HUDSON HAPPENINGS
HUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE AWARDED $2.2 MILLION FOR TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE IN NEW ACADEMIC TOWER
The HCCC ‘Technology Advance Project’ will provide ITV in 24 of the future Tower’s classrooms, increasing remote study offerings and more.
When Hudson County Community College (HCCC) began planning the new 11-story, 153,186 square-foot Academic Tower facility that will soon begin rising in the Journal Square section of Jersey City, technology to provide expanded learning opportunities for more students was high on the list of priorities
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we made a significant investment in technology to ensure our students could continue to make progress in achieving their academic goals by offering courses,
Pictured here, a rendering of Hudson County Community College’s 11-story, 153,186 squarefoot Academic Tower that will be constructed in the Journal Square section of Jersey City, NJ.
programs, and services remotely and fully online,” said HCCC President, Dr. Christopher Reber. “We determined that if we had
the resources, we would apply those and other advanced technology principles to the Tower. Thanks to the advocacy and support of our representatives in the United States Congress and Senate, HCCC has been awarded $2.2 million in federal funding to make this a reality. This will greatly benefit our students and the entire Hudson County community.
The HCCC “Technology Advance Project” will provide Immersive Telepresence Video (ITV) in the 24 classrooms of the new Tower. ITV will allow synchronous learning classroom technology systems to connect remote students to in-class learning from home or across classrooms and campuses. It will also improve students’ educational experience by reducing travel and keeping students on their home campuses.
“This is a game changer,” Dr. Reber stated. “Implementing our ‘Technology Advance Project’ will increase the number of certificates and degrees offered fully at all HCCC campuses; provide state-ofthe-art, high-quality learning options; better accommodate student scheduling needs; increase enrollment; offer best-practice, cutting-edge workforce development programs; and help students build their technology and communication abilities in virtual environments. These skills are essential across today’s complex workforce.”
The mixed-use HCCC Tower will be constructed on an existing, HCCCowned parking lot located between Enos Place and Jones Street. It will replace a handful of the College’s segregated, aging buildings along Sip Avenue from Jones
Street to Tonnelle Avenue in Jersey City, and consolidate programs and services provided in those buildings.
The HCCC Tower has been designed for maximum efficiency and the care, comfort, safety, and benefit of the College’s students and the community. It will include stateof-the-art classrooms; expanded spaces for student services; expanded and centralized offices for Continuing Education and Workforce Development (CEWD); a full-size National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) gymnasium, fitness and wellness center; University Center for sister colleges and universities to offer baccalaureate instruction at HCCC; a new workforce development healthcare lab; exercise science lab; black box theater; student commons areas; and administrative offices, among others. Construction is expected to begin this spring.
HUDSON HAPPENINGS
Bayonne Library Offers Technology Classes on Thursdays in February
Want to learn how to use Microsoft Word, but never knew who to ask? Need assistance figuring out Microsoft Excel? Ready to dig into your family history, but never knew where to start? Had a burning tech question, but the Bayonne Library hasn’t covered the issue in one of its tech classes yet?
The Bayonne Public Library can help. Each Thursday in February from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Board Room, the library will be offering a Tech Thursday class with our Adult Services Librarian, Bill Fischer. The following classes will be offered in February: Thursday, February 2Basic Microsoft Word; Thursday, February 9 - Basic Microsoft Excel; Thursday, February 16 –Ancestry; and Thursday,
February 23 - Ask Me Anything. Feel free to attend one - or all - of the library’s Tech Thursdays classes!
During the Ask Me Anything class, you can ask any miscellaneous tech-related questions that you might have. Advanced registration is preferred, but walk-ins will be accommodated, if possible. Register for the classes by going to the library’s calendar (https://bayonnelibrary. libcal.com/calendar/ BPL), clicking on the class(es) that are of interest to you, and clicking “Begin Registration”
Chili Cook-off 2023 to be held on February 24th
The Bayonne Chamber of Commerce is partnering with The City of Bayonne and The Bayonne Urban Enterprise Zone (BUEZ) in hosting the much-anticipated 2023 CHILI-COOK OFF!
While COVID sidelined the event for 2 years, this year will mark the 4th Chili-Cook Off and without a doubt, it promises to be the most fun you’ll have this winter! It’s a night of music, mingling, dancing, laughter and tons of great food!
Returning to St.Vincent’s Church Hall, Avenue C, the event, priced at just $40 per person, will offer guests unlimited chili tasting, beer, wine, soda and a variety of additional food. Live music will be provided by Just Jammin’, a Bayonne favorite and Rocheny Photography offering a fun and festive photo booth, adding to
the festivities.
As in past Chili-Cookoff events this is a popular event with limited seating Tickets will be sold at the door, however, reservations are recommended.
Local restaurants and organizations interested in showcasing their best Chili at the event should contact the Bayonne Charmber of Commerce at 551-263-7503
Event Sponsors: Hudson DNA & Drug Testing
San Vito Restaurant and Pizza Winners Bayonne/Mr. G’s
Events To Perfection
Rocheny Photography & Framing Studio
IMTT Bayonne
Amobelge Shipping
The Vic
If You Go: Chili Cook Off
St. Vincent de PaulRobinson Hall
979 Avenue C (at 47th Street)
Bayonne, NJ 07002
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February 24, 2023 6:00 pm - 10:00pm
$40.00 per person
Please register online at www.bayonnechamber. org
Cont’d from cover while the adults get to conquer the daunting Infinity Climber hovering three stories above the ground; check out living art in Microbes Rule!; take selfies with cotton-top tamarin monkeys, naked mole rats, and other fascinating species in Wild About Animals; and so much more.
Up Coming Events
Thursday, February 2:
LSC After Dark
Featuring:
•My Chemical
Romance Laser Show (8:00 pm, 9:30 pm & 10:00 pm) (+$8)
•FREE Space Talk presentation: “Black Holes in Focus” by Dr. Jenny Greene, a Princeton astrophysicist (7:00 pm)
•Mouthwatering bites and delicious cocktails
•Venus & Jupiter
Shining Bright planetarium show (8:45 pm) (+$8)
•Pompeii: The Immortal City premium exhibition (+$10)
Thursday, Feb. 16: LSC
After Dark: Love Bytes
Be there for our annual Valentine’s Day party, with drinks, food, laser and planetarium shows, experiments, and more!
Featuring:
•Bad Bunny Laser Show (7:45 pm & 9:15 pm) (+$8)
•Lovers of the Cosmos planetarium show (7 pm & 8:30 pm) (+$8)
•Dance floor and live DJ
•Mouthwatering bites and delicious cocktails
•Pompeii: The Immortal City premium exhibition (+$10)
Pompeii: The Immortal City includes the most recent archaeological finds and scientific research. Dozens and dozens of artifacts are staged in a spectacular immersive installation that recreates the day that Mount Vesuvius erupted.
Pompeii: The Immortal City is a premium exhibition, available with an additional
admission fee when you purchase general admission.
An audio tour is available for an additional $8, and can be purchased at the Box Office or inside the exhibition.
If You Go
LSC After Dark
February 2nd February 16
Liberty Science Center
Liberty State Park 222 Jersey City Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Phone: (201) 200-1000
https://lsc.org/ buy-tickets/ lsc-after-dark
Masks are highly recommended, but not required.
Parking is free at LSC
After Dark events. The suggested arrival time on your ticket is flexible; join us whenever you can from 6:00 pm –10:00 pm!
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Jersey City Theater Center Presents the East Coast Premiere of “HAN!” (A performance in Korean with English subtitles)
Through storytelling and song, a young Korean woman journeys towards an understanding of “Han,” a concept deeply rooted in her culture – neither sadness, nor resentment, nor hope, maybe all of that and more.
Jersey City Theater Center is proud to present HAN!, an intimate story of Korean culture told through dance and dialogue. The performance features an ancient dance under a neon light. A virgin ghost stares out of the TV. A baby left alone in an apartment meditates on the nature of solitude. A woman explores memories of her life in relation to the Korean concept of Han.
The show is in Korean with English subtitles performed by Hyun Ju Baek. These events are co-presented by Jersey City
Theater Center in partnership with Theatre No Theatre, Teatro Della Toscana, Polish Cultural Institute NY, Korean Cultural Institute and Korea Society.
Directed by Thomas Richards, in this presentation, our heroine moves back and forth between the ancient myths of “Gojoseon,” the era of her dead grandmother, her mother’s past and her own life. Three generations of Korean women bound together in the “resilient silence” of Han. How will she navigate the sea of
expectations that life, family, and nation have thrown her way? Through her struggle to understand the complexity of her own Han, which ignites a fire in her mind, we are carried into a dynamic meditation that explores the no man’s land that exists between myth and modernity, as we weigh the relation between suffering, sacrifice, and destiny.
The creative elaboration of “Han! “ has been ongoing for five years and include Assistant Directors Cécile Richards and Jessica Losilla-Hébrail.
Other creative contributions to “Han!” over the years are Alonso Abarzúa Vallejos, María Constanza Solarte, and Tara Ostiguy. If You Go:
Jersey City Theater Center’s White Eagle HallHall (335-337 Newark Ave. Jersey City, NJ, Jersey City, NJ, 07302) on Thursday, February 9 at 7PM. Tickets start at just $20 and are available at www. JCTCenter.org.
OUTSIDE HUDSON HAPPENINGS
A painting by Bennett Gewirtz, is just one of the works by various artist at the Pro Arts Jersey City and SHIM
Art Network Clifton Arts Center, Clifton NJ And We’re Off! The first exhibition of2023 features
Participating artists: Ann Vollum, Bennett Gewirtz, Brad Terhune, Dorie Dahlberg, Guillermo Bublik, Hao Feng, Irene Rousseau, Jean-Paul Picard, Kevin McCaffrey, Laurie Pettine, RM Cimini, Robert Kosinski, Santiago Cohen, Stella
Chang, Sunny Chapman, Tejaswini (Alpana Mittal) If You Go
And We’re Off
To February 25,2023 Clifton Arts Center 900 Clifton Avenue Clifton, NJ 07013 Wed.-Sat., 1pm – 4pm Located on the grounds of the municipal complex. Parking available; gallery is wheelchair accessible.
More information please contact Dorie Dahlberg at contact. proarts@gmail.com
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Hudson Restaurant Week Ends February 3, 2023
Restaurant Week ends this week, however, there is still time to check out participating restaurants for their “Restaurant Week,” Special prices.
Restaurants offer a discounted prix-fixe for lunch and/or dinner.
For information on times
and days when each restaurant will be participating visit: https://hudsonrw.com/ restaurant-listing/
Behind The Scenes- A Comedic Table Read Experience with Masters
Golden Door
International Film
Festival of Jersey City, hosted by Gina Irizarry on February 10, 2023 is presenting a free staged reading/script writing tips sponsored by the Jersey City Cultural Arts Fund, Hudson County and Bayonne Youth
Center at the Bayonne Community Museum. This hilarious screenplay is written by Sam Platizky and is produced in conjunction with Narrow Bridge Films and Brazen Giant Ensemble & Productions.
Featuring Bill Sorvino, Christian Keiber, Dan Gregory, Isaac Platizky, Jenna Kildosher, Jayleen Perez and Steph Marie
Alvarez
If You Go: Behind The Scenes
Friday, February10th 7pm-9pm
Bayonne Museum
229 Broadway, Get your free ticket https://www. eventbrite.com
SILVERMAN and Hamilton Square Condominium Association present COLOROLOGY A GROUP SHOW CELEBRATING COLOR Exhibition on veiw in the Hamilton Square lobby from now to July 5, 2023
If You Go: Hamilton Square 232 Pavonia Avenue Jersey City, NJ 201-435-8000
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