Princeton NJ Events

Winery Weekend Music Series, Terhune's

Saturday May 20, 2023
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Join family and friends in our historic apple orchard this spring for our Winery Weekend Music Series. Grab a glass of one of our award-winning wines, sit back, relax, and enjoy live music from local artists each week. Styles range from Jazz and Blues to Folk and Rock. Music plays from from 2pm-5pm.

With 17 varieties of wine made with Terhune’s own grapes as well as three wines from our apple cider, tasting flights are a great way to sample the wide offerings. Warm up with delicious hot mulled wine. Our Barn Door Café will have light fare, while cheese plates and chips & salsa baskets are available at the winery. Perfect to enjoy with a glass of wine!

 No reservations are needed. No outside food or pets, please. Groups maximum of 8.

Live music on Saturday and Sunday from 2pm-4pm  - May 20 - Chris P

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Open House: Traces on the Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Art on Hulfish

Saturday May 20, 2023
1:00 PM

11 Hulfish Street, Princeton. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Celebrate the opening of Traces on the Landscape. Learn more about the art on view with the exhibition curator Beth Gollnick. Traces on the Landscape features contemporary artists who depict the natural world through experiences of the body, race, gender, and ethnicity.

Camp Tours, Appel Farm Arts Camp

Saturday May 20, 2023
1:00 PM

Appel Farm Arts Camp will ignite your creativity, kindness and confidence this summer! Check out our gender inclusive, overnight arts camp for ages 7-17. Program areas include music, theatre performance, theatre tech, dance, visual arts, photography, video, creative writing, sports and swim, and green corps. Campers are welcomed into a supportive, diverse community where friendship and acceptance are valued. Make the best friends of your life, develop your artistic talents, and experience independence, inspiration, and loads of fun. Explore arts and learning in a safe environment of community, personal growth, and fun! We do camp differently.

In Person and Virtual Tours @Appel Farm Arts Camp - Sign up at appelfarm.org/camptour for the following dates: Saturday, March 25, 1pm Saturday, April 22, 1pm Saturday, May 20, 1pm (during Arts Fest 11am-3pm)

D&R Greenway Public Grand Opening, Discovery Center at Point Breeze

Saturday May 20, 2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

D&R Greenway Land Trust is pleased to welcome community members to the Public Opening of the new Discovery Center at Point Breeze on Saturday, May 20, 2023, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m., 101 Park Street in Bordentown, NJ. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 1:00 pm in front of the paneled mahogany doors at the entrance to the Discovery Center. Barbara ‘Blue Jay’ Michalski will offer a Lenape blessing. Bordentown City Mayor Jennifer Sciortino will be joined with State and local dignitaries to cut the ribbon, along with D&R Greenway President and CEO Linda Mead who oversaw the design of the new museum.

Members of the public are invited to the Public Grand Opening on May 20 to tour of the new Discovery Center and Historic Garden, view art and never-before-seen exhibits and a Delaware River sturgeon sculpture by artist Kate Graves.

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CMS Kids: Exploring Dvorák, Princeton University Concerts

Saturday May 20, 2023
1:00 PM

Princeton University Concerts ("PUC") welcomes The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ("CMS") back to Princeton for the final family program of the 2022-23 season— "CMS Kids: Exploring Dvo?ák," curated for kids ages 3-6 and their families. Performances will take place on Saturday, May 20 at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM in the Lee Rehearsal Room at the Lewis Arts Complex. Host Rami Vamos and the professional musicians of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will guide audiences in an exploration of the theme of identity through Antonín Dvo?ák's Quartet in E-flat Major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 87. This inclusive concert experience is adapted for neurodiverse audiences, including children with autism or other special needs. The performance is presented in a judgment-free environment, and is less formal and more supportive of sensory, communication, movement, and learning needs.

Tickets for Princeton University Concerts' family programs go quickly and are only $5 for children and $10 for adults. Tickets are available at puc.princeton.edu, or by phone at 609-258-9220 (Mon-Fri, 11AM-4PM).

Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours, Princeton University Art Museum

Saturday May 20, 2023
2:00 PM

Join a guided walking tour of the campus collections with an Art Museum guide and discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Sol LeWitt to Maya Lin.

Residential Colleges Neighborhood, Princeton University Art Museum, Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, University Place. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

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Colors of Indian Music, West Windsor Arts Council

Saturday May 20, 2023
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Roohaniyat, a music and culture center, presents Navrang, Hindi for colorful and beautiful, featuring music in Hindustani, Carnatic, Folk, Quawaali, and Sufi styles and rendered in various languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and Punjabi, accompanied by traditional Indian music instruments like tabla and harmonium. Register. $25.

952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org

No Name Dance, Central Jersey Dance Society

Saturday May 20, 2023
7:00 PM

Central Jersey Dance Society presents our No Name Dance:

7:00pm-8:00pm: Hustle lesson (beginner/intermediate) taught by our talented, award-winning instructor Donna Boyle.

8:00pm-11:00pm: Open dancing to a great playlist of California Mix, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Night Club 2-Step, Hustle, and Latin dance music with Donna Boyle as DJ.

Location: Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street (for GPS, use: 1 Monument Drive), Princeton, NJ 08540. No partner needed; newbies, singles, and couples are welcome. Sanitation stations provided. Dancers are encouraged to bring their own bottles of water. Admission: $15/adult, $10/full time student with ID. For more information: call 609-945-1883, email VolunteersCJDS@gmail.com, or visit www.centraljerseydance.org.

Blues for an Alabama Sky, McCarter Theater

Saturday May 20, 2023
8:00 PM

May 6 - May 28

In a Depression-era Harlem apartment building, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. New roommates Angel and Guy — a recently fired blues singer and a promising costume designer with Paris in his sights — live across the hall from Delia, a social worker who sparks a relationship with the hardworking doctor Sam. Their lives are upturned when a Southern newcomer Leland arrives and falls hard for Angel, who is torn between a stable life in New York City and an exhilarating overseas adventure with Guy. Angel chooses her path, but the decision leads to devastating consequences that shift the trajectory of everyone’s futures and long-held dreams.

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