'Hurricane Season To Be The Centerpiece of Third Annual Greening Festival

Passage Theatre Company, located at the Mill Hill Playhouse in historic downtown Trenton, announces its third year of an unprecedented partnership with New Jersey environmental organizations including D&R Greenway, Green Faith, Isles, NJ Conservation Foundation, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, Sustainable Lawrence, and Sustainable Princeton.

This first-of-a-kind initiative known as Greening: Natural Connections, Growing Community was established in 2008 to raise awareness about the natural treasures found in New Jersey's urban, suburban and rural areas - and the essential role that communities play in protecting them.

The centerpiece of the Third AnnuAl Greening Festival will be Hurricane Season, written and performed by Climbing Poe Tree for two performances at Passage Theatre on Thursday, March 25 and Friday, March 26 at 8pm.

Hurricane Season
Written and performed by Climbing Poe Tree
Thurs. March 25 & Fri. March 26 @ 8pm
Passage Theatre
at the Mill Hill Playhouse
205 East Front Street, at the Corner of Montgomery Street in historic downtown Trenton
Tickets: $30; students $10
(609) 392-0766 or www.passagetheatre.org

In a tapestry of poetry, theatre, dance, and multi-media, woven with a breathtaking musical score performed with live instrumentation, Hurricane Season is about a great shift in universal consciousness through the kaleidoscope of unnatural disasters such as Katrina and its aftermath. Rhythmic and uplifting, raw and moving, Hurricane Season seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.

Our other events of the 2010 Greening Initiative include...

Living Among Giants; Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Friday, March 19 at 6:00 pm
Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton
Be immersed in readings about the natural world by local and prominent poets including: Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams, Scott McVay (Founding Executive Dir., The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation) and Jim Haba (former Poetry Director, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation), other nationally recognized poets and members of the U.S. 1 Poets, Delaware Valley Poets and Bucks County Bards. Presented by: D&R Greenway Land Trust

Green Everything Expo!
Saturday, March 20 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
James Kearney Center, North Broad & Academy Streets, Trenton
Dozens of exhibitors will strut their stuff on green building and remodeling, green health care, sustainable food and shopping practices, environmentally smart home management, green lawn care and landscaping, and more. The event will include a slate of one-hour presentations all day long by experts on various fields. For more information, please contact Ralph Copleman at 609-895-1629. Presented by: Sustainable Lawrence

Early Spring Walk
Saturday, April 3 at 8:30 am
Join Isles for a walk through Trenton's Cadwalader Park, designed by the renowned Frederick Law Olmsted, and along the D&R Canal. To register or for more information, contact Steven Board at 609-341-4758. Presented by: Isles

4th Annual Stream Clean-ups
April 24 & 25, May 2 & 3 - morning & afternoon outings
Grab a friend and get dirty for a good cause! Join the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, central New Jersey's first environmental group, for their annual stream clean-ups and help keep the water in your hometown clean and healthy. For a park, lake, river or stream near you, contact Leslie Brecknell at 609-737-3735 x30. Presented by: Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association

Celebrate 50 years with NJ Conservation Foundation! - 24 events statewide
NJ Conservation Foundation's celebrating 50 years of land preservation by hosting statewide events on lands they helped preserve! Picnic on a farm in south Jersey, hike in the Highlands, track in the Pine Barrens, canoe the Cooper River - and more! To register for events or for more information call 908-234-1225. Presented by: New Jersey Conservation Foundation

For the full schedule of events, please visit www.passagetheatre.org.

For over 20 years, Passage Theatre has developed and showcased new work by emerging and established playwrights. As a key participant in the revitalization of urban Trenton, Passage Theatre presents outstanding plays that celebrate experiences common to all and transcend culture and race.

Passage Theatre's mainstage season is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; the Princeton Area Community Foundation; The Bunbury Company; The Times of Trenton; Trenton Marriott at Lafayette Yard; the City of Trenton, Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture; WIMG 1300; Curtis McGraw Foundation; Rose and Louis H. Linowitz Charitable Foundation; The James Kerney Foundation; PNC Bank; and The Garfield Foundation.

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