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On the cover The art on the cover is Trenton artist Graham Holmes’ 1931 oil painting “Sunday Concert in Cadwalader Park” and represents a long tradition of outdoor concerts. Holmes (1908-1981) graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and briefly worked at Lenox China, where his father headed the art department.

Holmes was active in Trenton and New Hope — and later moved to Paris. His son donated the painting to the Trenton City Museum where it is on permanent view.

Summer sounds and sights in Trenton

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renton galleries, free concerts, and a hip hop fest — along with the monthly first Friday openings and the Candlelight Lounge’s Saturday afternoon jazz series — promise to make Trenton a cool place to be over the long hot summer.

Here’s a quick guide to some of the free and easy offerings happening in the capital city:

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he Levitt AMP Trenton Music Series returns to Mill Hill Park for a weekly free series of musical events featuring national and regional artists that is now in its fifth year. The hot series is running July to early September with the following lineup: New Orleans’ Shamarr Allen & The Underdogs present their big band hip-hop jazz, with Lancaster’s Big Boy Brass jazz, July 11; Asbury Park R&B group Des & the Swagmatics and the Trenton-based Renaissance Jazz Band, July 18; Vermont indie-soul per-

Des & the Swagmatics perform July 18 at Mill Hill Park. formers Dwight & Nicole with New Jersey rock band HEVEE LEVEE, July 25; New York City’s PJ Rasmussen & The Boardwalk Jazz with Princeton jazz performer Tom Tallitsch, August 1; Austin, Texas, R&B artist Tameca Jones and Jersey City soul singer Bo Mason, August 8; nationally recognized Trenton born musician Edwin Labron performs salsa music with Trenton Latin folk artist Gabriel Munoz, August 15; California Afro-Latin group La Misa Negra performs Afro-Latin music

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and Philadelphia Latin fusion group Interminable, August 22; Nashville’s soul-pop group the New Respects and Asbury Park indie rock group the Vaughns, August 29; And the series concludes with Arkansas-raised Rev. Sekou & the Freedom Fighters playing blues-Americana with Camden/Philadelphia soul musician Kingsley Ibeneche, September 5.

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he New Jersey State Museum’s “Many Inspired Steps” commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing that took place on July 21, 1969.

On view through November 10, the exhibition uses a variety of objects and images to examine the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the pioneers of space travel — including New Jersey-born astronaut and Apollo 11 member Buzz Aldrin — and other state connections to both the landing and the space program.

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State of the city Arc and Trenton businesses open new opportunities

By Wendy Greenberg

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he Arc Mercer is seeking employers for what could be a win-win situation. With its OTC center on New York Avenue in Trenton and its headquarters in Ewing, the organization provides community-based vocational services for individuals with special needs and developmental disabilities and Arc Mercer executive director Steve trains its consumers for a specific job, Cook. when requested by area businesses.

In turn, this training helps Arc Mer- colleague made him aware of the orgacer teach job skills to the prospective nization and its services, and he first employees. approached them about an assembly “You are helping us create oppor- job at Arc’s training site, about six tunities to train our workers by hiring blocks away.

Arc as a subcontractor,” said Steve Tektite produces lighting and other Cook, Arc Mercer executive direc- products for the outdoor, industrial, tor. He points out that the highest public safety, and military markets, unemployment rate is among people and is known for LED flashlights. Now, with disabilities: 75 percent. “To train an Arc “enclave” completes packaging someone to do a job, you have to have right at Tektite, which works well bethe work available to do that job.” cause there is no shipping needed for Arc’s teachable moments are in packaging, Mele explained. Usually the categories of fulfillment, clerical, four to five “enthusiastic” Arc clients landscaping, auto detailing, food ser- package items three days a week, with vice; and what a job coach. Reis referred to as cently they pack“pick/pack and aged U.S. Coast Mercer County’s Arc ship” — the proGuard SOS lights cess of pulling a for nighttime disoffers recreational and product from inventory, packing social programs, its own tress.

“It has worked it, and shipping out very well,” medical center, and its it. More than 300 said Mele. “The individuals reown transportation customer is ceive a paycheck pleased.” Tektite system. through Arc’s has also been social enterprise able to provide program. other jobs in its This workforce cleans more than space so that the job coach can evalu2.6 million square feet of office space ate whether the work would be approdaily, and prepares more than 100,000 priate. “I’m very pleased,” Mele said. meals annually. Usually the work is He added that he has observed a good done in a small group working on or relationship between Arc workers and off-site with a job coach, but a com- the other employees. pany can hire an individual employee But the route from working in a through Arc as well. secure environment to a community The Arc program works because setting doesn’t come without chalof a carefully cultivated pipeline that lenges. “You are always looking to takes a consumer through learning, break barriers: life skill barriers, job training, working at a training site, and skills, transportation, finding work. sometimes going to employer-based Breaking barriers is the model for evsites. Arc provides transportation and erything,” Cook said. “We try to find a medical support in addition to voca- way to identify someone’s interest and tional support. get them to experience the work first.

Employers who have worked with Then we overcome transportation and Arc have seen their needs fulfilled health issues.” with enthusiasm and a sense of reThe Arc, with more than 625 chapsponsibility. ters nationally, is state-based, but Tektite on North Clinton Avenue services are delivered from counties. in Trenton is among several Trenton Mercer County is distinctive because businesses that have been working it offers recreational and social prowith Arc Mercer for 15 years. Tektite grams, its own medical center with President Scott Mele said a former doctors on staff, and its own trans-

Spotlight on business: Trenton-based Tektite

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ektite, mentioned in the accompanying article on ARC Mercer, is an international company located on North Clinton Avenue and started 29 years ago by Scott Mele.

Now the company’s chief executive officer, Mele was previously international sales manager for Princeton Tech in Bordentown, which sold consumer lighting products.

In a related industry, Tektite concentrates on battery-powered lighting for more rugged uses, for the military and the government, for example, helipad signals, escape lighting for submarines, and infrared strobes.

“I knew the markets,” Mele said in a 2014 interview with U.S. 1 Newspaper. “Originally we started in scuba diving, recreational and military diving, and our first international customer was Jacques Cousteau’s company, Aqualung.” Noting that in the week of his interview Tektite had shipped to Latvia, France, China, Hong Kong, and Australia, among others, Mele says, “we ship internationally almost every day.”

Mele, the son of a retired New Jersey state trooper, studied engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and business management at Seton Hall and Upsala. He has held management positions at WarnerLambert, Playboy International, and portation system with more than 70 vehicles.

The Occupational Training Center (OTC), a separate building on New York Avenue, trains individuals toward extended employment and is a “safety net” during training. The next step is to experience a real work site and employment in the community. At the OTC, for example, consumers certified by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) learn to sort materials before shredding.

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Trenton-based Tektite founder and CEO Scott Mele.

Scanticon Hotels, been a general manager for specialty retailers, and was an instructor at Princeton University.

Mele founded Tektite, like many start-ups, in his garage in 1990. Over the past 29 years he has built the company into a vertically integrated manufacturer. Tektite manufactures and sells specialty lighting products incorporating leading edge technology. He serves as the chief designer.

A resident of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Mele is a licensed scuba instructor as well as a member of a ski patrol.

Summarizing what a newbie in international business should do, Mele says, “You need to know your product and your markets, and you have to do some research; but you shouldn’t let it intimidate you.” And for his own business, it has been worth it.

“The experience for us is overwhelmingly positive,” said Duerr. “I strongly recommend to any employer in the area that if they can find a way to fit Arc Mercer into what they do, they will reap generous rewards.” He said that working toward Arc’s mission of community-based work is “worth it all.”

In a way, the Arc Mercer is “also training the employer,” said Cook, a former civil engineer who was chief of staff for former State Senator Peter Inverso. “It is a commitment from the employer to support us in training.”

Cook said he learned a long time ago to “always expect a no, and then think of reasons you should do it” — a philosophy that has been helpful in the business of removing barriers.

“If you do any of these types of jobs, reach out to us,” he says. “Speak to us, and we will create the job path. What helps us is to use your site, to lead to people getting placed.

“We will in turn get you great workers with little or no turnover and low absenteeism. We are removing barriers. We want to get our people to the highest level possible.”

rc Mercer consumers are a part of the team at medical waste remediator Stericycle’s Shred-It operations in Trenton. The four or five workers who come daily with their job coach also come to company picnics and other celebrations, said plant manager Mark Duerr. The relationship with Arc began at another New Jersey location, said Duerr. That good experience prompted the company to seek workers from Arc Mercer for its Whitehead Road operation. There, they sort nonstandard material from what is being readied for shredding, such as sorting Arc Mercer, 180 Ewingville Road, colored paper from white, checking Ewing.

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HN: In some of your recent paintings you have changed the interior structure of the space.

ML: I was doing paintings as part of my Artists Series and wanted to show landscapes and seascapes outside their studios in Massachusetts, where I was painting them. So I decided to get rid of the wall behind them and show the seascape and landscape. In this show is my painting “Joshua & Martha, The Engagement Painting,” Joshua, who is my son is shown with Martha, who is now his wife seated in their home in Redford, N.Y. Behind him are three paintings Josh did for his three children. I got rid of the wall those paintings are hanging, and I copied one of my early paintings showing Joshua with his bike outside our home in Trenton, when he was 12 years old.

HN: For many years you have limited your color palette. Now you expanded your palette. What prompted you to make the change?

ML: Since 1990, I limited my palette to four colors a dark red, a blue, a yellow and white. I mixed my dark red with my blue, first ultramarine

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ationally known Trenton artist Mel Leipzig will be represented in two “Homage to Trenton” shows — featuring Trenton artists and residents — in July. One is part of the monthly exhibition at Trenton Social, opening with a First Friday reception on July 5, 6 p.m. to midnight, and on view through August. The other is at the Trenton City Museum, opening Saturday, July 13, and on view through September 8.

A prominent presence in Trenton’s art community, the 84-year-old Brooklyn-born artist has had more than 40 solo shows and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the New Jersey State Museum and the Whitney Museum of art.

He taught painting and art history at Mercer County Community College for 45 years, where he drew upon his own art training at Cooper Union, Yale University, and the Pratt Institute. His instructors included Morris Kantor, Will Barnet, Neil Welliver, Josef Albers, James Brooks, and others.

In 2018 artist and Rider University professor Harry Naar interviewed Leipzig to discuss his new work and his bold choices.

Harr y Naar: Why have you abandoned the preliminary drawings leading to a painting?

Mel Leipzig: Around 2005 I was doing a painting of my son, Joshua, and his girlfriend at the time, in an apartment they rented in Ewing. I realized that my son might all of a sudden say that he was moving. What was I to do with the painting, as I needed the background of the apartment?

I decided to cut out doing a sketch and color study and go directly to the painting and just see what happens.

I think my paintings became much more fluid by painting directly, without any studies. So I have continued with direct painting. I believe it made my paintings more fluid. Also in using that method I was able to do some Front large complicated compositions such as my paintings.

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blue and then a cobalt blue to make something that resembled black, but was actually a dark purple. Margaret O’Reilly, who was the chief curator of fine arts and is now the director at the New Jersey State Museum, suggested I add the color black. Strong darks or blacks are important for me in structuring the space in my paintings. I prefer now to use black. However, since I use black I am using black outlines in my paintings. Also I am now using pure brilliant blue red and yellow in the backgrounds of many of my paintings. In that, I have been influenced by the work of the young graffiti artists of Trenton, who I have been painting as part of my ongoing Artists Series. You will notice that I have yellow, red and green skies in some of my paintings.

HN: Many people, and even art critics, think of you as a portrait painter. In fact you are known for traveling miles to different places to paint a portrait.

To me your paintings go beyond the typical portrait because you are concerned with the person’s environment. How do you balance the emphasis between the person and the environment?

ML: When I first became interested in painting the figure realistically around 1970, I felt that my main compositional concern was integrating the figure with the background. And since I made a commitment to being a realist I thought that I should record as much realistic information as I could in both the figure and the background. In 1996, when I did my painting “ LOU” of my friend, the photographer, Lou Draper in the office that we shared at Mercer County Community College, I realized that I wanted to paint Lou seated in his office with one of his photographs and surrounded by the boxes of stuff that he collected, almost obsessively, because that said something about him. Also, the same

year, I did a painting of my son, with his tattoos standing in his room with the walls graffitied and repros of pop stars, I thought that said something about my son at that particular age. Both those paintings ended in museum collections, the Whitney in NYC and the Zimmerli in New Brunswick. Since then I consider my paintings to be environmental portraits, in which the background tells you something about the person depicted.

HN: How does a particular environment play a role in determining the person you choose to paint?

ML: I almost always decide to paint the person first and the background proceeds from that decision.

I paint the person first, because the person is the reason that I am doing the painting. And since the people I paint are not professional models, but persons with work schedules and often busy lives, I want to make sure that I am able to portray them on canvas.

It takes me now between two to four hours to paint the figure. It can take me months to paint the background.

In the end I often have to make changes in the colors and tones on walls, floors, and sky, if it is in the painting in order to complete the painting. I hardly ever make big changes on the figure.

My paintings are interiors with figures in which the objects in the interior have a relationship to the figure.

I imagine you could say that it is the human face that most captivates me.

I almost always start the painting with the face.

HN: Do you consider yourself a portrait painter?

ML: Yes to the extent that I do paint people’s faces, with the aim to get a likeness. But I am also a painter of interiors and often a manipulator of space. They are important aspects in understanding my paintings.

HN: What do you want the viewer to become aware of or learn from viewing your exhibition?

ML: I want people to want to look at my paintings and want to be drawn into them. My paintings don’t have any message. Except if I paint people realistically, I guess you could say that I am a humanist.

HN: Did teaching over 40 years influence your painting?

ML: I think I learned things about painting because I had to constantly look at and analyze great paintings when I taught both painting and art history for over 45 years. I painted a great deal even when I was teaching.

But after my retirement I painted even more. Painting, as hard as it often can be, is very life giving. www.melleipzig.com

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Hamilton musician creates art songs at Trenton City Museum

By Dan Aubrey

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unday visitors to the Trenton City Museum in the Ellarslie mansion in Cadwalader Park can expect a sound helping of art — thanks to pianist George Dabrowski.

The Hamilton-based musician is there at the museum’s Yamaha baby grand piano most Sundays between 1 and 4 p.m.

“I can’t say I entertain,” says Dabrowski, 72, about the weekly sessions he started in 2007. “I play quietly as background music.”

But, he is quick to add, there are some people — mainly older — who just sit and listen.

“I tend to play music from the 1920s to the ’50s and some original compositions,” he says about his repertoire. “I also do some improvisations because I don’t want to bore the regular Ellarslie volunteers. So I try to play to different music.”

Dabrowski started playing at the museum when he retired from the railroad after 33 years. That includes Penn Central, Conrail, and finally NJ Transit.

“I was getting rather sedentary,” he says. “And I made the conscious effort to play music — especially at nursing homes and assisted living facilities,” such as Acorn Glen.

And while he calls his playing “peAnd while residents there generally enjoy his playing, some complain destrian,” his music was informed by about him competing with their tele- a professional. “My father (Waldemar vision watching. “You have to have an Dabrowski) was a conducting student at the Curtis Institute. There were ironclad ego,” he says.

The Hightstown-raised pianist lived only two (conductors) who graduin different areas of the country and ated that year. The other was Leonard state before moving to Hamilton more Bern­stein.”

Calling him an “exceedingly fine piathan 30 years ago. He lives near the nist,” Dabrowski says his father didn’t Hurry Back Inn. He says the idea of playing at TCM follow a musical career. “He went into came to him when he saw a piano in electronics after World War II, something he learned the first floor galin the military. lery. “I went over He said, ‘Muand asked if I Visit Ellarslie on a sic was a good could play. The way to starve to fellow who ran Sunday afternoon and death,’ so he did the place was a chances are George it on the side.” bit hesitant, but That included I’m still there.”

Dabrowski will be playing at home And it seems to have paid off. seated at the museum’s and regularly at the White Marsh In addition to Yamaha baby grand.

Country Club providing live outside Philadelbackground muphia. “He played sic for art lovers, he seems to have struck a chord with dining and dancing music. He had a some donors. “There have been a cou- trio. He wasn’t famous. He wasn’t inple of quiet contributions to the Tren- terested in performing.”

But others were, and the older Dabton Museum Society from people who enjoyed my playing. It was greatly ap- rowski received an invitation from a preciated by the museum society and Curtis classmate who also happened to be the concert master of the New rather touching to me.”

But otherwise, Dabrowski, says, York Philharmonic. “He offered (my father) a job touring. He thought “I’m just part of the furniture.”

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about it, but it was too much time away from the family. He didn’t want to get into that life traveling.”

Dabrowski takes pleasure in recounting his father’s artistry. “People who know their classical music are amazed when I tell them that he studied with a concert pianist who got tired of performing and was one of the finest of his day, Leo Ornstein” — also a composer ranked by the New York Times as an equal to Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Trenton’s George Antheil. Dabrowski’s father was also friends with the late Willy Kapell — called by the Times “the most prodigiously gifted and exciting American pianist of his generation.”

Dabrowski says his father was a born musician from Philadelphia. His mother was from outside Hightstown.

The two met during World War II at a Florida military base where his father was playing piano. They married and lived in New York City, where George was born, then moved to a farm outside Hightstown to be close to both their parents and families.

“My mother is a retired nurse. She’s 101 years old and lives in Jamesburg,” says the divorced stepfather of two adult sons.

About his own musical training, Dabrowski says, “I had piano lessons for a few years, along with my two

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brothers. We lost interest quickly when we had to practice. I also studied oboe in high school. That kept me out of Vietnam — I played in a military band in 1969.”

Dabrowski says his musical taste is a blend of standards, classics, new works, and things “my father would play in the evening. A lot of stuff I play now I remember him playing.”

He also plays “a little bit of Rachmaninoff, the 17th and 18th variations on a theme by Paganini. The 18th is a very lovely piece. The 17th is difficult and took me a year to learn and memorize. I’m not a pianist by training. The training I had was exceedingly elementary and not particularly helpful.”

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n 1980 Dabrowski started “fooling around” with ragtime music. When he was learning the “Maple Leaf Rag” he decided the work needed a musical introduction and created one. That in turn inspired the creation of series of ragtime-styled compositions. “I wrote out about 30 and there’s another 30 that I play that I didn’t write out — something I should do before I croak.”

Although he isn’t a known composer, he says that his compositions are starting to be recognized in ragtime music circles. “A couple of musicians around the country play my music.

One was playing at a ragtime music event and someone came up and said, ‘What do you think of Dabrowski’s music?’”

And while the pianist likes the story, he says he is indifferent to the answer.

“If someone likes (my music), they like it. If they don’t, they don’t.”

George Dabrowski plays the piano at Ellarslie every Sunday afternoon.

The same is true about playing at the Trenton City Museum. “When I play there, there is no pressure on me.

If someone asks for something, if I know it I’ll play it.” And if he is unsure about a musical arrangement, he has help at the tip of his fingers. “I can use my smart phone to find a song, write down a bridge and key changes, and then I’ll have it.”

Yet while Dabrowski helps keep the mood bright at Ellarslie, he is also dealing with some unseen challenges. “I have severe arthritis in my right hand that makes (playing) kind of tricky. It gets a little harder to play.

And if you get to be over 70, your memory gets a little fishy, and it is tiring to play for hours.”

Then there is also a disappointment he silently harbors. “When people come in and walk around for five minutes and leave — they don’t know what they’re missing. It takes time to look at art.”

Looking forward, he says he is adding to his repertoire to help keep his mind sharp, and except when he is visiting his granddaughters he plans to keep his Sunday date at the museum.

Or as he sums it up, “Unless they disinvite me, I will play there as long as I can.”

George Dabroswki, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park. Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. Museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 609-989-3632 or www. ellarslie.org.

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Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

Quizzoholics Trivia, Killarney’s, 1644 Whitehorse Mercerville Road, Hamilton, 609-5861166. Free trivia every Monday. 8 p.m.

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Jazz Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $5. 6 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com.

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Dick Gra�on, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, 609-989-7777. Solo jazz guitar. 6 p.m.

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Independence Day. Blues Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. $5. 6 p.m.

Capital City Farmers Market, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.des�na�ontrenton. com. Farmers, ar�sans, and makers every Thursday through October. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Friday Dance Party, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. $10.

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Chickens and Such, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. Bluegrass, country, and western swing. $20. 8 p.m.

Street Fair, First Friday, The African American Cultural Collec�ve of Mercer County, Warren Street and Front Street. www.taacf.com.

Block party featuring DJs, vendors, and family ac�vi�es. 5 p.m.

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Opening Recep�on, BSB Gallery, 143 East State Street, Suite 4, 609-599-3268. www.bsbgallery.com. New Jersey ar�st Mariam Rajput’s “The Kitab Series - Jewels of Arabic Calligraphy” Free. 5 p.m.

Heather Pierson Acous�c Trio, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m.

Annual Jazz Barbecue, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

Guided Tour, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609-890-3630. www.hamiltonnj.com. Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Benefit for Notre Dame Cathedral and the 1867 Sanctuary, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. Organizer Carm Marranco and seven local bands perform.

Admission by dona�on. 2 p.m.

 Guided Tour, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609-890-3630.

Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

House Tour, Benjamin Temple House, 27 Federal City Road, Ewing, 609-883-2455. www. ethps.org. Learn about the families who called the circa-1750 Colonial farmhouse home. 2 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 1 p.m.

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Ghost Ship Octavius, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, 609-394-7437. /www. championshipbartrenton.com. Live music. $14. 7 p.m.

CASA Informa�on Session, CASA of Mercer and Burlington Coun�es, 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing. www.casamb.org.

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Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. www.championshipbartrenton. com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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Jazz Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $5. 6 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. Group class included. $10. 7 p.m.

Kris�n Rebecca, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. Pop- and Americana-influenced contemporary folk music. $20. 8 p.m.

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Andrew Alling, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m.

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Steve Sandberg and Rob Thomas, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m.

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Public Artwork Tours, New Jersey State House Annex, 145 West State Street, 609-8473150. Guided tour of New Jersey’s capitol complex and its artwork, including stained glass, pain�ngs, murals, �lework, sculptures, and marquetry. Free. Every Friday. 1:30 p.m.

Friday Dance Party, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.  Oculum Dei/Cadaver Creator/Mithlond/ and others, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, 609-394-7437. /www.championshipbartrenton.com. Live music event. $10. 7 p.m.

Caruso, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org.

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Bas�lle Day. Flamenco Dancing and Music, Malaga Restaurant, 511 Lalor Street, 609-396-8878. www. malagarestaurant.com. Monthly diner with flamenco music and dancing by Flamenco Flavor. Entertainment cover charge $10 to $12 added to your dinner bill. Reserva�ons strongly suggested. 5 p.m.

Linda Sussman, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 3 p.m.

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Euro-American Auto and Motorcycle Show, Donauschwaben Verein Trenton, 127 Route 156, Yardville. www.trentondonauschwaben.com. Cars and cycles on display, plus live music and more. Goody bags for first 100 entrants. Proceeds benefit the Danube Swabian Associa�on Scholarship Fund. 10 a.m.

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EvEnTS, continued from Page 9 Blues Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton. com. $5. 6 p.m.

Levi� AMP Trenton Music Series, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.facebook.com/ levi�amptrenton. R&B group Des & the Swagma�cs. Renaissance Jazz Band opens.

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Woodstock at 50: Celebra�on, Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-6664. www.brtstage.org. Favorites from the 1960s. Through July 28. 7:30 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Friday Dance Party, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. $10.

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Saxophonist Lars Haake, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

Specialty Car and Motorcycle Show, Saint John’s Bap�st Church, Higgs Park, Somerset Street, Ewing, 609-977-3159. Car show featuring live music, fish fry breakfast, racing seminar, vendors and more. The Rich and Jason Lawrence NHRA drag racing family will be honored. Prizes awarded in several categories. $2. Children 12 and under free.

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Annual Ice Cream Social and Colonial Military Encampment and, 1719 William Trent House, 15 Market Street. www.williamtrenthouse.org. Celebrate the Trent House’s 300th anniversary with the an ice cream social and Colonial Military Encampment from the French and Indian War. Free. 1 to 7 p.m.

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 Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Pete Inverso and the Jazz Connec�ons featuring Pam Orlando, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 2 p.m.

Carrie Jackson Trio, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 7:30 p.m.  The World of Captain William Trent, Lecture and Book Signing, 1719 William Trent House, 15 Market Street. www.patriotsweek.com. Author Jason Cherry talks about his new book, “Pi�sburgh’s Lost Outpost: Captain Trent’s Fort.” 2 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Har�ord. $11 and up. 5 p.m.

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Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. www.championshipbartrenton. com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. Akron. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Jazz Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $5. 6 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Akron. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com.

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Blues Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton. com. $5. 6 p.m.

Penny Weather Quartet, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m.  Levi� AMP Trenton Music Series, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.facebook. com/levi�amptrenton. Dwight & Nicole with indie-soul. HEVEE LEVEE opens with roots rock. Food vendors, family ac�vi�es, and more. 5 p.m.

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Tom Sawyer, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www. kelseytheatre.net. $20. Through August 3.

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Friday Dance Party, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. $10.

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Open Mic Night, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. Free. 7 p.m.

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So Inclined, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. www.1867sanctuary. org. Guitar and dobro duo. $20. 8 p.m.

Saxophonist Carl Bartle�, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

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Gypsy Jazz: Hot Club of Philadelphia, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 2 p.m.

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Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. www.championshipbartrenton. com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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Jazz Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $5. 6 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Altoona. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com.

Group class included. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Altoona. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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plored by the new planetarium show “CapCOM Go!,” a documentary showcasing highlights of the Apollo program and the engineering and design that made space travel possible. Show times are weekends at 3 p.m., and 1:30 p.m. weekdays, July 5 through August 30. $5 to $7.

Also on view is “Crocs,” a look at New Jersey’s prehistoric past when crocodiles ruled. Built on NJSM’s vast research, the exhibition highlights fossils found in New Jersey from its historic collection, taxidermy, and, just to put things in perspective, a sixfoot model of a New Jersey crocodile’s skull. It’s on view through September 8.

New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street. Tuesdays through Sundays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free; donations requested.

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he Trenton City Museum is keeping Trenton in the galleries this summer with exhibitions of work by two prominent city-connected artists. That includes Trenton native and longtime Times of Trenton visual arts reporter Janet Purcell and the nationally known Trenton artist Mel Leipzig

(see story, page 4). Their work will be on view July 13 through September 8.

Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park. Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 609-9893632 or www.ellarslie.org.

At left, train art from ‘American Steel Forever’ at Artworks; and ‘Looking for Yesterday’ by Janet Purcell, part of an exhibit at Ellarslie opening July 13, above.

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bition features works inspired by both Trenton and Philadelphia and depicts “dreamy landscapes” and “moments of a critical, transitional period.” Both shows open with a reception on Saturday, August 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. and remain on view through August 31.

Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley.

Free. 609-394-9436 or www. rtworks Trenton is following up artworkstrenton.org.

Art All Night 2019 with its annual Art All Night Selects Exhibition on he BSB Gallery in the former view through July 19. CoordinaBroad Street Bank building on tors say the show features “standout East State Street is hosting two topiwork” form the community arts event.

Works are selected by Artworks staff cal exhibitions. The first is the “The and board members as well as Art All Kitab Series — Jewels of Arabic Calligraphy.” The work features New Jersey Night coordinators and sponsors.

Then look for “American Steel For- artist Mariam Rajput’s artwork reflectever: Train Art in America,” curated by ing her Pakistani heritage and interest Trenton artist Leon Rainbow. Touted in Islamic art — especially calligraphy, as “a celebration of American train art geometric forms, and patterns. It’s on and culture,” the exhibition connects view from July 5 through August 5, early 20th century Hobo culture to with a reception the afternoon of Sat’70s-era graffiti to the present day and urday, July 6.

“Warrior Women” follows and uses features original art work, customized railroad signs, model railroad instal- large-scale installations to draw attenlations with tagged cars, and more. tion to the reality of breast cancer. It’s Also on view is “Golden Void — Zo on view from August 8 through 31, Perron,” created by the self-described with a reception Saturday, August 10. non-binary illustrator who attended BSB Galler y, 143 East State Street.

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Celebration he Jersey Fresh Jam, New Jersey’s premiere Hip Hop festival, returns to TerraCycle in Trenton on Saturday, August 17, from noon to 6 p.m.

From humble beginnings — a wall, paint, some beer, and a boom box — the annual August event was born in 2005 and now attracts scores of street artists, musicians, vendors, and art lovers with a taste for the fresh. A partnership formed by Trenton street artist Leon Rainbow and graffiti-loving TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky, the Jam attracts regional, East Coast, and even national and international graffiti artists and musicians. The name of the event was inspired by the state’s Jersey Fresh produce campaign and a desire to make it an accessible and family-friendly event. It’s a real-deal Trenton event.

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