Area events this week

Author and food activist, Michael Pollan, will be giving a free lecture in the College Avenue Gym at Rutgers University on Wednesday Oct 6 at 8pm. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Visit the Rutgers events page for more information.


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Art after Hours: First Wednesdays at the Zimmerli
Wednesday Oct 6, 5-9 pm
Art after Hours continues its celebration of the Zimmerli’s major fall exhibition, Water. Exploring our relationship to earth’s most precious resource, Water includes more than 100 works drawn primarily from the museum’s 60,000-object collection supplemented by significant public and private loans.

5:30 pm: Tour of the exhibition Timeless, Still: Photographs from Muybridge to Warhol led by the curator, Marilyn Symmes

6:00 pm: Filmmaker Hanna Rose Shell (Science, Technology and Society, MIT) introduces her experimental documentaries Experiments on Film: Locomotion in Water and Other Works. A discussion, led by James Delbourgo (History, Rutgers) and including Hanna Rose Shell along with Tanya Sheehan and Andres Zervigon (Art History, Rutgers) follows.

7:30 pm: Readings of water-themed poetry, including open mic opportunites, during the Student Poetry Showcase.

Complimentary light refreshments.

Admission is FREE to museum members and Rutgers students, faculty, and staff. $6 general admission.

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Rutgers Gardens Fall Festival on Sunday Oct 10 from 12-4 pm.

Day long activities include a Haunted Scavenger Hunt, Apple Tasting, Pumpkin Painting, Plant and Bulb Sales a presentation by Lenape Lifeways - an organization focused educating people on New Jersey's first people, the Lenape. Learn about the first inhabitants of the area and how they dressed, built shelters, grew crops, fished, hunted, cooked, made tools and weapons, treated disease, grew up and more.

Entrance fee is $5 per car. Proceeds benefit Rutgers Gardens.

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Highland Park is having a town wide garage sale on Saturday Oct 9 and Sunday Oct. 10