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!
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Office of Cultural Affairs would like to invite you to join us for this year's annual City Hall Menorah Lighting & Hanukkah Celebration! The event will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers on Monday, December 23 at […]
The Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs will be closed today for the Christmas holiday. Please enjoy this time with your family and friends!
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Office of Cultural Affairs would like to invite you to join us for this year’s Kwanzaa Celebration! The event will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers on Monday, December 30 at 5:00 pm. This event is free […]
Join us for a conversation on Black history & legacy of Jersey City, in conjunction with the on-view archival exhibition, "Histories of Black Jersey City, 1630-Present". On the panel is Deborah Hairston (Co-Curator, Saint Peter's University) Muriel D. Roberts (Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Inc.-New Jersey Chapter), Dr. John Johnson (Assistant Professor of History St. […]
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. […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, The Jersey City Municipal Council, and The Office of Cultural Affairs welcome all of our event organizers to join us for this year's Special Event Permitting Open House. Meet Cultural Affairs staff, ask questions about updates to the special events permitting process, and start planning your […]
7:00PM Reception 7:30PM Performances The Living Room is a lively, quarterly program hosted by guest artists. The evening brings together short performance works to be experienced in an intimate, community atmosphere. For this edition, CultureHub curates an evening featuring work by their current and past artists-in-residence, who hitchhike across the internet, destroy selfie culture, […]
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. January 17, […]
3PM Reception 3:15PM Screenings 4:40PM Q&A with Gregg Biermann In partnership with the Film-Makers’ Cooperative New Jersey-based experimental filmmaker and video artist Gregg Biermann introduces a survey of his works completed over the last decade. Often incorporating footage from Hollywood classics like the Wizard of Oz (1939), Rear Window (1954), and North by Northwest (1959), […]
Join performers J. Bouey, Elena Demyanenko, Javier Padilla, and Marion Spencer in a community setting, as they share new work developed in their Gibney choreographic residencies at Mana. The performers showcase new ideas in the field of dance and engage in cross-pollination between creative communities in New York and Jersey City. The works interrogate a […]
Beginning Again is an Non-For-Profit organization that focuses on transformation of life during and after incarceration. Various presenters who was once prodigal sons, will share their stories of separation, hardship and the joys of reuniting with family and community. In addition, those who assist returning citizens will explain how you can help them, their families, […]
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.
