Community Events
Trenton Heritage Days
Trenton Heritage Days will celebrate its 31st year in 2009. The festival, scheduled for Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, celebrates the history and cultural diversity of the capital city and its surrounding communities. Heritage Days will offer two days of music on four stages, dance performances, walking acts, ethnic foods, cultural craft vendors, and a wide variety of activities for families and children. The State Museum will present a variety of activities for families during the 2009 Heritage Days Festival.
Newark Black Film Festival at Trenton
The New Jersey State Museum and Friends of the State Museum, under the leadership of the New Jersey Department of State, are pleased to welcome the Newark Black Film Festival back to Trenton for the 6th year in summer 2009. Begun by The Newark Museum 35 years ago, the Festival has been a popular event in New Jersey’s Capital City.
The Film Festival, one of the nation’s defining voices on behalf of independent film, is a showcase for films that focus on the experiences and concerns of contemporary African-Americans, as well as an outlet for films about the African-American experience from earlier eras. The Festival is free to the public and provides emerging filmmakers, writers, directors and producers with a high profile outlet for their work. Audiences are able to have a dialogue with filmmakers, actors, writers and scholars in lively Q&A sessions following the film screenings.
Planning is underway for the 2009 Newark Black Film Festival, which will to run for five weeks – usually June through August. Please check the Museum’s website at www.newjerseystatemuseum.org in spring 2009 for more information.
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