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May in Montclair Calendar of Events

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The Business Growth Roundtable Presents: Exit Smart: Navigating the Last Chapter of Your Business Journey04/08/202504/08/2025
Visions of The Near East05/17/202505/17/2025
April
8
Tuesday

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The Business Growth Roundtable Presents: Exit Smart: Navigating the Last Chapter of Your Business Journey

The Business Growth Roundtable Presents: Exit Smart: Navigating the Last Chapter of Your Business Journey12pm EST. According to a recent survey of over 200 business owners, 80% say they want to stop working in their businesses within the next decade, with 53% planning to sell or transfer ownership. Yet, only 20% have formalized their exit strategies in writing,* leaving many business owners unprepared for the transition. Whether you intend to sell, transfer, or close your business, having a strategy in place is essential. The earlier you start planning, the more control you’ll have over your transition.

Join us for our April Roundtable, “Exit Smart: Navigating the Last Chapter of Your Business Journey,” where expert advisors will walk you through the essential steps for planning a successful exit.

During the 60-minute session, you’ll learn:

How to accurately assess your business value to enhance your company’s market worth

How goodwill—your company’s reputation, relationships, and brand equity—affects business valuation and sale negotiations.

Key steps to prepare for a smooth transition, ensuring financial and operational stability.

How to determine the right exit strategy based on your financial goals, lifestyle, and long-term vision.

Why assembling a trusted team of advisors is essential for making informed decisions to guide your exit strategy.

Who Should Attend?

Entrepreneurs and business owners contemplating an exit

Anyone interested in understanding the complexities of selling or transitioning a business

Successful exits don’t happen organically—they require planning and the right strategy. Join us to get the insights you need to make smart, confident decisions about your business’s future. Reservations / registration required by 04/08/2025. For more info: https://c3workplace.com/event/njbia-bgr-presents-exit-smart-navigating-the-last-chapter-of-your-business-journey/, kelly@c3workplace.com, 973-783-7900. Free.
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May
3
Saturday

Frankenstein

1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043. 08:00 PM. Love, loss, and creation merge in unexpected ways as Manual Cinema presents its thrilling version of the classic Gothic tale Frankenstein. This Chicago-based performance collective masterfully merges shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects, and live music to deliver a hauntingly unique experience unlike anything you have witnessed before. The ingenious blend of Mary Shelley's biography and her iconic creation, Frankenstein, offers a fresh perspective on the beauty and horror of creation.

By intertwining the real-life and fictional narratives of Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s Monster, Manual Cinema intricately showcases how family, community, and education can shape personhood—or destroy it by their absence. Don't miss out on this haunting interpretation of a classic!

Court Theatre presented the World Premiere of Frankenstein in Chicago, November 2018. Frankenstein had its New York premiere at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival in January 2019 and its international debut in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

This production includes loud sounds, flashing lights and haze.

This engagement of Manual Cinema is made possible in part through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Reservations / registration required. For more info: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/Kasser/1631/event/1385764?eventidlist=1385764, phillipsam@montclair.edu, 973-655-5112. $20-$55.

May
8
Thursday

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043. 7:00 PM. Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello pays musical tribute to her literary hero, author James Baldwin, with her latest show, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin. The New York Times said it is “an expansive, adventurous piece that turns Baldwin into an organizing principle but also features the thinking of Audre Lorde and calls-to arms from the poet Staceyann Chin that leave a third-degree burn… it’s some of the most hauntingly, melodically beautifully work she’s made —intelligent, sincere, funny, enraged, queer, sexy, intensely pleasing music.”

August 2, 2024 marked the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin, a momentous occasion that is celebrated by the release of one of Ndegeocello’s most intrepid efforts to date. With this new album and concert, Ndegeocello embarks on a prophetic musical odyssey that transcends boundaries and genres, delving headfirst into race, sexuality, religion, and other recurring themes explored in the celebrated writer’s canon. The Wall Street Journal raved “Ms. Ndegeocello’s recorded catalog is too rich and stylistically varied to call any one work her masterpiece. Still, this one qualifies.”

Following 2023’s The Omnichord Real Book, her acclaimed debut for Blue Note Records, which won the inaugural GRAMMY Award for Best Alternative Jazz Album, Ndegeocello renders an immersive and palpable document that is as sagacious, unabashed, and introspective as Baldwin was in life. His prescience is alive nearly forty years after his passing, a testament to his enduring impact. A prolific writer, his essays, novels, plays, and poetry have assessed and often reproached the human condition. As an activist, his oratory prowess in the 1960s was bar none, lending his outspoken views on Black oppression with profundity and eloquence. Reservations / registration required. For more info: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/Kasser/1631/event/1401591, phillipsam@montclair.edu, 973-655-5112. $20-$55.

May
17
Saturday

Visions of The Near East

Visions of The Near EastSponsored by Mosaic Dance Theater Company. 40 S. Fullerton St., Montclair, NJ 07042. 5:00 pm. Celebrate the rich traditions of dance and folklore from North Africa and the Middle East as Mosaic Dance Theater Company dazzles you with "Visions of the Near East." Lavish costuming, dynamic choreography, sparkling storytelling, and unforgettable performances await you.

Venue: First Congregational Church
Made possible by funds from the Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Reservations / registration required by 05/17/2025. For more info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visions-of-the-near-east-tickets-1141611373349, mosaicdtc@gmail.com, 973-783-2395. Free.