August 2013 archive

Celebrate Pride This Saturday

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Woo-hoo! Jersey City Celebrates Pride in its 13th LGBT Festival on Saturday 8/24. Exchange Place Plaza is where the action starts and goes on from noon to 6pm. Come out and show your support for equality.

There will be plenty of entertainment—live music, games, an obstacle course, food, a vendor’s marketplace, a dunk tank, bronco ride and plenty of guest speakers who are prominent on the battle for local and national recognition. Our ever-present Mayor Steve Fulop will also be making an appearance.

This year’s hosts are Hudson Pride Connections Center and Humanity Pride. PRIDE co-chairs Jonathan P. Lucas and Michael Billy are expecting the biggest turnout yet.

Please recognize that this is a free event for all residents with no suggested donation, just simply that you support the message.

Other ways you can help:

Sponsorship: You or your organization can be a sponsor. Contact Jonathan Lucas at sponsors@hudsonpride.org or by calling Jonathan at 201-963-4779 x 420.

Vendors: Festival welcomes food, merchandise and community vendors, who will be furnished with a tent, table and two chairs at no additional cost to vendor registration ($25). Application here.

Volunteer: Application here.

Donate: Here.

Other details here.

Live at the Lumberyard Tonight: Friday 8/23

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Kick off the weekend with “Live at The Lumberyard,” a free concert in the Heights starting at 7pm. The event really does take place in a lumberyard, located on Palisade near Griffith Street (close to Riverview Fisk Park). Originally scheduled earlier in the summer, the show was called off because it was raining bullets. Hopefully that won’t happen again tonight so we can all rock out. Yay Friday! Bands playing and their links below:

7pm | GMJ Groove

8pm | Sea of Otters

9pm | Twiddlin’ Thumbs

 

Flier here.

 

Enjoy the weekend,
JCG

Groove on Grove 8/21/13

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Party with live music at Groove on Grove on this gorgeous night at the Grove Street PATH Plaza. Tonight’s theme is The Rock Emporium. Here’s the lineup:

6pm | Fiscal Cliff
7pm | Risk Relay
8pm | The Everymen

Barclays FedEx Cup Playoffs: Volunteers Needed! 8/20-8/25

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Jersey City Residents: Be awesome this week and volunteer at one of the most amazing golf courses in the country, Liberty National, as they prepare and host the Barclays playoffs this Thursday-Sunday. They need help starting today and throughout the weekend tourney which supports the American Association for Cancer Research.

Sign up here!

Related: CBS Documentary on PGA Tour: Playing With A Purpose

Macbeth Saturday 8/17

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The Hudson Shakespeare Company performs Macbeth live at The Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery (435 Newark Ave.) at 7pm on Saturday, August 17th. Watch a classic put to the stage in this theatrical benefit for the cemetery, which is a 100% volunteer-operated space, having no house-of-worship affiliation and no city or state funding.

This performance is sure to knock you out of the park! So bring your friends, your family, your blankets (nights are starting to get chilly). You may think a cemetery is a creepy place to gather, especially at night, but Harsimus really is a neat spot. Read about my experience here.

There’s a suggested donation of $10 per person for the show. In the cemetery’s words: “Every month we need to raise between $2000 to $3000 just to operate & purchase equipment & supplies. If 300 people would donate only $10 each, we would be all set for the month of September! Please help our amazing restoration work by contributing today at http://www.jerseycitycemetery.org

 

Enjoy,
JCG

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