Friends Events for Fall 2024

Please check this calendar frequently, as changes do occur and events (including Friends talks and lectures) will be added. You will find the most up to date information about events below.

SEPTEMBER

9/20 Live music with Larry Tamanini
6:00 - 8:30 pm
Registration Required

9/20 Zoe Sarnak Happy Hour Talk
5:00 - 5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

9/27 Friends Welcome Reception
6:00 - 8:00pm / Simons Hall
Registration Required

9/27 Outdoor Movie Night
Outdoor Movie Night has been postponed due to weather. 
An alternative date is yet to be determined... stay tuned!

9/30 Director's Conversation
From Poetry to Song: Joyce DiDonato and Kevin Puts on Musical Creation
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

OCTOBER

10/4 Happy Hour with Live Music 
Tom Trovas Trio  
6:00 - 8:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

10/5 (Saturday) Birdwatching in the Institute Woods
Led by Peter Reczek, former National Audubon Society instructor. 
9:00 - 10:30am / Meet in Parking Lot B
This event is at capacity. 
Please write to friends@ias.edu if you would like to be on the waitlist.

10/6 (Sunday) Birdwatching in the Institute Woods
Led by Peter Reczek, former National Audubon Society instructor. 
9:00 - 10:30am / Meet in Parking Lot B
This event is at capacity. 
Please write to friends@ias.edu if you would like to be on the waitlist.

10/10 Lunch with a Member
Sihao Chang, School of Natural Sciences
12 noon - 1:00pm / Dilworth Room in Simons Hall
Registration Required

10/10 Happy Hour Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm - 8pm | Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

10/16 IAS Community Pumpkin Painting
4:00 - 5:30pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required

10/17 Happy Hour Bingo Night
6:00 - 7:30pm / location TBD
Registration Required

10/18 Teatime with SHABAKA
3:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

10/18 S.T. Lee Film Screening: My Architect 
directed by Nathaniel Kahn
4:00 – 7:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

10/18 Buffet Dinner: Fall Fest
6:00 - 8:30 / Simons Hall
Registration Required: Associated cost

10/25 Director's Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration required

10/31 Halloween Party
4:00 - 5:30pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required

10/31 Trick or Treating at 112 Mercer
6:00pm

NOVEMBER

11/1 Film: a.k.a Mr. Chow
ST Lee Film Screening 
5:00pm / location TBD
Registration Required

11/8 Live Music with John Beacher
6:00 - 8:30pm / Rubenstein Commons 
Registration Required, link forthcoming

11/13 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:00 - 8:00pm Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required, link forthcoming

11/14 Public Lecture with James Green 
NASA Chief Scientists (retired) 
5:30 - 6:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required, link forthcoming

11/15 Film: The Hunt for Planet B
ST Lee Screening with director Nathaniel Kahn 
5:00pm
Registration Required

10/18 Buffet Dinner: Fall Fest
6:00 - 8:30 / Simons Hall
Registration Required, link forthcoming: Associated cost

11/22 Trivia Night
7:00 - 9:00pm Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required, link forthcoming

11/28 and 11/29 Institute closed for Thanksgiving break

DECEMBER

12/5 Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00pm Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required, link forthcoming

12/13 Friends Holiday Party
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required, link forthcoming

12/18 Children's Holiday Party
4:00pm - 6:00pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required, link forthcoming

12/23 - 1/25 Institute closed for winter holiday break

MAY

5/13/25 Friends Annual Meeting
evening (time TBD)
Registration Required, link forthcoming