Princeton Arts Weekend features art-related events throughout the Princeton area from Friday April 24 - Sunday April 26. Scroll down the calendar to read about the numerous opportunities to see, hear, and experience art the entire weekend!

All Weekend

Paintings by Tyler Crosby, A Senior Thesis Exhibition
Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts
April 22 - April 25, 2009
Exhibition Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM; Saturday, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lucas Gallery, Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street
Free and open to the public
For more information please call 609.258.1500

The Senior Thesis Show is the annual highlight of Princeton University's Program in Visual Arts. Equivalent to Princeton's renowned written thesis, the Senior Thesis Show is of major importance and a requirement for graduation. The show serves as the culmination of a student's coursework in visual arts and represents an entire year of their studio work. It also serves as the launch of a career for the student artist. www.princeton.edu/arts

Friday, April 24, 2009

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Pinot to Picasso ~ Vintage 2009
Arts Council of Princeton
Location:University Square on Alexander Road and Route One
Tickets: Starting at $75
Info: www.artscouncilofprinceton.org

This gala kick-off to the Princeton Arts Weekend and Communiversity Festival of the Arts has been described as “the liveliest and hippest art related event in Princeton.” Click to read more...

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Princeton University's Outdoor Action & Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
Location: McCosh 10, McCosh Hall, Princeton University campus
Admission fee: $10 for students (with PU ID) and $15 all others (remaining tickets will be available at the door for $15)
Information / Box office contact: Frist Campus Center Ticket Office (Monday - Friday, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.) or by phone: 609-258-9220; Online at University Ticketing: www.princeton.edu/utickets; or at Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, N. Harrison St., Princeton, NJ

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is an international film competition featuring the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2008/2009 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Website (if applicable): OA & Banff Mountain Film Festival

7:30 pm
John Scofield Trio and Chris Potter's Underground
McCarter Theatre Center
Location: 91 University Place, Princeton, Matthews Theatre
Admission: $37, $40 & $46 ($12 students)
Box Office: (609) 258-ARTS (2787)

Saxophonist Chris Potter's (www.chrispottermusic.com) singular voice distill saxophone dialects from Bird to Michael Brecker. He currently heads his own quartet, Underground, and has a resume including 14 albums as a leader. John Scofield (http://www.johnscofield.com/) is one of the "big three" of current jazz guitarists (along with Pat Methany and Bill Frisell). Scofield has recorded over 30 albums as a leader and currently heads his own trio, whose latest release is This Meets That. www.mccarter.org

8:00 pm
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Westminster Choir College of Rider University
Location: The Playhouse, Westminster Choir College ,101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ
Admission fee: Suggested donation: $20 adults and $15 students/seniors
Box Office: 609-921-2663

A searing drama of fear and death during the French Revolution, Francis Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites is based on Georges Bernanos play, which in turn is based on a true story told by the only Carmelite nun who survived the guillotine, which executed all her fellow sisters on July 17, 1794. In Poulenc's own view, the opera is about grace and the transference of grace, for, as he wrote "Are not confidence and calm at the root of all mystical experience?"

8:00 pm and 10:30 pm
Good Winks Here, A Senior Thesis Production created by Sam Zetumer
Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center
Tickets: $8 (seniors/students); $10 (general public)
For tickets please call the McCarter Box Office at 609.258.2787 or University Ticketing at 609.258.9220

A one-man show about a clown that is not a clown - no juggling or gags, but rather about a human being struggling to find out how his world works and why he is in pain. www.princeton.edu/arts

8:00 pm
Hey Boy Wonder! The Other Adventures of Ultraman
Theatre Intime
Admission: Tickets are available through Princeton University Ticketing Service, located in Frist, or at the Theatre.

The citizens of Metropotown, USA have slept soundly since the amazing Ultraman showed up. But when his arch-villain, the fiendish French Tickler, hatches a sinister scheme to expose his salacious secret, can everyone's favorite superman find the hero inside himself to stand up and save the world? (not intended for children). Written by Jac Mullen '10 and Shawn Fennell '10, directed by Doug Lavanture '10 www.theatreintime.org

Saturday, April 25, 2009

10:00 am to Noon
Quilting Open House
Princeton Public Library
Location: Princeton Public Library, 1st Floor Community Room
Admission: free

Learn the age-old art of quilting with Meg Cox, a passionate quilter. A former writer for the Wall Street Journal, Cox created one of the most up-to-date resource guides ever written for quilters, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide. She will bring pre-cut fabric for those who want to start a simple quilt project and will answer questions from anyone who is interested.
http://www.princetonlibrary.org

Noon - 5 pm
Communiversity Festival of the Arts
Arts Council of Princeton
Location: downtown Princeton
Admission: free

Noon - 4 p.m.
Picturing Princeton 1783: The Nation's Capital
Morven Museum & Garden
Location: 55 Stockton St., Princeton, next to Police Station - a 3 minute walk from downtown!
Admission: FREE for Communiversity attendees!
Information / Box office contact: Michelle Sheridan, (609) 924-8144 x106

For five months in 1783, Princeton served as the nation's capital and hosted many extraordinary people, among them George & Martha Washington, James Madison, Elias Boudinot, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Paine. In celebration of the 225th anniversary of this historic gathering, Morven presents an exhibition of portraits, documents and artifacts to assist visitors in "Picturing Princeton 1783."
Website: www.morven.org

2:00 pm
Hey Boy Wonder! The Other Adventures of Ultraman
Theatre Intime
Admission: Tickets are available through Princeton University Ticketing Service, located in Frist, or at the Theatre.

The citizens of Metropotown, USA have slept soundly since the amazing Ultraman showed up. But when his arch-villain, the fiendish French Tickler, hatches a sinister scheme to expose his salacious secret, can everyone's favorite superman find the hero inside himself to stand up and save the world? (not intended for children). Written by Jac Mullen '10 and Shawn Fennell '10, directed by Doug Lavanture '10 www.theatreintime.org

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Al-Bustan Percussion Ensemble
Princeton Public Library
Location: Princeton Public Library, 1st Floor Community Room
Admission: free

The non-profit Arab arts education program Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture created this ensemble led by master percussionist Joseph Tayoun. Guest percussionist Hafez El Ali Kotain joins the five young drummers, who range in age from 13 to 17. They have recorded a CD, accompanied adult musicians and performed with a Palestinian folkloric dance troupe of college students.http://www.princetonlibrary.org

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cafe Improv
Arts Council of Princeton
Location: Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street
Admission: $2/ $1 Arts Council Members

For a listing of performers click here

7:30 pm
Sweet Honey in the Rock
McCarter Theatre Center
Location: 91 University Place, Princeton, Matthews Theatre
Admission: $33, $38 & $42 (check with box office for student ticket discount)
Box Office: (609) 258-ARTS (2787)

The Grammy Award-winning African-American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock (www.sweethoney.com) has provided a soundtrack to worldwide movements of social justice and equality for over thirty years, and their variety of musical genres (blues, folk, gospel, hip-hop, reggae. African chants, lullabies) covers the full spectrum of human experience. Their powerful vocals, joined by hand percussion instruments and accompanied by ASL interpretation, create a blend of moving lyrics, narrative and movement. At a Sweet Honey concert, hearing is believe that music can indeed change the world.Be among the first to hear the words of one of the most celebrated young American playwrights of the 21st century, who is thrilling audiences internationally by pushing the boundaries of language, form, and sexuality in provocative and poetic ways.

8:00 pm
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Westminster Choir College of Rider University
Location: The Playhouse, Westminster Choir College ,101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ
Admission fee: Suggested donation: $20 adults and $15 students/seniors
Box Office: 609-921-2663

A searing drama of fear and death during the French Revolution, Francis Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites is based on Georges Bernanos play, which in turn is based on a true story told by the only Carmelite nun who survived the guillotine, which executed all her fellow sisters on July 17, 1794. In Poulenc's own view, the opera is about grace and the transference of grace, for, as he wrote "Are not confidence and calm at the root of all mystical experience?"

8:00 pm
Westminster Chapel Choir Concert
Westminster Choir College of Rider University
Location: Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ
Admission fee: $20 adults, $15 students/seniors
Box office: 609-921-2663

Performing a varied program of choral works. www.rider.edu/arts

8:00 pm
TAKE Dance Company
Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance
Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio
Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street
Admission: Free

TAKE Dance Company is a New York City-based contemporary dance company that explores the integration of expressive and physical movement. The company will be performing ONE, featuring Amy Young, Jill Echo and Kile Hotchkiss; Linked; and Left by the Tide. www.princeton.edu/arts

8:00 pm
Hey Boy Wonder! The Other Adventures of Ultraman
Theatre Intime
Admission: Tickets are available through Princeton University Ticketing Service, located in Frist, or at the Theatre.

The citizens of Metropotown, USA have slept soundly since the amazing Ultraman showed up. But when his arch-villain, the fiendish French Tickler, hatches a sinister scheme to expose his salacious secret, can everyone's favorite superman find the hero inside himself to stand up and save the world? (not intended for children). Written by Jac Mullen '10 and Shawn Fennell '10, directed by Doug Lavanture '10 www.theatreintime.org

8:00 pm
The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
In the Red and Brown Water, directed by Tina Landau
McCarter Theatre Center
Location: 91 University Place, Princeton Berlind Theatre
Admission: $43 & $49 ($10 Off! Use Promo Code "TARELL") , student tickets $12

Lyrical and mythic, this intoxicating story charts a young girl's thrust into womanhood and her subsequent fall into the murky waters of life.
www.mccarter.org/tarell

8:00 pm and 10:30 pm
Good Winks Here, A Senior Thesis Production created by Sam Zetumer
Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center
Tickets: $8 (seniors/students); $10 (general public)
For tickets please call the McCarter Box Office at 609.258.2787 or University Ticketing at 609.258.9220

A one-man show about a clown that is not a clown - no juggling or gags, but rather about a human being struggling to find out how his world works and why he is in pain. www.princeton.edu/arts

Sunday April 26, 2009

11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Day at the Fair
Grounds For Sculpture
Location: Grounds For Sculpture
Admission fee: Free with park admission. Park admission: Adults $10; Students (13+) and Senior (65+) $8; Children (6-12) $6; Members and Children (5 and under) free
Information t: (609) 586-0616 or info@groundsforsculpture.org

Short description of event: Rain or Shine! A celebration to commemorate Grounds For Sculpture's roots as the New Jersey State Fairgrounds. Visit our Museum Building (formerly used to house the rabbits, goats, etc. during the golden age of the State Fair) and the Domestic Arts Building (formerly the site of quilting, canning, pie making, and other homemaking arts). Tour the park, visit the balloon man, relax to music in the courtyard, see sheep shearing, participate in workshops and purchase popcorn, cotton-candy, hot dogs, and other treats at the concession stands. Have lots of fun at our fantasy fair! www.groundsforsculpture.org

12:30 pm
Spring Poetry Awakening
West Windsor Arts Council
Location: Grover¹s Mill Coffee, 295 Princeton-Hightstown Road (McCaffrey¹s Shopping Center), West Windsor
Workshop Admission: $15, $10 WWAC members

The West Windsor Arts Council is taking poetic license with its eighth annual poetry event. Spring Poetry Awakening will feature a workshop with esteemed poet, professor and editor Maria Mazziotti Gillan. The one-and-a-half-hour workshop, open to anyone with a pen and a notebook, wil be followed by a reading at 3 p.m. by Ms. Gillan and Pushcart Prize nominee David Vincenti. As usual, there will be an open mike for the poets. For further information visit us at www.westwindsorarts.org

2:00 pm
The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
In the Red and Brown Water, directed by Tina Landau
McCarter Theatre Center
Location: 91 University Place, Princeton Berlind Theatre
Admission: $43 & $49 ($10 Off! Use Promo Code "TARELL") , student tickets $12

Lyrical and mythic, this intoxicating story charts a young girl's thrust into womanhood and her subsequent fall into the murky waters of life.
www.mccarter.org/tarell

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Early Elizabethan Music
Princeton Public Library
Location: Princeton Public Library, 1st Floor Community Room
Admission: free

The music of the medieval world comes alive in this program, third in a series designed to bring the era's music to life. The Guild for Early Music tells a musical tale that includes knights, a friendly dragon, pilgrims, nuns, and village merry-makers.http://www.princetonlibrary.org

4:00 pm
“Composers’ Final Bows” With Guest Conductor Scott Yoo And Pianist Soyeon Lee
3:00 pm Free Pre-concert Lecture
Program of Mozart, Bartók, Tchaikovsky
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Location: Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University
Admission: $64, 50, 36, 16
Information: (609) 497-0020

Led by guest conductor Scott Yoo, Music Director of the San Luis Obispo Mozaic Festival in California, and featuring pianist Soyeon Lee, the PSO will present “Composers’ Final Bows” a performance of three of the last and arguably finest works of Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky. Mozart’s final opera, The Magic Flute was completed on September 28, 1791, just two days before its premiere, and only months before Mozart’s death. A masterpiece filled with enigmatic references to the Freemasons, an organization of which Mozart was a member, the Overture to The Magic Flute remains to this day one of the most beloved works in the operatic repertoire. Majestic and ennobling, elegant and delicate, this piece represents Mozart at his finest

4:00 pm
Composers Final Bows" -- The Final Concert of the 2008/2009 PSO Classical Season
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Location: Richardson Auditorium
Tickets are $64, 50, 36, 16
Contact the PSO at 609-497-0020, or kklaverkamp@princetonsymphony.org

In this final concert of the season, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra presents three of the last and arguably finest works of Mozart, Bartok and Tchaikovsky. Led by guest conductor Scott Yoo, and featuring pianist Soyeon Lee making her concerto debut in her new hometown of Princeton, the PSO will perform Mozart's Overture to the Magic Flute, Bartok's Piano Concerto No.3, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6, Op.74 in B minor "Pathetique." In addition, 18 local middleschool art students will present their original works of art created as part of BRAVO!'s ListenUp! program. This year, these students were invited to attend PSO's January 18, 2009 concert and create a work of art based on Mendelssohn's Sympony No.4, Op.90 in A Major "Italian." www.princetonsymphony.org

LOOKING AHEAD

Princeton Poetry Festival
Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central
Monday and Tuesday, April 27-28, 2009
A series of readings and discussions from 2 PM - 10 PM each day
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton University
Free and open to the public. Registration is required. To register visit princeton.edu/arts/poetryfestival

Featuring: John Ashbery, Tina Chang, Lucille Clifton, Michael Dickman, Durs Grünbein, Matthea Harvey, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hofmann, Troy Jollimore,Galway Kinnell, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gerald Stern, Sally Van Doren, Ellen Doré, Watson and Kevin Young
www.princeton.edu/arts

Arts Council of Princeton Celebrates Cinco de Mayo
Check the ACP website for updates!