Ìīíïîinches is the lengthening of self that creation demands. It is the deep stretch of witnessing. It is black pride. It is the labor it takes to measure life poetically. It is translation and the space that it leaves behind. It is the width of queerness. It is a place that holds precious things, viewer […]
AREA YOUTH TO COMPETE IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL® PITCH HIT & RUN™ COMPETITION Roberto Clemente Little League will host a FREE Major League Baseball® Pitch Hit & Run™ Competition for Jersey City youth. Date: Saturday March 7, 2020 Time: 1:00PM Location: Franco Field 8th Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 Pitch Hit & Run™ is the […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs is proud to host an opening reception for March's Rotunda Art Gallery exhibition. The show will celebrate and feature work inspired by Women's History Month. The exhibition will showcase the artwork of emerging and […]
Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs, cosponsored by the Jersey City St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee presents the Irish Flag Raising. The flag raising will be held in City Hall Chambers on Wednesday, March 11th, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm. This event is FREE and open to […]
An artist’s digital presence can help positively impact outreach and ultimately boost sales. Join Mark Rosen, head of digital at Galerie, for a hybrid lecture and discussion to learn practical tips for creating quality content. Rosen draws from his experience at various art institutions to offer strategies artists can use to grow their social media […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 23, 2020Please join us at the Apple Tree House for a panel discussion on Women's Activism for 2020 & Beyond. Moderated by our project scholar Dr. Devin Heyward (St. Peter's University, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies), the panel will discuss themes and issues raised […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LET'S PLAY HOLI!!! It's that time of year when the United Hindu Federation of NJ hosts its 28th Annual Parade in celebration of Holi/Phagwah!!! The parade starts promptly at 11 am from Stegman Parkway and John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City and the route will proceed […]
Players from JERSEY CITY, NJ will have the opportunity to compete in the local competition for the 2020 T-Mobile Little League Home Run Derby, and potentially earn their way to compete in the Final to be held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania this August around the Little League World Series. Local T- Mobile Little League® Home Run […]
2007 Tchaikovsky International gold medalist Sergey Antonov (cello) and Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze (piano) join Pegasus: the Orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Schumann’s Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op. 34, respectively, with Karén Hakobyan as conductor. The full Pegasus orchestra plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. SERGEY ANTONOV, cello Cellist Sergey […]
Sarah Golley March 14 | 8pm Sarah Golley is a solo act from New Haven, CT who’s uninhibited style stems from her use of music to excavate the darkest parts of herself and spread them out for thoughtful analysis. With a piano and a loop machine, she creates a cinematic landscape for her powerhouse vocals […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BE CANCELLED Irish pride will be on full display when the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15. Starting in Lincoln Park at Kennedy Blvd & marching to Journal Square Grandstand in front of the Historic Loew's Theatre. For additional information regarding […]
Players from JERSEY CITY, NJ will have the opportunity to compete in the local competition for the 2020 T-Mobile Little League Home Run Derby, and potentially earn their way to compete in the Final to be held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania this August around the Little League World Series. Local T- Mobile Little League® Home Run […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council and the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs is proud to host an opening reception for March's Rotunda Art Gallery exhibition. The show features student artwork K-12 from Jersey City Schools. An opening […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED There is never a shortage of worrisome news. It is good to equip yourself and your loved ones with the personal resources to do well, especially when the going is tough. The second workshop in this series, "Resilience: Strengthening Coping Skills" is scheduled for Thursday, March 19th. […]
Gengis Don & The Empire w/ Keenyn Omari March 21 | 8pm Join us for Gengis Don’s final in-gallery concert as a More Sound Music Residency artist! Keenyn Omari opens. Gengis Don - drummer, producer, song writer, engineer and bandleader - combines his deep knowledge of Hip Hop and his study of jazz/improvisational music to […]
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.
