Events

Met Opera: LA TRAVIATA (Encore)
2013-07-17 19:00 (America/New_York)
Summer Encore Series

Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi’s most beloved heroine in Willy Decker’s stunning production, first seen at the Met in 2010. Matthew Polenzani is her lover, Alfredo, and Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings his stern father, Germont. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Willy Decker; Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dimitri Hvorostovsky

Met Opera: TURANDOT (Encore)
2013-07-24 19:00
Puccini’s Turandot
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calàf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous “Nessun dorma.”
Conductor: Andris Nelsons;
Production: Franco Zeffirelli; Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, Samuel Ramey

Met Opera: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)
2013-07-31 19:00
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours
Original transmission date: Saturday, March 24, 2007
One of the most beloved operatic comedies of all time, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is presented in a production by director Bartlett Sher. Superstar tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva is joined by American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Rosina and Peter Mattei in the title role of the swaggering barber.
Broadcast in HD
Conductor: Benini; Production: Bartlett Sher; Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, John Relyea

Met Opera: IL TROVATORE (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)
2013-08-09 19:00
Location: Pollak Theater
Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Summer Encore Series
NEW DATE:*Friday, August 9 at 7 p.m.
*This was changed from the original Wed. June 26 date
Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered at the Met in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Broadcast in HD
Marco Armiliato; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Graduate Information Session
2013-08-20 18:00 - 19:00
The sessions and visits are great ways to find out more about the exciting graduate educational opportunities available at Monmouth. This session begins promptly at 6 p.m. If you have a physical disability and require accommodation, please call our office prior to your visit.

End of Continuing Registration - Fall
2013-08-29

Preliminary Classlists Available Online
2013-08-30

Late Registration/Drop-Add
2013-09-03 - 2013-09-10

Gallery Exhibition: Massachusetts
2013-09-03 09:00 - 2013-12-05 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20th from 7 – 9 p.m.
This exhibition is comprised of nine artists: Steve Smalley, Henry Pinardi, Brenda Atwood Pinardi, John Stevens, Suzanne Howes-Stevens, Candace Walters, Bob Stein, Robert Cumming, and Vincent DiMattio; who all have strong personal ties related to Massachusetts. Many of the relationships began as early as 1960 as students of the Massachusetts College of Art.
Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Hours
Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Selections from the Monmouth University Permanent Collection
2013-09-03 09:00 - 2013-12-13 17:00 | Pollak Gallery
Selections from the Monmouth University permanent collection featuring works by various artists, including ebony carvings, etchings by Adam Wurtz, and lithographs by Salvadore Dali.

On Screen/In Person: Shored Up
2013-09-09 19:30 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Shored Up with director Ben Kalina
September 9, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Pollak Theatre
Set in Long Beach Island, New Jersey and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Shored Up explores the political conflicts and personal stakes of seaside communities, culminating with the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
There will be a post screening panel discussion with:
Tony MacDonald, Director of the Urban Coast Institute, Monmouth University
Dr. Norbert P. Psuty , Professor Emeritus, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
John Weber, Mid Atlantic Regional Manager, Surfrider Foundation; and Ben Kalina Director of Shored Up
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.

Gallery Exhibition: Zaun Lee's My No-Man's Land
2013-09-12 09:00 - 2013-11-15 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
Opening Reception/Artist Meet & Greet: Thursday, September 12th from 5 – 7 p.m.
My No-Man’s Land, an exhibition by Zaun Lee, highlights the raw senses of emotions. The exhibit depicts a journey into a transitional dynamic of one’s own understanding of internal logic of senses in decomposed narratives.
Rotary Ice House Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Katie Ford
2013-09-19 16:30
Location: Wilson Hall
Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and the forthcoming Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons, and their young daughter.

Springsteen & I
2013-09-23 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale 9/16.
Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen burst onto the rock scene and changed it forever. His music defines a generation, but behind the songs were remarkable stories about the fans who lived them. Come celebrate Bruce’s birthday with this documentary-biographical film directed by Baillie Walsh documenting his life and career through the eyes and insights of his fans throughout the world.
Presented by the Friends of Springsteen and Monmouth University’s Center for the Arts

Dawes
2013-09-25 20:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
The California-based roots rock band composed of brothers Taylor (guitars and vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums), along with Wylie Gelber (bass) and Tay Strathairn (keyboards), was heavily influenced by the gentle, acoustic-based musical trappings and rich vocal harmony of the Laurel Canyon sound (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell), as well as by the shambling, romanticized Americana of The Band. Last fall they found themselves traveling East to record their third album in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The tracks they laid down at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studio have yielded a 12-song disc of tremendous sonic and narrative clarity. Stories Don’t End spotlights the group’s maturing skills as arrangers, performers, and interpreters who shape the raw material supplied by chief songwriter and lead vocalist Taylor Goldsmith into an artfully concise and increasingly soulful sound. Opening the show will be Hayes Carll and Johnathan Rice.

For more information on the artist visit: http://dawestheband.com/

Queer Longings: A Performative Lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson's Failed Theatrical Career
2013-09-26 16:30
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
In this work in progress, solo performer Elizabeth Whitney explores the career of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson–a provocative abolitionist and suffragist who enjoyed national fame on the lyceum circuit, was shunned by critics as a playwright and actor in late 1800s New York City, and eventually institutionalized. This new project uses Dickinson’s championed form of the lecture as performance to look at themes of madness, failure, and obscurity in the life of a queer artist.
Dr. Whitney will lead a performance workshop Thurs. 9/26 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Plangere 235.

National Theatre of London: OTHELLO
2013-09-26 19:00
Shakespeare’s Othello
The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

Aquila Theatre's Fahrenheit 451
2013-09-27 20:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Location: Pollak Theatre Tickets: $25; $35 Pre-performance talk at 6:30 p.m. (free with ticket purchase)
With its skill at creating innovative and modern productions of great works of literature, the Aquila Theatre will bring new life to Ray Bradbury’s visionary parable of a society gone awry. One of the most revered novels of the 20th century, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of a bleak future where literature and knowledge are on the edge of extinction. Considered a work of science fiction when first published, Fahrenheit 451 has been debated for decades – issues of censorship, the effects of technology on society and literature, and the means by which knowledge is gained – continue to be very real concerns today.  Before the show, join the director and members of the cast in a discussion about censorship and the creative process of turning Bradbury’s novel into a theatrical production.
This tour engagement of Aquila Theatre Company is funded through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about the production visit: http://aquilatheatre.com/

Withdrawal Deadline Pattern "A" Classes
2013-09-30

Argentine Tango Classes
2013-09-30 19:30 - 2013-11-04 21:00 | MAC At Monmouth
September 30 – November 4Monday Evenings from 7:30 to 9:00 pm Eyas Lounge in the MAC Please join instructor Lee Sager of Tango Pantera for a six week session of Argentine Tango Classes. No partner or experience necessary.
For more information about Tango Pantera visit www.TangoPantera.Blogspot.com

Ghost Hunters Live
2013-10-04 21:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Since its 2004 Syfy Channel premiere, Ghost Hunters has become television’s #1 paranormal reality series. The show is now in its ninth season and is aired in more than 170 countries. Leader of The Atlantic Paranormal Society-Jason Hawes along with fellow lead investigator Steve Gonsalves, will now bring their experiences with the paranormal and understanding of unexplained disturbances to live audiences in their theater presentation. Hear them talk about their scariest experiences, see unreleased footage from the show, and ask them questions about themselves or perhaps a ghostly experience of your own! As members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), both Jason and Steve have made it their life’s mission to help anyone with questions pertaining to paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people— office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus— moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.

Met Opera: EUGENE ONEGIN (Broadcast in HD)
2013-10-05 13:00
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Run Time: 4:04

Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.
Broadcast in HD
Eugene Onegin is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.

Encore: Sun. October 20 | 1 p.m.

Fall Holiday; No Thursday or Friday Classes
2013-10-10 - 2013-10-11

Celebrating One Hundred Years of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali
2013-10-14 16:30 - 23:59 | The Great Hall Auditorium
4:30 – 6:45 p.m. – Film Screening, Home and the World (Wilson Hall 104)
6:45 – 7:15 p.m. – Reception & Exhibit (Wilson Auditorium Lobby)
7:30 – 8:45 p.m. – A Garland of Music, Presented by Prabuddha Raha and friends (Wilson Auditorium)

This program is a celebration of the thoughts, poetry, music, and artistry of Rabindranath Tagore, and a commemoration of one hundred years of his Nobel Prize for Literature, for his ‘Gitanjali’ an Offering in Songs. In 1913, India’s renaissance poet, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European and first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature, with his Gitanjali, an offering in songs. Hailed as an internationalist and a humanist, Tagore bridges the East and West through his music, poetry, and writings and celebrates life in unison with God, Nature, Love, Peace, and Humanity.

Through a creative interpretation of Tagore’s poetry and music, Prabuddha Raha, a noted Rabindrasangeet artiste from Calcutta, India, will perform as part of this program. A music instructor and established television and film playback singer and music director, Raha has represented India at various international settings, including Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States.

Jan Beatty
2013-10-16 16:30
Location:Wilson Auditorium
Jan Beatty’s fourth full-length book, The Switching/Yard, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in February, 2013. A limited edition chapbook, Ravage, was published by Lefty Blondie Press in 2012. Other books include Red Sugar, finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize; Boneshaker, finalist, Milton Kessler Award; Mad River, Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize—all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook, Ravenous, won the 1995 State Street Prize.
Other awards include the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Discovery/The Nation Prize finalist, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Individual poems have appeared in journals such as TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, Court Green, and Best American Poetry 2013. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies published by Autumn House Press, Coffee House Press, Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, Kent State University Press, and the University of Iowa Press. Beatty’s work has earned writing fellowships at the Santa Fe Arts Institute; the MacDowell Colony; Ragdale; the Montana Artist Refuge; Jentel, Wyoming; Ucross, Wyoming; Hedgebrook, Washington; Whooping Crane Trust, James L. Grahl Research Center; and Leighton Studios at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Her essays on writing have appeared in anthologies by Autumn House Press, Creative Nonfiction, and The State University of New York Press. She has read her work widely, at venues such as the Los Angeles Times Book Festival, the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, and the KGB Bar in New York City.
Beatty worked as a waitress for fifteen years, and as a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, and a social worker and teacher in maximum-security prisons. She is the managing editor of MadBooks, a small press that has published a series of books and chapbooks by women writers. For the past twenty years, Beatty has hosted and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WESA-FM featuring the work of national writers. She has lectured in writing workshops across the country, and has taught at the university level for over twenty years at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Carlow. Beatty directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and teaches in the MFA program.

Art Now: Geotagging the Omissions
2013-10-17 18:00 - 21:00 | MAC At Monmouth
Thurs. Oct 17
The Mac Varsity Club 301 & 302 | 6 p.m.
Our workshop empowers participants
to create and upload photographic documentation of
overlooked communities to Google maps, building a public document of
the community from within. The half day workshop can be adapted for any age
and participants may use any level of digital camera. We begin with a
short presentation on work with locative media and conceptual
documentary projects. Participants then are given a shooting
assignment based on local areas absent or overlooked in Google
StreetView. We then aggregate the images using Google’s image
uploader, carefully geotagging them. Within a few
weeks, Google’s search engine picks these images up and they appear
on Google Maps.

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National Theatre of London: Macbeth
2013-10-17 19:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
MACBETH starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex KingstonManchester International Festival
National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, this electrifying new production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated Manchester church.

Julian Sands (In Person) in A Celebration of Harold Pinter
2013-10-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold PinterDirected by John Malkovich
With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, Julian Sands (24, A Room with a View, The Killing Fields, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas) combines Harold Pinter’s poems and political prose to create a very fresh and intimate insight into the Nobel laureate’s literary legacy.
In 2005 Mr. Sands was approached by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter to prepare a set of Pinter’s poems for a special presentation in London. Working closely with Pinter, he was granted a rare insight into his personality, life, and work. This extraordinary collaboration evolved into a wonderfully humorous and fascinating solo show directed by John Malkovich titled, A Celebration of Harold Pinter.
This is an evening of Homeric theater with an extraordinary actor, great words, and an audience. Devoid of pretension or glittery trappings, A Celebration of Harold Pinter gets to the soul of the man – poet, playwright, husband, political activist, Nobel winner, mortal. A Celebration of Harold Pinter was nominated for a 2013 Drama Desk Award.
Post Show Meet and Greet/Conversation with Julian Sands: Be sure to stay after the show for a Q&A with Julian Sands as he shares his personal stories about the great playwright Harold Pinter

Met Opera: EUGENE ONEGIN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2013-10-20 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) New Production
Encore: Sun. October 20 at 1:00 p.m.
Run Time: 4:04
Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts
Broadcast in HD
Eugene Onegin is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.

On Screen/In Person: Furever
2013-10-21 19:30 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Furever  with director Amy Finkel
October 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Pollak Theatre
At once disquieting and sympathetic, Furever provides a nuanced look at the actions of grieving pet owners attempting to come to terms with the loss of their pets and confronts America’s conflicted attitudes towards death and dying.
There will be a Q & A with the film maker following the screening.
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.
