Writing Memoir (Advanced) - SOLD OUT
2023-02-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-02-16 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-02-23 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
This class is SOLD OUT

Class Schedule: Thursdays – Feb. 9, Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 | 7:30 – 9:00 PM
This three-session virtual course taught by Mike Farragher (88) builds on the wildly popular Intro to Memoir Writing workshops with an emphasis on character development, dialogue, and scene setting that will make any story a page turner. Practical lessons are interspersed with writing prompts to get the creativity going during this 3 week course. No prior writing experience needed and all levels welcome!
Zoom Link will be provided upon registration.

From this Day Forward
2023-02-10 11:00 - 13:30 | Pollak Theatre
Please join us for a film screening/panel discussion of the film From This Day Forward with director Sharon Shattuck and her parents Trisha and Marcia Shuttuck.
With her own wedding just around the corner, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to examine the mystery at the heart of her upbringing: How her transgender father Trisha and her straight-identified mother Marcia stayed together against all odds. From This Day Forward is a moving portrayal of an American family coping with the most intimate of transformations. As the film evolves into a conversation about love and acceptance in a modern American family, it raises questions relevant to all of us. As individuals how do we adapt to sustain long-term love and relationships? Where do sexuality and gender intersect? And how do families stay together, when external forces are pulling them apart?

This event is being held in conjunction with the juried gallery exhibition Aging and the Lived Experiences of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (T/GNC) Older Adults: Narratives through Art on view in the Pollak Gallery January 23 – March 11. Find more information about the exhibit here.
This event is sponsored by: Monmouth University’s LGBT+ Older Adult Project, The Center for the Arts, and The Intercultural Center.

Galentine’s Get-Together
2023-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | The Wine Loft, Pier Village, Long Branch
$15 (over 21) includes a $2 donation to the Access Fund, (scholarships for students with unmet financial need).
Join us for a love-filled night celebrating the women in your life. Best friends, sisters, moms, grandmas—you name it, this is the night to show them just how much they mean to you. Enjoy light apps, some pink prosecco, and quality time with your Monmouth friends!

Study Abroad 101
2023-02-15 14:45 - 16:15, 2023-02-22 14:45 - 16:15, 2023-03-01 14:45 - 16:15, 2023-03-08 14:45 - 16:15 | Pozycki Hall, Room 204
Do you want to learn more about studying abroad?
Join us each Wednesday for information on studying abroad. Speak to students who have participated in our programs. Get some answers and get ready to travel.
Visit the Study Abroad site

Toni Morrison Day
2023-02-17 08:00 - 17:00
Details are forthcoming. View the 2022 program.

Major League Baseball: A Discussion of Legal and Social Issues With Rob Manfred, Commissioner, MLB
2023-02-21 16:00 - 17:30
Special Guest Speaker
Rob Manfred, Commissioner, MLB
Program Moderator
Professor Lawrence R. Jones (Law and Society)
Welcoming Remarks:
Provost Pamela Scott-Johnson
Dean Richard Veit
Dr. Kevin Dooley
Free and Open to University students, faculty, administration, employees and alumni
USA Today article on MU presentation
Monmouth’s Presentation to Major League Baseball
Recording

Questlove's Music Is History
2023-02-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!
This month’s novel is Questlove’s Music Is History.
Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America.
A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America.
When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation.

Alumni Speaker Series: “Lunch and Learn” with Alison Stanley ’04
2023-02-22 12:00 | Live over Zoom
Current students and alumni are invited to hear from sales and marketing leader Alison Stanley ’04 on how to build, develop, and nurture your network and brand using LinkedIn. In this virtual workshop, Alison will share her experiences as a hiring manager and offer practical tips Monmouth Hawks can use to stand out. This will be an interactive, hands-on session where you will learn how to:

Create a LinkedIn profile that communicates who you are and why you are the ideal candidate for a starter role.
Connect with alumni in smart, meaningful ways to cultivate your Monmouth network.
Attract recruiters and professionals by highlighting your skills and understanding how LinkedIn works.

Presenter: Alison Stanley ’04

Alison Stanley is a 2004 Monmouth graduate (Communications and Marketing) with 17 years of experience in various roles in the ed tech and publishing industries. Alison specializes in product, advocacy, and cause marketing and recently managed a grant program for students experiencing economic hardship.
Throughout her career at Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and education, Alison’s management experience ranges from developing sales and customer success teams (including entry-level roles) to overseeing and coaching hundreds of campus brand ambassadors.
Alison lives up the road in Rumson with her husband, Billy Worfolk (’04), and their two sons (ages 3 & 7), who are dedicated fans of Shadow the Hawk.
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Hip Hop in the Round
2023-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
This year being the 50th anniversary of the emergence of hip hop, the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music in association with Blue Hawk Records presents “Hip Hop in the Round,” an evening of conversation and music featuring hip hop artists from Monmouth University and Asbury Park.
Hosted by Bob Santelli, Executive Director of the Archives, artists will share insight into their creative process, their roots and influences, and their forms of inspiration as well as perform selective tracks from their body of work.
Student artists include senior music industry major, Gabe “Double G” Garza, and juniors, Justin Ume and Asad “Kid Ace” Whitehead. Also on the panel will be a special Asbury Park-based guest artist.
Reservations are encouraged and admission will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

Los Lobos
2023-02-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
The journey of Los Lobos began in 1973, 50 years ago this year, when David Hidalgo (vocals, guitar, and pretty much anything with strings), Louie Perez (drums, vocals, guitar), Cesar Rosas (vocals, guitar), and Conrad Lozano (bass, vocals, guitarrón) earned their stripes playing revved-up versions of Mexican folk music in restaurants and at parties. The band evolved in the 1980s as it tapped into L.A.’s burgeoning punk and college rock scenes. They were soon sharing bills with bands like the Circle Jerks, Public Image Ltd. and the Blasters, whose saxophonist, Steve Berlin, would eventually leave the group to join Los Lobos in 1984.
Early on, Los Lobos enjoyed critical success, winning the Grammy® for Best Mexican-American Performance for “Anselma” from its 1983 EP …And a Time to Dance. A year later, the group released its full-length, major-label debut, How Will the Wolf Survive? Co-produced by Berlin and T Bone Burnett, the album was a college rock sensation that helped Los Lobos tie with Bruce Springsteen as Rolling Stone’s Artist of the Year.
A major turning point came in 1987 with the release of the Ritchie Valens biopic, La Bamba. The quintet’s cover of Valens’ signature song topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K. Rather than capitalize on that massive commercial success, Los Lobos instead chose to record La Pistola y El Corazón, a tribute to Tejano and Mariachi music that won the 1989 Grammy® for Best Mexican-American Performance.
That kind of sharp artistic turn has become Los Lobos’ trademark, serving to both fuel the band’s creativity and keep its fans engaged. In 1992, that willingness to defy expectations led them to record Kiko, an adventurous album produced by Mitchell Froom that’s considered by many to be one the band’s very best.
Since then, Los Lobos has continued to deliver daring and diverse albums such as Colossal Head (1996), Good Morning Aztlán (2002), The Town and the City (2006), Tin Can Trust (2010) and Gates of Gold (2015). On top of that, the band’s live shows never disappoint, as documented on the recent concert recordings Live at the Fillmore (2005) and Disconnected in New York City (2013). Through the years, they’ve managed to keep things interesting with unexpected side trips like an album of Disney songs in 2009, along with countless contributions to tribute albums and film soundtracks. One of those – “Mariachi Suite” from the 1995 film Desperado – earned the band a Grammy® for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Los Lobos’ love letter to the city of Los Angeles as their album Native Sons (2021), returned the band to the Grammy winner’s circle with Best Americana Album of 2022. In 2023, Los Lobos celebrates its 50th anniversary as a band, a rare and impressive feat, as the band continues its great legacy.
Los Lobos has sold millions of records, won prestigious awards and made fans around the world. But perhaps its most lasting impact will be how well its music embodies the idea of America as a cultural melting pot. In it, styles like son jarocho, norteño, Tejano, folk, country, doo-wop, soul, R&B, rock ’n’ roll and punk all come together to create a new sound that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

More at: https://www.loslobos.org

Sam Lipsyte
2023-02-27 18:00 - 19:00 | The Great Hall -104
Sam Lipsyte is the author of five novels and two short-story collections, including The Ask, Hark and No One Left to Come Looking for You. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, n+1, Noon, Open City, The Quarterly and Best American Short Stories, among other places. A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the Believer Book Award, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

As We Forgive
2023-03-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Join us for a World Cinema Series film screening/discussion illuminating the theme “Wartime Lives: Enduring and Transcending Violence and Occupation” by analyzing the message and impact of the film As We Forgive (2009).
Directed by Laura Waters Hinson and narrated by Mia Farrow comes the award-winning documentary of two Rwandan women who struggle with the face-to-face encounter with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. These women and men speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government released 50,000 perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution of reconciliation. Come experience through their eyes the journey from death to life through forgiveness.
(District of Columbia: Image Bearer Films, 2010), 54 minutes
The discussion of the film will be led by Claude Taylor, Director For Academic Transition And Inclusion.

The Crucible
2023-03-02 19:30 - 22:30 | Pollak Theatre
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).
Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial.
Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.

A Doll’s House
2023-03-02 20:00 - 2023-03-09 22:00, 2023-03-03 20:00 - 2023-03-10 22:00, 2023-03-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-04 20:00 - 2023-03-11 22:00, 2023-03-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-07 20:00 - 2023-03-14 21:00, 2023-03-08 20:00 - 2023-03-15 21:00, 2023-03-09 20:00 - 2023-03-16 21:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Monmouth University brings Henrik Ibsen’s scandalous 19th century masterpiece into the modern era. A Doll’s House follows a vibrant but sheltered housewife as she navigates a world in which women have no autonomy. As events spiral beyond her control, Nora’s journey of self awareness builds toward one of the most controversial endings in theatrical history. Directed by Sheri Anderson.

Cherish the Ladies
2023-03-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
One of America’s most heralded Irish music ensembles for the last 37 years, Cherish the Ladies has won the hearts of audiences worldwide with their rousing blend of traditional music, captivating vocals, and propulsive step dancing. Under the leadership of Joanie Madden, these extremely gifted women create a moving experience with a blend of virtuoso instrumentals, beautiful vocals, traditional and original arrangements along with stunning step dancing — all presented with extraordinary talent, creativity, and humor.

Intro to Career Development
2023-03-06 13:30 - 14:15 | Career Development
Come learn more about career development with Coach Maria.

Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
2023-03-07 19:30 - 21:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual, 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07720, United States
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 to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville.
This event will be held in person at The Great Hall Auditorium and will also be available remotely via Zoom. When you register you will be provided the ZOOM meeting link to join the conversation.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Dinty W. Moore
2023-03-08 16:30 - 17:45 | The Great Hall -104
Dinty W. Moore is a celebrated American essayist and a pioneering, early practitioner of creative nonfiction. He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire, in 2008 and, more recently, is also the author of the memoir To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, the writing guides The Story Cure, Crafting the Personal Essay, and The Mindful Writer, and many other books and edited anthologies.
