Princeton NJ Events

Fridays at Mercer Cemetery at Trenton

Friday September 15, 2023
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Gather with a spirited group of friends each Friday during September to learn more about the historic Mercer Cemetery at Trenton! Break away from your office or home to enjoy live music (Yes, live!) as well as food trucks! Weather will dictate whether the event will take place.

Participating food trucks include The Latest Dish, Shabazz Fish & Chips, Chic Gourmet Empanadas, Ice Dreamz Water Ice, and H&S Ice Cream.

Fridays at Mercer Cemetery at Trenton will begin Friday, September 1 and will repeat itself on September 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. The event will run from 11am to 2pm. The Mercer Cemetery at Trenton is located at 42 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, NJ 08625.

Soil & Light: A Poetry Event at The Farminary

Friday September 15, 2023
7:00 PM

Acclaimed poets Camille Dungy and Tess Taylor are coming to Princeton next week for a celebration of creativity and the land.

Dungy's latest book, SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, revels in the pleasures and vexations of tending the earth, while bringing to light the traumas and overlooked qualities of gardening while Black. She shows us how careful attention to what grows, and how we accompany flourishing, might yield not just delicious and delightful gardens, but good theology. In Leaning Toward Light: Poems For Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them, Taylor has assembled the brightest voices in contemporary poetry – including Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limon, and Ross Gay – to sing of flowers and failures in and beyond the garden. In addition to the Friday night reading and reception, you'll find two different writing workshops you can participate in, honing your creative skill alongside award-winning writers.

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Movie Night on the Green, Palmer Square Green

Friday September 15, 2023
7:30 PM

Screening of "Rudy" under the stars. Bring your own blanket or lawn chair.

Palmer Square Green

Bulrusher, McCarter Theater

Friday September 15, 2023
8:00 PM

Sept 13 - Oct 7

Eisa Davis' Pulitzer Prize finalist transports us to the predominantly white town of Boonville, nestled in the majestic Redwoods of 1955 California. Orphaned as an infant and possessing the mystical gift of clairvoyance, Bulrusher feels her small-town world closing in around her, until a mysterious Black girl from Alabama arrives harboring a secret, awakening new discoveries and uncovering old truths.

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Sunset Boulevard, Music Mountain Theater

Friday September 15, 2023
8:00 PM

Sept 15 - Oct 1

Friday & Saturday at 8pm

Saturday & Sunday at 3pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning masterwork of dreams and desire in the land called Hollywood includes the lush, swelling standards “With One Look,” “As If We Never Said Goodbye” and “Perfect Year.” In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded silent-screen goddess Norma Desmond lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screenwriter Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive domain. Persuaded to work on Norma’s “masterpiece,” a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, Joe is seduced by her and her luxurious lifestyle. Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic existence until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free with dramatic consequences.

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Concert, The Princeton Folk Music Society

Friday September 15, 2023
8:00 PM

The Princeton Folk Music Society presents our first concert in our 2023-24 season with Castlebay, live and live-streamed. Castlebay weaves together the music of New England and the Celtic lands. Members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee feature tunes played on Celtic harp, guitar, fiddle and tin whistle.

Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ. Tickets in advance or at the door: $25 ($20 members, $10 students, $5 children). Show starts at 8:00 PM, doors open at 7:30. Ample free parking. Masks required for entry. For more information, advance tickets, and livestream info: www.princetonfolk.org

Public Night, Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton

Friday September 15, 2023
9:00 PM

Weather permitting; call to confirm. Observation begins approximately 1 hour after sunset. No telescopes or observing experience necessary as our team members will be there to assist with the observatory telescopes.

Observatory, Washington Crossing State Park, Titusville, 609-737-2575. www.princetonastronomy.org.