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Ag Field Day on Cook Campus April 28
The Office of the Executive Dean and the Office of Scholarship Programs and Alumni Relations will host a tent adjacent to the Alumni House, where visitors can meet the deans, alumni can connect with their classmates and prospective students and their parents can gather for tours of Cook Campus. Visitors can also tour the Rutgers Science Bus and enjoy fun and games for the kids, including face painting, balloon animals, magic tricks, and clowns.
Other events include the animal shows featuring student exhibitions of dairy cattle, goats, horses, pigs and sheep; the New Jersey State 4-H Dog Show; plant and flower sales, student club activities and tours of Rutgers Garden. The event will take place rain or shine. For more information click here.
Music, crafts from the Dominican Republic come to Rutgers for annual NJ Folk Festival
The New Jersey Folk Festival will feature the rich variety of Dominican music and culture as it fills the grounds in front of the Wood Lawn mansion on the Douglass Campus from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 28. Admission is free, and the festival will
take place rain or shine. It will take place oon the same day and across the street from the Ag Field Day at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the newly named Cook College.
Yaya, a nine-member female a cappella group, will headline the festival this year. Yaya is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich cultural legacies and African-based musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, with particular emphasis on the role of women in those cultures and traditions. Yaya will be joined by Conjunto Folklorico, consisting of 40 young people from 6 to 22, who will perform Dominican folk dances; the Latin Heat dance group from New Brunswick High School; and Scarlet Mambo, a dance company focused on teaching and performing salsa music.
While the New Jersey Folk Festival features music and culture from a particular tradition each year, each year it includes a rich mix of music on each of its three stages – Skylands, Pinelands and Shore. The Shore Stage is home to the singer/songwriter showcase, emcee’d this year by “Spook” Handy, the folksinger/guitarist and veteran of many New Jersey Folk Festivals, and Dan O’Dea, a senior, and a member of the folk festival management class.
The Pinelands Stage is the workshop stage, where musicians, folklorists, singers and story tellers gather to jam, swap stories and discuss the tricks of their various trades. The stage is overseen by folksinger and guitarist Jim Albertson and singer/songwriter Roger Dietz. The Skylands Stage is the main stage of the festival, where the featured acts will perform, and awards will be presented. This year, the New Jersey Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award will be given to the Irish flutist Mike Rafferty.
The festival and field day together draw tens of thousands of people in search of an eclectic day out. Ag Field Day includes animal shows featuring student exhibitions of dairy cattle, goats, horses, pigs and sheep; the New Jersey 4-H Dog Show; plant and flower sales; student club activities; and tours of Rutgers Gardens.
Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Arts Program presents play about immigration
Immigration, visas and detention centers have become familiar issues today, especially in the aftermath of 9/11. These hot topics are at the center of the new play, Time Without Number, which will be showing this April in the Bradley Hall Theatre, 110 Warren St., Newark.
Time Without Number was developed from Rutgers students’ research and interviews with detainees, guards, immigration advocates and lawyers. The play is directed by Rutgers-Newark Professor Timothy Raphael, who directed the similarly themed Something to Declare: Tales of Immigration, which was presented in 2004. The Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Arts Program produced both plays.
Raphael explained that teaching about immigration is very relevant at Rutgers Newark, since many students are immigrants. “It's a piece that has something to say to this campus,” said Raphael. “I certainly think of students as the primary audience, but also of the larger Newark community, because of the Elizabeth detention center, so close to here.”
Time Without Number will be presented in the Bradley Hall Theater on April 18, 19, 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. and April 22 at 2:30 p.m. For reservations, email theatre@njit.edu, or call 973-353-5119, ext. 17. The play is open to the general public; tickets are $7/general admission, $5 for students.
Rutgers-Newark forum on social justice, research, and urban areas
A half-day forum April 20 at the Center for Law and Justice will explore complex issues of social justice facing urban areas, particularly in the metropolitan Newark and Northern New Jersey area. The forum, sponsored by The Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, will examine topics such as the effects of violence and crime on children; prison privatization; and the intersection of imprisonment and child welfare. The forum is free and open to the public, but registration is required since seating is limited. Please RSVP Irene Welch, 973-353-1750, ext. 221, or irenew@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
University District Concert Series in Camden welcomes spring
The University District Concerts at Noon series will offer those who work or live in or near Camden an opportunity to enjoy the warming spring weather and listen to live music. Sponsored by the County of Camden, Camden County College, Rowan University, Rutgers University-Camden, and the Greater Camden Partnership, the lunchtime series will take place:
April 17: Fortune Vincent Cruse, with Brenda Smith, will waft smooth jazz sounds through the springtime air.
April 24: Mezzrow will deliver contemporary sound with a classic rock vibe.
The concerts will be held on the Rutgers-Camden quad. Admission is free of charge.