West Windsor Arts Center continues its grand opening celebration with the Five Alarm Firehouse Fling on Saturday, October 16. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon serves as honorary chair and the Jazz Lobsters present musical entertainment. The event will be held in the newly refurbished building in the former Princeton Junction Volunteer Firehouse. There will be champagne, wine, and hors d’oeuvres as well as another opportunity to view the inaugural art exhibition, “Community Collage: West Windsor Then & Now.” Tickets for both the full program from 7 to 10:30 p.m. that includes a champagne reception with Muldoon, as well as the party with wine, appetizers, and desserts, cost $100. Tickets for the party are $30.
“Five Alarm Firehouse Fling was carefully selected as the event name to honor the importance of the building and its heritage while expressing our excitement about offering a festive celebration open to the community,” says Holly Singer, board member of the West Windsor Arts Council and chair of the grand opening celebration.
“We are extremely appreciative that more than 20 area restaurants and caterers are donating an elegant assortment of hors d’oeuvres, plus an eclectic variety of appetizers, desserts and beverages including Princeton based businesses whose owner or manager is a West Windsor resident and eager to support a vibrant community arts center,” says Singer,
Muldoon is founding chair of Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a professor of humanities at Princeton, and serves as poetry editor of The New Yorker. Among his awards are the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
“As we open our new arts center and are welcomed by the community of arts organizations, we are thrilled to have Paul Muldoon serve as our honorary chair,” says Ilene Dube, president of the West Windsor Arts Council. “In his position at the helm of Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, which is planning an arts neighborhood just a Dinky ride away, he is an expert in building stronger communities through the arts. We hope to continue to partner with arts organizations like the Lewis Center to bring great programming to West Windsor.”
— Lynn Miller
Five Alarm Firehouse Fling, West Windsor Arts Council, Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609-919-1982 www.westwindsorarts.org Saturday, October 16, 7 p.m.
