Princeton Weekend Guide: March 22-24

Friday

Talk: "Meet FEBA: Women in Congo Transforming Woe to Hope." Elsie McKee, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, talks about her work with Femme, Berceau de l’Abondance (Woman, Cradle of Abundance), an ecumenical organization that supports women, orphans, and people living with HIV/AIDS in Congo. YWCA Princeton's Bramwell House, Noon

Princeton Public Library will host author author Ifa Bayeza, who will discuss “Some Sing, Some Cry,” the book she wrote with her sister, Ntozake Shange. The book follows seven generations of black women who, largely through music, are able to survive the violence of their national and personal histories, Community Room, 7 p.m. 

 The sound and light environment explores the relationship of the twelve notes in the chromatic musical scale and associating each with a color from the visible spectrum of light, based on Newton’s Color Wheel. 7:30 p.m. 

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents two of classical music’s most powerful creations, both left unfinished by their composers: Schubert’s Eighth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem. Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 8 p.m. 

Saturday 

Princeton University Art Museum opens its exhibit "1913: The Year of Modernism" which runs through June 23, 2013. 

Easter Egg-Stravaganza at Mecer County Park Festival Grounds (near the ice rink). Grab your bonnets and baskets and enjoy music from the Princeton School of Rock and clowns from Ringing Bros, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Nature Camouflage Egg Hunt. Wander with the naturalists through field and forest in search of naturally-dyed eggs. Learn how to dye eggs, what materials we use and why camouflage is so important in nature. Children 3-10 years old should bring a basket or bag to collect eggs. Registration requested. Children must be accompanied by an adult, 3 p.m.

Sunday

Westminister Choir College presents Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn for Two Pianos; Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos; and Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes for Piano Duet and Vocal Quartet. Featuring Ena Bronstein Barton and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer on piano, 3 p.m. 

Film: "From the ’Burg to the Barrio" at the Princeton Public Library. A portrait of the evolution of Trenton’s Chambersburg neighborhood. Long recognized as the Little Italy of Trenton, famed for Italian restaurants and bakeries, today’s Chambersburg still attracts newly arrived immigrant families, but now they are from Guatemala, Costa Rica and other Latin American countries. Director Susan Ryan will attend the screening. Community Room, 4 p.m.