Princeton NJ Events

Kids Summer Movie Series @PPL - "Deep"

Friday July 15, 2022
3:00 PM

Princeton Public Library - Community Room

After their colony is accidentally destroyed, an octopus named Deep, an angler fish named Evo and a sea shrimp named Alice embark on a journey across the ocean to find a new home. Along the way, they make new friends and encounter dangerous predators.

Lions Gate Films, Inc., 2017. Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes. Rated: PG.

Sunset Sips & Sounds, Terhune Orchards

Friday July 15, 2022
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

 Live music by Catmoondaddy. Light fare, cheese plates, chips & salsa baskets, and wine by the glass available.

330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com.

Summer Concert Series: Dance Night: Epic Soul, Mercer County Park

Friday July 15, 2022
6:00 PM

Epic Soul features some of the top musicians in the Northeast who perform over 100 dates a year together. This dedicated group, featuring members of the Chops Horns, offers a truly unique dance party experience, utilizing state of the art technology at every performance. Their three lead singers are wireless so that they can be out on the dance floor and make everyone feel like they are part of the party.

Guests welcomed to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and sealed bottles of water. Outside food and alcohol, coolers, and glass bottles are PROHIBITED. Dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Admission will be $5 per person. Children under 12 are free.

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Opening Reception, By The Light of Day - a Plein Air Exhibition, WWAC

Friday July 15, 2022
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

West Windsor Arts brings plein art painting to West Windsor with their summer show, By the Light of Day. Plein-air painting is, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air in a landscape painting. It expresses a spirit of spontaneity and truth to personal impulse within art. Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh was notably a fan of plein air painting, or the practice of painting in the great outdoors. Other impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors in the diffuse light of a large white umbrella. Decisions have to be made quickly, therefore painting reactions are more intuitive.

The exhibition is on view at West Windsor Arts. Our jurors include Lori Langsner, M.S., and Bob Barish.

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ACP'S Story & Verse Outdoor Summer Series, Pettoranello Gardens

Friday July 15, 2022
7:00 PM

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) and African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County (AACCMC) announce that their monthly Story & Verse open mic will head outdoors for its Summer Series. Beginning Friday, June 17, these poetic and storytelling events will be held at Pettoranello Gardens and are free and open to all.

Story & Verse was established in February 2020 and has continued monthly since. Taking place in the Arts Council’s Solley Theater throughout the year, Story & Verse welcomes local and regional talent to perform original works inspired by a monthly theme, providing attendees with free, community-created entertainment. The Summer Series marks the return to Pettoranello Gardens, welcoming one and all to enjoy live performance by our talented community members in a beautiful outdoor setting. Story & Verse is held in collaboration with the African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County.

Friday, July 15, 7pm: “Spark in the Dark”

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Movie Nights on the Green – Encanto

Friday July 15, 2022
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Enjoy a family-friendly outdoor movie under the stars on Palmer Square! Join us for a screening of Encanto on Friday, July 15th.

Come early for upscale shopping and enjoy al fresco dining before the show or pick up a meal to bring to the Green! Free admission.

Bring your own blanket or lawn chair for your group - Conveniently park in the Hulfish or Chambers Street Garages for $5 after 4pm. Movies will begin at dusk!

Staff from Princeton Public Library will be on Palmer Square starting at 7:30 pm with kid-friendly activities and information about the “Oceans of Possibilities” being offered through the library’s annual summer reading program. So come early and join the fun before the movie!

The Fox on the Fairway, Princeton Summer Theater

Friday July 15, 2022
8:00 PM

The tribute from Ken Ludwig to the great English farces of the 1930s and 40s begins as Quail Valley Country Club prepares to take on archrival Crouching Squirrel in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. $34.50.

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In the Heights, Music Mountain Theater

Friday July 15, 2022
8:00 PM

JULY 8 – 24 -  Friday & Satuday 8pm Saturday & Sunday 3pm

Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Conceived By Lin-Manuel Miranda

In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood - a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

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