Intercultural Center Open House
2019-09-06 14:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Student Center – Conference Room 202C

Afrofuturist Design: Ancient Dogon To Wakandan Futures
2019-09-07 - 2019-10-23 | Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room 101, 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764, United States
We are extending this invitation for you to join us as we host Afrofuturist Design: Ancient Dogon To Wakandan Futures, beginning in September and ending in November 2019. We hope that you are able to join us.
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Brain Belt Symposium Saturday, November 16 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Pat Metheny Side-Eye w/ James Francies & Marcus Gilmore
2019-09-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Pat Metheny is launching a new playing environment called “Side-Eye” for this upcoming season.
Pat explains “I wanted to create an ongoing setting to feature a rotating cast of new and upcoming musicians who have particularly caught my interest along the way.”
Pat continues “From my earliest days in Kansas City onward, I was the beneficiary of so many older musicians giving me a platform to develop my thing through the prism of their experience and the particular demands of what their music implied. I have been feeling like I wanted to have a specific platform to focus on some of the many younger musicians I have enjoyed recently who I have felt some kind of a kinship with.”
“I hear regularly from new players on the scene who have professed an influence from my records and tunes and I often invite them up to my house to play. Very often, it is really natural and organic to the music to play with them, they have literally grown up with it. I find myself inspired by how they deal with the musical challenges that come with the territory of some of those older tunes, and at the same time I find myself intrigued with the possibilities of what might be possible in writing new music just for them. This band setting is what that will be all about.”

Commemorating 9/11: Art, Perspectives, and Reflections
2019-09-11 07:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Monmouth University is partnering with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to offer a day of free public programming including art and discussion. The programming will provide a platform for the varied perspectives and stories of those greatly impacted by the attacks. In coordination with events in the five boroughs of New York City, Monmouth University is the only New Jersey location hosting this exhibition.

Video Screening

“2001” by Wolfgang Staehle
Pollak Theatre
Sept. 11, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.
From 7 a.m. until sunset, Monmouth University will present a free public viewing of artist Wolfgang Staehle’s dual-channel video work “2001.” This rare footage recorded the launch of the terrorist attacks on America from a pair of unmanned webcams.
Several days before September 11, 2001, Staehle, a pioneering internet artist, had situated two cameras in an apartment building in Brooklyn, focused on lower Manhattan. They were calibrated to continuously snap panoramic views of New York City, at four-second intervals, for live-streaming to the Postmasters Gallery in Manhattan. The installation was intended to convey the predictable normalcy of life at the start of the 21st century. Instead, Staehle’s cameras bore witness to the unexpected rupture of those mundane rhythms at the moments framing 8:46 a.m., when hijacked Flight 11 exploded through the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Staehle’s webcams continued to document lower Manhattan’s skyline for the next three weeks.
Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre will show an excerpt of Staehle’s video work in real time throughout the day, and viewers are invited to stay for as much or as little of the footage as they would like. Presentation of this program is made possible through the generous support of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Presenting Sustainer Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund.
Panel Discussion
Pollak Theatre, 7 p.m.
At approximately sunset, Monmouth University President Patrick F. Leahy, Ed.D. welcomes all to a panel discussion moderated by Monmouth University Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Rekha Datta, Ph.D., featuring the varied perspectives of those impacted by the events of September 11, 2001. Hear from Virginia S. Bauer, a member of the Board of Directors for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, as well as University faculty members Douglas Collier, M.A., John Comiskey, Ed.D., Christopher DeRosa, Ph.D., and Melissa S. Ziobro, M.A.
After her husband was killed at the World Trade Center, Virginia S. Bauer became a key activist on behalf of the families of the 9/11 victims. In her role as advocate for the 9/11 victims, Bauer worked closely with congressional leaders and the White House to achieve the successful enactment of 9/11 victim legislation in 2002. She is the CEO of GTBM Inc. in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which provides software security technology for law enforcement and corporate facilities. Bauer is also a member of the Monmouth University Society of Trustees.
Douglas Collier, who worked as a federal agent at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is the director of professional outreach and engagement for Monmouth University’s graduate program in criminal justice and also serves as a faculty member with a special focus on federal, state, and international global studies in criminal justice. A retired DEA agent, he is also a State of New Jersey Police Training Commission certified instructor and professor, a member of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, and an associate academic member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
A retired New York City Police Department lieutenant, John Comiskey served as a first responder on September 11, 2001. He is a faculty member in the University’s criminal justice department, leading coursework in intelligence, evidence-based counter-terrorism operations, and the nexus of crime and terrorism for the University’s homeland security program. Comiskey’s undergraduate and graduate homeland security courses include the many lessons learned from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He leads a Terrorism in New York City tour that features Ground Zero as well the 1920 Wall Street bombing, the 1979 Fraunces Tavern Bombing, and the 2017 West Side Truck Attack. Comiskey is also a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve and serves as an intelligence specialist.
Christopher DeRosa is the chair of the department of history and anthropology at Monmouth University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the military and political history of the United States. His first-year seminar on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars includes dedicated lessons on the September, 11, 2001 attacks. As part of the seminar, he leads student trips to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
Melissa Ziobro is a public historian and educator, who helped document both 9/11 response efforts and the subsequent global war on terror for the United States Army. She is a specialist professor of public history in the University’s Department of History and Anthropology, where her classes often explore issues of memory and commemoration.
Oops! We could not locate your form.
Gallery Exhibit

BEYOND GROUND ZERO: 9/11 AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
Photographs by Jonathan C. Hyman
Open Sept. 3–13
On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, Jonathan C. Hyman, an artist and photographer based in upstate New York, embarked on a journey to document responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks appearing in the landscape around him.
Armed almost daily with his camera, ladder, and car, Hyman captured the grassroots expressions of everyday citizens spurred by this national catastrophe. His investigations took him from Maine to Florida and west to Illinois, though the majority of photographs were taken closer to New York City. The result is an expansive archive of more than 20,000 film and digital images. Hyman encountered improvised tributes and memorials on public and private property, in urban and rural areas, and on all manner of surfaces from building walls, handball courts, and vehicles to tree trunks, construction fencing, and human skin. He continued to document these unofficial memorials for years, many of which remained long after the emergence of more formal tributes.

Superintendents' Academy: Session 1
2019-09-17 08:30 - 10:30 | Edison Atrium – Room 201
The School of Education at Monmouth University is pleased to announce the eleventh year of their Superintendents’ Academy for superintendents and central office administrators.

Alexandra Kleeman
2019-09-17 16:30 - 18:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Alexandra Kleeman is a Staten Island-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received scholarships and grants from Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and ArtFarm Nebraska. She is the author of the debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016), a short story collection

The Beatles, Abbey Road
2019-09-17 19:30 - 21:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
It’s just like a book club but with albums! Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss … there will be special guest moderators and panelists at each event!
This discussion will feature The Beatles’ Abbey Road. This event is free but registration is required.

MARGARET ATWOOD - Live in theatres
2019-09-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
ON SALE MAY 10
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is revealed. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive live cinema broadcast, as Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor.
The publication of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985 and the current, Emmy Award-winning television series have created a cultural phenomenon, as handmaids have become a symbol of women’s rights and a protest against misogyny and oppression. Live from the London stage, Atwood will be interviewed by broadcaster and author Samira Ahmed in a conversation spanning the length of Atwood’s remarkable career, her diverse range of works, and why she has returned to her seminal handmaid story, 34 years later.
‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.’
With exclusive readings from the new book by special guests, this will be an unmissable and intimate event with Atwood, spotlighting her signature insight, humour and intellect.

A Sense of Place in Contemporary Encaustic
2019-09-20 08:00 - 2019-12-09 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
A Sense of Place in Contemporary Encaustic will be juried by renowned artist and teacher Lisa Pressman, curated by Karen Bright, Professor of Art and Design at Monmouth University, and guest curated by Oregon-based artist Kathleen Curtis Cosgrove. A national roster of artists were reviewed for this juried invitational. In the search for artists, the juror and curators sought out work that fit the theme of place, and also met the criteria for level of aesthetic and technical accomplishment using encaustic-based materials.
Artists Exhibiting Include:
Christine Aaron
Susanne K. Arnold
Dan Addington
Marilyn Banner
Pamela Blum
Debra Claffey
Kathy Cantwell
Linda Cordner
Pam Farrell
Diana González Gandolfi
Jeff Hirst
Jeffrey Juhlin
Sara Mast
Jane Michalski
Cherie Mittenthal
Laura Moriarty
Leslie Neumann
Marybeth Rothman
Sue Stover
Pamela Wallace
Janise Yntema

Climate Crisis Teach-In
2019-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 | The Great Hall -104
PROGRAM

8:30 a.m.
Coffee, bagels, fruit and mingling

9:00 a.m.
Bill Schreiber, “Introduction, Basic Climate Science, Basic Chemistry of Climate Change”
Catherine Duckett, “How Does Past Climate Change Help Us Understand the Present?”

9:30 a.m.
Randy Abate, “The Plight of Climate Refugees: Rising Seas, Melting Ice, and Inadequate Legal Protections”

10:00 a.m.
Pedram Daneshgar: “Climate Change Impacts on Plants and Plant Communities”

10:30 a.m.
Golam Mathbor, “Effects of Global Climate Change on Bangladesh and Implications for Other Countries”

11:00 a.m.
Walter Greason, “ADRIFT: Climate Change and the African Diaspora in the 21st Century”

11:30 a.m.
Peter Reinhart, “The Impact of Climate Change on Real Estate”

12:00* p.m.
Kayla Lewis, “Why Climate Models are Trustworthy”

12:30 p.m.
Nancy Mezey, “Global Capitalism and the Anthropogenic Causes of Climate Change”

1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Megan Delaney, “Climate Stress and Mental Health”
Courtney Werner and Patrick Love, “Climate Rhetoric and Persuasion”
Heide Estes, “What Can You Do?”

2:00 p.m.
Coffee and Snacks

2:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Jason Adolf, “Climate Change Impacts on Oceans”
Keith Dunton, “Climate Impacts on Fish and Fisheries”
Sean Sterrett, “Climate Change Impacts on Reptiles and Amphibians”

3:30 p.m.
Tom Herrington, “Determining the Onset of Chronic Flooding in Coastal Communities”

4:00 p.m.
Depart for Red Bank Climate March, Riverside Park, Front Street, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Walk (or otherwise proceed) to Elberon train station (1.4 miles) to take the 4:34 p.m. train
We welcome faculty, students, staff, friends, and companions.

“Just Beachy” – DiMattio Gallery – Rechnitz Hall
ALL DAY: A public participatory art installment that highlights the effects of Hurricane Sandy and shares the stories of residents impacted.
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – Opening Reception – Rechnitz Hall

* Vegetarian and Vegan salads and snacks will be offered.

Woodstock & Beyond: The Visionary Art of Mike Frankel
2019-09-23 - 2019-12-13 | Pollak Gallery
An exhibit of photographs by artist/photographer, Mike Frankel that capture many of the historic milestones in rock history including; the first ever appearance of Led Zeppelin in New York City and the Who’s first New York City performance of Tommy, along with photographs from the stage at Woodstock. The images have been scanned and printed directly from the 35 mm transparencies. The finished 35 mm slides were composed and exposed with up to 10 images on one frame of film while the action never stopped. There are some compelling single image photographs in the exhibition, but the multiple image photographs vividly demonstrate the power and dynamism of the rock ‘n’ roll experience.

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019-09-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice fully immerses audiences in the life of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance. With the enchanting narrative voice of twice Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter, cinema audiences visit places that evoke and preserve the memory of the painter, including the State Archives, the Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s Square, the Church of San Rocco, and more, all in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth.
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Employees of Color Networking Lunch
2019-09-24 12:30 - 14:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center
Click on image to register online for this event
The Intercultural Center, Office of Equity and Diversity, Office of the Provost, and Office of Human Resources invite Monmouth University employees to an affinity networking event for employees of Color to connect across departments and campus functional areas in addition to discussing future needs and resources. Lunch is included, and registration is required. Please click the image above to reserve your seat.

The Second Mother
2019-09-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Monmouth University Global Education Office presents World Cinema Series 2019-2020 – “Women: Power and Identity”. A global cinematic survey of women as leaders of change in patriarchal cultures through their engagement in community, national politics, and film.
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.(Director: Anna Muylaert, 2015)
This event is part of Hispanic American Heritage Month
Rated R
1 hour 52 minutes

Council of Endowed Chairs Fall Lecture
2019-09-26 01:30 - 14:45 | Pozycki Hall Auditorium
Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources – collectively referred to as “the voiceless” in this presentation – are the most vulnerable and least equipped populations to protect themselves from the impacts of global climate change. This presentation ﬁrst identiﬁes the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless in the Anthropocene era. It then proposes how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively through a stewardship-focused and rights-based system derived from the mandate inherent in the concept of sustainable development.
This presentation, sponsored by the Monmouth University Council of Endowed Chairs, is drawn from Professor Randall S., Abate’s forthcoming book, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in October 2019.

The Lehman Trilogy
2019-09-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
ON SALE MAY 10
By Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
directed by Sam Mendes
The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history. This critically acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award nominated play features stunning set design from Es Devlin (NT Live: Hamlet) and will be broadcast live from London’s West End as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th Birthday season.

KISS THE SKY -The Jimi Hendrix RE-Experience
2019-09-28 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Saluting the 50th anniversary of Woodstock with tributes to Jimi Hendrix and Santana!
Rolling Stone Magazine Says: “Yes believe the hype! This show lives up to it!”
KISS THE SKY is the #1 Jimi Hendrix Tribute Show. They return to Monmouth Center For The Arts Pollak Theatre to recreate Hendrix’s famed set at Woodstock for the 50th anniversary year of the legendary concert. Garnering rave reviews and playing to sold out festivals and venues in 2019, Kiss The Sky’s recreation set features replica wardrobe, gear and set list exact to the performance that Jimi Hendrix and his Gypsy Sun and Rainbows gave at Woodstock in 1969. Playing the part of Jimi Hendrix is left handed guitar virtuoso and the longest running Hendrix tribute artist Jimy Bleu. Bleu executes all of Hendrix’s legendary stage moves so well that he has toured with Hendrix bass player Billy Cox.
SANTANA AMIGOS is the only “WOODSTOCK ERA” Tribute dedicated to the ground breaking band SANTANA when they exploded onto the late 1960’s scene as a multi-cultural, Latin based rock fusion band fronted by the Guitar God.. Carlos Santana.
SANTANA AMIGOS features guitar phenom, “The Angel” Euriel Marrero on guitar as Carlos Santana…The tribute band has re-created this formation of SANTANA with musicians that look and perform just like SANTANA during the groundbreaking era… dressed with replica wardrobe from their famous show at Woodstock using authentic instruments to get the real Santana sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO2udjkm-78

AMERICAN GURU: Jimi Hendrix and The Spirit of a Generation Presented by Jimy Bleu, Eliott Landy and Leonard J. Eisenberg
2019-10-02 19:30 - 21:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
This three-part lecture-demonstration focuses on Jimi Hendrix and his contemporaries. Told through photographs and guitar technique demonstrations Jimy Bleu focuses on Hendrix’ rise to super-stardom, his tremendous impact on Popular and ‘serious music’, his indefinable musical style, his virtually unknown potential as a spiritual leader and his political awakening which coincided with the turbulent times of that era in the United States. Bleu’s research, documentation and musical illustrations stand alone in presenting the most comprehensive and at times unheard viewpoints and topics about this remarkable musician. Learn why almost 50 years after his death the iconic Jimi Hendrix is still incredibly relevant and named “The Greatest Guitarist of All Time”!
Leonard J. Eisenberg tells the story of Jimi Hendrix through photos taken by him at three concerts in the 1960’s and recently published in his book “Photographing Jimi Hendrix.” In 1968 Leonard was three feet away from the guitar god at The Boston Garden allowing him an unprecedented point of view. His photos of Hendrix at Woodstock have been seen around the world and photos from The Carousel in Framingham, MA are renowned. Hear the stories of how these amazing images came to be.
Join Elliott Landy, official Woodstock 1969 photographer as he presents a journey highlighting Jimi Hendrix, iconic photos of Woodstock and the events and personalities of the historic late 1960’s era while telling the behind the scenes stories captured by his camera lens. His instantly recognizable photographs of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, pre Vietnam protests and legendary performers still resonate with audiences today.

Woodstock - Director's Cut
2019-10-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It’s more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak and antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the time. With a brilliant crew at his disposal (including a young editor named Martin Scorsese), director Michael Wadleigh worked with over 300 hours of footage to create his original 225-minute director’s cut, which was cut by 40 minutes for the film’s release in 1970.
The film deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and it’s still a stunning achievement. Abundant footage taken among the massive crowd (“half a million strong”) expresses the human heart of the event, from skinny-dipping hippies to accidental overdoses, to unpredictable weather, midconcert childbirth, and the thoughtful (or just plain rambling) reflections of the festive participants. Then, of course, there is the music–a nonstop parade of rock & roll from the greatest performers of the period, including Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Canned Heat, The Who, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, and many more. Watching this ambitious film, as the saying goes, is the next best thing to being there–it’s a time-travel journey to that once-in-a-lifetime event.

An Evening with Melanie
2019-10-04 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
An Evening with Melanie is an unforgettable night of songs and stories from the incredible career of the artist who became known as “The Female Bob Dylan.” Accompanied by her son, Beau-Jarred, the show is a musical journey that starts with that momentous day in the summer of 1969, when Melanie first attracted national attention with her Woodstock performance.
Melanie’s singles Brand New Key (Roller Skate Song), Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), Peace Will Come, Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma and Ruby Tuesday have all achieved chart success, with Brand New Key reaching No. 1 and remaining in the charts for 18 weeks in 1971. In the U.S., Melanie has had 13 Top 40 hits, including three No. 1 hits.
A new generation was exposed to Melanie with the release of Miley Cyrus’ cover of Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma. A year later, Miley Cyrus invited Melanie to be part of her Backyard Sessions, and together they recorded a live version of Look What They Done To My Song Ma and Peace Will Come.

Tone, Featuring David Sancious and Ernest 'Boom' Carter, Former Members of Springsteen’s E Street Band, and Gerald Carboy
2019-10-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University will present An Evening with Tone, featuring David Sancious, Ernest “Boom” Carter, and Gerald Carboy, hosted by Bob Santelli, Founding Executive Director of the Grammy Museum, on Sunday, October 6, at 7 p.m. in the Pollak Theater on the university campus.
The event is free and open to the public.
In 1974 E Street Band keyboards player Sancious and drummer Carter left the group and teamed with Carboy, a Jersey Shore bass player, to form the jazz-fusion band Tone. Acclaimed by critics, Tone’s music expanded the parameters of fusion and featured the extraordinary keyboard work of Sancious. The group’s album, Transformation: The Speed of Love, is an acknowledged fusion classic.
“Tone was one of the great jazz bands from the Jersey Shore,” said Santelli, author of Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. “Critics loved the band, but during the mid-1970’s hype surrounding the release of Born to Run, Tone didn’t get the attention it deserved from Springsteen fans.”
Santelli will interview the musicians about Tone, their years in the Jersey Shore music scene, and the role Sancious and Carter played in the early days of the E Street Band. The night will conclude with a rare performance by the trio.
Additionally, authors Barry Schneier and Chris Phillips will be on site to sign their book, Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Roll Future, published earlier this year. The book features Schneier’s photographs from the legendary performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Harvard Square Theatre in 1974. It was that show that was reviewed by future manager Jon Landau, who wrote, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” The band line-up for that Boston show included Sancious and Carter.

An Evening with Sarfraz Manzoor
2019-10-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Sarfraz Manzoor delved deep into his Bruce Springsteen fandom in his memoir Greetings from Bury Park, which has been adapted into the film Blinded By The Light.
Join us as Sarfraz takes us behind the scenes through his journey from Springsteen fan to writer and director.

All About Eve
2019-10-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
By Joseph L Mankiewicz
Adapted and directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove
Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead in All About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London.
All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world’s most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.
All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the play “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D’Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.

CANCELLED - I Wrote That One Too….A Life In Songwriting: From Willie To Whitney, starring Steve Dorff
2019-10-11 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Please note that this event has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience and will be refunding all tickets. If you have any questions please call the box office at 732.263.6889.

Enjoy an evening of live entertainment by one of the greatest songwriters and composers of our time, as Steven Dorff performs many of his best-loved hits and shares the fascinating stories behind them.
Songwriters Hall of Famer Steven Dorff’s career spans five decades, with over 400 songs and numerous No.1 hits recorded by legendary artists such as Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, George Strait, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Whitney Houston, Alison Kraus, Aaron Neville, Ringo Starr and countless others.
Dorff is a gifted composer in every musical field and has over 28 placements in TV series such as Murphy Brown, Growing Pains, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, Reba, Spenser: For Hire, and Just the Ten of Us. Dorff also worked on music for films such as Every Which Way But Loose, Pure Country, Rocky IV, Tin Cup, and Honkytonk Man. He is the musical director for the new Murphy Brown series, and has a cut on the new Barbra Streisand album.

Turandot
2019-10-12 13:00 - 16:30 | Pollak Theatre
Franco Zeffirelli’s spectacular production returns to cinemas with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, conducting his first Puccini opera with the company. Powerhouse soprano Christine Goerke takes on the icy title princess, alongside tenor Roberto Aronica as the unknown prince vying for her love.
Runtime: 3 hours 22 minutes

Bruce Springsteen, Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
2019-10-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
It’s just like a book club but with albums! Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss … there will be special guest moderators and panelists at each event!
This discussion will feature Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. This event is free but registration is required.

Strange Radio, Live! Listening to the Deep Connection: Lecture-Performance Transmission with Karen Werner
2019-10-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Edison Atrium – Room 201
Strange Radio, Live! is an immersive lecture-performance in story and sound, part of an ongoing series of experimental radio narrowcasts and broadcasts about the stranger, nearness and distance, forced migration, displacement, home, and the intergenerational transmission of memory. Strange Radio’s point of departure is Holocaust postmemory in Vienna, Austria, a sonic portal for sensing experiences of strangers and strangeness in multiple unfolding contexts across the globe. Strange Radio, Live! weaves together personal documentary; disembodied voices and sounds separated from points of origin; fragile signals transmitted through radios and embodied reflections on memory, place, time, and radio—itself a strange medium. Postmemories bounce against histories, sometimes buried and inaudible, in new locations. Tuned into both utopian longings and wounds, Strange Radio is a fragile signal, a love song to radio as a medium, metaphor, and method of deep listening together.
Karen Werner is an award-winning radio artist, audio storyteller, and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia, and Israel. They have also been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner is a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and was a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont.
Werner’s work can be seen at: KarenWerner.net

Pediatric Physical Assessment
2019-10-17 15:00 - 20:30 | Monmouth Park Corporate Center
Fee: $95 (a light dinner is included in the program fee)
This program will provide 5 contact hours for nurses.
The course is designed to enhance the physical assessment skills of the healthcare provider who cares for the school age child. A step-by-step process for physical exam will be reviewed. Using images and a case study format, participants are guided to describe and identify physical findings. Clinical guidelines and standards of care are incorporated throughout.
Desired Learning Outcomes: at completion of this program participants will apply the clinical knowledge gained in the assessment and care of the school age child.
Topics will include:

An overview of normal and abnormal findings in health screenings
Common pediatric disease and disorders
The process & procedure for the assessment of the ear including demonstration of the otoscope
Vaccine preventable disease update

Presenter: Steve Miller, DO – Pediatrician with Navesink Pediatrics – Affiliate Clinical Faculty/ Monmouth University, The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies.
For more information, visit the School of Nursing and Health Studies Continuing Education site or contact Barbara Paskewich at bpaskewi@monmouth.edu or 732-571-3694.

Principals’ Academy: Session 1
2019-10-17 17:00 - 19:00
The School of Education at Monmouth University is pleased to announce the tenth year of their Principals’ Academy for principals and vice-principals.

Fleabag
2019-10-17 19:30 | Pollak Theatre
Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Directed by Vicky Jones
★★★★★
‘Witty, filthy and supreme.’ Guardian
See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to cinemas from London’s West End.
Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life.
Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.
Playing to sold-out audiences in New York and London, don’t miss your chance to see this ‘legitimately hilarious show’ (New Yorker), broadcast live to a cinema near you.
Presented by DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre
Show image by Jason Hetherington
