Join the Colorado Yale Association and fellow alumni from across the Ivy+ network for an evening of connection, conversation, and community at the All-Ivy Summer Party on Thursday, June 4, 2026.

This year’s event brings together alumni from 13 Ivy League and peer institutions—including Brown, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Wharton, UPenn, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, and Colorado All Ivy+ Women—creating a vibrant and diverse crowd. Last year’s gathering drew approximately 250 attendees, and we’re expecting another strong turnout.

Whether you’re reconnecting with classmates or meeting fellow professionals for the first time, this is a relaxed and welcoming opportunity to expand your network and celebrate our shared Yale roots. All are welcome—recent graduates and long-time alums alike—and each registered alum may bring one guest.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, June 4, 2026
Time: 5:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: Skylight (833 Santa Fe Drive, Denver)
Cost: $20 per person (includes one complimentary drink)
Parking: Street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood, with a paid lot at 7th and Santa Fe.

Please register and pay here.

For questions, please contact Anne Weil.

Come join us in celebrating the Yale Day of Service with Grow Local Colorado on Saturday morning, May 30, 2026, as we help turn a blank garden plot into a productive community food garden.

Grow Local Colorado builds and maintains vegetable gardens across the Denver area, growing fresh produce for local communities and helping connect people to food, gardening, and service. This is always one of the most satisfying volunteer projects because the group starts with an open garden space and, in just a few hours, helps bring it to life.

Yale volunteers will help with weeding, planting seedlings, and planting seeds at Grow Local Colorado’s large garden at 2365 W. Mexico Ave. in Denver. No gardening expertise is required. Just come ready to work outside, get your hands dirty, and help create something tangible.

We are looking for approximately 15 volunteers. Families are encouraged, and children are welcome if they are at least 7 years old.

Volunteers should wear long sleeves, long pants, a sun hat, and closed-toed shoes for sun and foot protection. Please bring water. Snacks will be provided.

Please RSVP here.

Location: 2365 W. Mexico Ave., Denver, CO 80223
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
Time: 9:00am to 12:00 noon
Volunteers need: Approximately 15 people
Family friendly: Yes, ages 7+

Come join us in celebrating the Yale Day of Service with Thorne Nature Experience at the Lafayette Nature Center on Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

We are looking for up to 15 volunteers who enjoy the out of doors and getting their hands in the soil.

Thorne has been helping Colorado children and families build joyful, hands-on connections with nature for decades, using outdoor education to inspire curiosity, confidence, and lifelong environmental stewardship. This year, Yale volunteers will help support Thorne’s Lafayette Nature Center with a mix of meaningful outdoor projects, including erosion-control work, trench filling and leveling, weeding, and kid-friendly cobblestone moving near the bioswale/play creek area.

Families are warmly welcome — including little ones. Some projects will involve heavier digging and landscaping work, while others will be lighter and perfect for children who want to help, explore, and play nearby while parents volunteer.

Please bring water and a sack lunch if you’d like to stay for a picnic afterward by Coal Creek.

Location: 300 Old Laramie Trail, Lafayette, CO 80026
Time: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026

Please register by email to Michael Smith (SOM '06).

Come join the Colorado Yale Association for a fun and friendly multi-Ivy+ pickleball event bringing together alumni from Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth.

We’ve reserved six courts for what should be a lively and social afternoon of pickleball. All skill levels are welcome.

Registration Details
Cost is $10 per person. 
Pay and RSVP HERE by making a $10 donation to CYA
Limited to 8 participants per school (40 total players).  If we reach capacity we will start a waitlist. 

After we wrap up on the courts, we’ll head over to Chopper’s Sports Grill, just a block away, to keep the fun going.

We’re looking forward to a great afternoon of competition, connection, and Colorado sunshine.

Please email Anne Weil with questions. 

Join the CYA for a spring hike outing in Boulder!

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2026

UPDATED TIME: 7:45 a.m.

Location: People’s Crossing parking area (with overflow parking on Pearl Street just east of the parking lot).

RSVP: https://forms.gle/gWr34j8PAPpBSvYh7

Contact: Dave Belin, 303-818-0955 or davebelin@gmail.com

We'll enjoy a hike on the Anemone Loop, a beautiful trail immediately west of Boulder. The 4.4 mile loop is considered moderate, gains 1,000 vertical feet, and has several noteworthy overlooks. It is generally a 2 to 3 hour hike round-trip.

Here's what AllTrails says: " Enjoy bird watching and full sun while hiking the 4.4 mile Anemone Loop Trail. This loop can be accessed either from The Peoples' Crossing Trailhead or from the Centennial Trailhead. Keep dogs on leash, and anticipate icy conditions October through April. Please remember to stay on the trail, as new regulations require a permit for off-trail travel in the surrounding Habitat Conservation Area."

Join us for the year’s first Boulder All-Ivy Plus gathering at the St. Julien Hotel in Downtown Boulder! The event will be Thursday, April 9, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

An easy, drop-in evening to reconnect, meet new faces, and step into the opening rhythm of the upcoming Boulder International Film Festival.

The St. Julien will be hosting live jazz with the Alex Loran Trio.

Non-binding RSVP:
Alyssa Anne Sholette

If you are not yet a member of our private Facebook page we encourage you to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BoulderIvyPlus

New to Colorado?

Join fellow Yale alumni for a CYA Welcome Lunch on March 23, 2026 at 12:00pm at the Hong Kong Cafe. This relaxed gathering is a great opportunity for newcomers to Colorado to meet other Yalies, share tips on settling into Colorado, and start building connections with the local alumni community.

We’re keeping this gathering small and intimate - limited to 8 Yalies.

The lunch will be paid for by the Colorado Yale Association.

Please RSVP to Bo Reynolds if you are planning to join us.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing great food and conversation!

Join the CYA in enjoying a Colorado Symphony Orchestra concert, performing with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 7:30pm at Boettcher Concert Hall.

Peter Oundjian, the Music Director of the Colorado Symphony, has a Yale connection. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University’s School of Music since 1981, and in 2013 was awarded the school’s Sanford Medal for Distinguished Service to Music. A dedicated educator, Oundjian regularly conducts the Yale, Juilliard, Curtis and New World symphony orchestras.

The CYA will be gathering prior to the concert at the lobby bar at the Boettcher Concert Hall to mingle prior to the performance.

Tickets are free and will be available starting at 9:00am on February 25, 2026.

Hope to see you there!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Boulder!

Limelight Hotel Boulder
1295 University Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
RSVP requested.  Please email Alison Jaffe

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Denver!

Location: Nola Jane (Upstairs)
1435 Market Street, Denver, CO 80202

RSVP requested.  Please email Anne Weil

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Evergreen!

Location: Evergreen Brewery
2962 Evergreen Pkwy, Evergreen, CO 80439

RSVP requested.  Please email Angie O'Keefe

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Colorado Springs!

Commonfork Bites & Brews
21 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(Located in the CityRock Climbing Gym)
RSVP requested.  Please email Lara Grosjean or Russ Steil

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Grand Junction!

Location: WestCo Brewing
905 Struthers Ave, Grand Junction, CO
RSVP Requested.  Please email Craig Niemeyer

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join your fellow Yalies for a Feb Club in Crested Butte!

Location: Public House
202 Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, CO

RSVP requested.  Please email Amy Savin

Whether you’re a long-term local or new to Colorado, Feb Club is a relaxed, social event you won’t want to miss. Friends and spouses are warmly welcome!

Join CYA president Dave Belin for a ski afternoon at Eldora on Friday, January 16, 2026 from 1:00 to 4:00pm. We’ll explore the mountain and then have some apres-ski snacks and drinks at the end of the day. All ability levels welcome, and both skiers and snowboarders are encouraged to attend. Non-Yalies are welcome, too!

The Ikon Pass is valid at Eldora for downhill skiing. Day pass ticket info and snow conditions are on the Eldora website. Due to a generous anonymous donor, a limited number of free lift tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis for those in need of financial assistance.

The RTD Route NB serves as easy transportation from Boulder to the mountain.

Meet at the upstairs level of the Indian Peaks Lodge at 1 p.m. and we’ll ski (with breaks) until 4 p.m. You can come for as little or as much skiing as you want. 

RSVP to Dave Belin

One of our most popular CYA events, the free annual holiday party hosted by Joe Smith '88 at his Denver Country Club neighborhood home will be on Sunday, January 4, 2026, from 5:00 – 8:00 pm.

Save the date for now and more information will be provided shortly.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs are returning to Colorado again this year as part of their Winter Tour.

They have 3 shows scheduled - 2 at the Newman Center in Denver, and 1 at the Willits Arts Center in Basalt.

Details:

• January 3rd, 2026. 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM – Performance at the Newman Center for Performing Arts, Denver 🎟️ Tickets

• January 8th, 2026. 8:00 PM – Performance at the Arts Center at Willits, Basalt 🎟️ Tickets

While these are not official CYA events, we are happy to share the information with our membership and hope that you can enjoy one of the shows!

The Colorado Yale Association is thrilled to host Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, on Thursday, December 4, 2025 for the annual Redpath Lecture. Dr. Pringle studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills.

This event is part of Yale's signature Redpath Lecture series and always attracts a large and diverse gathering of Yalies. Alumni, parents and friends of the Yale community are all welcome. The evening will begin at 6:00 pm with light bites, beer, and wine followed by remarks at approximately 6:30 p.m.

RSVP here. Tickets are $25.00 + $3.52 Eventbrite service fee

🗓️ Thursday, December 4, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
📍 UPDATED LOCATION: Denver Jewish Community Center
🗺️ 350 South Dahlia St., Denver, CO 80246
🧭 South Entrance is the closest to the Social Hall

We know that schedules sometimes change. You can request a refund from Eventbrite (excluding any service fees) up until 3 days before the event.

Drawing on her research on the science of creativity and the findings from her recent book, Dr. Pringle will talk about bringing ideas out of your mind and into the world. Learn what it takes to get started, the psychological and emotional tools needed to navigate the creative process, and the social conditions that allow creativity to succeed.

Dr. Pringle received the Award for Excellence in Research from the Mensa Education and Research Foundation, the Berlyne Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement from the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, and has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Save the date for the Yale-Harvard football game watch party! Join us in this annual tradition, this year at the Icehouse Tavern in Denver (between Union Station and Coors Field). Wear your Yale logo wear to propel the Bulldogs to victory over Harvard (on the gridiron and in the spirit contest at the bar). Games, fun, and great conversation are always part of this gathering. Friends, +1s, and children are all welcome.

Please let us know if you plan to attend by submitting your non-binding RSVP here.

Go Bulldogs

Come meet fellow alums at a CYA fall happy hour in Crested Butte! Nothing beats the Butte at the peak of the fall foliage season. As a bonus, this is a joint event with Stanford alumni.

When: Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2 to 5 pm

Where: Bruhaus, 223 Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, CO

Please submit your non-binding RSVP to board member Steven Feis (YC 2011).

Light bites provided by CYA, cash bar and additional food available. +1s, kids, etc. welcome as well. Hope to see you there!

Celebrate summer and connect with your Yale community at the annual Colorado Yale Association summer picnic.

CYA has reserved the large shelter for our picnic and will provide free sandwiches and cold drinks. Please sign up when you RSVP to bring a side dish or dessert to share. 

Alumni, partners, children, current students, and parents warmly welcomed. Ample parking is available at the park entrance. (Dogs are not permitted in the park.)

For those who want to explore the award-winning splash park, bring your bathing suits and a sense of adventure! 

Please RSVP here and direct any questions to CYA Board Member and current student parent, Daphne Butler.

Join the Yale Club of Colorado and fellow alumni from across the Ivy+ network—including Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, All Ivy–Denver, All Ivy–Boulder, and Colorado Ivy+ Women—for an evening of vibrant conversation and connection.

This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our shared Yale roots while mingling with peers from other top universities. Whether you’re reconnecting with classmates or meeting fellow professionals for the first time, we invite you to enjoy a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere over drinks and light appetizers.

Click here to submit your non-binding RSVP. Your response by May 22 is requested so we can plan accordingly.

Tickets are free | Cash bar | Light appetizers provided

All are welcome—recent grads and long-time alums alike! Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your professional and social network within Colorado’s dynamic Ivy+ community.

Note: Please be aware that due to the historic nature of the venue, the Denver Press Club is not ADA accessible.

For more information and to sign up, please click here.

The mission of GrowLocalColorado is to promote food equity, regenerative agriculture and community. They do that by growing food and donating it to food relief organizations. What started as a single vegetable garden in Denver’s Civic Center Park in 2009 is now 20 gardens producing a harvest of over 10,000 pounds.

Join them on Saturday May 24th for their planting day to start the garden that will produce this year’s harvest.

Contact Heather Hill with questions.

Please click here for more information and to sign up on the Yale Day of Service website.

Please join the Thorne Nature Experience at their new location in Lafayette for the Yale Day of Service on May 10, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The event will include landscaping and weeding work at the Nature Play area, which is the location where the youth groups learn about nature and explore the environment.

Bring work gloves and your favorite gardening tool (although both will be be provided, as well), sun hat and sunscreen, and a sack lunch if you plan to stay through the lunch hour.

Plenty of parking spaces are available on-site.

Please email Andy Maeding to RSVP.

This event is FULL.

Broomfield FISH is looking for people to help with "Stamp Out Hunger," one of FISH’s largest food drives of the year. In conjunction with postal carriers from the two post offices in Broomfield and the Northglenn Post Office (118th and Washington), the organization expects to collect more than 60,000 pounds of non-perishables and needs help moving and sorting food. They are looking for volunteers at 4 locations.

Please contact Heather Hill with questions.

Please click here for more information and to sign up.

During State Education Day, all 27 Clubs in Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver will compete against one another for a handful of awards, while completing fun activities designed to engage Club members’ mastery of reading, geography, science, math, and other day school subjects.

Club members will spend the morning and afternoon completing short activities for which they will earn tickets or points that will show completion of activities.

These activities will all be run simultaneously such that Club members can choose which activities they would like to complete and the order in which they would like to complete them.

There will be a lunch break built into the day, as well as an awards ceremony at the end of event.

Children aged 15 and up are welcome to volunteer alongside their parent or legal guardian.

Questions? Please contact Heather Hill

Join us for a spring hike with your fellow Yalies on the beautiful Spring Brook Loop (with an optional addition of Goshawk Ridge Loop), located just south of Boulder. The 5-mile round trip moderate hike has great views of the Flatirons and enters a lodge pole pine forest. Spring is a beautiful time of year in the foothills, so don’t miss this opportunity to get out and enjoy the outdoors!

Non-binding RSVP: Google Form

We’ll meet at the Dowdy Draw trailhead at 8:00am. The trail is moderate and very scenic. Bring a small pack with a water bottle and a few snacks, along with a raincoat just in case.

A $5 parking fee for cars registered outside Boulder County is required. Click here to pay for your parking in advance.

An optional add-on will be on the Goshawk Ridge loop, which will add 3 more miles to the round-trip distance.

Dogs on-leash are allowed on the northern half of the Spring Brook Loop, but not on the southern half of Spring Brook or on Goshawk Ridge.

Following the hike, an optional lunch gathering will occur at the Southern Sun (cash only) in Boulder.

Gather with your Colorado Yale community for an evening with Professor Paul Freedman. His topic will be "What is American Cuisine?" Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at the Golden History Museum for this excellent event and lecture.

Everyone can identify key aspects of Italian or Japanese cuisine, but is there such a thing as American cuisine? Most of the world thinks American taste can be simply identified with fast food. Professor Freedman’s talk is an effort to show that the picture is both richer and more complex, identifying characteristics of American food preference and how they have evolved over the past two hundred years.

This event is part of Yale's signature Redpath Lecture series and always attracts a large and diverse gathering of Yalies. Alumni, parents and friends of the Yale community are all welcome. 

The evening will begin at 6:00 pm with light bites, beer, and wine followed by remarks at 6:30 pm. This event will also serve as our annual meeting.

Fee: $25.00

Pay with PayPal using the button below, or if you prefer to pay via check, please RSVP to Heather Hill and mail your check to the Colorado Yale Association, Box 911, Denver, Colorado, 80201.

Once you have RSVP'd you will check in at the event when you arrive. No physical tickets will be issued. 

We know that schedules sometimes change. The last day we will be able to fulfill requests for refunds (excluding the PayPal service fee) is April 4, 2025.

The Redpath Lecture will take place at the Golden History Museum in Golden, CO. This cool little museum seeks to create a community that lives and loves its history. What better place could there be to welcome Professor Freedman who has served as Yale Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Chair of the History Department, and Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.

Professor Freedman has also written extensively on food and culinary history including Food: The History of Taste, an illustrated collection of essays about food from prehistoric to contemporary times, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, Ten Restaurants That Changed America, and Why Food Matters which describes why food is important for reasons of cultural identity, memory, and orientation in the world. His most recent book is (co-authored with Marc Aronson) Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts, Food, and Side Dishes. This children's book offers an introduction to American history through specific historical meals and venues such as soda fountains, Italian restaurant and Native American celebrations that show the range of creativity as well as conflict over many centuries.

This will be a fun evening, we hope you will join us!

The Bulldogs are coming to Denver! The Yale men’s basketball team is the Ivy League champion and a #13 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. They play #4 Texas A&M right here in Denver at Ball Arena. The event is sold out, but tickets are available on the secondary market on Ticketmaster.

Come cheer on your Bulldogs in March Madness!

2/20/25, Vail/Edwards, 5-7 p.m.

Harvest Restaurant & Bar at the Sonnenalp Golf Club, 1265 Berry Creek Rd, Edwards, CO 81632

Non-binding RSVP to Sally Austen