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Sat, Jun 22
Film screening @ 6PM
Panel conversation @
7:30PM
Chase Room
NJPAC
1 Center Street
Newark, NJ
The Centennial Celebration of the ground-breaking Senator Wynona Lipman,
the first African-American female State Senator, continues. In her 27 years
representing the 29th Legislative District, she championed the well-being
of underserved populations and achieved passage of the Domestic Violence
Act of 1981 and the Fair Housing Act of 1985, among many other bills.
The program includes a film screening followed by a panel conversation.
Preceding the screening is a reception at 4:30PM hosted by the New Jersey Historical Society,
52 Park Place (across the street from NJPAC), where there’s an exhibit
about Lipman’s life and achievements.
The documentary Stronger
Than Steel: The Senator Wynona Lipman Story (A Blue Butterfly
Arts & Media Production) examines her life and how she achieved her
goals while battling gender and racial discrimination. The Stronger Than Steel
documentary was made possible by funds from the Essex County Division of Arts,
Cultural and Historic Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts.
The panel will be moderated by Celeste
A. Bateman, Producer and Director of Stronger Than Steel: The Senator
Wynona Lipman Story.
Our panelists include:
Gale A. Britton,
Managing Partner of GBDI Consulting Services, LLC
Vickie Donaldson,
Retired consultant for social service programs and homeless services for
the City of Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness
Richard W. Roper,
Retired Director of the Planning Department at The Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey and public policy consultant
Senator M. Teresa
Ruiz, N.J. State Representative of District 29 and highest
ranking Latina legislator in New Jersey history
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free events
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Lullaby
Project Celebration Concert
May 15 @ 6:30PM
NJPAC Center for Arts Education
This celebratory
concert features families from the Lullaby Project: An Arts &
Well-Being program that pairs new and expecting parents and caregivers
with songwriters to write personalized lullabies.
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Jazz Jams
May 16 @ 7:30PM
Clement's Place
Co-presented by
NJPAC and the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark,
these Jazz Jam
sessions attract ace musicians from New Jersey and beyond!
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ArtsXChange The Future is Purple
May 23 @ 6PM
Gant-Gilbert Arts Collective
Just like the
book and movie, The
Color Purple, this program honors the bonds of sisterhood.
Come prepared to compete in a trivia game about noteworthy women in
Newark.
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Fitness Fest
Sat, Jun 1 @ 12 – 6PM
Harriet Tubman Square
RVSP for our
free movement classes and study styles such as Soca, Jersey Club
and West African. No previous experience required.
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Matthew
Whitaker
Bethany Jazz Vespers
Sat, Jun 1 @ 6PM
Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist
Church Jazz Vespers features jazz piano and organ prodigy Matthew
Whitaker. Free!
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B.T. Pierson’s
Vocation: The Newark City Directory
Jun 4 @ 6PM
Newark Public Library
Join us in
person or virtually to learn about B.T. Pierson’s Newark City
Directories and their contibutions to Newark’s growth in the 19th
century.
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Celebrating
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Standing In Solidarity
Jun 17 @ 6PM
NJPAC
Join our
in-person PSEG True
Diversity Film screening and panel conversation on the on
the history and impact of HBCUs.
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Stronger Than Steel: The Senator Wynona
Lipman story is co-presented with The New Jersey Historical Society
Arts & Well-Being
at NJPAC is made possible through foundational support from RWJBarnabas
Health, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Women@NJPAC, with
additional support from Merck Foundation, The Healthcare Foundation of New
Jersey, New Jersey Cultural Trust, Celia Liption Farris and Victor W.
Farris Foundation Home Community Fund, and DoorDash
Jazz Jams and Matthew
Whitaker are part of the TD Jazz Series
Generous support for
ArtsXChange is provided by Women@NJPAC
Fitness Fest is part
of Newark Fitness Fest
Matthew Whitaker is
presented in association with Bethany Jazz Vespers
B.T. Pierson’s
Vocation: The Newark City Directory is presented in partnership with the
Newark Public Library and Newark History Society
Generous support for
Celebrating Historically Black Colleges and Universities is provided by
ADP, official Community Engagement Partner of NJPAC, and
PSEG Foundation
Additional support
provided by Verizon
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