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The Mercer County Holocaust-Genocide Resource Center and Congregation Beth Chaim of Princeton Junction will be commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day with a screening of the documentary “Only a Number” on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road East, Princeton Junction.

The Girls Scouts of Princeton marked the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts with a sunny, festive gathering at the Princeton Shopping Center this morning.
 
While more than a hundred girls participated in a mass outdoor Zumba lesson, others manned ten activity centers dotted around the courtyard, focusing on issues ranging from history and the outdoors, to the environment.
 

Saxophonist Claire Daly discusses the life of her cousin Mary Joyce, whose many adventures included being the first non-native Alaskan to dogsled the 1,000 mile run between Juneau and Fairbanks (in 1936), the first ham radio operator in the Alaskan Territories, and the only woman to run supplies for the Allies by dogsled in World War II. Daly and pianist Steve Hudson will perform a program of original compositions in tribute to Joyce.

West Windsor, NJ – Maurer Productions OnStage brings classic laughs to the stage with the Neil Simon comedy “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” at Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre. Dates and times for this hilarious salute to the comedy writers of television’s golden age are: Fridays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is located on Mercer’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. A reception with the cast and crew follows the opening night performance on Jan. 27.

Poets Eloise Bruce and David Keller read from their work followed by a 20-minute open mic session. Bruce’s first book of poetry, “Rattle” was published in 2004, and she has had various roles at the Frost Place Center for Poetry over the years. A recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry, she is dedicated to expanding the role of the arts in education. Keller was the first Guest American Poet at the Poets’ House in Northern Ireland and for many years was director of Admissions at the Frost Place Center for Poetry.

Leo Lowy was imprisoned in Terezin and Buchenwald during World War II. He is one of about a dozen teen survivors of Terezin, whose story is told in the book and choral work “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” As part of the Princeton Reads discussion of topics covered in “The History of Love,” Leo and his son, Jon, will talk about how Leo told his story to his family and how it will be passed to future generations. Community Room.

Nadezda (“Nadia”) Savova is a Princeton Anthropology graduate student who believes you can change the world by the simple act of making bread.  In just two years she has proven this by building a network of community-based “Bread Houses” around the world, and now she plans to start one in the Princeton area.

This documentary tells the story of interactive artist Tom Luckey and how, after a fall left him paralyzed, his son Spencer helped him finish the enormous climbable sculpture he had been commissioned to build at the Boston Children’s Museum. The Luckeys have recently been working with Mapleton Nurseries to create accessible gardens for residents of Elm Court in Princeton and will be working on other projects in Princeton.

In the newly-published book, Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific Princeton author, reveals aspects of the impulse that keeps her writing, often for 12 hours a day when working on a first draft, as well as the thinking and dreaming in which she immerses herself when preparing a novel.  “It’s an intense and ineffable experience which is difficult to talk about,” says Oates, who doesn’t begin to write until she has “the whole thing in my head like a movie.”

“When Scott and Hella told me they had selected one of my poems, I felt honored,” said poet and children’s author Penny Harter as we set out to join a gathering of poets, nature lovers, and land conservationists to walk the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at the D&R Greenway last Friday (April 15).

April is National Poetry Month and in Princeton this means a new issue of U.S.1 Worksheets, the (now) annual poetry journal of U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative.  Last Sunday, April 3, the community room of the Princeton Public Library was packed to capacity, as poets gathered to celebrate the arrival of Volume 56 of U.S.1 Worksheets, featuring the work of 98 local and regional poets.

Hallie Flanagan.  Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but she - or rather the Depression-era Federal Theatre Project she created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration - reached millions across the country. 

Author and linguist Deborah Fallows presents a lecture on Chinese language and culture titled “Dreaming — and Thinking —in Chinese,” followed by a book-signing. Fallows is the author of “Dreaming In Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language.” She has recently lived in Shanghai and Beijing and traveled throughout China for three years with her husband, writer and journalist James Fallows. While in China, she worked for the Internet Project at the Pew Research Center, looking at Internet use in China.

Film: “Tell Them Anything You Want"
Community Room
Monday, Dec 13, 7 p.m.

"There Goes the Judge," called "a precious little allegory" by the LA Weekly, is the story of a Candy Mogul, whose “Chocolate Covered Presidential Heads” have made her gloriously rich. In the play, she describes her past as a humble poet returning to her apartment to find a Circuit Judge hiding in her closet and the others who hunt for him. Starring in the play is Anne Connors working with her husband Leland Schwantes. Tickets available at the door.

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