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SOPAC Hosts Upcoming Summer Events: Arts For Art Festival + Concerts in the Park

Free Summer Performances in South Orange

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 • 3:59pm

Arts for All Festival @ Celebrate South Orange: Kick-Off Event

Where: South Orange Performing Arts Center (1 SOPAC Way), South Orange, NJ, 07079
When: Friday June 8 at 7:30PM

What: Free performance by Lydia Johnson Dance company


How: FREE.  First come, first seated.  For more info, call SOPAC at 973.313.ARTS or visit www.SOPACnow.org
Lydia Johnson Dance, the Dance Company in Residence at SOPAC, will perform a special preview performance of new and recent dances. This free performance is presented in partnership with Celebrate South Orange and SOPAC.

Arts for All Festival @ Celebrate South Orange 2012

Where: Downtown South Orange; outdoors at the main stage

When: Saturday, June 16th @ 1:00PM – 8:00PM
How: FREE. First come, first seated.  For more info, call SOPAC at 973.313.ARTS or visit www.SOPACnow.org

NEW THIS YEAR! Arts for All at Celebrate South Orange, a partnership between CSO and the South Orange Performing Arts Center, will bring a full schedule of live local music and dance to the main stage. The day will close with an evening concert and community dance party! Featured performances will include: The Wisenheimers, First Baptist Church of South Orange, FELT, Matt Mattheiss + Rob Betrus, Doomsday Diaries, and RedWall.  Arts for All at Celebrate South Orange is supported by the NJ State Council on the Arts and Discover NJ Arts.

 

 

Concerts in the Park 2012

Where: Flood’s Hill in Meadowland Park, 70 N Ridgewood Road, South Orange, NJ (Rain Site: South Orange Performing Arts Center, One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ)

When: Wednesdays July 11, 18, 25 + August 1, 8 @ 7:30PM

How: FREE.  For more information, call the Village of South Orange at 973.378.7457 or visit  www.southorange.org or call SOPAC at 973.313.2787 or visit www.SOPACnow.org

 

Once again curated by SOPAC, this year’s summertime favorite Concerts in the Park series features varying music genres to sate everyone’s appetites!  Line-up includes: reggae band Random Test, Brice Springsteen tribute band Tramps Like Us, South Orange Jazz All-Stars, Latin salsa band Swing Sabroso (picture above), and SO/MA garage bands in Rock The Hill.

 

 

 

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