Community Calendar

The Greater Atlantic Partnership and Atlantic Prevention Resources proudly present The Power of Positivity: Life Without Limits Art Contest. The contest is open to middle school students in Atlantic County, grades 6-8. The schools involved will collect all artwork submissions from students before the deadline. Atlantic Prevention Resources will organize a pick-up of all student works. All submissions must be received by April 7, 2025. The top three winners will be awarded a gift card, and first place will have their art displayed on a billboard in the local community.
Featured student artwork from talented middle school students will be shown in an art exhibit at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University from April 30 to May 11, celebrating how positive actions and mindsets can lead to a fulfilling, substance-free life. The exhibit will be open to the public for all to enjoy!

All participating artists, along with their friends and family, are invited to join us in recognizing and celebrating their powerful artwork that highlights how positive actions, attitudes, and mindsets lead to a fulfilling, drug and alcohol-free life. The reception will include live music by James Melton and complimentary refreshments. Don't miss this chance to honor the artists and their meaningful work!

Celebrate Mother's Day weekend Friday, May 9, Sunday, May 11 at American Repertory Ballet’s "Pasión," a joyful program at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center with Spanish, Mexican, and Cuban choreographic ties 🩰

Featured choreography includes…

🌹”Paquita,” a joyous classical ballet set in Spain

🌹“The Time That Runs Away” by Stephanie Martinez, danced to popular songs from the 50's and 60's

🌹A dynamic world premiere with live music by Cuban choreographer Luis Napoles

For more information, visit www.arballet.org/may 🎟️

Guest Conductor Michael Helman joins Artistic Director Kerry Dietz for our 25th Anniversary program that includes Helman originals along with tunes from opera to the big bands arranged especially for handbells. Family friendly fun. No admission, free will offering.

Saturday, May 10, 7PM
Aura Polyphonica, New Jersey's Renaissance Collegium
Timothy J. Smith, Director; Kevin O'Malia, organ continuo
"See, See the Word is Incarnate" A Celebration of Orlando Gibbons at 400

All Saints' Church, 16 All Saints' Rd, Princeton NJ
Tickets available at the door: $20/Students $10/Children Free
Reception to follow

Celebrate Mother's Day weekend Friday, May 9, Sunday, May 11 at American Repertory Ballet’s "Pasión," a joyful program at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center with Spanish, Mexican, and Cuban choreographic ties 🩰

Featured choreography includes…

🌹”Paquita,” a joyous classical ballet set in Spain

🌹“The Time That Runs Away” by Stephanie Martinez, danced to popular songs from the 50's and 60's

🌹A dynamic world premiere with live music by Cuban choreographer Luis Napoles

For more information, visit www.arballet.org/may 🎟️

Spring is here! Cast off your Winter blues with this program of Springtime music - bird songs, love songs, and May dances, highlighting Piffaro's rich and varied instrumentarium.

“Widely regarded as North America's masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro delights audiences throughout the world with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its musicians perform on shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.

Saturday, May 10 at 8pm and Sunday, May 11 at 4pm – Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is joined by pianist Natasha Paremski performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Hymn of the Cherubim” and Johannes Brahms’ Schicksalslied featuring the Westminster Symphonic Choir. Rossen Milanov conducts. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University Campus, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $40 (children 5-17 who are accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice, contact Mika Godbole at mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org or (609) 905-0931; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org or 609-497-0020.

Programs, artists, dates, and times are subject to change.

Acclaimed violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is known for channeling her award-winning virtuosity as a means of championing worthy music by lesser or unknown composers from her native Ukraine. For her first appearance at GatherNYC, Solomiya is joined by violist William Frampton and cellist Laura Metcalf to present a forgotten masterwork by Fedir Yakymenko, a colorful and rhapsodic piece written around the turn of the 20th century. Ukrainian by birth and spending his life in Russia and France, Yakymenko deftly blends French and Ukrainian sounds and styles into this delightful piece, which deserves to be heard and remembered.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2024-2025 season includes 17-concerts that run from October 2024 through June 2025, with concerts held every other Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

The Greater Atlantic Partnership and Atlantic Prevention Resources proudly present The Power of Positivity: Life Without Limits Art Contest. The contest is open to middle school students in Atlantic County, grades 6-8. The schools involved will collect all artwork submissions from students before the deadline. Atlantic Prevention Resources will organize a pick-up of all student works. All submissions must be received by April 7, 2025. The top three winners will be awarded a gift card, and first place will have their art displayed on a billboard in the local community.
Featured student artwork from talented middle school students will be shown in an art exhibit at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University from April 30 to May 11, celebrating how positive actions and mindsets can lead to a fulfilling, substance-free life. The exhibit will be open to the public for all to enjoy!