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Frank Sinatra Jr. in concert with Rutgers Jazz Ensemble
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble will play with special guest Frank Sinatra Jr. at Nicholas Music Center Tuesday, April 10, at 8 p.m. The evening will feature classic selections from Frank Sinatra Sr.’s collaborative recordings with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, with arrangements by Neil Hefti, Quincy Jones, Billy May, and Nelson Riddle.
Tickets are available for $15, $25, and $40 (based on seating location) and may be obtained by calling 732-932-7511 or visiting the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center Ticket Office, located at 85 George St.
The Rutgers Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ralph Bowen, is the top student jazz ensemble at Mason Gross School of the Arts. For more information, visit www.masongross.rutgers.edu.The coexistence exhibition and festival
The Zimmerli Art Museum is the host museum, in partnership with the New Brunswick Community Arts Council, of the first annual Coexistence Festival for New Brunswick, scheduled from April 28 through May 20. The project will spearhead a major annual festival of arts and culture whose main theme is the concept of peaceful coexistence among the myriad racial, ethnic and religious groups that make up the local community.
The centerpiece for the initial festival will be the world-renowned traveling outdoor Exhibition Coexistence, created by Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem. This installation “brings the universal message of diversity and acceptance of the other to the world community” through billboard-sized murals that provide striking visual images symbolizing tolerance and understanding.
As part of the Coexistence Festival – which will include all of the region's performing, visual, and cultural arts groups as well as academia and the public school system – the Coexistence panels (measuring 10' x 16') will be placed in the downtown New Brunswick area to serve as the physical parameters for the multiple-day, citywide festival. The panels will be located on the College Avenue Campus, the Johnson & Johnson campus, and various sites throughout New Brunswick. To read more about the exhibition and festival, visit www.coexistencefestival.org.
Talk: Becoming a young adult novelist
Three acclaimed authors of young adult novels will discuss their craft; their search for publishers; and their experiences in cultivating successful literary careers during a panel discussion offered by the Rutgers–Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies from 12:15 to 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 11.
Rutgers–Camden assistant professor of English and novelist Lauren Grodstein will moderate the discussion with authors Mary Hogan (“Susanna Sees Stars,” “Susanna Hits Hollywood”), Francisco Stork (“The Way of Jaguar,” “Behind the Eyes”), and Blake Nelson (“User,” “Girl,” “Paranoid Park”).
The free panel discussion, which is open to the public, will take place in the Camden Campus Center, located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. For directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit www.camden.rutgers.edu.
Indian-Western
artistic hybrid exhibited at Zimmerli
Natvar Bhavsar: The Dimensions of Color, an exhibition of
more than 50 paintings representing 35 years of the career of one of the most
prominent and respected artists of Indian heritage working in the United
States, is on view at the Zimmerli
Art Museum in the Voorhees Special Exhibition Galleries through July 22.
Natvar Bhavsar incorporates aspects of his traditional artistic culture and methods within modern Western styles, modifying and adapting the earlier modes to create hybrid artistic forms. Over the years, Bhavsar has created paintings in a remarkable range of sizes, from those less than a foot square to some extending more than twenty feet in width.
This exhibition is the first in a series that the Zimmerli will present featuring Indian and Indian American art over the next several years. The exhibitions will be part of a larger project, the South Asian Regional Initiative (SARI) in which the Zimmerli Art Museum, State Theatre of New Jersey, and the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will present cultural programming of relevance to the Asian Indian community.
For more information, call 732-932-7237, ext. 610
The art and science of the Pinelands
“Botanical Art of the Pinelands,” opening at the Chang Science Library on April 6 and running through April 23, features drawings by Dr. Albert List and Robin Jess. Hours are weekends, noon to 6 p.m.; weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Additional information is available at herbarium.rutgers.edu/pinelands or 732 932-9711, x241.
A related event, a “BioBlitz,” will give the public the opportunity to be “scientist for a day” as they gather specimens to document flora of the Pinelands and surrounding areas. The “BioBlitz” will be held on Sunday, April 15 and Sunday, June 10 at the John A. Phillips Preserve in Old Bridge. Additional information is available at http://herbarium.rutgers.edu/bioblitz.htm.