Auditions
Yardley Players Theater Company has auditions for “Oliver” on Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13, from noon to 5 p.m., at Mercer College, West Windsor. Bring a recent photo and resume. Must be seven or older. Production opens Friday, July 11. Visit www.yardleyplayers.com for list of songs to prepare for lead roles. Call Marge Swider at 215-968-1904 for appointment.
Princeton Festival seeks tenors and basses for its paid chorus in “La Boheme.” Members of the men’s chorus will appear as cafe patrons, street vendors, students, and soldiers in the production. E-mail chorus@princetonfestival.org to arrange an audition. Candidates will be asked to perform, in Italian, a piece of their own choosing. An accompanist will be provided. Visit www.princetonfestival.org for more information.
New Hope Arts Center has a casting call for future reading series and original productions, musical songbook series, and new or rarely-produced one act plays. Union and non-union. Audition time is five minutes for a monologue and/or 16 bars of a song. Auditions are Friday, April 4, 4 to 9 p.m., and Saturday, April 5, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call 215-862-9606 or E-mail newhopearts@aol.com for appointment.
Somerset Valley Players has auditions for “Wonder of the World” on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, at 7:30 p.m. Four women and three men, ages 30 to 69, are needed. Visit www.svptheatre.org or call 908-369-7469.
Kosher Meals
Jewish Family and Children’s Service delivers kosher meals on wheels to individual age 60 and above and persons with disabilities in East Windsor, Hightstown, Plainsboro, Princeton, and West Windsor. Hot meals will be delivered on Mondays and Wednesdays. Up to five meals per week. $5 per meal. Call Barbara Goodman at 609-987-8100.
For Teens
HiTops launched a new website to help young adults quit smoking. Visit www.iquitathitops.com to access information related to smoking cessation and direct contact with Ivy Pearlstein, a certified tobacco dependence treatment specialist. The first 30 individuals to enter the program will be eligible for a free iPod at the completion of the fifth month of the program. Call 609-683-5155 or E-mail ivy@hitops.org.
Mercer County Teen Arts Festival invites teens, ages 13 to 19, to participate in the Friday, May 16 festival featuring creative writing, dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. Visit www.nj.gov for information.
For Kids
Voices Chorale offers its 20th annual music competition contest for ages 5 to 12. Children are invited to compose a piece of music with a vocal element. They may write it in any form and make a cassette or CD recording. Submit the recording and three written copies, the child’s name and age, assisting adult’s name, phone number, address, and the child’s background in music. $5 fee. Voices Composition Contest, Box 404, Pennington 08534. Deadline is Tuesday, April 15. Visit www.voiceschorale.org or call 609-462-4984.
Kidsbridge seeks nominations for the annual young humanitarian award competition. Deadline is Friday, March 28. Principals, superintendents, and teachers in Mercer County are invited to nominate a child, a group of children, or a colleague that has demonstrated an extraordinary act of kindheartedness, service to the community, peaceful resolution of conflict, or compassion for the less fortunate. Visit www.kidsbridgemuseum.org or call 609-581-0239 for information and form.
Middlesex County 4-H seeks members for clubs. Call 732-398-5261 for specific clubs, meeting dates, age groups, and contact information. The organization is having a clothing drive on Thursdays, April 3 and 10, from 7 to 9 p.m., and Wednesday, April 16, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Bring used clothing, shoes, handbags, stuffed animals, and linens in sturdy plastic bags to 645 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, or drop off at Earth Center, 42 Riva Avenue, South Brunswick, during office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 732-398-5261.
Gold’s Gym is honoring previous contracts with the recently-closed Diamond Player Development Center. Visit www.goldsperformancetraining.com or call 609-275-8900 for information.
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias invites high school students to enter a poster contest, “Be a Friend When it Counts.” Poster must be original art on color cardboard in any medium. Deadline is Tuesday, April 1. Send to Steven A. Pardes, 114 Dugan Lane, Toms River 08753. For information call 732-892-7071 or E-mail spardes@comcast.net.
The organization also offers a community service award to a New Jersey high school senior. Applicant must present participation and achievements in community service activities in typewritten form, along with newsclips and backup material. Send with name, address, and phone number to David N. Bellask, 1338 Ventura Drive, Lakewood 08701. Deadline is Monday, May 5.
Community Christian Choir invite children from kindergarten to twelfth grade to participate in an art and writing challenge to coordinate with the spring concert series, “Center: Peace.” Sketches, paintings, drawling, coloring, poetry, short stories, or essays. Deadline is Saturday, April 12. Entries will be on display at the Millstone Performing Arts Center on Sunday, May 4, during the choirs’ benefit concert. Visit www. Ccchoir.com or call 609-587-7076 for information and size restrictions. Entries may be hand delivered on Friday, April 11, 3 to 9 p.m.; or Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Allentown United Methodist Church, 23 Church Street, Allentown; or mails to CCC, Box 9486, Trenton 08650. Must be postmarked by Saturday, April 12.
Trips
Montgomery Recreation offers a trip to “Jersey Boys” on Broadway on Thursday, March 27. The chartered bus departs from the Montgomery Upper Middle School, Burnt Hill Road, Skillman, at 3:30 p.m. Dinner is on your own. Transportation and a rear mezzanine seat is $120. Call 609-466-3023 to register.
Community School of New Hope-Solebury offers a motorcoach tour of the area’s gardens and landscapes on Saturday, April 26, from 8:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Stops include Speedwell, the former estate of Stephen Vail and birthplace of the telegraph; Frelinghuysen Arboretum, formerly known as Whippany Farm; and Willowwood, originally called Paradise Farm. $110 includes tour guides, transportation, and boxes lunch at Frelinghusen. Register. Call 215-968-8409.
For Artists
Photo Review seeks entries to the annual competition. The prize winning photographs will be chosen for an exhibition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Entries must be received between Thursdays, May 1 and 15. Visit www.photoreview.org or call 215-891-0214 for information.
Volunteer
Mercer County Park Commission seeks arts professionals to share talents with middle and high school students at the Friday, May 16 festival. They will be asked to lead workshops and critique student work and performances in a construction and educational manner. Call Katie Babick at 609-989-6060 or E-mail kbabick@mercercounty.org.
Artworks Trenton seeks volunteers for “Art All Night Trenton,” a 24-hour event from Saturday, June 21, at 3 p.m. to Sunday, June 22, at 3 p.m. Visit www.artworkstrenton.org or call 609-394-9436.
Parent and Child
My Daughter’s Keeper offers rap sessions for mothers and teen girls to discussion sexually transmitted diseases causing cervical cancel and infertility. Visit www.mydaughterskeeper.org for information.
VSA Arts of New Jersey offers parent and child workshops in the arts for children with autism or autistic behavior from Saturdays, April 26 to June 28, in New Brunswick and Freehold. $30. Deadline is Tuesday, April 1.The organization presents its annual Partners in the Arts Festival on Thursday, May 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Middlesex College, in Edison. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, April 2. Call 732-745-3885 or E-mail info@vsanj.org.
Sports
Garden State Yankees wood bat team field for high school and college age teams. Visit www.gardenstatebaseball.com or call 732-382-4610.
