January 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

Through January 7, 2014 • Legendary Locations, art exhibit at The Gallery, South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction.

Through January 4, Steel Ice & Stone: An Experiential Sensory Exhibition; through January 8, 2014, 10×10 Red Dot Fundraiser. Each 10” x 10” artwork sells for $100 with the funds raised going to support Artworks; through Jan. 9, Orphan Art Sale; Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org

Through January 4, Off the Wall Art Sale; Jan. 6—Feb. 28, Members Art Exhibit, Out of the Blue, opening reception, Jan. 12, 4—6pm; Jan. 11, 7:30pm, Saturday Film Series, Departures, Feb. 8, Last Train Home, $8/$7 members; West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction. www.westwindsorartscenter.org, 609.716.1931.

January 7 • 6:30—8:30pm, Classic Film Series, title TBA, another film Feb. 18Jan. 8, 6:30pm, International Film Festival, Fill the Void, repeated Jan. 12, 2pm, Feb. 16, 2pm, Rust and Bone, repeated Feb. 19, 6:30pm; Jan. 11, 1—4pm, Bollywood Movie Event, Chennai Express; Jan. 19, 2pm, Poetry Series, poets Wendy Rosenberg and Charles Bonhus, Feb. 16, 2pm, poets R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey; Jan. 19, 2pm, Daphne Powell Memorial Concert Series, Jennifer Sengin, vocalist, Feb. 16, live concert performance to be announced; Jan 29, 6:30, Movie Night, Blue Jasmine, Feb. 26, Captain Phillips; South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, www.sbpl.info.

January 10—18, Love! Valour! Compassion!Jan. 11,  2&4pm, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Jan. 24—26, The Actor’s Nightmare & A Night in the Theatre; Jan. 31 – Feb. 8, The 39 Steps; Feb. 8, The Monster Who Ate My Peas; Feb. 15, 16, The Reock & Roll Revue in A Tribute to Eric Clapton – Journeyman; Feb. 21—Mar. 2, Master Class; The Kelsey Theatre at MCCC, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, www.kelseytheatre.net

January 10—February 29, Fences; Jan. 17, 8pm, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet; Jan. 25, 3pm, Dinosaur Train; Jan. 28, 7:30pm, Kirill Gerstein, pianist; Feb. 7, 7:30pm, Sleeping Beauty, State Ballet Theater of Russia; Feb. 13, 7:30pm, The Spring Quartet; Feb. 14, 8pm, Rain; Feb. 15, 8pm, Performance Artist Laurie Anderson; Feb. 21, 8pm, Krasnoyarsk National Dance Company of Siberia; Feb. 22, 8pm, Gospel music sextet Take 6; Feb. 28, 7:30pm, The Peking Acrobats; McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, www.mccarter.org, 609.258.2787.

January 12 • 3pm, Beethoven’s 7th & 8th Symphonies, State Theatre, New Brunswick; Jan. 17, 8pm, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton; Jan. 25, 8pm, Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, State theatre, New Brunswick; Feb. 9, 3pm, Music of the Beatles: Classical Mystery Tour, State Theatre, New Brunswick; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, www.njsymphony.org, 800.255.3476.

January 18—March 8, Concentric Circles of Influence: The Queenston Press, Contemporary Works , opening reception, Jan. 18,  3—6pm, Feb. 6, 7:30pm, artist panel discussion, free; through April 30, Terrace Project: Ayami Aoyama; Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, www.artscouncilofprinceton.org, 609.924.8777.

January 19 • 4pm, La Noche Espanola, pre-concert talk, 3pm; Jan. 26, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, www.princetonsymphonyorchestra.org.

January 25—July 13, Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture; Jan. 26, 12—5pm, Meiji Photographs: A Historic Friendship between Japan and Rutgers, (The Kusakabe-Griffis Room is open on the fourth Sunday of the month for visitors to view these rare albumen prints, all from the Zimmerli’s permanent collection.); through Feb. 2, Staging Symbolism: Programs for the Theatre de L’Oeuve in Paris; through July 31, Diane Burko: Glacial Perspectives; museum hours 8:00am – 4:30 pm, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

Through June 30, 2014Got Work? New Deal/WPA in New Jersey, Cornelius Low House, Middlesex County Museum, 1225 River Road, Piscataway, 732.745.4177. Public, group and school tours welcome. www.co.middlesex.nj.us.  Sponsored by Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Teachers with students will receive a “Workshop in a Box” with all components to take back to the classroom for use year after year. To schedule a class visit and reserve your box, call 732.545.4489.

 

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