• Music for Piano Solo, and Violin & Piano

    Lauren K. Woods Theatre

    Featuring Monmouth University Professors Laura Dubois and Michael Gillette performing the music of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, deFalla, and Albeniz. A wonderful variety of music from different eras, with some commentary and background provided by the performers. The program will also include classical guitarist and MU student Matt Jordan, playing a piece by Villa Lobos an original composition by Laura DuBois, sung by MU alumnus Dana Ferrara, and MU students Margaret Lymberis and Mahalia Jackson.

  • On Screen In Person: Tie it Into My Hand

    Pollak Theatre

    At once entertaining and deeply insightful, Tie It Into My Hand is an unprecedented look at the life of an artist, told entirely through interviews with pre-eminent directors, filmmakers, visual artists, writers and performers, including Alan Cumming, Barbara Hammer, and Harold Bloom, among many others. The filmmaker sets his interactions with the artists in the context of a fake violin lesson while using his personal struggle to play the violin despite a chronic hand injury as the catalyst for dialogue.

  • Mind and Life: Humanity in a Creative Universe

    The Great Hall Auditorium

    Mind and Life: Humanity in a Creative Universe by Stuart A. Kauffman, Author of Reinventing the Sacred: A new View of Science, Reason and Religion and Katherine P. Kauffman, EPS […]

  • Janet Boltax – Aging in America: Portraits and Commentary

    Pollak Gallery

    Aging in America: Portraits and Commentary, is an exhibition of portraits by Janet Boltax comprised of individuals who are 90 plus years old, along with excerpts of interviews with them. The interviews focus on interesting facets of their lives and how they are adapting to the process of aging. Opening Reception: April 15, 6-8 pm

  • World Cinema Series: Ida

    Pollak Theatre

    Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” (PG-13) Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960’s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.

  • ART NOW: Wafaa Bilal

    The Great Hall Auditorium

    Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. For his 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, he spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time” and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art; amongst others.

  • Something’s Happening Here Spring Showcase

    The Great Hall

    A musical cavalcade featuring the Monmouth University Chamber and Concert Choirs, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, student bands and soloists. The concert is conducted by Professor Michael Gillette, Professor Bryan Jenners and Dr. David M. Tripold.

    $15