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On behalf of the Arts Council of Princeton, welcome to Communiversity Festival of the Arts 2014. From its humble beginnings over four decades ago, this town-gown festival has grown to become the most anticipated event in our region.

Communiversity had its start in 1971 on Palmer Square as the “Art People’s Party,” organized by the Arts Council as a creative community event featuring art and music. Over the years it evolved and in the early 1980s was renamed “Communiversity” as a reflection of the community and university collaboration that it had become.

Since that time our event has continued to grow and change, yet the collaboration between the Arts Council of Princeton and the students of Princeton University has endured. Today Communiversity includes over 200 artists, crafters, merchants, food vendors and community groups. Over three dozen music and dance performances will be presented on six stages — this is more music and entertainment than ever before! And, in contrast to the few hundred who attended the first Art People’s Party, thou-sands now attend the event, making it the largest annual cultural event in central New Jersey.

The Arts Council of Princeton is a nonprofit community-based organization and we are grateful for the support and collaborative spirit that has enabled this much-loved celebration of the arts to be so successful. The entire weekend around Communiversity is promoted as Princeton Arts Weekend and the many arts and cultural organizations in the region, coordinated through the Princeton Arts and Culture Consortium, will present arts events and exhibitions throughout the weekend, starting with the Arts Council’s own spring benefit “Pinot to Picasso” on Friday evening, April 25th. A full Arts

Letter from the Executive Director

Weekend schedule is available on the Arts Council’s website: www.artscouncilofprinc-eton.org.

Communiversity Festival of the Arts is a success because it is a collaborative effort by so many different members of our community. We appreciate the partnership we enjoy with the town of Princeton, including the town Administration, Public Works, the Police, Emergency Services, plus Princeton University, the Princeton Merchants Association, the Clergy Association, and all participating artists, performers, merchants and nonprofits. The ACP’s amazing staff and event team is heroic in organizing the event and over 100 individual community members also contribute as priceless volunteers, performing tasks from greeting people and handing out the event guide to spinning cotton candy.

Finally, I wish to express our appreciation to our sponsors without whom our event would not be possible. A full list is available on our website and I hope that you will take a moment to peruse the list of sponsors as well as the schedule of performers and the list of all the many participants. Communiversity Festival of the Arts is creative, fun, and exemplifies the Arts Council of Princeton’s mission of building community through the arts. We have enjoyed producing this wonderful event for the community for over 40 years and we hope you enjoy the 2014 edition.

Jeff NathansonExecutive DirectorArts Council of Princeton

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Last year represented a big change for Communiversity as the four-decades-old event was held on a Sunday for the first time. That change must have been suc-cessful because the event will again close out the weekend this year, as Com-

muniversity Festival of the Arts 2014 is set to be held Sunday, April 27.

More than 40,000 people are expected to attend Communiversity, which will kick off as the Princeton University Band marches up Witherspoon Street beginning at 12:30 p.m. The fun and excitement will last until 6 p.m., as people of all ages in the Princeton community will be heading to the green at Palmer Square, Nassau and Witherspoon streets and throughout the Princeton University campus — to take part in the free an-nual celebration of fun and excitement

“We have added a stage this year, bringing the total up to six (for live music); are bringing back the popular Paint Out which debuted last year; and adding Street Side Studios,” says Jeff Nathanson, executive director of the Arts Council of Princeton. “We always try to present a balance between art, music, dance, culinary arts, as well as showcasing local businesses and non profits. There will be a wide-range of activities and perspectives represented.”

Mr. Nathanson likens the formulation of the event to a giant puzzle — with a fantastic staff of Arts Council members, support from the University and two wonderful event coordinators working to make sure that all the pieces are in place for crafting a day to remember.

Everything You Need To Know About CommuniversityBy Keith Loria

Over the years, Communiversity has seen tremendous growth, going from around 15,000 attendees a decade ago to an average of about 40,000 the past few years.

“At one point, we made a conscious effort to grow the event, but at this point, grow-ing the event is not our goal — I’m not sure our small town can handle much more, we may have reached capacity,” Mr. Nathanson says. “Instead, we are focused on making the event better, and bringing the art experience to the people is important to us. The size hasn’t increased but the experience will be that much richer.”

Attendees will be able to stop at the more than 200 booths that will be set up on the Communiversity grounds. The booths will feature local and regional artists, food ven-dors, merchants, contemporary crafts and non-profit organizations.

Merchants, nonprofit organizations, musicians, performing and visual artists, food vendors, and many university student organizations and performing groups will turn the area into a colorful fairground, offering events for students and families alike.

For the first time ever, the Arts Council of Princeton will be inviting Communiversity attendees to join in to make rich colorful monotype prints under the guidance of in-structor and printmaker Kathleen Metaxas in what is being called, the Monothon.

Using Akua Kolor non-toxic water-based inks, stencils and various tactile elements, participants will create one print. Layers of images and color will be printed on top of one another producing a collection of collaborative prints to be displayed as one large art installation.

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traditional painting and drawing,” Ms. Metaxes says. “It has proven to be a great way for beginning artists to find satisfactory results and experienced artists to find another layer of creativity within their creative well.”

Paint Out Princeton returns after a successful showing last year. From 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., more than three dozen artists will claim their spot at one of the five designated locations (Hinds Plaza, Palmer Square Green, Tiger Park, stage-side at Chamber Street and at select areas along the University Campus) and paint the sights and sounds of the event.

Those with little ones will find plenty to do. The Palmer Square Stage will feature a day’s worth of performances geared to kids, and there will activities galore.

“We have a fantastic art-making booth we call Nana’s Make a Mess workshop and plenty of other hands-on art making activities,” Mr. Nathanson says. “We will once again have glitter tattoos, cotton candy and a lot of things that kids really love. We are really proud of the activities we have for smaller children.”

For the first time in its 43-year history, a sixth stage for live performances will be in play, allowing for even more great music and performances, all with ties to the Princ-eton area. The newest stage, located at the festival entrance on Nassau Street at Wash-ington Road, will feature music by piano rocker Luke Elliot, singer/songwriters Avi Wis-nia and Sarah Donner and percussive guitarist Sheltered Turtle.

In all, Communiversity Festival of the Arts 2014 will host more than 50 performances throughout the day, including a wide variety of musical genres from rock to Philadel-phia funk, from blues and blue grass to family-friendly pop. There also will be perfor-mances by dance troupes and circus-inspired performances to mesmerize and thrill visitors of all ages. Additionally, street level pop-up performers including a cappella groups, flash performances, musicians and actors will entertain visitors throughout the event.

“The idea behind the event is that it is a community-wide arts festival that celebrates diverse art forms, diverse culture, and really the full range of individuals and groups

who coexist and hopefully enjoy one another and learn and celebrate one another in our region,” Mr. Nathanson says. “Between a Spanish dance and School of Rock and folk, jazz and Bollywood performances, there’s a representation of so many different perspectives and range of talents and cultures.”

For more information on Communiversity Festival of the Arts 2014, contact the Arts Council at 609-924-8777 ext. 150, or visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org; for more information about the Communiversity celebration on campus, call the University’s Of-fice of Community and Regional Affairs at 609-258-5144.

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Town-Gown StageSponsored by Delaware ValleyMINI Cooper Dealers

Located at the intersection of Nassau and Witherspoon Streets

1:20 The Blue Meanies 2:10 Stolen Rhodes3:00 Big Wake4:00 Swift Technique5:00 Wayside Shrines

Chambers StageSponsored by Arts Councilof Princeton

Located at the intersection of Nassau and Chambers Streets

1:20 Unity Choir of the FirstBaptist Church of Princeton

2:10 Princeton School of Rock3:00 Fresh Fire4:00 Matt Trowbridge5:00 The Shaxe

Washington StageSponsored by Bai Brands

Located on Nassau Street near Washington Road

1:20 Sarah Donner2:10 Sheltered Turtle3:00 Luke Elliot4:00 Avi Wisnia5:00 Nalani & Sarina

Palmer Square StageSponsored by Palmer Square Management

Located on Palmer Square Green

1:00 Fiesta Flamenca1:30 YWCA Dance Department2:00 Stone Soup Circus2:30 Princeton Variety Theater3:10 Jewelia3:40 Matt Wong4:10 Dave Grossman5:10 Caroline Reese and the

Drifting Fifth

Paul Robeson StageSponsored by AvalonBay

Located on Witherspoon Streetnear Paul Robeson Place

1:00 Yang Yi Guzheng Ensemble1:45 American Repertory Ballet2:15 Princeton Girl Choir2:45 The Bansai Bills3:40 Stuart Middle School

Select Choir3:55 Dance Vision, Inc.4:15 Blue Jersey Band4:55 Rhythms NJ5:25 Ahn’s Taekwondo5:45 Princeton Friends School

Dance Club

Stanhope StageSponsored by Princeton University

Located on Princeton University Campus near Nassau Hall

1:15 Shuffle Mode1:45 Tora Taiko2:10 DiSiac2:40 Princeton Pianists Ensemble3:10 Ellipses Slam Poetry3:40 PURE (Princeton University

Rock Ensemble)4:10 Mas Flow4:35 Contraband5:05 The Benchwarmers5:35 Sympoh

East Pyne ArchA Capella Performances

Located on Princeton University Campus at East Pyne Arch

1:00 Koleinu1:30 Footnotes2:00 Tigressions2:30 Tigertones3:00 Tigerlillies3:30 Nassoons4:00 Tickled Pink4:30 Katzenjammers5:00 Wildcats5:30 Roaring 20

Performance Schedule

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There are plenty of reasons to go to the Communiversity Festival of the Arts 2014: a chance to run into great friends; listen to live music; look at art, or cre-ate your own art; learn about the community and the university, and the list

goes on and on.

Of course, adding to the “flavor” of the event is the amazing collection of food and drink offerings that are available thanks to a who’s who of the area’s most popular restaurants. Communiversity serves as sort of the unofficial kickoff to summer where town and gown come together for good food, good drinks, and good times.

Richard Ryan, owner of Princeton’s Ivy Inn, will be returning to Communiversity as a vendor for the third straight year.

“I was born and raised here and have always looked forward to attending this event. Historically, it’s been a great venue to see people from town that you typically don’t run into on a daily basis,” Mr. Ryan says. “We officially opened our kitchen in January 2013 after we partnered with Geoff Aton. He’s been a tremendous addition to our team and we’re very pleased to have him on board. The positive feedback and subse-quent success afforded us through the offerings of quality food at reasonable prices has been remarkable.”

Adding Flavor to CommuniversityRestaurants are bringing out their best for the big day

By Keith Loria

Based on customer feedback, Mr. Ryan discovered one of the restaurant’s most pop-ular menu items is its half-pound burger, so it will be selling beef sliders on sweet Ha-waiian rolls and Chef Juan’s famous BBQ pulled pork sandwich served on half torpedo rolls, on the day.

“We will have three draft beers: one a craft, one a light beer and the third is up in the air. We’re debating between Leinenkeugel Summer Shandy and Angry Orchard hard cider,” he says. “We will also offer two wine selections; one red and one white — both Spanish blends.”

Eric M. Nutt of Triumph Brewing Company, with locations in Princeton and New Hope, Pa., says Triumph will be serving short rib tacos and crab cake sandwiches, along with its freshly made house beer, Honey Blonde and Amber Ale. This is the 19th consecutive year the restaurant has taken part in the event.

“Communiversity day is a great way for the local business community, Princeton Uni-versity and the Arts Council of Princeton to all come together and celebrate the arts,” says Mr. Ryan. “Through live music, local artists and artisan food and drink, you can’t go wrong celebrating an April afternoon in downtown Princeton.”

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David Maskello, general manager of Winberie’s Res-taurant and Bar in Princeton, will be serving up a Bis-tro Burger with sautéed onions, applewood smoked bacon, brie cheese, and Dijon mayonnaise, as well as its vegetarian chili and slow roasted BBQ pulled pork sandwiches.

“We’ve been doing this event from the beginning and it’s one of the best events the town puts on every year,” Mr. Maskello says. “It really showcases the variety of things that Princeton has to offer — food, bars, shops, businesses. It also shows the different cultures that are in the town and it does a good job of having something for everyone.”

Last year was The Peacock Inn’s first year at Commu-niversity and Chef Manuel Perez decided to prepare a variation of the gnocchi that he serves at the restau-rant, which has been recognized as one of the top 25 dishes in New Jersey.

“For this year’s Communiversity, we will be preparing another version of our gnocchi. It will consist of Ricot-ta gnocchi, spring vegetables with a Parmesan butter sauce,” says Barry Sussman, proprietor of the establish-ment. “A liquor license became available and was of-fered to us this year so we decided that we were going to create a special drink for Communiversity.

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We are partnering with Double Cross Vodka and mixologist Josean Rosado and will be featuring The Peacock DCO.”

Other restaurants partici-pating in Communiversity include elements, the With-erspoon Grill, Mediterra Restaurant and Taverna, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, McCaffrey’s, D’Angelo Ital-ian Market and Qdoba Mexican Grill.

Bair Brands will also be selling their naturally fla-vored drinks and there will be plenty of kid friendly food such as pizza, cotton candy and funnel cakes available.

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After the success of last year’s inaugural Paint Out Princeton at Communiversity Festival of the Arts, the event will once again welcome artists to set up an easel at one of the designated areas around town and the University to capture the

moment, the mood and the magic of Communiversity.From 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. on April 27, more than three dozen artists will claim their spot

at one of the five designated locations: Hinds Plaza, Palmer Square Green, Tiger Park, stage-side at Chamber Street and at select areas along the University Campus.

“Last year we only had room for two dozen participants, but it was so popular that we have added the flexibility to accommodate whoever is interested,” says Elizabeth Mur-ray, education director for the Arts Council of Princeton. “Those from last year provided a great diversity — from noisy street scenes to quieter things on campus — and really captured the essence of the event.”

One artist who took part in last year’s event is Mic Boekelmann, who took a spot at Hinds Plaza.

“The Paint Out is a great event because artists can engage with the community in a very direct and creative way,” she says. “For me, the best part of the Paint Out was talking to the many people who were interested in art and encouraging them to pick up draw-ing or painting. It’s never too late.”

Ms. Boekelmann painted a street scene of Witherspoon Street, which she could clearly see from her spot.

“I wanted to express the great energy and joy that was going on that day,” she says.

Paint Out Princeton ReturnsGet out your paints and brush and create some art

at CommuniversityBy Keith Loria

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All registered participants must begin at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts between noon and 1 p.m. to have their canvas stamped, sign a participation agreement and re-ceive their location assignment.

Although the Art’s Council toyed with the idea last year of having some sort of Best in Show award, it was decided it would be better keeping in the spirit of Communiversity not to create competition but to provide an opportunity to display what festival painters are capable of.

“One thing new that we are doing this year is we are inviting any participant to submit their work and put it on display at the Paul Robeson Center until a closing reception on May 10,” Ms. Murray says. “We want people to come by and celebrate the creativity of these individuals.”

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“We were happy to see how popular the event was last year and people all throughout Communiversity were stopping by to see what everyone was painting,” Ms. Murray says. “Watching those at the easels capturing the moments was truly inspiring.”

Artists supply their own materials, canvas and easel. All work must be created on April 27, solely by the registered artist, on site, without any photographic or mechanical as-sistance. Artwork size must be no larger than 16 inches x 20 inches. Artwork may include oils, acrylics, pastels, and water media. No photography or non-paint media allowed.

“These artists are right in the middle of Communiversity, so we expect to see more work of the energy reverberating downtown —be it the architecture, or the people,” Ms. Murray says. “We really want it to be open and fun.”

Pre-Registration is required. Email your name and preferred designated location to info@artscouncilofprinceton.org.

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Even though Communiversity Festival of the Arts seems to offer up enough thrills to last all year long, The Arts Council of Princeton continues to find ways to up the fun quotient, and this year has added the inaugural Monothon

to its April 27 event.Throughout the day, the Arts Council of Princeton will be inviting Communiversity

attendees to join in to make rich colorful monotype prints Monotype printmaking is a “user friendly” form of art making that produces fin-

ished one-of-a-kind art fast. It is an art form that everyone from Degas to Picasso experimented with as it is a medium that offers exciting and unexpected results.

“It has proven to be a great way for beginning artists to find satisfactory results and experienced artists to find another layer of creativity within their creative well,” says Elizabeth Murray, education director for the Arts Council of Princeton. “We wanted to create a community art project, and this will allow people to contribute their own work to a great community effort.”

Kathleen Metaxas, an instructor at the Arts Council and a printmaker, will be lead-ing the project.

“I have been doing monotype demos for the past couple of years at Communiver-sity,” Ms. Metaxes says. “This way people can actually get involved and try creating prints themselves, instead of just observing me demonstrate the process. They will be making their own art.”

“Anytime we can introduce techniques or instructors for Communiversity that we think the public will enjoy, we do so,” Ms. Murray says. “The monotype table that

Welcome to the MonothonAnyone can help create art at Communiversity

By Keith Loria

Kathy has presented in years past has always been popular, and we felt this was a great way to give everyone the chance to share on a project together.”

Ms. Metaxas explains the process as follows: Using Akua Kolor non-toxic wa-ter-based inks, stencils and various tactile elements, participants will create one print. Layers of images and color will be printed on top of one another, producing a collection of collaborative prints to be displayed as one large art installation. The monotype pulled off the plate almost always has an element of surprise since the art created on the plate is flattened, squeezed and moved around when the paper is pressed into the ink. The final result on paper may look quite different than the image on the plate.

According to Ms. Murray, it is also a way to show the public that a formal print-making studio is not necessary to do printmaking as it is a process that virtually anyone can do.

“Each person will do one layer of it and Kathy will, just when a print is done and ready to move on,” she says. “There won’t be one artist doing this solo; it’s a col-laborative, collective effort. People not that knowledgeable about printmaking will come away hooked and it’s not as hard as it seems.”

By the end of the day, these prints will become a part of one large print that will become an installation at the Arts Council of Princeton.

“Hopefully folks will take home an experience that will help to inform them of the magic of monotype printmaking,” Ms. Metaxes says. “It’s just another way to enjoy what promises to be an amazing day.”

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Parking Options for Communiversity Festival of the Arts 2014 include:

• Town Parking - Parking is available, free of charge, at meters throughout town on Sunday. Additional parking is available in the town parking garages (open on Chambers Street and Spring Street) but please realize those lots may fill up quickly.

• Princeton University Parking – Princeton University park-ing lots are open to the public on Communiversity day. Visit www.princeton.edu/parking for University parking maps and information.

• Park & Ride Option – The owner and operator of the Princ-

Getting To/From Communiversity Festival of the Arts eton Shopping Center, EDENS, is sponsoring free shuttle service to and from the event. Pick-up location is at the far end of the parking lot on the south end (Rite Aid side) of the Shopping Cen-ter. Drop-off and return location downtown is on the corner of Witherspoon and Wiggins Streets. The shuttles will be in opera-tion from 12:30pm to 6:30pm. Look for the shuttle signage at the shuttle pick-up locations and on the sides of the shuttle buses.

Public Transportation:

Or, avoid the traffic and parking hassles altogether by taking New Jersey Transit. NJ Transit has several bus routes that come through Princeton, including Montgomery-Princeton-Quaker-bridge Mall, and Princeton-Plainsboro. You can find out more de-tails at www.njtransit.com

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