Category Archives: Press

Press: Long Live the Arts

By U.S. 1 Staff – June 26, 2019 “I can’t imagine living in a world without the arts.” Those are the words of the late Princeton resident Gerda Goldberg Kelly. Although the lover of the arts died in 2017 at the age of 97, she is suddenly very much a presence today with the fresh announcement […]

Press: African-American history taught through music at Haledon Public School

HALEDON — The students made drums out of plastic buckets and marimbas out of cardboard tubes. The school’s gymnasium was made a concert hall, while the seventh-grade class was turned into a spellbound audience. But, the eighth-graders’ most notable feat on Friday morning was turning themselves into entertainers, historians and — in the case of […]

Beatrice Gilmore School Concludes Young Audiences Program With Showcase

By CHRISTA LIMONE, TapInto.net February 10, 2019 at 10:03 PM WOODLAND PARK, NJ – The third and fourth grade classes at Beatrice Gilmore School that have been taking part in the  fall Young Audience Arts for Learning of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania program culminated the activity with a showcase of what they’ve learned. Both Beatrice […]

Pleasantville’s Washington Avenue School Receives Arts Grant

By CLAIRE LOWE Staff Writer, PressofAtlanticCity.com PLEASANTVILLE — Students at the Washington Avenue School are learning about papier-mache through a $4,000 arts grant from Young Audiences Arts for Learning of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, one of two grants the school received this year. The grant allows the school to introduce students in Tara Bach’s […]

Montgomery High School students create mural with message of unity through diversity

Pamela MacKenzie, Bridgewater Courier News Published 7:00 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2018 | Updated 9:34 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2018 MONTGOMERY – The Montgomery High School community was shocked and dismayed in 2012 when it discovered an outside wall, where school buses dropped off and picked up students, had been spray-painted with a racial slur. […]

DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Raises over $280,000 for Arts Education!

Dance for the Arts! Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Raises over $280,000 for Arts Education! On Saturday, April 21, Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA), the area’s largest arts education non-profit, celebrated with a special black-tie gala, Dazzle: Mad Hot Ballroom, A 45th Anniversary Celebration at […]

Press Release: Young Audiences Honors Artists, Colleagues, and Funders at the 2017 Governor’s Awards in Arts Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:    PRINCETON, NJ; June 28, 2017 — On Wednesday, May 24, Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA), the area’s largest arts education non-profit, honored artists, colleagues, and funders alongside students at the 37th annual Governor’s Awards in Arts Education. The Prestigious Governor’s Awards are co-sponsored by the New Jersey Arts Education […]

Dance for the Arts! YANJEP’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Dancing Through The Decades, Raises over $200,000 for Arts Education!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: May 3, 2017 PRESS CONTACT: Denyce Mylson Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania 609-243-9000 x202 [email protected] Dance for the Arts! Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Dancing Through The Decades, Raises over $200,000 for Arts Education! PRINCETON, NJ; May 3, 2017 — On Saturday, […]

Young Audiences Honors Artists, Colleagues, Funders, and Students at the 2016 Governor’s Awards in Arts Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: June 14, 2016 PRESS CONTACT: Denyce Mylson Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania 609-243-9000 x202 [email protected] Young Audiences Honors Artists, Colleagues, Funders, and Students at the 2016 Governor’s Awards in Arts Education PRINCETON, NJ; June 14, 2016 — On Thursday, May 26, Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA), […]