5th Annual Freedom & Fireworks Festival
Join the City of Jersey City for the 5th Annual Freedom & Fireworks Festival. Keep your eyes on www.freedomandfireworks.com for updates.
Join the City of Jersey City for the 5th Annual Freedom & Fireworks Festival. Keep your eyes on www.freedomandfireworks.com for updates.
GREEN VILLAIN and Writer's Bench are hosting a BLOCK PARTY this Saturday, July 21st, from 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM at VYV, 474 Warren Street. Join your friends and neighbors for a festive afternoon of music, delicious snacks, and amazing mural art creations. 15 local & invited artists will be transforming 3,000 square feet of […]
4th Annual Exchange Place House Music Explosion (on Christopher Columbus Drive, between Merseles and Brunswick Streets) Event contact: Sidewalk University/H.M.E. (201) 985-4990
Celebrate Harvest Festival with JCFamilies on Saturday, October 13 at City Hall Plaza. This family-friendly event will include pumpkin decorating, bounce house, kid's train, music and dance performances for kids of all ages! This event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please visit the JCFamilies Facebook page.
Leonard Gordon Park Conservancy is set to host its second annual Halloween Bash on Saturday, October 20 from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm! Join us at our pumpkin batch at the entrance of John F. Kennedy Blvd. and Hutton Street. There will also be a live performance and our Halloween parade starts at 1:00 pm! […]
**Rescheduled to Sunday (10/28) due to rain** Surati for Performing Arts and Education and Art House Productions are proud to present the Surati Lights of Diwali Festival, happening Sunday, October 28 from 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Join us for Diwali Ethnic Bazaar and street fair, set to include vendors, kid-zone, food and drink, sparklers, interactive […]
The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District will host a ghoulishly good time on the Newark Ave Pedestrian Plaza this Halloween! During this kid-friendly event, there will be face-painting, a bouncy house, music, popcorn and all the Halloween candy! This event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please visit jcdowntown.org or call […]
The Bergen Square Historical Society, Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy and the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs presents the First Annual Jersey City Bergen Apple Fest! Join local historian Dr. James Dievler on a walking tour of Bergen square, beginning at 11:30 am at 71 Sip Avenue, and conclude at the Apple Tree House. […]
JC Project Market will be back at City Hall Plaza on December 1 and 2, from 11:00 am - 6:00 pm!
On Friday, March 15 from 3:00 - 7:00 pm, head down to Healy's Tavern (6th Street) for their annual Saint Patrick's Day One Block Parade! Festivities will include food vendors, music, dancing and much more St. Patty's Day fun!
Please join the Barrow Mansion Development Corporation and MariArts on Saturday, April 13 from 3:00 - 10:00 pm for a Holi & Art Festival at the Barrow Mansion. Parents who wish to enter their child’s artwork please contact curator Maria Ross at info@mararts.org or bestcats99@yahoo.com. Event is sponsored by nonprofit organizations The Barrow Mansion Development Corporation and […]
Artist & Maker Market brings in approximately 30 excellent vendors for a unique outdoor shopping experience at the Grove PATH Plaza! You will find local artisans with a wide variety of indie & handmade items from vendors in vintage, art, fashion, home décor, bath & body, jewelry, vinyl and more! Support your local artists!
On Sunday, May 26 from noon - 5:00 pm, please join us for the 4th Annual Fleet Week at Liberty State Park (1 Audrey Zapp Drive). This outstanding event activates over 5,000 kids and their families to enjoy and celebrate the nation’s sea services with activities that include bounce houses, face painting, entertainment, and food […]
COME ONE, COME ALL! STEP UP AND HAVE A BALL! SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST UNDER THE BIG TOP 317 THIRD STREET 10:00 AM - 2:00 pm FEATURING A BOUNCE HOUSE, FACE PAINTING, BALLOON ANIMALS, COTTON CANDY, SNOW CONES, POPCORN, GAMES AND LOTS OF PRIZES! ALL FREE! This event is free and open to the public. For […]
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.