120 East State

120 East State Hosts "Remembrance & Resilience: Commemorating Stories Through Music & Art"
2025-06-18 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-11 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-04 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
120 East State is proud to host the arts exhibit and artists’ talks for The Lotus Project’s “Remembrance & Resilience: Commemorating Stories Through Music & Art.

For more information about the exhibit, please click here.
To reserve tickets, please click here.

120 East State Hosts "Remembrance & Resilience: Commemorating Stories Through Music & Art"
2025-05-28 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-22 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-07 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-07 11:00 - 14:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
120 East State is proud to serve as host the arts exhibit and artists’ talks for The Lotus Project’s “Remembrance & Resilience: Commemorating Stories Through Music & Art.

For more information about the exhibit, please click here.
To reserve tickets, please click here.

Tha Block Trenton's Community Meal
2025-05-25 12:00 - 14:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
This month’s meal theme is pasta. Tha Block Trenton is asking for volunteers and donations of food serving supplies, prepared foods, and beverages to provide free, hot meals to 90 or more Trenton community members on the last Sunday of every month.
Suggested Donations

Spaghetti
Alfredo
Mac & cheese
Chicken
Meatballs
Ground turkey
Salad
Bread

How To Get Involved

To donate prepared food or supplies, please drop all donations off to 120 East State on the day of the meal at 10:30am.
To volunteer your time to help with set up, clean up, canvassing, etc., please contact thablocktrenton@gmail.com.
To provide monetary donations to support this initiative, please contact Kenny Bullock at 609-233-7911.

About Tha Community Meal
On the last Sunday of the month, Tha Block Trenton brings the community together to enjoy a hot meal together. On average, we are able to provide meals to 75 residents or more, including many of our unhoused residents.
In addition to providing hot food, we are also able to provide free clothing, shoes, and personal care items to the community.
This event has become an amazing tradition and is uplifted by all of the food and clothing donations received from the community.

About Tha Block Trenton
Tha Block Trenton is a grassroots organization serving those that live in the city of Trenton, New Jersey. The organization’s goal is to distribute resources equitably to all of the city’s residents, including our unhoused residents, local businesses, grassroots organizations, and our youth.
Find out more about Tha Block Trenton by visiting their website at: https://www.thablocktrenton.org/

Telling the Story: First Steps with Dr. Nicole Belolan
2025-05-08 17:30 - 19:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Join Dr. Nicole Belolan as she outlines the next steps in our plan for telling the story of 120 East State, the historic First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in downtown Trenton. Hear her report and share your thoughts with the 120 East State History Community Advisory Board. Everyone welcome.
Nicole Belolan, PhD, is a consulting public historian and independent scholar based in South Jersey. She consults on a range of projects such as researching and interpreting history at museums and historic sites, collections management, oral history, disability history, and accessibility planning for disabled people at museums and historic sites.
This program is made possible, in part, by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, through funding from the Mercer County Board of Commissioners and the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Register here

Community Connections: Forming Our Community Advisory Boards
2025-04-26 11:30 - 15:30 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
The Steeple Center at 120 East State is growing, and we want you to be a part of it!
Join us for an interactive community engagement event as we recruit passionate individuals for our Advisory Board. We seek dedicated voices to help shape the future of arts, history, and industry initiatives within this historic space.
This is an opportunity to learn more about our mission, connect with like-minded individuals, and explore ways to contribute your expertise to this transformative project. Whether you have experience in the arts, historic preservation, business, or community development, we welcome your input and leadership.
We’re forming three Community Advisory Boards. Join us for the one(s) that interest you:
🖼️ Arts – 12pm
🏢 Industry – 1pm
📜 History – 2pm.
Let’s build something meaningful together—where history, creativity, and innovation meet!

Virtual Trenton Easter Parade
2025-04-20 00:00 - 23:59 | NJ
Celebrate Easter and the beginning of spring with us—virtually!
120 East State invites our Trenton community to take part in the Virtual Easter Parade, a joyful online celebration of Easter Sunday hats, bonnets, and springtime outfits. Whether you’re dressing up for church, brunch, or just the spirit of the season, we want to see you shine!
How to Participate:

Submit a photo of you (or your family!) in your Easter best
Upload your photo using our simple online form
That’s it—entry is FREE!

Everyone who enters will be featured on our social media pages as part of our 2025 Virtual Easter Parade!
Let’s bring color, joy, and community spirit to Trenton this season—one outfit at a time.
Deadline to Submit: April 20, 2025
Submit here: https://forms.gle/ec8yj4qaBMNU99QC9

Voices of Tha Block: The Stories We Choose To Tell
2025-04-12 14:00 - 18:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Voices of Tha Block and Art All Night Previews are collaborating to create a space of community. Attendees will prepare a meal together and explores what it means to collage and document identities together.
RSVP required to attend

Voices of Tha Block: The Heart’s Art is an oral histories initiative, hosted by Tha Block Trenton, that will allow for Trentonians to share the responsibility of preparing a meal while engaging in meaningful conversations that assess the needs of building a self-sufficient community. In using meal preparation as a model for community care and collective healing, we will focus on gathering folks through various topics to target specific needs that are recurring.
At The Stories We Choose to Tell we are asking community members to bring photos, videos, and narratives to be recorded in preparation for Art All Night and the launch of the 120 East State project. We will also be providing a collage room where you’ll be able to redefine your role in society.

How Shall We Tell the Story? with Dr. Skyler Gordon
2025-03-29 11:00 - 12:30 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Join Dr. Skyler D. Gordon for a community conversation about how to tell the history of 120 East State.
Dr. Gordon coordinates and supervises research, outreach, and daily operations for Truth & Repair across four research hubs located at Princeton University, the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Rutgers-Camden, and St. Peter’s University. Each hub is a collaboration between scholars, students, and local community members who, together, develop regional and statewide research projects, conduct community-engaged historical research, and support the work of cultural institutions, organizations in truth-telling and repair.

Free to attend. Please register.
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-shall-we-tell-the-story-with-dr-skyler-gordon-tickets-1269473803319?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tavern Talks Pop-Up Featuring River House Brewing Co.
2024-12-29 12:00 - 14:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
What’s brewing in America? Calling all history-curious brewery enthusiasts to join RevolutionNJ in the age old tradition of debating revolutionary ideas in bars with friends.
120 East State and River Horse Brewing host RevolutionNJ and friends to explore the ideals and motivations behind the American Revolution. Attendees are invited to imagine that you are in a colonial tavern. Neighbors, family, and friends with conflicting ideologies are all around you. In a defining moment for the American colonies, you must decide which side to take. You might find that the past is closer than you think!
Note: This is not a lecture! Attendees will have the opportunity to talk with reenactors about problems that we still face in our communities today, and use their civic voices as part of an interactive, immersive experience. Using accounts from the past, reenactors will immerse participants in back and forth discussion to help inform their decision. So, what happens when a loyalist, a patriot, and a pacifist walk into a bar? Join RevolutionNJ and River Horse Brewing at 120 East State in Trenton on December 29th from 12:00 – 2:00PM to find out!
Before you arrive, take a look at our booklet linked below to prepare for the event.
https://www.revnj.org/s/Tavern-Talks-Patriots-Week.pdf
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$10/entry fee (does not include the purchase of alcohol)
For more information about RevolutionNJ visit revnj.org or follow us @revolutionNJ

Patriots Week Open House & Tours
2024-12-28 12:00 - 16:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Join us for an open house and tours at one of the key sites of the Battles of Trenton, historic First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, final resting place of Hessian Col. Johan Rall and many AmRev soldiers.
At 1pm, take part in a special cemetery talk and tour with Richard Hunter of Hunter Research, Trenton. Explore this National Historic Register property and learn about its relation to the founding of the Nation, its Revolutionary War era cemetery, and more. Building tours at 12:30, 2:00, 2:30, and 3:30pm.
Refreshments available (donations accepted).

Community Connect
2024-11-09 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-11-07 17:30 - 19:30 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Please come to 120 East State’s Community Connect!

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? Now’s your chance! We’re inviting dynamic, engaged individuals to join 120 East State’s Community Advisory Boards.

Join us in shaping the future of the Steeple Center at 120 East State. Share your voice, ideas, and insights to create impactful programs and initiatives that truly matter.
Be part of something bigger at 120 East State – together, we can build a stronger, more vibrant community!

Interested? Please complete the registration form and let’s make a change in our community.

Not able to attend? Please complete the Community Connect Survey so we can get your input.

“Friendraiser” for 120 East State and the Steeple Center Project
2024-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 | NJ
Please join us for wine, mocktails, and hors d’oeuvres at a lovely Cadwalader Heights home, built between 1919-1920, with secluded backyard spaces along the canal. The landscape’s stone stairways, terraces and plantings are beautifully illuminated at sunset in this quiet paradise.
Our host, Randy Baum, is an accomplished landscape architect, designing parks and recreational facilities, as well as preserving historic open spaces and structures throughout Trenton.
Learn more about the transformation of First Presbyterian Church into the Steeple Center– an arts, history, and economic development engine for Trenton.

Hear Mercer County Commissioner Sam Frisby describe why the project is important to Trenton
Imagine “A Day In the Life” of this new center with Cherry Oakley, Board President
See images of the planned transformation of this National Historic Register site
Discover how you can take part in this downtown revitalization effort

$25 admissions fee. Must register to attend.
Register here

Voices Of Tha Block: A Community Dinner Series
2024-10-13 17:00 - 20:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
What exactly dies it take to maintain and build a community? What is social reproduction? How does social reproduction take part? How does birthing children and maintaining social norms play into capitalism?
Interested in preparing and breaking bread around these topics with other members of the community?
We’ll be chatting about all things community while preparing a home-cooked meal.
Register now

200 Years Later: Lafayette Returns to 120 East State
2024-09-26 11:00 - 14:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Join us at 120 East State, with re-enactors Michael Halbert and Leslie Bramlett, to welcome the return of General Lafayette to the place where he worshipped on September 26, 1824.
Walk through our historic cemetery and visit the graves of those with whom he served in the Continental Army as they fought together for American independence 1777-1783, and be part of a wreath laying in their memory. Experience the sound of the historic bell Lafayette would have heard. Meet Hannah Till, cook to Washington, and hear about her relationship with these Generals of the Revolution. Tour the 120 East State building, view the American Friends of Lafayette and Oh Freedom! traveling exhibits, see tools women who followed the Army would have used, and hear about plans to restore this National Historic Register property.
Cemetery tour open to the public. Tickets required for pre-event lunch and building tour/discussion. This event is cosponsored by the American Friends of Lafayette and the DAR NJ State Society.

Click here to register now

Event Schedule
11am: Join us for a delicious buffet lunch. Vegetarian and vegan options will be available. Space is limited. Cost $25. Ticket purchases must be made in advance and will close Tuesday, Sept. 24 at noon.

12 noon: Walk through the cemetery with Gen. Lafayette. Ground is uneven; suitable footwear is necessary. Visit grave markers of Revolutionary soldiers. Witness wreath-laying in honor of these veterans with the General Mercer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Hear the same church bell ring which Lafayette would have heard that day. Free, open to the public – no registration required.

1:00pm: Visit with Hannah Till, and see her display of items women who followed the Army used (starts 12:30pm). Take a tour of the 1839 building, ask questions of Gen. Lafayette and Mrs. Till, view the Oh Freedom! and American Friends of Lafayette exhibits, and learn about plans to restore this National Historic Register property. Space is limited. Free, ticket required – please register to attend.

Art All Day at 120 East State
2024-09-21 12:00 - 18:00 | 120 East State, 120 East State, Trenton, NJ, United States
Art All Day is Trenton’s open studio tour and creative showcase hosted by Artworks backed by the support of local government, non-profit, and for-profit organizations. The event offers a unique opportunity to experience Trenton as a hub of art, creation, and innovation.
On Saturday, September 21st, 120 East State will display the artwork of local artists, including the work of our logo contest participants JohnEli DaCosta and Henrietta Baldwin.
More about JohnEli DaCosta’s work can be found on Facebook, Instagram and X.

We are elated to partner with another local non-profit organization, Tha Block Trenton, to open our doors to the public and create an unique experience for guests, including music, an art showcase, community connection, and more.
120 East State would like to invite you to stop by between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Saturday, September 21, 2024 to enjoy light refreshments and appreciate the creativity of Trenton, New Jersey.
Registration is not required to attend. Open to the public. For more information, please visit: https://artallday.artworkstrenton.org/
