so anyway on martin luther king princeton community workshop hearts on fire princeton cupid chase this is great again because patrick he is the insider for princeton and what's happening yeah i mean there's so many things going on every month it's a matter of  amazing that you get what you can when there's so much going on and you have a guy who doing a show like this in princeton i think is awesome you know i think it's going to continue to catch on i'm glad to be part of it yeah this first segment is the martin luther king day at the arts council was a breakfast was interactive with music interactive were workshop discussions about king's life and also the racial history of princeton which is quite interesting you know so let's watch it in the sixty's there were many great leaders or infamous leaders but we had johnson the kennedys malcolm x but above of them there was king at the princeton arts council celebrating martin luther king day and this is princetonian now hopefully continuing legacy and i have some questions like i actually worked on first question it's a loaded one how do you think you can integrate art culture and the creative community in which we live in to solve social problems oh wow the arts are a great way to sort of deconstruct the challenges related to equity and social justice for the for first of all it is a way that permits us to learn about other cultures during the program today i mentioned how we have been doing things relative to specific cultures so south asian with our bollywood last week we had three kings which is a christmas celebration a from the spanish speaking  community and what's great is that it's not just people from those communities that have been coming to those specific events and it's a way that we learn about each other and so i think that's just one way that the arts can help solve some of those social issues i think one of those things is that the especially when you see great art it challenges your thoughts about things but one of things at the university exhibit that i saw as they took work that they already had but they put it together in a narrative that helps support the initiative that they're working on prints and slavery and so the relationships between those different pieces and the pieces and what they represent so i think i've always been influenced by the all right what's coming up exciting in the near future here at the princeton arts council so we have a great exhibit right now of heroes of comic art which was curated by charles david vieira we have some original art from a really and dynamic period created by stan lee and jack  kirby who were the founders of marvel along with some other art that's there have the original black panther panels for instance there's a black panther pet black panther movie coming out so it's just coincidence although we're saying it was intentional that's just a coincidence  have the narrative paintings by charles david hare also on exhibit on our lower gallery we have something going on pretty much every weekend all the time with respect to our exhibits and thank you so much for providing me an opportunity to plug center for the arts and i'm there in princetonian now we're talking to a merchant county community member your name sir dwayne williamson you're very active in the community i see you in a lot of events are you running for something i've considered it but currently no you're a lawyer in based in trenton and yes i'm a christian resident but i do have a law office in trenton now we're here at princeton arts council for martin luther king day what inspired your being an advocate or should i say activism  i do believe in the american dream i truly do and we look at lot of the issues we're having a lot of the injustices that are out there now we look at the history of our country and i believe as martin luther king did that in spite of all these things that there is an idealism in the united states constitution and i do believe we can actually create that most that more perfect union that our founding fathers and in some cases mothers we wanted to create one could argue how they felt about certain things at the time clearly the founding fathers were slave owners etc but in spite of all that i do believe document itself is a living document and that if we the three hundred twenty million americans now that we can actually use what started back then and all the amendments that were created since then that we can use that document as a foundation to really create a very very more perfect union a very good and just society that works acquittal before all of the citizens and i just want to be a part of that process we have to be idealistic we have to believe that things can be better than they currently are and if there are all the problems there are there's a lot of good in our society i like what president clinton said about that he said what is right about america will always triumph over what is wrong about america i truly believe that i believe that and as we've seen the progress that's been made  in the decades since the civil rights movement we have we have enough very educated very caring people to derive from their knowledge and their experiences and their aspirations to look at all that's going on in our society and figure out ways to improve things where we can create a more just as just  side we have we have great institutions in our country we have free public school we have laws that do endeavor to give equal justice you know certainly these need to be right we have to do things in a legal understanding that violence would not achieve anything violence only gives those who like to oppress and excuse to be more expressive and to do it more effectively nonviolence speaks to the good that is in humanity and i think most people at the core or good we look at his speeches if we look at the i have a dream speech if you look at his followers speech the day before he was murdered it always talked about what's in the constitution where in the last speech he gave when he says he read somewhere about the right to assemble he harkens back to the constitution that is what a real american exceptionalism should be about is that we have a beautiful written document a living document and it's something that no matter where you come from in this world it's a concept that you can buy into and that is what makes america great and we talk about the greatness of america and it doesn't matter what color your skin is it doesn't matter because people do people make america great came from everywhere there is no there's nothing in the genetics that made it happen of one group over another is that we all came here from different places i originally came here from jamaica as a kid and that tries united states citizen and now a proud nephew of sam i am and i consider myself a patriot in spite of all this happening out there because of course like king i do believe we can create that more perfect and liking as he said no one is sleeping well thank you very much thank you i appreciate it i appreciate it very much now this next segment is a an evening at the prin profit all different kinds of seminars and lectures and some networking opportunities and i actually went to it a given i'm trying to get involved in that world with what i'm doing and it was pretty i mean it was crowded it was you know  we do to help people you know that i think that the goal was to how can we help other people how can we help other people and do it in a positive way right and yet get more information and you know i really want to help but i'm not really good marketing i'm not good at strategic planning will come and check this out we can help have five hundred heads to talk to to get information and network and everything yeah yeah we should take a look they almost felt like the old days yeah definitely take a look winston churchill once said we make a living but what we earn we make a life by what we give and that's what happened to princeton community works a clearinghouse for nonprofits all over new jersey pennsylvania new york you name it they come together for workshops speaking beginning gauge with the networking welcome to princetonian now and princeton community works now with katherine carmichael what brings you to princeton community works so i come to princeton community works every year i'm executive director of casa court appointed special advocates for children of mercer and burlington counties and march smith who's the organizer of the conference is on our board so we bring all of our staff we have thirteen staff members here and the board members and we just think it's such a benefit it is an incredible conference for such a very small cos we actually have a lot of volunteers here tonight too and it's just i encourage anybody in the nonprofit sector on a board to come because it's really really wonderful experience look who we ran into another ho many people do it what do you mean and i'm helping i'm here to help people with special needs develop those better social skills communication skills and listening skills things that are going to help them in their life to make a difference in their life through the principles of improvisational theater and a great time and they're going to learn a lot while they're not even realizing the learning something and just having a ball and really the more productive lives and i can say something that i've been there i have to film sometimes you see who never really succeeded to much of felt like part of a community become part of a community they laugh they giggle they have a great time and they become more socialized to they do exactly and that's what's going to help them you know maybe land and keep a job for the rest of their lives keep relationship a meaningful relationship who knows a marriage so these are the goals that we have to just help these kids really develop happier more productive lives that's when jodi weren't in skid and princetonian now will be right back adam berman princetonian now we're talking to a resource a gentleman princeton judith robinson before we talk about why you're here today what about what are you done in the past in the princeton community actually i was one of the co founders at princeton farmer's market and also worked with the state to implement different you know nonpoisonous pesticides to keep up balance between our pest type pest population and you know growing food i've always said and you said this too we talk about drugs crack all that's terrible but no one talks about what we do every day that affects us what we eat and there's a lot of crap out there and you're on the forefront to raising people's consciousness about that with the farmer's market well yeah i actually have to start with the soil because  soil ends up in your food and that means if the soil isn't healthy you don't get all the vitamins and minerals that should be there so if you use a lot of synthetic pesticides and herbicides and fertilizer it kills off the soil food web which actually is life and  this is stuff people only think about but it's happening every day to fight every day to try to legislate fight educate people about actually if you you know if you don't if you're not putting good food into your body you know building up your bank account of health but let's segue to princetonian now community works what are you doing here today actually is helping to volunteer you know to get this place get the whole conference going and it's been a wonderful really experience because mars is a terrific leader of all these people and it's amazing how many volunteers she gets to important to you know today especially today in that you know atmosphere a living in which is you know you have to hold on to that that part of your heart a lot of hating not a lot of listening yeah for anderson with this did you really have a date when you were younger with yes i did that's another story thank you thank you judith i start rolling we've cornered a humble leader marge smith she wanted to focus on the work not herself but hey sometimes you got to blow your own horn you know how's your health my emotional i q doing yeah so i didn't doing great but i'm so happy that we have this focus on accentuate the positive because there's so much good that's going on and people are doing and we need to recognize it and celebrate it every day today that's right who really care in a way it's who cares i don't care so what do you positive about i'm positive about all the good i'd love to create things for people i think it's fun to create design ways and i truly believe that in order product mercer county hightstown east windsor greater princeton area and even today the woman who introduced me was my high school guidance counselor she was my guidance counselor shows how to field at heights and  prince and prince and high school as well so people have poured into me and have mentored me and it have have taught me and i've been the beneficiary of all of what they put into me so i've been i've been blessed you give back so much at last speech so much passion  keep yourself motivated how do you keep the engine running well i talked about in my remarks i am living out my passion i love what i do i've been an entrepreneur since i was a kid who try to sell as tori's to other kids in my neighborhood so i believe in you love what you do you'll never work another day in your life that's what oprah says and i really do believe that so when you love your work it keeps you motivated naturally because it doesn't feel like work so right now as not you nor i am living my dream can you forecast of the next five years i mean where are you going to your high goals for yourself where you want to be i do i continue to work hard and entrepreneur to grow my company you know we've got goals for where we want to be in the next five to ten years terms of revenue and growth and staff and global expansion the like a big focus right now on analyzing data and big data for us and then from there who knows what the next frontier will be for me i suspect there's not a chapter for me after entrepreneurship which remains to be seen you haven't forgot your roots and maybe you come back and talk to us in the next five years so thank you very for valentine's of all ages kids adults there's going to be some interactive demonstrations some of them are going on currently but you'll be able to see in a throne and take a picture or you'll be able to show the wings are already out you'll be able to take a picture with a set of wings there are some great love sculptures coming polarbear so it's a lot of fun hoping the rain holds out and will be here as long as as long as a ice will stay formed after this we have  our mind body soul series going on so every weekend through the end of february there are events free workshops in the different retailers stores in march march twenty fourth we have our first annual easter egg hunt april twenty second we have a princess shopping spree a mommy princess shopping spree girls night out comes in may and oh the hotels doing a wedding show a wedding showcase on march eleventh march eleventh so there's a lot there's a lot of them  can go to what's a website i promise square dot com see all of our events on our event he was going on the latest thing that are happening around the square i'm peter slaven from sculpture philly dot com interesting i have to be honest with you on we just talked to someone earlier and they said i sculpting is a lost art it's not true i do not believe that at all a lot of people are doing it you know there's a lot of there's over eight hundred professional i sculptors around the country that do for a living and there's probably about forty companies around the country how did you get into this why did you get into this basically for me for me i was going art school  ice is kind of like life it's temporary it's art that's only there for a little bit of time so it's fun to see everybody's expressions and watch because it's a fast medium to create art so you can get you can get your point across really fast is unique i mean everyone it's almost like putting out bait for a fish everyone just stops and they look yet i love it people are fast and they walk by me go wow that's frozen water and then we work you know we work in  would someone who is close to my heart even though it's cold desire what's wrong you're blocking and i know this is a cold spot in your heart and it's hard to reach me but  makes me want to exercise you know maybe not about to run five kilometers yes i am feeling pumped and yes it's my first time to run a five k so i'm going to be really happy doing this quickly are you competitive who's going to win between you three oh that's a lot thank you were talking to i'll just call her julie from the princeton shopping center warm empathetic always moving and i caught you on your phone and now this is a covert should i say we're  making you be interviewed what's happening right now we're getting ready for a cupid's chase five k it's been here as long as i have for sixteen years and it's got so much energy and  enthusiasm you know you just can't get in a cup of coffee there's also a quickly there's there's a component to that people running to raise money for a homeless advocacy homeless for disabled yes it's a very a very huge cause which community options is an advocate for and a lot of people don't realize that oh so it's happening at many states right now and it's the same time so it's a real i'm here in support i'm actually a sponsor but i also work with the the homes of community options i love what they do i think they're really upstanding organization you know does the race help your home what's it called again community options what's the connection with me supporting this is if they raise money to the reputation i'm not really a spokesperson for them but i know it goes back towards funding their energies not for profit which is the home city provide for the disabled individuals that live in the community homes around look deval i was one of the second unit cameraman for the princetonian now segment on the cupid challenge the runners who came by it was just before they finished at the shopping center they're very enthusiastic and whether or not they have a lot of energy a physical energy you know that was a different issue but they had a lot of enthusiasm looks like they were having fun and everyone always seemed to smile i was funny too because i had a long shot down harrison street so i could see them as they came from a distance you know one hundred two hundred yards away and as they got closer when they were walking from being tired and they saw that they were being filmed they they they kind of picked it up to be in relativity right you know well i hope you do watch the show i watch it did yeah and i wonder if you get a chance to watch and you'll get enjoy it tell your friends because a lot of you know it's a lot of fun to watch and it builds the sense of community yeah exactly a lot of people say i don't know no i don't i don't know much about the community i don't well i think it's out there this is definitely out there could you could die jet watch it digest it and be entertained very quickly yeah absolutely and know what's going on and what you want to be part of your information exactly you feel like you're part of my and if you're single that you don't have to go to cuba dot