Events

Improving Communication Regarding End-of-Life Decisions
2017-06-06 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Pozycki Hall
This workshop is designed to provide health care professionals with a better understanding of the complex decision making process that is involved in the planning of end-of-life care. The instructors will explore and review end-of life care choices such as hospice, palliative care and advanced directives. The patients’ perspective will be presented, highlighting research on “The inner life at the end of life,” life reviews and attitudes toward death. Participants will engage in a simulated medical decision process and analyze different types of advanced directives. The goal will be to facilitate patient centered care and shared decision making through effective communication and planning.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Examine the complexities surrounding end-of-life care including different levels of care, types of proxy and advanced directives.
Discuss ethical issues faced by healthcare professionals in providing care during the dying process.
Review challenges faced by families and caregivers as they honor patient wishes in end of life decisions.
Evaluate strategies to maximize patient autonomy.
Facilitating communication about end-of-life decisions.

Fee: $98/$20 for current MU Nursing and Health Studies Students (a light lunch is included in the program fee)
This program will provide 5 contact hours for Nurses.
For more information, contact Barbara Paskewich, MSN,RN, MA, CHES, Director of Professional Development and Special Projects, at 732-571-3694 or bpaskewi@monmouth.edu.

Sexual Assault Examination Across the Lifespan - Workshop for Nurses
2017-06-12 09:00 - 2017-06-15 16:00 | Monmouth Park Corporate Center
This program is designed for the RN with at least 2 years recent clinical experience desiring to obtain the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to provide effective health care and services to victims of sexual assault. Content will include the biological, psychological, social and medico-legal dynamics of sexual assault including care of both male and female survivors across the lifespan.
Topics will include: assessment and evaluation of the adult, adolescent, pediatric survivor of sexual assault through the lifespan, role of the SANE in caring for sexual assault and abuse victims across the lifespan, nursing management of the sexually assaulted patient, evidence collection and analysis, exam documentation, clinical skill demonstrations, interdisciplinary collaboration, NJ laws and regulations, and an overview of the criminal justice system including tips on testifying.
Fee: $850
For more information, contact Barbara Paskewich, MSN,RN, MA, CHES, Director of Professional Development and Special Projects, at 732-571-3694 or bpaskewi@monmouth.edu.
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Customer Service Panel Discussion: Learn Best Practices from Four Professionals in Different Fields
2017-06-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Pozycki Hall

Pediatric Physical Assessment
2017-06-22 09:00 | McAllan Hall
This course is one of the most popular continuing education programs offered by the School of Nursing. The instructor will focus on basic clinical evaluation of the school age child including both normal and abnormal findings. The material covered will primarily focus on disease and disorders frequently observed in the school age child.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Describe the procedure for conducting a physical exam on a school age child
Discuss normal and abnormal findings in health screenings
Demonstrate the procedure for the assessment of the ear
Identify common pediatric disorders
Articulate appropriate guidelines for referral

Fee: $95(a light lunch is included in the program fee)
This program will provide 5 contact hours for nurses.
For more information, contact Barbara Paskewich, MSN,RN, MA, CHES, Director of Professional Development and Special Projects, at 732-571-3694 or bpaskewi@monmouth.edu.
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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
2017-06-23 12:00 - 2017-07-02 12:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Dates: 6/23: 2pm & 8pm; 6/24: 2pm & 8pm; 6/25: 3pm; 6/30: 2pm & 8pm; 7/1: 2pm & 8pm; 7/2: 3pm
Shadow Lawn Stage, the professional theatre of Monmouth University, will present the 50th anniversary production of the enchanting musical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown this June with 10 performances at the historic Woods Theatre on the university’s campus. Based on the famed comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles Schulz, the musical tells the story of some typical days in the life of Charlie Brown. From running after the school bus to spying the cute little red-haired girl at lunch, Charlie deals with the fun and frustrations of life with his friends Lucy, Linus and Schroeder; his kid sister Sally; and his faithful companion, Snoopy. The original production featured Gary Burghoff (Radar in the MASH series). The 1999 revival won 2 Tony Awards – for Roger Bart as Snoopy and Kristen Chenoweth as Sally – and the Drama Desk award for “Best Revival of a Musical”.
The songs of the show, written by Clark Gesner, reveal the dreams and goals of the characters: Lucy explores her feelings for Schroeder while he plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” (“it’s always been my dream that I’d marry a man that plays the piano”); Linus sings and dances with his security blanket in “My Blanket and Me”, and even Snoopy sings the praises of his favorite time of day in “Suppertime!” For the revival, Andrew Lippa added a new song that had Sally searching for “A New Philosophy” (is it “Why are you telling me?” or “I can’t stand it!”?) As the day comes to a close, the whole gang reflects on the things that bring them “Happiness”.Directed by Maurice J. Moran, the Shadow Lawn production features a range of actors: professional members of Actors’ Equity Association, MU students and alumni, and new rising stars.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2017-06-27 17:00 - 20:00 | Bey Hall
Credit: Tim Llewellyn

Presented by the Department of Psychology
Join us for a free screening and discussion of the PBS FRONTLINE documentary, Being Mortal. Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Atul Gawande, this film explores the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness and their relationships with the doctors, nurses, and family members who care for them.
See the film and be part of a national conversation taking place in our community concerning an inescapable reality of life: death.

Moderators

Dr. Kristen Coppola
Department of Psychology
Monmouth University

Sue Polito, MSN, APN
Board Certified Geriatric Nurse Practitioner
Specialist Professor
Monmouth University

Reservations
For more information and to reserve your seat please email Dr. Coppola. The screening starts promptly at 6pm.

National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Broadcast Live in HD)
2017-06-28 | Pollak Theatre
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London. David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight. Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

MET OPERA: Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Broadcast in HD)
2017-07-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for her hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet “Au fond du temple saint,” which opera fans know and adore. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless themes of pure love, betrayal, and vengeance in a production that vividly creates an undersea world on the stage of the Met. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings his romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen.
Total runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutesRebroadcasted from January 16, 2016

MET OPERA: Macbeth (Broadcast in HD)
2017-07-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s masterful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the noble Macduff and René Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts.
Total runtime: 2 hours, 27 minutes Originally broadcast on October 11, 2014

2017 Invitational Golf Classic - Co-Sponsored by the Leon Hess Business School and the Kislak Real Estate Institute
2017-07-17 10:00 - 19:00 | Hollywood Golf Club

MET OPERA: Nabucco (Broadcast in HD)
2017-07-19 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut. Originally broadcast on January 7, 2017Runtime: 2 hours, 35 minutes

MET OPERA: Carmen (Broadcast in HD) 17
2017-07-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Richard Eyre’s hit production stars Elīna Garanča as the seductive gypsy of the title, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José. Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” the director says about Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.” Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien
Original transmission date: Saturday, January 16, 2010
Runtime: 3 hours

Angels in America Part 1, Millennium Approaches
2017-08-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass).
This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse).
Part Two: Perestroika, will also be broadcast on August 16.Run time: about 3 hours and 40 minutes with two 15-minute intervals.

Angels in America Part II, Perestroika
2017-08-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Part 2, Perestroika

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.

Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass).
This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse). Part One: Millennium Approaches was first performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was followed by Part Two: Perestroika the following year.

Transition: Vietnam - Photography by Mark Ludak and Andrew Cohen
2017-09-05 09:00 - 2017-11-30 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Vietnam is a country in transition. Intrigued by the rapid transformation of Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies of the world Monmouth University professors, Mark Ludak and Andrew Cohen have returned multiple times to photograph this region. A dynamic, youthful country, especially seen in mega-cities like Ho Chi Minh City (Sai Gon), it is a country where the traditional and contemporary are reconstituted into distinctively Vietnamese manifestations.

NATURE AND NURTURE - Mother/Daughter Artists: The Paintings of Cheryl Griesbach and Claudia Griesbach-Martucci
2017-09-05 10:00 - 2017-12-03 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
After working almost 20 years as an illustrator with her husband Stanley Martucci, in 2000 Cheryl Griesbach began creating a body of paintings based on her interests in European 18th and 19th century still-life, botanical, and landscape art. Cheryl’s painting technique was derived from Flemish painting that she had explored as a student at The School of Visual Arts where she is now on the faculty since 1985. Her method includes the manipulation of segments of Northern European paintings and incorporating that imagery in building a new landscape, like a stage. Cheryl has received many awards, including last year’s best in show at the Monmouth Museum’s 38th international juried awards show.
Cheryl’s daughter Claudia, having grown up with both parents as artists, gave her an innate inclination to explore her imagination and develop knowledge of oil painting. Admitted into The School of Visual Arts, her parents alumni, Claudia in her third year first began to primarily use oil paint as her medium to illustrate the 18th century fairy tale Donkey Skin by Charles Perrault. Claudia graduated with honors and was then accepted into the Masters Program, Illustration as Visual Essay, with a limited class of 20 students. With her background in Illustration and skills in using oils learned from he mother, all of Claudia’s paintings tell a story. Her end of the year show paintings began to carve out some of the subject matter she wanted to explore, “that behind every exquisite thing that exists there is something tragic” a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Portrait of Dorian Gray. Claudia is currently working as a painting assistant to the artist Jeff Koons, while pursuing her own personal work.

Sheba Sharrow
2017-09-05 10:00 - 2017-12-03 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Through a vigorous and poetic hand, her work reflects on brutality and simultaneously pays homage to the animating power of solidarity, warning us: Remember, history’s tragedies repeat.
Born in Brooklyn in 1926 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Sheba Sharrow grew up in Chicago and earned her BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, studying with Boris Anisfeld and Joseph Hirsch. She continued her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and earned an MFA at the Tyler School of the Arts at Temple University. She has been considered part of the “Chicago School” of imagist painters, fitting generationally into the “Monster Roster” group of artists from that city, including the most well-known of her classmates to lead the charge of image and ideas over pure abstraction, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. A resident of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Sharrow died in 2006.
In the dominant milieu of Abstract Expressionism beginning in the 1950s, which actively rebelled against identifiable “meaning,” Sharrow remained grounded in a humanist tradition and a social context. Curator and writer Alejandro Anreus placed her “in the company of Kollwitz, Beckman and Orozco,” and writer Amy Fine Collins linked “her sensibility to German Expressionism.”
Sharrow’s unique style of storytelling and her occasional use of poetic text stand her apart. Her artistic intentions were deeply intellectual. “As long as the world is going the way it is going, I cannot stop doing what I have been doing,” Sharrow told The New York Times in 2002. She lamented, “We cannot seem to get it right.”
The works will be on loan from both James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery and the Estate of Sheba Sharrow as well as from institutions such as the Jersey City Museum of Art and private collections.

Alena Graedon
2017-09-19 16:30 - 21:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Alena Graedon’s first novel, The Word Exchange, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Paperback Row pick, and selected as a best novel of 2014 by Kirkus. It has been translated into eight languages. She has twice been a MacDowell Colony Fellow
(2012 and 2017), and has also received fellowships at Yaddo, Ucross, The Virginia Center for the Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, and Jentel. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Book Review, newyorker.com, The Believer magazine, Guernica, and Post Road among other publications. A native of Durham, NC, Graedon is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s MFA program, and she is an Assistant Professor of English at Monmouth University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories with Graham Nash
2017-09-23 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Please note this event is SOLD OUT. Artist holds may be released day of show at the discretion of the performer. To sign up for the waiting list please call the box office at 732.263.5715.
Legendary artist Graham Nash is a two-time Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame inductee – with Crosby, Stills, and Nash and with the
Hollies. He was also inducted twice into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, as a
solo artist and with CSN, and he is a GRAMMY Award winner.
Towering above virtually everything that Graham Nash
has accomplished in his first seventy-five years on this planet, stands the
litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of the
past half-century. His remarkable body of work, beginning with his
contributions to the Hollies opus from 1964 to ’68, including “Stop Stop Stop,”
“Pay You Back With Interest,” “On A Carousel,” “Carrie Anne,” “King Midas In
Reverse,” and “Jennifer Eccles,” continues all the way to This Path Tonight
(2016), his most recent solo album.
The original classic union of Crosby, Stills &
Nash (& Young) lasted but twenty months. Yet their songs are lightning rods embedded in our DNA, starting with Nash’s “Marrakesh Express,” “Pre-Road Downs” (written for then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell), and “Lady Of the Island,” from the first Crosby, Stills &
Nash LP (1969). On CSNY’s Déjà Vu (1970), Nash’s “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” beseeched us to hold love tightly, to fend off the madness that was on its way.
Overlapping CSNY, Nash’s solo career debuted with Songs
For Beginners (1971), whose “Chicago/We Can Change the World” and “Military
Madness” were fueled by the Long Hot Summer, the trial of the Chicago Eight,
and the ongoing Vietnam war. Songs from that LP stayed in Nash’s concert sets for years including “I Used To Be A King” and “Simple Man”. His next album, Wild
Tales (1974), addressed (among other issues) unfair jail terms for minor
drug offenses (“Prison Song”), unfair treatment of Vietnam vets (“Oh! Camil”),
the unfairness of fame (“You’ll Never Be the Same”), and his muse, Joni
(“Another Sleep Song”).
The most resilient, long-lived and productive
partnership to emerge from the CSNY camp launched with the eponymously titled Graham
Nash/David Crosby (1972), bookended by Nash’s “Southbound Train” as the
opening track and “Immigration Man” as the closer. The duo contributed further to the soundtrack of the ’70s on their back-to-back albums, Wind On the Water (1975) and Whistling Down the Wire (1976).
On the CSN reunion studio LP (1977), Nash took
top honors with “Just A Song Before I Go” (written in the space of one hour,
and a Top 10 hit single). Lightning
struck once more on CSN’s Daylight Again (1982), on which Nash penned
their second (and final) Top 10 hit, “Wasted On the Way,” lamenting the energy,
time and love lost by the group due to years of internecine quarrels.
Nash’s passionate voice continues to be heard in support of peace, and social and environmental justice. The No Nukes/Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts he organized with Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt in 1979 remain seminal benefit events. In 2011, Nash was instrumental in bringing MUSE back to the forefront with a concert to benefit Japan disaster relief and groups promoting non-nuclear energy worldwide. That same year, he and Crosby were among the many musicians who made their way to the Occupy Wall Street
actions in lower Manhattan.
In September 2013, Nash released his long-awaited autobiography Wild Tales, which
delivers an engrossing, no-holds-barred look back at his remarkable career and
the music that defined a generation. The book landed him on the New York Times
Best Sellers list, and was released in paperback in late 2014.
In recognition for his contributions as a musician and
philanthropist, Nash was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British
Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth. While continually building his musical legacy,
Nash is also an internationally renowned photographer and visual artist. With
his photography, Nash has drawn honors including the New York Institute of
Technology’s Arts & Technology Medal and Honorary Doctorate of Humane
Letters and the Hollywood Film Festival’s inaugural Hollywood Visionary Cyber
Award. His work is collected in the book Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash;
he curated others’ work in the volume Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographs Selected by Graham Nash (2009).
Nash’s work has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide. His company Nash Editions’ original IRIS 3047 digital printer and one of its first published works—Nash’s 1969 portrait of David Crosby— is now housed in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
Institution in recognition of his revolutionary accomplishments in the fine
arts and digital printing world.
VIP PACKAGES
GRAHAM NASH FRONT ROW – MEET & GREET VIP PACKAGE Package pricing: $375 Package inclusions:

One reserved ticket in Front Row
Meet & Greet with Graham Nash during intermission
Visit to preshow Sound Check with Graham Nash
One autographed tour poster
One commemorative Graham Nash laminate
One commemorative Graham Nash ticket
Crowd free merchandise shopping
On site VIP staff

GRAHAM NASH SOUNDCHECK PACKAGEPackage pricing: $275Package inclusions:

One reserved ticket within rows 2-5
Visit to preshow Sound Check with Graham Nash
One autographed tour poster
One commemorative Graham Nash laminate
One commemorative Graham Nash ticket
Crowd free merchandise shopping
On site VIP staff

GRAHAM NASH PREMIUM PACKAGEPackage pricing: $175Package inclusions:

One reserved ticket within rows 6-9
One Graham Nash tour item
One commemorative Graham Nash ticket
On site VIP staff

MUSE charity tickets – Guacamole Fund – $250Graham Nash’s passionate voice has often been heard in support of peace, and social and environmental justice. During this tour, Graham is partnering with Musicians United for Safe Energy (M.U.S.E.) to raise funds on its behalf by offering you special benefit seating.* M.U.S.E. is a non-profit organization that supports organizations worldwide that promote safe, alternative non-nuclear energy.
The No Nukes/Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts Graham organized with Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt in 1979 remain seminal benefit events. In 2011, Graham was instrumental in bringing MUSE back to the forefront with a concert to benefit Japan disaster relief and groups promoting non-nuclear energy worldwide.
*In exchange for your payment of $250 to attend the concert, a portion of the net proceeds for each ticket sale will be donated to M.U.S.E on behalf of Graham Nash.
Tickets benefiting M.U.S.E will be available through the end of the sale at www.monmouth.edu/arts subject to availability. The M.U.S.E, P.O> Box 699, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
All VIP Packages and Guacamole tickets are for WILL CALL ONLY and will be available exclusively for pick up at the venue on the evening of the show with valid ID. Tickets are non-transferable.
Graham Nash Website
musiciansunited4safeenergy.orgguacfund.orgnukefree.org

Millie and the Lords
2017-09-25 19:30 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
(Director Jennica Carmona 2015) Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young,
working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the
better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto
Rican history. This event is part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Rated PG (90 minutes)

Blood Drive
2017-09-26 11:00 - 18:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center

TUESDAY NIGHT RECORD CLUB: Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced?
2017-10-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights in Woods Theatre 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 Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? This event is free but registration is required.

Norma
2017-10-07 13:00 - 16:59 | Pollak Theatre
The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.
Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes

Open House
2017-10-08 10:30 - 13:30 | The Great Hall

Artist Talk with Weili Shi
2017-10-09 18:00 - 23:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Weili Shi is an artist who designs through the media of digital technologies. He creates unconventional experiences with the aim of provoking people’s consciousness. In his most recent work, Shan Shui in the World, he transformed the information of the buildings in Manhattan, NY, into traditional Chinese shan shui (landscape) paintings by a custom algorithm. This project revisits the ideas implicit in Chinese literati paintings of shan shui: the relationship between urban life and people’s yearning for nature, and between social responsibility and spiritual purity. With generative technology, Shan Shui in the World has the ability to represent any place in the world—including the city where the audience is—in the form of a shan shui painting. Weili Shi is currently a developer at Bluecadet and teaches at Parsons School of Design.
More info: shi-weili.com

Champion of the Ocean Awards Dinner
2017-10-12 18:00 - 20:30 | The Great Hall

Reduced Shakespeare Company’s All the Great Books (abridged)
2017-10-12 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Little Dickens. Short Longfellow. Reduced Proust… All the Great Books. As anyone named Cliff will tell you, Less is More. The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement again unleash comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. America’s best loved comedy troupe takes you on a 98 minute roller- coaster ride through its compact compendium of 89 of the world’s great books in All The Great Books (abridged). It’s 1.1 books per minute (on average). Confused by Confucius? Thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was faster? Aiming for an ace of Tennyson? Then hop aboard and buckle up as the three cultural guerrillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company zip through everything you should have read in school but probably didn’t. It’s a blast of bibliography. You’ve seen their PBS special. You’ve heard them on National Public Radio. They are officially London’s longest-running comedy troupe, and have broken box-office records at the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. What are you waiting for? Tempus fugit! Reductio ad absurdum.
In the spirit of Shakespeare himself, RSC shows contain some occasional bawdy language and mild innuendo. All children (and parents) are different, so we’ve chosen to rate our shows PG- 13: Pretty Good If You’re Thirteen.
What the Critics Say…
“Inspired lunatics! Funny, funny show… Brilliant!”
~ The Charlotte Observer
“Raucously funny! Inspired, crazed ridiculousness!” ~ The Buffalo News
“Literature’s greatest hits condensed into a 90-minute roller-coaster ride of hilarity.” ~ The Atlanta Journal Constitution
“Verbally dexterous and physically agile. The show darts from satire to silliness to sophisticated irreverence.” ~ The Boston Globe
“…come see how three accomplished performers can turn your literary ignorance into a polished evening’s entertainment.” ~ The Seattle Times
“Intertextuality can rarely have felt so frantic or so funny.” ~ The Scotsman, Edinburgh
Website: www.reducedshakespeare.com

Die Zauberflöte
2017-10-14 13:00 - 17:59 | Pollak Theatre
Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die Zauberflöte. Golda Schultz makes her Met debut as Pamina with Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as the fairy tale prince Tamino, Markus Werba as the bird-catching Papageno, Christian Van Horn as Sprecher, and René Pape as Sarastro. The holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, an abridged staging sung in English for families, was the first Live in HD performance to be transmitted. This is the first time the full-length German opera will be seen in the series.
Total runtime: 2 hours, 48 minutes

Colin Hay
2017-10-16 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
As the singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Australia’s Men At Work, Colin Hay was responsible for penning several of the quirkiest pop hits of the early ’80s including “Overkill”, “(The Land) Down Under”, “It’s A Mistake” and “Who Can IT Be Now” Although forever associated with “the land down under”, Hay hailed from Scotland but relocated to Australia in 1967. After Men At Work’s rise, demise and a period of reflection, Hay embarked on a solo career, debuting in 1987 with Looking For Jack (the title of which supposedly referred to a brief encounter Hay had with actor Jack Nicholson). Hay continued to release critically acclaimed solo material with regularity throughout the 2000’s, including Wayfaring Sons, Peaks & Valleys, Topanga, 1998’s Transcendental Highway, 2007’s Are You Lookin’ at Me?, American Sunshine, 2011’s Gathering Mercury, which was followed in 2015 by Next Year People.
Hay contributed “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You” to the soundtrack of Garden State and has had roles in other cult movies such as Cosi and television shows such as Scrubs, The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show and What About Brian. Hay has also been a member of Ringo Starr’s eighth and tenth All-Starr Bands. In 2017 Hay recorded and released his 13th solo album, Fierce Mercy, an epic, cinematic step forward from the singer-songwriter who has become increasingly known for his wonderfully witty and intimate performances as well as his ever-present great voice and incisive song writing .
The range of artists who have chosen to cite him as a muse is vast and varied and include the likes of Metallica and The Lumineers, reflecting his continuing relevance and broad appeal.Presented by UMT presents

The Three Pigettes and The Big Bad Lady Wolf/Las Tres Cerditas y La Loba Feroz
2017-10-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Pollak Theatre
Presented by Teatro SEA, the premiere Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and Latino Children’s Theatre in the United States, Mama Piggy narrates this bilingual adaptation that features a vegetarian wolf and the three cutest little pigs on this side of town. Action, adventure and not to mention Salsa, as well as other Latin music keep audiences clapping en route to a happy ending. Recommended for Pre-K to 5th Grade.
Mamá Piggy narra esta adaptación bilingüe que cuenta con el protagonismo de una loba vegetariana y las tres cerditas más lindas de este lado de la ciudad. Acción, aventura y música salsa, así como otros ritmos latinos, harán mantener al público aplaudiendo hasta un final feliz. Recomendada para estudiantes de Pre-K hasta 5to grado. Funciones bilingües.
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