Arts, Entertainment, and Media

MISSION STATEMENT

The Arts, Entertainment, Media and Entrepreneurship Affinity Group provides a venue for Hopkins alumni to connect, to find resources and information, to grow professionally, and to inspire.


Upcoming Events
 


Alumni Author Talk - The Devil's Dictionary with Steven Kotler (A&S '93)
Friday, April 29, 2022


Past Events
 

Lunch with the Libraries - Love Them or Lib Them: Romance Comic Books for Valentine's Day
Monday, February 14, 2022

Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE! An Alumni Panel and Intersession Gathering
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Lunch with the Libraries: Spanish Sueltas and the History of Publishing in Spain
Friday, November 19, 2021

What's Stopping You? 6 Critical Strategies You Know About But Aren't Doing
Friday, November 12, 2021

How to Podcast with Bill Kirst (A&S '00), Change & Enablement Leader, Storyteller, Podcast Host, "Coffee & Change"
Friday, November 12, 2021

Facts Machine LIVE! Dark Matter, Dark Magic with Noah Guiberson (A&S '15)
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

The DNA of Achievers: 10 Traits of Highly Successful Professionals – A Conversation with Dr. Mathew Knowles, Executive Producer and Dad to His Daughters, Solange and Beyoncé
Thursday, October 21, 2021

New York, NY: Facts Machine LIVE! Food for Thought with Noah Guiberson (A&S '15)
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Evenings – A Series
Part IV: Powerful Works of Our Time: Sanchez-Guitierrez's Girando Danzando and Dusman's What Remains
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Herding Cats: A Play that Crosses the Line...And the Pond
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 to May 22, 2021

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Evenings - Star-Crossed: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Lunch with the Libraries & Museums - Sharing Knowledge: Public Humanities and Black Baltimore
Friday, April 9, 2021

Part III: Bloodlust: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Lunch with the Libraries & Museums - The Foundation and the Gateway: What Maps Show and Hide about Baltimore and American History
Friday, March 26, 2021

George C. Marshall & Paul H. Nitze: Last of the Cold Warriors
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Lunch with the Libraries - Behind the Scenes at Evergreen Museum & Library
Friday, March 12, 2021

Website Usability: Managing User Experience in a Connected World
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Part II: Exquisite Revolution:  Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Part I: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE! A Fireside Chat with Charlie Collier, CEO, FOX Entertainment, and Ben Silverman, Co-CEO and Chairman, Propagate
Thursday, January 14th, 2021

Media, Marketing, and Public Relations: Alumni Panel and Networking Event
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE! Alumni Panel and Networking Event
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - Preservation and Access: The Importance of Digitization
Friday, December 11th, 2020

Virtual Event: Backstage with the JHU Barnstormers
Friday, December 4th, 2020

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - The Ephemeral Renaissance: The Unique and Impossibly Rare at Hopkins from the 15th to the 17th Centuries
Friday, December 4th, 2020

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - A Curator's Tour of the George Peabody Library
Friday, November 20th, 2020 

Virtual Event:Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Evenings Part III-Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Thursday, November 19th, 2020

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - Cooks and Their Books: A Culinary Journey through the Sheridan Libraries' Cookbook Collection
Friday, November 13th, 2020

Virtual Event: 8 Billion Angels - A Film and Conversation Confronting the Impact of Unsustainable Growth
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - Archival Justice: Reparative Collecting with Ephemera
Friday, October 30th, 2020

Virtual Event: Letters for Peace - The Intersection of Creative Writing and Conflict Transformation
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

Virtual Event: Lunch with the Libraries - Introduction to the Conservation of Library Materials
Friday, October 16th, 2020

Virtual Event: Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Evenings Part II -  Symphonie Fantastique
Thursday, October 15th, 2020

Music as Medicine with Alexander Pantelyat, M.D., Founder & Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine
Monday, October 12th, 2020

Virtual Event: Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Evenings Part I - Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Thursday, September 24th, 2020

Virtual Event: Behind the Booze - How Fawn Weaver Honors History through America's Fastest-Growing Whiskey Brand
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020

Virtual Event: Behind the Music at Saturday Night Live 
Monday, August 10th, 2020

Virtual Events: Exteriors at Evergreen Series - Part II: An Ever-Expanding Evergreen
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

Virtual Events: Exteriors at Evergreen Series - Part III: Evergreen in the 20th Century
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Virtual Events: Exteriors at Evergreen Series - Part I: Historic Gardens and Grounds
Tuesday, July 7th, 2020

Virtual Event: Facts Machine LIVE! This is Your Brain on Brains
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

Virtual Event - Joys, Hardships, and Why Film is Needed
Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Virtual Event - 'The Office' Producers' New Workplace Comedy
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020

An Evening with New York Times Best-selling Author, Elin Hilderbrand (A & S'91) 
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

Virtual Trivia Night with Superscript
Thursday, April 16th, 2020

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Bonsai for Beginners
Thursday, March 5th, 2020

Growing Into Our Gifts - Lessons Learned Inventing a Prophetess
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020

Drs. Jane and Alexander - A Play by Edward Einhorn (Arts & Sciences '92)
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

Peko Peko - A History of Ramen and Sake Tasting
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020

Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE!
Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Celebrate the Season at Evergreen Museum and Library
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

Music at the Tour de Eiffel with Johns Hopkins
Sunday, November 24th, 2019

Derren Brown: Secret on Broadway
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Facts Machine LIVE! A Trivia Podcast
Featuring Noah Guiberson (A&S '15)
 

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 

Notes on My Mother's Decline - A Play by Andy Bragen (A&S '93)
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

To Kill A Mockingbird 
Thursday, September 19th, 2019 

Evergreen Museum & Library: After Hours
Thursday, July 25th, 2019

AEME Affinity: NY
*SOLD OUT* | What's Next? The Future of Media in Uncertain Times

Monday, March 18, 2019

AEME Affinity: NY
Music, Art, & Medicine Series | Snake Oils and Sovereign Cures
Sunday, March 10, 2019

AEME Affinity: NY
Marketing & Media: An Alumni Panel and Networking - SOLD OUT

Wednesday, January 16, 2018

AEME Affinity: LA
Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE: An Alumni Panel and Reception

Thursday, January 10, 2019

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
Mapping Frederick Douglass and Maryland, From the Hackerman Map Collection - SOLD OUT

Thursday, January 10, 2019

AEME Affinity: NY
Media, PR and More in the Big Apple
 
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

AEME Affinity: LA
Hopkins in Hollywood LIVE: An Alumni Panel and Reception

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

AEME Affinity: NY
The New York City Ballet in The Nutcracker

Thursday, November 30, 2017

AEME Affinity: San Francisco
Music, Art, & Medicine Series | An Evening of Music & Medicine
Thursday, October 5, 2017

AEME Affinity: LA
Hopkins in Hollywood Panel Discussion: “Writing in LA - A Survival Guide”
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

AEME Affinity: NY
New York Philharmonic in Central Park
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

AEME Affinity: NY - SOLD OUT
Whitney Museum of American Art - Fast Forward: Paintings from the 1980s
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Private tour: 12 noon - 1pm
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AEME Affinity: NY
JHU Leaders in NY and Beyond: Digital Change-Makers and Communicators
January 18, 2017 - 6:30 - 8:30pm

AEME Affinity: LA
Hopkins in Hollywood
January 12, 2017 - 6:30 - 8:30pm

AEME Affinity: NY
JHU Playwright's New Comic Drama: Don't You #!&%ing Say A Word
November 9, 2016

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond
November 3, 2016

AEME Affinity: NY
The Ghosts of Grand Central: A Walking Tour
October 24, 2016

AEME Affinity: NY
JHU Alumni Remember 9/11: NYC Tunnel to Towers 5K
Sunday, September 25, 2016

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
International Shorts Film Festival, Student Photo Exhibit & Research Remix - An Evening of Thoughtful Art
June 21, 2016

AEME Affinity: NY
Digital Jays: Blazing New Trails in Business & Media with Emerging Tech
June 15, 2016
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AEME Affinity: NY
USS Bataan Tour and Brunch
May 28, 2016

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
"We Do": After Marriage Equality
Thursday, March 3, 2016

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
Phantom of the Opera
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

AEME Affinity: NY
Clue Chase - NYC's Biggest & Newest Escape Room Venue
Sunday, January 31, 2016

AEME Affinity: NY
Annual Intersession Panel - Media in the Big Apple
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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AEME Affinity: LA
Reception and Panel
Thursday, January 7, 2016
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AEME Affinity: NY
Holiday Party
Monday, December 7, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
Invisible Thread Musical
Saturday, December 5, 2015

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
Charm City Cakes
Thursday, November 5, 2015
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AEME Affinity: NY
Lower East Side Tenement Museum Tour
Sunday, November 1, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
JHU Private Wine 101 Tasting Class at Chelsea Wine Vault
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
Frida Kahlo Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden - SOLD OUT
May 31, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
2nd Annual A.E.M. Entrepreneurship Forum
"Strange Bedfellows: How NGOs, Entrepreneurs, and Corporations are Working Together to Save the World"
May 21, 2015
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AEME Affinity: Baltimore
FastForward East Entrepreneurship Event
May 18, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Tour - SOLD OUT
April 26, 2015

AEME Affinity: Baltimore
“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ARTS, HON!” - Alumni Reunion and Homecoming Weekend
April 17, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
"Running Late with Scott Rogowsky" at Carolines on Broadway
Feburary 26, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
NYC StartUP! Showdown
January 15, 2015

AEME Affinity: NY
AEME from A to Z: JHU Alumni Success Stories
January 14, 2015
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Click here to see an interview with Valerie O'Malley (A&S '10).

AEME Affinity: NY
PREformances with Allison Charney - SOLD OUT
December 15, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
Behind the Scenes @ The Met
November 16, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
Social Media State of Mind: Trends, Challenges, and the Future
November 6, 2014
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AEME Affinity: NY
Lar Lubovitch Dance Performance with Special Post-Performance Discussion
October 16, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
JHU Alumni Shuffle at The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club
September 7, 2014
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AEME Affinity: NY
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) tour with after-tour Happy Hour at The Coliseum Bar and Restaurant
July 31, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
Create your brand, create your life: Hopkins Entrepreneurs Share Startup Stories and Insights on How to Build a Brand
May 28, 2014
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AEME Affinity: NY
PREformances with Allison Charney
April 7, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
AEME networking and gathering: Johnny Hopkins at Johnny Utah's
March 26, 2014

AEME Affinity: NY
AEME Panel: JHU Alumni Stories
January 14, 2014
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Click here to see an interview with AEME member Song Hia ('05) at the event.

AEME Affinity: NY
Instant: The Story of Polaroid
December 3, 2013
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AEME Affinity: NY
MakerBot Workshop
June 20, 2013

AEME Affinity: NY
The "Sudden Pianist" Premiere
May 15, 2013

AEME Affinity: NY
Guided Tour: Museum of Modern Art's Permanent Collection
April 7, 2013

AEME Affinity: NY
AEME Affinity Gathering
March 19, 2013

AEME Affinity: NY
You CAN Get There from Here
January 16, 2012
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AEME Affinity: NY
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
November 18,2012

AEME Affinity: NY
VINCENT LAFORET: Behind the Lens
October 24,2012
Vincent Laforet's Biography and Photographs.

AEME Affinity: NY
The Next Revolution: How Has T3ch Changed the Way W3 Tell Storie5?
June 21,2012

 


AEME News: Did you hear about this? 
 

 

July 7th, 2015 JHU's New Film Degree Roberto Buso-Garcia, director of the new Masters of Arts in Film and Media program, said "Film and Media students will gain the creative expertise, a compelling portfolio, and the professional network to accomplish just that. In designing your film and television career in our program, the sky's the limit."
     
Summer 2016 Boxed CEO of Boxed, Chieh Huang (A&S '03) shares lessons in entrepreneurship. 

 


Click here to read more AEME News
July 5th, 2017 Top Performers New research demonstrates that performing at high levels can also come with some heavy costs: It can make our peers resent us and try to undermine our good work. Read more about it. 
     
Febuary 19th, 2013 Language and Thoughts Read this TED article discussing the implications of how languages affect the way we think

 

 


Meet Our Alumni
 

 

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Meet Valerie O'Malley (A&S'10) as she discusses the AEME and WOH Affinity Group

 

 

Song Hia (A&S '05)

Song Hia is exploring new uses of technology to better connect people as a master’s candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and organizing fast-paced talks for Ignite NYC. Previously he developed and managed operations and process at Percolate, an enterprise content marketing technology company. While at JHU he organized the Johns Hopkins Film Festival and played music no one listened to from the basement of McCoy Hall while relaunching WJHU as an internet-streaming radio station.

Click here to see an interview with A.E.M.E. member Song Hia ('05) at the JHU Alumni Stories panel on January 14th, 2014   

 

 

   

Mark Belinsky (A&S'06)


Entrepreneur and Creative Technologist
CEO of Birdi, Inc.

Watch the full interview with Mark here and hear him address a variety of topics: 

 

 

Affinity communities are groups made up of members of the Johns Hopkins community, predominantly alumni and students who come together around an industry vertical or subject/area of interest.

Reach the affinity team at affinity@jhu.edu with any questions!