plein air, figure drawing

at the JC Art school, 326 5th street
5pm-10pm  “Plein Air Art!” Grab your pencils and paper (or any medium you wish) for a free figure drawing session

we are the music

“We are the Music.” Stop by JC Studios as part of your rounds and catch some Live Music and other entertainment at our beautiful studio space! 143 Christopher Columbus Dr, Fl. 1 (at Barrow St), 8 pm - 11.30 pm

CREATIVE GROVE artist & designer market, back for the fall

All that you expect from the artist market:   Hooping, face painting and wonderful designer works to buy that you can't get anywhere else,
chill time in the outdoor Lounge installation, local food.

Plus DJ Pastiche spinning music from 2pm till 6pm then Groove on grove takes over with bands TBA.

 Hip Hop Beats, Dub Step, Jungle(Drum & Bass, 2 Step(UK Garage) and Bassline House

Light spaces

September 10th from 6-8pm. (Part of JC Fridays) Windows on Columbus & Mack-Cali Lobby

Light interacting with intricate form and deep space is an essential part of Daniel Brusky’s oil paintings. Brusky has a B.A. from Columbia College Chicago and an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art. He lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exhibition is curated by Jaz Graf. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, September 10th

Andre Cypriano, photographic exhibit

September 10, 2010 / 12-8pm.  Ed's Salvage,  264 Fairmount Ave ,  McGinley Square

Winner of National Geographic’s All Roads Photography Program in 2005, NY & Brazil based Cypriano (www.andrecypriano.com) documents the lifestyles and practices of lesser known societies in remote corners of the world.

Currently, Cypriano works can be viewed at Latin Collector on 57th in NYC and the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art - Just in case you can't wait til the 10th.
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********Soul & Funk spun by THE resident DJ Jim Barnes so plan 2 chill.********

Glossolia, closing reception

Please join us for the closing of GLOSSOLALIA.
Gallery 58, sept 2,      7 - 10 pm

Sara Wentworth will be treating us to her multimedia performance "Imprinted," with some help from friends at Art House Productions,

http://sarawentworth.com/imprinted_video.php
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and the amazing band HONAH LEE from Trenton will round out the night.

http://www.myspace.com/honahleemusic

All of the GLOSSOLALIA artists will be on hand, and it is your last chance to see the show and talk with the artists.

free movie, five corners library

my one and only
wed sept 8, 1 pm

free movie "The day the earth stood still"

Five Corners, 678 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07306, 201-547-4543 – For Adults: Wednesdays @ 1 p.m. September 1: The Day the Earth Stood Still.

book club @ library

Pavonia, 326 Eighth Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302, 201-547-4808 – 

For Adults: Monthly Book Club / Thursday, September 30 @ 7:30 p.m. 

 Book Discussion: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee

find your inner artist

at JC Library, Greenville, 1841 Kennedy Blvd.

201-547-4553 – For Everyone: Find your ‘inner artist’! 

Basic Painting Classes / Tuesdays @ 4 p.m. / 

September 7, 14, 21 & 28 / 

All are welcome! Sponsored by the grant from CDBG for Arts on the Hudson, Grigory Gurevich, Founder & Artistic Director.

crocheting classes

JC Library
Greenville branch, 1841 Kennedy Blvd. 201-547-4553 – 
For Ladies: Crocheting Lessons. / Mondays, from 3 – 5 p.m. / September 13, 20 & 27

teen space: arts and crafts at Jc Library

Miller, 489 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305, 201-547-4551 – For Teens: Thursdays @ 3 p.m. SHARP! Teen Space – Arts & Crafts.  Craft classes for all occasions. Join us! Just for teens, at the Miller Branch Library Teen Center, 2^nd Floor.

meet the author: Renee Gatz

Five Corners, 678 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07306, 201-547-4543 – For Everyone:
Meet the Author! Renee Gatz, author of Wise Words and  Witty Expressions.

Monday, September 20 @ 6:30 p.m. / Renee Gatz was born and raised in New Jersey
in a traditional Irish Catholic household, and was always impressed by the strength
of character and conviction that her parents displayed. Their beliefs were exhibited
in the expressions they used to keep life in perspective, to remind them of what was
important, and to laugh at foolishness so as not to take life too seriously

350th anniversary of Bergen, what became Hudson County: Come Home to History Fair"

JC Library New Jersey Room, 3rd Floor, 201-547-4503 – For History-Lovers:
OUTREACH for Oldest Families in Hudson County The year 2010 marks the
350th Anniversary of Bergen – the area that became Hudson County.
The New Jersey Room and the Hudson County History Advocates are searching
for the families living the longest in each of the Hudson County communities.
These families will be recognized at the October 9th “Come Home to History” Fair
at Hudson County Community College. The family in each community with the
oldest roots will be singled out and specially honored. / If you need help in
determining if your FAMILY or one you know is among the longest living here,
please contact the New Jersey Room. / APPLICATION available throughout
library system, and in certain city agencies.

A Tale of our City, JC Library, Annual Book Fair

A Tale of Our City
Jersey City’s 3rd Annual Book Festival
Saturday, September 18th @ Historic, Victorian… Van Vorst Park… 10 am – 4 PM

Authors from near (The Hudson Reporter’s Al Sullivan) and far (Prof. John B. Wefing, on NJ Governor Richard Hughes), to the Library’s own, Bob Leach (director, JC Historical Project) and Cynthia Harris (manager, NJ Room)…and everything in between, including Adeyinka Makinde’s book on boxer Frankie DePalma…will converge at Van Vorst Park for Jersey City’s 3rd annual book festival, A Tale of Our City.

* Author Readings * Author ‘Meet ‘n’ Greets’ & Book Signings * FOR Children: Face Painting,
Storytelling & other activities * FREE Library Card Sign Up * Info on Library Services * Publishers *
* Books * Giveaways * Community Organizations * Music * Entertainment *

See you at Van Vorst Park (Jersey Avenue & Montgomery Street, across from Main Library) on Saturday, September 18, to hear and see the 18 participating authors!

LOL Comedy Jam and after party

LOL Comedy Jam and After-party tonight at Boca Grande, Washington street, Pavonia Newport
9 pm - midnight,   aug 20
Feat. Frantz Casseus, Andrew Schulz and Joe Show. Tickets $20 at the door. Show starts at 9:00, drink specials all night!

writer's seminar week 4: sound and sensibility

JC art school, monday 9/ 13,  7.30 - 9.30 pm

At the heart of much great writing is the balance between “sound and sense,” Alexander Pope told us—and in this session we will see how good prosody (meter and rhymes in a proscribed order) will, like the lyrics of a song, elevate the sentiments you want to convey. This discussion will focus primarily on poetry; poets discussed will include W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and John Donne. Participants are also encouraged to ...bring in and share poems they have written.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

just add sound, september

 grassroots community space  sept 9,  9 - 11 pm

Who doesn't love September? Cooler weather, relaxation between the insanity of summer and the craziness of the holidays, and time for another Just Add Sound!!

Same deal as always folks! Free open mic from 9-11. All acts welcome. Everyone drops one song / poem / short comedy act / monologue / whatever. Then if we have time, we go round again! So stick around if you wanna get on the mic twice! Be on time and you're likely to go tw...ice!

Justin Woo will be hosting. DJ Purple Stuff running sound and dropping beats.

writer´s seminar week 3, " the beautiful sentence"

August 30 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm,  JC Art school, 326 5th street
This talk will set out to create an appreciation for sentence architecture—necessarily in prose, though we will also discuss lines of poetry that accomplish a similar end. How important is that first sentence in a short story, really? What sets a great sentence apart from a merely good one? Through textual analysis of authors from Gertrude Stein to Jonathan Lethem, and an in-session exercise, we will attempt to turn a plain stat...ement into a piece of art.
hosted by Amanda Nazario


Fee: $10 suggested donation
The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

pre pride party

back to school bag and supply giveaway

aug 28:a back-to-school project was created by Rolando Lavarro and Andre Richardson

The free school supplies event is set for Saturday, August 28, from noon to 2 pm, in three locations: 

Audubon Park (Kennedy Boulevard & Audubon Avenue, 

the Hank Gallo Center ( Lincoln Park at the playground near West Side Avenue), and 

Hudson County School of Technology (525 Montgomery St.).

Families interested in receiving  free book bags and supplies for their kids should pre-register by calling O’Dea at 201-209-0972 or emailing him at wored1@yahoo.com

groove on grove aug 25

august 25th  6 -9 pm, 
Grove street PATH Plaza


Greg Ribot
Skylar James

Brendan Kibbee
jazz

public meeting powerhouse arts district, TDR

Invitation to Attend Public Meeting Regarding the Powerhouse Arts District and Transfer of Development Rights Members of the board of PADNA were invited recently to attend a session hosted by the Jersey City Division of City Planning regarding Smart Growth development tools to manage growth in Jersey City.  The Division of Planning has received a grant from the NJ Office of Smart Growth to conduct a comprehensive planning study to compose a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Ordinance for Jersey City.  Through this process, the City can explore ways to secure funding to preserve and enhance community resources by capitalizing on the demand for development.  This will be the first urban application of this zoning in New Jersey. A public meeting on this topic will be held at City Hall on Thursday, August 26th from 6pm to 9pm.  We urge PAD residents to attend this meeting to learn more about this concept and its application, make suggestions and provide community feedback.  In the meantime, here is a quick primer based on the meeting we attended: What is TDR? Transfer of Developments Rights, or "TDR", is a voluntary land-use management tool that allows municipalities and regions to achieve both land conservation and economic growth through the transfer of development potential from one area ("preservation area") to another ("growth area").  Put another way, unused development rights (additional floors, unused square footage permitted by zoning) can be sold by one property (sender) to another (receiver) under city sponsorship. I still don't get it.  Can you give an example? The concept of TDR is that potential development rights are "sent" to another property in the city, and the "receiving" owner of that other property gets "credit" allowing him/her the right to build more densely than zoning would otherwise allow in an area that needs "growth."  For this privilege, the "receiving" owner compensates the owner of the "sending" property a certain monetary fee.  The "sending" property is then obligated to preserve their building and invest a certain amount in maintaining it. Would use of TDR make any changes to the overall PAD Redevelopment Plan? No.  The ability to use this tool would be adopted as an Ordinance for the whole of Jersey City.  It would have no impact on current or future zoning.   What properties in the PAD could be eligible for this program? Not all properties in the PAD would work with TDR.  Essentially any project that is already approved is off the table.  That means that the Toll Brothers properties, Harbor Lights, Morgan Pointe, etc. would not be properties where TDR would be applied. Where this could be of value is in preserving historically valuable properties which have not yet been, or are only partially rehabilitated.  TDR is a tool to compensate those owners for preserving their properties. Would TDR be mandatory for properties in the PAD? No. The program is entirely optional for building owners to participate in. Where would these development rights be "sent" to? This is one of the topics for discussion at the meeting on August 26th at City Hall. The City has some ideas, and the ones we discussed in our meeting are all local downtown areas.  In particular, Gregory Park is an area of focus. Gregory Park consists of the high rises and surface parking lots between Columbus Drive and Montgomery Streets.  The current zoning on those lots dates from the 70s and actually restricts them from building any more to fill in with additional housing or retail.   The Planning Department sees TDR as an opportunity to modernize the area.  NOTE: Per the City, affordable housing requirements in Gregory Park would be unaffected by any TDR activities. Want to learn more? If you are interested in getting more information ahead of the meeting on the 26th, there is another public meeting to discuss TDR as it relates to the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment area (this is roughly the border area between Jersey City and Hoboken just past the Holland Tunnel).  That meeting will be held TONIGHT August 19, 2010 from 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm  at the Golden Door Charter School [180 9th Street].

shut up weirdo with andy & frangry, wfmu.org

Greetings, my friend. This week on Shut Up, Weirdo we ask you, the listener,  to look deep, deep into your crystal ball and tell us what the future holds  500 years (or more) in the future. We want to hear the full shocking story of  what may happen some fateful day far far far away from today. Chrononauts  welcome. Holo-phone us on the air (201-209-9368) this Friday from 6 to 7pm  (EST Earth Time) and tell us where you see yourself in five or ten centuries.  Listen in on WFMU 91.1 (NYC area) or WFMU.org (via Skynet). Shut Up, Weirdo: The promise of joy. The magic of 01010100110001010010100111 01.

the attic ensemble

Our Fortieth Anniversary Season Our Fortieth Anniversary Season celebrates  the Attic Family...actors, crew, supportors and friends. The Attic is proud to present family stories in the four award winning plays we present to celebrate this milestone season: September 24-October 3, 2010 True WestNovember 12-21, 2010 Les Liaisons Dangereuses February 18-27-2011 The Piano Lesson April 29-May 8, 2011 Dancing at Lughnasa Season subscriptions can be purchased online at Enter in the secret password "Forty Years" and save $5 off the general admission subscriber price. Season brochures will be sent out soon if you prefer to pay by check. Click here and send us your mailing address if you are not on our snail mail list!

ATTIC JUNIOR, our fun-filled, interactive theater series for children aged four and up, returns with 3 new productions, including a brand new musical based on the childrens bookWonders, Inc. Performances are the two Saturdays of the Mainstage productions.

ATTIC AFTER HOURS

New This Season Special late night treats featuring live game shows and Attic Junior shows with an adult twist! Adults only at these 11 pm shows...fun, audience participation and laughter...with beverages!

FORTY YEARS!!!!!!!!!!! The Attic Ensemble started as a way for St. Peter's College alumni to continue their collegiate theatrical careers by presenting low cost, high quality theater for Jersey City and the surrounding Hudson County area. We are still growing strong and continuing their dream forty years later. This season will be filled with anniversary celebrations and special programming culminating in our spectacular Fortieth Anniversary Gala in May.

groove on grove

this wednesday, the 18th:
The Neutron Drivers, Sarin McHugh and more.

 

6 - 9 pm

 

 

Grove street PATH PLaza

volunteer greens group

Volunteer Greens Group

Hamilton Park Residents!

  

We Need Your Help To Keep

Our Park Beautiful!

If You Are Interested In Joining Us

Please Come To The Park On

Mondays and Thursdays at 7 pm!

Thank you everyone for an amazing job in the mulched beds pruning along the northwest walkway outside of the children's playground near the entrance to the park on 9th and West Hamilton, and cutting off the sucker branches from the trees by the basketball court area!

 

Board of Ed meeting

Thursday August 26th
 Board of Education Meeting 6pm
at PS 11--886 Bergen Ave. Martin Luther King Jr School.


The public is welcome

free film Van Vorst Park, "up" by Peter Docter

Free Film

Wednesday

just east of the gazebo after sunset (around 8:15 pm)
Films in Van Vorst
6th Annual Summer Film Series 
presents

"UP"

 directed by Peter Docter 

  "UP" was awarded with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score in 2010.

chillfest film screening "the times of Harvey Milk"

THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK is the Academy Award-winning documentary that was the inspiration for Gus Van Sant's movie "Milk," for which Sean Penn won the Oscar for his portrayal of the first openly gay man elected to public office in California.

WHEN: Tuesday August 24th
6:00PM Flag Raising Ceremony & Socializing, outside City Hall
7:00PM Screening starts, Council Chambers

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers, 280 Grove St., just a short walk south from the Grove Street PATH station in Downtown Jersey City.
Now, meet the real man in THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK.

San Francisco in the 1970s became a battleground between an emerging, vibrant gay movement and the communities who felt threatened by thisnew gay political muscle. In 1978, the struggle came to a head when San Francisco's progressive Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk—one of the first openly gay elected officials anywhere—were murdered in cold blood by Dan White, a former City Supervisor, fireman, and police officer.

The community's response—ranging from silent vigil to violent riots—helped define gay politics as we know it. THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK tells an emotional story of communities in conflict, centered on the last year of Harvey Milk's life.

Directed By Rob Epstein. Narrated by Harvey Fierstein.

** Preceded by City Hall Flag Raising in honor of JC Pride Week **

Best Documentary, 1985 Academy Awards
Outstanding Interview/Interviewer, 1985 Emmy Awards
Special Jury Prize, 1985 Sundance Film Festival

WHAT: "THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK" screening



* FREE! *

The Chillfest Second Sunday Series runs monthly from October through June 2010 and offers gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-themed films to Jersey City and the region.