Sept. 19, 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Around the World Trade Center: Artist Showcase
Center for Modern Ageing Princeton - 101 Poor Farm Rd Building B, Princeton
(609) 751-9699 | engage.cmaprinceton.org/component/events/event/625
Join the Center for Modern Aging Princeton for the opening reception of “Around WTC,” a World Trade Center art exhibit by photographer Samuel Vovsi. In 2007, Vovsi began working in Jersey City, steps from the Hudson waterfront, with a direct view of the World Trade Center site. Witnessing the void left in the Manhattan skyline, he felt a profound sense of loss. Over the years, as he moved to an office in Lower Manhattan near the emerging Freedom Tower, he captured the rebirth of the WTC. This exhibit showcases a selection of his powerful images, documenting the dramatic story of the new World Trade Center rising from the ashes of the old. Meet the artist and experience his journey through his lens.
*Free Event. Registration Required.
Sept. 7 & 8, 12 - 7 p.m.
Fiesta Latina
Mercer County Division of Culture & Heritage and The Trenton Puerto Rican Community & Friends Organization (TPRCF) - Mercer County Park Festival Grounds
(609) 278-2712 | cultureandheritage@mercercounty.org | eventbrite.com
Mercer County Executive Dan Benson, the Board of County Commissioners, the Mercer County Division of Culture & Heritage (MCDC&H), and the Trenton Puerto Rican Community & Friends Organization (TPRCFO), are excited to announce Mercer’s 2nd Annual Fiesta Latina. This celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month will run for two days and feature live music, craft vendors, children's activities, and more.
Grammy Award nominee and musician Toño Rosario will take the stage along with the legendary salsa group Puerto Rican Power. The day’s celebration will be hosted by comedian Joey Vega, supplemented by a blend of sounds from DJ Ralph Mercado. On Sunday, Sept. 8, attendees can immerse themselves in the music stylings of cumbia, merengue, mariachi, and more. Headlining this dance-worthy day will be three-time Grammy award winning salsa and Latin jazz composer and performer Jeremy Bosch, accompanied by Jose Tabares’ All Star Band.
*Ticket Cost: $15 a day, $25 both days online | $20 a day, $35 both days at the door
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Sept. 22, 3 p.m.
Ice Cream Social
The Blawenburg Band at the Ewing Presbyterian Church - 100 Scotch Rd, Ewing
(732) 735-9260 | blawenburgband.org
Listen to New Jersey's oldest community band while enjoying a delicious treat!
*Free Event
Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m.
"Bach en Bandoneon"
Altamura Legacy Concerts (ALC) - Princeton United Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventure Ave, Princeton
princetontangoclub.com
Altamura Legacy Concerts (ALC) presents “Bach en Bandoneon,” a celebration of the accordion-like Argentinian tango instrument. Bandoneonists Heyni Solera and Rodrigo Avalos explore its possibilities through their selected arrangements of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as tango duos that highlight the capabilities of the instrument.
ALC Artistic Director Cristina Altamura will perform solo, and will join Avalos and Solera for two tangos by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. The performance, co-presented with the Princeton Tango Club, caps a weekend of workshops and lectures on the Princeton Campus Saturday, Sept. 28.
*Ticket Cost: $40 General Admission, $10 for students - cash at the door or reserved seating online.
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Sept. 15, 12 - 3 p.m.
Young Patriots' Day
Princeton Battlefield Society - 500 Mercer Rd, Princeton
info@pbs1777.org | pbs.org
Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) invites you to a family day of fun and American History at Princeton Battlefield State Park. At this event, Young Patriots and their families can listen to the words of Ben Franklin and George Washington, talk to battle reenactors with the NJ Grays, learn about spy craft in 1776, and find out about archaeology & other New Jersey historic sites. Activities include musket and cannon firing, marching and drilling, and tours of the battlefield and the Clarke House Museum. Participants will take home souvenirs of the day. A final schedule of times and activities will be posted on the PBS website and will be available at the event. Register your family online.
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Sept. 12 - 22
Seuls en Scène Princeton French Theater Festival
The Lewis Center for the Arts, L’Avant Scène, and Department of French and Italian at Princeton University
LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu/frenchtheater/
13th edition of the annual festival featuring renowned and emerging French writers, actors and directors in six productions of contemporary works recently presented on stages in France and related conversation, most performed in French, some with English supertitles organized by Florent Masse, Professor of the Practice in the Department of French and Italian and presented in collaboration with the 52nd Edition of Festival d’Automne in Paris and Festival d’Avignon
*Free and open to the public. However, tickets are required for performances.
Sept. 21, 7 p.m.
The Inheritor: A Staged Reading
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater at Princeton University - Drapkin Studio at the Lewis Arts Complex
LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu/events/the-inheritor-a-staged-reading/
In The Inheritor, a 1968 activist play about structural inequities in access to educational opportunity, surrealist imagery and experimental theatricality animate the often uncanny experience of attending an elite institute of higher education without knowledge of the unwritten rules that dictate campus culture. The play follows two students – the Inheritor and the Non-Inheritor – as they prepare to sit for a high-stakes exam and reveals how their respective life experiences have prepared them very differently for the demands of university life. Unveiling higher education as a world of privilege where “there is no such thing as luck,” this wildly absurdist play features a beheaded knight, a Louvre picnic, a talking record player, and a boisterous chorus of professors depicted as a flock of squawking birds. Based on sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture (1964), the play was created by Théâtre de l’Aquarium, a student ensemble, and premiered to great acclaim in May 1968 amid student and worker protests in Paris. Presented here in a staged reading of a new (and the first English-language) translation of the script by Kate Bredeson and Thalia Wolff, The Inheritor speaks forcefully to the persistence of educational inequity on campuses today. Directed by Professor Brian Eugenio Herrera.
*Free and open to the public. However, tickets are required.
Sept. 27, 4:40 p.m.
Robert Spoo on “James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York: A Counterfactual View from Fifth Avenue,”
The Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University - James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St, Princeton
LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu/events/fund-for-irish-studies-lecture-by-robert-spoo/
James Joyce’s Ulysses was famously first published as a book in 1922 in Paris, France, by the American bookseller Sylvia Beach (who lived in Princeton as a young woman and is buried in the town). The centenary of this momentous literary event has recently been celebrated throughout the world. But what if Ulysses the book had first been published, not in Paris, but in New York, New York? After all, it came close to happening just that way. The history of Ulysses—and of New York’s role in modernist literature—would have been vastly different had Joyce’s masterpiece debuted from Fifth Avenue or West 40th Street rather than the rue de l’Odéon in Paris. This talk by Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters, will perform the thought experiment of substituting New York for Paris as the birthplace of the unexpurgated Ulysses. Along the way, a lively cast of characters will take the stage: lavish patrons, overworked lawyers, timid and courageous publishers, a shameless literary pirate, censors and smuthounds, and the famous Irish author himself.
*Free Event
Sept. 25 - Oct. 30, Wednesdays from 6 - 8 p.m.
Romancing the Story: How Characterization Creates Memorable Heroes and Heroines - Six-Week Workshop Series
The Center for Continuing Studies at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) - 1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor
(609) 903-3282 | Sharibnichols@gmail.com |www.mccc.edu/cs/NCWRI.shtml
In this creative writing course, award-winning author Shari Nichols will teach students how to develop characters with internal conflicts, motivations, goals, and misbeliefs. An outline will be created as a road map for a rough draft for their novel, novella, or short story. Students will learn the following: how to create a novel or short story rough draft, develop character charts, learn what it takes to hook a reader, and how to use point of view and setting.
*Cost: $150
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