Events

Asbury Park’s West Side Music Legacy Presentation
2015-02-11 19:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
A multimedia presentation of the music from Asbury Park’s West Side from 1910 to 1970.Includes song clips, videos and fascinating stories that go along with the exhibition, “Asbury Park’s Springwood Avenue Harmony”. The presentation covers Jazz, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop and Soul music from Asbury’s Springwood Avenue area, from Count Basie to Billy Brown. Presented by music historians Charlie & Pam Horner of Classic Urban Harmony LLC, who also curated the current exhibit.

Met Opera: IOLANTA / DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Broadcast in HD)
2015-02-14 12:30 - 16:30 | Pollak Theatre
New Production
On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala, and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas.
Broadcast in HD
Encore: Sun. March 1, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 39 minutes

"W"ithdrawal Deadline Pattern "A" Classes
2015-02-16

Graduate Information Session
2015-02-18 18:30 | The Great Hall
This Information Session is for prospective students interested in Graduate School at Monmouth University. All programs will be represented.

Nine for IX: Pat XO
2015-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
An in-depth look at the legendary University of Tennessee Lady Vols Coach, Pat Summit, from her exceptional career to her new life fighting early-onset Alzheimer’s. Nine for IX is a series of documentary films which originally aired on ESPN celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Four of the episodes will be screened during the year.

Mavis Staples with Nicole Atkins
2015-02-21 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
There are few living musicians who can lay claim to being the voice of America’s conscience, and even fewer who continue to make vital music. For six decades Mavis Staples has been the solid rock of American music. Alongside the family group she is so identified with, the Staple Singers, Mavis has managed to transform herself as she goes, yet never alter.
From the delta-inflected gospel sound she helped create in the 1950s (“Uncloudy Day”), to the engaged protest of the civil rights era (“Freedom Highway”), and then, amazingly, on pop radio in the 1970s with a series of chart hits (“I’ll Take You There,” “Respect Yourself,” “Lets Do It Again”)–through all these, Mavis carried on, her warm embrace of a voice the only constant. On their second collaboration, the Grammy-nominated 2013 album “One True Vine,” the legendary singer and her producer, Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy, have crafted a gospel album for the 21st century. On the record, Mavis gives voice to something new in her repertoire, something deeper and more resonant with our times. Where her Stax-era hits spoke for a growing black social consciousness, and her seventies collaborations with The Band gave spiritual weight to the rediscovery of traditional American music, Jeff Tweedy has crafted a pulpit from which Mavis lends her voice to a search for grace. Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award recipient. VH1 named her one of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Her previous album, the Tweedy-produced “You Are Not Alone,” won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2011, adding a remarkable new chapter to an already historic career.
Opening for Staples is a songwriter and performer who represents an exciting new voice in millennial music — in addition to being the Jersey Shore music scene’s most acclaimed breakout artist in a generation. Nicole Atkins grabbed the industry’s attention several seasons back with her major-label debut album Neptune City, a nationwide TV commercial for American Express, and a musicologist’s dexterity that found her sharing stages comfortably and confidently with everyone from Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds to Monmouth professor Marc Muller’s Dead On Live project. Having reaffirmed her indie roots with her latest release Slow Phaser, Atkins is creating some strong and innovative new music — and she’ll be sharing it, along with the expected surprise interpretations of her many and varied influences, in a solo acoustic setting on the Pollak stage.

Met Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2015-02-22 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
Vittorio Grigolo playing the tortured
poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three
heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses,
including Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and
Christine Rice. Thomas Hampson sings the Four
Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling
score.Broadcast in HD

World Cinema Series: Zelary
2015-02-23 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Ondrej Trojan’s “Zelary” (2003) (R) A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940’s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Turtle Island String Quartet
2015-02-26 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles. For a quarter century, the Turtle Island Quartet has delved into folk, bluegrass, swing, be-bop, funk, R&B, new age, rock, hip-hop, as well as music of Latin America and India …a repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and originals. Formed in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in
the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings.
In this concert Turtle Island Quartet presents Birth of the Cool—celebrating what became known as “Cool Jazz,” marked by the embodiment of cool, Miles Davis, along with his colleagues Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan, as well as the Modern Jazz Quartet and Dave Brubeck. In addition to their masterful jazz string quartet interpretations from the Birth of the Cool recording, Turtle Island offers a program of perennial favorites such as Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo A La Turk, Gerry Mulligan’s Bernie’s Tune, Miles Davis’s dreamy Miles Ahead, and the Modern Jazz Quartet’s darker Django.
For more information on the Turtle Island Quartet,
please visit www.turtleislandquartet.com

Graduation Applications Deadline (for May Graduation)
2015-03-01

Met Opera: IOLANTA/ DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Broadcast in HD)
2015-03-01 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
On
the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano
Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this
intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta)
followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko
stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta,
while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played
by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was
inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr
Beczala, and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas. Broadcast in HD

Urinetown
2015-03-04 20:00 - 2015-03-12 23:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Urinetown March 4 – 8; March 10 – 12, 2015Lauren K. Woods Theatre
From an American town in the early 20th century, we flash forward to a future dystopia where a severe water shortage has made public pay-per-use toilets a legal necessity. Urinetown was a hit Broadway musical in the early 21st century, running for two and a half years. It won Tony Awards for its composer and lyricists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis and Mr. Kotis also won for the book of the musical. The show is a satirical take on social change (the police are represented by Officers Lockstock and Barrel), corporate greed (the pay toilets are run by “Urine Good Company”), and Broadway musicals themselves. One of the show’s characters – its hero Bobby Strong – was included as one of the 100 Greatest Roles in Musical Theatre.

Dylan Scholinski
2015-03-05 09:00 - 2015-04-10 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Lecture: March 26 at 2:30 p.m. | Pollak Theatre
Dylan Scholinski was born Daphne Scholinski. She was 15 years old she was locked up in a mental hospital, diagnosed as “an inappropriate female”, and spent the rest of her high school years undergoing extreme femininity training. Now 47 years old Dylan is a distinguished artist, author, and public speaker having appeared on 20/20, Dateline and Today to discuss his experiences and has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines. Recently his award-winning book The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir was listed in the Top 10 Must Reads in Out Magazines first transgender issue. His artwork not only portrays the anguish of his hospital years but also his ultimate triumph. Dylan is the founder/witness for the Sent(a)Mental Project : A Memorial to Suicide. He frequently opens his studio to a variety of Denver metro youth, to provide safe space to explore and discover ways of expressing and empowering themselves without bringing harm to themselves or others.
Dylan will be exhibiting his own work as well as examples of artwork by youth who have participated in his “lead with your heart” workshop. The idea is to use the image of the heart as a template to fill and show how your heart feels on the inside and to use the space outside of the heart to show what is affecting and influencing it. Each participant interprets the project their own way and displayed together the works collect the expressions of individual to show how the heart connects us all.

On Screen in Person: Still Dreaming
2015-03-05 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Co-Directors Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson
Still Dreaming follows a group of elderly entertainers living at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey and a pair of young directors hired to stage an in-house performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As the once-celebrated performers struggle with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and physical disabilities, the play’s themes of perception, reality and memory take on new relevance and poignancy.
There will be a post screening Q&A with the co-directors Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson
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.

GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL
2015-03-07 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL has been thrilling audiences and earning rave reviews since its sensational Off-Broadway debut. This touching and hilarious ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ musical takes audiences on a journey into the lives of a group of female friends. Audience members can’t help but laugh, cry and sing and dance in the aisles! Follow five friends as they visit their past, celebrate their present, and look to the future on a wild and hilarious night out … and you’ll recognize yourself in each of them! Described as “Desperate Housewives meets Mamma Mia” (Applause Magazine), and “As funny and outrageous as Sex and the City!” (The Advocate).GIRLS NIGHT is bursting with energy and packed with hits “Lady Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man I Feel Like A Woman,” “I Will Survive” and more.
Exclusive Preshow Gifts/Offers
for GIRLS NIGHT ticketholders at MONMOUTH MALL!
Go Shopping and grab drinks with your girlfriends
before the show!! The first 100 Girls
Night: The Musical ticketholders to show up at our table in the MONMOUTH MALL food court starting at 4
p.m. on the day of the show will receive a “swag bag” filled with special
gifts/coupons courtesy of Monmouth Mall. They will also be eligible for
drink/food discounts at participating restaurants at the mall. For more information about this offer call 732.263.5715. You must be present to receive a swag bag. Only one bag will be given out per person. We will also have a free photobooth in the lobby before the show and during intermission so that you and your girlfriends can get a group photo to remember the night.

Pattern "A" Classes End
2015-03-09

Pattern "B" Classes Begin
2015-03-10

Undergraduate Midterm Grades Due in Office of Registration and Records by 9:00am
2015-03-10

Miss Nelson is Missing
2015-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Pollak Theatre
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been rescheduled from the original 3/26 date.
The students in Room 207 were the worst-behaved class in the whole school: spitballs stuck to the ceiling; paper airplanes whizzing through the air – even though they had the sweetest teacher of all, Miss Nelson. But when Miss Nelson unexpectedly does not come to school one day, the class gets the strictest substitute they have ever met: Miss Viola Swamp! The search is on for Miss Nelson, who seems to have vanished. Hopefully the students of Room 207 will find her before it’s too late – for them! A lighthearted musical that reminds us all to show appreciation to those that we value!
(One hour in length, recommended for grades K – 5)

When the Gays Move into Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood
2015-03-11 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
In Joe & Bil’s program, “When the Gays Move Into Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Joe & Bil explore the realities and human dimensions of living in a world of heterosexual privilege. Drawing from their own lives, their experiences as fraternity men and student affairs professionals, their family experiences, and the dynamics of their own relationship, Joe & Bil present this difficult topic in a non-threatening, humorous way.

National Theatre of London: Of Mice and Men (Broadcast in HD)
2015-03-12 19:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Golden Globe® winner and Academy Award®
nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk)
and Tony Award® nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids,
Girls) star in the hit Broadway production Of Mice And Men, filmed on stage by National Theatre Live. This
landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s play is a powerful
portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of
friendship.

Of Mice and Men is directed by Tony Award®,
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circles award winner Anna D. Shapiro (Broadway’s August: Osage County) and features
Leighton Meester (Country Strong, Gossip
Girl) and Tony Award® winner Jim Norton (The Seafarer). The production was nominated for two Tony Awards®,
including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Chris
O’Dowd.
Broadcast in HD
This ‘moving masterpiece’ (Time Magazine) will screen in movie
theaters internationally from November 6, 2014.

A Poetry Reading: “Poetry Au Jews: A Spiel and a Recitation"
2015-03-12 19:30
The Jewish Cultural Studies Program at Monmouth University
Spring 2015 program
…Free of charge and open to all…
A Poetry Reading
“Poetry Au Jews: A Spiel and a Recitation”
Thursday, March 12, 2015Wilson Hall Auditorium, Monmouth University
Philip Terman is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Torah Garden, Rabbis of the Air, Book of the Unbroken Days, and The House of Sages. Autumn House Press will publish Our Portion: New and Selected Poems in 2015. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Sun Magazine, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poets, 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. He has received the Anna Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. He teaches creative writing at Clarion University, where he directs the Spoken Arts Reading Series, and is co-director of The Chautauqua Writers Festival at the Chautauqua Institution.
Organized by the Jewish Cultural Studies Program and the Office for Global InitiativesCo-sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Spring Break
2015-03-14 - 2015-03-20

Met Opera: LA DONNA DEL LAGO (Broadcast in HD)
2015-03-14 13:00 - 16:30 | Pollak Theatre
New Production
Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the medieval Scottish highlands and based on a beloved novel by Sir Walter Scott. DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title, and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues her, their vocal fireworks embellishing the romantic plot in this Met premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti.
Broadcast in HD
Encore: Sun. March 29, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 30 minutes

Spring Holiday
2015-03-20

Lauren Fox: Canyon Folkies Over the Hills & Under the Covers
2015-03-21 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Returning to the Pollak stage after wowing audiences
last season with her recreation of the love story between Leonard Cohen and
Joni Mitchell that resulted in some of the biggest hits of their careers,
Lauren Fox’s new show is wistful journey through a time and place where today’s
musical icons became legends. From the mid-sixties to the early-seventies,
something magical took place in Southern California…and it all happened in a
bucolic stretch of hills, just above the Sunset Strip, called Laurel
Canyon. Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Byrds, The Mamas
& The Papas, The Eagles, and Crosby, Stills & Nash, to name just a few,
all lived, loved, created, and collaborated there. Lauren Fox tells the story
of this epic time in American music history, and sings the songs that it
inspired.

Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo & Juliet (Broadcast in HD)
2015-03-22 15:00 - 18:00 | Pollak Theatre
Music Sergei ProkofievLibretto Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Radlov and Adrian PiotrovskyChoreography Yuri GrigorovichBroadcast in HD
Cast Alexander Volchkov (Romeo), Anna Nikulina (Juliet)
In Verona, the rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues brings bloodshed to the city. When the Capulets organize a masked ball in honor of their daughter Juliet, Romeo Montague and his friend Mercutio attend incognito because of the hatred that tears the two houses apart. Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love, and are distraught when they realize they belong to rival families. William Shakespeare’s timeless story, written in 1595, is brought to the stage through breathtaking choreography and Sergei Prokofiev’s much-loved score. With its famous melodies, rhythmic variety and universal theme, this story of impossible love remains an all-time favourite, and is one of the world’s most popular ballets.
Stellar performances by Alexander Volchkov and Anna Nikulina illuminate this masterpiece, making the immortal tale of the lovers of Verona an unforgettable experience.
(Ballet recorded live on May 12th, 2013) Running time 2hr, 15

Visiting Writer: Brooks Haxton
2015-03-24 16:30 - 18:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Brooks Haxton was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1950. His books include six collections of poems from Knopf, two book-length narrative poems, and one book of creative non-fiction. He has also written introductions to five books, essays, and the script of an American Masters Series film on Tennessee Williams, nationally broadcast on PBS. Since the mid-seventies, his poems and prose have been appearing in Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and Paris Review. His work has been acclaimed by critics at All Things Considered, The New York Times, Newsweek Online, Time Magazine, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. His four books of translations from Classical Greek, French, and German have included an alternate selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. In 2013 the Fellowship of Southern Writers presented him with the Hanes Award, recognizing a distinguished body of work by a poet in mid-career. He lives with his wife and children in Syracuse, where he has taught for twenty years at Syracuse University.

U.S. Feminist Movements: Select Social Histories from Monmouth Scholars
2015-03-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Magill Commons
Magill Commons 107 & 108
A panel presentation with Dr. Enoch Nappen, Dept. of Political Science and Sociology, Dr. Katherine Parkin, Dept. of History and Anthropology, and Dr. Johanna Foster, Dept. of Political Science and Sociology.
Part of the Artful Explorations of Gender Series – a year-long engagement in a range of work across the arts that examines the contemporary and historical meanings and boundaries of gender, the persistence of gender inequalities locally and globally, and the role of art and artists in movements for gender justice.

The Affordable Care Act: Is it Working in New Jersey?
2015-03-25 16:30 - 18:15 | MAC At Monmouth
The Affordable Care Act: Is it Working in New Jersey?
A Frank Assessment of the First Year of “Obamacare”
The Affordable Care Act in New Jersey
The ACA may be the most significant policy legacy of the Obama presidency. What can we tell about its impact after the first year of implementation in the Garden State and nationally? Did the reforms go too far or not far enough? What has been the impact on the front lines of health care services? What will be the impact of pending court cases, especially in states like New Jersey which do not have their own exchanges?
Join us for a frank discussion of the Affordable Care Act in New Jersey with respected policymakers and front-line health care providers. The forum will include an opportunity for audience Q&A.
PANEL
Hon. James J. Florio — former Governor of New Jersey
Mr. Wardell Sanders — President, New Jersey Association of Health Plans
Mr. John Lloyd — President & CEO Meridian Health
Dr. Frank Vozos — President & CEO Monmouth Medical Center
Moderators:
Dr. Kathryn Fleming, Specialist Professor of Nursing Administration
Dr. Stephen Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science

This free event is open to the public.
Video will be live streamed Wednesday, March 25, 2015 from 4:30 to 6:15 p.m. on the Polling Institute web site.
For more information: 732-263-5860 or polling@monmouth.edu
Sponsored by the Monmouth University Polling Institute, Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing & Health Studies, and the Political Science Club
MAC (Multipurpose Activity Center) Varsity Club
Use entrance at 142 Larchwood Avenue (lots 13/14)
