Club

This event is sold out!

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC for a yearlong study of Dante’s Divine Comedy with President Emerita Nancy Vickers, an acclaimed Dante teacher and scholar. Our small and dedicated study group will convene every two weeks – mostly by Zoom — with occasional in person gatherings on the Upper West Side. This small study group is open to New York City Club members.

We are grateful to College Trustee Elizabeth Warren for occasional in person hosting and to President Emerita Vickers for donating her teaching expertise for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

We will start during the month of February 2023 and gather for a year every two weeks. Meetings by Zoom will be on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30 PM with occasional in person meetings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dates TBA. Purchase of a specific text, with facing pages in English and Italian, will be necessary. Easy use of Zoom for our virtual gatherings is assumed.

A fee of $150 to the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC is requested to help cover expenses. (Sliding scale available upon request, and we hope that Club members will feel free to take advantage of this offer as needed.)

If you are interested, please send an e-mail before November 15, 2022 to Helen Thurston, President of the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, at hthurston77@earthlink.net. Please insert “Dante — with President Emerita Nancy Vickers” in the subject line and provide the following information:

1. Name:
2. Bryn Mawr Class Year and Major:
3. Address:
4. Email:
5. Phone: (Please indicate if cell or landline.)
6. Have you read/studied Dante before?
7. Please tell us why you want to study Dante in depth now?
8. Will you be able to commit to “doing the homework” — reading and preparing for the bi-weekly gatherings for a year?
9. Are you comfortable with Zoom virtual gatherings?

WHAT: Dante’s Divine Comedy study with President Emerita Nancy Vickers

WHEN: February 2023 – 2024

WHERE: Zoom and occasionally in person in New York City.

HOW MUCH: $150 (sliding scale available) PLUS purchase of the assigned text.

RSVP: Send an email to hthurston77@earthlink.net and answer the questions listed above.

For the first time in three years, The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City’s invites you to an in-person Welcome to the City event to greet the Class of 2022 and belatedly the Classes of 2020 and 2021 to the Bryn Mawr alum community in New York. Mina Bansal ‘17 and Becky Hahn ‘07 are the host organizers, and all alums including those who have recently moved to the city are welcomed.

The event will take place at Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg and will coincide with an optional Drag Bingo event hosted by Bingo Queen Linda Simpson at 6:30 PM.

Come meet your fellow alums, enjoy some drinks and apps, and see what sort of events the Club has to offer!

All class years are invited, especially anyone who has recently moved to the city and wants to meet the local Bryn Mawr alum community. Come and have fun!

WHAT: Welcome to the City at Brooklyn Brewery, hosted by The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City, board members Mina Bansal ’17 and Becky Hahn ’07

WHEN:  Monday, November 14th at 6:00 PM EST

WHERE: Brooklyn Brewery; 79 N 11th St. Brooklyn, NY 11249

HOW MUCH: Free. Members of the Classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be guests of The Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, which includes one drink and snacks. Cash bar will be subsequently available. Voluntary dues for The Bryn Mawr Club of NYC to support programming will be welcomed.

RSVP: REGISTER ONLINE.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mina Bansal ’17 at minabansal@gmail.com.

Over the centuries, Chinese Buddhists found ways to integrate the Buddhist proscription against killing animals for food into their culture’s traditional diet. This has resulted in a vegetarian cuisine which features many dishes made to resemble meat and seafood. Extensive use is made of soybean products, mushrooms, nuts, etc. to create dishes with the textures and flavors of their meat counterparts, ranging from dim sum to barbecues. Our lunch will feature a multi-course menu of mostly Cantonese dishes which fully exemplify this variety.

As we will be meeting in Chatham Square in Chinatown, lunch will be preceded by a greeting from our Club President and a brief description by June Mei ’66 of two local landmarks which reflect ongoing political differences in Chinatown.

This Chinese Buddhist Vegetarian Luncheon is organized by June Mei ’66, who has been involved in U.S.-China cultural, political and philanthropic exchanges for over three decades. She has also organized four China trips for the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association.

WHAT: Chinese Buddhist Vegetarian Luncheon, organized by June Mei ’66

WHEN: Saturday, October 22nd at 12:00 PM EDT.

WHERE: Assemble at the Kimlau War Memorial Arch in Chatham Square, Chinatown (across from the intersection of Mott Street and the Bowery) for welcome and introductory remarks. Lunch will follow at Buddha Bodai Restaurant, 5 Mott Street (a Restaurant which is kosher as well as vegan!)

HOW MUCH: $35 per reservation (Includes tax and tip). Guests are welcome. Please note, as the meal must be ordered ahead of time, there will be no refunds but another may take your place if you can no longer attend.

RSVP: RSVP HERE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Mei ’66 at jymei001@gmail.com

The Bryn Mawr College Club of New York has reserved a block of tickets to see Broadway’s uproarious new comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. With an All-Female cast, directed by Tony award winner Susan Stroman and a snappy script by Morning Show’s Selina Fillinger, it’s a rollicking good time!

Gather for dinner before the show at a place to be determined. Please note, the dinner cost will not be included in the price of the ticket. (Details will follow in an email to those who sign up to attend the theatrical performance.)

Recent Review in New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/theater/potus-review-broadway.amp.html

For more information, visit: https://potusbway.com/

Please note, there are vaccination, mask, and ID requirements for this June 2022 performance. See both theater requirements and future Club messages for Club requirements.

WHAT: Theater Performance: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

WHEN:  Thursday, June 14th, at 7:00 PM

WHERE: The Shubert Theatre located on 225 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036

HOW MUCH: $75 per ticket.

RSVP: RSVP HERE. Tickets are limited. First come, first served. If tickets are sold out, please contact Laura Gellert ’93 below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Gellert ’93 at lmgellert@gmail.com

Each of our contestants helped make our first contest a huge success! We received a high volume of wonderful submissions, and it truly was difficult for our team to choose from among such creativity. After much consideration, the judges of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Evelyn Barish ’56 haiku contest are proud to announce the following recipient and haiku as the winner for its cadence, language, and imagery.

Goodhart

Time breathes from the stone.
Mold, must, leaves. Music. Paper.
Fall has come to sing.

By Barbara Clark ’79

Please plan to join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City for its 2022 Annual Meeting to be held on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at the First Avenue side of Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in New York City between First and Second Avenues on 47^th Street.

The 7 minutes of business to be conducted consists of a short report on the Club’s activities by the President of the Club, the Treasurer’s Report, and the election of Club Officers and Board Members.

The Annual Meeting will be followed by a presentation of the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Prize.

Nominations for 2022 Annual Meeting

The officers and members in bold are nominated for the following positions:

Help support the Club by contributing to Annual Membership DUES by clicking on the RSVP link. Dues help support lively programming to connect and celebrate Bryn Mawr alums.

If you are not able to attend but want the proxy voting form, click HERE.

WHAT: Bryn Mawr Club of NYC 2022 Annual Meeting

WHEN: Afternoon, Saturday, May 14, 2022 (Rain date Sunday May 15, 2022 same time)

WHERE: Please RSVP HERE.

HOW MUCH: Dues and Club donations would be greatly appreciated, HERE.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

We are so excited to gather as a community of Bryn Mawr alums at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza to celebrate May Day and Katharine Hepburn’s Birthday! This garden party will feature:

• Speeches and festivities beginning promptly at 1:00 PM
• Live music–songs of Katharine Hepburn’s era
• Tours of the Katharine Hepburn Garden
• Refreshments

This event is presented by the Friends of Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, the Turtle Bay Association, and the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City. Gather at the performance colonnade.

Kimberly Hawkey and the Era Gone Jazz Band will perform. “A delightfully fresh-voiced treat,” says BroadwayWorld.com. “Irrepressibly cheery update on 30s and 40s sounds,” writes New York Music Daily.

The Club will provide traditional strawberries and cream and the Friends of Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza will provide Katharine Hepburn birthday cake.  The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will have tables at the Pink Moose Café just off 47th and First Avenue and additional refreshments may be purchased at the Pink Moose Café.

We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

WHAT: Katharine Hepburn Garden Party & Bryn Mawr Club of NYC May Day Celebration

WHEN: Festivities and presentations begin at 1:00 promptly Saturday, May 14 (Rain Date 1:00 – 3:00 PM, Sunday, May 15)

WHERE: Das Hammarskjöld Plaza, East 47^th Street between First and Second Avenues. Our table will be set up by the Pink Moose café, in the First Avenue section of the park.

HOW MUCH: $5 per registration. Friends and family welcomed to register too.

RSVP: Please RSVP HERE — We encourage you to renew your Club membership with your annual dues.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

Come one, come all to The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Mawrter Monthly Craft Night! Craft Night will be held the second Monday of each month.

Bring your knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, spinning or whatever craft you adore for a night of chatting and creative fun! This monthly zoom meeting is hosted by Leila Ghaznavi ’01.

Leila Ghaznavi ’01 majored in music composition and now works in fundraising and development for Carnegie Hall. A member of the board of the Bryn Mawr Club of NYC, Leila is also a puppeteer and founder of Pantea Productions, a multidisciplinary theatre production company that combines puppetry and physical theatre for unrestrained storytelling that defies gravity. In her free time, she collects more yarn than is possible to knit in one lifetime. She has also dabbled in needlepoint, crochet, and mask making — transforming her sewing machine from her nemesis into an ally.

WHAT: Mawrter Monthly Craft Night!

WHEN: Monday, May 9^th at 7:00 PM.

WHERE: Please RSVP HERE. A Zoom Link will be provided upon registration AND on the day of the event.

HOW MUCH: Free.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Leila Ghaznavi ’01 at Leilag@gmail.com.

Foodies! African American history lovers! Join us for African/American: Making the Nation’s Table exhibition visit with optional lunch-box to go! This fascinating exhibition, curated by Dr. Jessica B. Harris ’68, reveals the stories of innovators, cooks, mixologists, and entrepreneurs as they emphasize that African American food is American food.

The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) presents African/American: Making the Nation’s Table, displayed within the newly-constructed home of partner The Africa Center, this first-of-its-kind exhibition celebrates the countless contributions of Black chefs, farmers, and food and drink producers who have laid the foundation for American food culture—recognition that is long overdue. Understanding the rich and expansive stories underlying any good meal, African/American seeks, in its immersive and historic scope, to offer a portrait of the immense breadth of African American traditions and innovations in cooking.

Please note that participants are expected to purchase their own ticket directly from the museum. This is not a large exhibit and space is limited so to be sure of a reservation, please purchase tickets in advance as soon as possible.

For more information about the exhibit and MOFAD: Click Here

Dr. Jessica B. Harris ’68 is widely considered the world’s preeminent expert on the foods of the African Diaspora. Dr. Harris is the author of 12 critically acclaimed books and was recently inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Hall of Fame. In 2012, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture engaged Dr. Harris to conceptualize and curate the museum’s cafeteria.

Following a 50-year teaching career at CUNY Queens College, and building on over four decades of work as an acclaimed journalist, African/American is a natural extension of Dr. Harris’s life’s work. As Dr. Scott Barton writes, “Dr. Jessica B. Harris has championed the heretofore invisible African American/African culinarians, rendering them visible and in plain sight.”  The Netflix series High on the Hog is based on Dr. Harris’ book of the same name.

WHAT: Bryn Mawr Club of NYC Meet up at the African/American: Making the Nation’s Table Exhibition, curated by Dr. Jessica B. Harris ’68 with optional lunch afterwards

WHEN: Saturday, April 30th at 11:00 AM

WHERE: The Africa Center, Aliko Dangote Hall

(1280 5th Avenue, New York between 109th and 110th Streets)

RSVP:  Purchase your ticket directly at MOFAD ticket site, with or without Shoe Box lunch: https://www.mofad.org/ticketing

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Becky Hahn ’07 at brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com

A generous New York alum, Evelyn Barish ’56, has provided for a poetry prize to be awarded by the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City to a Bryn Mawr alum. In solidarity against and defiance of anti-Asian violence, this year’s poetry contest is focused on a well-known Japanese poetry format, the haiku.  The topic, naturally, is Bryn Mawr College. We are grateful to Evelyn Barish for her vision, generosity, and award.

Evelyn Barish ’56 a native of New York, graduated from Bryn Mawr College (magna cum laude) and studied at Oxford as a Fulbright scholar, writing her dissertation for New York University. She began her teaching career at Cornell University, later becoming professor of English at the City University of New York, its Graduate Center, and the College of Staten Island. Using archival sources, her books have been based on extensive research, and her biography, Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy, won the Gauss Prize awarded by Phi Beta Kappa in 1989 as “the year’s best work of criticism and scholarship.” She is also the author of Arthur Hugh Clough: Growth of a Poet’s Mind, Emerson In Italy, and The Double Life of Paul De Man for which the Bryn Mawr Club of NY hosted a book party event in 2014. Evelyn is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Fulbright Commission.

This haiku poetry contest, focused on Bryn Mawr College, is open to all Mawrters and requires no entry fee from participants.

WHAT: The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Evelyn Barish ’56 Poetry Contest

WHEN:  All Poetry Contest Deadlines are (emailed or postmarked) by 4 p.m. EST March 1, 2022

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: brynmawrclubnyc@gmail.com.

Did you know…?

Mozart’s The Magic Flute was inspired by Zoroastrianism?

Zoroastrianism is considered to be the oldest religion?

Zoroastrianism was considered the first monotheistic religion?

Many concepts from Zoroastrianism are found in other religions?  

Freddie Mercury (the lead singer of QUEEN) was a Zoroastrian?

Please join the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City on Thursday, March 24th for an enriching and informative evening on Zoroastrianism. Together, Friya Bankwalla ’16 and Dr. Rubina Salikuddin, BMC Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, will delve deeper into the rich historical development of Zoroastrianism, review the religion’s impact on society in art and objects, explore myths and facts about the religion, and explore one of its most significant holidays, Navroze, and coming-of-age traditions, the Navjote.

Friya Bankwalla ’16 graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Bachelor’s in English and Psychology, a rekindled interest in tennis and horseback riding, an insatiable passion for storytelling, and a desire to champion Zoroastrianism. Her creative background ranges from working at Penguin Random House, to promoting picture book to young adult New York Times Bestsellers, to screening and adapting intellectual properties for television at an independent film and television company, to much more. When she’s not reading, this Bryn Mawr Club of NYC Board Member can be found welcoming newcomers to the city, hunting for her next favorite restaurant, and searching for new narratives.

Dr. Rubina Salikuddin is a BMC Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies. She is a scholar of the social and cultural history of medieval Iran and Central Asia. Her current research focuses on ideas of memory and community in the 15th C. Timurid domains. She has a Ph.D. from Harvard University as well as a Bachelor’s from Ohio State University. Currently, she is completing her Postdoctoral fellowship at Bryn Mawr College and in the fall will teach as the Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at the college. In her spare time, she loves cooking, spending time with her two children, and learning how to garden. For more information about Dr. Rubina Salikuddin, click here.

WHAT: A Look into Zoroastrianism, hosted by Friya Bankwalla ’16 and Dr. Rubina K. Salikuddin, BMC Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies

WHEN:  Thursday, March 24th at 6:00 PM

WHERE: Please RSVP HERE. A Zoom Link will be provided upon registration AND on the day of the event.

HOW MUCH: Free.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Friya Bankwalla at fabanks@gmail.com

A conversation with two alums who graduated 40 years apart and who have pursued careers in International Humanitarian Affairs. Learn how microloans started and how present-day work at the UN and with a foreign not-for-profit supports those in need internationally.

Suzan Salwa Saba Habachy ’54 was the initial Executive Director at The Trickle Up Program from 1994 to 2001. She has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in economic sustainability. Delving into her field due to her desire to help poor and underdeveloped countries, Ms. Habachy pursued an education at the American University in Cairo from 1951 to 1952. After immigrating to the United States in 1952, she attended Bryn Mawr College, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1954. Subsequently, she attended Harvard University, earning a Master of Arts in 1956.

From 1994 to 2001, Ms. Habachy was the executive director for The Trickle Up Program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding women in poverty to advance their economic and social welfare. Prior to this role, she worked for the United Nations as a program officer, section chief, and staff member in the office of personnel at the Focal Point for Women beginning in 1969. Previously, she was a reporter and editor for McGraw Hill News Bureau, a reporter and editor for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, an economist for Exxon Mobil Corporation, and a teaching fellow at Ohio University. In her spare time, she enjoys attending the theatre, traveling, and reading. With her sister, Nimet Habachy ’67 the famous WQXR and Metropolitan Opera Guild star, Ms. Habachy organizes a Crafts Fair attended by Bryn Mawr alums who support education for women and girls among the impoverished Egyptian “Garbage Community” of Mokkattam.

Marlies Bull ’93 is a Humanitarian Affairs Officer, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Bull has more than fifteen years’ experience working across the United Nations in the humanitarian, development and peacekeeping spheres. She has worked in Kosovo, Sudan, Nepal and other complex emergency settings and is currently based at UN Headquarters in New York. Her career has focused on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. She has worked on both policy and advocacy at the headquarters level, and management and operations in the field. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A.) and Bryn Mawr College (B.A.). She also has a keen interest in interior design.

WHAT: Women, Money and Conflict, a talk by Suzan Habachy ’54 and Marlies Bull ’93

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 23 at 6:00 PM

WHERE: Please RSVP HERE. A Zoom Link will be provided upon registration AND on the day of the event

HOW MUCH: $20. (Free to students)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Thurston at hthurston77@earthlink.net.