Arts & Entertainment
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•February 21, 2024
Stockton Dancers Will Strut Their Stuff Over Three Evenings
There’s so much dancing going on at the Stockton University Performing Arts Center this late winter that it’s going to take three days to shine the spotlight on the gifted artists of the university.
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•February 21, 2024
Quaker Open House Adding Videos to Event
The Barnegat Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) are starting a new activity in connection with their open houses on the fourth Sunday of each month. The open houses begin at 11 a.m. following the…
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•February 21, 2024
‘Chat and Color’ at the Beach Haven Library
The Beach Haven Public Library invites people to a “chat and color” on Friday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.
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•February 21, 2024
Art Notes, Feb. 21
Explore Shores: Pine Shores Art Association’s Tuckerton Art Center hosts a reception for its newest featured artists exhibition, for Beverly Haber and Shelly Christine Ristow, on Sunday, March 3…
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•February 21, 2024
Go Cornholing With Barnegat Rotary March 2
The Rotary Club of Barnegat is seeking cornhole enthusiasts for a tournament on Saturday, March 2, beginning at noon at the Community Recreation Center in the municipal complex off West Bay Avenue.…
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•February 21, 2024
Native Plant Society of NJ’s Spring Conference to Address Biodiversity
Ecologists, gardeners and native plant enthusiasts will gather at the March 2 meeting of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey to hear experts discuss the theme “Building Community with Native…
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•February 21, 2024
Learn About Coastal Resilience Planning at Feb. 24 Science Saturday
Join Amanda Archer of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, headquartered in Tuckerton, to learn about coastal resilience planning at the next installment of the Long Beach Island…
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•February 21, 2024
Beach Haven Taxpayers Holding Public Forum at Black Whale
The Beach Haven Taxpayers Association will hold an open public meeting on Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Black Whale Bar and Fish House, 100 North Pennsylvania Ave. The event will take…
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•February 21, 2024
Island Library Friends Announce Scholarships
The Friends of the Island Library are accepting applications for the $1,000 Eleanor Smith Memorial Scholarship through March 31.
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•February 21, 2024
Barnegat Democrats Welcome Tim Alexander Feb. 28
Tim Alexander will be the guest speaker at the Barnegat Democratic Club meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28.
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•February 21, 2024
Charlie Zahm Performs Irish Classics March 4
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, capture the warmth and spirit of the Emerald Isle with guitarist and singer Charlie Zahm, who will take the audience on a whirlwind musical tour of Ireland at the…
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•February 19, 2024
Seniors Can Explore Clay Play in LBIF’s Free Eight-Week Ceramics Workshop
“Creative Aging,” funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, is a free eight-week ceramics workshop at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, open to…
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•February 18, 2024
LBI Native’s Acting Career Rock ’n’ Rolls Into High Gear While on ‘TINA’ National Tour
One of Long Beach Island’s native daughters, having grown up on local stages as the proverbial “triple threat” – actor, singer and dancer – is currently performing in the first national tour of…
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•February 15, 2024
Kids Learn to Say It With Flowers
Florigraphy, or the language of flowers, was the theme of a Valentine’s Day project at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City last week with the Garden Club of Long…
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•February 15, 2024
Midwinter, Makers Make It: Here’s How
Creativity and inspiration, while forever bedfellows, aren’t always on speaking terms. For some fine artists, the colorful, happy world of exhibiting and celebrating their work has a shadow side…
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•February 14, 2024
Art Notes, Feb. 14
Look Within: Create a mixed media “sanctuary” of the mind on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies. From 1 to 3 p.m., healing arts professional…
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•February 14, 2024
Irish Soda Bread Sale Taking Orders
The Sons of the American Legion group from American Legion Post 232 in Barnegat Township is doing a homemade Irish soda bread fundraiser.
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•February 14, 2024
Breaking Good at Stockton Performing Arts Center Feb. 16
In the early 1970s there were a number of cultural shifts taking place in the United States. There was the women’s liberation movement, which Philip Morris co-opted to boost its Virginia Slims brand…
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•February 14, 2024
Bluegrass Turns to Green at Albert Music Hall Show
Music historians have often cited that bluegrass has its origin in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music. That will likely be pointed out when the Albert Music Hall in Waretown holds an…
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•February 14, 2024
Lacey Library Presents Pete Wagula in Concert
The Ocean County Library’s Lacey branch will present local musician Pete Wagula in concert on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
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•February 14, 2024
Winter Book Sale Planned Feb. 17
On a cold day when you want to be indoors, that’s the ideal time to curl up to a good book.
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•February 14, 2024
LIFS Brings Back ‘Rose,’ One of the Favorite Films at 2023 LIFF
The Lighthouse International Film Society, the St. Francis Center Counseling Service and Ocean County College are joining to present a screening of the 2022 Danish film “Rose” at 1 p.m. on Tuesday…
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•February 14, 2024
‘Belles’ Is Staged at Toms River Library Feb. 21
The Ocean County Library’s Toms River branch presents the Guild Theatreworks production of Mark Dunn’s bittersweet dramatic comedy “Belles” in Mancini Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m.
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•February 14, 2024
‘Species on the Edge 2.0’ Contest Open to NJ High School Students
High schoolers from throughout New Jersey can win scholarship money by entering Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s 2024 “Species on the Edge 2.0” contest, which involves the creation of a video to bring…
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•February 14, 2024
This Subject Will Be a Hell of a Book
How is the black experience in America reflected in works of fiction? What are the hidden costs of injustice for black citizens, and for all Americans?
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•February 14, 2024
Barnegat Bay Partnership Director Leads Feb. 17 Science Saturday
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences will welcome Barnegat Bay Partnership’s Stan Hales for the next installment of Science Saturday, scheduled for 11 a.m. Feb. 17, on Zoom.…
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•February 12, 2024
Custom Floral Design Brings Welcome Challenges
The three-dimensional art of floral design combines elements of various creative disciplines. In floristry, processing a fresh shipment is like preparing an artist’s palette, but the medium is far…
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•February 9, 2024
Wellness, Prevention Workshop Offered for Stafford Seniors
Coping tools and resources, the importance of leisure and recreation, and reintegrating post-COVID are a few of the free services available on Friday, March 15, as representatives from Preferred…
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•February 9, 2024
It’s Early, But Start Preparing for Summer Camps Now
As always, the Stafford Township Recreation Department has a lot of things in motion to provide residents with engaging and fun experiences within town and elsewhere.
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•February 9, 2024
Can Older Adults Find Love?
The need for companionship, love and intimacy doesn’t fade with age. Older adults can build new relationships with just a screen and a keyboard.
