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Midnight Market | Valentine’s Day Food Festival
Harborside Atrium 210 Hudson St, Jersey City, NJ, United StatesStop searching for Valentine's Day plans. While everyone else is eating the same pre-fixe menu, you’ll be spicing it up at Midnight Market. We've got a list of amazing new food vendors plus some favorites are coming back to join us for the 2020 season. Bring your crew, bring a date, or just bring yourself....
Volunteer Shoreline Cleanup
Liberty State ParkCome out to Liberty State Park and lend a hand to clean up the North Cove shoreline and remove plastics and debris that have washed in with the tide. Parking is available in Lot #7 (Green Park) located on Freedom Way. We will meet in front of the Columbus Monument. Please be sure to dress...
Galentine’s Day Brunch @ Porta
Porta 135 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ, United StatesYou are cordially invited to Porta Jersey City’s 4th Annual Galentine’s Day Brunch! It’s only the best day of the year! DJ Set by LUV Photobooth by The Hair Room JC Complimentary Love Card Readings with Witchy Wisdoms DIY Vision Boards with Mint Market WORD Pop-Up: Books for Babes Gal Themed Cocktails including a cocktail...
Freedom Not Far Distant: Songs from Harriet Tubman to MLK
Jersey City Free Public Library - Morgan Branch 1841 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, United StatesSat., Feb. 15, 2-4 P.M.: Five Women - “Freedom Not Far Distant: Songs from Harriet Tubman to MLK” Morgan Branch Library, 1841 Kennedy Blvd. | 201-547-4553 Join us for an uplifting program of recitations, freedom songs, spirituals and gospel music that evoke the Civil Rights and Voting Rights era. Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come from...
Valentine’s Gay with TPN
Pianist Envy Piano Bar 100 York St., Jersey City, NJ, United StatesFrom 5-8pm, we will be offering the delicious cocktail foods of Pianist Envy-- Jersey City's only LGBTQ+ piano bar-- as well as half-price, specialty Tito's cocktails in celebration of Valentine's Gay. Featuring "live" cabaret performances, all while we'll be raising funds to support emerging LGBTQ+ leaders in our community. The suggested donation at the door...
Celebrating African American History Month
Jersey City Free Public Library - Miller Branch 489 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ, United StatesCelebrating African American History Month performance by Winard Harper & Jeli Posse Winard Harper’s skill and passion for Jazz have made him one of the form’s most celebrated drummers, performing and recording with some of the most globally acclaimed musicians: Dexter Gordon, Betty Carter, Johnny Griffin, Abdullah Ibrahim, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Lavano, Phillip Harper, Dr. Billy Taylor,...
39th Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival
Hoboken Historical Museum 1301 Hudson St, HobokenThe Hoboken Museum is proud to be one of the first stops on the tour of the 39th Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival! A diverse line-up of 11 of this year's award-winning short films will be screened at the Festival's Hudson County premiere on Saturday, February 15, starting at 7:30 pm. Admission is...
The Flavors & History of African Food
Secaucus Library 1379 Paterson Plank Rd, Secaucus, NJ, United StatesUprooted : Adebunmi Gbadebo
NJCU Visual Arts Gallery 100 Culver Ave, Jersey City, NJ, United StatesRejecting traditional art materials associated with Whiteness, the Newark-based artist, Adebunmi Gbadebo chose human Black hair as her primary medium. Varied locs of hair climb up a wall in her sculpture, Dada. Hair is also embedded in her prints, with images referencing her ancestry. Even though having been “uprooted,” these hair locs carry histories and memories within their...