8TH ANNUAL 4TH STREET ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 24, 2011
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL
4TH STREET ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Part of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour
For more information please see
www.4thStreetArts.org or call (224) 444–9615
Come out for a day of Community, Art & Music. The 4th Street Art & Music Festival will take place for the eighth time on Saturday October 1st. 4th Street Arts – Founded in 2004 continues to grow as an organization as does the festival that started it all.
For this years main event the table is full of tantalizing art projects, sizzling musical performances and awe inspiring artists and their work. Some of the confirmed projects are ….
Creating Places Worth Caring About.
April 4, 2009
The TED conference, as some of you may know, is an annual event held to showcase the world’s most influential thought leaders in the areas of technology, entertainment, and design.
This talk by James Howard Kunstler from 2004 speaks volumes about our neighborhood. In particular, the VNA’s efforts when it comes to our “public realm in the form of the street”, and that is the stretch of Newark Avenue between Coles Street and Mary Benson Park.
Keep this in mind as he speaks about civic design, and shows examples of Main Street. Newark Avenue was designed and constructed well before WWII, the point in time Kunstler feels that our nation’s design sensibilities were “thrown in the garbage”. Newark Avenue was designed right, it was sadly left to deteriorate over the years.
Newark Avenue is “a place worth caring about”, it is simply up to us to do so.
