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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Art House Productions is Jersey City’s home for the visual and performing arts and every January the organization throws the most highly anticipated event of the post-holiday season, the Snow Ball. This annual creative black tie gala raises funds for an ambitious season of arts and educational programming. Snow Ball presents the perfect opportunity 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 […]
Jersey City Arts Council presents the 2nd Annual Jersey City Arts Awards Celebration and Fundraiser, on December 3, 2019 at the magnificent White Eagle Hall, 337 Newark Ave., Jersey City, from 6:30-9:30 pm. This event is open to the public but entry requires registration. For more information, visit: www.eventcombo.com/e/jcac-arts-awards--fundraiser-36636. Open bar and light refreshments from […]
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 […]
Speranza Theatre Company presents SEASONED, Festive Stories From Our Table To Yours.
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.
