For many non-Jersey residents — myself included — art programs such as the second annual Your Move dance series are the sparks that are much needed to excite New Yorkers to leave the confines of their own creative districts and explore other flourishing neighborhoods.
Over the past year vacant storefronts in Jersey City have been filling with restaurants, art galleries and other small businesses. Ordinary people with big ideas have been fueling the local economy by adding jobs and increasing consumer business. This week, these and other entrepreneurs will flock to Jersey City to take part in the fourth annual Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Share/Save Three Councilmembers Absent at Election Forum: At last night’s forum for candidates in next week’s Jersey City special election for at-large council seats, the at-large incumbents Kalimah Ahmad and Ray Velazquez were both absent, as was Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson. Meanwhile, Gov. Chris Christie and Mayor Jerramiah Healy received strong criticism from the [...]
Share/Save Dance with a narrative, dance theater, dancing as comedy and with an eye towards investigating space, movement, and the body. This is the broad scope that Insurgo Stage Project will be addressing over the course of four nights in November – the 10th to the 13th — for its second annual “Your Move” emerging [...]
It’s an unusually warm and sunny October day in Jersey City. Members of a band slowly trickle in to a rehearsal space; it’s been a while since these old friends have all been in the same room together. The seven members talk, catching up, before taking out their instruments and warming up. The drummer counts off: 3… 2… 1. No one misses a beat.
Story Haven, a creation of local professional actress Anna Nugent and her business partner Amy Elise de Jong, is currently entering its third season of programming aimed at inspiring creativity in Jersey City’s little ones. One eight-week workshop series kicks off Saturday at Art House Productions, while another six-week after-school workshop series starts October 3 at Grace Church Van Vorst.
Share/SaveWhen Christine Goodman was a teenager, she enrolled in a program of the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts and learned how to put on a play from start to finish. Then she performed in the production, a youth-oriented version of Pippin. Goodman, the executive director of Art House Productions, loved the process, connected with peers, [...]
Photographer Sandra Swieder had admired and shot the Twin Towers for years. She had seen them from homes in New York and New Jersey, from scattered job sites, and from within, when she worked briefly as a waitress at Windows on the World. From the age of 14, when she would take the PATH into Manhattan to explore and spend time with her friends, the towers were always there. Until, one day, they weren’t.
Share/SaveArt House Productions and Cassieopia are looking for artists to submit work for the 2011 Artists’ Studio Tour around the theme “OLD SKOOL” (what inspires you?): This theme is meant to express the connection between old school art/artists and how they have impacted the new generation of artists, like you. What has been your source [...]
Share/SaveYour Move, a Jersey City showcase for emerging choreographers put together by Art House Productions and Insurgo Stage Project, is now accepting submissions for its second annual event. Choreographers are invited to submit one movement-based piece (no longer than 15 minutes) in a wide range of movement performance, including: modern and postmodern dance, physical theater, [...]
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