Green Teen Music and Art Festival

Friday, March 30, 2012     7:00 pm - 10 :00 pm
location: Art House Productions
Hamilton Square, 1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07302

The 3rd Annual Green Teen Music and Arts Festival is an opportunity for local teenagers to showcase their musical and artistic talents in an eco-friendly community event. The festival will feature live music and artwork by teens, which will be for sale along with refreshments and snacks.

All proceeds will go toward planting trees locally and around the country with the charities Friends of Liberty State Park and American Forests. In the past two years, we raised over $5000 and this year we hope to raise even more!

$5 suggested donation.

City of Water Day Festival

Sat. July 16th from 10 am to 4 pm at LSP & Governors Island 

City of Water Day Festival  A fun and varied event.

Free day of activities, music, food, themed boat tours - to celebrate our waterfront. 

Free ferry schedule connecting two locations - LSP and Governors Island  Advance reservations are not needed for this ferry.  

  

LSP location -northeast side of LSP in field east of Liberty House Restaurant on the left of Zapp Drive- cobblestone road - park in free 2 hour lot or in ferry lot. Festival presented by Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance in conjunction with LSP, The Friends and others.  

• Waterfront Activity Fair with trivia games, models and simulations, and historic literature.
• Children's Activities including a touch box, face painting, water coloring, and other fun opportunities.
• Guided Historic Boat Tours around the harbor
• Sailing Lessons (limited spots) WIN 2 tickets through Twitter
• Kayak Tours* (Sign up at the Liberty State Park Interpretive Center tables on North Field)
• Waterfront Bike Riding
• REI Stand Up Paddle Board Lessons* (Sign-up details coming soon)
• Bouncy Castles
• Live Music and Numerous Options for food

*Minimum age is 16. 16 to 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Please wear closed shoes or footwear to protect against rocks and glass

• Boat tours leaving from LSP - Free, exciting narrated and themed harbor boat tours.
• Boat tours leaving from Governors Island  

The boat tours are ticketed in advance from those website links. While there may be some tours that's don't sell out, tickets go quickly. Everyone doesn't show up, so there are usually a few standby tickets offered for each tour. Besides the tours leaving from LSP you could go on ferry to Governors Island and take a boat tour leaving from there.  

 details go to http://www.cityofwaterday.org/nj-program-of-events/

People can take the LSP weekend shuttle bus from the light rail station to the waterfront festival. The route map, schedule and fare are on our website.   

liberty state park luncheon and walk

Dear Friends of Liberty State Park & all supporters,

We hope you will consider attending our uplifting May 2 luncheon and joining in our Walk next Saturday, 4/24 to support our efforts to improve and protect our urban waterfront open space.

Sat. 4/24 - "Walk for LSP" & HCIA Earth Day Fair
Please pre-register for $20 with website form or mailed flyer form by 4/20 or please register on 24th for $24. WALK tee shirt at sign-in table behind CRRNJ Terminal.

Sun. May 2 - Luncheon to celebrate LSP & volunteerism.
Please join other park lovers at this warm gathering.

Awards Recipients

Maureen Ogden

She is one of NJ's environmental heroes of the last 30 years. Her leadership and vision in protecting NJ open space and historic preservation is inspiring. She led the way in establishing the Garden State Preservation Trust.

Hudson County Freeholder Bill O'Dea
Longtime dedicated champion of LSP as "The People's Park".

Jersey Cares
non-profit organization which links volunteers with projects around the state, including LSP gardening.

Professor Ted Lai
of Hudson County Community College and advisor of Beta Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society whose members are LSP volunteers.

Nikki Sirken
longtime LSP advocate and FOLSP volunteer and Board Trustee.

Iome Alexander
dedicated FOLSP Gardening Program volunteer.
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If you have not mailed the RSVP card from the website or from our mailing to your street addresses in by Tuesday, April 27th, please mail it in (or pay at the door) but also please RSVP by phone or email for us to know you're coming. Please contact Sam at 201-792-1993 or email
(if you want to be on our street mailing list, please contact us at same email address.

Early Spring LSP Photos
The Friends-funded 100 new shade trees were recently planted and the flowers
are budding all around the park.