Celeste Bateman & Associates, LLC

05/25/2026

04/27/2026

NEXT UP -- Festival, Saturday, June 27th at The Newark Public Library, downtown Newark, NJ. FREE and open to the public.

04/01/2026

Be sure to join us on April 25 for this FREE CONCERT. RSVP @ https://IDAWApril25.eventbrite.com

01/11/2026

As of December 31, 2025, our nonprofit organization, Blue Butterfly Arts & Media, has closed it’s operations. We closed in good standing and are proud of the projects we were able to accomplish in just four short years. Not only did we produce the documentary Stronger Than Steel: The Senator Wynona Lipman Story and the accompanying exhibit and ancillary programs and receptions around Lipman’s Centennial; we hosted events involving local artists, including the outstanding Coffee and Convo: Conversations in Art & Activism, daylong seminar last May, a collaboration with the Community Media Center at Express Newark. Additionally, we joined with NJPAC and the Weequhaic Park Association to host Salsa Sunday in November 2025. We worked on several projects with other organizations (e.g. Wynona’s House) and donated our remaining funds to local nonprofits. As individual Board members, our work continues — producing and promoting arts and cultural projects in the community and beyond. Thank you to all who helped sustain us along the way. cab🦋

11/05/2025

TODAY‼️

Join us for JAZZY SALSA SUNDAY on November 16, 2025, 2:00-6:00 PM, a FREE EVENT offered as part of the NJPAC's JAMES MOODY JAZZ FESTIVAL and featuring the LUISITO ROSARIO ORCHESTRA.

Feldman Middleton Community Center
at Weequahic Park
92 Thomas Carmichael Drive
Newark, NJ 07114
**FREE PARKING **

Email from Celeste Bateman & Associates, LLC Make your reservations! JAZZY SALSA SUNDAY Weequahic Park, Newark, New Jersey FEATURING... Janetza Miranda Mistress of Ceremonies DJ Rich Fontanez MUSIC! D

08/31/2025

Our documentary STRONGER THAN STEEL: The Senator Wynona Lipman Story (56 mins) was selected by the Women of the Lens Festival in London and will be screened on November 21. But you can see it right here on NJ PBS. Link in the bio.

07/06/2025

NewarkNJ: The County of Essex will be hosting the ribbon-cutting for the newly built Senator Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, 340 University Avenue in downtown Newark on Friday, July 11, 12 noon. If you’re available, please attend this momentous occasion I am so pleased and happy that this extraordinary humanitarian, our first African-American woman Senator, will be honored and remembered because of this beautiful edifice. Attendees will be able to tour the state-of-the-art facility. Senator Lipman’s extended family will be in town for this event. Her legacy will be further memorialized by the commissioned bronze sculpture that will also be unveiled.

Suggested parking is in the Jury lot by the main Courthouse, entrance on S. Orange Ave. It’s about a two block walk down to the Lipman Courthouse. Hope you can attend. Open to the public.