The Jersey City Independent"

On Saturday, April 17, about 1,000 folks from Jersey City and beyond descended on Parlay Studios to check out handmade goods from scores of vendors, listen to music from some of Jersey City’s finest, nibble on some food and hang out. In the process, the fair raised at least $1,500 for the local nonprofit Arts to Grow (the organizers are still tallying everything up.) All in all, the organizers say the event was a big success, and we’ve got the photographic evidence to prove it.

After last year’s debut went off swimmingly, the team of young, sassy and excited Jersey City crafters behind the fair — Megan Gülick, Sophie Penkrat and Leah Siegel-Picus — decided they needed to expand this year. “It was a trial run for us,” Gülick explains. “The response showed how much people were looking for this.”

Grace Church Van Vorst barely seemed open from the outside Friday night, even as the first-ever Green Teen Music and Arts Festival was happening within. But as the red double doors swung open, the clamor of people gradually got louder until it swept over us like a rush of hot air from an oven.

One of the joys of traveling and seeing the world is discovering new cultures and their traditions. Needless to say, we take great joy in our own traditions, and many of them starting to come back around as autumn and winter rear their chilly heads.
One of our favorites has always been the art of pumpkin [...]

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