Female performers’ series Ladies on the Mic, with an eye towards the approaching halfway mark between winter and spring, will celebrate the regrowth of perennials and warming weather with First Songs of Spring on Friday, February 3rd at Art House Productions (1 McWilliams Place), from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Admission is free and food [...]
The people over at No Yo Mama Crafts Fair, promoters of local artisans citywide, is calling on artisan-vendors to participate in their April Fools-themed event ‘Fools Fair’ at bar LITM (140 Newark Avenue) on Sunday, April 1, from 11am to 5 pm. NYM brought out 1,500+ people to their two-day holiday craft fair at the [...]
This is not the first confession I have made in my life, and it will not be the last. I had never visited the art gallery Curious Matter before September 2011. To date, they have organized 13 exhibitions that have featured more than 200 artists from Jersey City, New York, and abroad. Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso run the gallery, which opened in 2007.
For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Start your night off at Creative Grove, which is back to brave the winter season with a performance by members of Thomas Francis Takes His [...]
Update: Due to issues with a traffic permit, Creative Grove will be returning next Friday, February 3rd. Artist and designer market Creative Grove is back today, January 27th, with new hours. Now from 3pm-9pm, brave the northern hemisphere’s precarious tilt away from the sun and get your music, art, and food truck fix on at [...]
Downtown Jersey City is a great place for trend-spotting. A cultural hub with a mix of suburban transplants, NYC commuters, international travelers and more, the neighborhood is full of the eclectic, the artistic and the fashion-forward. Marinell Montales, a part-time barista at the Warehouse Cafe, has created a place to celebrate the style of these residents: a blog she calls Downtown, natch!
If the word “gala” brings to mind a moneyed crowd in ball gowns and tuxes demurely sipping champagne, “Jersey City gala” might suggest something else: A group diverse in age and occupation wearing Princess Beatrice hats, tutus, soldier suits and other “black-tie creative” outfits, eating, drinking and having a blast. In other words, Snow Ball. [...]
The newly-opened Steam Cafe is calling on artists to submit work for an upcoming group show celebrating Black History Month. The cafe is open to any medium of art (although they note there is not much floor space for sculptures). There is no size restriction for art but pieces can weigh no more than 30lbs, [...]
The Greenville Talented Youth Art Show is calling on Jersey City’s young and aspiring artists and performers for their March 3rd art show. Painters, photographers, graphic artists, sculptors, graffiti artists, singers, rappers, poets / spoken-word artists and dancers, ages 12 to 19, are welcome to apply. The show, organized by Friends of the Lifers, will [...]
Last year’s Killing Horse Records Anniversary party made the Kearny-based record company a household name for the New Jersey underground scene. After a full two years of hooting, hollering, rocking and rolling, Killing Horse founders Mike Sylvia and Ryan Gross are still going strong.
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