Lunar New Year: News and Events

ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN YALE ALUMNI

cordially invites you to our

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION DINNER!

Welcome the

Year of the Rabbit

on

Sunday, March 6, 2011

at

Red Egg
202 Centre Street (one block north of Canal)

5 p.m. to 6 pm — Cocktail Reception (cash bar) with dim sum
6 p.m. – 8 course Banquet, including Peking Duck Sliders and Scallops with Black Peppercorn Sauce!

Honoring:

Kunduck Moon, ‘76
Past President of the National Board of the AAAYA

Ming Cho Lee
Set Designer
Donald Oenslager Chair in Design; Co-Chair, Design Department
Yale School of Drama

Alice Young, ‘71
Partner and Chair, Asia Pacific Group
Kaye Scholer LLP

Special Guest:
Maya Lin ’81, M.Arch. ’86, D.F.A. ’87

Ticket price: $125/person

All proceeds from the dinner will benefit the AAAYA Yale Community Service Summer Fellowship Program. This year, our fellows will work at the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families and the Asian American Arts Alliance.

For more information, please email Trish Takemoto at ptakemoto@friedmanwittenstein.com or Rocky Chin at chinrocky@gmail.com

AAAYA is a 501(c)3 corporation. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

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AAAYA picked up in 2010 right where it left off in 2009: expanding our reach to more alumni and students through diverse programming. Hundreds of alumni and students have participated in events hosted by local chapters in Northern California, Southern California, Chicago, and New York City. Here are some highlights from the last four months:

On January 21, the Northern California chapter helped bring Marvin Chun, Yale Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Yale’s first Asian American Residential College Master, to lecture for the Yale and Commonwealth Clubs of Silicon Valley. Professor Chun, one of Yale’s most popular lecturers, covered an eclectic range of topics on the human mind, from mind-reading to memory erasure.

Professor Chun and AAAYA NorCal members

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AAAYA “Blind Tiger” Social

by Ram-Man

DATE:     Thursday March 18, 2010  6pm– 9pm
WHERE:     Green Door Tavern
678 N Orleans St; Chicago, IL (near Brown Line Chicago stop)
COST:      Pre -pay only $11 a special AAAYA discounted rate for participating groups’ memberships (YPC/Young Professionals Committee, Yale Club of Chicago, Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association)

$15 for non-member pre-pay;
$20 for all at the door
You must be over 21

Join Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) for drinks and conversation at the Green Door Tavern, one of Chicago’s oldest Taverns dating back to 1872 after the great Chicago Fire.  We will have a private room downstairs in what once was a 1920s speakeasy.  There we can enjoy three hours of unlimited draft beer (Miller) with flip cup battles after 730pm if there is interest. Cash bar for other drinks and food.  Limit of 45 people so please pre-pay using the pay pal account below to ensure your spot today.  Let’s welcome in the Year of the Tiger together!

Select an Option

Current dues paying YPC member $11.00Current dues paying Yale Club of Chicago member $11.00Current dues paying DAPAAA member $11.00Non-member $15.00

by ArtMechanic

Questions? Please email Genea at gtevent@yahoo.com  

fyi: The term blind tiger or blind pig referred to establishments that sold alcoholic beverages during prohibition.

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Come join AAAYA NorCal for a Lunar New Year dim sum brunch and/or Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade on Saturday, February 27th.

The day will start at 1:00pm with a no-host dim sum brunch at City View Restaurant (662 Commercial Street near Kearny St., tel: (415) 398-2838  map) in downtown San Francisco, just 2 blocks from Chinatown.  For details about the restaurant, see www.yelp.com/biz/city-view-restaurant-san-francisco.

For brunch reservations email Kristina Yee (AAAYA NorCal Lunar New Year 2010 event chair)  as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, Feburary 24th at (click here to reveal email address) with your contact info and the names of the brunch attendees.  Please put “Lunar New Year Brunch” in the email subject line.

After brunch, we will spend the next couple of hours meandering through Chinatown and staking out a good spot from which to watch the famous Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year parade — voted one of the top 10 parades in the US. See more about the parade at: www.chineseparade.com

For those interested, there are bleacher seats available for $30 each.  Otherwise, the parade is free.

If there is enough interest, we can order bleacher seats as a group for a 10% discount.  If you would like to purchase a seat, please contact Kristina Yee at (click here to reveal email address) as soon as possible, but no later than Sunday, February 21st.  Please put “Lunar New Year Bleacher Seats” in the email subject line.

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