Weekend Guide: Arts Council Benefit and More

Friday

Join the YWCA Princeton Bike Club for a ride through Central NJ that will cover at least 20 miles and last approximately 3-4 hours. 10 a.m. 

Princeton Public Library screens the "The Hunger Games," a movie about a post-apocalyptic world where two teenagers are selected each year to compete in a televised fight to the death. Community Room, 6 p.m.

The Arts Council of Princeton will host its 45th Anniversary Benefit Concert and Reception featuring singer/songwriter Francis Dunnery. Click here for tickets (non-member ticket includes six month membership to ACP). 7:30 p.m. 

Saturday

Carnegie Center 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run for The Parkinson Alliance. Also a family fun day with refreshments, door prizes, dj, awards, and a kids' zone with moon bounces and clown/face painting, 7:30 a.m. 

A panel discussion, "Sustaining Princeton as a Livable Community." Mayoral candidates Liz Lempert and Dick Woodbridge will be part of a discussion facilitated by members of Princeton Future. Community Room, 9 a.m. 

Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards. Celebrate fall with yick-your-own apples and pumpkins. Enjoy pony rides, wagon rides, a corn stalk maze, the Barn of Legends and Lore, live music and a barnyard of farm animals, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday

Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards. Celebrate fall with pick-your-own apples and pumpkins. Enjoy pony rides, wagon rides, a corn stalk maze, the Barn of Legends and Lore, live music and a barnyard of farm animals, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Princeton Public Library hosts a film and discussion: leben um zu sagen (Live to Tell). McCarter Theatre publicist Dan Bauer discusses his family’s journey from 1938 Austria. The 30-minute documentary is told through the eyes of his 100-year-old grandmother, his father and a cousin, all of whom talk about how their lives were changed when the Nazis took over Vienna. A panel discussion with follow including Bauer, Dr. Paul Winkler, executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and Susan Hoskins, executive director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center. Community Room, 2 p.m. 

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