monthly drawing session provides artists with an unstructured forum for open-ended creativity, a place to hone skills, and the opportunity to meet new friends. Easels, benches, chairs, drawing boards, and a live model are provided—feel free to bring any other materials of your choosing. The club meets one Thursday a month, with dates announced three […]
A Good Pilgrim Production Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. & Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. Everybody in This Play is Dying! is a solo show about an actress with cystic fibrosis and how her disease ruined her acting career. It’s a story of faith, as she examines the historical Jesus and his supposed miracles, faith-healers […]
This event occurs every Saturday Saturdays, Oct. 12–Dec. 14, 2019 10AM–12PM Studio 103 Mana Contemporary 888 Newark Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07306 Open to children ages 6–12 This event is open to the public, but entry requires advanced registration. Visit manacontemporary.com for more information. Professional artist and educator, Gabriel Pacheco, leads gallery visits and artmaking sessions through […]
Food co-ops are community-driven efforts that provide better and more affordable access to fresh, healthy, and locally-sourced produce and other products. They also keep money within a community, rather than dispersing it to shareholders of grocery store corporations. Please join us for this general interest meeting about getting a food co-op off the ground! Please […]
Tis the season! Please join us for our annual Tree Lighting Celebration! Festivities will be held in Town Square Park on Monday, December 2nd. We hope to see you there for music, a spectacular light show, gifts, and a visit from Santa!
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, and the Office of Cultural Affairs would like to invite you to the first-ever Tree Lightning Ceremony at the City Hall Annex (1 Jackson Square) on Tuesday, December 3 at 5:00p! This event is free and open to the public. For […]
The Jersey City Arts Council presents the 2nd Annual Jersey City Arts Awards, recognizing 12 artists, organizations, and leaders in our creative community. Help us celebrate these artists and support the JCAC as we build a collective voice to advocate for the arts in Jersey City. This event is open to the public, but entry […]
The Jersey City Arts Council presents the 2nd Annual Jersey City Arts Awards! 12 Awards will recognize artists, organizations, and leaders in our community who have demonstrated excellence and positive impact in the arts, including Public Art, Performing Arts, Arts Education, and more. Live music by the Brian Beninghove Trio, plus pop-up performances and live […]
Get ready for another edition of the JC Record Riot! Over 30 tables of LPs, CDs, & 45s await you on the Grove Street PATH Plaza. Imagine a giant record store landing on the Grove Street PATH Plaza! Dealers from Jersey City & all over the New York area. All genres of music represented: classic […]
Come on out for our 9th annual Holiday Toy Drive & Happy Hour! Join us on Saturday, December 7 at Lucky 7 to make merry and collect holiday cheer for families in the community. Attendees are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy or gift card appropriate for children ages 5-14 years old, which will […]
Grand Bazaar JC offers a diverse & artsy shopping experience for Jersey City residents on the 2nd Friday of each month from April through December (weather-permitting). The fun takes place downtown on the Grove Street PATH Plaza. We offer great vendors from Jersey City & beyond! And so much to browse: African art, various types […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs were honored to commemorate The Chadian Independence today Friday, August 11, 2023. The Chadian Community of New Jersey has directly contributed to the diversity and positive growth of Jersey City in various fields, including education, entrepreneurship, government as well as all aspects of life throughout the United States and abroad. Today the City of Jersey City and members of the Chadian community commemorate this day August 11, 2023 by proudly displaying the flags of the United States and the Republic of Chad together, high above City Hall in recognition of the socially adopted culture and ethnic diversity of our community of Jersey City.
The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city N’Djamena.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad’s Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in 1965. In 1979 the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the South’s hegemony. The rebel commanders then fought amongst themselves until Hissène Habré defeated his rivals. The Chadian–Libyan conflict erupted in 1978 by the Libyan invasion which stopped in 1987 with a French military intervention (Operation Épervier). Hissène Habré was overthrown in turn in 1990 by his general Idriss Déby. With French support, a modernization of the Chad National Army was initiated in 1991. From 2003, the Darfur crisis in Sudan spilt over the border and destabilized the nation. While many political parties participated in Chad’s legislature, the National Assembly, power laid firmly in the hands of the Patriotic Salvation Movement during the presidency of Idriss Déby. After President Déby was killed by FACT rebels in April 2021, the Transitional Military Council led by his son Mahamat Déby assumed control of the government and dissolved the Assembly. Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d’état.
Today’s flag raising reflects the camaraderie built between the United States and Republic of Chad and our enduring love for freedom, liberty and democracy that today the world is still inspired by.
