New Brunswick Heart Festival Is This Saturday

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — This Saturday, Aug. 13 will be the free outdoor New Brunswick Heart Festival.

This is a free outdoor family-friendly arts and history festival that will run from 3-6 p.m. in the heart of New Brunswick city center. It takes place in downtown New Brunswick in front of the theaters at Monument Square at 2 Livingston Ave.

It will feature live music and dance performances; dance classes for kids and adults; an arts market; craft vendors; free balloon animals, henna, face painting, and caricatures; arts & crafts activities; games; fun giveaways; backstage theater tours and more.

At this year’s festival, there will also be a few special sections including a Health & Wellness tent hosted by Garden of Healing; readings of famous love letters by actors from Thinkery & Verse; and a History Corner featuring historical interpreters, a printer and a surgeon, who will share what it was like in Middlesex County during the American Revolution.

The schedule of events and entertainment for Saturday:

3pm-4pm

Latin band, Sonida Latino—Outdoor Stage
New Brunswick Brass Band—Outdoor Stage
Grupo de Danza Folklórica La Sagrada Familia—Outdoor Stage

3pm-6pm—Princeton Ballet School Open House, tour the studio
3pm—Backstage tour of NBPAC
3:30pm—Backstage tour of State Theatre New Jersey
3:40pm—Love Letter reading at Thinkery & Verse tent

4pm-5pm

Hip-Hop, Reggae, and Pop performer for kids, Fyütch—Outdoor Stage
Tap Dancer Omar Edwards—Outdoor Stage
InSpira Cultural Performing Arts Center—Outdoor Stage

4pm—Backstage tour of NBPAC
4:20pm—Love Letter reading at Thinkery & Verse tent
4:30pm—Backstage tour of State Theatre New Jersey
4pm-4:30pm—Beginning Dance class for ages 4-8 with Princeton Ballet School at 60 Bayard St.

5pm-6pm

Salsa Dance Class Party with Elvis Ruiz—Outdoor Stage

5pm—Backstage tour of NBPAC
5:10pm—Love Letter reading at Thinkery & Verse tent
5:30pm—Backstage tour of State Theatre New Jersey
5pm-5:30pm—Flamenco dance class for ages 9-16 with Princeton Ballet School at 60 Bayard St.