Festival brings the world to U.
Caitlin Mahon / Contributing Writer
Issue date: 3/5/07 Section: University
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When a theater appreciation professor and a staff member at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum heard about a traveling art festival to spread diversity and tolerance, they saw an opportunity.
Due to their efforts, the New Brunswick community will host three-week event this spring called the Co-Existence Festival in coordination with Exhibition: Co-Existence at locations across the College Avenue campus and downtown New Brunswick.
Exhibition: Co-Existence was founded in 2001 by Raphie Etgar, also founder of the Museum of the Seam in Jerusalem, and has traveled to locations around the globe, including London, Paris, Berlin and Cape Town.
It will stop in New Brunswick from April 28 through May 20.
Rebecca Brenowitz, an administrative assistant at the Zimmerli, came up with the idea of bringing the festival of bringing this three-week festival to New Brunswick.
"The exhibition didn't choose to come to New Brunswick - we chose it," said Marshall Jones, a theater appreciation professor at the University and a member of the Co-Existence Festival Committee. Brenowitz, he said, "brought the idea to me and as a member of the New Brunswick Community Arts Council, I began asking around."
The committee asked event-planning firm HaloJen Productions to run the festival. "We knew something of this magnitude would need a degree of expertise. HaloJen was a good fit." Jones said.
Hal Korin, owner of HaloJen, said he feels the Co-Existence Festival and Exhibition will create a fun, new and exciting activity for members of the New Brunswick Community to partake in.
"This is a great way for New Brunswick to show off the assets the city has to offer and create awareness of accepting one another for who we are," Korin said.
As with every stop on the Exhibition: Co-Existence tour, a contest will be held among local artists to design an additional panel to become part of the exhibition. Artists who wish to compete must live in New Jersey and be 18 years or older.
Due to their efforts, the New Brunswick community will host three-week event this spring called the Co-Existence Festival in coordination with Exhibition: Co-Existence at locations across the College Avenue campus and downtown New Brunswick.
Exhibition: Co-Existence was founded in 2001 by Raphie Etgar, also founder of the Museum of the Seam in Jerusalem, and has traveled to locations around the globe, including London, Paris, Berlin and Cape Town.
It will stop in New Brunswick from April 28 through May 20.
Rebecca Brenowitz, an administrative assistant at the Zimmerli, came up with the idea of bringing the festival of bringing this three-week festival to New Brunswick.
"The exhibition didn't choose to come to New Brunswick - we chose it," said Marshall Jones, a theater appreciation professor at the University and a member of the Co-Existence Festival Committee. Brenowitz, he said, "brought the idea to me and as a member of the New Brunswick Community Arts Council, I began asking around."
The committee asked event-planning firm HaloJen Productions to run the festival. "We knew something of this magnitude would need a degree of expertise. HaloJen was a good fit." Jones said.
Hal Korin, owner of HaloJen, said he feels the Co-Existence Festival and Exhibition will create a fun, new and exciting activity for members of the New Brunswick Community to partake in.
"This is a great way for New Brunswick to show off the assets the city has to offer and create awareness of accepting one another for who we are," Korin said.
As with every stop on the Exhibition: Co-Existence tour, a contest will be held among local artists to design an additional panel to become part of the exhibition. Artists who wish to compete must live in New Jersey and be 18 years or older.