Category Archives: Other Events

July 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

July 7—September 30 Gallery Artists Showcase, art exhibit at The Gallery featuring works by 31 invited artists. South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. Continue reading

July 2014 • Opportunities

CALL FOR ARTISTS •  #imagineTrenton, DEADLINE JULY 31
Trenton must show what it wants to be in 2042, not just tell. A vision for Trenton must include images whether they be paintings, drawings, photographs, or movies. Apply and submit image on-line by July 31 at trenton250.org. Continue reading

July 2014 • Senior Center

ARTS AT SOUTH BRUNSWICK
SENIOR CENTER

Open 8:30–4:30pm weekdays
For more information/registration,
call 732.329.4000 ext. 7670
For South Brunswick residents over 55

July 2 • 12:30pm, Piano Recital – Gwen Ceroseli’s Wednesday class. Continue reading

June 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

Through June 30 • New Jersey’s Natural Wonders juried art exhibit at The Gallery. Show runs through June 30. South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction.

Movie Nights, all 6:30—8:45, June 25, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Feature Film, 2—4:45pm June 29, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; International Film Festival: June 15, 2pm, Instructions Not Included, repeated  June 18, 6:30pm; Live Concert Performances, 2—4pm: June 22, RB Express; South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, www.sbpl.info .

Through June 7, Earth Air Fire Water – works by Alan Goldstein; June 21-22, 3pm to 3pm, Art All Night 2014, Select exhibit at Artworks, June 28—July 26, reception June 28, 6-8pm; June 7—28, The Men I Have Known—Works by Juliet Martin, reception June 28, 6—8pm; Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org

Through May 10,  WW33 show; June 7, 8pm, Sufiana: Divine Love, $20/members $18; June 28, 7pm, And the Best Goes On…The Blawenburg Band (at the Nassau Park Pavilion), free; West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction, www.westwindsorartscenter.org, 609.716.1931.

June 13—22, Much Ado About Nothing; The Kelsey Theatre at MCCC, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, www.kelseytheatre.net

June 4 • 7:30pm, David Sedaris; June 7, 8pm, A Cappella Vocal Jazz; June 8, 4:30pm, Jazz: Martin Wind Quartet; June 14, 8pm, Concordia Chamber Players; June 15, 2pm & 6pm, Puppet Theatre: Goldilocks; 3pm, Piano Competition Finals; June 20, 8pm, Ola Fresca; June 21, 8pm, Evan Wong; June 22, 3pm & June 27, 8pm, Porgy and Bess; June 28, 7:30pm, Choral Concert;  McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, www.mccarter.org, 609.258.2787.

Through June 29, Grease; Papermill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973.376.4343, www.papermill.org.

June 4 • 6pm, Insights: Gallery Talks: Repression and Response, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art; current exhibitions: through July 31, “Never such innocence again”, Picturing the Great War in French Prints and Drawings, through July 31, Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derriere L’Etoile Studio, through October 19, Odessa’s Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth; admission $6/members free, museum hours 10am—4:30pm, Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 9pm first Wednesdays, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

June 6—22, Wedding Secrets; Somerset Valley Playhouse, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, www.svptheatre.org.

June 7—August 9, 2014 Signature Members Show, D&R Greenway, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton, www.drgreenway.org; Garden State Watercolor Society, www.gswcs.com.

June 7 • 10am–4pm, East Brunswick Municipal Complex, Ryder’s Lane. Outdoor juried show of fine art and fine handmade crafts.

Through June 30, 2014Got Work? New Deal/WPA in New Jersey, Cornelius Low House, Middlesex County Museum, 1225 River Road, Piscataway, 732.745.4177. Public, group and school tours welcome. www.co.middlesex.nj.us.  Sponsored by Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Teachers with students will receive a “Workshop in a Box” with all components to take back to the classroom for use year after year. To schedule a class visit and reserve your box, call 732.545.4489.

June 2014 • Opportunities

SUMMER CAMPS • SOUTH BRUNSWICK
Enrichment, adventure, travel, music, sports. Get brochure at http://www.sbschools.org/community_ed/enrichment_camp.php Continue reading

June 2014 • Senior Center

ARTS AT SOUTH BRUNSWICK
SENIOR CENTER

Open 8:30–4:30pm weekdays
For more information/registration,
call 732.329.4000 ext. 7670
For South Brunswick residents over 55

June 5 • 12:30pm, Movie, Home Run. Continue reading

May 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

Through June 30 • New Jersey’s Natural Wonders juried art exhibit at The Gallery. Show runs through June 30. South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. Continue reading

May 2014 • Opportunities

CALL FOR ARTISTS • EAST BRUNSWICK FINE ARTS FESTIVAL
June 7, 2014
, 10am – 4pm, East Brunswick Municipal Complex, Ryder’s Lane. Outdoor juried show of fine art and fine handmade crafts. $60 entry fee, $5 jury fee. Application deadline, May 16. Continue reading

May 2014 • Senior Center

ARTS AT SOUTH BRUNSWICK
SENIOR CENTER

Open 8:30–4:30pm weekdays
For more information/registration,
call 732.329.4000 ext. 7670
For South Brunswick residents over 55

May 1 • 12:30pm, Movie, Gravity. Continue reading

April 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

April 1—May 4, The Figaro Plays: The Barber of Seville; April 9—May 3, The Figaro Plays: The Marriage of Figaro; April 26, 8pm, Omar Sosa; May 7, 7:30, The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet; May 9, 8pm, Simon Shaheen; May 10, 8pm, Bill Charles; May 12, 7:30pm, Pinchas Zukerman & Yefim Bronfman; May 15, 7:30pm, Moscow Virtuosi; May 17, 8pm, Straight No Chaser a cappella; McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, www.mccarter.org, 609.258.2787.

Movie Nights, all 6:30—8:45, April 2, The Book Thief, April 30, Dallas Buyers Club; Feature Film, 2—4:45pm, May 1, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, May 21, Her; Poetry Series, Sundays 2-4pm: April 13, poets Therese Halschild and Barbara Daniels, May 4, poets Lisa Russ Spaar and Cate Marvin; International Film Festival: April 13, 2pm, Philomena, repeated April 16, 6:30 pm, May 11, 2pm, film TBA, repeated May 14, 6:30pm; Live Concert Performances, 2—4pm: April 27, Mariachi Oro de Mexico, May 18, Jo Wymer, Acoustic Guitar; May 11, 1:30—4:30pm, Native American Flute Circle; South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, www.sbpl.info .

April 2 • 6—8pm, Insight: Gallery Talks, A Celebration of Chinese Calligraphy, Poetry and Art, April 13, 2pm, French art and society following the upheaval of the French Revolution; through April 6, Artists; Portraits: Putting a Face to the Name; April 10, 4pm, Baskets & Data: Making Weather Tactile in the Digital Age, Nathalie Miebach, Artist;  through July 13, Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture; through July 31, Diane Burko: Glacial Perspectives; through July 31, “Never such innocence again”: Picturing the Great War in French Prints and Drawings; admission $6/members free; museum hours 8:00am – 4:30 pm, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

April 3, 8pm, The Nash Ensemble of London; April 6, 3pm, Richardson Chamber Players: This England; April 26, 7:30, Gillicantus, Renaissance Vocal Ensemble; May 1, 8pm, Piotr Anderszewski, piano; Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org/concerts

April 4-6 • International Film Festival curated by Jed Rapfogel; $8. Mill Hill Playhouse. For additional information and tickets, www.trentonfilmsociety.org

April 4 • 8pm, Radam Schwartz at The Jazz Café, $6, Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, www.sbarts.org/jazz-café

Through April 5, Names—A solo exhibition by Ruth Wolf; April 11—May 3, young galaxy exhibit of work by advanced students for The College of New Jersey, reception April 11; April 5—May 3, Mercer Co. Boys & Girls Club Art Exhibit, reception April 11, 5—7pm; Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org

April 5 • 2 and 4pm, Stuart Little; through April 13, Les Miserables; April 25—May 4, HAIR; May 10, 8pm & May 11, 2pm, MDE—Something for Everyone; May 17, 2 & 4pm, The Emperor’s New Clothes; May 16—May 25, The Great American Trailer Park Musical; May 30—June 1, Shrek, The Musical; The Kelsey Theatre at MCCC, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, www.kelseytheatre.net

April 5, 8pm, Verdi’s Requiem, April 27, 3pm, The Wizard of Oz with Orchestra, State Theatre, New Brunswick; May 2, 8pm, Brahms First Symphony, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, www.njsymphony.org, 800.255.3476.

April 6 • 2pm, film screening in celebration of Paul Robeson’s birthday: Showboat, free; April 8, 7pm, Nerds Night Out with Sarah Donner and the Doubleclicks, $10/$8 members; April 11, 8 pm, Sound Bites CD Release Concert featuring the Tom Tallitsch Quintet, saxophonist Tom Tallitsch debuts his new CD “Ride”,  $20 CD & Ticket combo or $12/$10 ACP member; through April 12 • Extraordinary Mash-ups: Ilya Genin’s Photographs of Cuba; April 27, 1—6 pm, Communiversity Festival of the Arts, downtown Princeton, free; through April 30, Terrace Project: Ayami Aoyama; May 16, 8pm,South Bites concert featuring The Juke Joint Jonny Trio, $10/$8 members; Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, www.artscouncilofprinceton.org, 609.924.8777.

April 11 • 6:30—8pm, Meet the Artists Reception for New Jersey’s Natural Wonders juried art exhibit at The Gallery. Show runs through June 30. South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction.

April 12 • 7:30pm, Saturday FILM Series, Pink Ribbons, Inc (2011), May 10, Frozen River, both $8/$7 members, at the door; May 4, 4—6pm, Opening reception, WW33, show runs through June 13; May 17, 8pm, Get Jazzed: An Evening with American Jazz Drummer Winard Harper, $20/$18 members; West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction, www.westwindsorartscenter.org, 609.716.1931.

April 26, 7pm, The Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, Once Upon An Opera; May 3, 7pm, City Ballet’s Dracula; The Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts, 1629 Perrineville Road, Monroe Township, www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com

Through June 30, 2014Got Work? New Deal/WPA in New Jersey, Cornelius Low House, Middlesex County Museum, 1225 River Road, Piscataway, 732.745.4177. Public, group and school tours welcome. www.co.middlesex.nj.us.  Sponsored by Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Teachers with students will receive a “Workshop in a Box” with all components to take back to the classroom for use year after year. To schedule a class visit and reserve your box, call 732.545.4489.