The Kennedy Dancers, Inc., a Non-Profit Organization has announced that In-Person Summer Dance Day Camp will resume this Summer from July 6 through August 13, 2021.

Summer Dance Day Camp will run from 8:45AM-3:30PM Monday through Friday, offering 2, 4, and 6 week programs for those who may be traveling or taking time off during the Summer but who still want to participate.

Campers will be transported into the world of dance and will participate in professional dance classes in Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, Latin, Hip Hop, Theatrical Jazz, and Gymnastics, Tumbling, and Acrobatics. There will also be activities with Music, Acting, Drawing & Sketching, Tennis, Soccer, and Swimming (if permitted).

Healthy Breakfast, Lunch, & Snacks provided by the Jersey City Department of Health & Human Services and New Jersey Department of Agriculture will be served daily, included in tuition! You may also bring your own lunch, packaged from home. No fast food.

Tuition costs for our camp very modest.

Register and Pay by June 11th and Save $50!
2 WEEKS – $410
4 WEEKS – $780
6 WEEKS – $1110

Register and Pay by June 25th to secure your childs spot!
2 WEEKS – $460
4 WEEKS – $830
6 WEEEKS – $1160

**There is a discount for a sibling in the same family. Call or email for details.**

For more information, or to enroll early, please call 201-659-2190 or email us at [email protected] so that we can start your registration process!

Sincerely,

Diane Dragone

Artistic Director
The Kennedy Dancers, Inc.
A Non-Profit Organization
79 Central Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306
201-659-2190
[email protected]
kennedydancers.org

Art House Productions is pleased to announce the Virtual INKubator New Play Festival from Monday, May 3 – Wednesday, May 19 online via Zoom.

The festival will feature playwrights from the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 cohorts, including Kev Berry, Andrea Coleman, Izzi D’Esposito, Madeline Dennis-Yates, Nathaniel Foster, Alyssa Haddad, Aja Nisenson, SMJ, Christopher-Rashee Stevenson, Leila Teitelman, and Colin Waitt.

Audiences who attend the festival will also have the opportunity to participate in conversations with the writers, directors, and actors during each performance.

All public readings are free for audiences and begin at 7 p.m. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Donations will be accepted towards supporting the INKubator Program at Art House.

Registration for single tickets (suggested donation $5): http://bit.ly/INKubatorFestival2021
Registration for Festival Pass (suggested donation $50): http://bit.ly/INKubatorFestivalPass2021

Art House is working remotely at this time. If you are unable to reserve tickets or make a donation online, please email [email protected] to set up a time for the box office to call you to assist over the phone.

The events will feature Closed Captions using Zoom’s autotransciption service. To request ASL interpreters, please email [email protected] at least 72 hours before the event. For questions about accessibility and patrons services, please email [email protected].

INKubator is a year-long generative process for a select group of 6 playwrights in residence at Art House Productions. During the program, playwrights meet on a monthly basis alongside program director Alex Tobey to share new work, receive feedback, and develop a first draft of a new play. The program culminates in a New Play Festival, where the playwrights work with professional directors and actors to hear the play read aloud for the first time. Due to the pandemic, the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 cohort festivals have been combined. Casting will be announced at a later date.

“Working with these brilliant playwrights has been an incredibly rewarding journey,” says INKubator director Alex Tobey. “I’m constantly inspired by their creativity, their resilience, and their unique visions for what the art of playwriting can achieve. The past year has presented a lot of challenges for theatre, both in how we develop new plays and how we present them, so I’m thrilled to share a first look at the plays alongside an incredible group of actors and directors.”

Monday, May 3 at 7:00pm
We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen by Madeline Dennis-Yates
directed by Kat Yen
After a career-threatening injury forces pro athlete Skyler to move back in with her parents, she is confronted with the weirdness of newfound wealth, her physical fragility, and her childhood home getting literally hacked to bits in service of a home makeover. (But is there even a plan for the new kitchen?) We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen is about what happens to a family when the child becomes an enormous success and everything – finances, home, and family dynamics – must change.

Tuesday, May 4 at 7:00pm
Oh God by Colin Waitt
directed by Alex Tobey
A man who may or may not have been visited by God who may or may not have tasked him with saving us in these troubled times may or may not create a new religion that may or may not destroy us all. The road to hell is paved with good intentions in this comedy about belief, truth and Dolly Parton.

Wednesday, May 5 at 7:00pm
Away From Keyboard by Izzi D’Esposito
directed by Graham Miller
A group of longtime online friends meet up to play a video game together over voice chat. When one of them unexpectedly doesn’t log on, the group tries to look for clues about his disappearance in his offline life. Away From Keyboard is an audio play about gaming, ghosting, and camaraderie on the internet.

Thursday, May 6 at 7:00pm
OUR CHILDHOOD SUCKED by SMJ
created and developed by Ezra Brain, Ludmila Brito, Stephanie Fongheiser, Talia Frank-Stempel, Daniel Kunkel, Alizae Powell, Danielle Truss, and SMJ
directed by Ludmila Brito
Five former teen stars are invited to tape a Disney+ reunion special and the pilot for the reboot of the show they made famous, Dating Academy. However, through s’mores, script readings, trips to the past, and dead bodies, the stars discover that something more sinister and exploitative may be awaiting them.

Saturday, May 8 at 7:00pm
Secrets by Andrea Coleman
directed by Emily Moler
Secrets is a comedic farce about three Brooklyn couples, their friends, and the secrets they’re all trying to keep from each other during a dinner party. Every couple is interracial, woke, and nuts. You’ll laugh, and they’ll cry, while all secrets get revealed.

Monday, May 10 at 7:00pm
Wild George or Mad For You by Christopher-Rashee Stevenson
directed by Andrew Willis-Woodward
The President of an unnamed country is struck suddenly with an “illness” causing him to make strange speeches, run about at night naked imagining himself a new hybrid of “boar and mammoth,” and to generally make mayhem for everyone who encounters him. Will the First Lady find a doctor competent enough to heal her husband before the country falls headlong into chaos, before he is written out of the story, before his scheming son is elected in his place? Medicine. Music. Domestic intrigue. And Games all await you in this farcical political tragicomedy.

Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00pm
Vincent van Gogh by Kev Berry
directed by Alex Tobey
Vincent and Paul are lovers, though history would tell you otherwise and call them post-Impressionists. Vincent’s sick, Paul’s kind of a prick, and then one night, Vincent cuts his own ear off. Vincent van Gogh effervescently remixes history with a disco beat to examine what stands the tests of time and what is erased into the annals of queerness, despite being mighty, mighty real.

Sunday, May 16 at 7:00pm
Where We Lie by Leila Teitelman
directed by Kimille Howard
When a mother and her two daughters move into a new house to start fresh, it doesn’t take long for them to realize that the past can follow and haunt a family for generations. Where We Lie explores homelessness, helplessness, and the repercussions of inheritance.

Monday, May 17 at 7:00pm
Autopay by Aja Nisenson
directed by Victoria Gruenberg
Emilie, an 85 year old woman, discovers her caregiver, Katrina, is stealing from her and seeks revenge. Setting up a live stream video in her house, Emilie begins documenting the disturbing and abusive behavior of her caregiver, igniting a viral YouTube channel that receives more likes than anyone thought possible. Autopay is a story about the lies we tell each other and ourselves.

Tuesday, May 18 at 7:00pm
Moondance Rick by Nathaniel Foster
directed by Raz Golden
Retired wrestler Rick is forced to reckon with his past when his son Isaac shows up unannounced wanting to train at his professional wrestling school. Moondance Rick explores the intricate and messy relationship between a father and son and the impact our legacy can have on those who come after us, through the theatrical lens of professional wrestling.

Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00pm
The Ancestry Dot Com/Family Tree/23andMe…Play by Alyssa Haddad
directed by Ryan Dobrin
When a group of friends takes a DNA test, they grapple with how it affects their identity, specifically Samia, an Arab-American who never knew her father.

This event is part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2021 Stages Festival, made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Bank of America; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; the George A. Ohl, Jr. Trust; New Jersey Historical Commission; and Fund for the New Jersey Blind. www.njtheatrealliance.org/stages

Zoom is an online video conferencing software that allows you to virtually interact when in-person meetings and events aren’t possible. Participants must have wifi, download the application on a computer or smartphone, and sign up for a free Zoom account to participate. The Art House staff are available to help troubleshoot registration and download; please email [email protected] for assistance.

Art House Productions is generously supported by The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, MACK-CALI Realty, SILVERMAN, Manhattan Building Company, and CoolVines.

Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions presents theater, performing and visual arts festivals, arts events, visual art exhibitions, and adult and youth art classes. For more information about our programs, please visit our website at www.arthouseproductions.org. Follow us on social media @arthouseproductions @arthouseprods To sign up for Art House’s mailing list, please click here: http://eepurl.com/hd1FCj.

Catalina Aranguren, founder of Walk-Bye by Argia Photography, brings her latest community art installation to life in partnership with the Jersey City Public Library. The group show exhibition titled “agency” showcases original work by New Jersey artists with.

The show, inspired by Black History Month and Women’s History Month, displays New Jersey artists’ representation of “agency” and embraces the intersectionality in thecommunity. Using photography, poetry, paint and even Legos, the artists explore the individual’s intrinsic agency, or belief in self and awareness of one’s rights and power within.

The Library, through Walk Bye, had the artists consider what is the ability to affect one’s life by having power to make choices, a resistance to oppression and an iron will to gain freedom. To further explore the theme, both Jersey City poet laureates, Rashad Wright and Rescue Poetix were invited to include a poem.

This show marks the second time that Walk-Bye has been able to financially compensate the chosen artists thanks to the generosity of the show’s sponsor. The artists featured are: Andre Veloux, Catalina Aranguren, Cheryl Gross, Jennifer Brown, Laurie Newman, Lawrence Ciarallo, Lorenzo Pickett, Santiago Cohen, and Vincent Bush.

The show is the sixth installation in Aranguren’s series of outdoor community art exhibits. Walk-Bye has sought to create opportunities for Jersey City Residents to display and view local artwork in a safe manner during the Covid-19 pandemic. Past exhibits include outdoor shows in June and October of last year held in various Jersey City parks followed by a December photo display to commemorate Human Rights Day and International Human Solidarity Day with Welcome Home, a local refugee support organization.

For more information on the exhibit and artists, please follow @Walk_Bye on Instagram.

About Walk-Bye:

WALK-BYE, founded in 2020 by Catalina Aranguren, is a collective outdoor art exhibition of original work, visible to the public from a distance. The installation strives to bring artists and community members together to create a sense of connectivity during the current pandemic.

In honor of Women’s History Month, Art House Productions, along with Hudson County Community College & Seton Hall University, present Art+Feminism Lecture on Wednesday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom.

Click here to register for the lecture.

On April 7 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. the Walsh Library and the Walsh Gallery will host Seton Hall’s second Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. All are invited to register to become “Wikipedians” and edit or create a Wikipedia page for an artist.

Click here to register for the event.

According to the Art+Feminism website, the non-profit organization “directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia.” This is accomplished through a coordinated campaign of online training materials and volunteer-organized “edit-a-thons” at a variety of cultural and intellectual institutions across the globe.

In the lecture on March 24, Brooke Duffy and Jeanne Brasile will provide an overview of the ways in which women and gender diverse artists have traditionally been and continue to be excluded from the art historical canon and global art markets. They will share background information about the Art+Feminism organization and objectives of their wiki-thons. The lecture culminates with a hands-on activity in which participants can engage with, critically read, and converse about artist Wikipedia pages.

To request closed captions or ASL interpreters, please email [email protected] at least 72 hours before the event.

The mission of the Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs is to provide supplementary programs to stimulate awareness of the arts and foster creativity. They strive to complement the efforts of HCCC with cultural events, community programs, and educational initiatives. The goal is to transcend the understanding of visual and performing arts by closing the distance between the experience of art and everyday life in the community we serve.

In 2015, the College established a Cultural Affairs Task Force comprising involved members of the community, as well as HCCC Trustees, Foundation Board Directors, educators and scholars. The result is a full calendar of arts programs and events each semester, most of which are free of cost, and are held on the College’s Journal Square and North Hudson campuses.

The Seton Hall University Libraries advance distinction in the Seton Hall community’s teaching, learning, and research through its provision of user-focused services, programs, and robust collections. Seton Hall University Libraries support excellence in academic and individual work, enable inquiry, foster intellectual and ethical integrity and respect for diverse points of view through user-focused services and robust collections as the intellectual and cultural heart of the University.

The University Libraries are central to the University’s intellectual life where students and faculty needs are the top priority. We lead through the provision of innovative services, programs, and resources within the Seton Hall community and beyond. The Walsh Gallery and Archives and Special Collections are the repositories for records, art and artifacts in support of the University Libraries’ and Seton Hall University’s missions, goals and visions. In the Catholic intellectual tradition, we encourage the exchange of divergent points of view as we are the intellectual, ethical, cultural, and historical heart of the University. www.shu.edu

Art House Productions has long awarded adventurous and diverse performing artists with a stage to expose audiences to their ambitious and challenging projects. Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions presents theater, performing and visual arts festivals, arts events, visual art exhibitions, and adult and youth art classes.

For more information about programs, please visit the website at www.arthouseproductions.org. Follow on social media @arthouseproductions @arthouseprods. To sign up for Art House’s mailing list, please click here.