March 11 - 29, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. daily
An exhibition by senior Lauren Olson
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts
Hurley Gallery at Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campus, 120 Alexander St, Princeton
(609) 258-5262 | LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu
Visit this exhibition of recent work by Lauren Olson, Princeton University senior majoring in visual arts.
*Free and open to the public
March 16, 2 - 3 p.m.
Family-Friendly Art Workshop: Discovering Your Magic
Hopewell Valley Arts Council
Pennington United Methodist Church, 60 S Main St, Pennington
(610) 291-9101 | info@hvartscouncil.org | hvartscouncil.org
Experience art as play in this family-friendly workshop! On Saturday, March 16, artist Jane Zamost will help unlock our unique magic by letting our minds flow and the creative process to unfold with family and community. We will use an array of materials to create art that explores and celebrates what makes each one of us truly unique. Our creative journey will be our project’s goal; the end result, an added gift. Artists are welcome to work collaboratively or on their own.
*Registration required
March 26, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Artist Meetup Collab: Winter Session
West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction
(609) 716-1931 | westwindsorarts.org
Join the group to share your art and your ideas. This is a judgement free zone to share and learn from each other. WWA seeks to build artist to artist relationships, creating a positive and supportive environment for all. Registration required.
*Ticket Cost: $10 General; Free to West Windsor Arts (WWA) Artist Level Members and Hightstown Cultural Arts Commission
March 15, 8 p.m.,
Her Sacred Spirit Soars
Capital Singers of Trenton, 1867 Sanctuary and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Rd, Ewing
(609) 392-6409 | 1867sanctuary.org
The Chorale will feature the little match girl passion by David Lang and other works by Tavener and Whitacre. A free-will offering will be accepted.
March 16, 7 p.m.
Trenton Music Makers open for the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey (CPNJ)
Patriots Theatre's War Memorial Auditorium, 1 Memorial Dr, Trenton
(800) 514-3849 | capitalphilharmonic.org
Trenton Music Makers will warm up the stage for CPNJ's performance of works by Igor Stravinsky, Valerie Coleman, and Philip Glass.
*Ticket Cost: $30 - $50 (seat depending)
March 4, 7 p.m.
Capturing Grace: Film Screening & Director Talk
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
Learn more about the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD® program through this award-winning documentary that follows individuals with Parkinson’s as they prepare to stage a first-ever dance performance. Through determination, adversity, and contending with doubt, Capturing Grace highlights the transformative power of art and the strength of the human spirit.
*Ticket Cost: $13.50 General Admission; $7.75 Members; $10 Students; $11 Seniors and Princeton University Staff/Faculty.
March 10, 7 p.m.
Hollywood Awards Party
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
Join the Princeton Garden Theatre in celebrating the year's best films at the Hollywood Awards Party. Enjoy the biggest night in Hollywood up on the big screen.
Two Ticket Options:
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Red Carpet Reception - Tickets are $45 for general admission and $35 for members. Join for a pre-awards reception with bites and drinks at the Palmer Room of the Nassau Inn. Dress up fancy and get in the Hollywood spirit. All tickets include reserved seating for the watch party back at the Garden in addition to the reception. This reception has limited tickets, so get yours before they sell out!
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Awards Watch Party - The annual watch party returns, for a casual way to enjoy Hollywood's biggest night on the big screen. Tickets are $13.50 General and $7.75 Members and come with bottomless popcorn and fountain sodas. Local vendors will also be in the lobby with other treats for sale. Dress in a tux or come cozy in your PJs - both are acceptable!
March 12, 7 p.m.
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (A Life in Lyrics): Film Screening & Q&A with Paul Muldoon
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
This feature-length documentary film about the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish writer Paul Muldoon creatively composes the story of Muldoon’s life through poems and special performances, while chronicling his career from beginnings as a radio producer with BBC in Belfast to his time as Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Princeton Atelier, and Professor of Creative Writing. Featuring Paul Simon, Liam Neeson, PJ Harvey, Bono, Ruth Negga, Paul Brady, and Iarla Ó Lionáird, amongst others, and using Muldoon’s own words, Laoithe is Lirici is an imaginative and innovative tribute to a great literary mind.
*Ticket Cost: $13.50 General Admission; $7.75 Members; $10 Students; $11 Seniors and Princeton University Staff/Faculty.
March 13, 7 p.m.
Porco Rosso: Film Screening & Online Film Discussion
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
In this fantastical comedy, renowned Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki convincingly fills the role of the classic Hollywood leading man with an anthropomorphic pig. Set in 1930’s Italy, PORCO ROSSO focuses on the titular swine, an ex-WWI flying ace who now spends his time as a bounty hunter chasing down “sky pirates.” Though he seems to have little faith left in the world after his experiences in the war, Rosso’s tough facade begins to crack after he forms a friendship with a young mechanic. In Japanese, with subtitles.
Join Princeton Garden Theatre online on March 25 at 7:30 p.m. for our Deep Focus virtual seminar and discussion of PORCO ROSSO with Junko Yamazaki, assistant professor of Japanese Media Studies at Princeton University.
*Ticket Cost: $13.50 General Admission; $7.75 Members; $10 Students; $11 Seniors and Princeton University Staff/Faculty.
March 16, 10 a.m.
Wolfwalkers: $5 Family Matinee
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
From the artists and storytellers behind The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea comes this mesmerizing tale based on Irish folklore. In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, she befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, the duo uncover a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
*Ticket Cost: $5 Kids & Adults; Free for Members
March 17, 1 p.m.
Vanya: National Theatre Live
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
Andrew Scott (Fleabag, All of Us Strangers) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions. Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End.
*Ticket Cost: $19 General Admission; $16 for Members
March 27, 7 p.m.
Imagining the Indian: Film Screening with Director Q&A
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
This documentary follows the struggle to end the appropriation of Native American names and imagery by U.S. sports franchises, contextualizing these efforts within the long history of stereotypes, terms, and images hurtful to Native people. This indigenous protest movement is framed within a larger national reckoning with racial injustice that has focused on issues such as confederate imagery and the legacy of Christopher Columbus.
*Ticket Cost: $13.50 General Admission; $7.75 Members; $10 Students; $11 Seniors and Princeton University Staff/Faculty.
March 28, 7 p.m.
Four Daughters: International Cinema Series
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 279-1999 | princetongardentheatre.org
This Oscar nominated Arabic language documentary mixes fact with a professional recreation of events in the story of a Tunisian mother who lost two of her four children to jihadists. One of the most critically lauded films of this past year, Four Daughters is a compelling portrait that explores the nature of memory, the weight of inherited trauma, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters. With subtitles.
*Ticket Cost: $13.50 General Admission; $7.75 Members; $10 Students; $11 Seniors and Princeton University Staff/Faculty.
March 28, 6 p.m.
Spring Lecture Series: Larry Kidder "The Revolutionary Work of a Free Black Man"
The Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack St, Trenton
(609) 396-1776 | info@oldbarracks.org | barracks.org
William Kidder will discuss Jacob Francis’s experiences as an indentured servant, including his time as a soldier during the American Revolution, and later as a free man raising a family.
*Free Admission
March 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Visit from the Horse Doctor, Dentist & Shoer
Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Ln, Hopewell Township
(609) 737-3299 | howellfarm.org
Shots, worming medicine, dental exams, and hoof trimming are in store for Howell Farm’s seven workhorses when the veterinarian and dentist come for their spring visit. Join them in the barn, where they will be at work all day ensuring that horses, sheep, chickens, and farm cat Bushy are fit and ready for spring. Visitors can listen to a horse’s heart through a stethoscope, watch an equine dentist at work, and learn about old and new veterinary instruments and techniques. The farrier will be shoeing, and the blacksmith working in the forge.
March 16, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Workhorse Rides
Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Ln, Hopewell Township
(609) 737-3299 | howellfarm.org
In bygone days, it wasn’t uncommon for a farm boy or girl to hitch a ride on the back of a big draft horse while it was being driven back to the barn after a day working in the fields.
During this program, kids 5 – 12 will learn the differences between draft, saddle and carriage horses when they climb aboard a fully harnessed workhorse for a ride down the lane…after, that is, they help farmers with barn chores like bedding stalls, filling water troughs, and making feed.
March 23
Sawmilling & Orchard Care
Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Ln, Hopewell Township
(609) 737-3299 | howellfarm.org
Barn beams, siding, and floorboards for horse stalls will be the order of the day when logger-sawyer Scott Stevens makes his annual stop at Howell Farm—a visit reminiscent of days when contractors with portable engines and mills came through Pleasant Valley to help farmers cut lumber from trees growing in their woodlots.
During the day there will be opportunities for visitors to help roll logs to the mill with logging tools, cut firewood for the kitchen stove, make pegs for use in barn framing, and plant replacement trees in the farm's woodlot.
March 30
Henhouse Visits
Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Ln, Hopewell Township
(609) 737-3299 | howellfarm.org
Step inside a working henhouse where the farm's Barred Rock chickens are busy laying and help a farmer make their feed. Then, reach into a nest box and take out an egg to bring home! Visitors will learn egg candling and grading, and can also visit the farm's 50 new baby chicks in the brooder coop.
March 8, 4:30 p.m.
Dracula and Home Rule: History, Horror and A Dream of Reconciliation, a lecture by Fintan O’Toole
Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St, Princeton
(609) 258-5262 | LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu
Bram Stoker's Dracula may not be the greatest of Irish novels, but it is certainly the one that has had the most influence on global popular culture. The novel is set in Transylvania and in England. Ireland is not mentioned and none of the characters is Irish. But in this lecture O'Toole suggests that Stoker, as a supporter of the contemporary cause of Home Rule for Ireland is, among other things, trying to create a myth in which the recurring divisions of Irish history and the undead antagonisms between Protestant and Catholic are finally laid to rest. In the face of a greater evil, Stoker's characters must bring Catholic and Protestant, peasant and aristocrat, tradition and modernity, together. The stake through Dracula's heart is also an imaginary end of Irish history.
*Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
March 20, 5:30 p.m.
Conversation with Playwright Larissa FastHorse
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater
Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campus, 120 Alexander St, Princeton
(609) 258-5262 | LewisCenter@princeton.edu | arts.princeton.edu
A conversation between Larissa FastHorse and Michael John Garcés. Fasthorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, award winning playwright and choreographer, co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences, and a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. Her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play was recently included as one of the top ten most-produced plays in America, the first Native American playwright represented on that list. Michael John Garcés is a director and playwright and, until 2023, artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company, a community-engaged ensemble in Los Angeles.
*Free and open to the public
March 28, 6 p.m.
Spring Lecture Series: Larry Kidder "The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man"
The Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack St, Trenton
(609) 396-1776 | info@oldbarracks.org | barracks.org
Join The Old Barracks Museum for their Spring Lecture Series, where you can spend an evening with knowledgeable and respected local historians and authors. Come and discover new aspects of the Revolutionary War, and gain a deeper understanding of the rich history that helped shape our state and nation.
In this lecture, William Kidder will discuss Jacob Francis’s experiences as an indentured servant including his time as a soldier during the American Revolution, and later as a free man raising a family.
*Free Admission
March 19, 5:30 p.m.
Reading by Jake Skeets and Creative Writing Seniors
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing
Kerr Studio at Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton campus, 120 Alexander St, Princeton
(609) 258-5262 | arts.princeton.edu | tickets.princeton.edu
Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award, reads from his work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.
*Free and open to the public. Ticket Required
Feb. 26 - April 8
Morven Annual Spring Plant Sale
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton St, Princeton
(609) 924 - 8144 | morven.org
Order curated selections from Morven’s expert horticulturalist staff of deer resistant plants, annuals, perennials, veggies, heirloom, and prolific container plants. Plant pick up will be in mid May offering the healthiest and happiest plants, ready for planting just after fear of frost.
March 15, 6 - 9 p.m.
"Celebrate the Green"
D&R Greenway Land Trust & Voices Chorale NJ
D&R Greenway's Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton
(609) 924-4646 | drgreenway.org | voiceschoralenj.org
Back by popular demand! In celebration of D&R Greenway Land Trust’s work to preserve the green in our local communities Voices Chorale NJ is bringing Irish music and dancing to a benefit for both organizations, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
The Parnell Irish Band will entertain with guitar, drums and fiddle, providing lots of Irish music with vocals to engage the crowd in group singing. Irish jokes and stories will add to the fun as well as a unique opportunity to kick up your heels and learn the art of Irish Country Dancing. Experience a pub-style setting while enjoying beer, wine and a light pub supper. The festivities will include a Silent Auction of unique items to support Voices Chorale NJ. Weather permitting, guests will be invited to gather outside on the patio for an Irish singalong by the firepit. Guests are encouraged to wear green.
*Ticket Cost: $65 per person. Space is limited.
March 15, 8 p.m. | March 17, 3 p.m.
George Bizet's Carmen
The College of New Jersey, Kendall Hall Performance Center, Park Dr, Ewing
(609) 581-9551 | bohemeoperanewjersey@gmail.com | bohemeopera.org/carmen
Boheme Opera NJ sets the stage ablaze with Georges Bizet’s Carmen. Come back to Spain's volatile 1940s – when Franco ruled with an iron fist and the world was engulfed in war – for this torrid tale of lust and vengeance. It is within this inferno that Carmen lives – and passions burn.
*Ticket Cost: $80 Median; $55 Basic and Wheelchair-Accessible Premier; $35 Wheelchair-Accessible Basic.
Kelsey Theatre
March 15, 16, 22, & 23 8 p.m. | March 17 & 24, 2 p.m.
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor.
(609) 570-3333 |kelsey.mccc.edu
Written by NJ Playwright Joe DiPietro, this popular comedy is the second longest-running Off-Broadway musical in history. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, and to those who have dared to ask “Say, what are you doing Saturday night?” Whether it is dating and waiting, committing and marrying, children, no children; from the agonies of the in-laws, to trips in the family car, to love in your twilight years, this witty musical sheds light on both the trials and the triumphs of love.
*Ticket Cost: $26/$24
March 23, 1 p.m. & 4 p.m.
Trolls Movie Sing-Along
Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor.
(609) 570-3333 |kelsey.mccc.edu
Not just a Sing-Along, but an interactive theater event including a costume contest, trivia contest and a gift bag of interactive things to do during the movie. Led by the talented cast of Theater to Go. With great songs such as Can’t Stop the Feeling, Move Your Feet, and True Colors this is a fun event for children of all ages.
*Ticket Cost: $18/$16
March 21, 7 - 8 p.m.
Brain Injury Prevention Workshop
Mercer County Library System: The Lawrence Headquarters Branch, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville
(609) 883-8292 | lawprogs@mcl.org | www.mcl.org
This fun and interactive workshop is designed by The Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey to educate attendees on ways to stay safe both at home and in the community. It offers an overview of brain injury, along with valuable driving and pedestrian safety tips, and practical advice on preventing falls. The Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey is a statewide nonprofit organization aimed at improving the quality of life for anyone impacted by brain injury. It provides support, advocacy, and information, while promoting brain injury prevention. Advanced registration appreciated.
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