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May 2008 New Jersey Events
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Hoboken Spring Arts & Music Festival
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Sunday, 5/ 4 |
Washington Street
Observer Highway to 7th Street
Contact:
Hoboken Division of Cultural Affairs
201-420-2207 |
Featuring over 300 artists, sculptors, photographers and craftspeople with 3 stages of live performance.
11am to 6pm
Admission is free |
| Dinosaur Day |
Sunday, 5/4,
10 am to 4:30 pm |
The Newark Museum
49 Washington St
Newark
In the Downtown/Arts District,
3 blocks from NJPAC.
(973) 596-6550
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Hands-on, inquiry-based workshops, demonstrations and activities in the geosciences. Explore and learn various aspects of dinosaur life, including the wide range of sizes and shapes of these "terrible lizards" who roamed the Earth 65 million years ago.
A great kids & family event |
| Arlo Guthrie |
5/9 |
McCarter Theatre
91 University Place
Princeton NJ
609-258-2787 |
After celebrating the 40th anniversary of Alice's Restaurant last year, he returns with just his guitar and harmonica, for a solo acoustic evening of his greatest hits - something he hasn't done in years. |
| Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
Friday, 5/9 - Sunday 5/11 |
New Jersey Performing Arts Center One Center Street, Newark
1-888 GO-NJPAC
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Long been recognized as one of the world's premier dance troupes. Marvelously athletic and sleekly sensual, to capture the joyful side of the "black American experience."
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| Market Pro Computer Show |
5/17, 9:30 am - 4 pm; 5/18, 9:30am-4pm |
New Jersey Convention and Expo Center, Edison
(732) 417-1400 |
MarketPro Computer Show & Sales provide a forum for the computer user to meet face-to-face with a wide variety of computer and high tech wholesalers, retailers and distributors selling the latest products at better-than-retail prices. Consumers can save up to 80% |
| Out in Space |
5/17-18 |
New Jersey Kids, children's museum
599 Valley Health Plaza, Paramus
(201) 262-5151 |
A great kids event. It's time to go way, way out into space at the New Jersey Children's Museum! Climb aboard our space shuttle ride. Step onto our space scale and find out how much you would weigh on the Moon and Mars! Come play our space computer games at our rocket center. Make an exciting space craft to take home and come listen to our out of this world stories during story time! Space videos and hand painting too! |
| New Jersey Ballet's Cinderella |
Sunday, 5/18, at 1:30 and 4 pm, |
Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 973-539-8008 |
Introduce your children to the magic of ballet with this colorful, imaginative version of the classic fairy tale set to dance.
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| Michael Arnone's Crawfish Fest |
5/30-6/1
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The Sussex County Fairgrounds
Rt. 206 to Plains Road, Frankford
973-948-9448 |
New Orleans Style Music, Food, and Camping Festival
3Days, over 20 bands on 4 stages.
On-site Camping and camping hook-ups. |
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June 2008 New Jersey Events
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Little Shop of Horrors |
6/4-7/6 |
Paper Mill Playhouse
Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ
973-376-4343 |
The third longest running and and highest grossing production in off-Broadway history, earned prestigious awards. It's an inspiring a wildly popular film adaptation. |
| A Seagull in the Hamptons |
6/7 |
McCarter Theatre
91 University Place
Princeton NJ 609-258-2787 |
Playwright Emily Mann completes her cycle of Chekhov's major works, with her own bold adaptation of The Seagull.Mann brings this Russian masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting. |
| Trisha Yearwood |
Friday, 6/13
8 pm, $57-77 |
Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 973-539-8008 |
Country music performer with hits such as "How Do I Live," and "She's in Love with the Boy." |
| Movin' Out |
Friday, 6/13
8:00 pm |
Prudential Hall, NJPAC, Newark
888-GO-NJPAC |
Twyla Tharp is one of the most distinctive choreographers in American dance, but with the revolutionary Movin' Out, she took Broadway by storm. |
| Bug Mania |
Saturday, 6/14, 11am to 4pm |
The Newark Museum
49 Washington St
Newark
In the Downtown/Arts District,
3 blocks from NJPAC.
(973) 596-6550 |
Unleash your inner entomologist and come celebrate all things insect! Experience holding a hairy tarantula or a giant millipede and observe live bed bugs and hear why they needs humans to survive. Try their delicious insect dishes and insect cookies. Build your own insect using chocolates, candies and pretzels.
A great kids event
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| Cape May Harbor Fest |
Friday,
6/20 to Sunday, 6/22 |
Most land-based activities will be held at or near the Nature Center of Cape May, 1600 Delaware Ave.
Contact:
Greater Cape May Chamber of Commerce
609-884-5508
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Harbor Fest is a celebration of seafood and song; the sea, its culture, and its ecology.
Activities include a Summer Solstice Bonfire, story telling, song fest and marshmallow roasting; a summer night skies with the Willingboro Astronomy Club from the deck of the Nature Center of Cape May's Trucksess Center; a street festival with prepared fresh seafood, live musical entertainment, vendors and related displays, crafts and art. |
| Irish Dance Competition |
6/22 |
New Jersey Convention and Expo Center, Edison
(732) 417-1400 |
Irish Dance Competition |
14th Annual Original North Wildwood Italian-American Festival |
6/27-6/29 |
North Wildwood on Olde New Jersey Avenue.
609-522-2955 |
Annual celebration of Italian-American heritage
FRi: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sat: noon to 11 p.m., Sun: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
