Events

Music as a Weapon V Tour
2011-01-22 18:30 (America/New_York)
Korn and Disturbed, two of rock’s biggest acts, teamed up to co-headline this year’s “Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V Tour.” Special guests, Sevendust and In This Moment started off what was an incredible high-energy rock experience.
Music as a Weapon V Tour
Disturbed and Korn
with Special GuestsSevendust and In This Moment
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East.

Shadow Puppies
2011-02-07 19:00
SHADOW PUPPIES
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Shadow Puppies is an internationally celebrated cutting edge trio that conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time. Using electric guitars, an
arsenal of objects, electronics, homebrew computer software, and original digital technologies, audiences experience an uninterrupted journey through sonic eruptions, video hallucinations, and aggressive, entrancing mediascapes.
ARTIST BIOS:
Kurt Ralske’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2003. Kurt programmed and co-designed the 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC.
Hans Tammen has received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK, Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid.
Nick Didkovsky has received commissioning grants from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer’s Commissioning/Music USA, the Jerome Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Computer Arts Fellowship. He has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language (JMSL).
Nick Didkovsky’s Web site | Kurt Ralske’s Web site | Hans Tammen’s Web site

Thomas and Friends Live!
2011-02-12 15:00
Location: MAC at Monmouth
THOMAS AND FRIENDS Live!
On Stage in
THOMAS SAVES THE DAY
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East.

Shore Conference Basketball
2011-02-25 18:00
Shore Conference Basketball
High School Boy’s and Girl’s Basketball Finals
The MAC at Monmouth University
Friday, February 25, 2011
Girl’s Game: 6:00 p.m.
St. John Vianney vs. Neptune
Boy’s Game: 7:45pm
Rumson-Fair Haven vs. Raritan

NJSIAA Boys NJ State Basketball Semi-Finals
2011-03-18 17:00
NJSIAA Boys NJ StateBasketball Semi-Finals
The MAC at Monmouth University

Andrei Codrescu
2011-03-22 19:00
“An Evening with Andrei Codrescu: From Transylvania to New Orleans—A Poet’s Journey”
Codrescu will discuss the politics and culture(s) of East and West, the collapse of communism (which he covered for the U.S. media) and its aftermath, and the historical and literary changes that are reshaping Eastern Europe and informing his own relations to spaces of origin or adoption. He will talk about what it means to live simultaneously in several worlds, both chronologically and biographically, and what political sense this nomadism makes (or doesn’t). His talk will draw on his memoir, “The Hole in the Flag: an Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution,” and recent play, “Ghidul Copilariei Retrocedate” (“Guide to a Recovered Childhood”), which premiered recently at the International Theater Festival in Sibiu, Romania, his birthplace.
March 23, 2010, 4:30 pm
Wilson Auditorium
Andrei Codrescu will be reading from his new book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010). Book description (Princeton UP) The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a “typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik”–one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to The Tools of Poetry (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and The Ten Muses of Poetry (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating… ), and assigns each of them a tutelary “Ghost-Companion” poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn’t actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs’s funeral procession stopped at McDonald’s, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.

Jennifer Grotz
2011-04-26 16:30
Jennifer Grotz’s second book of poems, The Needle, is forthcoming in Spring 2011. Her first book of poems, Cusp, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Bakeless Prize and also received the Natalie Ornish Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays and translations from both the French and Polish appear widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and Legitimate Dangers. She teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and also serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

The Laurie Berkner Band
2011-06-05 14:00
The Laurie Berkner Band
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 2 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $35 and $25
Tickets are on sale now!
Doors open at 1 p.m. and the box office opens at 11 a.m. on day of show.
Produced by Concerts East and AEG Live
On sale Tuesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com, Phone Charge at 800.745.3000, The Mac Box office, and Ticketmaster retail outlets, including select Wal-Mart stores.

Scapino
2011-06-23 20:00 - 2011-07-03 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Scapino, by director Frank Dunlop and actor Jim
Dale, is an outrageous comedy adapted “a long way off from Moliere” but
exhibiting the classic elements of the French master and the Italian
“commedia d’ell arte.” Scapino is the wily servant who twists the rules
to trick his master’s father into allowing him to marry the girl of his
dreams while the waiters, waitresses and customers of a seaside
restaurant sing parodies of “O Solo Mio” and the names of menu items
like “veal scallopine.”
Preview: June 23 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: June 24 at 8 p.m.
Performances: June 25, 29 and 30, July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m.; June 26, July 3 and 10 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $20; Student $10; June 24 through July 10 – Adult $35; Senior $30; Student $15

Molly Sweeny
2011-07-14 20:00 - 2011-07-31 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Molly Sweeny is by the prize-winning Irish playwright, Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations).
It is the story of Molly Sweeny, a woman who has been blind since
childhood, who undergoes an operation to restore her vision. Based
loosely on an essay by Oliver Saks (Awakenings), the tale is told by Molly, her husband, and the doctor.
Preview: July 14 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: July 15 at 8 p.m.
Performances: July 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, and 30 at 8 p.m.; July 17, 24 and 31 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $15; Student $10; July 15 through July 31 – Adult $30; Senior $22; Student $15

Wiz Khalifa
2011-07-29 19:30
Location: MAC at Monmouth
WIZ KHALIFA
BIG SEAN and CHEVY WOODS
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $38 and applicable surchargesTickets are on sale now!Limit six per person.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.The Box Office will be open at 4 p.m. on the day of the show.
The parking lot will open at 5:30 p.m. There will be a $10 parking fee per car and tailgating is prohibited.
Produced by Concerts East and AEG Live
Tickets are on sale through ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800-745-3000, the MAC box office, and select ticketmaster retail outlets.

Eric Sambol's WILD
2011-08-15 09:00 - 2011-09-30 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Eric Sambol’s WILD
Nature Photographs
August 15 – September 30, 2011
Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Eric Sambol uses the medium of photography to reawaken his childhood passion for nature. The exhibition, curated by Eric, showcases the remarkable wildlife he has had the pleasure to interact with. The show features wildlife from four different and distinct locations in New Jersey, Alaska, Manitoba, and British Columbia. www.EricSambol.com
The artist is donating all the proceeds from the sales at this exhibit to the Scholarship Fund of Monmouth University and the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.

Languor Temperance Repose
2011-09-06 19:00 - 2011-10-14 19:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
An invitational photography exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists from across the United States.
The artists in this exhibition cover a great deal of photographic ground including the traditions of the still life, landscape, abstraction and the constructed or fabricated image using analog and digital practices in color and black and white. Curated by Specialist Professor, Anne Leighton Massoni.

Lecture at Wilson Hall Auditorium:
Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Opening Reception at Gallery:
Thursday, September 22, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

TRUST: Second Acts In Young Lives
2011-09-12 19:30
Location: Pollak Theater
TRUST: Second Acts In Young Lives
Director: Nancy Kelly
Monday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Pollak Theatre
Admission courtesy of Monmouth University
TRUST tells the story of eighteen-year-old Marlin, a struggling Honduran immigrant to the United States who has lived through some of the harshest cruelties imaginable. Committed to a psychiatric hospital, Marlin reveals her secrets to a counselor who recommends she join the Albany Park Theater Project, a teen theater company that makes original plays from company members’ life stories. Propelled by her experience with the company, Marlin transitions from a traumatized to empowered young woman.

Shara McCallum
2011-09-15 16:30
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of three collections of poetry, This Strange Land(Alice James Books, April 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999). A fourth book, New & Selected Poems, will be published in the UK by Peepal Tree Press in 2012. Her poems have been widely published in the US, the UK, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel, have been reprinted in textbooks and anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean, and world literatures, and have been translated into Spanish and Romanian. Her personal essays appear in The Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, individual artist grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been a Cave Canem Fellow and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Taylor 2 Dance
2011-09-24 20:00
Cost: $30/25

Nick Flynn
2011-10-06 16:30
Nick Flynn is the author of two memoirs, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (Norton, 2010) and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into 13 languages. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is currently being made into a film, entitled Welcome to Suck City, starring Robert DeNiro as Flynn’s father, due for release in 2011. Flynn is also the author of three books of poetry, The Captain Asks For a Show of Hands(Graywolf, 2011), Some Ether(Graywolf, 2000), which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002). He has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. His poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review.

19th Century Maritime Art
2011-10-13 09:00 - 2011-10-23 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
19th Century Maritime Art
Our History in Paintings
October 13 – 23, 2011
Pollak Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Guest Lecture:
Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Pollak Theatre
Alan Granby, noted Maritime Art Historian and Author
45 exquisite paintings by famed 19th century marine artists such as James Butterworth, Antonio Jacobsen, James Bard, Francis Silva, E.T. Baker, William Yorke, and others. Also, prints and photographs will be on display including scenes from New York Harbor and the Jersey Shore.

Indigo Girls
2011-10-14 20:00
Cost: $75/50
For more than two decades, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have presented some of their best music in front of cheering crowds – sometimes in the cramped confines of a small club, sometimes in a vast arena packed with thousands. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriters celebrate their long-standing passion for live performances on their latest release, Staring Down the Brilliant Dreamon IG Recordings/Vanguard Records. This two-disc CD features 31 songs, each hand-selected by the duo to capture the most memorable moments of their 2006-2009 amazing run of concerts. The Indigos still consider live shows the most vibrant part of what they do and there is no place better than Pollak Theatre to see them do it up close and personal.

Henry and Mudge
2011-10-18 10:30
Moving from the city to a new
house in the country can be tough. Just ask Henry, who can’t find a
playmate in his new neighborhood! Luckily, he’s got Mudge, a great big,
182-pound canine buddy, with whom he can share all kinds of adventures!
Henry discovers that having a
pet is a big responsibility — they need to be fed, they need to be
taken out for walks, and of course they need lots of love and playtime!
And when the dog is as big as Mudge is, they also need good training.
Henry teaches his new friend to sit, heel, and shake his hand, but
rolling over is one trick Henry just can’t seem to teach Mudge, no
matter how hard he tries.
When Henry’s cousin Annie comes
for a visit, Mudge is so charmed by her that he finally rolls over at
her command! Henry thinks Mudge must love Annie more than him, because
the dog only does the trick for her. Very upset, Henry runs away into
the cold dark woods to find adventures on his own. Mudge follow’s the
boy’s scent into the forest—he really does love Henry and doesn’t want
to be without him.
Will the two friends be
reunited? Find out in this Theatreworks musical, based on the
best-selling series of books by Cynthia Rylant.

One Diva, One Legend, One Woman
2011-10-22 20:00
Jody Joseph transforms herself physically and vocally in this live nostalgic show as the mystical, ethereal Stevie Nicks and the rebellious hard rocker Janis Joplin.
VIP/meet and greet available! Check with the box office for more information.
Produced by Concerts East, Inc
Cost: $48/32.50/23

Puzzle Project
2011-10-25 - 2011-11-23 | Pollak Gallery
Puzzle Project
October 25 – November 23, 2011
Puzzle Pieces are $10 each
Pollak Gallery
We invite you to be part of the Monmouth University Puzzle Project, a collaborative group art exhibition. Participants purchase a 24″ x 24″ universal puzzle piece and then turn it into a unique work of art. When the piece is complete it is inserted into the puzzle, which will continue to grow over time on the walls of the Pollak Gallery. The University’s puzzle will eventually be added to over 5,000 other pieces for an exhibition in New York City. This project is co-sponsored by the Student Activities Board and the Center for the Arts.
The Puzzle Installation & Collaborative Project is a growing & traveling, group art exhibition. It was initially sponsored by the Monmouth County Arts Council and was created and developed by the artists Tim Kelly & Sandy Taylor (MCAC) and Marie Maber (Brookdale Community College) for the 2009 Teen Arts Festival at Brookdale. Click here for more information about the project.
To purchase a puzzle piece please come to the Pollak Theatre Box Office or email at SAB@monmouth.edu.
*All proceeds from the Monmouth University Puzzle Project go to Autism Awareness*
Use this link for updates on the puzzle project.

Civil War Voices
2011-10-30 15:00
Cost: $40/32

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
2011-11-06 19:00
Since their arrival on the music scene in 1993 in a legendary residency at Los Angeles’ Brown Derby nightclub, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s irresistible live show and aggressive, musically perceptive approach has proven them over time to be the singular standout among the numerous bands that launched the Nineties swing revival. The seven-man group forged a massively successful fusion of classic American sounds from jazz, swing, Dixieland, and big-band music, building their own songbook of original dance tunes, and, sixteen years later, BBVD is a veteran force that to this day adds new fans by the roomful every time they play.
Cost: $42/32

BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE AND BROOKE BROUSSAR
2011-11-07 16:30
Artist Lecture & Dance/Video Demonstration
Benton-C Bainbridge and Brooke Broussard
Dancer/choreographer Brooke Broussard and video artist
Benton-C Bainbridge will present a lecture demonstration with a live
dancing element. Brooke and Benton most recently collaborated on
“Infinite Light,” a multi-media event in China that combined modern
dance performance with custom-designed media art. “Infinite Light”
blends dance and video projections in visual manifestations of
choreographed “flowers,” “trees” and even a “Big Bang.”
Artist bios:
Bainbridge, based in the Bronx and Nashville, works with video as a
painterly and performable medium. Bainbridge has presented video in
immersive environments, screenings, installations and live performances
across 5 continents, collaborating with artists around the world,
including The Beastie Boys.
Broussard is a native of Louisiana, where she began to
grow into modern dance. She has toured and performed her own
choreography extensively within the US and internationally. Her work
incorporates neuroscience, emotional states, and inventive,
improvisational movement, culminating in groundbreaking multi-media
performance art. Collaborating with musicians, visual artists, and
advancing technologies, her visions venture away from the typical dance
performance into a new generation of tech savvy performance.
For more information visit: http://softwareandart.com/?p=472; http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1735749443/infinite-light-limited-edition

Michael Waters
2011-11-08 16:30
Michael Waters’ ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001—finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)—these titles from BOA Editions—Bountiful(1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air(1985)—these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems. His co-edited volumes include Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, he has published poems in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Rolling Stone, and The Pushcart Prize,and has chaired the Poetry Panel for the National Book Award. Waters is Professor of English at Monmouth University.

CANCELLED: The Miles Davis Experience: 1949 - 1959
2011-11-12 20:00
CANCELLED
Cost: $42/32
The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959 recaptures the sound, and the historical and cultural context of this critical period of American history through the lens of jazz music and its most iconic innovator, Miles Davis. The tour will provide a good opportunity to reintroduce Miles to a younger audience and those unfamiliar with his legacy. It will also give the large base of his fans a chance to experience and celebrate his music in a new live setting

Paul Byrom
2011-11-20 19:00
Paul Byrom
This Is The Moment Tour
Cost: $30/25
Paul Byrom is often hailed as Ireland’s premier young tenor and with good reason. From an early age his special vocal talent brought him the attention of music coaches and talent spotters. His talent as a tenor has taken him far and wide, and some of the many highlights of his career to date include performing for many dignitaries such as Irish President Mary McAleese, Emperor Akihito of Japan, Former Irish President and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson and most recently for United States President, Barack Obama. In 2007 Paul was invited to join Celtic Thunder as one of the five soloists. Fans call Byrom “The Swanky Tenor” for his suave and romantic style in performing, which is stamped on such numbers in Celtic Thunder as “Remember Me Recuerde Me” and “She”.

Simple Gifts
2011-11-21 19:30
Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning trio plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions written in a traditional style.
Cost: $22

December Senior Exhibition
2011-12-02 19:00 - 2011-12-09 21:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
December Senior Show
December 2 – 9, 2011
Opening Reception:
Friday, December 2, 7 – 9 p.m.
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduate seniors who will receive their degrees in graphic design or fine art.
