RSVP* Serve It Forth is a workshop and exhibition that examines the intersection of attention and taste. Participants are invited to reconsider fundamental questions about food and sensory experience, while sharing a multi-course meal under heightened conditions of mindful awareness. With each edible item, guests are asked to engage in a new “protocol” of taste, […]
Nothing says the holidays like cowboy aprons, fake mustaches, and a tap-dancer on a stick horse!
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs and the Dante Alighieri Society of Jersey City are pleased to extend an invitation to the 7th Annual Jersey City Mayor's Holiday Concert.
Cantigas Women’s Choir invites you to join us for our 18th annual winter concert with music inspired by the Rumi quote, "Light and Shadow are the Dance of Love" and featuring songs of the winter holiday season. Tickets: $10 - $20 For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.cantigas.net.
Special Holiday Dinner tickets ($75) include a ticket to the 3:00PM matinee of A Christmas Carol and post-show holiday meal (including unlimited wine and buffet dinner). GP's Italian Restaurant will provide an Italian feast likely including pasta, salad, bread, etc. Tickets & Info: https://www.arthouseproductions.org/products/christmas-carols A live mash-up of nearly every movie version of A Christmas […]
A 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 […]
The Kennedy Dancers Repertory Company will be performing along with The Kennedy Dancers Inner City Youth Pre-professional Dancers; as well as students from The Kennedy Dance School in Ms. Dragone’s Caribbean ‘Silent Night’, and ‘Akiwowo’, music by Babatunde Ala Tunji. An added feature this year are several variations from the Nutcracker, including Le Promenade of […]
Join host Bryan Beninghove for his annual Christmas Spectacular!
Award-winning pianist-composers Vyacheslav Gryaznov and Karén Hakobyan join forces in a special piano concert. The program features Gryaznov’s original composition Rhapsody in Black in three movements, based on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and Rachmaninov’s beloved Suite No. 2 for two pianos. PROGRAM V. GRYAZNOV Rhapsody in Black for two pianos I Day in New York. […]
A clear, concise artist statement helps communicate an artist’s intention and the type of work they create to a broad audience. Join Shama Rahman, integrated marketing manager at the Wall Street Journal, to learn the basics of writing and editing artist statements. Rahman covers the components of creating effective personal narratives, tangible tips for keeping […]
~SMUSH Gallery Presents~ Heart Echoes: Paintings by Marta Blair January 25 - February 15, 2020 Preview January 25, 12-4p Opening Reception January 30, 6-9p Gallery Hours Thursdays 5-8p, Saturdays 12-4p Heart Echoes: Paintings by Marta Blair combines large loose canvases and small mixed media works created through a process of transformation and addition, removal, erasure, […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs are proud to host the 2020 Black History Month Group Exhibition. On display February 4th – 29th. Rotunda Gallery, 2nd floor Artist reception Tuesday, February 11th, 6-8pm. Light refreshments will be served. Exhibition features work from 20 emerging […]
Yoga at Art House - Feb. 11-Mar. 10, 2020 from 6:30pm-7:30pm Join Allison Stovall for Yoga @ Art House - A Pay What You Can Weekly Yoga Program in the Art House Gallery. For more information, please contact Allison at allisonstovallyoga@gmail.com, Instagram: @allisorrigby The Art House Gallery is located at 262 17th Street, Jersey City, […]
~SMUSH Gallery Presents~ 12 hours February 21 & 22 | 9a-9p Sarah Rose, in collaboration with Janet Cesarotti, Alexandra Lance, Mia Martelli, and Sydney Parker, revisit and reinvent their present and past selves across two consecutive days of 12-hour movement and visual design installations. Guests gain entry for the whole day and may come when […]
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.
