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SOUNDS OF THE CITY Concert Series
THURSDAY EVENINGS, JUNE 23 – AUGUST 25

GKT presents SONIC SUPERSTARS Dance Parties
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, JULY 7 – JULY 28

NEWARK, NJ, June 23, 2011 – This summer, NJPAC is once again the place to be in downtown Newark on Wednesday and Thursday nights, hosting free music, dance and a hopping social scene. The Arts Center’s popular annual concert festival, Sounds of the City, brings the State’s hottest weekly music series, featuring Newark’s, New Jersey’s and the region’s best jazz, pop/rock, R&B and world music artists – with over 40 bands/artists and DJs, a vendor marketplace, and a multi-thousand-person party – Thursday evenings, June 23 through August 25, from 5pm – 10pm. And after becoming an instant hit last summer, NJPAC gets people’s feet – and the rest of their bodies – moving at GKT presents Sonic Superstars, a free Wednesday night dance party headlined by some of the world’s top DJs, running July 6 through July 27 from 5pm to 10pm. Each Sounds of the City concert will be streamed live at www.livestream.com/njpac. READ MORE »

NEWARK, N.J., April 29, 2011 – NJPAC’s Alternate Routes series returns to Newark for its annual two-day GLBT festival, opening with Work! A Big Ol’ Gay Dance Party, an event that takes place on the stage and under the lights of the Arts Center’s Victoria Theater, featuring a performance by Vogue Evolution from MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew and dancing to house music by Newark’s own DJ Naeem Johnson. Night two heralds the return of the annual audience-pleaser, Out, Loud & Proud V, a night of spoken word focusing on sexuality with performances by international folk poet Alix Olson and Brave Soul Collective. The evening will also feature the premiere of a new work by guest curator and host Pandora Scooter. READ MORE »

For More Information:
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District
973-732-4008
www.LPCCD.org

Desirable Affordable Housing That Is Perfect for Artists To Live And Work

NEWARK, N.J., April 12, 2011 – It is not too late to apply for an affordable apartment and studio in Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) is transforming a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey from blighted lots into an urban eco-arts village.

LPCCD was awarded a Low Income Housing Tax Credit Award to build affordable housing, comprised of one-, two- and three-bedroom rentals that are USGBC LEED Gold. The collection of four apartment buildings are scattered between four different sites. The first building at 18-28 West Kinney Street is already completed. The second building, located at 65 Lincoln Park, is on schedule to be finished this month. The third and fourth buildings, located at 39-43 Beecher Street and 15-17 Lincoln Park, are scheduled to be completed in June 2011. Download the housing application directly at www.LPCCD.org or call 973-732-4008.

Rental prices start at $691 to $945 a month. The income requirement for a one-bedroom ranges from $23,520 to $35,200; for a two-bedroom income ranges from $28,260 to $43,950; and for a three-bedroom the range is $29,640 to $51,000. Presently, units are being rented on a first come, first serve basis and interested applicants should call 973-732-4008 or go to www.LPCCD.org and download the application.

About Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District is a non-profit 501c (3) organization with a mission to plan, design and build a comprehensive arts and cultural district in the Lincoln Park/Coast area of the City of Newark, New Jersey. LincolnPark Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) is transforming a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey from blighted lots into an urban eco-village. Leading the revitalization of an emerging arts and cultural district, LPCCD is one of the nation’s best practices in sustainable urban development. The project includes 125 LEED United States Green Building Council certified units, music festivals, historic restoration projects and the Museum of African American Music, a Smithsonian Affiliate.

Source: Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District

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The 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival “Afternoon of Jazz” Celebrates Newark’s Influence on the Genre

Newark, N.J., July 30, 2010 — July 30th is officially Newark Jazz Composers and Musicians Day in the City of Newark when the Jazz All-Star Newark Arkestra hosted by Amiri Baraka opens the 5th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 12pm – 2pm. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will invoke the “Tickler’s Town” spirit of Newark’s past and perform a historical overview of Newark Composers and a concomitant sampling of Great Ladies of the music. The Afternoon of Jazz at the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival will go back to early in the century with Willie The Lion’s Smith “Echoes of Spring”, and Besse Smith’s great “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out”, to James P. Johnson’s “Charleston”. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will highlight the great Ethel Waters and the mood of the period with the song that made her famous “Taking a Chance on Love” and “Cabin in the Sky” from the marvelous film. For more information and a complete list of this year’s performances and attractions for seniors, families and children, visit http://www.lpccd.org/mf2010. READ MORE »

MEDIA ADVISORY
For July 29, 2010

The Retrospective Photography, Film and Multimedia Art Exhibit About The Lincoln Park Music Festival Will Be On View July 29 – October 2

NEWARK, N.J., July 29, 2010 – State Farm Insurance and Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District host the opening reception for “Reflections” an exhibit about the Lincoln Park Music Festival on Thursday, July 29, 6-9pm at the Russell Aldo Murray Gallery. Reflections, curated by Tony Graves & Akintola Hanif, is a retrospective look at the festival over the last four years and features works by Tamara Fleming, Tony Graves, Akintola Hanif, Jaecyne Howell, and Stafford Woods and a priceless collection of photos by Vincent Bryant taken from 1972-1978 at Newark’s legendary Zanzibar nightclub. DJ Max Jerome provides a kaleidoscope of sound for the reception. The exhibition and opening reception are part of the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival activities. For a complete festival details visit www.lpccd.org/mf2010. READ MORE »

NJPAC’S FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES, SOUNDS OF THE CITY, THURSDAY EVENINGS, JUNE 24 – AUGUST 26

NEW DJ SERIES INCLUDES LEGENDARY HIP-HOP DJ’S D-NICE AND QUESTLOVE WEDNESDAY NIGHTS,
JULY 7 – JULY 28

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR TUESDAYS AT CALÇADA JULY 6 – JULY 27

NEWARK, NJ, June 30, 2010 – This summer, NJPAC is the place to be every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night. The Arts Center’s popular series, Sounds of the City, rocks Theater Square with FREE music, dancing, and a hopping social scene. The State’s hottest weekly music series, featuring Newark’s, New Jersey’s and the region’s best jazz, pop/rock, R&B and world music artists, includes over 30 bands, DJs, a vendor marketplace, and a multi-thousand-person party Thursday evenings, June 24 through August 27 (with one Wednesday, June 30), from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. New this year, on Wednesdays in July, NJPAC turns up the heat with Sonic Superstars, a free DJ series headlined by some of the world’s top DJs. And on Tuesdays throughout the summer, NJPAC and WBGO 88.3 FM radio partner for Jazz Happy Hours in Calçada, Theater Square Grill’s outdoor, tented restaurant. READ MORE »

NEWARK, NJ, April 15, 2010 – Clubhouse Music Enterprises and GLT Arts & Entertainment presents Live in Concert Broadway & Recording Artist, Lee Truesdale on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Key Club located at 58 Park Place, Newark, NJ. For more information call 973-799-0306. READ MORE »

NEWARK, N.J., March 17, 2010 – The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Alternate Routes series teams up genre-bending singer-songwriter, Toshi Reagon, and her band, BIGLovely, with her mother, the composer/scholar/teacher and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon, for one night only, Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Victoria Theater. Tickets are $39 and are available by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org. All tickets can be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org. Alternate Routes is made possible, in part, by American Express, the Ford Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information: www.njpac.org. READ MORE »

HIP HOP: OUT, LOUD & PROUD IV, April 9, 2010
and
NEWARK IS BURNING: CAKEWALK TO CATWALK, April 10, 2010

Newark, NJ, March 17, 2010 – The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s (NJPAC) Alternate Routes series brings to Newark a two-day GLBT festival, opening with the return of the annual audience-pleaser, Hip Hop: Out, Loud & Proud IV, a night of spoken word and hip hop focusing on sexuality and performed by artists of all sexual orientations, and Newark is Burning: Cakewalk to Catwalk, an homage to the gender-bending high energy performances and haute couture fashions from the gay “House Ballroom Scene.” READ MORE »

POSTPONED: Newark Now Fathers Now, Newark Museum and Gradygirl Productions
Host Premier of “Man Up: The Exploration of A Fatherless Nation” Documentary

Newark, NJ February 24, 2010 – The premier of “Man Up: The Exploration of a Fatherless Nation” that was scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25, at 6:00pm at the Newark Museum has been rescheduled due to impending severe inclement weather. The rescheduled date and time is Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at the Newark Museum auditorium at 6:00pm. Fathers Now produced this FREE community program in an effort to encourage conversations that rebuild the bonds and responsibility of fatherhood in Newark.

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