In response to the growing number of COVID-19 cases, NJCU will suspend all in-person instruction for the remainder of the spring semester. All classes will be taught online. All summer session classes will also be taught online. All events scheduled through June 30 are canceled or postponed.
Center for the Arts
The NJCU Center for the Arts brings the University's cultural offerings together under one creative umbrella.
With New York City just across the river, the NJCU Center for the Arts is a cultural hub of North Jersey, hosting guest artists and speakers in the performing, visual, film, and literary arts, alongside student presentations. We look forward to seeing you at events on campus and in the community.
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2020 Spring Brochure
Featured Events
An Afternoon with author J.M. Kelly
June 6, 2020
2:00 PM
A virtual event
Join us for a stellar reading and workshop with author and educator J.M. Kelly. James will read excerpts from his latest book in the Bobby Holmes series for young adults: Monster on the Moors, discuss his creative process with NJCU Director of the Center for the Arts, Stephanie Chaiken, and present a workshop for middle and high school ages about the process of writing a book.
Come ready to participate with your ideas!
JCTC and NJCU presents
W.E.B. Du Bois: A MAN FOR ALL TIMES
Written & Directed by Alexa Kelly
Featuring BRIAN RICHARDSON as Dr. Du Bois
Created and developed by Pulse Ensemble Theatre
Friday, October 16 and Saturday, Ocotber 17, 2020 8:00 pm
West Side Theatre
Tickets: $25, Students $5
An emotion packed play about the life and times of Civil Rights
Activist --W.E.B. Du Bois, (1868-1963). With this riveting drama we are
transported into Du Bois' private and political world. An inspirational
journey through almost one hundred years in this great man's life. An
experience both humorous, touching and enlightening.
Svetlana and Her Night at the Movies
Saturday, November 14, 8:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Tickets $30
Svetlana is “Astrud Gilberto via Moscow”, a Russian-born critically acclaimed American jazz vocalist. Her new record and concert program, Night at the Movies is Svetlana’s love affair with movies, and dreaming. The concert adapts Oscar-winning Songs from 1930s to today, taking listeners on a carnival of sound, from sultry introspective torch jazz vocals to a rowdy New Orleans inspired dance party.
Carrying over all the romance, passion and beautiful familiar melodies, while discovering unexpected gems and adding a new twist and high energy – the band is fronted by Svetlana’s captivating vocals and stage presence. Listeners will find themselves nodding along to familiar tunes - while also being thrilled by the twists, turns, and unexpected improvisational aspects of Svetlana’s exciting virtuoso band of young jazz lions. The show is accompanied by projected moving images inspired by the movies from which the songs are drawn.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s meets Some Like It Hot” – NY Music Daily
“Exceptional vocalist” – Wall Street Journal “Once in A Lifetime Voice” – Aquarian Weekly
In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Addams Family performances will be rescheduled to a date in the near future. We will post further information as we receive it. All tickets that have been purchased to date will be valid for the rescheduled performance dates.
The Addams Family
The Addams Family, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story that is every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
Venues
Margaret Williams Theatre
Hepburn Hall
West Side Theatre
285 West Side Avenue
Ingalls Recital Hall
Rossey Hall, Room 101
Gothic Lounge
Hepburn Hall, Room 202
Visual Arts Gallery
Visual Arts Building
100 Culver Avenue, ground level
201-200-2496
Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery
Hepburn Hall, Room 323
201-200-3246
School of Business
200 Hudson Street
Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City
Box Office
Tickets may be purchased in advance online or in person at the box office, which opens one hour prior to performances.
For group sales and reservations, please contact the Box Office directly:
boxoffice@njcu.edu 201-200-2429.
For disability-related accommodations, please contact the Box Office two weeks in advance of the performance.
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