Princeton NJ Events

Open House, Liberty Lake Day Camp

Sunday January 30, 2022
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Come out to see the grounds, meet our staff, and learn about our programs. Activities and snacks available.

Liberty Lake is committed to creating an environment that supports equal participation opportunities for campers and staff members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital status, national origin, or disability.

Reservations: https://lldc.youcanbook.me/

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Virtual Open House, Princeton Charter School

Sunday January 30, 2022
11:00 AM

Princeton Charter School is a free, K-8 public school. We invite you to see our school, talk to our families, and decide for yourself if we are a good choice for your family.

11am - grades K - 4

12pm - grades - 5 -8 

Register for Lottery Online: www.princetoncharter.org  - Lottery Registration Deadline: Wednesday 3/9/22, 12:00 Noon

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Planetarium Shows, New Jersey State Museum

Sunday January 30, 2022
12:00 PM

205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-3170. 

Shows every hour: "STARS" at noon; "The Little Star That Could" at 1 p.m.; "Laser Rock" at 2 p.m.; "Wildest Weather in the Solar System" at 3 p.m. Visit website for full schedule. 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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The Jews from Arab Lands, Jewish Center Princeton

Sunday January 30, 2022
12:00 PM

ZOOM LECTURE With Professor Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, University of Groningen (The Nethlerlands)

On the eve of the creation of the State of Israel nearly one million Jews lived across the Arab world. Today, at most, a few thousand remain. Why did they leave and what cultural remnants are still there? Take a sweeping tour of the modern history of Jews from the Arab world.

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in 2019 from Leiden University and specialized in the modern history of Middle Eastern and North African Jewry. She is the author of numerous scholarly and trade publications including her recent monograph Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism (Brill, 2021).

For security reasons, Registration is required for all programs. To register, please sign up at the following link. Registration closes Friday, January 28 @ 2:00PM. We cannot accept late registrations.

Wassailing the Apple Trees, Terhune Orchards

Sunday January 30, 2022
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Enjoy dancing and singing by the Molly Dancers and re-enactments of old English traditional rituals, as well as chanting and music making, toasts of hot cider and placing gifts of cider-soaked bread in the tree branches while chanting the lively words of praise for the New Year.Top the evening off by a bonfire, complete with marshmallows , and live music by the Spiced Punch Quartet playing traditional music using violins and flutes of many kinds.

Join the fun. Bring noise makers — drums, whistles, bells, clackers, or put a few pebbles in an empty coffee can with a lid. These will make a joyful and worthy noise to drive away any and all spirits.

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Our Town, Kelsey Theatre

Sunday January 30, 2022
2:00 PM

Thornton Wilder’s timeless Our Town explores the universal themes of life, death, and everything in between -- through the eyes of a small New England town at the turn of the 20th century. Shakespeare ’70 brings us an Our Town for our times, featuring an ensemble cast, the play posits the question: “Do human beings realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?”

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Spamilton: An American Parody

Sunday January 30, 2022
2:00 PM

Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway and performed by a versatile cast of eight, Spamilton: An American Parody is a side-splitting new musical parody. A crash course of everyone’s favorite Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires, pop culture zings accompanied with hip-hop on the piano! After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, Spamilton: An American Parody will stage a singing, dancing, comedy revolution at Bucks County Playhouse.

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Princeton History Walking Tour, Historical Society of Princeton

Sunday January 30, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Enjoy a 90-minute walk around downtown Princeton and the University campus as you learn about historic sites in the area, including Bainbridge House, Nassau Hall, the University Chapel and Palmer Square. The early history of Princeton, the founding of the University, and the American Revolution are just some of the stories from Princeton’s history that you will learn on your tour.

Tickets are $10. Advance purchase is required. Tour starts in the courtyard of the Princeton Battle Monument (GPS address: 1 Monument Drive).

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, State Theatre New Jersey

Sunday January 30, 2022
3:00 PM

London-based orchestra led by conductor Vasily Petrenko with cello solist Kian Soltani plays a program of Britten's Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes; Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35; and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. $17.50 to $70.

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Noises Off, Music Mountain Theater

Sunday January 30, 2022
3:00 PM

Called "the funniest farce ever written," Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of initerant actors rehearsing a flop called, Nothing's On. Doors Slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play. ? ?

Playwright Michael Frayn got the idea to write Noises Off after seeing one of his own plays from backstage and and deciding it was “funnier from behind than it was in front!” We see the company perform their show three times: once in rehearsal, once from backstage and once from the front as the audience

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