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If you have a cell phone, you'll want to come hear Professor Brian Kernighan's presentation and ask him some questions.

Erica Lehrer, poet, and Dr. Sam Wang, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, will be on hand to introduce and read from Lehrer’s collection of poems, Dancing with Ataxia. Profits from the sale of Dancing with Ataxia will be donated to Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute and towards medical research via the National Ataxia Foundation.

Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will present a recital of music for flute, 'cello, and piano Thursday, February 16 at 12:15 p.m. in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street in Princeton.  Admission is free.

Opening Reception In conjunction with Princeton ArtWalk, a self-guided evening of drop-in visual art activities along Nassau and Witherspoon Streets in downtown Princeton. Artists In Drawing Beyond include: Eve Aschheim, Caroline Burton, Theresa Chong, Patti Jordan, William Kentridge and Sun K. Kwak. Guest curated by Marsha Levin-Rojer.

The Chamber warmly welcomes Kevin Kruse, founder and president of The Kruse Group, and formerly of AXIOM, Kenexa, and ACI. Kevin is also the co-author of the best-selling book We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement.

 “Children at Risk: trafficking and enslavement of children today” will be the topic for a lecture-conversation led by Dr. Francesca Nuzzolese on Sunday, February 19, at 4 p.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church (PUMC), located at Nassau & Vandeventer. A professor at Palmer Theological Seminary, Dr. Nuzzolese has been a missionary and pastoral counselor in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and she has just returned from investigating child enslavement in south Asia.

“Influence Driven Spirituality” at a breakfast at Princeton United Methodist Church on Sunday, February 12, at 8 a.m. at Nassau & Vandeventer.
 
The author of “School to Work Success” and the just-published  “Tennis in New York City: the Most Important Sport in the Most Important City in the World,” Caldwell is in demand as a speaker, most recently for the Princeton Regional Chamber.
 

The Program in Visual Arts presents What is Studio?, a work in progress by the Princeton University visual arts program class of 2013. The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 10 in the Lucas Gallery of the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. There will be a reception on Feb. 8 from 4-5 pm. Gallery is open weekdays 10 am-4:30 pm. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500 or visit princeton.edu/arts.

Labyrinth Books and Princeton University’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies invite you to a presentation and discussion devoted to the all-important role of women in the Broadway musical, both onstage and off.
 

I Virtuosi del Seicento, a faculty ensemble from Westminster Conservatory, will present a program of 17th- century music on original instruments Thursday, January 19 at 12:15 p.m. in Niles Chapel at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton.  Admission is free.

From 3:00-4:00 PM on Sunday, January 8, there will be an Interfaith Vigil on the first anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson in Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton (across from Palmer Square). Those attending should enter the small door to the right of the large doors at the main entrance, then go down the hallway to Niles Chapel on the right.

or call 609-924-9529 x220.

"Portraits of Ellen and Edith Wilson" by Kristie Miller, author of Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies. Book signing to follow, $30. This lecture will be at the Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St., Princeton. RSVP to 609.921.6748 x102 or eve@princetonhistory.org. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of First Lady Ellen Axon Wilson: American Impressionist, to open at the Updike Farmstead on February 1, 2012.

Please join us Sunday afternoon at Labyrinth for conversation and a drink with Jeff Eugenides in honor of his new, acclaimed novel. Mimosas and cupcakes will be served.

About the Book: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot: purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.

The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) will hold its annual Holiday Peace Gathering on Monday, December 12 in Princeton. It begins with a Candlelight Peace Vigil with the theme Swords into Ploughshares from 5:00-6:00 PM on Palmer Square in Princeton. Candles and posters will be supplied.  

The Princeton Singers and artistic director Steven Sametz are scheduled to return for with the holiday concert, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
This performance features music complementing Dylan Thomas’s classic Christmas story of misrule and mayhem in the life of a country boy at Christmas.  Music will include traditional holiday favorites and carols. The Reverend David Davis of Nassau Presbyterian Church will return as the narrator.
This program is recommended for children ages 12 and up.

Arnold Steinhardt, author of Violin Dreams, will discuss his writing on Nov. 29 at 5:30 pm in Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. For more information, please call (609) 656-7800 or visit labyrinthbooks.com.

7:30 Action Talk by Fran McManus, a long-time Princeton resident, and Marketing Director at the Whole Earth. Fran will share her ideas on how businesses, institutions, government, and non-profits can use common goals to help create a truly sustainable Princeton.

Neshama and her band will be performing with The Rev. Roger Hambrick and members of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir.
For tickets and further information please visit www.thejewishcenter.org/neshama or call 609-921-0100 ext 200

Matthew Campbell, Sheffield University, will lecture on The Ruptured Ear: English Poem, Irish Accent on Nov. 18 at 4:30 pm in the Lewis Center for the Arts Theater at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500 or visit fis.princeton.edu/events.php

8 Comics Artists, Filmmakers and Musicians from NY, NY, and Sweden
Friday, December 9th @6:00PM
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Labyrinth Books and Juliacks Present: an evening of frenetic free energy, ideas, and images
Featuring:

Peter Brooks & Anne Cheng in Conversation
In his new book, Peter Brooks addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Joining him for a discussion of our perennial preoccupation with identity is Professor Anne Cheng.

Mr. Fish & Chris Hedges in Conversation
Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People
Tuesday, December 20th @6:00PM
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Cartoonist Mr. Fish regularly illustrates pieces by journalist Chris Hedges. On the occasion of the debut volume of political cartoons from Mr. Fish, we invite you to come out for a conversation about word and image in the service of uncomfortable truths.

James Cone & Dr. Cornel West in Conversation
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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Cornel West has described James Cone's new book as "a powerful and painful song of hope in our dance with mortality." One of the most influential theologians in America speaks with one of this country's premier champions for racial and social justice. We invite you to join us.