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 'Joy In The Everyday,'
a Hopewell Valley Arts Council Exhibit at Capital Health - Hopewell
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council and the Arts and Healing Committee at Capital Health are celebrating "Joy in the Everyday," an exhibition of works by members of the Hopewell Valley Arts Council at the Investors Bank Art & Healing Gallery at Capital Health, One Capital Way, Pennington. Located on the 2nd floor, this exhibit captures, in visual and written representation, the colorful relationship between joy and art.
The opening reception is on Thursday, January 10, 2019 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and the exhibit is on display until March 25, 2019.
The holidays are a magical time of celebration, light, and wishes for peace and good fortune in the coming year. Artists get to wield their own brand of magic by transmitting personal feelings of joy and inspiration to those who view their art.
This diverse portfolio of work was created by supporters of the HV Arts Council and includes both amateur and accomplished artists, and those self-taught and professionally trained.
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing art awareness and appreciation in the greater Hopewell Valley. We celebrate “art in the everyday” by cultivating all types of creative exploration, artistic expression, and encourage us all to see the beauty inherent in the simple and ordinary parts of day-to-day life. Through community collaborations, events and art-based initiatives, the Arts Council highlights our local talents and enriches the cultural and creative lives of our community. The opening reception will be at the Art & Healing Gallery, on the second floor at Capital Health Medical Center-Hopewell on Thursday, January 10, 2019 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Joy in the Everyday – Art is joy! Joy to the world! Celebrating the holiday season, this exhibit will feature art that exudes joy, color, and happiness. Artists have the ability to inspire, encourage, and motivate. Where does your joy come from? Each artist shares how they create art that brings them joy in the everyday or to the world as a whole.
The exhibit will be on display from now until March 25, 2019. For more information, please visit hvartscouncil.org.
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McCarter Theatre Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On January 18 at 8 p.m., McCarter Theatre will present multi-genre recording artist Damien Sneed and his unique blend of classical, jazz, and gospel music with "We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." Inspired by the words and action of Dr. King, "We Shall Overcome" features repertoire from across the African-American music traditions that electrified generations of civil rights activists and defenders, interwoven with spoken word from Dr. King’s speeches.
For more on Damien Sneed, visit damiensneed.com. For information about tickets visit mccarter.org / (609) 258-2787.
 Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster to headline Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey show
Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster David Kim will perform Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor by Max Bruch with the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey on Sunday, January 20, at 2:30 p.m.
Kim’s performance is the featured event of the annual YOCJ winter concerts, to be held at Kendall Hall, The College of New Jersey. The afternoon concert will also include YOCJ’s Saxophone Choir, which will perform Gran Partita, commissioned by YOCJ and written by noted composer David Noon.
A later concert, at 7:30 p.m., will include the String Preparatory Orchestra, Pro Arte Orchestra, and Wind Symphony. All tickets are good for both concerts.
(The snow date for the earlier concert, featuring David Kim, will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 22, at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. The snow date for the later concert will be 3 p.m. Sunday, January 27, also at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.)
Tickets will be available starting on January 4 at tcnj.edu/boxoffice or the Kendall Hall box office on the day of the concert.
Kendall Hall is located behind Park Drive on the TCNJ campus, 2000 Pennington Road in Ewing, NJ.
The YOCJ Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by John Enz, will accompany Mr. Kim at the 2:30 p.m. concert. Mr. Kim has been concertmaster at the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, and appears as a soloist each season. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School in New York City.
The Saxophone Choir, a rare group for any youth orchestra, is led by Dr. Jordan Smith.
YOCJ has performed since 1978. New student auditions are planned for Tuesday, January 29. See YOCJ.org for details.
YOCJ is composed of about 230 student players who seek to improve and play at a higher level. Players must be privately taught, and must continue to work with their school orchestras and bands.
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 If These Stones Could Talk: Author Talk and Book Signing in Hopewell
Join the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library on January 15 at 6 p.m. and hear local authors Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, former board members of the Stoutsburg Cemetery Association, speak about their new book "If These Stones Could Talk." Based on decades of research, oral histories, land deeds, church records and preserved plots, Buck and Mills accumulated stories that consecrate the collected lives of a minority black community in a predominantly white region of the Sourland Mountains of New Jersey. The book provides a unique window to African-Americans in New Jersey previously missing from the historical record.
Registration is requested for this lecture. Please call the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library at (609) 737-2610 or email hopeprogs@mcl.org.
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 Trenton Artists Workshop Presents the Traveling Exhibit 'Persistence'
The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) presents the traveling exhibition “Persistence” at the Plainsboro Public Library from January 4 to January 31. A reception and artist talk is set for Sunday, January 20 from 1 to 4 p.m.
“Persistence” features work by regional artists who demonstrate persistence despite what are commonly perceived as obstacle: age, illness, and physical and neurological problems.
In addition to providing a venue for artists to come together and share work, “Persistence” is designed to encourage others by showing how these artists use art to enhance their lives and continue their pursuit of art.
Exhibiting artists will be Priscilla Snow Algava, a Princeton-based artist who works mainly in mono-prints and painting and is inspired by nature and the human spirit and figure. She has exhibited in various galleries in New York City, Philadelphia, and New Jersey as well as internationally. Agalva has been receiving treatment for cancer over the past two years.
Justin Jedrzejczyk is a Trenton area artist and has shown his work locally and in New York City. He mainly does portraits, using friends as models in everyday settings and paints in acrylic on canvas. Over the past several years he has been dealing with a neurological problem that has affected his eyesight.
Ken Alexander is a self-taught Trenton-based painter. His work focuses on the human experience in various settings. Despite being visually impaired, he uses vivid colors in his work and tends to use abstraction in representing his figures.
Mark Wilkie is a Hamilton native who uses various detailed shapes and works in pen and pencil and has a neurological classification.
Mel Leipzig is an award-winning artist. He is a painter who dedicates his career to painting people in their own environments. His painting of Michael Austin shows the human spirit and represents how an artist can use art to overcome obstacles to strengthen their lives. The 83-year-old Leipzig shows that age is no obstacle to new work.
Karey Maurice is a Princeton-based artist who works in multiple mediums and works in the style of neo pop and suffers from a spinal cord degeneration. He studied visual arts at Mercer County Community College with Mel Leipzig and Frank Rivera and mentored under New York based pop artist Keith Haring.
And curator Byron Aubrey is a Trenton-born Hamilton resident who is active in drawing, photography, and painting and who studies visual arts at Mercer County Community College. He studied and was mentored under Pricilla Algava and Mel Leipzig and has a neurological classification. This is the first show he has curated.
The Plainsboro Library is located at 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro. Hours are Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information on the library, call 609-275-2897. For more information on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association, contact tawaexhibits@aol.com.
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The Paleo and Archaic Indians of New Jersey at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville
On Sunday, February 3, at 1:30 p.m., join the Nature Center at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville. Jim Wade, former archivist and researcher with the New Jersey State Museum, will take participants on a journey back to the time of the last ice age, when the earliest Native American peoples entered what is now New Jersey. Discover how these Paleo-Indians lived and survived in an arctic landscape filled with strange, prehistoric fur-covered animals, like the woolly mammoth, great elk, and musk oxen - Learn how these earliest people adapted to their harsh environment and hunted with specialized Clovis spear points - See how these prehistoric hunters opened the way for new bands of Archaic peoples who followed, with new innovative stone tools and lifestyles. The program will include a slide presentation and Native American artifacts will be on display.
For more information about other programs at the Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, visit state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/washington_crossing_calendar.htm.
'Three Centuries of African-American History in Trenton: Significant People and Places' at Ewing Branch Library
Learn about the people and places associated with Trenton's African-American community from its founding to the mid-twentieth century on February 20, 7 p.m. at the Ewing Branch of the Mercer County Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing. Presented by Jennifer B. Leynes, author of "Three Centuries of African-American History in Trenton: Significant People and Places," which was published by the Trenton Historical Society with support from the New Jersey Historical Commission. She serves on the Trenton Landmarks Commission and is employed as a Historic Preservation Specialist by the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office. Registration is required. Call 882-3148. For more information visit mcl.org.
Princeton Public Library to Host Chinese New Year event
Join the Princeton High School Mandarin classes and the school’s Chinese Club on February 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, as they host a celebration of Chinese New Year for all ages featuring traditional music and instruments, martial arts, calligraphy, painting, dance, origami, games, crafts and more.
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library and the Princeton High School Chinese Club. For more information or to register, call 609-924-9529 or visit princetonlibrary.org
A Place In Time: Enoch Middleton House in Hamilton Township
Prior to the Civil War, a sprawling network of individuals, secret routes, and safe houses began to emerge throughout the northern United States.
This network, better known as the Underground Railroad, helped fugitive slaves from the South escape to northern states and Canada, where slavery had already been abolished. Beginning in the early 19th Century and reaching its peak between 1850 and 1860, estimates of fugitives led to safety range from 30,000 to upward of 100,000.
In the North Crosswicks section of Hamilton Township, New Jersey on the corner of Church Street and Old York Road sits one such safe house. Named the Enoch Middleton House, the home was built in 1836 by Middleton, a retired Quaker merchant and abolitionist from Philadelphia. According to the New Jersey Historical Commission’s A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey, the house was initially intended as the Middleton family summer home.
Upon his retirement, Middleton chose to move his permanent residence to Mercer County and shortly after began a life as an Underground Railroad stationmaster and conductor. A 1956 issue of the Trenton Sunday Times-Advertiser suggests that Middleton acquired anti-slavery ideas through contacts with leading abolitionists and the Quaker Society of Friends.
Despite the documentation that does exist surrounding Middleton and the property, there are many parts of the story that are still unknown.
For more information or to research the Enoch Middletown house, please visit the New Jersey State Archives, 225 West State Street.
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