Posts Tagged ‘fundraisers’

This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • May 20th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

Assuming we can stave off the apocalypse, there are plenty of great events to enjoy in Jersey City this weekend. 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 Olga Slavnikova, dubbed one of [...]



Child-Abuse Prevention Group to Honor Developer Paul Silverman and Nonprofit New City Kids at Awards Dinner Tonight

By • May 17th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City real estate developer Paul Silverman and the nonprofit agency New City Kids will be honored tonight at the 21st Annual Distinguished Service Awards Dinner of the Hudson County Child Abuse Prevention Center (HCCAPC). They will both receive the Hon. Thomas F. Cowan Distinguished Service Award, named after the late Thomas F. Cowan, the [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • May 13th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

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 It’s a big weekend at Art House Productions, as the organization hosts the opening weekend of its new original comedy, Murder on Ice (8 pm [...]



St. Peter’s College Launches $62 Million Capital Campaign to Bring Six-Story Student Center to Campus

By • May 9th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

St. Peter’s College officially launched the public phase of an ambitious capital campaign with a Friday night black-tie gala — featuring a performance by American Idol winner Taylor Hicks — at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City. The capital campaign, dubbed “Students at the Center: The Campaign for Saint Peter’s College,” is foremost an [...]



New Group Jersey City Sporting for Good Announces Dodgeball Olympics to Raise Money for Bike-Rehab Program

By • Apr 27th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog, News

The latest grassroots effort to strengthen the bonds between Jersey City’s art/culture scene and its small business/charitable scene is Jersey City Sporting for Good, and the group’s inaugural event is a Dodgeball Olympics slated for May 14 at Downtown’s Enos Jones Park. The newly formed group is the brainchild of (Dancing) Tony Susco, who has [...]



‘Pup Crawl’ to Benefit Liberty Humane Society Slated for Saturday in Hoboken

By • Apr 27th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society has organized a “Pup Crawl” featuring five Hoboken bars that will raise funds for the animal shelter. Saturday’s event will include raffle drawings for bar gift cards as well as the usual pub crawl drink specials at each establishment. The crawl begins at 3 pm at Texas Arizona (76 River [...]



‘Movies in the Park’ Program in the Heights Expanding This Summer

By • Apr 20th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog, News

As it enters its fourth year, the Movies in the Park program in Jersey City’s Heights neighborhood is expanding from just one movie night each summer to four nights, thanks to collaboration between two neighborhood groups. For the past three years, the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA) has held one movie night in Riverview-Fisk Park in [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Apr 8th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

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 The opening reception for a new group exhibition of masks — featuring work by Beth DiCara, Joyce Hayter, Lynn Presley, Andrea Raphael, Gailene St. Amand, [...]



Liberty Science Center to Honor Jane Goodall, Sanjay Gupta and Govi Rao at Gala Tonight

By • Apr 8th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Liberty Science Center (LSC) is set to honor three science leaders this evening at its sold-out Citizen Science Gala. Being honored this year by LSC are Jane Goodall (“for her commitment to inspiring each of us to preserve our natural world and its inhabitants”), Dr. Sanjay Gupta (“for encouraging informed public dialogue on important issues [...]



Two Jersey City Arts Groups Hope a Case of ‘Game Show Fever!’ Can Boost Their Financial Health

By • Apr 6th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

Game Show Fever! is The Price is Right in a kind of Bizzaro World — Jersey City. Tony Susco, Jack Halpin, and Pop-Up Art’s Fever Foxes will stand in for host Bob Barker, announcer Johnny Olsen and game show models the Barker’s Beauties. “Contestants will be invited to test their knowledge of Jersey City trivia, Dollar Store items, and dishes served at favorite restaurants,” Christine Goodman explains.

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