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Union County Performing Arts Center proudly announces our UCPAC Film Fest 2025. This exciting two-day event will showcase short films crafted by aspiring and independent filmmakers ages 14 and above, along with engaging panel discussions workshops, and more! We’re excited to host the second annual event at UCPAC’s historic Main Stage and modern Hamilton Stage.

This digital presentation of Singin’ in the Rain is part of the 2025 UCPAC Film Fest! Join us for the Opening Ceremony and our feature presentation, a digital screening of a classic film that celebrates the art of motion pictures!

Schedule
6 PM Doors
7 PM Film Fest: Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speaker Lamar Mackson, Producer, Assitant Director, and Chairman of the Union County, NJ Motion Picture & Television Advisory Board
Feature Presentation: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Silver Ridge Park West Community Events is thrilled to present another dinner and comedy night to bring the community together and support the neighborhood.
Headlining this show is Jimmy Graham (Comedy Central, Oxygen Network), featuring even more of NJ's best professional entertainment.

This event is being held Saturday, May 17th at the Silver Ridge Park West Clubhouse, located at 145 Westbrook Dr. in Toms River, NJ.

The event starts at 5PM for dinner, with the comedy show to follow. Tickets are only $40 - call Virginia (862-208-9061) or Vicky (201-280-7190) for more info.

In the spirit of collaboration and appreciation for musical brilliance, we bring you our monthly concert series — pairing tunes from legendary masters of rock, along with some unsung heroes following in their footsteps. Settle in for an intimate vibe akin to MTV Unplugged, Storytellers and Behind the Music, as singer/guitarist Kevin Spyker performs timeless hits and hidden gems, accompanied by an array of instrumentalists from the Belmar Arts music collective.

Reserve your seats for our series launch on May 18th — highlighting the music of rock icon Tom Petty, with an opening set honoring the up-and-coming band known as Dawes...each month we will tribute two different bands.

Between songs we’ll share some history and fun facts about our featured songsters.

We’re honored to name our tribute series after the memorable Dawes song / album “All Your Favorite Bands” with the anthemic refrain:

“I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be,

I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever,

I hope the world sees the same person that you've always been to me,

And may all your favorite bands stay together!”

Union County Performing Arts Center proudly announces our UCPAC Film Fest 2025. This exciting two-day event will showcase short films crafted by aspiring and independent filmmakers ages 14 and above, along with engaging panel discussions workshops, and more! We’re excited to host the second annual event at UCPAC’s historic Main Stage and modern Hamilton Stage.

Be the Difference was founded in 2023 by Piper Wyman, a junior high school student at the time with a passion for mental health awareness. Be the Difference unites residents to break the stigma surrounding mental health and promote suicide awareness. Over the past two years, Be the Difference has raised over $25,000, all of which has been donated to the goals of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
Looking forward, Alex Taddeo has taken on the role of Managing Director for Be the Difference for the year 2025. Together, Alex and Piper are working collaboratively to ensure that the 3rd Annual Be the Difference Walk will be the most successful yet.

The Bradley Food Pantry is pleased to announce it will host its Second Annual Bradley Food Pantry Benefit Golf Outing at Hominy Hill Municipal Golf Course in Colts Neck on Monday, May 19, 2025, rain or shine. The event kicks off with a 7am breakfast and a shotgun start at 8am. A BBQ luncheon and raffle drawings will follow. The outing will feature traditional closest-to-the-pin and longest-drive contests.

Purchase tickets here: https://bradleyfoodpantry.charityproud.org/EventRegistration/Index/22034

WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR OUR GOLFERS AND SPONSORS. COME AND ENJOY A FRIENDLY COMPETITION FOR A GREAT CAUSE!

You can also send a check for payment, payable to, Bradley Food Pantry Inc. Mail to P.O. Box 308 Bradley Beach, NJ 07720