Princeton NJ Events

DIY Pop-Up Project: Hand-Lettered Envelopes, Arts Council of Princeton

Sunday January 15, 2023
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Learn the basic skills of modern hand-lettering to create personality-packed envelopes to be used for thank you notes, invitations, etc. This class covers a range of topics for beginner calligraphers, including spacing and style ideas, use of stamps and stickers, and how to channel your unique aesthetic. Register via EventBrite. Free.

Palmer Square Pop-Up Studio, 44 Hulfish Street, Princeton.

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Mayors Wellness Campaign: Zentangle with Mimi, Princeton Public Library

Sunday January 15, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Create beautiful works of art using Zentangle, a method of drawing using structured shapes with recurring patterns that can help increase focus and decrease stress. Registration is required.

Instructor Mimi Topping is an artist, certified art teacher and a certified Zentangle teacher. This class is intended for adults and teens, and registration is required. Materials for each registrant will be provided.

Butterfly Zentangle images from an April 2022 session. Presented in partnership with the Mayors Wellness Campaign Community Health Initiative.

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Dragons and Mythical Beasts, State Theater

Sunday January 15, 2023
1:00 PM

1 and 5pm

Calling all brave heroes! Enter into a magical world of myths and legends in this fantastical new show for the whole family! This Olivier Award-nominated show comes to the U.S. direct from the West End, from the creators of the international smash hit Dinosaur World Live, who bring spectacular puppets to life.

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Winery Weekend Music Series, Terhune's

Sunday January 15, 2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join us for cheer in the winery to enjoy live music and meet up with family and friends. With indoor seating in our wine barn among the wine tanks and outdoor seating with firepits. Enjoy hot mulled wine, tasting flights of Terhune favorite wines, and wine by the glass. All ages can have fun with s’mores and hot cocoa kits. Light bites of cheese plates and chips & salsa baskets are available at the winery. Perfect to enjoy with a glass of wine in the sun.

Musical guest: Larry Tritel  

Trailblazers by Music for the Soul, 1867 Sanctuary

Sunday January 15, 2023
3:00 PM

Trailblazers features world renowned string players Lenuta and George Atanasiu and pianist Clipper Erickson in a program of pioneering works by composers of past and present on Martin Luther King weekend, January 15 at 3:00 PM EST.

As part of the Music for the Soul series, we combine Nathaniel Dett’s seminal work of African-American music, In the Bottoms, with leading contemporary Ukrainian Bohdana Frolyak’s intensely moving remembrance of the 1932-33 famine, Lamento, and Beethoven’s first trio, Op. 1, No. 1. Plus a world premiere by Italian Alberto Caprioli for violin and piano, La petite phrase retrouvée, commemorating French writer Marcel Proust. The Music for the Soul series features works by composers of color and women with well-known masterworks of the past.

Tickets at the Door or Livestream: $25 for Adults; $10 for Students Livestream from Mandolin at: Trailblazers – Livestream Ticket 1/15 – Mandolin Box Office

Pretty Yende, Princeton Symphony Orchestra

Sunday January 15, 2023
4:00 PM

South African opera sensation Pretty Yende performs arias from Gioachino Rossini 's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata as well as Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The Princeton Symphony Orchestra will play overtures from operas by Rossini and Verdi, plus Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Rossen Milanov conducts. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University Campus, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $30 (children 5-17 who are accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks' notice, contact Kitanya at kkhateri@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org or 609-497-0020.

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Jaca Jam Presents The Woe Nellies, Princeton Makes

Sunday January 15, 2023
4:00 PM

"Java Jam" free monthly coffeehouse, this month featuring five woman ukulele band the "Woe Nellies." at "Princeton Makes" a local artist co-op located at Princeton Shopping Center.

301 N. Harrison Street, Princeton