Join Growing in Jersey City and Crystal Letters for our Monthly Open Mic Night! We have some very special announcements and... This will be our last open mic night until January. Performers are welcome to share their preferred performance medium - singing, poetry, music, spoken word, comedy, and even bellydancing and a sitar player, etc. […]
For those with friends and family who have some leisure time during the weekdays, and are looking to occupy their time with some FREE afternoon entertainment, send them to the Bethune Center. We now offer a mixture of contemporary, classic, independent, and foreign films for the public to enjoy…. In our newly renovated Black Box […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, cosponsored by the MAROC NJ Association presents the Moroccan Flag Raising. The flag raising will be held in City Hall Council Chambers on Tuesday, November 19 at 3:00 pm. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Many independent curators work across artistic roles and institutional contexts, moving in and out of cultural institutions, and figuring hybrid practices. Join curators Marýa Wethers and Gabri Christa, and Wesleyan’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) alumnx for an artist talk and public conversation, moderated by Candace Thompson-Zachery. The talks are accompanied by exhibition […]
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 […]
HEROES OF THE WORLD Short Documentary Film directed by Duda Penteado and produced by Unshakeable Productions explores the creative process of 29 Jersey City high - school and college students from The Jersey City Summer Youth Mural Arts Program 2019 who created a 200-foot long MURAL located at 1 Ocean Avenue in the Greenville neighborhood […]
Artists Jenny Hata Blumenfield and Rosie Quick interrogate our understanding of space. This Features installation is established in dialogue with Mana Contemporary exhibition, I Shall Tell Only What I Want to Tell, inviting viewers to contemplate preconceived notions of our environment. Depth is flattened, perspective is distorted, and existing spaces are reconceptualized. Hata Blumenfield and […]
Artists Jenny Hata Blumenfield and Rosie Quick interrogate our understanding of space. This Features installation is established in dialogue with Mana Contemporary exhibition, I Shall Tell Only What I Want to Tell, inviting viewers to contemplate preconceived notions of our environment. Depth is flattened, perspective is distorted, and existing spaces are reconceptualized. Hata Blumenfield and […]
In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Women's Right to Vote, the City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Office of Cultural Affairs are pleased to invite you to a poetry slam. Hosted by Jersey City's Poet Laureate, Rashad Wright, featuring the evening's performer, Aaya Perez […]
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 […]
Cathedral Arts Live is Thrilled to Announce Our 2019-2020 Season! Mark your calendar and purchase your tickets today! Now in its fifth season, Cathedral Arts Live aims to create a transcendent musical experience and strengthen our community by welcoming and celebrating a diverse group of artists, performers, and audiences in our beautiful space. November 22, […]
7:30PM: Reception 8PM: Performance Created and performed by Paul Pinto, 15 Photos is a physical song cycle inspired by visual and written improvisations on aging, masculinity, medieval epics, death, and love. The intimate production incorporates various technological and theatrical elements. Pinto enlists his own body as character, set, and instrument in a multidisciplinary exploration of […]
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 […]
Join artists Melissa McGill and Jo Nigoghossian for a conversation and drawing workshop to activate and engage with their exhibition, I Shall Tell Only What I Want to Tell, curated by Ysabel Pinyol Blasi. The artists will briefly introduce their work and specific topics of focus for the workshop’s drawing exercises. McGill and Pinyol Blasi […]
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 […]
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.
