August Happy Hour at PF Chang's

We had a fabulous time together! Thumbs up for PF Chang's, especially the lettuce wrap appetizers and desserts! We hope to see more of you out next month!

Troy Night Out

If any of you Ladies are interested! Troy Night Out is tonight!

Founder's Day Brunch Take 2

Ladies,

I'm in the works with arranging Founder's Day Brunch tenatively on Sunday, October 19th. I'm hoping that the Collegiate Chapters SUNY A and RPI will be interested and this year will be a really good turn out. Last year's was cancelled due to responses in a timely manner. Hopefully this one will be a good one!

SPAC Wine & Food Festival

For all you foodies out there...

The Spac Wine & Food Festival is on September 6, 2008. See the link for more information. E-mail me if you're interested in going!

Just a warning this event is approx. $80 per person.

Alpha Phi Alumnae Volunteers/Gardeners needed 8/24

Hello Sisters!

We need your help to kick-start the school year for the Theata Tau chapter and get it ready for rush! This Sunday we are holding the first ever (as far as I know) Alumnae-Sister Gardening Extravaganza! Both Sisters and Alumnae will help clear the flower beds of weeds and then plant new flowers and spread mulch. We will also be doing the shopping for the event that day. By helping out we can get the house looking great for when rush starts next week!

The event starts at 11:00 and should go no later than 2:30. Even if you can just come for part of the time it would be a big help. Also, the house does not have it's own gardening tools, so we really need Alumnae to bring some tools we can use that day. If you can't make it, but have gardening tools we could use let me know, and maybe we can arrange to pick them up.

Lots of people (including lots of sisters) have requested more Local Alumnae/Sister events, and I think this will be a fun one to start of the year. Please join us if you can! Also, please pass this on to any other local alumnae I don't have e-mail for.

Thanks and AOE,

Jessica Reichard
Vice President, Alpha Phi Housing Corporation Board, Theta Tau chapter
E: reichj@alum.rpi.edu

Alumnae Events

Sorry, It's been a really busy summer ladies! I will be starting the monthly Happy Hours again, slowly but surely.

Switchback Sea

Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the stretch of the Hudson River between Troy and the New York harbor this August 15th - September 7th. Imagined as a hybrid between boats and bits of land mass broken off and headed out to sea, the Switchback vessels will make stops in towns along the river bringing performances and music. Over the course of three weeks they will make their way toward their home port - an invented landscape tucked into a niche along the East River in Long Island City, Queens.

The Swimming Cities is designed and organized by printmaker and installation artist Swoon. Collaborators include playwright Lisa D’Amour, the band Dark Dark Dark and circus composer Sxip Shirey. Propulsion systems brought by John Rinaldi and Kinetic Steam Works. Boat design and carpentry created in close collaboration with Jeff Stark, Iris Lasson, and The Floating Neutrinos. This is Swoon’s second major installation with Deitch Projects.

Swimming Cities Press Release

This sounds interesting/intriguing & it's free.

Fri night in Troy, Sat evening in Albany

One of the performances is even at the Saugerties Lighthouse.

Visit www.switchbacksea.org to learn more about this piece.

The performance is free and appropriate for all ages.