Events

Just because it’s winter time doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the beach! The winter months are some of the best times to go shell collecting. Take a guided walk with a Park System Naturalist along the beach, collecting and identifying some of the ocean’s natural treasures. Make sure you dress in warm clothing and bring along something to carry shells in. Meet on the beach.

The annual Super Plunge Sunday in Brant Beach. Plunge early in the morning and make it home in time for Super Bowl Sunday!

Experience an early spring sunset without the summer crowds at the Belmar Marina. We will meander from the Belmar Arts Center along the Shark River Promenade to the end of Pier 9 to enjoy a peaceful sunset of “the hills”. Every sunset is unique and beautiful with it’s long shadows and soft light. Designed as a fun, foto evening where you can practice and improve your photography skills, move beyond taking just another pretty snapshot and develop your creative eye. Michael will guide you with suggestions on composition, perspective, and externalizing your mind’s eye.

Pre-registration is requested even if you are a member so we have an idea of many to expect. Join Michael & Beverly Federico’s for a relaxing, pay your own way meal and conversation afterwards. Federico’s is BYOB.

No charge BAC member benefit/$20 non-members

Welcome Spring with this comedy parade complete with over 300 basset hounds. 12 noon on Asbury Ave. from 6th St–12th St and then up to the Boardwalk ending at the Music Pier. Pieasco follows parade – mass pie in the face extravaganza.

Please join us for a free educational college planning workshop that will focus on high school and middle school students. We will discuss financial aid forms and all other information you need to understand in order to maximize the amount of financial aid you are eligible to receive! Even if your family is not eligible for need-based aid, we will cover strategies on how to pay for college on the most efficient basis.

We will discuss picking colleges that might give you the best opportunity to receive financial aid. How assets might impact your eligibility. How to get ahead by developing a customized plan and how to lower the out of pocket cost.

Ready to take your career to the next level? Then we would like to meet you! Join us on Tuesday, April 24 at the Radisson Hotel Freehold as we hold a career fair for our 11 hotels from Toms River to Woodbridge, NJ. We are hiring for all positions from entry level to upper management.

Suggested attire is business casual. Please be sure to bring two forms of identification and your resume.

Visit www.HotelsUnlimited.com for a complete listing of hotels.

RSVP to Courtney Mattsson – you’ll be guaranteed an on-the-spot interview! Call 732-244-4000 x6504 or email cmattsson@hotelsunlimited.com

Be sure to visit this weekend when stores like Molly & Zoey roll out their racks for early season savings!

On April 28, the Surfrider Foundation: Jersey Shore Chapter is hosting a Beach Cleanup followed by Happy Hour at The BAR ROOM + kitchen in Deal, New Jersey!

Volunteers of all ages are welcome and encouraged to clean the beach with us! Bring gloves and wear hard-soled shoes. Dress weather-appropriate!! Always stay off dunes and respect wildlife!

Beach Sweep: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM @ Phillips Beach
Location: Meet at the Phillips Ave. beach entrance.

Happy Hour: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at Bar Room & Kitchen (100 Norwood Ave, Deal, NJ 07723).

The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots, non-profit, environmental organization that works for the enjoyment and protection of our oceans, waves and beaches.

Founded in 1984, the Surfrider Foundation’s most important coastal environmental work is carried out by more than 60 chapters located along the East, West, Gulf, Puerto Rican and Hawaiian coasts.

– Earn up to 23 CEUs over 3 days
– Meet with 80 exhibitors
– Network with 1200 colleagues
– Learn about licensing changes & revisions to the Code of Ethics
– Choose from 70+ workshops

Come to the Guardian Park this May for the thrid annual “Run the Hook” 5k/10k
fundraiser in support of the charity “Clean Ocean Action.”

A portion of proceeds from the race go directly to the charity so they can continue to work to improve the quality of our local bodies of water.

The event is currently 70% sold out and sold out in advance the first two years of the event, so sign up today!

There is probably no single race more famous than The Benihana Offshore Grand Prix. This race was known as the Indy 500 of Offshore Racing and was held in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, during the 1970’s. The New Jersey Offshore Powerboat Racing Association has been the host club since racing started in Point Pleasant Beach some 40+ years ago. NJ Offshore (NJOPRA) is still a very active club with over 100 members and has kept the tradition of Offshore Racing alive on the Jersey Shore for all those years.

Bring the family to Island Beach for a fun beach day! Vendors will be tabling and food will be available.

We hope you will join us in this year’s event as Bradley Beach kicks off summer at the Jersey Shore. The Memorial Day Parade opens up the food and craft event on the boardwalk which ends on Monday, May 28th.

Join us for our yearly celebration of Bradley Beach and all it has to offer! Music. Delicious Food. Children’s entertainment. Craft vendors. Wine and beer.

Join us for our yearly celebration of Bradley Beach and all it has to offer! Music. Delicious Food. Children’s entertainment. Craft vendors. Wine and beer.

Join Island Beach every Thursday in August for Healthy Earth, Healthy Life, a wellness celebration.

Details will be posted to the website as they become available: https://www.friendsofibsp.org/events/augustwellness/

Annual baby crawling race for babies up to 15 months. The good-natured competition has challenged parents to leave their infant child in the center of a parachute spread out on the beach and has challenged the infants to crawl back to the perimeter of the parachute and the welcoming arms of their parents. Registration is free and begins at 8:30 am. The contest begins at 9 am.

Come to The Anchor’s Bend this summer for the 5th year of Asbury Park Surf Music Festival!

The USA’s #1 surf and music event will feature food, drinks, games, and more in addition to all of the surfing fun and live music!

Fall in love in a galaxy by the beach! Grab your Valentine, family and friends and join us in the Grand Arcade of Convention Hall in Asbury Park! We’ve curated a Valentine’s Bazaar featuring the best in local and regional vendors selling goods and gifts hand made with love.

Vendors will be selling gifts ranging from handcrafted jewelry, art, home goods, and chocolates for your Valentine’s Day sweetheart. Pick up gorgeous flower bouquets from Faye + Renee or make your own at their Flower Bar.

Make it a date! Join us at The Anchor’s Bend for a delicious lunch, cocktails and Hawaiian-inspired music by Slowey + The Boats hosted by Hi-Tide Recordings. Enjoy oysters and champagne at the Asbury Oyster Bar or grab a delicious hot toddy at our hot drink bar & cozy fireplace lounge.

Be sure to stop by Little Detour photo booth for a cute vintage-inspired Valentine’s Day photo strip. Bring your pet for a photo and learn how to adopt one! Our non-profit partner this year is See Spot Rescued, a 501(c)3 all volunteer, foster-based rescue in Jersey City, NJ. The event is free, all ages, rain or shine and pet-friendly.

Come down to Asbury Park and join us for a wonderful food festival inside Asbury Park’s very own Convention Hall. Amazing food and fancy drinks will be provided. Please join us and partake in this wonderful winter snow ball party down by the shore!

Instructor, Gayle Stahlhuth, artistic director of East Lynne Theater Company, uses writing and simple acting exercises to trigger the writer’s imagination. The workshop is geared for those who have written plays, as well as those who have always wanted to try their hand at writing a play. Participants are encouraged to create short plays during the workshop.

Aside from performing, directing, and producing, Stahlhuth is also a produced playwright, who has received writing commissions from The Smithsonian Institution, Theatreworks/USA and The Illinois and Missouri Humanities Councils, and grants from The New Jersey Humanities Council.  Her plays have been performed at such places as the NYC International Fringe Festival, The Samuel French One-Act Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Arvada Center in Denver, the Pennsylvania Stage Company, the Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis, and the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company, located in Cape May. She has taught playwriting to a variety of ages throughout the country at theaters, universities, libraries, public schools, and writing conferences. For several years, Gayle was a popular workshop leader at the now-disbanded North Wildwood Beach Writer’s Conference.

The fee is only $10 and may be paid at the door.  This fee is unusually low due to the financial support the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s “Stages Festival.” Advance registration appreciated and may be made by calling 609-884-5898 or e-mail eastlynneco@aol.com.