Through Nov. 29
for altered book show
The library will have a limited supply of books available for altering beginning Monday, Sept. 30 in the Reference Department, or find your own at a yard sale or flea market. Library books are not to be used for this contest.
The exhibit is open to students in grades 7 to 12 and adults residing in Mercer County. All accepted entries will be exhibited publicly in the Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library’s reference area during the month of December.
The deadline for submitting entries is Friday, Nov. 29. Entries must be delivered to the Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville. The contest guidelines and entry form can be picked up at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library Reference Desk or by emailing [email protected] . For more: 609-989-6922 or [email protected].
Ongoing
volunteer docents
The Foundation will train interested individuals about the history of the governor’s residence and its collection of art and furnishings. Tours are given to school children and adults on Wednesdays, although Docents don’t necessarily have to report every Wednesday. On average, Docents give three to four tours per month. The program is closed in August.
Interested individuals should contact Serena Jain at [email protected]
Nov. 15-16
at Off-Broadstreet
In the show, the mayor of Hamlin discovers his town is full of rats and after consulting many people to rid the town of these rodents, their efforts have been unsuccessful. A dashing young man arrives in town promising to use his musical talents to lead the rats away but for a large sum of money. What happens when the town tries to renege on their end of the bargain?
Children’s Classic Series present classic fairy tales that are tailored for young audiences 2 ½ to 7. The shows are presented in an informal atmosphere encouraging children to use their imagination, watch fairy book characters come to life and participate by cheering, booing and making appropriate cued responses. Artistic Director Robert Thick has led the popular children’s productions for more than 25 years casting energetic adults to participate with him in each adventure.
Calling ahead for reservations is requested. Tickets cost $4. The theater is located at 5 S. Greenwood Ave. in Hopewell. For more information, go to www.off-broadstreet.com or call 609-466-2766.
Sun., Nov. 17
Renaissance’ concert
The program will feature composition by Josquin de Prez, Orlando Gibbons, Heinrich Isaac, Thomas Weelkes, Henry Purcell and Hildegard Von Bingen.
As a member of the Westminster Choir College faculty, Ms. Quist conducts the Westminster Chapel Choir and Westminster Kantorei and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. During her work with the Symphonic Choir, she collaborated with artists such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, and Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Dr. Quist is also director of the Westminster Vocal Institute and a member of the summer faculty for the Westminster Choral Festival and Westminster Chamber Choir programs. she has received numerous awards as a teacher and conductor, including the prestigious James Mulholland National Choral Fellowship, the Texas Choral Directors Association Professional Scholarship and the Audrey Davidson Early Music Award.
Tickets cost $20, $15 seniors/students; www.rider.edu/artswww.rider.edu/arts. For more information, please visit www.rider.edu/arts.
at Labyrinth Books
Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid — four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim — are serving life sentences in Pennsylvania’s maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford’s chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears.
”Down in the Chapel” tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. Readers will learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all.
When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, “Down in the Chapel” explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.
Mr. Dubler is an assistant professor of religion at the University of Rochester. He is coauthor of “Bang! Thud: World Spirit from a Texas School Book Depository.” Mr. Dubler has also taught at Haverford College, Columbia University, and Villanova’s University Program at Graterford Prison.
Labyrinth Books is located at 122 Nassau St. in Princeton. For more information, go to www.labyrinthbooks.com or call 609497-1600.
