Events

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 (America/New_York)
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.

Father Alphonse Stephenson and the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea
2011-12-02 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
There’s simply no better way to start the holiday season than to spend this special evening with Father Alphonse Stephenson and the Orchestra of Saint Peter by the Sea as they perform a concert of carols and holiday favorites. This well-established Christmas tradition is celebrating its 21st year at Monmouth University. Call the box office today to see if tickets are available for this annual sell-out.
Cost: $39

Rodelinda - Handel
2011-12-03 12:30
Encore Date:Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts. (4 hours 15 minutes, 2 intermissions)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Psychic Medium John Edward
2011-12-07 20:00
PSYCHIC MEDIUM JOHN EDWARD

An evening with John Edward and special guests!!
Join John and internationally acclaimed psychic mediums
Char Margolis and Jonathan Louis
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April, 29, 2011 at 10 a.m.
Ticket Prices
Standard tickets: $60, $85, and $135
Special Pre-Show Reception Tickets: $300 Limited quantity available
Reception from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Includes a Meet And Greet, Book Signing With John Edward and Char, Appetizers, and Refreshments. Seats will be within the first six rows of the stage.
Tickets will be on sale through Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster phone charge 800-745-3000 and select Ticketmaster outlets.
John Edward is an internationally renowned psychic medium whose ability to contact the dead has kept him on cable television since the late 1990s. His show “Crossing Over with John Edward” appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel from1999-2004 and “John Edward Cross Country” has appeared on We TV since 2006. Edward concluded he was a medium when he was a teenager, and feels he is able to communicate with people who have died and “crossed over.” He has written numerous books on the subject including “Crossing Over” (2001), “After Life” (2003) and “Infinite Quest” (2010).
All proceeds will benefit Joan Dancy and Pals – ALS Organization www.joandancyandpals.com
For More Information, please call 732-571-3512.
Produced by Concerts East
www.concertseast.com

Season's Greetings
2011-12-08 | The Great Hall
The Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents
Holiday Concert

Martin Sexton
2011-12-09 20:00
A Winter Night:
An Intimate Solo Acoustic Performance
Cost: prices vary

The New York Times wrote that this artist” jumps beyond standard fare on the strength of his voice, a blue-eyed soul man’s supple instrument,” adding that “his unpretentious heartiness helps him focus on every soul singer’s goal: to amplify the sound of the ordinary heart.“Martin Sexton is ripe with raw, expansive talent.His voice comes in a hundred impossible shades. His songs are sweet and spirited and soulful. His repertoire is like a cross country tour of the American musical vernacular.” — Boston Globe
VIP/meet and greet available!Check with the box office for more information.
Produced by Concerts East, Inc

Faust - Gounod (Broadcast in HD)
2011-12-10 13:00
Faust – Gounod (New Production)
Encore Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7 p.m.
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success. (4 hours 20 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD

Deck The Halls
2011-12-11 16:00
From the company that brought you the hit Sing, Sing Sing! comes their new seasonal musical marvel,Deck The Halls!. With a company of more than 40 singers, tap dancers, and musicians, your favorite family holiday songs will come reeling to life at the Pollak Theatre. Resplendent with magnificent Dickens costumes, as well as a myriad of theatrical delights, this musical extravaganza is sure to delight the entire family.
Guinness Book record holder in Tap Dancing, David J.V. Meenan, will lead his company of Broadway friends through an evening that you will talk about for years!
Cost: $38/30

Don Giovanni Encore - Mozart
2011-12-15 19:00
Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with James Levine conducting. Also starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni. (3 hours 55 minutes, 1 intermission)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

MU Faculty Exhibition
2012-01-17 - 2012-03-09 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
MU Faculty Exhibition

January 17 – March 9, 2012
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 27 from 7 – 9 p.m.
ICE HOUSE GALLERY
Featuring the work of the Monmouth University Department of Art & Design faculty.

Rodelinda Encore - Handel
2012-01-19 19:00
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts. (4 hours 15 minutes, 2 intermissions)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

The Enchanted Island - Handel
2012-01-21 13:00
Encore Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7 p.m.
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand. The dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Satyagraha and the Met’s 125 anniversary gala). (3 hours 55 minutes, 1 intermission)

SAMINA QURAESHI - Reflections on a Sufi Path
2012-01-30 17:00 - 2012-03-15 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
SAMINA QURAESHI: Reflections on a Sufi Path
January 30 – March 15, 2012
Opening Reception:
January 30, 2012
from 5:00-7:00 pm
Pollak Gallery
Admission compliments of Monmouth University
Imaginative, vibrant, and saturated with the rich colors of South Asia, Samina Quraeshi’s photographs, calligraphic works, and mixed media montages reflect the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. Her work is a creative response to the experience of pilgrimage to the Sufi shrines in the Indus Valley. The images evoke the music, dance, and acts of faith that animate these sacred spaces.
Click for more information on the Caravanserai events.

Provost Film Series: Scheherazade: Tell Me a Story
2012-01-30 19:30
SCHEHERAZADE: TELL ME A STORY (Not Rated)
Karim and Hebba are a young married and loving couple. Both have
great careers. Karim is just about to be appointed as editor-in-chief of
the greatest governmental newspaper. Hebba is the hostess of much
appreciated TV programs about female victims, e.g., daughters who are
buried alive because of improper behavior, people drowning when
attempting illegal immigration to Europe. Karim is told that he will
only be appointed if his wife avoids political topics. He does persuade
her to make programs on ordinary people instead. But her “non-political”
programs will become even more repugnant to the authorities.
Panelist: Dr. Maysa Hayward, dean of E-Learning, Ocean County College

Money Matters
2012-02-06 19:30
Director: Ryan Richmond
Monday, February 6, 2012at 7:30 p.m.Pollak Theatre
Admission courtesy of Monmouth University
Money Matters is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year-old biracial girl, Monique Matters, as she tries to navigate faith and sexuality questions of adolescence, a dysfunctional single-mother household, and the rough waters of our nation’s capital’s best kept secret–the inner city. Monique never knew her father, and as her mother’s disturbing past comes to light, she must somehow reconcile the relationships and circumstances surrounding her very existence.

Cherish The Ladies
2012-02-10 20:00
Cherish the Ladies: Irish Homecoming with Maura O’Connell
Cost: $47/37
When describing Cherish the Ladies, the critics say it best. “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” says the Boston Globe, “An astonishing array of virtuosity,” adds the Washington Post, “Expands the annals of Irish music in America, the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” notes The New York Times. For the past twenty five years, Cherish the Ladies have proven themselves worthy to live up to these accolades and in doing so have become one of the most engaging ensembles in the history of Irish music.
By transforming lyrics and music into intimate portraits of human life, Maura O’Connell offers soulful consolation on simply living it. The ultimate singer’s singer, O’Connell’s gems are worth hearing again and again.

Götterdämmerung - Wagner (Broadcast in HD)
2012-02-11 12:00
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.(6 hours 24 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

In The Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue
2012-02-12 15:00
Back by popular demand, In the Mood returns with their big band orchestra, singers, and swing dancers. This retro 1940s musical revives the music that moved a nation’s spirit and helped win a war. The combination of up-tempo instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope, and prosperity. This Big Band theatrical Swing revue features the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskin Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and more.

For More Information
In The Mood Web Site
Cost: $42/35

Faust Encore - Gounod (Broadcast in HD)
2012-02-16 19:00
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.
(4 hours 20 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Carolina Chocolate Drops with M Shanghai String Band
2012-02-17 20:00
“The Carolina Chocolate Drops are…revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties—the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon’s Jug Stompers.” — Rolling Stone
“To call them a string band does not really do justice to the flying instruments, the role changes and the strong and sometimes dangerous singing of Rhiannon Giddens …” — New York Times
“The hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades.” — NPR
The M Shanghai String Band will open the show. For more information about the bands visit: carolinachocolatedrops.com and mshanghaistringband.com
Cost: $32

Made In Pakistan
2012-02-21 19:30
“Made in Pakistan” Film Screening and Discussion with Ayesha Khan
Ayesha Khan, director of feature film KASHF: Lifting of the Veil and executive producer of Made in Pakistan is one of Pakistan’s most talented and dynamic young filmmakers. Ayesha will showcase the film Made in Pakistan to American audiences for the Caravanserai film residencies. Made in Pakistan,
a 60-minute documentary directed by Nasir Khan and produced by Ms.
Khan, follows the lives of four young, middle-class Pakistanis during
Pervez Musharraf’s state of emergency in 2007. Winner of the Audience
Choice Award for Best Documentary at the South Asian International Film
Festival in New York, Made in Pakistan is a riveting glimpse
into life in Pakistan—a country where politics, fashion, religion,
debate, and tradition intermingle, where one definition of an Islamic
State no longer holds true. A successful example of independent
filmmaking in contemporary Pakistan, Made in Pakistan will
provide a framework for thought-provoking screenings and discussion led
by a bright new voice from Pakistan’s burgeoning film industry.
