Grand Bazaar JC offers a diverse & artsy shopping experience for Jersey City residents on the 2nd Friday of each month from April through December (weather-permitting). The fun takes place downtown on the Grove Street PATH Plaza. We offer great vendors from Jersey City & beyond! And so much to browse: African art, various types […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Department of Health and Human Services presents the 2019 Veterans Day Parade! Please join us on Saturday, November 9 as we honor and salute our nation's heroes. The Veterans Day Parade will step off at 12:00 pm from […]
Art House Productions and Friends of the Loew’s are proud to announce the 10th Annual Your Move Modern Dance Festival sponsored by The KRE group, Harwood Properties, and Point Capital Development. This year’s four-day festival will return to the Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre (54 Journal Square Plaza, Jersey City), a historic venue in Jersey City […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, cosponsored by the Katyn Memorial Preservation Committee presents the Polish Flag Raising in celebration of the 101st Anniversary of Poland Regaining Independence. The flag raising will be held in City Hall Council Chambers on Thursday, November 14 at 2:00 pm. This […]
Exchange Place Therapy Group is a proud sponsor of the Liberty Humane Society. Join them on Thursday, November 14 for their annual fundraiser in support of the Spay & Neuter program for cats and dogs. For more information, please visit www.exchangephysicaltherapygroup.com
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 performance at large. Presented […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, cosponsored by the Haitian American Association presents the Haiti Cultural Day and Flag Raising. The flag raising will be held in City Hall Council Chambers on Friday, November 15 at 5:30 pm. This event is FREE and open to the public. […]
Jersey City Theater Center 339 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (201) 795-5386 Join JCTC as we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month this November with the opening of the exhibition by Jack Crying Raven Anderson curated by Atim Annette Oton of Calabar Gallery. Meet with Ramapough Lenape Nation artist who is a member of […]
Hudson Fitness Expo is a one-stop destination for people to connect, challenge, and celebrate fitness in NY and NJ. At HFE, we are creating a platform for the community to connect with other like-minded people to share their passion and common interest of fitness. It’s a place where you can challenge your limit, inspire each […]
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 […]
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.
