Benedicto Figueroa returns - Wednesday he's coming to you via live stream in our More Sound Mini Series, keeping local performance going in the time of COVID-19. This time, Ben reads poetry. ♥ This concert is presented by SMUSH Gallery and After School JC. Ben Figueroa comes to you via live stream as the inaugural […]
From the makers of Jersey City's family favorite, JC Summer Arts, Nimbus brings you our newest youth program. This 4-week interactive, online learning camp taught by JC Summer Arts Teaching Artists, immerses youth participants in health and wellness, including meditation, gardening, arts & crafts. Every day culminates in a meditation and yoga practice designed to […]
Save the date for Mana Contemporary’s first Digital Open House, hosted in partnership with CADAF. We invite you to visit the online studios of our member artists. While inside each virtual studio, a chat function facilitates conversation between visitors and artists. You can ask questions, make inquiries, and even propose a bid. Additionally, visitors will […]
Admission is free; a donation would be greatly appreciated. Advance registration required to receive the Zoom link. See below for Zoom login instructions. This week's theme is Salute to the Service Industry: Calling all current and former waiters, housekeepers, hosts, dishwashers, and delivery drivers! Share tales from these often thankless jobs as you finally get […]
Theme: Summer Goth Harmonica Sunbeam will host 4 rounds of bingo online using Zoom. As in regular bingo, you can use the same board for all 4 games or buy more to increase your odds! Each round winner gets a prize, with a cash prize for the final round! Boards will be emailed after registration. […]
Shakespeare-At brings world class theater to Jersey City. Check out their New Radio Series, which launches July 1st! Shakespeare@ Home is a new ongoing project of classic drama in ‘radio’ format. Conceived as an homage to the heyday of serialized radio drama of the 1930s and 40s, Shakespeare@ Home delivers the same acclaimed tradition of […]
Hello Kennedy Dancers Family! While we are unfortunately still unable to open our doors for regular classes, we are very excited to announce that we will be continuing our Online Zoom Dance Class Videos through our Virtual Summer Dance Camp Program. We are also taking donations to continue providing FREE online Zoom Classes. Since March […]
Harmonica Sunbeam will host 4 rounds of bingo online using Zoom. Donations are greatly appreciated. As in regular bingo, you can use the same board for all 4 games or buy more to increase your odds! Boards will be emailed after registration. Registration closes when all boards sell out. Each round winner gets a prize, […]
This event is sponsored by Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) and The Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition Movement (JCACM) The program is designed as a series of theater workshops where students will explore social justice issues through interviews they conduct with community leaders and each other. They will develop valuable skillsets, create connectivity between diverse communities, […]
Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents Our Times: Uprising, a virtual reading series of plays, poetry & other writings by Black American Authors. Beginning on Monday July 13, the series runs three weeks on consecutive Mondays and provides an original overview of African American history and culture while exploring issues of race, oppression and injustice […]
Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, cosponsored by the French American Academy presents the French Flag Raising. The flag raising will be held outdoors, at City Hall Plaza on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Please wear a mask and adhere to social […]
The Conference on Movement and Computing, hosted by Rutgers University in collaboration with Mana Contemporary, aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. The Conference is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art and science. In its seventh iteration, the Conference will […]
Join us for the first Bloom Virtual Summit, four days of workshops, 7/16 -7/19, networking and performances -- all to support women artists of color through COVID-19. Bloom is the annual fundraiser for In Full Color, our award-winning theatrical event featuring women of color sharing their stories, in their own voices. We are preparing for […]
Dog Days of Summer - Join us for a paw-ty celebrating the heat of summer! Grab your sunglasses, bring your favorite pooch, and play Bingo! Harmonica Sunbeam will host 4 rounds of bingo online using Zoom. As in regular bingo, you can use the same board for all 4 games or buy more to increase […]
Join us on Saturday, July 25th and help celebrate 25 years of Building Community Together!
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.
