Posts Tagged ‘performing arts’

This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Jon Whiten • Aug 20th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

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On the music tip, contemporary gospel songwriter Carl Brister plays a free outdoor show at the MLK HUB (5 pm), and the Bryan Beninghove Trio brings the [...]



Jersey City’s Middlepoet Releases First Single

By Jon Whiten • Aug 19th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

Middlepoet, aka Aaron Jackson, is a longtime fixture on Jersey City’s spoken-word scene, having been a key part of the Waterbug Hotel collective earlier this decade and a continued presence at cultural events citywide.
Now the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City is embarking on a somewhat new chapter in his artistic career, with the [...]



Several Jersey City Organizations Get State Arts Council Funds

By Jon Whiten • Aug 17th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

The New Jersey Council on the Arts today awarded more than $15 million in grants to nearly 800 organizations, artists and projects, including the troubled Jersey City Museum and four other institutions based in Jersey City.
The council awarded the following grants to local institutions for Fiscal Year 2011:

Jersey City Museum: $77,211 for general operating [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Jon Whiten • Aug 13th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

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Newport Centre Mall should be chock full of tweens this afternoon, with a “Youth Rock Live” concert featuring Six Volt and Whitney Kelly scheduled for 5 pm. [...]



Call for Choreographers: New ‘Your Move’ Dance Series Wants Your Work

By Jon Whiten • Aug 13th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

Art House Productions and the Insurgo Stage Project have teamed up to create Your Move, a new dance series in Jersey City. And they are looking for choreographers to present up to 15 minutes of work at its first event on November 12 and 13.
The groups are looking for “a wide range of movement performance [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Jon Whiten • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

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The Jersey City arts collective _gaia is kicking off a new monthly exhibition in its _gaia gallery space on 3rd Street tonight with a show by Melissa [...]



Jersey City’s Open Mic-ers Come Together to Produce Tour

By Jon Whiten • Jul 30th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

Jersey City has become a bit of a haven for spoken-word and open-mic events — there’s the longstanding Art House, Just Add Sound and the JC Slam at Grassroots Community Space, Ladies on the Mic at Made with Love and Uptown Crew’s open mic throwdowns, to name a few.
“Performers need somewhere to perform,” says Just [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Jon Whiten • Jul 23rd, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

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A trifecta of Make My City week events are going on this evening: the Jersey City Art School hosts a “Cocktails and Art” reception (6 pm); an [...]



J CITY Theater Kicks Off 5th Season with ‘Gun-Shy’

By Jon Whiten • Jul 21st, 2010 • Category: Arts, Featured

Tonight in the basement of St. Michael’s Church on 9th Street, J CITY Theater will put on yet another stripped-down and intimate performance as it begins its 5th season with Richard Dresser’s Gun-Shy, a fast-paced chaotic comedy.



Art House Productions Hires Founder Christine Goodman as First Paid Staffer

By Jon Whiten • Jul 20th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

As Art House Productions prepares to begin its 10th year of work this fall, founder Christine Goodman — a staple of Jersey City’s cultural scene — will finally be coming on board full-time as the organization’s first official staff member, beginning August 1.
“I believe that every step toward formalization taken by every Jersey City [...]

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