It was a day of celebration, gratitude, art, music, love and paying it all forward.
Continue reading Scene Around: Celebrating Cooper Ley, Art & GivingCategory Archives: Arts & Entertainment
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The R-FH Area Weekend: RFHer Cooper Ley’s Memorial Art Show

It’s all about the skating, creating and celebrating in the spirit of one artist. That artist would have been 32 on March 10.

So, in keeping with a new tradition created by his sister Adrienne, RFH grad Tom “Cooper” Ley’s artwork and birthday will be celebrated from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 15 at Wild Air Beerworks, Asbury Park.
The show will honor the RFH grad, artist, musician and skateboarder with a posthumous birthday bash and help others in the mix. The proceeds from sales of Cooper’s artwork prints will benefit a charity — I Heart SF Skate Club. The cause, his sister said, is one that she researched and feels aligns with what Cooper’s wish to help would be if he were here.
Cooper passed away suddenly last year on Jan. 10, a couple months before his 31st birthday. Adrienne hosted the first of pop-up art shows in his honor in March of last year. A second was held in December at another spot.
In addition to the sales of Cooper’s art, his brother, Ben, will entertain with a little music from 2 to 2:45 or so.
For the love of art, music, skating and a good cause, the family and friends of Cooper invite all to be there — and leave having helped with some Cooper Ley artwork to display.

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RFH Tower Players Set Stage for ‘Matilda the Musical’

It’s spring musical time at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH).

Scene Around: A Forrestdale ‘Seussical’ Thing
Just a little Rumson entertainment thing to know: Forrestdale School Drama Club kids are getting set for a curtain up on Seussical Jr., the youngsters’ version of Seussical the Musical.
Of course, the show is all about the works of famed children’s book author, Dr. Seuss. And the cast is dressed, going into final dress rehearsal and ready to open on Thursday night.
Continue reading Scene Around: A Forrestdale ‘Seussical’ ThingThe Art of Exploring the Ocean’s Connection with Humanity





The art of the connection between the ocean and humanity will soon be on display. Ocean Bodies, a solo exhibit by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas, will be hosted by Monmouth University at its Ice House Gallery starting Thursday.

Scene Around: Cooper Ley’s Gift of Art Given by His Sister
All she wants for Christmas is for people to remember her brother — to gift his gift.
Of course, in facing a first holiday without him, if it were truly up to RFH grad Adrienne Ley O’Connell, she’d rather have that brother, Tom “Cooper” Ley, back. But, since she can’t have that sparkly, neatly wrapped present of her brother’s physical presence, she’s chosen to gift herself with the ethereally messy sharing of his art.
In following her Cooper-inspired Earthly journey, Adrienne is making sure he’s remembered and offering a little help and connection to those lost, as he once was, along the way.
Continue reading Scene Around: Cooper Ley’s Gift of Art Given by His SisterFocus: On Stage with RFH Tower Players in ‘Nutcracker’
It was curtain up on Friday and final bow on Sunday for Nutcracker … the Musical at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH).

Scene Around: RFH Tower Players’ Dressed & Set for ‘Nutcracker’
It’s a dressed, set and go for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players’ production of Nutcracker … the Musical this weekend.

RFH Tower Players Set Stage for ‘Nutcracker’
The curtain is going up soon on the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players’ fall production of Nutcracker … the Musical.

Scene Around: RFH Tower Players Reunited & Playing
There is a season … and this fall was one for the reuniting of two Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Player alumni for theatrical arts’ sake.

Scene Around: RFH Marching Band Marches into a Win
And the band played and marched on … right into a big win.

RFH Tower Singers Get ‘Distinguished’ at NJ Teen Arts Festival
You could say that the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Singers have distinguished themselves among vocal musicians.

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