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emotional eating. We offer a safe space to connect with others who are going through similar experiences.

Healthy eating starts early! Empower kids with culinary skills and nutrition knowledge to become their healthiest selves! For children 5 years and older.

All children must be accompanied by an adult. Taryn Krietzman, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Fee: $5 per person

DINNER WITH A DOCTOR: DISPARITIES IN WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH

Thursday, Feb. 1; 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

SWEET SUCCESS SOCIETY: A DIABETES GROUP Monday, Feb. 5; 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 12; 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

A group for anyone with diabetes or caring for one of the 37 million Americans living with diabetes. Learn and discuss healthy ways to manage diabetes alongside peers and Taryn Krietzman, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

Tuesday, Feb. 6; 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

All things seasonal, all the time! Learn what wonderful fruits and vegetables are up to this time of year and how to make them shine! You can attend the in-person program at the center or watch from the comfort of your own home.

“RESILIENCE: THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS AND THE SCIENCE OF HOPE” FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION Tuesday, Feb. 6; 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

How do early childhood experiences affect one’s health decades later?

Join us for a screening and discussion of this documentary on the Adverse

shift in human understanding of the origins of physical, social, mental, and societal health and well-being.

This ongoing series acknowledges our shared experiences during the pandemic and begins to rebuild connection with an emphasis on what heals. Panelists Dara Whalen, NP; Tracey Post, LCSW

BOOK ART: DISCOVERING THE INTERNAL LIGHT Tuesday, Feb. 6; 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Make a beautiful piece of art from a recycled book. Explore how we contend with the seasonal darkness of winter, developing our own internal light using inspirational poems and meaningful discussion of darkness transitioning to light. Rochelle Stern, The Expressive Librarian. Fee: $15, materials included.

Monday, Feb. 12; 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Introducing our “Monthly Health Focus” open to all and dedicated to helping you prevent and identify illness early, know your treatment options, and live your best life with the knowledge to do so. RWJ Barnabas Health believes we are Better Together and this month join Connie Moceri, MSN, RN, A-GNP-C, Director of Disease Management and Stroke Coordinator, RWJUH Hamilton, this informational session about heart disease.

WHAT’S EATING YOU?

Monday, Feb. 12; 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Support group for people experiencing

Friday, Feb. 16; 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

When in doubt, dance it out! Find your rhythm and ease the everyday stresses of life with movement. All ages welcome, no experience required.

ASK THE DIETITIAN

Over 60 million women in the US are living with some form of heart disease. Women and their symptoms are often undertreated when compared to men. Marie Bernardo, MD, FACC, RWJUH Hamilton, member of Hamilton Cardiology Associates, will teach you the facts, so you can help take steps to protect your health and seek proper treatment if you need it. Dinner provided.

Monday, Feb. 19; 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

BRAIN HEALTH-LEARN PROVEN WAYS TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN YOUNG

This natural phase in a woman’s life brings about significant physical and mental changes along with health risks such as heart disease, urinary tract infections and osteoporosis.

We will discuss the role hormones play in our bodies as well as mindset and habit changes that need to be embraced for a smoother transition.

Kathleen McDermott, MSN, RN Certified Menopause Wellness Coach.

Wednesday, Feb. 14; 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

HEART MATTERS-PRIORITIZE With so much information out today on YOUR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH brain health what methods really work?

Wednesday, Feb. 7; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

DANCE IT OUT!

Join Dr. Lorraine Sgarlato, Au.D. RWJUH Hamilton Balance & Hearing Center, to learn more about how to keep your brain young and turn back the clock on your aging brain.

SACRED BREATHWORK

Thursday, Feb. 15; 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Join Kim Huston, Reiki Master and Certified Breathwork facilitator is passionate about sharing this modality with anyone looking for true healing.

Sacred Breathwork can help release negative patterns and fears that keep us stuck. Bring a yoga mat and blanket, Chairs will be available. Fee: $15

Do you have a question about diet and nutrition? Join a community Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for a 30-minute,1 on 1 Q&A session. Taryn Krietzman, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Must preregister to schedule an appointment time.

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Monday, Feb. 19; 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

PREDIABETES CONNECT GROUP Tuesday, Feb. 20; 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Diagnosed with prediabetes? This group is for you to connect with others affected. Share and explore ways to improve lifestyle changes.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS

Wednesday, Feb. 21; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Meditation has been shown to quiet

your restless mind and help your entire body to relax. Come experience what all the buzz is about. Beginners welcome. Patti McDougall, BSN, Integrative Therapies Nurse.

HEART & SOUL: SLIDE INTO BETTER HEALTH Thursday, Feb. 22; 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Join us for group Line Dancing, Live DJ, Zumba, Refreshments, Health Screenings, Ask-A-Cardiologist, Heart Health Resources. $5 per person (collected at the door)

SAMBA: DANCE & DRUM FUSION Tuesday, Feb. 27; 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

SAMBA dance fuses upbeat drumming with dance and concludes with their signature smoothie SAMBUCHA, leaving participants refreshed and rejuvenated after a hard workout.

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DON’T LET SHOULDER PAIN SLOW YOU DOWN Thursday, Feb. 29; 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Shoulder pain can affect up to 70% of people. Let Michael Duch, MD, RWJUH Hamilton, The Orthopedic & Spine Institute, guide you through the diagnosis and treatment of the different types of shoulder ailments.

Dinner included. *All programs require registration and are held at the RWJ Fitness & Wellness Center, 3100 Quakerbridge Rd., Hamilton, NJ, unless otherwise noted.

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MEDITATION CLASSES Tuesday; Feb. 6 & 20; 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

NEW - CHAIR YOGA Tuesday, Feb. 6 & 20; 12:00 p.m. -12:45 p.m.

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*Registration and free Membership required to attend the Better Health Programs

Krystal Loughlin, certified RYT, is introducing Chair Yoga to our Better Health Program. Using a chair for seated poses and also for balancing poses, this class is perfect for those who haven’t moved their bodies for a while, recovering from an injury or have mobility/balancing difficulties.

A great place to start practicing yoga to help boost your flexibility, find inner peace, unwind and stretch. Many options are given to customize the practice for YOU!

A SENIOR SOCIAL GROUP

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 14, 21, & 28; 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Join our ongoing program and gather in a collaborative setting to exchange thoughts, feelings and experiences amongst peers. This is a safe-zone designed to be welcoming and understanding of all attendees while exploring this season of our lives.

Please feel free to attend one or all.

YOUR HEART, BUILDING THIS MUSCLE ONE PUMP AT A TIME Tuesday, Feb. 13, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

The heart is the most incredible muscle in the body, beating about 100,000 times to send 3,600 gallons of blood through 75,000 miles of blood vessels each day. Anthony Notaroberto, Personal Training Manager, RWJ Fitness & Wellness, will discuss how to improve cardio vascular function by building this important muscle.

D.A.S.H. TOWARD BETTER HEALTH Wednesday, Feb. 21; 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Delicious foods can also be nutritious!

Join us this American Heart Month as we discuss Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (the D.A.S.H. diet) and learn how better food choices can encourage heart health. Enjoy a live cooking demo of a D.A.S.H. friendly dish by Taryn Krietzman, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.

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Thursday, Feb.29; 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

If you have never attended a Better Health – program, this museum, sculpture garden and arboretum, is a perfect opportunity. When faced with finding tough solutions, we are often told to “think outside the box.” What if all you have to work with is what’s inside the box? Sharp thinking and breakthrough ideas are honed in this studio workshop. Teams collaborate on a themed sculpture using limited time, materials, and resources in a way that empowers innovation.

Location: Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ 08619

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Princeton artist Abigail Ella Johnson embraces nature from all angles

By Michele Alperin

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n the “Nature’s Duet—A Fine Art Exhibit” at Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton, artists Laura Beard and Abigail Ella Johnson offer artwork that expresses their own deep connections to the natural world, from different but complementary vantage points. Both share a desire to draw viewers of their art into stronger connections with the natural world.

On her website, laurabeardart.com, Beard captures her connection to the natural world, in particular animals and their habitats: “There is nothing that inspires me more than the natural world and the rich complexities of the lives that inhabit it. I strive, with every piece, to convey the uniqueness of the subject and the unflinching beauty of our temporary existence.”

Johnson also describes her “profound appreciation for and interest in the natural world” on her website, artbyaella.com.

“I’m driven by a deep desire to understand humanity’s ever-evolving place in nature, and how it shapes our experiences. As a result, I explore various contexts, investigating natural phenomena from personal,

historical, scientific, social, and cultural perspectives.”

Beard and Johnson met for the first time at the Ellarslie Open 40 in summer 2023, where they both received awards: Johnson’s “Colony/Collapse” won the Digital Art Award, sponsored by Hunter Research, and Beard’s “Stick in the Mud” won the Watercolor Award in Memory of Robert Sakson. An artist friend of both, Margaret Simpson, invited them to be part of Nature’s Duet.

“It was quite a delightful surprise to see that her art and my art worked together so well,” Beard says. “Her abstracts are really amazing, the colors and textures, and in my opinion capture the essence of the natural world in a way that I have never felt comfortable being able to do.”

A free reception with the artists takes place Sunday, February 4, from 2 to 4 p.m.

The show runs through February 28.

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or Princeton artist Abigail Ella Johnson, a drive to seek multiple perspectives has nourished both her art and who she is as an inquiring human being.

In college, her interests varied widely over science and literature, and only toward the end of college did she realize

that “completely by accident I had done the entire English major.” Her job as acquisitions editor in the physical sciences at Princeton University Press also draws on a breadth of interests. “Going into scholarly publishing felt like a way to stay engaged in science and the books that I love,” she says.

In her editorial work, Johnson speaks to authors and to scholars teaching interesting courses about books needed in their fields. The main contact for her authors, she also organizes peer reviews and does a bit of developmental editing, especially for the popular science books that in turn feed her art.

Her exposure to so many perspectives from the scientists she works with and the books and articles she reads has made her think a lot about how a person’s approach to a concept reflects the perspective and training they bring to it. In her art she tries to bring together this rainbow of viewpoints.

“If a physicist, botanist, and artist are looking at the same tree, they are going to interact with the tree in a different way,” Johnson says. “The physicist might see it and think about the physics of photosynthesis and light. A botanist might notice a

Princeton artist Abigail Ella Johnson is one half of the ‘Nature’s Duet’ exhibit on view through February 28 at the Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton.

certain type of lichen or moss growing on the tree. An artist might think about what colors of paint would I mix to match color of this leaf or bark.”

“The more ways you can look at some-

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thing, the more you can understand it,” she says.

In this exhibit she is also using multimedia, by pairing one of her poems with each artwork. Through this double perspective, she explores “a natural phenomenon or a concept in nature [that] generally ties back to how we are connected with nature. I use art as a vehicle to explore different natural phenomena and to learn about them from all different angles.”

The works in this exhibit are all textured abstracts from Johnson’s Planetary series, which started while she was working on a couple of books on exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system. “In a period where astronomers realize there are so many different planets, with different ecosystems, I started thinking about our own planet: there are so many interesting phenomena that happen on the Planet Earth.”

One painting, titled “Forest,” is about the mycorrhizal networks that connect trees in a forest ecosystem via a symbiotic relationship between fungi and trees. Trees will emit warning signals to each other and will share nutrients. “All this is happening silently underfoot,” Johnson says.

The colors in this painting, yellow and green, are meant to evoke sunlight and foliage. The painting’s “spider webby-looking structures,” some prominent and some requiring a close-up view, she says, “are gesturing toward those structures that connect the trees.”

As with Beard, Johnson would like visitors to respond to the piece and possibly take action: “I hope that someone viewing the piece might go home and read an article about the networks.”

The painting titled “When Spring Comes” is a little less scientific. Johnson explains, “It is about that turn-of-the-seasons feeling, when the woods start to wake up and you see buds of green.” The poem that is paired with the painting ruminates on how people become frail as they age, whereas “the opposite thing happens with the forest.” An area without any unnatural disturbance, she says, moves from meadow to young forest to old growth forest.

“Each year there is renewal, new growth.”

Johnson grew up in Virginia. Her dad, Phil Johnson, a mechanical engineer, “is a scientist at heart,” with a particular interest in physics. Her mom, Sarabeth Johnson, stayed at home with the kids and also taught yoga. Abigail graduated from the University of Virginia in 2019.

Her interest in science and nature reaches back to her childhood, both via hikes with her father and a summer camp in the middle of the George Washington National Forest that offered science courses in areas like botany and dendrology (the study of trees). “I fell in love with the

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As a very young child Johnson remembers mashing up berries to dye fabrics and making pots out of clay she dug from her backyard. But she did not start painting until the pandemic. “Then it spiraled out of control,” she says. “It has become a huge part of my life. Anytime I’m not working or walking my dog, I’m thinking about or actually doing art.”

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“I feel very lucky to have a career that feeds into my practice; it feels very synergistic.”

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Trenton Arts at Princeton celebrates five years sary approaches, TAP will celebrate with an arts education panel this month and a showcase in April honoring the relationship between the two Mercer County creative communities.

The TYO, which Chen still directs, is one of four groups included in TAP’s Saturday Morning Arts Program, or SMArts, which rehearses each week from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lewis Arts Complex: the Trenton Youth Orchestra, Singers, Dancers, and Theater.

In addition to being able to devote these three-hour sessions to the discipline of their choice, Trenton students are guaranteed free transportation to and from rehearsals, as well as breakfast and lunch.

Each Saturday session opens with a performance by a Princeton student group and a Q&A session before SMArts participants break into their respective groups.

“Every Saturday, we bus 70 Trenton Public School students to the Lewis Arts Complex to engage in theater, dance, orchestra, or choral programming, supported by a team of about 60 Princeton student volunteers,” as well as staff and faculty members, Chen explained.

The active collaboration between the two locales has been “gratifying,” Chen, who was awarded the 2023 Tiger Entrepreneur Award for his efforts, shared in an

By Rebekah Schroeder

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ith Trenton Arts at Princeton, founder Lou Chen has tapped into a rhythm that unites Trenton and Princeton in harmony.

When he launched the Trenton Youth Orchestra in partnership with Trenton Central High School while still a student at Princeton University in spring 2017, cultivating a small group of Trenton violinists and Princeton volunteers who would set the stage for a new alliance, Chen sounded the first beat in a now-five-year symphony of artistic synergy.

Chen is the program manager of Trenton Arts at Princeton, or TAP, a collaboration between Princeton University’s Department of Music, Lewis Center for the Arts, and Pace Center for Civic Engagement that brings Trenton and Princeton University students together for artsbased programming and performances.

After Chen graduated in 2019 with his bachelor’s degree in music, former University Provost Deborah Prentice hired him to officially continue the program he had begun as a sophomore into what became known as TAP — making the Trenton Youth Orchestra, or TYO, the overture to TAP’s now-expansive artistic initiative.

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TYO is open to students at both Trenton Central High School, or TCHS, and Trenton Ninth Grade Academy, or TNGA. Trenton musicians can practice and even work one-on-one with their Princeton student coaches to rehearse pieces in a myriad of genres and compositional styles in the Lee Rehearsal Room.

TYO previously performed for Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel as part of his welcome to campus in December 2019, when he arrived as Princeton University Concerts’ inaugural Artist-in-Residence in recognition of its 125th anniversary.

TYO then worked with PUC on a new outreach program, the “Neighborhood Music Project,” which was “conceived to reinforce Maestro Dudamel’s commitment to music as a force for uniting communities, empowering young people, and promoting positive social change” by supporting six different initiatives to expand access to the arts and music in Trenton.

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Lou Chen is the founder of Trenton Arts at Princeton, which celebrates its fifth anniversary with a February arts education panel and an April performance, both on the Princeton campus.

in a mixture of full choir and small group singing with their Princeton student coaches, learning an eclectic mix of repertoire while building their musicianship skills, vocal strength, and confidence,” with free private lessons available and SMArts rehearsals held in the Lewis Arts Complex Forum. Both TYO and TYS hold annual recitals and showcases.

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The Valentine’s Day-themed course, “Preparing the Perfect Meal for Your Loved One,” will feature a surf and turf menu on February 7, while the first of the “French Cooking Series” starts on actual Valentine’s Day, February 14, when Odum prepares a classic duck à l’orange.

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Cupid’s Candle Crafting Workshop, Skil-Lit Cafe Skil-Lit Cafe, South Warren Street, Trenton Skil-Lit Cafe, a trendy brunch spot in historic downtown Trenton, has been serving up family recipes on hot skillets since it opened in February 2022.

Learn how to make a personalized candle at the restaurant’s “Cupid’s Candle Crafting Workshop” on Saturday, February 10, from 6 to 9 p.m. with food and drinks—necessary fuel for a day of forging fiery creations—available for purchase.

“This hands-on experience,” Skil-Lit promises, “will guide you through the process of selecting scents, colors, and molds to design unique candles that will light up your special day.”

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Rat’s Restaurant’s executive chef, Jules Odum, right, teaches cooking classes every Wednesday through March, including a February 7 course on “Preparing the Perfect Meal for Your Loved One” and another on February 14 that kicks off his “French Cooking Series” with duck à l’orange. Photos courtesy of the Constellation Culinary Group and Cashman & Associates.

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There’s something for everyone this Valentine’s Day, from old-fashioned card crafting and horse-drawn carriage rides at the Howell Living History Farm, left, to a romantic candle-making workshop at the Skil-Lit Cafe in Trenton, middle, or a wine flight and chocolates at Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery, right. Terhune is one of several regional businesses participating in the Garden State Wine Growers Association’s Wine and Chocolate Trail Weekends this month. Photos, from left to right, courtesy of the Howell Living History Farm, alleksana via Pexels, and Terhune Orchards.

New Jersey Wine and Chocolate Trail Weekends The Garden State Wine Growers Association, a New Jersey-based coalition of over sixty wineries and vineyards, kicks off its two consecutive “Wine and Chocolate Trail Weekends” from February 9 to 11 and February 16 to 18 as a curated celebration for the tastebuds.

Participating wineries across the region include Working Dog Winer y in Hightstown, Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winer y in Princeton, Laurita Winer y in New Egypt, and Angelico Winer y in Lambertville.

For more information, see the official Garden State Wine Growers Association website at newjerseywines.com/events/ category/trails/wine-and-chocolate-trail.

“Wine Tasting,” Working Dog Winer y, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, Hightstown. February 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 18 during regular business hours. (609) 3716000 or workingdogwinerynj.com.

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The $18 per person fee includes a Working Dog wine glass, a choice of five wines from the tasting menu, and a bottle of water.

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A special pairing includes a wine flight with selections from Terhune’s 18 total varieties, “single-origin artisan chocolates” from Pierre’s Chocolates in New Hope, and a souvenir Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery glass. Other chocolate baked goods will be available from Terhune’s onsite bakery. Outside fire pit, “cozy wine barn,” and live music from 1 to 4 p.m.

“Wine and Chocolate Weekend,” Laurita Winer y, 85 Archertown Road, New Egypt. February 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, and 18, noon to 5 p.m. (609) 752-0200 or lauritawinery.com. Free admission. Tastings, chocolate vendors, and live music.

“Wine and Bundt Cake Flight Night,” February 8, 7 to 9 p.m. The $35 per person fee includes a flight of four wines, either dry or sweet, paired with four “bundtini” handcrafted cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes in Princeton in chocolate chocolate chip, white chocolate raspberry, red velvet, and lemon. Register online.

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“Nature’s Duet,” Tulpehaking Nature Center Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton

Pictured are Beard’s “Serenity” (2023), upper left, and “Fragile Balance 1” (2019), lower right, as well as Johnson’s “Rain” (2023), upper right, and “Forest” (2023), lower left, all courtesy of the artists.

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Ewing artist Laura Beard and Princeton’s Abigail Johnson are showing their work in the Friends for the Abbott Marshlands’ first exhibition of 2024 at the Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton, “Nature’s Duet,” on view through February 28, with an opening reception on Sunday, February 4, from 2 to 4 p.m.

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An opening reception will take place on Sunday, February 4, from 2 to 4 p.m.

According to the Abbott Marshlands website, the exhibit focuses on “the color harmony of both abstract and realism, applied to the inspiration of the natural world. Johnson’s collection, from her ‘Planetary’ series, is a meditation on the natural world and its many complex ecologies.

Beard’s collection is an invitation to consider the animals, both large and small, that share our planet.”

Beard’s piece “Serenity” (2023) is acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, while “Fragile Balance 1” (2019) depicts a male Halloween pennant dragonfly with watercolors and gouache on watercolor paper. Johnson’s “Rain” and “Forest” (2023) are both mixed media on canvas.

Each of Johnson’s mixed-media abstract pieces is paired with an original poem about the natural world that inspired it, a true testament to her multi-medium approach that, according to her website, artbyaella.com, is “driven by [her] deep desire to understand humanity’s ever-evolving place in nature and how it shapes our experiences.”

Her work has been previously shown at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, the West Windsor Arts Council, the Arts Council of Princeton, Artworks Trenton, and more.

Beard is a portrait artist specializing in photorealistic paintings of animals and nature. Beard, who has exhibited before at both the Arts Council of Princeton and Artworks Trenton, is also a member of the New Jersey Watercolor Society and the Garden State Watercolor Society. For more, see her website at laurabeardart. com.

Last year, both exhibiting artists—Johnson for digital art and Beard for watercolor—won awards in the Ellarslie Open 40.

All pieces on display are available for purchase at the closure of the exhibit, with a portion of the profits benefiting the Tulpehaking Nature Center and the FFAM. Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. On view through February 28. Open Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free.

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“Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree,” Art@Bainbridge Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton “Reciting Women,” an exhibit featuring Alia Bensliman and Khalilah Sabree, opened at Princeton University’s Art@ Bainbridge gallery in late January and remains on view through March 31.

A reception is set for Saturday, February 3 at 2 p.m., followed by a conversation with the artists on Thursday, February 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the Friend Center on Princeton campus.

As stated in the online museum materials, the two artists “deliberately disrupt conventional divides between tradition and modernity and the sacred and the secular.

As Muslim-American artists and educators deeply rooted in the Trenton community, their imagery grapples with human rights struggles and the challenges of cultural belonging.”

“Bensliman’s images of Amazigh women focus on the Indigenous population of North Africa in richly patterned watercol-

Alia Bensliman and Khalilah Sabree share the “Reciting Women” exhibit at Princeton University’s Art@Bainbridge, on view through March 31 and with an opening reception on Saturday, February 3, at 2 p.m. and a subsequent conversation with the artists on Thursday, February 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the on-campus Friend Center at the intersection of William and Olden streets.

Bensliman’s “Me, Myself, and I: Unfinished Conversation” (2023), left, and Sabree’s “Broken Promise” (2016–2017), right. Images courtesy of the artists.

ors informed by local artistic motifs, with her own triple portrait as an introspective counterpoint. Sabree’s painting suite turns a photograph taken during Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, into a medi-

tation on loss and the devastations of war.

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that resonate with their own unfolding identities.”

Bensliman’s “Me, Myself, and I: Unfinished Conversation” (2023) is a combination of watercolor, ink markers, charcoal, and colored pencil on archival paper.

Sabree’s “Broken Promise” (2016–2017) is a graphite, oil paint stick, acrylic, acrylic printing ink, paper, oil paint, and photography piece on masonite from her ‘Destruction of a Culture’ series.

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Photos courtesy of Artworks Trenton and the Westminster Choir College.

From FEBRUARY, Page 6 According to Bensliman’s website, aliabenslimanart.com, the Robbinsville-based artist grew up in Tunisia, North Africa, which she called a place “at a crossroad of eastern and ancient art and cultures on one hand and western more contemporary art on the other. As a result, her work merges “east and west with a penchant for North African and Berber art.”

On Sabree’s website, khalilahsabree.com, she describes her work as “about spiritual transformation and world issues,” yet “with a contemporary Islamic flavor,” drawing from her experiences as a Black Muslim woman.

Both are arts educators, too, with Bensliman currently teaching at Artworks Trenton and the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, while Sabree is a former Lawrence Township teacher who also has a private studio at Artworks Trenton.

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“Freda Williams: A Retrospective,” Artworks Trenton Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton Mabel “Freda” Williams, a self-taught visual artist and longtime resident of Ewing Township for more than 70 years, is the subject of Artworks Trenton’s exhibition “Freda Williams: A Retrospective” in its main and community galleries through Saturday, March 16.

-There will also be an opening reception on Friday, February 2, from 6 to 8 p.m.

A graduate of what is now Rider University, Williams’ lifelong passion for painting grew into a professional career after she retired from two decades as a steel industry manager and 27 years as an affirmative action manager for the New Jersey Department of Education.

“Most people enjoy seeing things that are familiar to them and give them

a sense of community and fond memories of a time gone by,” Williams said in a quote from the exhibit page on the Artworks website, artworkstrenton.org/events/ freda-williams-a-retrospective.

Her work, the materials continue, “depicts scenes of historical events, African American roots, beautiful landscapes, and vivid, abstract images that reflect both past and current periods and settings.”

Other themes and motifs, according to the Artworks page, include “florals, political, African American history, Trenton historical sites, southern themes, landscapes, and cityscapes,” including her “To the Left” series.

The majority of William’s collection is acrylic, but her favorite medium is oil, and she has experimented with both watercolor and mixed media.

Williams’ winning painting in the 2021 Mercer County Senior Art Show, “Original People,” was awarded third place in the state competition, the New Jersey Senior Citizen Art Show.

She formerly served on the Ewing Township Arts Commission, an appointed municipal body and nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the local creative community.

Williams has also exhibited at the Lawrenceville and Ewing Public Libraries, West Windsor Arts, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, and more.

For more on Williams, see her website at fredasartgallery.com.

Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton. On view through March 16, Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Case, above, performs at McCarter Theatre Center’s Matthews Theater on Thursday, February 8, at 7:30 p.m., while the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, below, takes the same stage on Sunday, February 11, at 1 p.m. Photos courtesy of McCarter Theatre.

McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place, Princeton Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center presents a variety of programming this month, including the following performances: “The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine,” Matthews Theater. Sunday, February 11, at 1 p.m. Tickets range from $60 to $90. Conductor Volodymyr Sirenko and soloist Volodymyr Vynnytsky on piano.

The program includes “Berezovsky, The 1st Ukrainian Symphony,” in C major; “SaintSaens, Piano Concerto No. 2”; an intermission; and “Dvorak, Symphony No. 8.”

Keep the music going with a post-concert conversation onstage, “Artists in Wartime,” featuring NSOU managing director Alexander Hornostai and Princeton University visiting research scholar of history Iuliia Skubytska.

“Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic,” Matthews Theater. Thursday, February 8, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $65.

Tap dancer, choregrapher, and dance educator Ayodele Casel developed “Chasing Magic” during the pandemic as “a celebratory display of artistic encounters and how, after a lost year, they remain right where you left them,” according to the McCarter Theater page for the event.

Directed by Tor ya Beard, the show features special guest performances by seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, pianist Anibal César Cruz, vocalist Cr ystal Monee Hall, percussionist Keisel Jimenez, and tap artists Jared Alexander, Amanda Castro, Naomi Funaki, Quynn Johnson, Sean

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Vocalist Falu, guitarist-vocalist Clay Ross, drummer Clarence Penn, and jazz bassist Yasushi Nakamura make up the American Patchwork Quartet, a group of American activists and artists described as “reclaiming the immigrant soul of American roots music.”

According to the McCarter Theatre website, the four members come “from different cultural backgrounds” with the shared goal of “striving to counter pervasive prejudices around the issues of race and immigration, performing a repertoire of centuries-old American folk songs made new with creative arrangements, drawing connections between the nation’s contemporary culture and its immigrant roots.”

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15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick New Brunswick’s State Theatre New Jersey presents a variety of programming this month, including the following performances: “Annie,” Friday, February 2 and Saturday, February 3 at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 3 at 2 p.m., and Sunday, February 4 at 1 p.m. Tickets range from $40 to $105.

Directed by Jenn Thompson. Part of STNJ’s “Broadway Series.”

“The Cher Show: The Musical,” Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10 at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 10 at 2 p.m., and Sunday, February 11 at 1 p.m. Tickets range from $55 to $105. Part of STNJ’s “Broadway Series.”

“Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra,” Saturday, February 17 at 3 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $55. Principal conductor Derek Gleeson and Ivaylo Vassilev on piano. The program includes Beethoven’s “Coriolanus Overture,” “Piano Concerto No. 5,” and “Symphony No. 7.”

“Vivaldi’s the Four Seasons,” New Jersey Symphony. Sunday, February 25 at 3 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $169. NJS conductor Xian Zhang, Robert Ingliss on oboe, and Eric Wyrick on violin.

State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick. (732) 246-7469 or www.stnj.org. *** And just like that, Cupid takes his bow.

For more local stories, see the Community News Service website, communitynews.org.

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Trenton Youth Dancers, or TYD, is a dance program for TCHS and TNGA that aims “to educate Trenton students in a wide variety of dance styles so that they are equipped to develop their own choreography” through workshops and rehearsals at the Roberts Dance Studio.

Trenton Youth Theater, or TYT, is the final SMArts group, providing students from TCHS and TNGA with an educational experience that encompasses theater arts skills such as directing, acting, lighting design, and more, “inspired by Princeton’s holistic approach to theater.”

Over the course of the program, members will eventually produce their own original theater works with support from their Princeton student coaches. Weekly rehearsals are held at the Godfrey-Kerr Theater Studio and Light Lab. Another facet of TAP is the Trenton Arts Fellowship, which allows five Princeton students interested in arts education to participate in paid leadership roles, at least one for each SMArts group, for Saturday rehearsals. They also meet throughout the week to coordinate and invite guest speakers. Applications for the 2024–’25 Trenton Arts Fellowship will open in the summer of 2024.

But in a two-pronged approach to the anniversary, Chen has designated equal opportunities for both the communitycentered dialogue and performance that make TAP unique.

He will moderate TAP’s upcoming “Performance, Policy, and Pedagogy: A Conversation About Arts Education” event, which invites four “thought leaders” to discuss the state of arts education on Tuesday, February 13, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Fine Hall’s Taplin Auditorium.

These speakers include Anne Fitzgibbon, the founder and executive director of the Harmony Program nonprofit organization; Baffour Osei, the manager of Princeton University’s new robotics lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Engineering Quadrangle; Anna Yu Wang, a music theorist, ethnographer, and assistant professor of music who joined the Princeton faculty in November of last year; and Elizabeth Zwierzynski, the acting supervisor of visual and performing arts and partnerships for Trenton Public Schools.

True to the collaborative spirit of arts education, 18 campus partners came together to sponsor the event, including the Keller Center, McCarter Theatre, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Innovation, Princeton University Concerts, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and more.

The event is free to attend, with no ticket or prior registration required for entry.

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The Trenton Youth Orchestra performs at the SMArts winter 2023 showcase.

Photo by Frank Wojciechowski.

eton.edu/events.

“I think it does feel like a very appropriate way to celebrate our fifth anniversary. One, because TAP has always embraced a very interdisciplinary approach to the arts. Every year, we host an Arts Switcheroo Day for our students, where the theater students try out dance, the dance students try out singing,” and so on, Chen explained. “Oftentimes, conversations about the arts are siloed into ‘we’re going to do a conversation with dancers,’ and then ‘a conversation with musicians,’ but [we thought] to bring them together, inspired by Princeton’s very uniquely interdisciplinary approach to the arts.”

Fitzgibbon, the self-described “social entrepreneur” behind the Harmony Program, is a Princeton graduate and experienced nonprofit leader who first met Chen about five years ago on a music education panel with Dudamel.

Fitzgibbon started the Harmony Program in 2003 as a policy administrator for the New York City Mayor’s Office and incorporated the nonprofit the following year. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 to study the same “El Sistema” youth orchestra system that Dudamel did, and Fitzgibbon brought those principles back to New York City.

According to its website, the Harmony Program provides young people in underserved communities “with free, intensive musical training with the goal of supporting their healthy social development and academic achievement” that prioritizes both “community-based instruction and the social value of ensemble learning.”

Zwierzynski was the founding dance educator at the TCHS Visual and Performing Arts Academy, or TCHS-VPA, one of five small learning communities that make up the TCHS campus. She laid the foundation for the school’s dance cur-

riculum before taking on a new role overseeing the visual and performing arts programming of the entire school district.

Trenton teacher partners like Zwierzynski, who was also instrumental in helping Chen start TYD, work together with TAP on programming and engaging students.

“She’s a brilliant, brilliant thinker and a dear friend, so I thought [about] bringing someone from Trenton into the fold alongside Anna Yu Wang, who’s a scholar of music who just joined the faculty [and] specializes in making music pedagogy more accessible, or Baffour Osei, who brings the STEAM perspective of someone who develops makerspaces around the world that encourage students to create visual art out of 3D printers. It’s a very diverse group of people that I think will have a really interesting conversation,” Chen said. “Each of them brings such a unique perspective.”

He noted that this lineup of speakers consciously embraces the diverse disciplinary strengths of its speakers from across the realm of arts education: incorporating public schooling and dance from Zwierzynski; music, public policy, and the nonprofit sector from Fitzgibbon; scholarly music analysis and pedagogy from Wang; and science and engineering from Osei.

“I have a couple of hopes for the audience. The first is to realize how general principles of pedagogy transfer to everything. The way you teach visual arts is also the way you would teach dance and music, but also the way you would teach science,” Chen explained.

“We’re going to be speaking about general themes about how to create a culture or an environment of creative vulnerability. I think that has a lot of relevance to any discipline, especially when engaging a lot of first-generation low-income students,”

he continued. “When you want to create an environment that is tailor-made to their needs and wants, it requires a lot of intentionality, and those are questions that I think all four of the panelists have been thinking a lot about.”

He is also looking forward to hearing how Zwierzynski and Fitzgibbon acknowledge the significance of policy in the conversation, adding that many Princeton students may not quite realize or “understand how nitty-gritty arts education policy can get at the district level.”

Chen emphasized the importance of knowing that major decisions are regularly made in school board meetings and by people elected to positions of power, reinforcing the value of both attention and attendance as a way to advocate for funding the arts.

“I think politics becomes so nationalized in general that we don’t realize how essential local government is,” he said.

“Who you vote for school board will dictate how good your child’s orchestra program is going to be, so having an understanding about localized centers of power and what it actually takes to get a program off the ground within a public school system — or in [Fitzgibbon’s] case, outside of it, but directly in collaboration with it — I think will be a useful lesson for Princeton students who often maybe don’t understand what it takes to get an idea off the ground.”

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n a transition from pedagogy to performance, TAP’s “Saturday Morning Arts Fifth Anniversary Showcase” takes the program to its largest venue yet with a concert in Richardson Auditorium’s Alexander Hall on Saturday, April 6, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

“To be in Richardson Auditorium is an incredible honor. That’s an auditorium that houses professional orchestras and concert series, so to be able to use it is, I think, going to be a real culmination of effort for our students,” Chen said. “The showcase is going to be special in the abstract because it really is a beautiful culmination of the program, which has grown very quickly in a very short amount of time.”

The event consists of two premieres, the first being a TAP-produced documentary film about SMArts with perspectives from the people who made it happen, including Zwierzynski, while the second is a collaborative performance involving — for the first time — all four SMArts groups.

Over an exclusively arranged medley of songs by artists like Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire, the orchestra will make history as they play their instruments, the choir sings, the dancers execute choreography, and the theater group delivers monologues over music.

Chen said that the SMArts groups are eager to show the public what the program has been working on so they can en-

courage people to “be invested in the next five years.”

“It’s a very ambitious collaboration. I don’t think Richardson has ever had anything quite like it — a showcase featuring four distinct art forms and then coming together at the end — so logistically, it’s going to be interesting, but I think we keep talking about interdisciplinary connection, unlikely connection. I think having that collaboration at the end of the showcase brings that all together.”

The event is free, but tickets are required. For reservations or more information, see the TAP website page for the event at trentonarts.princeton.edu/events/ saturday-morning-arts-fifth-anniversaryshowcase.

Chen said a common misconception about TAP is that Trenton students come to Princeton because they lack opportunities for creative expression in their own city. But that assumption alienates a wealth of local facilitators and advocates, from those in the public school system to creative collectives like Artworks Trenton and institutions like the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, who have supported and grown Trenton’s arts scene.

“My pet peeve is when I present about TAP to some audience, and afterward, they come up to me, and they go, ‘What you’re doing is so important, because there [is] no arts programming in Trenton,’ and my response to that is always, ‘What are you talking about?’” Chen said, describing the public schools’ offerings as both “incredibly vibrant” and “robust.”

Last June, as Chen explained in a follow-up correspondence, “the TCHS Orchestra received Distinguished/Advanced ratings across the board at the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival.”

According to Chen, TCHS dance program alumni are working in the industry as professional dancers and producers, while others are on staff at Princeton University. The TCHS theater program will present their second musical of the academic year, “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” based on the bestselling fantasy book series by Rick Riordan, this spring.

Other initiatives made possible through direct coordination with TCHS include the “Side-by-Side Concerts,” a joint effort between TAP, Princeton’s Department of Music, and Rockefeller College. Every year, Princeton students, staff, and faculty are invited to perform together with the TCHS Orchestra in the Rockefeller College Common Room.

“Tigers in Trenton!” is a collaboration with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students where Princeton student groups perform for about 300 students from the TCHS-VPA, host a dance competition, and end with “an informal talkback.”

There is also the “Express the Music”

contest, which takes its inspiration from the PUC’s “Creative Reactions” competition and asks Trenton students to reflect on a PUC concert experience through writings and illustrations.

“We’re supporting the programming, but we’re not filling this massive gap in the system,” Chen remarked.

By offering her views as a representative of the public schools and “the highest-level person responsible for the arts,” Chen said Zwierzynski will be able to “talk about what’s already happening in Trenton, outside of Princeton,” to provide more context during the panel.

“I don’t want TAP to be people’s only entry point into Trenton; I want them to understand Trenton as its own thriving cultural hub, and I think her voice is going to help with that,” he said. “I often think about, in my work, how Princeton doesn’t understand Trenton, or at least when they do try to understand Trenton, it’s [from] a very theoretical perspective. It’s not like, ‘I know people who live there; I’m embedded.’ The ‘embeddedness’ is so crucial to our work.”

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hen established his own relationships in Trenton by attending local rehearsals, performances, and other events, stating that this immersive experience connected him with others who shared his passion for arts education.

“I think changing how Princeton perceives Trenton is about taking that sense of ‘embeddedness’ I developed and trying to give Princeton students an entry point into that. I know most of them will never become as embedded as I’ve become, but there are ways to ladder that learning for people, depending on their level of commitment,” he explained.

However, Chen mentioned that a friend recently reminded him that TAP’s work has begun to affect how Trenton residents perceive Princeton, too.

“Because I think people in Trenton see Princeton as, understandably, a bit of a behemoth that tramples around and doesn’t really care about what’s happening in the community,” he explained, the prestigious college town has gained a reputation as “exclusive” or “remote.”

But when the Trenton students are essentially given free rein of the Lewis Arts Complex to work for three hours alongside Princeton student volunteers not much older than themselves, “that’s really helped them reconceptualize Princeton as a welcoming space that is meant for them.”

“I have Trenton students who’ve been working with their Princeton private teacher for more than four years. That’s a really special relationship, so I think having the Princeton students be the face of this collaboration is crucial to breaking down those perceptions of Princeton as this elite, cold place,” Chen added.

Chen sees TAP’s future as one of

strengthening the program’s presence in public schools, “nurturing” and “building” those foundational relationships along the way.

“I’ve been telling my staff that the word for the next five years is going to be stabilization, not growth. I think we have grown so much, and it was so much faster than any of us anticipated, and I think we’re starting to reach a point where now it’s time to plant roots,” even if the “work of writing policy and setting precedent” might not be the most glamorous aspect, he said.

A constant theme throughout the planning process, though, is determining the best ways to reaffirm TAP’s organizational commitment to each of its students and to help them achieve their specific goals or expectations.

“I think a big word for us in TAP is individualization. How do we individualize every opportunity, whether it’s for a Princeton student who only has an hour to give per week versus a student who wants to give 10 hours?” he said, noting the same range in Trenton.

Chen observed that while this is just a hobby for some of the Trenton students, there are others who want to become professionals, highlighting that one of their participants, TYO violinist Ashanti Ross, was accepted to the Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship in 2021. (For more on Ross, see “Finding a Musical Voice with Trenton Youth Orchestra” by Cammie Lee in the October 12, 2022, edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper.)

The most challenging aspect of developing programming, according to Chen, is creating a system that is not only accessible, but also allows for this personalization.

“There’s a tension there. The more accessible you make it, the more people come in. But the more people who come in, there’s more paths that you have to support, so figuring out how to do that requires a lot of intentionality and a lot of strategic pedagogy, which is, again, why I brought the idea of this arts education panel in some ways for me, personally, to

pick their brain about this challenge,” he added.

Chen hopes that, moving forward, whether via direct collaboration or support, the city-township bond at the heart of TAP will only grow stronger.

“Something that I’ve been really grateful for is how TAP has, I think, done its own small part to change the nature of the relationship between Trenton and Princeton more generally,” he explained, as the program has “facilitated connections” that have since evolved on their own.

As an example, he explained that when TCHS put on their musical theater production of “The Wiz” last year, a Broadway retelling of the Wizard of Oz featuring an all-Black cast and choreography by Zwierzynski, the show — which had been canceled before its March 2020 premiere due to the pandemic — was their first in almost two decades.

Ahead of its historic debut, TCHS theater teacher Felicia Brown needed to raise money to help support the show, with all donors to be listed as sponsors of the production.

“I went to the show opening night, and they had a list of the names of people who donated. There were a bunch of Lewis Center for the Arts theater faculty who weren’t otherwise really engaged in TAP but knew about ‘The Wiz’ and about Felicia because of TAP,” he explained.

This was a pivotal moment for Chen, who realized that even when TCHS was hosting artistic endeavors “separate from Princeton,” those from Princeton still actively contributed.

“I think that’s a really beautiful example of how, at the end of the day, TAP is a facilitator of connection,” he added. “We bring people together, and we know that when we put people in a room together or we post something on social media about Trenton, that that’s something that people will remember, and then will want to develop their own connections themselves.

Ultimately, we build relationships, and then we let them flourish on their own.”

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CelloGayageum: Lunar New Year Celebration, McCarter Thursday February 8 Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org.

Meet Arm-in-Arm, Princeton Public Library, 65 Wither- Austrian cellist Sol Daniel Kim and Korean gayageum player DayFinding Peter Hill: The Life and Times of a New Jersey spoon Street. www.princetonlibrary.org. Representatives of Arm oung Yoon fuse instruments and styles to showcase the beauty Clockmaker, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street. in Arm connect with the community and share information about and richness of South Korean music. $25 to $45. 8 p.m. www.morven.org. Interim director and curator Beth Allan leads their work on food and housing insecurity and about volunteeran evening exploring the life and work of America’s earliest docuing. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. mented Black clockmaker. Hybrid event. Register. $15 in-person Saturday February 3 includes museum admission; $10 virtual. 6 p.m.

LLL Presents Coleen Murphy & Sam Wang, Princeton Open House | Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. www.princetonlibrary. Sabree, Princeton University Art Museum, Art@Bainbridge, LLL Presents Paul Halpern, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau org. Murphy, the author and Princeton University professor of 158 Nassau Street. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Join the artists Alia Street. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Presentation and discussion genomics and molecular biology, is joined by her colleague Sam Bensliman and Khalilah Sabree, with Juliana Ochs Dweck, chief cu- with the author of “Allure of the Multiverse,.” In collaboration with Wang to discuss her recent book, “How We Age: The Science of rator, to celebrate the opening of Reciting Women at Art@Bain- Princeton Public Library. 7 p.m.

Longevity.” 6 p.m. bridge. 2 p.m.

Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, McCarter Theater, 91 Uni-

Thursday February 1

Drawing from the Collections: Colored Pencils: Figure Foundation, Princeton University Art Museum & Arts Council of Princeton. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Taught by artistinstructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom and inspired by a Greek terracotta flying female figure. Register. Free. Weekly on Thursdays; new theme each week. 8 p.m.

Friday February 2

Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers Tour, Berlind Theater at McCarter, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org.

Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist mixes folk, bluegrass, and Americana influences in her new album, “Polaroid Lovers.” 3 and 8 p.m.

Sunday February 4

Westminster Conservatory Showcase, , Richardson AuditoS.T. Lee Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Democracy and rium, 609-258-9220. tickets.princeton.edu. Performances by the Citizenship in Contemporary China, Institute for Advanced Westminster Community Orchestra, Rider University Chorale, and Study, Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive. www.ias.edu. Panel dis- winners of the Westminster Concerto Competition. $15. 3 p.m. cussion. Register. Free. 5 p.m.

Italian Choral Music, Dorothea’s House, 120 John Street. www.dorotheashouse.org. Mostly Motets performs a concert including works from the pioneer in the development of opera, Claudio Monteverdi, and contemporary composer Fabio Fresi.

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Monday February 5 LLL Presents Ruha Benjamin and Lorgia García Peña, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. www.princetonlibrary.org. The celebrated author Ruha Benjamin is joined in conversation with Lorgia García Peña to discuss Benjamin’s new, revelatory work, “Imagination: A Manifesto,” in which she calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. 7 p.m.

Tuesday February 6

versity Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Tap dancer and choreographer performs. $25 to $65. 7:30 p.m.

Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org.

Icelandic virtuoso performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Pre-concert talk by professor emeritus Scott Burnham at 6:30 p.m. $35 to $60. 7:30 p.m.

Friday February 9 Community Dance Party: Valentine’s Edition, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. DJ provides danceable tunes for this celebration of community appropriate for all ages. Free card-making station included. Free. 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Tribute Concert: The Beatles and Ed Sullivan 60 Years Later, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. www. princetonlibrary.org. This 60th anniversary tribute to The Beatles’ first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” features the bands of The Einstein Alley Musicians Collaborative. 7 p.m.

American Patchwork Quartet, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Featuring Falu Shah (vocal), Clay Ross (vocal/guitar), Clarence Penn (drums) and Yasushi Nakamura (bass) performing a repertoire of centuriesold American folk songs made new with creative arrangements, drawing connections between the nation’s contemporary culture and its immigrant roots. $25 to $55. 8 p.m.

Saturday February 10

Author: Karen Bao in conversation with Shveta Thakrar, Stewardship Sessions, Friends of Princeton Open Space, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. www.princMountain Lakes Preserve, Mountain Avenue. www.fopos.org/getetonlibrary.org. YA author and Princeton High School alum Karen involved. Family-friendly stewardship sessions and help beautify Bao discusses her newest book, “Pangu’s Shadow,” with local authe Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Preserve by removing invasive thor Shveta Thakrar. 7 p.m. plants such as Japanese honeysuckle, bittersweet vine, and multiflora rose. Register for one of two two-hour sessions. BYO water Wednesday February 7 and work gloves. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Sound Journey, Office of Religious Life, Princeton University Chapel. chapel.princeton.edu. Ruth Cunningham, founding Sunday February 11 member of the vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, McCarter Thepractitioner, premieres a virtual performance of music for meditaater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. tion and introspection. Free. 5:30 p.m.

Program includes Berezovsky, The 1st Ukrainian Symphony in C Presentation: Climate Action Plan Update, Princeton Pub- major; Saint-Saens, Piano Concerto No. 2; and Dvorak, Symphony lic Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. www.princetonlibrary.org. No. 8 with soloist Volodymyr Vynnytsky on piano. Special postSustainable Princeton gives an update of Princeton’s 2019 Climate concert conversation on stage: Artists in Wartime, featuring SymAction Plan including climate action goals and what’s in store for phony Director Alexander Hornostai and Princeton University the future. In-person and virtual. Registration required. 7 p.m. visiting scholar Iuilla Skubytska. $60 to $90. 1 p.m.

Tuesday February 13

novelist, essayist, and playwright Vauhini Vara reads from her work along with several creative writing seniors. Free; ticket required. 5:30 p.m.

Atelier@Large: Conversations on Artmaking in a Vexed Era, Lewis Center for the Arts’ Princeton Atelier, Richardson Audito- Thursday February 15 rium. arts.princeton.edu. Paul Muldoon moderDocent-Led Exhibit Tour, Morven Muates a discussion with songwriter Bridget Kearseum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street. www.morney, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, along ven.org. Tour of “Striking Beauty: New Jersey Tall with transgender writer Jennifer Finney Boylan, Case Clocks 1730-1830.” Register. 2 p.m. author of 18 books and human rights advocate.

Artist Conversation: Khalilah Sabree and Free; no ticket required. 4:30 p.m.

Imam Khalil Abdullah, Princeton University Photo History’s Futures: Emilie Boone, Art Museum, Friend Center Room 006, William Princeton University Art Museum, Friend Street. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Artist KhaliCenter Room 101, William Street. artmuseum. lah Sabree and Imam Khalil Abdullah, assistant princeton.edu. Emilie Boone speaks about her dean for Muslim Life at Princeton, in a converpublication “A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee sation that explores Sabree’s work in relation to and Photography.” Boone is assistant professor her Muslim faith. Reception to follow. 5:30 p.m. in art history at New York University. Moderated Story & Verse: Open Mic, Arts Council

by Jessica William Stark, postdoctoral research of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. www. associate in the history of photography. 5 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org. All are welcome to Scenario for a Past Future Panel Discustell a well-prepared story or perform their posion, Lewis Center for the Arts, Hurley Galetry. Performers should bring their own work lery, Lewis Arts Complex. arts.princeton.edu. of their choice based on the theme “it’s not that In conversation with architect Hani Rashid and kind of party.” Register. Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m. architectural historian Daniela Fabricius, exhibiAuthor: Dana R. Fisher in conversation tion artist Josephine Meckseper discusses the modernist models for immersive architecture with Miguel Centeno, Princeton Public Liwith which she engages critically in her work. brary, 65 Witherspoon Street. The author, an American University professor, discusses her Free. 5 to 7 p.m. new book “Saving Ourselves: From Climate C.K. Williams Reading Series, Lewis Center Shocks to Climate Action” with Princeton Unifor the Arts, Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, Lewis versity’s Miguel Centeno. 7 p.m.

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saTurday February 17 Chinese New Year Celebration, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Program featuring Chinese painting, calligraphy, musical instruments, paper cutting, traditional dances, and other games and crafts. 2 to 4 p.m.

Kwok, curator of Asian art. Liu is the Art Museum’s International Artist-in-Residence. Reception to follow. 5:30 p.m.

Author: Jinwoo Chong in Conversation with Laura Spence-Ash, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. The Princeton High School alum discusses “Flux,” his acclaimed Love Is in the Air, Princeton Singers, Trin- debut novel, with Laura Spence-Ash, in this ity Church, 33 Mercer Street. www.princetons- Friends and Foundation fundraising event. Tickingers.org. Join in the joys of love, with kissing, ets $30; $75 including a copy of “Flux.” 6:30 p.m. drinking and insect songs. $40. 6 p.m.

sunday February 18 Guided Bird and Plant Walk, Princeton Public Library, Herrontown Woods. www. princetonlibrary.org. MaryJoan Gaynor and Steve Hiltner lead a guided bird and plant walk as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count. 9 a.m.

Monday February 19 Monthly Meeting, Women’s College Club of Princeton, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street. www.wccp.org. Paul Castelerio and Christina Francois of Centurion Ministries’ Innocence Project talk about freeing wrongly convicted individuals. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.

Friday February 23

Art of Herbs for Winter Wellness, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Join herbalist Dawn Petter from Petalune Herbals to learn foods and herbal remedies to support your health throughout the winter. Register. $75.

5 to 7 p.m.

Monthly Community Dance Party, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street.

DJ provides danceable tunes appropriate for all ages. Free. 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Thursday February 29

All Access Book Discussion Group, Princeton Public Library, Firestone Library, One Washington Road. www.princetonlibrary.org.

Thursday February 22 Discuss “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Liu Xiaodong, Princeton University Art Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Museum, Robertson Hall Room 016. artmu- Barrows, then examine items from Princeton seum.princeton.edu. Conversation between the University Library’s Special Collections tied to Beijing-based painter Liu Xiaodong and Zoe S. themes from the book. 6 and 7 p.m.

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