PostSecret LIVE with Frank Warren
2019-03-26 19:30 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
“We all carry a secret that would break your heart if you just knew what it was. And if we could remember that, there might be more understanding and peace in the world.” – Frank Warren
Frank Warren is the most trusted stranger in America. He is the creator of The PostSecret Project – a collection of 1,000,000+ artful secrets that have been mailed to his home on postcards, anonymously. The PostSecret website has become a phenomenon in itself, earning over 700 million views, and making it the world’s largest advertisement-free blog. For this event, Frank will join us for a lively lecture based on the topic of #MeToo. Hear the inspiring stories behind the secrets. Listen to some of Frank’s favorite secrets…and share your own.
RSVP to the event on our facebook page

Fred Astaire’s Dancing Lessons: Queer Mentors and Monsters: Multimedia Performance by Dustin B. Goltz
2019-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
What does it mean to be “part” of the queer community in 2019? Who tells you your story? Your history? Your future? This solo performance is a 70-minute multimedia, performative examination of shifting perceptions of queer male mentorship, LGBT aging anxieties, and the lingering cultural threat assigned to queer sexuality. The piece is an avalanche of pop culture, flamboyance and monstrosity—an intertextual interrogation of queer generational tensions- reclaiming a story of the monsters who refuse to die (for long), refuse to hide the histories their bodies carry, and who keep surviving through wit, camp, irreverence, and an ongoing commitment to the queer community.
Dustin Bradley Goltz is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Communication at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a scholar and performing artist whose work examines gay aging, queer temporality, LGBTQ media representation, and personal narrative performance. His research has been published in over two dozen articles in journals, which include Text & Performance Quarterly, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. His most recent book, Comic Performativities: Identity, Internet Outrage, and the Aesthetics of Communication was published by Routledge in 2017.

The Wave
2019-03-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director: Dennis Gansel
(2008)
Unrated
107 minutes

Women's Leadership Conference
2019-03-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Black Maria Film Festival
2019-03-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
The Black Maria Film Festival was founded in 1981 as a tribute to Thomas Edison’s development of the motion picture at his laboratory, dubbed the “Black Maria” film studio, the first in the world, in West Orange, NJ. Now in its 38th year, the festival attracts and showcases the work of independent filmmakers internationally. The festival is a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, an independent non-profit organization in residence at New Jersey City University’s Department of Media Arts. Unlike other major film festivals, the Black Maria Festival is not presented in only one location. Instead, the winning films are presented at universities, museums, libraries and cultural centers across the country all year.
More information on this year’s festival at: www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/

Songs & Stories featuring James Dalton & Friends
2019-03-29 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
James Dalton gathers together a cast of wonderful singer songwriters and musicians, focusing heavily on local and independent, to take the “in the round” model up a notch. Audiences will not only get an intimate portrait of the artists and stories behind the songs themselves, but they will experience onstage collaboration and interplay as the whole cast supports, accompanies and jams with each other. Artists will include: James Dalton, Steven Delopoulos, Michael Ronstadt, Steve Reilly, April Centrone, Andy Keenan, Tara Dente, Karlee Bloom and more to be announced soon!!

Check out the great article about the concert HERE in NJ Stage Magazine!

Die Walküre (Richard Wagner)
2019-03-30 12:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity. Philippe Jordan conducts.
Run Time: 5:20

Songwriters by the Sea
2019-03-30 20:00 - 23:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Distinguished NJ Songwriters Joe Rapolla and Joe D’Urso are back this year hosting the celebrated Songwriters by the Sea series at the Lauren K. Woods Theatre. What once started in a small coffee shop as an area for local songwriters has now grown into a series that features some of the top songwriters in the country. This year, the show features special guest artists Jeffrey Gaines and ERYN with an intro set by Mark Geary. The show will also feature Monmouth University student openers: Max Adolf and Kelli Misenheimer.
Throughout his two-and-a-half-decade recording career, Jeffrey Gaines has maintained an impressive standard for soul-searching, introspective lyrics and catchy, uplifting melodies. Since bursting on the scene with his self-titled 1992 debut album, the charismatic singer-songwriter-guitarist has built a beloved body of recordings that’s won him a large and deeply devoted international fan base. Now, after an extended absence from the recording studio, Gaines returns with Alright, his first Omnivore Recordings release and his first set of new studio material since 2003’s Toward the Sun. Street date is January 26, 2018. The new album features ten irresistible examples of the Philadelphia-based artist’s personally charged songcraft, performed with the same effortless exuberance that’s long been a hallmark of Gaines’ artful recordings and his dazzling live performances.
Eryn combines the old school sound that evokes the rhythms and recording techniques of the past with a modern pop mindset and powerhouse live performance. She is the youngest person to be inducted into the NJ/NY Blues Hall of Fame, a BELK southern musician showcase winner, and a multi Asbury Park Music award winner.
Sponsored by the Leon Hess Business School
All proceeds benefit the Music Industry Endowed Scholarship

Free Professional Headshot Photos for Graduate Students
2019-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 | The Great Hall -104
Graduate Student Appreciation Days are back! To kick off this month of events, the Office of Graduate Studies is pleased to offer free professional headshot photos for Monmouth University’s graduate students.

Graduate Assistant Appreciation Reception
2019-04-01 16:30 - 18:30 | The Great Hall – Versailles Room
The Office of Graduate Studies is pleased to hold a reception in honor of our 2018–2019 Graduate Assistants. All current graduate assistants, graduate research assistants, graduate teaching assistants, and their supervisors are welcome to attend. Refreshments and light fare will be served.
Please note that RSVP is required. Register via our Graduate Appreciation Days 2019 SurveyMonkey page.

Our Ocean and Beaches: A Record of Success and New Challenges to Face
2019-04-05 09:30 - 11:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Please Note: This event if free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Event Schedule
Registration & Coffee: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Program: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Program Participants

Moderator: Joseph M. Kyrillos, State Senator (Ret.) and Monmouth University Public Servant-in-Residence 2018-19

PANELISTS:

Chris Daggett, Former Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Cindy Zipf, Executive Director of Clean Ocean Action
Tony MacDonald, Director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute

Grads Give Back
2019-04-06 09:30 - 12:30 | Coastal Habitat for Humanity, 1105 Memorial Dr, Asbury Park, NJ, 07712, United States
The Office of Graduate Studies will hold its second Grads Give Back event: a day of service for Monmouth’s graduate students to contribute to local organizations that provide aid to the community. This year, our students will team up with Coastal Habitat for Humanity. An optional lunch will follow at a nearby restaurant.
RSVP is required. Interested in volunteering? Register by April 3 via the Graduate Student Appreciation Days 2019 SurveyMonkey page.

Jacob Landau: Exploring the Colors
2019-04-08 - 2019-04-19 | Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room 101, 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764, United States
An exhibition of works exploring the world of colors created by the American artist, humanist, and teacher Jacob Landau. Born in Philadelphia in 1917, Jacob Landau launched his career as an illustrator, winning national prizes at age 16 and a scholarship to the Philadelphia College of Art. He had over sixty one-person shows and was the recipient of many awards, including Guggenheim and National Arts Council grants. Many of his works are featured in permanent collections, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A master teacher, he retired as professor emeritus at New York’s Pratt Institute. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts by Monmouth University.
For Jacob Landau “art enables us to see the world whole and undivided.” As a humanist his art was devoted to the unity of the imagination. And at its center lies Landau’s desire for justice in the world. In the current exhibit his celebration of our love of color, shared across so many cultures, is inseparable from his humanist conviction. Color and drawing, Landau once declared, are the “twin fundaments of my style.” And he has been praised by fellow artists and critics as a colorist. His dazzling palette and expressive line exhilarate us. We find ourselves transported by their exuberant life, colors that rise up and sing for us in a work titled Flight. And yet his love affair with color does not blind him to the world of injustice.
On the one hand, his red and orange and yellow, and green and blue watercolors of gorgeous promise, so exquisitely handled in a radically imagined portrait of Isaiah dazzle us with life. But by the same token, Landau by these colors insists on the social justice that Isaiah declaimed. Justice, the artist makes clear in his beautiful and unsettling riot of forms, that he expects of us.
Uniquely, his canvass of many colors dazzles and disturbs. His understated colors in Apocalypsis fill us with foreboding, and he asks, “Whose apocalypse is it anyway ours or God’s?” Just like Landau to leave us with an uncomfortable question in the language of subtle colors. At the same time, we see a bold backdrop of brilliant yellow across the way in his Oracle 1, dramatizing the hope that resides in the human heart. A yellow we can’t shake as we walk away.
The exhibition features a selection of some twenty-one works. All are from Monmouth University’s extensive collection of Jacob Landau’s work, comprising over 300 prints, drawings and paintings. The collection was gifted to Monmouth University in 2008 by the Jacob Landau Institute of Roosevelt, NJ. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Jewish Culture Studies Program and the Honors School of Monmouth University.
Docent tours are available (for times, contact Professor Noel Belinski 732-263-5425; email: nbelinsk@monmouth.edu).

Monmouth University Blood Drive
2019-04-08 11:30 - 17:00 | Edison Atrium – Room 201

Steely Dan’s Aja
2019-04-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center
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… there will be special guest moderators and panelists at each event! This event will feature Steely Dan’s Aja.

The Inaugural Social Justice Symposium
2019-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium

Die Walküre (Encore)
2019-04-14 13:00 - 18:00 | Pollak Theatre

Classical Fun
2019-04-16 19:30 - 21:30 | The Great Hall Auditorium
A joyous program of music by some of the greatest composers of all time—Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner, and others.
The MU Chamber Orchestra, comprising students, faculty, staff, and administrators, performs a variety of compositions from the classical repertory. This spring concert also features music for chamber ensembles from within the orchestra-solos, duos, trios, quintets.

Urban Coast Institute Marine & Environment Speaker Series
2019-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Edison Atrium – Room 201
Money, Mandate, and Water Management
with
Professor Keith Rizzardi, St. Thomas University School of Law

Professor Keith Rizzardi from St. Thomas University School of Law will speak about climate change, rising sea levels, and professional ethics. Discussions will also include insights into how the historic commitment to water management in South Florida has dramatically decreased and considerations on how water managers can best prepare before the next disaster strikes in the future.
For more information, contact Doris Meyer, Urban Coast Institute, at 732-263-5662 or dmeyer@monmouth.edu.

Climate Change, Coasts & Communities Symposium
2019-04-17 15:00 - 2019-04-18 17:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
The “new normal” of increased storm events, flooding, sea level rise, and coastal erosion from climate change presents daunting adaptation challenges for New Jersey in the years ahead. This symposium features leading experts in climate change adaptation law and science to discuss lessons learned from other states and countries to assist New Jersey in navigating these challenges.

Topics will include:

S. and Australian case studies in coastal adaptation;
Public health dimensions of coastal adaptation;
Human rights impacts to vulnerable coastal communities;
Climate change impacts to “voiceless” communities (future generations, wildlife, and natural resources);
Strategies to combat climate change-induced and other anthropogenic factors in eutrophication of coastal marine ecosystems, and the impacts to ecosystem services and the communities who depend on them.

Visit the symposium web site for a full list of speakers and more event details. Admission is free for Monmouth employees and students (registration required), $35 for the general public, and $25 for Monmouth alumni and non-Monmouth students. (Cost covers Wednesday evening reception and Thursday breakfast, lunch and refreshments.)
For more information, contact Professor Randall S. Abate at 732-571-3641 or rabate@monmouth.edu.

Symposium Information and Registration

Spring Dance Concert: The Dance Has Many Faces
2019-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Feel inspired and touched as artists produce a dance worth trending. Discover many forms of dance in collaboration with Student Scholarship Week. Artists from the spring dance classes and dance teams of our Monmouth University will present their understanding of the diverse world of dancing. Performances will feature the choreographic exploration of the students and the faculty

Who Cares about Diversity? We Do! And So Should You
2019-04-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Pozycki Hall 214
What does diversity mean to you as a graduate student at Monmouth? What role will issues of diversity and inclusion play for you in the workplace? How should you prepare? Join us for a candid conversation addressing these important questions and much, much more! This discussion will also help determine content for future episodes in the podcast series. Come be part of the action and lend your voice to this critical conversation!
This event is hosted by the Office of Graduate Studies as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Days 2019.

5678 Dance Club Recital
2019-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
Come out and see 5678 dance club’s wonderful spring recital for all ages on Easter weekend.

Student Scholarship Week
2019-04-22 00:00 - 2019-04-28 23:59
Thank you to everyone who participated in or attended Scholarship Week 2019.
Missed our signature event, Hawk Talks? Check out our YouTube playlist to watch student presentations from the event.
The next Scholarship Week will be April 20-26, 2020. Apply now!

Trees! A 'Discovering the Ecological Self' Installation
2019-04-22 - 2019-04-28 | DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall
Discovering the Ecological Self is a social practice, environmental, community art project in collaboration with students and faculty at Monmouth University, local community organizations, and other artists and ecological thinkers and creators. It is an interdisciplinary project that is an intersection of art and sustainability research. This installation is in response to this year’s theme: Trees! The Dimattio Gallery will host the installation and other artworks produced through the project this year. Look for the wandering installation around campus during Scholarship Week and sign your “commit me to trees” statement.

Street Art and Its Impact: Courtyard Mural
2019-04-22 - 2019-04-28 | Rechnitz Hall Lobby
Students collectively designed and painted a 40 foot long mural for the courtyard of the Department of Art and Design.

Jockey Hollow Virtual Reality
2019-04-22 - 2019-04-28 | Rechnitz Hall Lobby
Come to Rechnitz Hall to view a video of a recreation the Jockey Hollow winter encampments from the Revolutionary War. The exhibit will showcase some of the research, both of historical sources and technical, that is being conducted to create a virtual reality (VR) experience based on the site in the National Historic Park in Morristown, N.J. An initial version of the virtual recreation of the encampment can be experienced in VR during the opening of the All Student Show on the last day of Scholarship Week, Sunday April 28, 1–4 p.m., RH 206.

Global Scholarship Showcase
2019-04-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Edison Atrium – Room 201
The Global Scholarship Showcase highlights student achievements away from campus as part of study abroad, international activities, and departmental club activities. It also showcases students who are engaged in global learning activities without traveling internationally. Students will present their research in photo essays/posters, short videos, and in seven-minute-motivator presentations, which focus on one significant outcome of the global learning experience. Refreshments will be served. Topics to be covered include:

Global Barriers to Women’s Health
World Mental Health: The German Perspective
Reflections on International and Domestic Practices of Service-Learning
Global Social Work: Lessons from the Field
The Kite Runner: Novel Significance

Open Classroom: Health Promotion in Action
2019-04-22 16:30 - 17:50 | Rechnitz Hall 107
Students in groups will be conducting a health promotion event on campus. We will start in Rechnitz Hall 107 and then will walk to the event on-campus.

Open Classroom: FITNESSGRAM Testing
2019-04-23 10:05 - 11:25 | Boylan Gym South
Students will teach their peers and the audience about specific FITNESSGRAM tests and each participant will be asked to be dressed for activity and to join.
