
There’s something for everyone at the Princeton Festival Community Day on Sunday, June 7, from 12 to 3 p.m. The location is Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street.
Activities on this family friendly day of music, art, food, and fun include the Instrument Petting Zoo, where attendees can try an orchestral instrument for the first time.
The American Repertory Ballet’s 30-minute Swan Lake experience is an accelerated story of Swan Lake in which participants learn about the ballet and move like the Swan Queen under the tent outside Stockton Education Center.
A Musical Storytime at noon features a Princeton Symphony Orchestra musician and a nature story read by a Morven Museum & Garden horticulturalist.
A quilting exhibit, “Harriet Powers: American Icon,” featuring the Princeton Sankofa Stitchers Modern Quilt Guild, is on view in the Stockton Education Center.
Other treats include snow cones, glitter tattoos, and balloon animal artists from Princeton Events Company.
The Princeton Festival is June 5 through June 21, with varied events including a cabaret evening with Sierra Boggess (June 5 at 7 p.m.); an opening celebration fundraiser with soprano Sondra Radvanosky and tenor Victor Starsky with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (June 6, concert at 8 p.m.); the American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Symphony Orchestra (June 7 at 7 p.m.); Bach cantatas by The Sebastians (June 9 at 7 p.m.); Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by The Twelfth Night Ensemble (June 11 at 7 p.m.); Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (June 12 at 7 p.m. and June 14 at 4 p.m.); a talk by Rochelle Ellis on “Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement” (June 19 at 5:30 p.m.); and a “Great Ladies of Jazz” talk by Capathia Jenkins and Aisha de Haas (June 19 at 713 p.m.); plus a tribute to the musical group Queen (June 13 at 7 p.m.), yoga in the garden, and the Bacon Brothers (June 20 at 7 p.m.).
The festival culminates with an America 250 celebration Sunday, June 21, at 1 p.m. with “American Fanfare” starring Julie Benko and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m.
Some of the events require reserved tickets. Check for tickets and more information here.
For more information call (609) 497-0020 or email info@princetonsymphony.org.




