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Common calendar, Packet papers, February 26 Common calendar, Packet papers, February 26 Ongoing Central Jersey SCORE, a non-profit resource partner of the Small Business Administration, is looking for volunteers to assist people looking to start a business or grow an existing small business. The organization is recruiting business owners and executives, both current and retired, who want to share their experience and knowledge with today’s up-and-coming entrepreneurs. The Central Jersey Chap...

Common calendar, Packet papers, February 19 Common calendar, Packet papers, February 19 French American School Princeton (FASP) is accepting enrollment. At FASP, students in preschool (3 years old) through grade 8 benefit from a rigorous bilingual curriculum accredited by the Middle State Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools and the French Ministry of Education; personalized attention thanks to small class sizes; and a multicultural community with more than 30 nationalit...

SMC Presents Free Live Literary Talks & Readings this Spring Feb. 13, 2021 at 5:00 am 2 months agobriefs Santa Monica College (SMC) is pleased to continue its Literary Talks & Readings series featuring a noteworthy spectrum of writers reading from and discussing their works. The ongoing series opens its spring season on February 23. All presentations in the series are free, and will be held online as live virtual events. A Zoom link to each talk will be posted with the listing on the SMC Events...

Common calendar, Packet papers, February 12 Common calendar, Packet papers, February 12 French American School Princeton (FASP) is accepting enrollment. At FASP, students in preschool (3 years old) through grade 8 benefit from a rigorous bilingual curriculum accredited by the Middle State Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools and the French Ministry of Education; personalized attention thanks to small class sizes; and a multicultural community with more than 30 nationalit...

Common calendar, Packet papers, February 5 Common calendar, Packet papers, February 5 Ongoing Princeton University Concerts (PUC) is expanding its digital offerings for the remainder of the 2020-21 season to replace planned in-person concerts, many of which will be rescheduled to future seasons. The university’s performing arts series has recast all of its virtual programming to directly address socially relevant topics. This includes: a new podcast series, Breathe in Music, bringing PUC’s...

Jacob Lawrence, The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. —Thomas Paine, 1776, Panel 7, 1954, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York artsbma.org The Birmingham Museum of Art will close the BMA’s presentation of Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggl...

Lauren Halsey Awarded the 2021 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize by Seattle Art Museum Lauren Halsey, Slo But We Sho (Dedicated to the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association) II, 2020, synthetic hair on wood 72 x 101 1/2 x 8 inches. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Elon Schoenholz. SEATTLE, WA .-The Seattle Art Museum announced the selection of artist Lauren Halsey as the recipient of the 2021 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize. Major funding for the priz...

Bay Area museums reach beneath the surface for Black History Month By Feb 02, 2021 If youve taken a stroll down Fulton Street anytime since this past June, odds are youve seen the bold yellow letters reading "Black Lives Matter." A collaborative effort between the African American Art and Culture Complex and the Bay Area Mural Program, the community-made street art spans several blocks—you cant miss it. The slogan for the Black Liberation Movement is everywhere lately. From T-s...

Common calendar, Packet papers, January 29 Common calendar, Packet papers, January 29 Ongoing Princeton University Concerts (PUC) is expanding its digital offerings for the remainder of the 2020-21 season to replace planned in-person concerts, many of which will be rescheduled to future seasons. The university’s performing arts series has recast all of its virtual programming to directly address socially relevant topics. This includes: a new podcast series, Breathe in Music, bringing PUC’s...

Credit: University of Washington For centuries, humans have blamed the moon for our moods, accidents and even natural disasters. But new research indicates that our planets celestial companion impacts something else entirely -- our sleep. In a paper published Jan. 27 in Science Advances, scientists at the University of Washington, the National University of Quilmes in Argentina and Yale University report that sleep cycles in people oscillate during the 29.5-day lunar cycle: In the days leading...